(adv.) A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a.
(v. t.) One who counts, or reckons up; a calculator; a reckoner.
(v. t.) A piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc.
(v. t.) Money; coin; -- used in contempt.
(v. t.) A prison; either of two prisons formerly in London.
(v. t.) A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
(v. t.) A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured.
(adv.) Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise; -- used chiefly with run or go.
(adv.) In the wrong way; contrary to the right course; as, a hound that runs counter.
(adv.) At or against the front or face.
(a.) Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue.
(adv.) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
(adv.) Same as Contra. Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to counter tenor.
(adv.) The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
(adv.) The back leather or heel part of a boot.
(n.) An encounter.
(v. i.) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
Example Sentences:
(1) We analyzed the amounts and types of glycosphingolipids (GSLs) from peripheral blood lymphocytes, monocytes, and granulocytes isolated by counter-current elutriation.
(2) It is widely seen as a counter to China’s economic might in Asia, and the world’s second largest economy is notably absent from the list of signatories.
(3) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
(4) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(5) Examination was by means of counter immunoelectrophoresis, radioimmunoassay and electron microscope with negative staining.
(6) This study sought to determine if and why barriers to the over-the-counter purchase of syringes in the St. Louis metropolitan area might exist, given that no ordinance prohibits such a sale there.
(7) But leading British doctors Sarah Creighton , consultant gynaecologist at the private Portland Hospital, Susan Bewley , consultant obstetrician at St Thomas's and Lih-Mei Liao , clinical psychologist in women's health at University College Hospital then wrote to the journal countering that his clitoral restoration claims were "anatomically impossible".
(8) These results provide further data which counter the sometimes extreme advocates of the view that compulsory admission and treatment of patients with psychiatric illness is never acceptable.
(9) Republicans embraced it as a counter to federal school initiatives.
(10) The effect was countered by prior administration of atropine into the site.
(11) Last month following a visit to Islamabad Ben Emmerson QC, the UN's special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, said he had been given assurances that there was no "tacit consent by Pakistan to the use of drones on its territory".
(12) It could be evaluated both by a plaquing technique and by cell enumeration with an electronic particle counter.
(13) In 25 patients we evaluated the efficacy of the prone position to counter these technical difficulties and found that the prone position offers visualization superior to the supine, especially in obese and uncooperative patients and those with abundant bowel gas.
(14) Alteration in the temperature of the Isoton diluent in a Coulter model S counter over a range of possible laboratory working temperatures produced a change in the mean corpuscular volume using EDTA and dipotassium acid citrate dextrose blood and a commercial control, 4C.
(15) The lower values of the histological score and the possibly lower peripheral plasma concentration of testosterone after the arterial by-pass may indicate a physiological importance of the counter current exchange.
(16) The effects of maxillary protracting bow appliance were the maxillary forward movement associated with counter-clockwise rotation of the nasal floor and the mandibular backward movement associated with clockwise rotation.
(17) We develop an analogy between the steric hindrance among receptors detecting randomly placed haptens and the temporary locking of a Geiger counter that has detected a radioactive decay.
(18) The human intercellular adhesion molecules ICAM-1, ICAM-2 and their counter-receptors, the beta 2 or leukointegrins, mediate a variety of homotypic and heterotypic leukocyte and endothelial cell-cell adhesions central to immunocompetence.
(19) A simple equilibrium method for detecting and quantifying these interactions is to study the mutual influence of the molecules on their respective counter-current distribution in liquid-liquid biphasic systems.
(20) More than 200 American troops are in the country helping to train the army in counter-insurgency, but there are also said to be intelligence and special forces there.
Overhanging
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overhang
Example Sentences:
(1) Marginal overhang was the prevailing type of failure (17%), recurrent caries occurred at 12% of the restorations, unacceptable proximal contact at 10%, unacceptable marginal adaptation at 8% and isthmus fractures at 2%.
(2) The enzyme was capable of ligating phi X174 (+) strand DNA to double-stranded oligonucleotides that contained 5'-overhang, 3'-overhand, or blunt ends.
(3) Sadly, this warmer weather has left many fashion retailers with a substantial stock overhang, raising the question of earlier and deeper discounts as we get closer to Christmas.
(4) Highly purified endonuclease cleaves the DNA of the intronless form of the td gene in vitro at 24 bp upstream of the exon 1-exon 2 junction, generating a 2-base staggered cut with 3'-hydroxyl overhangs.
(5) Selective degradation of the dUMP residues in the PCR products with uracil DNA glycosylase (UDG) disrupts base pairing at the termini and generates 3' overhangs.
(6) Here we show that the break fragments end in extensive 3'-overhanging, single-stranded tails.
(7) When the non-complementary overhanging-ends are short (i.e.
(8) All had ulcerating stomatitis, four had partial villous atrophy on small intestinal biopsy, all had colitis characterised by large ulcers with overhanging edges, and four had severe perianal disease; no stool pathogens were detected.
(9) For a proper radiographic diagnosis of secondary caries and interproximal overhangs or undercuts, tooth colored inlays and their appropriate luting agents have to be radiopaque.
(10) Email from Resins.Man, showing us it's always okay to be sentimental when it comes to baseball games i've only ever been to one baseball game........ ....at Fenway Park back in '79, and I remember it just like David Lengels photo, pillars, overhanging roof, pitch like a widescreen slot.
(11) All the small bits of climbing gear that anchored them to the overhanging cliff above had ripped out, one by one, and only one piece was left, a temporary piece, something not meant to hold for long.
(12) This isn’t a dark, scary tunnel deep in the mountainside; it’s merely a shallow overhang, big enough to keep the wind and rain at bay, but open enough to prevent any claustrophobia.
(13) The surgical blade, and especially the reciprocating motor-driven diamond tip eliminated overhangs better than the chisel.
(14) This normal level of end joining is observed regardless of the type of overhang and regardless of the requirement for nucleolytic activities prior to ligation.
(15) This takes the form of an eccentrically placed convex stenosis with a narrow neck due to one or more overhanging edges or irregular, scalloped borders, or both.
(16) Measurement of rejoining at several adjacent sites having different types of termini, consistently showed a range of efficiencies with 5' 4-base greater than 3' 4-base overhangs and 4-base greater than 2-base greater than no overhang.
(17) "We don't want to build up another big debt overhang that is going to hurt individuals and is very much going to slow the economy in the medium term.
(18) Complementary oligonucleotides with 5' overhanging deoxyguanosine or deoxycytidine stretches, respectively, of the general form 5'-d(GGGCAARAAC).5'-d(CCCGTTYTTG), where R represents the bases adenine (A), hypoxanthine (base of inosine nucleoside, I), purine (R), 2-aminopurine (n2R), or 2,6-diaminopurine (n2,6(2)R) and where Y represents the pyrimidine bases thymine (T) or cytosine (C), have been chemically synthesized.
(19) Furthermore, similar to other ENases encoded by mobile mt introns of yeast, the ENase generates a cut with a four-base 3'-OH overhang.
(20) The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of overhanging margins and associated periodontal status in 100 patients who had received completed treatment by final year dental students.