(n.) A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze.
(n.) A coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin of copper.
(n.) A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper.
(n.) the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers.
(v. t.) To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) This result was confirmed by atomic absorption spectroscopy, which indicated a stoicheiometry for copper and manganese of approx.
(2) Serum copper concentration also was measured in dams and kids in a control herd that had no history of ataxia.
(3) Copper therapy was applied to 7-day-old mutant mice.
(4) Several derivatives and analogs of the recently reported antiproliferative and antitumor agent trans-bis(salicylaldoximato)copper(II) (CuSAO2) have been prepared and tested for antiproliferative activity against L1210 leukemia cells in vitro.
(5) Accumulation of copper was not detected in the brain or small intestines of LEC rats until 13 mo.
(6) The potential use of ancrod, a purified isolate from the venom of the Malaysian pit viper, Agkistrodon rhodostoma, in decreasing the frequency of cyclic flow variations in severely stenosed canine coronary arteries and causing thrombolysis of an acute coronary thrombus induced by a copper coil was evaluated.
(7) The affinity of haFGF for copper was also confirmed to be higher than that of hbFGF using a copper affinity HPLC column.
(8) In the present study, maternal and fetal zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), magnesium (Mg), and calcium (Ca) status has been studied in Sprague-Dawley (SD) and Wistar rats.
(9) This study provides evidence for a maternal yolk factor associated with increased tolerance and resistance of larvae to copper.
(10) With copper-ion catalysis, ligands inhibit competitively.
(11) No decisive numerical criterion was found that could be used to separate normal from abnormal copper concentrations because of this continuous array.
(12) No clear population trends were seen in dental disease incidence except for cemental caries which were found among Copper and Bronze Age remains.
(13) At 2 months of age there were no major differences in growth or health detected in infants fed the different copper intakes.
(14) In order to determine the specific action of cadmium on bone metabolism, the effect of cadmium on alkaline phosphatase activity, a marker enzyme of osteoblasts, was compared with that of other divalent heavy metal ions, i.e., zinc, manganese, lead, copper, nickel and mercury (10 microM each), using cloned osteoblast-like cells, MC3T3-E1.
(15) However, two observations suggested that surface epithelial loss alone was not sufficient to trigger the proliferative response to DOC: intracolonic instillation of DOC followed by removal of the DOC solution at 1 h, at which time surface epithelial loss was maximal, did not result in an increase in ornithine decarboxylase activity or [3H]dThd incorporation into DNA when these parameters were assessed at 4 h or 12 to 48 h, respectively; phenidone, an antioxidant and radical scavenger, and bis[(3,5-diisopropyl-salicylato) (O,O) copper(II), a lipophilic agent with superoxide dismutase activity, abolished the DOC mediated proliferative response but did not prevent the early loss of surface cells.
(16) Retinal changes should be reversible by short term systemic copper administration.
(17) Wilson disease is due to a genetically determined impairment of copper excretion from liver into bile resulting in copper overload of the organism.
(18) Arachidonic acid was also increased in plasma and liver phospholipids in low copper rats.
(19) These results suggest that HVE cells are more susceptible to concentration-dependent copper cytotoxicity than HAIN-55 cells are, and that copper could induce vascular endothelial injury, which may be involved in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease.
(20) Cadmium and copper content was determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometry from four tissue types; young blade, old blade, young stipe and old stipe.
Hopper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, hops.
(n.) A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car.
(n.) See Grasshopper, 2.
(n.) A game. See Hopscotch.
(n.) See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.
(n.) The larva of a cheese fly.
(n.) A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; -- called also dumping scow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hopper was a miner for 27 years at Wearmouth colliery, which was on the site where the Stadium of Light stands.
(2) Dyer declared a state of emergency, and alongside Mina, Hopper and a local imam urged Americans to give blood and unite.
(3) The resulting sequence shows 94% identity with that of the corresponding peptide from calf skin collage (Fietzek, P. P., Rexrodt, F. W., Hopper, K. E., and Kühn, K. (1973), Eur.
(4) The Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutant ts351 had been shown to affect processing of 27S pre-rRNA to mature 25S and 5.8S rRNAs (C. Andrew, A. K. Hopper, and B. D. Hall, Mol.
(5) I imagine the unseen rooms, and scenes from Edward Hopper.
(6) One reason his name did not endure as long as, for example, his contemporary Edward Hopper was his early death, aged 42, from appendicitis.
(7) But regular hoppers can also buy London Cure smoked salmon from Waitrose, Ocado and some Sainsbury’s branches, and it will be stocked by 100 Tesco stores from October.
(8) Jonathan Hopper, the managing director of buying agents Garrington Property Finders, said the brisk pace in June was likely to be the high water mark for the property market for some time.
(9) The leaf-hopper P. pictus is a well-known pest of Calotropis plants.
(10) He didn’t languish in movie jail like Mickey Rourke; he didn’t fall off the map for a decade like Dennis Hopper.
(11) After his death the obituaries proclaimed Bellows one of the greatest of all American painters – a man more famous at the time than his friend and contemporary Edward Hopper.
(12) Hopper believed that programs should be written in a language that was close to English rather than in machine code or languages close to machine code.
(13) Cutting down the possibility of hay dust entering the rabbits' eyes led to marked improvement: the conjunctivitis was virtually eliminated when hay was given in a specially-designed solid-sided hopper which prevented the release of dust during feeding and which, being detachable, could be refilled away from the rabbit rooms to minimize general atmospheric dust.
(14) The most severe fibrosis was found in the quartz-treated animals, followed in order of intensity by the heated clay, volcano, ash, hopper coal ash, stack coal ash, and coal-oil mixture ash.
(15) As she continued her work, Hopper served as the director of the US Navy Programming Languages Group in the Navy's Office of Information Systems Planning from 1967 to 1977 and was promoted to the rank of captain in 1973.
(16) This face-off between Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken showcases Scott's deft way with dialogue, as well as detonations.
(17) The results indicate that although different hoppers affect the quantitative nature of the results, the same general trends are apparent.
(18) When viewing with the lateral field alone, subjects were initially unable to locate the food hopper and, even after retraining, conditioned peck localization was profoundly disrupted.
(19) Lazaretto is dedicated to three feminist pioneers: Florence Green from Norfolk, the last surviving veteran of the first world war until her death in 2012; the American anarchist and writer Voltairine de Cleyre; and "Amazing" Grace Hopper , a computer scientist and rear admiral in the US navy.
(20) Elsewhere, levels of buyer confidence remain solid, but with the surge in purchases by buy-to-let buyers now over, sellers now need to think more carefully about pricing competitively,” said Hopper.