(n.) A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.
(n.) Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriae around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form.
(n.) The fruit or strobile of the Coniferae, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.
(n.) A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
(v. t.) To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.
Example Sentences:
(1) Implantation of the mouse embryo involves the invasion of the secondary trophoblast giant cells of the ectoplacental cone (EPC) into the uterine decidua.
(2) It is commonly assumed that the visual resolution limit must be equal to or less than the Nyquist frequency of the cone mosaic.
(3) In scanning of more than 20 Hz frequency, the spectral pattern also reflected the characteristics of the cone system.
(4) The function of these triple cones can not be deduced from the behavior patterns of these fishes.
(5) Light-induced cone shortening provides a useful model for stuying nonmuscle contraction because it is linear, slow, and repetitive.
(6) As early as E-28 many growth cones have lamellipodia that extend outward from the core region as far as 10 microns.
(7) RCA-1, which is specific for D-galactose, showed patchy fluorescence on the basal and distal portions of the outer segments of the cones and rods, whereas neuraminidase-treated sections had uniform fluorescence throughout the tissues.
(8) Rats permitted to recover for 13 weeks and then sacrificed had lost almost all their rods (p less than 0.001) while the cones were reduced by about 50% (p less than 0.01).
(9) Rod adaptation had no reliable influence on response to rapid onset in cones or bipolar cells.
(10) Unique domains of the retinal interphotoreceptor matrix (IPM), termed cone matrix sheaths, are composed largely of chondroitin 6-sulfate proteoglycan in most higher mammalian species.
(11) Psychophysical results on human colour matching (Stiles & Burch, 1955; Stiles & Burch, 1959) were well predicted from the spectral sensitivities of the monkey cones.
(12) Our model of voltage dependence of GABA uptake predicts that all colors of light should hyperpolarize H1 cone horizontal cells and other investigators have shown by intracellular recording and dye-marking that type H1 cone horizontal cells hyperpolarize to all wavelengths of light.
(13) During the third stage, the dendritic trees of ganglion cells no longer branch or extend by means of active growth cones.
(14) Growth cones from the neurons contacted the muscle fibers within 6-12 h after isolation.
(15) The results indicate that contact Nd.YAG laser conization for CIN is an excellent conservative therapy from the point of cure rate, safety, indication, operation time and cone specimen, even compared with CO2 laser conization.
(16) In the human retina, which has both cones and rods in abundance, cones, cone bipolars, ganglion cells, horizontal cells, and small and large amacrine cells were labeled.
(17) Neither pH nor composition of liner collection cone had an effect on postthaw acrosomal scores, but the time required for a 50% increase in severely damaged acrosomes was greater for spermatozoa collected in polyethylene than in rubber liner collection cones.
(18) These regenerating nerve fibres together with growth cones make terminals in the form of buttons, rings and loops.
(19) Underneath the envelope, p17 forms the matrix protein layer, while the capsid of the double cone shaped core is built up of p24.
(20) On the model of electrical coupling proposed by Lamb & Simon (1976), this suggests that to the extent that the voltage-dependent desensitization results from an increased conductance and hence an increased shunt of the signals at the plasma membrane, there must be a concomitant increase in the conductance of the electrical pathways linking cones to one another.
Cote
Definition:
(n.) A cottage or hut.
(n.) A shed, shelter, or inclosure for small domestic animals, as for sheep or doves.
(v. t.) To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before; as, a dog cotes a hare.
(v. t.) To quote.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his five-star review for Time Out New York , David Cote calls it "gobsmackingly funny".
(2) Cote ruled that that damages would be determined at a new hearing.
(3) It feels very much like the work of a cook born in Bordeaux, the place where they like to top their cote de boeuf with bone marrow, and sear it fast so that inside it is still the colour of raging knife cut.
(4) Even so – banned from leaving Italy – he was not able to join the cast on the red carpet on the Cote d'Azur, nor will he join them anywhere else outside his native land.
(5) US district judge Denise Cote ruled on Wednesday that the company played a "central role" in a conspiracy with the biggest book publishers in the US to fix prices in violation of antitrust law.
(6) In a second model, CoTE was injected at 1000 h of day 35 to a group of rats that was castrated 12-24 h prior to injection, and the animals were sacrificed 6 h later; plasma FSH levels were found to be significantly suppressed.
(7) Admissions and deaths in a pulmonary medicine ward in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa, were evaluated over a 6-month period in 1989 with systematic autopsies on all patients who died.
(8) In west Africa, both HIV-2 and HIV-1 are epidemic; seroprevalence of HIV-2 is highest in southern Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, and Cote d'Ivoire: HIV-1 had the highest frequency in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana.
(9) "On a fairly regular basis, roughly once a quarter, the CEOs of the publishers held dinners in the private dining rooms of New York restaurants, without counsel or assistants present, in order to discuss the common challenges they faced, including most prominently Amazon's pricing policies," said Cote.
(10) The population based registry of digestive tract tumours of the country of Cote-d'Or was used to assess the epidemiological and prognostic value of Ming classification.
(11) The administration of CoTE in 25-100 mg amounts to 35-day-old immature male rats, orchidectomized just prior to use, resulted in the prevention of a rise in plasma FSH levels, seen 10 h post-treatment.
(12) Cote ruled against Apple in a non-jury trial in 2013.
(13) Here's Judge Cote: In an email to Jobs, [Apple executive Eddy] Cue attributed Random House's capitulation in part to "the fact that I prevented an app from Random House from going live in the app store this week.
(14) Tim Atkin MW has tasted it twice and pronounces it "somewhere between a decent Beaujolais and an Hautes Cotes de Nuit red – light, fruity and appealing, but of no great complexity".
(15) Seven days after treatment, the faecal samples of 105 dove-cotes were negative for oocysts of E. Labbeana and E. columbarum; in six dove-cotes, infection was also virtually reduced to zero.
(16) Cote did admit that the sheer volume of negative comments opposing the final judgment meant that "hesitation is clearly appropriate in this case", saying that "there can be no denying the importance of books and authors in the quest for human knowledge and creative expression, and in supporting a free and prosperous society".
(17) This paper presents the Comprehensive Occupational Therapy Evaluation Scale (COTE Scale) for use by occupational therapists in short-term, acute-care psychiatric facilities.
(18) "People come here to beg from Liberia, Sierra Leone, Togo, the Horn of Africa, Cote d'Ivoire, Chad, Niger ... everywhere.
(19) A Colombia fan enjoys the atmosphere prior to the 2014 World Cup Brazil Group C match between Colombia and Cote D'Ivoire.
(20) Booksellers including Barnes & Noble and the American Booksellers Association had disputed the DoJ's proposed settlement, as had more than 90% of the 868 public comments received, noted US district judge Denise Cote in her decision yesterday.