(n.) A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.
(n.) A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
(n.) Same as Merlon.
(n.) A policeman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cop rats, however, possess a single 'suppressor' gene which confers complete resistance to mammary cancer.
(2) Copolymer 1 (Cop 1) is a synthetic basic random copolymer of amino acids that has been shown to be effective in suppression of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis and has been proposed as a candidate drug for multiple sclerosis.
(3) What the hell is the point of cops looking like this?
(4) Instead of inevitable defeat there is uncertain cop-out.
(5) COP-BLAM III therapy was given to 18 patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and the therapeutic effects as well as adverse effects of the treatment were examined.
(6) A new electrophoretic variant of the lactate dehydrogenase B subunit was found in the erythrocytes of the COP strain of the rat.
(7) Three independent BFA-resistant cell lines (BER-40 from Vero cells, PtK1, and MDCK) showed cross-resistance to EDIN regarding the release of the beta-COP from the Golgi membrane by EDIN or BFA.
(8) I'd like to say it's all a biting satire of American military practices (I know Busty Cops Go Hawaiian certainly was) but chances are it's just about a bunch of big meanie spiders.
(9) He shouted “Cops Lives Matter” before being drowned out with the “Bernie” chant.
(10) I will ask that by [next] Saturday midday the text will be transmitted to me, the president of the COP, and at that moment everyone will know where we are and the procedure to follow.
(11) That’s when the police riot squad arrived, because of course you cannot set fire to a bar with cops in it.” He recalled injured protestors being treated in nearby Washington Square Park and Quakers from the local church coming to help.
(12) Cops were smashing people with bicycles and nightsticks."
(13) "We're talking about payments for news tips from cops: that's been going on a hundred years, absolutely," said Murdoch.
(14) We sampled a sawn-off shotgun and an assault rifle, but cops do get tasers and tear gas to add some urban flavour.
(15) The COP regime was the most frequently used therapeutic regimen.
(16) "But I can assure you, if I had known that cops were sitting in car parks, they would have been deployed pretty quickly," he said.
(17) "There will be a meeting of the 22 countries of the COPS [the EU's political and security committee] ... if not today then tomorrow," Kouchner told reporters in Paris.
(18) The FBI’s “justifiable homicides” database is considered the best measure of cop killings in the US, but even the attorney general, Eric Holder, called the lack of comprehensive numbers “unacceptable” last month .
(19) More than 60 officers, who might be investigating a burglary in your street, are zealously pursuing other cops and public officials who may, or may not, have taken bungs from Sun journalists in return for information.
(20) I heard him say to another cop: “I don’t even know why they told me to lock this guy up.
Spool
Definition:
(n.) A piece of cane or red with a knot at each end, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end, used to wind thread or yarn upon.
(v. t.) To wind on a spool or spools.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three possible cases for the ejection process friction are considered: friction in the tail-part channel, that of DNA segments with each other in the whole globule volume (it is essential for the collective way of the globule decondensation with simultaneous movement of all the loops--the first type way), the globule friction with internal capsid surface (it is most essential for the decondensation by the way of the globule rotation as a whole "spool"--the second type way).
(2) Colonel Steve Warren, the spokesman for the command operating the war against Isis, said that Keating was part of a quick reaction force (QRF) spooled up in support of a US “advise and assist” mission that “just happened to be in that village” meeting with peshmerga leaders at Tel Osqof, less than four km behind the front.
(3) Subsequently, the acceptor region spools up single-stranded polypyrimidines as they are released by progressive denaturation of the donor region; both the spooling and the denaturation result in relaxation of negative supercoils in the rest of the DNA molecule.
(4) The patients were dialysed with a spool dialysator with cuprophan membrane of a surface of 1 m2.
(5) This graft is flexible during insertion but becomes rigid after proper intraaortic placement as the spool is dilated and the ratchest lock into position.
(6) Under Nény’s insistent questioning, the quietly spoken Benhaim repeats that “that version of events is wrong” Eventually, the spooling, repetitive question-and-answer becomes hard to follow.
(7) Spool forward through a most unusual period in BBC history when all three main output divisions – TV, Radio and News – were being run by candidates for Mark Thompson's job; and also a contender was No 2, Caroline Thomson.
(8) Recent events in Shanghai’s stock markets have been all too reminiscent of the tales that have entered American folk memory from the days of the Wall Street crash in 1929: of stock-tipping shoeshine boys, exhausted traders, and ticker-tape machines spooling late into the night.
(9) A device containing a spool of fine line was carried by released mammals so that the line unwound under minimum tension as the animal proceeded and could be followed the day after release.
(10) Tape spools from her ears as sparks fly from her open mouth.
(11) The results of both search routines are spooled and stored in a retrievable file.
(12) After covering the radioactive filter positions with an adhesive plastic foil from both sides, the film spool is directly inserted into a specially constructed gamma-counter.
(13) The third is the globule friction with the capsid inner surface, that is most important when decondensation proceeds via the globule rotation as a whole spool (mechanism 2).
(14) The core may be a protein spool about which the phage DNA is wound.
(15) We now are using this device whenever possible in all substitutions of the aorta, although in approximately 40% of patients, it is necessary to remove one of the spools and suture either the proximal or distal end of the graft owing to the close proximity of the aneurysm to the coronary ostia or the origin of the subclavian artery.
(16) Studies on negatively stained preparations of purified capsids suggest that the toroid consists of DNA arranged as if it were spooled around the cylindrical mass.
(17) From our results we have proposed a double-helix model for the gene 5 protein-DNA complex in which the protein forms a spindle or core around which the DNA is spooled.
(18) When metacarpal epiphyseal cartilage (growth plates) ossifies with age, break joints on the distal end of the metacarpals fuse and the end of the bone then appears as a spool joint rather than as a break joint.
(19) In the streets and lifts of nearby office blocks, everyone seems to be carrying reels of old-fashioned tape recorder spools.
(20) The initial rather trivial complaint spooled into a much more robust discussion in the comments and elsewhere online, about how much Facebook already influences how news is shaped and delivered.