(n.) A field where corn is or has been growing; -- in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn.
Example Sentences:
(1) "They're scared," one woman says April 15, 2014 max seddon (@maxseddon) Slavyansk residents are marching to defend their local airstrip, which is a cornfield with no fuel, working planes, or real runway April 15, 2014 Updated at 5.20pm BST 5.04pm BST There are conflicting reports of casualties at Kramatorsk airport, taken by Ukrainian forces Tuesday afternoon local time.
(2) Carbofuran (Curater 5G) behavior was studied in two drained cornfield soils, clay and loamy-clay, for 2 successive years.
(3) The images coming in to the Guardian's picture desk have reflected the last few days' carnage in an even more graphic way than usual: dead and maimed children in bombed-out Gaza or bodies of victims lying in Ukrainian cornfields.
(4) Five men in plain clothes blocked the road into Chen's village with a van and six more came running after journalists, who tried to enter the community, which is surrounded by cornfields.
(5) A new vision of robots patrolling the meadows and cornfields of the UK may seem dark and satanic to some, but according to farmers and the government it is the future, and will bring efficiencies and benefits, and an end to some of the most back-breaking jobs around the farm.
(6) As for OR analysis, we emphasize that the chi-square function, introduced by Cornfield for unstratified data, and extended by Gart to the case of stratified analysis, is based on the efficient score and thus embodies its optimality properties.
(7) It's as though the 72-year-old author had just popped out of a ripening cornfield to take a sniff at the sheep-shearing contest going on behind her.
(8) The online tool monitors nitrogen applied and lost on cornfields across the country.
(9) And environmentalists are worried that the expansion of cornfields will dry out peaty soils, leading to greenhouse gas emissions, and be harmful for biological diversity.
(10) (3) Histidine-rich protein from granular cells contained polypeptides of larger molecular sizes than those in histidine-rich protein from cornfield cells, although amino acid composition of the two histidine-rich protein was non-distinguishable (histidine residue was more than 7%).
(11) And in the end they pass, like ripples of breeze through a ripe cornfield, having made relatively little impact on the body politic.
(12) Approximate confidence intervals for these parameters including the classical Cornfield's method are mainly based on efficient scores.
(13) The characteristic "cornfield" growth in RCM in 25-ml Universal containers is described.
(14) That suggests the dynamics of this race has changed.” For his campaign, the dynamics of the race roll along two-lane roads through snow-crusted cornfields.
(15) Studies show that the nitrous oxide emitted from cornfields has a greenhouse gas impact of similar magnitude to the entire aviation industry of the United States.
(16) Under the multiplicative model, the crude relative risk may be adjusted indirectly, by means of a factor proposed by Axelson [1978], and implicitly by Cornfield et al.
(17) We took buses, trains, walked on railways and through cornfields.
(18) Unfortunately, the principles underlying valid application of these techniques are more subtle than those first considered by Cornfield in the rare-disease setting, and appear to be easily misunderstood.
(19) The obvious answer from Iowa is Rick Santorum , who pushed him so close in the cornfields.
(20) Don Benton: the Trump 'shadow' adviser taking over the US draft system Read more Michael Cornfield, associate professor of political management at George Washington University, said: “Like Reagan, Trump established his name among Americans through commercial television.
Wheat
Definition:
(n.) A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race.
Example Sentences:
(1) RNA transcribed in vitro from the early region of bacteriophage T3 or T7 was translated by cytoplasmic ribosomes which synthesized protein in cell-free systems prepared from mammalian cells and wheat germ.
(2) The epithelium of Brunner's gland stained intensely with Ricinus communis agglutinin-I (RCA-I), succinylated-WGA (S-WGA) and wheat-germ agglutinin (WGA), moderately with Bandeirea simplicifolia agglutinin-I (BS-I), Concanavalia ensiformis agglutinin (Con A) peanut agglutinin (PNA) and Ulex europaeus agglutinin-I (UEA-I) and occasionally with Dolichos biflorus agglutinin (DBA), Lens culinaris agglutinin (LCA) and soybean agglutinin (SBA).
(3) They included lectins such as wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), concanavalin A and phytohemagglutinin, and a chemical cross-linker, glutaraldehyde, in addition to anti-IL-2R monoclonal antibodies, HIEI and H-47.
(4) Two lectins, wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and peanut agglutinin (PNA), were used to compare domains within the interphotoreceptor matrices (IPM) of the cat and monkey, two species where the morphological relationship between the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors is distinctly different.
(5) The lambs of the second group were given 1200-1500 g of concentrate pellets and 300 g chopped wheat straw, and those of the third group were given 800 and 1050 g each of concentrate pellets, and 540 g and 720 g of pellets of whole maize plant containing 40 per cent.
(6) The absorption of zinc from meals based on 60 g of rye, barley, oatmeal, triticale or whole wheat was studied by use of extrinsic labelling with 65Zn and measurement of the whole-body retention of the radionuclide.
(7) Comparison of the native and derivatized wheat germ CaMs with native bovine testis CaM indicates that the concentrations of these proteins required for half-maximal stimulation of either erythrocyte membrane Ca2+-ATPase activity or cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum phosphorylation are very similar.
(8) Recoveries of these 3 herbicides added to soil, wheat, and barley samples at 0.05, 0.1, 0.5, and 1.0 ppm levels were between 65 and 93%.
(9) The 5'-terminal methylated cap (m7G(5')ppp(5')Gm) in reovirus messenger RNA comprises part of the ribosomes binding site, since attachment of 40 S wheat germ ribosomal subunits to reovirus small (s), medium (m), and large (l) RNA classes conferred almost complete protection of the cap against RNase digestion.
(10) Injection of the tracer substance wheat germ agglutinin-horseradish peroxidase (WGA-HRP) directly into the basilar pontine nuclei using a ventral surgical approach resulted in the labeling of somata in many areas both rostral and caudal to the basilar pons.
(11) The organization of the afferent and efferent connections of the sagittal Zones A and B of the cerebellar cortex of the rat have been studied using wheat-germ agglutinin conjugated to horseradish peroxidase as a tracer.
(12) He can't eat wheat – he has to have a special diet.
(13) Previous experiments had demonstrated that the receptors for the lectins soybean agglutinin (SBA), wheat germ agglutinin, concanavalin A and Lens culinaris agglutinin all were relatively uniformly distributed on both myoblasts and myotubes, and that SBA receptors were capable of rapid redistribution on myotubes but not myoblasts at 4 degrees C (Sawyer & Akeson, 1983).
(14) The purification entails cell lysis and solubilization of gpL115 with the detergent Nonidet P-40, sequential affinity chromatography on lentil lectin-Sepharose, wheat germ lectin-Sepharose, and, after treatment with sialidase, on peanut lectin-Sepharose.
(15) It is now recognized that dwarfism in males is frequent around the Mediterranean, where wheat is the staple of life and has been grown for 4,000 years on the same soil, thereby resulting in the depletion of zinc.
(16) The characteristics of the surface of guinea pig megakaryocytes were investigated with wheat germ agglutinin (WGA).
(17) On the other hand, wheat bran, pectin, guar gum, and degraded carageenan all stimulate large bowel cell proliferation, the greatest growth response tending to occur in the cecum or proximal colon.
(18) A lectin which binds to both sialic acid and N-acetylglucosamine sugar residues, wheat germ agglutinin-ferritin (WGA-fe), was used.
(19) Two similar, 41- and 67-kDa G-proteins were identified in the wheat germ-purified insulin receptor preparations obtained from human placenta.
(20) Succinylated wheat germ agglutinin bound more to crypt than to villus enterocytes.