(n.) A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclosed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; -- often called firecracker.
(n.) A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker.
(n.) A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States.
(n.) The pintail duck.
(n.) A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first and third courses were interchanged and consisted of either a sweet (candy bar) or savory (cheese or crackers) food, both of similar palatabilities and energy densities.
(2) Others in more agreeable confines should take this opportunity to load up on trans-fats and get set for what should be a cracker.
(3) Regardless of when or how that occurs, one thing is believed – there will not be an end to cracker night.
(4) While Auden and Britten are much grander characters than, say, Maggie Smith's nervy vicar's wife in Bed Among the Lentils or Thora Hird's Doris in A Cream Cracker Under the Settee trying to stave off the care home, they share the same disappointments – loneliness, self-doubt, age.
(5) McGovern, the award-winning creator of dramas including Cracker, said the whole team currently working on the third series of The Street , including executive producer Sita Williams, at producer ITV Studios' Manchester base could be made redundant.
(6) Two levels (50 and 200 kcal) of three preloads (tomato soup, melon, cheese on crackers) were given just before two different second courses (macaroni and beef casserole, grilled cheese sandwiches), allowing us to examine the effects of caloric level, energy density, and sensory-specific satiety on food intake in normal weight, non-dieting males.
(7) Joe Wilkinson 'Instead of Jokes in a Christmas crackers they should put in something more useful, like the rules to Kabaddi or instructions on how to delete your internet history.'
(8) Comparisons between parents and childrens reports of food frequencies and portion sizes revealed the best correlations for beverages, bread-cereals-crackers, meat-fish-poultry, and mixed dishes.
(9) When asked what cracker night says about life in the Territory, Carmichael points towards personal freedom.
(10) Though the last team to win the league having been outside the top three at Christmas were Arsenal (who were sixth as the crackers were pulled) way back in 1997-98, plenty of sides have come from even further back.
(11) Nutritional ideas and products that are the outcomes of the early vegetarian movement include a commitment to high fiber diets, the popularity of breakfast cereals, and the graham cracker.
(12) Schuster has been commissioning editor of comedy at Sky since 2011, working on shows including Little Crackers and The Kumars for Sky1 and A Young Doctor's Notebook and Psychobitches for Sky Arts.
(13) Cookies, crackers, and potato chips were most retentive, whereas caramels, jelly beans, raisins, and milk chocolate bars were among those poorly retained.
(14) Nicholas Evans is a celebrated storyteller, and the story he tells me is a cracker.
(15) The meals consisted of starch crackers fed at the rate of 1 g carbohydrate from starch per kilogram body weight.
(16) However, during the 1990s Granada and others continued to make acclaimed programmes such as Cracker, The Darling Buds of May and period dramas Oliver Twist and Moll Flanders.
(17) The test fiber was consumed in crackers that contained approximately 7.5 gm fiber from psyllium gum, wheat bran, or a combination of the two sources.
(18) McGovern, the award-winning creator of The Street and other dramas including Cracker, said on BBC Radio 4's Front Row last night that he would not take the drama to another producer when ITV's Manchester drama department is scrapped as part of the latest round of cuts at the broadcaster.
(19) Once delivered, the ethane will be fed into “crackers” which break apart the gas and turn it into ethylene, which is used in a wide range of plastic products, such as plastic bags and – according to one Ineos man, the packaging for Pot Noodles.
(20) On basal esophageal manometry, 275 patients had a normal response, 64 patients had findings of high-amplitude peristalsis or "nut-cracker" esophagus, and 11 patients exhibited changes of diffuse esophageal spasm.
Racker
Definition:
(n.) One who racks.
(n.) A horse that has a racking gait.
Example Sentences:
(1) Liposomes containing this preparation exhibit a respiratory control ratio [Hinkle, P. C., Kim, J. J., & Racker, E. (1972) J. Biol.
(2) The role of length and unsaturation of phospholipid acyl chains in the activation of ATPase complex was studied with synthetic phosphatidylcholines and a phospholipid-dependent preparation obtained after cholate-extraction of submitochondrial particles (Kagawa, Y. and Racker, E. (1966) J. Biol.
(3) The nonionic detergent, octylglucoside, egg phosphatidylcholine, and the lipid-deficient, oligomycin-sensitive F0.F1-ATPase (Serrano, R., Kanner, B., and Racker, E. (1976) J. Biol.
(4) In agreement with a recent report that the purified active ATPase molecule is largely phosphorylated (Yanagita, Y., Abdel-Ghany, M., Raden, D., Nelson, N., and Racker, E. (1987) Proc.
(5) In combination with asolectin, the cholate dilution technique (H. Miyamoto and E. Racker, J. Biol.
(6) This preparation of mitochondrial adenosine triphosphatase has many properties in common with the adenosine triphosphatase coupling factor from mitochondria (Racker, 1961).
(7) The claim of Racker and co-workers (Lin, Z. F., Lucero, H. A., and Racker, E. (1982) J. Biol.
(8) The amino-terminus of M13 coat protein is also found exclusively on the outside of dilauroyl or dimyristoyl lecithin vesicles, formed with coat protein by the cholate dilution technique [Racker, E., et al.
(9) Transformation by ras oncogenes has also been reported to result in enhanced PLC response to bradykinin resulting from increased receptor numbers (G. Parries, R. Hoebel, and E. Racker, Proc.
(10) 1 h of incubation and the original Racker's method gave similar results.
(11) The study of the properties of these mutants has shown that Cys149 is clearly responsible for the information of a charge-transfer transition, named the Racker band, observed during the NAD+ binding to apoGAPDH.
(12) (Lin, Z. F., Lucero, H. A., and Racker, E. (1982) J. Biol.
(13) With pig muscle enzyme, at pH 6.0, the time course of formation of the characteristic Racker band can be monitored by a rapid mixing stopped flow technique.
(14) This result excludes a similarity between the Racker band and the charge-transfer transition observed following the alkylation of GAPDH by 3-chloroacetyl pyridine-adenine dinucleotide.
(15) A. Thomas, R. N. Buchsbaum, A. Zimniak, and E. Racker.
(16) The bovine heart F0F1-ATPase preparation (Serrano, R., Kanner, B., and Racker, E. (1976) J. Biol.
(17) An eminent biochemist gives his personal view of misconduct in science, one largely based on an experience with the case of fraud by a young researcher, Mark Spector, in Racker's own laboratory at Cornell University.
(18) The phospholipid composition of oligomycin-sensitive ATPase fractions from mitochondria, precipitated under different ammonium sulfate concentrations according to the Kagawa-Racker method, was studied.
(19) Racker argues that fraud committed by talented professional scientists springs from an unbalanced mind, that each case must be handled individually and pursued in the courts if the evidence warrants it, and that Congress must be persuaded that the research community can and will assume responsibility for the detection and punishment of scientific misconduct.
(20) As compared with the enzyme isolated by well known Lien and Racker method, the enzyme preparation obtained is slightly activated by heating, is not activated by trypsin and has a lesser ability to recover ATP synthesis in EDTA-treated chloroplasts.