(n.) A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.
(n.) A stall for oxen or other cattle.
(n.) A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.
(n.) A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.
(n.) A hovel; a hut; a cottage.
(n.) A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.
(n.) A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.
(n.) A small raft of timber.
(n.) A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris/; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons.
(n.) A miner's luncheon.
(n.) The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.
(v. t.) To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
(v. t.) To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton.
(v. i.) To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
(v. i.) To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.
(v. i.) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) (vi) At 10 C crib-1 synthesizes unequal amounts of 25S and 17S ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) molecules, resulting from a greatly reduced accumulation of stable 17S rRNA.
(2) Police found a crib sheet on one of the detained men with phrases such as “great breasts” and “I want to f*** you” translated into German.
(3) When she was about two, three months old he bought me a stroller and a $700 crib.
(4) An additional 26 babies received BERA and one Crib-O-Gram test.
(5) In case of corn contamination by ochratoxin A, the analysis of technologic parameters conclude to question the drying corn with ears in cribs and the delayed drying after the reception of corn in storage corporation.
(6) The activities of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), acetylcholinesterase (AChE), glutamate decarboxylase, and tyrosine hydroxylase in a number of brain regions are reported for this infant, two cases of crib death, and a group of normal adults.
(7) A recent report on a prospective study of more than 5,000 babies showed that all 3 infants who ultimately succumbed to crib death had had abnormally prolonged corrected QT intervals on day 4 of life; the report contends that that irregularity leads to ventricular fibrillation, which is then the immediate cause of death.
(8) The authors emphasize the importance of detecting the newborns at audiological risk and screening the neonates in order to get an early diagnosis and treatment of the affection, at least within the first year of life, to avoid or reduce the consequences of hearing loss; then they describe the procedure commonly in use at present for neonatal hearing screening and a number of available different diagnostic tools (electrodermal audiometry, heart rate audiometry--with the possibility of autoregressive analysis--respiration audiometry, autoregressive analysis of EEG, acoustic impedance measurements with study of the acoustic reflex, auditory response cradle which is also named CRIB-O-GRAM).
(9) And in the Crib Assessment and Purchasing Guide, which follows the Conclusions and Ratings, we provide general guidance to help readers evaluate cribs that were not included in this study.
(10) The 14th child, a 3-month-old white female infant, was found dead in her crib and had renal histopathologic findings consistent with the hemolytic-uremic syndrome.
(11) By the time they returned to their cribs, they were again asleep.
(12) A city which appears as if redesigned by the furnishers of MTV Cribs will appeal to those with a cruel sense of humour.
(13) A series of psychophysical lifting studies was conducted to establish maximum acceptable weights of lift (MAWL) for three supply items commonly handled in underground coal mines (rock dust bags, ventilation stopping blocks, and crib blocks).
(14) His scholarship, no doubt, was meagre but he could read Greek with the help of a dictionary and a crib and he loved it - that may astonish.
(15) The examination of 337 cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndorme (SIDS) ro Crib Deaths in Philadelphia, Penn., USA, and 294 cases in Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany, shows regional concentrations which are close to uncommon magnetic fields or stray electric currents in the ground.
(16) (v) After a shift from 10 to 25 C crib-1 exhibits a 12-h lag before the growth rate and the rate of synthesis of 37S subunits begin to increase significantly.
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(18) This period, four to six months postnatally, interestingly coincides with the peak incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (crib death), which similarly occurs at 3 to 5 months of age.
(19) We will place this heritage in our constitution, and we will put an end to those eternal debates which lead to Christmas cribs being banned from town halls .” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Front National MP Marion Maréchal-Le Pen.
(20) Finland is the best country for babies A baby sleeps in a Finnish maternity box that can be used as a first crib.
High
Definition:
(v. i.) To hie.
(superl.) Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high.
(superl.) Regarded as raised up or elevated; distinguished; remarkable; conspicuous; superior; -- used indefinitely or relatively, and often in figurative senses, which are understood from the connection
(superl.) Elevated in character or quality, whether moral or intellectual; preeminent; honorable; as, high aims, or motives.
(superl.) Exalted in social standing or general estimation, or in rank, reputation, office, and the like; dignified; as, she was welcomed in the highest circles.
(superl.) Of noble birth; illustrious; as, of high family.
(superl.) Of great strength, force, importance, and the like; strong; mighty; powerful; violent; sometimes, triumphant; victorious; majestic, etc.; as, a high wind; high passions.
(superl.) Very abstract; difficult to comprehend or surmount; grand; noble.
(superl.) Costly; dear in price; extravagant; as, to hold goods at a high price.
(superl.) Arrogant; lofty; boastful; proud; ostentatious; -- used in a bad sense.
(superl.) Possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree; as, high (i. e., intense) heat; high (i. e., full or quite) noon; high (i. e., rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i. e., complete) pleasure; high (i. e., deep or vivid) color; high (i. e., extensive, thorough) scholarship, etc.
(superl.) Strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures do not cook game before it is high.
(superl.) Acute or sharp; -- opposed to grave or low; as, a high note.
(superl.) Made with a high position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate, as / (/ve), / (f/d). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 10, 11.
(adv.) In a high manner; in a high place; to a great altitude; to a great degree; largely; in a superior manner; eminently; powerfully.
(n.) An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven.
(n.) People of rank or high station; as, high and low.
(n.) The highest card dealt or drawn.
(v. i.) To rise; as, the sun higheth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cancer patients showed abnormally high plasma free tryptophan levels.
(2) Results by these three assays were also highly reproducible.
(3) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
(4) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
(5) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
(6) The angiographic appearances are highly characteristic and equal in value to a histological diagnosis.
(7) When micF was cloned into a high-copy-number plasmid it repressed ompF gene expression, whereas when cloned into a low-copy-number plasmid it did not.
(8) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
(9) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(10) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
(11) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(12) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
(13) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(14) These results demonstrate that increased availability of galactose, a high-affinity substrate for the enzyme, leads to increased aldose reductase messenger RNA, which suggests a role for aldose reductase in sugar metabolism in the lens.
(15) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
(16) Morphological alterations in the lungs of pheasants after prolonged high-dosage administration of bleomycin sulfate were studied by light and electron microscopy.
(17) In vitro studies carried out in this Department confirmed the high activity of mecillinam against Salmonella spp.
(18) The high transition enthalpy for kerasin is ascribed to a lesser accommodation of gauche conformers in the hydrocarbon chains just below the transition temperature.
(19) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
(20) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.