(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.
Mone
Definition:
(n.) The moon.
(n.) A moan.
Example Sentences:
(1) You’ve got to have balls of steel and you’ll always find a way.” But Mone has also always exhibited an intuitive understanding of what the market, and the media, want.
(2) Also lined up by the Tories is Michelle Mone, the founder of the Ultimo lingerie brand , to become a peer just weeks after she was appointed as the government’s new entrepreneurship tsar for areas of high unemployment.
(3) I think I’ll always have that.” Michelle Mone: My Fight to The Top (£18.99, Blink Publishing) is available now.
(4) A lot of business people have said you didn’t have to be so open, but at speaking events I always tell people you should be honest.” In person, Mone, 43, is far gentler than her well-branded public persona would suggest.
(5) Mone, who made no secret of her concerns about the impact of a yes vote on business, writes with winning directness in her book about being invited to Downing Street along with other Scottish grandees to discuss the referendum campaign with David Cameron.
(6) But Michelle Mone – Ultimo lingerie tycoon, serial entrepreneur, international speaker – is unique in many aspects.
(7) It’s about keeping businesses going rather than having a start-up, some soft grants then within six months everything’s gone.” I tell Mone that her women-can-do-anything epilogue reminded me of Nicola Sturgeon’s rousing speech in the Scottish parliament when she was elected the first female first minister last November (although the epilogue, and indeed the entire book, is rather more sweary than the Holyrood debating chamber is used to).
(8) I did sit down and think about it long and hard,” Mone explains, perched in the immaculate living area of her family home in one of the grandest parts of Glasgow’s west end.
(9) They need a sounding board.” Mone mentors more than 100 new businessmen and women – “not that I have all the answers” – and hopes to see Westminster establishing more programmes like hers.
(10) The Department for Work and Pensions said Mone, from Glasgow, would look at how to encourage benefit claimants, women, young people, disabled people and ex-offenders to become entrepreneurs.
(11) Michelle Mone: My Fight to The Top (£18.99, Blink Publishing) is available now.
(12) Michelle Mone – tipped to be on the list of new peers, expected to be revealed later this month – will lead a review of obstacles faced by people in disadvantaged areas when it comes to setting up their own businesses.
(13) Michelle Mone of Ultimo: 'In business you have got to have balls of steel' Read more She came out against Scottish independence during the referendum campaign, and in the runup to the general election said: “I’ve always been Labour through and through.
(14) Units of Para-Thor-Mone (Eli Lilly and Co), seven conscious, non-pregnant, non-lactating Merino ewes were infused with a maintenance dose of the hormone at a rate of 4-75 U.S.P.
(15) It was because I had never seen a lingerie brand that had a black model,” Mone explains simply, “and I was getting angry about it and I thought: ‘I’m going to do it.’ I just wanted to say: ‘We are an international brand, we have international customers, and I don’t care what colour of skin you have.’ It was a big statement.
(16) Established business-folk don’t tend to publish eye-wateringly honest autobiographies, as Mone has just done.
(17) She glides over any mention of Sturgeon, but commends Scotland’s female role models generally and says: “I’m all for helping women with their confidence, and once they get that, nothing can stop them.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘When I started, a lot of the lingerie companies were run by men,’ says Michelle Mone.
(18) My Fight to the Top, which entered the Amazon charts at No 1, is a straight-talking account of Mone’s objectively awesome trajectory from teenage mother who left school with no qualifications to one of the country’s most successful female entrepreneurs.
(19) And not through nudity or foul language, but because while Gawain "made myry al day, til the mone rysed" (ie lounged in the castle, flirting with the ladies), the lord of the land was out gralloching.
(20) When I started, a lot of the lingerie companies were run by men, and I came out with these inventions they’d never thought of because they don’t wear bras... Like the backless bra, the frontless bra, designs that I only came up with because I got so frustrated that I couldn’t see anything out there already.” Michelle Mone: ‘My party trick is measuring people’s boobs with my eyes’ Read more Likewise, Mone’s genius for publicity was evidenced by her simple calculation the media will always love photographs of celebrities in their underwear.