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Crenelate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To furnish with crenelles.
  • (v. t.) To indent; to notch; as, a crenelated leaf.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The aerial shots along the route – taking in the crenellated ruins of Dunluce Castle, the vertiginous Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge, the basalt stacks of the Giant's Causeway, and the seaside villages of Ballycastle, Cushendun, Cushendall and Carnlough – will be a pleasant surprise for viewers who have an entirely different image of Northern Ireland.
  • (2) Behind the high, crenellated walls of Kigali prison, 7,000 prisoners are crammed into a space that was built to accommodate perhaps a tenth of that number.
  • (3) Its crenellated edges are deep purple and its eight tentacles look like soft pink coral.
  • (4) The most notable morphological effect of the antibiotic was ruffling or crenelation of the outer membrane, which resulted ultimately in its separation from the inner membrane.
  • (5) • Doubles from €84 B&B, +351 258 808 200, meloalvimhouse.com 4 Pauper’s castle , Porto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Two metro stops from Porto’s centre, Castelo Santa Catarina is a crenellated Gothic palace set in its own mature gardens.
  • (6) Jamie Vardy ’s having a(nother) party: he’s going to get married at Peckforton Castle in Cheshire – actually not a castle, just a big and kind-of-oldish house with crenellations – on 25 May.
  • (7) We stopped at Pembroke Castle to while away a little more of the drizzle, wondering if this massive crenellated fortification from the 12th century was also, in its day, considered a monstrous carbuncle.
  • (8) The sexual characters of the parapodial cirri (male and female swellings, male crenellations) are always expressed on stump or regenerate according to the genetic sex.
  • (9) • Doubles from €80 B&B, +351 968 044 992, boucadarques.com 16 Douro gem , Amarante Facebook Twitter Pinterest A crenellated, isolated mini-manor house full of atmosphere and antiques, Casa Levada is now run as a B&B by Maria and Luis Mota, he the great nephew of poet Teixeira de Pascoaes, who used to summer here.

Indent


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To contract; to bargain or covenant.
  • (v. t.) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.
  • (v. t.) To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp.
  • (v. t.) To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant.
  • (v. t.) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or less distance from the margin; as, to indent the first line of a paragraph one em; to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first. See Indentation, and Indention.
  • (v. t.) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
  • (v. i.) To be cut, notched, or dented.
  • (v. i.) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
  • (n.) A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
  • (n.) A stamp; an impression.
  • (n.) A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
  • (n.) A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
  • (2) Attachment appeared to involve a very close physical proximity of treponemes to the cultured cells; at the site of attachment, no changes such as swelling or indentation of the cultured cell surface were observed.
  • (3) Analysed were the results of surgical treatment, causes of the failure and early recurrence in 108 patients with retinal detachment in whom was performed an indentation of the sclera by means of a balloon (1st group--50) or by an episcleral implant (2d group--58).
  • (4) Thus, the area with separated HL, which is restricted to the region of the PMC released at the stage of PMC ingression, spreads almost entirely throughout the area of the indenting vegetal plate at gastrulation.
  • (5) Evidence for net C3 synthesis was based on (a) incorporation of 14C-labeled amino acids into C3 protein, (b) indentity of the allotype of C3 produced in vitro with that of the doner's serum C3, even in the presence of carrier C3 protein of a different allotype; (c) correspondence of electrophoretic mobility, size, and subunit structure of C3 protein produced in vitro with serum C3; (d) inhibition of C3 production with cycloheximide.
  • (6) The light touch stimulus was a slight indentation of the skin produced through a displacement controlled stimulating probe (tip diameter of 2 mm).
  • (7) Dendritic cells were characterized by their slender cytoplasmic processes, indented nucleus and pale cytoplasm.
  • (8) The monocytes are large cells with an indented nucleus and cytoplasm containing numerous vesicles of different sizes and also a few lysosomes.
  • (9) Kitten units responsive to skin indentation showed no evidence of encoding stimulus magnitude information.
  • (10) The anti-inflammatory effect of dexamethasone was also indentical in both normal and EFAD rats.
  • (11) (1) was employed to calculate the strain rate and stress from the indentation time and the size of the indentation.
  • (12) A mathematical solution has been obtained for the indentation creep and stress-relaxation behavior of articular cartilage where the tissue is modeled as a layer of linear KLM biphasic material of thickness h bonded to an impervious, rigid bony substrate.
  • (13) The responses of slowly-adapting neurons were separated into two components, a "dynamic" response corresponding to activity elicited by the initial indenting ramp and a "static" response produced by the sustained indentation.
  • (14) Therefore, the pleural indentation sign does not exclusively appear in the lung cancer.
  • (15) In the fluoride group, a moderate increase of the indentation length and a reduced calcium loss were observed.
  • (16) Histologically, in addition to diffuse infiltrate of large lymphoid cells with deeply indented nuclei, there were many epithelioid cell granulomas, remarkable tissue eosinophilia and stromal fibrosis, mimicking inflammatory disease.
  • (17) By utilizing high-speed, microcomputer-controlled data logging techniques, simultaneous monitoring of signals from a dynamic load cell and a displacement transducer could be made throughout an indentation test.
  • (18) The central axon of a primary afferent neuron that responded to indentation of the glabrous skin of the lower lip in a slowly adapting fashion was intra-axonally injected with horseradish peroxidase.
  • (19) In addition to the macroglossia, the typical facial signs of this syndrome such as capillary haemangioma of the glabella, soft tissue folds under the eyes and linear indentations of the ear lobes are demonstrable.
  • (20) Cuplike indentations were present on the paunch epithelial surface and were sites of bacterial aggregation.

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