(n.) One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.
(n.) The zodiacal constellation Cancer.
(a.) A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.
(a.) A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
(a.) A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
(a.) A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
(a.) A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
(a.) A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
(v. t.) To make sour or morose; to embitter.
(v. t.) To beat with a crabstick.
(v. i.) To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
(a.) Sour; rough; austere.
Example Sentences:
(1) A total of 202 cultures of yeasts were isolated and characterized from king crab and Dungeness crab meat.
(2) King crabs (Family Lithodidae) are among the world's largest arthropods, having a crab-like morphology and a strongly calcified exoskeleton.
(3) Sarcomas (fleshy tumors) were distinguished from carcinoma (crab leg tumors) at the time of Hippocrates.
(4) In a second series, crabs were repeatedly exposed during training to a light pulse (CS) immediately followed by shock (UCS), and after a 6-h rest interval, tested with either CS-UCS or UCS.
(5) No blood group polymorphism was revealed by testing bonnet macaque red cells with isoantisera produced in rhesus monkeys (M. mulatta) and in crab-eating macaques (M. fascicularis).
(6) These findings provide ultrastructural correlates of the electrophysiological changes produced by glycerol treatment of the closer muscle of the ghost crab (Papir, 1973), namely, interference with excitation-contraction (e-c) coupling.
(7) A clottable protein, named coagulogen, was highly purified from the amoebocyte lysate of Japanese horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) by a method similar to that used for the lysate of Limulus polyphemus amoebocytes.
(8) The carbon dioxide solubility coefficient, alphaCO2, and the apparent carbonic acid dissociation constants, K'1 and K'2 were estimated in the serum of the crab Carcinus maenas at various temperatures and ionic strengths.
(9) Two forms of cytochrome P-450 (P-450MC1 and P-450MC2) were purified from liver microsomes of crab-eating monkeys (Macaca irus) treated with 3-methylcholanthrene (MC).
(10) Electrical activity recorded intracellularly from peptidergic neurosecretory terminal dilatations in the sinus gland of crabs (principally Cardisoma guanhumi and C. carnifex) is described.
(11) Isolated muscle fibers from the motor legs of the crab Trichodactilus dilocarcinus were submitted to strong hyperpolarizing currents of varied intensities which produced tension during the current pulse.
(12) The amino acid sequence of troponin C obtained from horseshoe crab, Tachypleus tridentatus, striated muscle was determined by sequence analysis and alignments of chemically and enzymatically cleaved peptides.
(13) C.subimmaculatus was closely associated with a particular substrate and the presence of burrowing crabs.
(14) Our studies in crab-eating macaques indicate that presence in a mother's serum of potent antibodies reactive for red cells for her fetus will not necessarily cause erythroblastosis; in one case the maternal antibodies did not penetrate the placental barrier, and in two cases although the fetal red cells were maximally antibody-coated, they remained undamaged and the disease failed to develop.
(15) A 40-day adaptation of crabs to the freshened sea water results in an increase of maximal activity of Na,K-ATPase, but does not affect the enzyme affinity for ATP, Na+, K+, Mg2+ and ouabain, as well as its cooperative properties.
(16) When crab meat was ingested, none of these four arsenic species were observed at elevated levels until the urine was heated in 2N NaOH.
(17) Clots were allowed to form in samples of whole blood taken from the American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, in the absence and presence of dansylcadaverine (16), and were analyzed for their contents of N epsilon(gamma-glutamyl)lysine and gamma-glutamyl-dansylcadaverine.
(18) The experiments were performed on in vitro X-organ sinus gland neurosecretory systems from the eyestalk of the crab Cardisoma carnifex.
(19) On the upper reaches of the Cross River from the region around Mamfe and extending as far as the Nigerian fronter at Ekok, the crabs were infected exclusively with P. uterobilateralis.
(20) When the crabs Cancer antennarius and Petrolisthes cinctipes were in seawater (SW), amiloride (10(-4) M) reduced NH3 efflux by approximately 33 and 60%.
Sideways
Definition:
(adv.) Toward the side; sidewise.
Example Sentences:
(1) That may sound familiar to Tottenham fans, who grew tired with their team’s aimless, sideways passing under André Villas-Boas.
(2) He just look sideways and for some reason it’s funny.” But Clement himself names Rhys Darby, aka the Conchords’ manager, Murray, who plays a werewolf in Shadows, as the funniest man he has ever worked with – even if he does appear in “too many ads”.
(3) In a sideways reference to his own description of investment banks as casinos, King acknowledged it is almost impossible to measure risk and for regulators to keep up.
(4) He exited the sand trap sideways, was ultimately left 8ft for par but missed to the left.
(5) He would have been knocking it all sideways.” Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and his Legacy, 1860-1960 is at the National Portrait Gallery , London, 16 October – 11 January.
(6) I remember the way I slid sideways through rows of desks, my arms crossed over my chest.
(7) Sometimes, it is because a senior minister will not accept the sideways shuffle that is envisaged for them, and sometimes it is simply because the prime minister loses his nerve.
(8) At most companies offering 6%, the dividend is under threat or going sideways.
(9) But when Davie went to BBC Worldwide, via a few months as acting director general, the job went to Helen Boaden , moved sideways out of BBC News last year in the wake of the Savile scandal.
(10) The role of retinal Müller cells in spatial buffering is considered quantitatively: both buffering to the tissue surface and buffering sideways through cell-to-cell connections.
(11) ), aggressive episodes (offensive sideways posture and attack bite) were significantly suppressed in a dose-dependent manner.
(12) In Adelaide we 'wet-set' our instruments, in Darwin we had small pre-packed trays which were set on trolleys sideways, and in Perth we had pre-sterilised boxes of instruments which we laid out on trolleys ourselves.
(13) Also, proper douching that directs liquid sideways, not toward the cervix, should further reduce risk, It is underscored that contraceptive efficacy is not an effectiveness rate, but a failure rate.
(14) It was easy to detect their frustration during the first half and there was no shortage of chuntering whenever the ball went sideways or back.
(15) I congratulated him on the upsurge in his fortunes, such as his sideways move from squeezing, baking and daubing his filthy and infantile clay urns into broadcasting on the prestigious Channel 4 network.
(16) In it two grown-up cherubs seem to be flying sideways.
(17) Johnson said the need to continue the austerity programme into the next parliament had been caused by George Osborne's decision to allow borrowing to rise while the economy has moved sideways over the past two years, rather than tighten policy further.
(18) The football administrator Brian Marwood, previously in charge of recruitment, has been moved sideways to become the managing director of the club's academy in a move overseen by City's new chief executive, Ferran Soriano, who worked with Begiristain at the Camp Nou.
(19) The sideways looks in predominantly white areas suggesting your presence there is beyond the norm.
(20) Direct sagittal CT was performed by placing the entire infant sideways and supine within the gantry after metrizamide was injected.