(n.) A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.
(n.) A tropical humming bird of the genus Lophornis, with very elegant neck plumes. Several species are known. See Illustration under Spangle, v. t.
Example Sentences:
(1) Diagnosis of HIV-2 was made if sera were positive by ELISA and Western blot (LAV Blot2, Diagnostics Pasteur, Marnes-La-Coquette, France) and negative by Wellcozyme I competitive ELISA to HIV-a (Wellcome Diagnostics, Dartford, UK).
(2) She is also the muse and favourite collaborator of composers from Gerald Barry to Pierre Boulez , from Henri Dutilleux to Michel van der Aa , and was magnetic as a hysterically imperious crockery-chucking Cecily Cardew in Barry's riotous The Importance of Being Earnest , and as the coloratura coquette she created for his The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant at English National Opera.
(3) A substrate, pyridine-2-azo-p-dimethylaniline cephalosporin (PADAC; Diagnostic Pasteur, Marnes-La-Coquette, France), for detection of penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae (PPNG) on isolated colonies grown on agar was compared with the nitrocefin reference test (Cefinase; Biomerieux, Marcy l'Etoile, France).
(4) Despite this non-specific lust, he does have a girlfriend of sorts: the grotesque Margaret, whose "tinkle of tiny silver bells" laugh will freeze the heart of any would-be coquette.
(5) We evaluated the API quadFerm+ [( API], Analytab Products, Inc., Plainview, N.Y.), NEISSERIA [( Pasteur], Diagnostics Pasteur, Marnes-la-Coquette, France), and Neisseria Identification Discs [( Oxoid], Oxoid Ltd., Basingstoke, England) using the conventional method as a reference.
(6) BioArgos (Sanofi Diagnostics Pasteur, Marnes-la-Coquette, France) is a fully automated blood culture system that detects carbon dioxide production by infrared spectroscopy through a glass bottle.
(7) Two latex agglutination tests for the detection of Candida antigens, Pastorex Candida (Sanofi Diagnostics Pasteur, Marnes-la-Coquette, France) and Cand-Tec (Ramco Laboratories, Inc., Houston, Tex.
(8) We evaluated the performances of a newly commercialized agglutination test that uses a monoclonal antibody specific for cryptococcal capsular polysaccharide (Pastorex Cryptococcus; Sanofi-Diagnostics Pasteur, Marnes-la-Coquette, France) and compared them with those of tests that use polyclonal immune sera (Cryptococcal Antigen Latex Agglutination System, Meridian Diagnostics, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio; and Crypto-LA, International Biological Labs Inc., Cranbury, N.J.).
Vamp
Definition:
(v. i.) To advance; to travel.
(n.) The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper.
(n.) Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp, v. t.
(v. t.) To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to patch; -- often followed by up.
Example Sentences:
(1) The main suppliers were VAMP (78 practices), AAH Meditel (46), and AMC (23).
(2) A study of 32 patients receiving cyclophosphamide (CY) and verapamil (VER) in addition to the drug combination vincristine, adriamycin and methyl prednisolone (VAMP) was made in which the clinical response and growth of clonogenic myeloma cells (MY-CFUc) from bone marrow aspirates were compared.
(3) Chaplin himself wrote about this process: "Sometimes a musician would get pompous with me, and I would cut him short: 'Whatever the melody is, the rest is just a vamp.'
(4) Median duration of aplasia following hyper-VAMP was 13 days with CM-CSF and 29 days without GM-CSF.
(5) The brand’s most famous material is black lace, inspired by Sicilian widow’s weeds, but the Dolce & Gabbana woman is both a mamma and a vamp.
(6) Collection was started 8-10 days after the end of L-VAMP therapy (3 cycles).
(7) RIP November 14, 2015 It was later confirmed that Marie Mosser, a 24-year-old who worked with band The Vamps, had been killed alongside Thomas Ayad.
(8) These studies suggest that intensive chemoradiotherapy (eg., VAMP-TBI), if given relatively soon after diagnosis and before development of progressive disease, improves long-term survival for patients with advanced neuroblastoma.
(9) VAMPs are synaptic vesicle-specific proteins composed of a carboxy-terminal hydrophobic membrane anchor and an approximately 100 amino acid domain oriented towards the cytoplasm.
(10) HDMP produced short responses in 25% of patients with less toxicity than VAMP.
(11) To determine whether GluT4 vesicles are related to synaptic vesicles, rat adipocyte low density microsomes (LDM), which are rich in GluT4 vesicles, were screened for the synaptic vesicle proteins synaptotagmin, synaptophysin, SV2, p29, rab3, and VAMP (synaptobrevin) by immunoblotting.
(12) A total of 110 patients with high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) not previously treated by chemotherapy or by radiotherapy at more than one site of disease underwent a regimen comprising an intensive 6-week initial, induction phase using vincristine, adriamycin, methotrexate, and prednisolone (VAMP) followed by the non-cross-resistant combination cyclophosphamide, etoposide, and vindesine (EEE).
(13) Comparison of these data with our previous study of patients receiving VAMP alone, suggests that the addition of CY to the regimen may increase the tumour cell kill.
(14) A 41-year-old male was diagnosed as acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) in November, 1982 and partial remission was obtained by a combination chemotherapy of LVP, DVP ABOP and VAMP.
(15) The amino-terminal 24-28 amino acid residues which comprise the proline-rich head are only about 50% homologous between the different VAMPs, yet the proline-rich character is maintained.
(16) Vesicle-associated membrane protein (VAMP) 1 is a 120-amino acid protein which co-purifies with cholinergic synaptic vesicles from the marine ray Torpedo californica.
(17) It is concluded that verapamil may be a useful adjuvant to VAMP chemotherapy and that busulphan may provide an alternative to melphalan in patients whose myeloma cells are melphalan resistant.
(18) Nucleotide sequence analysis of the cDNAs predicts proteins which are 84 and 75% homologous to Torpedo VAMP-1.
(19) This from the suburbs of Bristol, and another trade long steeped in such sharp practice: "Self-employed hairdressers are required for a busy, newly opened and re-vamped Beauty Salon."
(20) Its message in bovine brain encodes a 116 amino acid protein whose sequence reveals it to be the mammalian homolog of Torpedo VAMP-1.