(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.
Kipper
Definition:
(n.) A salmon after spawning.
(n.) A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh.
(v. t.) To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking.
(1) Downstairs I had black coffee, kippers, and brown toast in the breakfast room.
(2) "But it is true that I was poisoned by a kipper in Glastonbury.
(3) Each week, as another Kipper gets done for some kind of insanity – a £3,000 restaurant bill in Margate?
(4) I did.” He’s done you up like a … well, a proverbial kipper.
(5) For a start, it is impossible: incorrigibility is the defining characteristic of the hardcore Kippers.
(6) "Oh, all that rubbish about Muriel being poisoned by a kipper in Glastonbury," he scoffed.
(7) If Kippers are a motley crew of Tory Europhobes, why should the left pay them any mind?
(8) She's appealing to the Kippers and the more extreme wing of her party, no matter what the consequences.
(9) My sister, who is a decade younger than me, suffers from it, too, and is often to be found picking over Whitehorn's advice about how useful the inhabitant of a bedsitter will find a jug - it can be used to make tea and coffee, or to cook kippers - or reading, for the ninth time, the author's warning that her recipe cooking times do not include 'the time it takes you to find the salt in the suitcase under the bed'.
(10) He is joined in the most-borrowed author list by six children's writers – Daisy Meadows, the brand behind the Rainbow Magic series, Donaldson, Francesca Simon, author of the Horrid Henry series, Jacqueline Wilson, Kipper creator Mick Inkpen and the Beast Quest series' Adam Blade.
(11) I said that he resembled a kipper that had been smoked before it was dead, and Julie has blanked me since.
(12) None of these have made a dent in Ukip's support and those imagining one more "big push" on Europe will return the Kippers to the fold are deluding themselves.
(13) One of the greatest sources of anxiety among Labour backbenchers is the fear that immigration is mainly responsible for their leakage of votes to the Kippers.
(14) "I have said many, many times I wouldn't count any chickens", says Dorothy Baker, the 77-year-old retired teacher and grandmother-of-six who is part election generalissimo and part self-confessed mother hen to the "'Kippers" of Somerset.
(15) A source close to the company said: “Sports Direct looks forward to working with the management as a supportive shareholder.” Kipper Williams on Sports Direct Read more Earlier this year, his company took out a put option on shares in Debenhams , which gave it a 16.6% stake as Sports Direct negotiated a deal to manage sports goods areas within the department store chain.
(16) Vote Leave, remember, was meant to be the moderate, judicious voice of Euroscepticism, distinct in manner and content from the vulgar nationalism conveyed by swivel-eyed, puce-cheeked Kippers.
(17) Asked to explain the party's failure in London, Ukip's Suzanne Evans was asked if she agreed with the Kipper who had said the problem was that the capital was too full of the "cultured, educated and young".
(18) Two women laugh: “It’s only us tough old birds who can face the cold.” A man in a linen suit and panama hat sweeps past into the hotel, looking for all the world like Colonel Sanders; he’s by far the nattiest dressed of the Kippers who, on this showing, seem to be late-middle-aged women in bad anoraks.
(19) And before that there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the unions, passengers and politicians about the prospect of higher fares and fewer trains and the general disaster of everything about Britain's railways since the day they stopped serving kippers for breakfast on the night sleeper to Aberdeen.
(20) Judith Kipper, director of the Middle East programme at Washington's Institute of World Affairs "Now he is president, I think we have to see whether Karzai has learned any lessons and whether he has the power and tools to govern in a different way.