(superl.) Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.
(superl.) Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater.
(superl.) Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.
(superl.) Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.
(superl.) Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.
(superl.) Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
(n.) A moderate state of cold; coolness; -- said of the temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening.
(v. t.) To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water.
(v. t.) To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.
(v. i.) To become less hot; to lose heat.
(v. i.) To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Do [MPs] remember the madness of those advertisements that talked of the cool fresh mountain air of menthol cigarettes?
(2) "In a sea of bubblegum-cute popsters, Sistar stand out for their cool and sexy image," says Scobie.
(3) The fact that proteolytic activity could be detected within 2 days at 7 degrees C is significant, since bulk cooled milk is normally held for 3 to 4 days at temperatures between 4 and 7 degrees C at farms or factories prior to processing.
(4) The rise of the membrane resistance during cooling was unaffected.
(5) Cooling of the necrotic limb with the application of a tourniquet and general nonoperative treatment were conducted in preparation for amputation.
(6) A study was carried out to evaluate the effects of direct cooling on the exocrine pancreas.
(7) Day-0 rabbits kept for 1 h in a warm (41 degrees C), neutral 39 degrees C) or cool (28 degrees C) environment selected a different TE at 39.8, 39.5 and 37.3 degrees C, giving colonic temperatures (TC) of 40.8, 39.9 and 37.7 degrees C, respectively.
(8) Single postganglionic neurones to hairy skin and hairless skin of the hindleg were investigated on spinal cord heating and spinal cord cooling in chloralose anesthetized cats.
(9) During suction a flow of cold, dry room air replaces the warm, moist cavity air, causing cooling both directly and by vaporization of water.
(10) The conformational similarity between tubules, sheets, and the dry powder is corroborated by calorimetry, which reveals a cooling exotherm at the same temperature where tubules form upon cooling hydrated sheets.
(11) The mechanism of action of cooling was investigated.
(12) There was a best negative correlation between latencies (P27, P40 and the interpeak latency between P40 and P27 (P40-P27)) and nasopharyngeal temperature, but no correlation was found between latencies and plantar temperature during cooling and rewarming (27-37 degrees C) with cardiopulmonary bypass.
(13) Breath was passed through a cooled loop of alumina to adsorb, concentrate, and release, on heating, pentane.
(14) Napthine chose not to directly criticise Tony Abbott – it’s not his style – but the coolness was clear.
(15) It would appear that there was airborne spread of the organism from these cooling water systems which had not received conventional treatment to inhibit corrosion and organic growth.
(16) Observed proliferations of E. coli inocula in cooling cartons of product were compared with the proliferations calculated from temperature histories obtained from sites close to inocula.
(17) Recent experiments involving cooling of the human arm are then described.
(18) But Matt Collins of Exeter University said it was unlikely to cause an absolute cooling: "It could offset some of the warming, but really the greenhouse gas signal wins over the AMOC.
(19) To examine the effects of focally cooling three areas (rostral, intermediate, and caudal) of the ventral medullary surface (VMS) on respiratory oscillations in cervical sympathetic and phrenic nerve activity, 12 cats were anesthetized, vagotomized, paralyzed, and artificially ventilated with 7% CO2 in O2.
(20) The other method allowed the castings to bench cool to room temperature.
Phat
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of the data obtained PHAT could be recommended as a test for the assessment of the immunological efficacy of the smallpox vaccinations.
(2) Successful use of the PHAT for detection of antibodies to EA-D was dependent on the degree of purity of the partially purified antigen.
(3) A considerable percentage of patients with meningococcus infection displayed an increase in the actibody titres to meningococcus, group A, detectable in the passive hemagglutination test (PHAT).
(4) The effect of some methods of preliminary treatment of erythrocytes on the PHAT depended on the sensitin náture and the method of erythrocyte load.
(5) A fourfold or greater increase in antibody titers has been determined by means of EIA in 80% of cases and with the use of PHAT in 55% of cases.
(6) Antibody titres determined in the PHAT were higher than titres of neutralizing antibody.
(7) The CFT and the PHAT with erythrocytic diagnostic preparation, used in combination, will make it possible not only to diagnose ornithosis in patient more effectively, but also to differentiate between the cases of infection and anamnestic reaction.20
(8) The examination was carried out by means of the complement fixation test (CFT), the passive hemagglutination test (PHAT), the toxin neutralization test (TNT) and the immunofluorescence test (IFT).
(9) PHAT will help detect higher numbers of fibronectin-binding staphylococci than flocculation on the glass.
(10) The PHAT can be used as an auxiliary method of diagnosis permitting to establish the meningococcus etiology of the disease in a number of cases.
(11) During an experimental reproduction of CBPP, 5 inoculated cows and 5 contacts cows were bled twice a week and antibodies research was performed using complement fixation test (CFT), passive haemagglutination test (PHAT) and slide agglutination test (SAT).
(12) The results of ELISA were in good correlation with those yielded by the traditional tests: 70% coincidence with CFT, 80% with IIF, 84% with PHAT; besides, ELISA has shown a higher sensitivity in the screening of sera.
(13) Some of my favorites include Misssey, The Ella Baker Center, Ebase, Causa Justa: Just Cause, Black Girls Code, Phat Beets Produce, and Oakland Rising.
(14) When the antibodies participate in the PHAT with several batches of the erythrocytic diagnostic agent characterized by an average number of the antigen molecules on a single erythrocyte there appears a possibility of determining the extent of heterogeneity of the antibodies.
(15) The authors present the data that evidence in favour of employing fibronectin sensitized formalin-treated red cells for the indication of fibronectin-binding microorganisms (as exemplified by staphylococci) in the passive hemagglutination test (PHAT).
(16) More than 100 human antisera from patients with EBV-associated diseases, which had been previously tested by standard IF procedures were assayed by PHAT.
(17) The 'group' PHAT method cuts down the consumption of the diagnostic agent 4-fold and is less labor-consuming.
(18) The third app, 7 Plus, is the brainchild of Sreytouch Phat, a former beer promoter who wanted to help food and service sector workers claim their rights and stay free from sexual harassment and violence in their workplace.
(19) An inhibition (blocking) of PHAT was developed which was useful in the purification and characterization of EA-D.
(20) The passive hemagglutination test (PHAT) with a mixture of tested sera is suggested to be used in screening of HBsAg carriers.