(n.) A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write.
(n.) A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.
(v. t.) To mark or cover with cross lines; as, a paper was crisscrossed with red marks.
(adv.) In opposite directions; in a way to cross something else; crossing one another at various angles and in various ways.
(adv.) With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily; as, things go crisscross.
Example Sentences:
(1) Antigenic specificity was demonstrated between tricalcium phosphate ceramic and fetal bovine serum in crisscross.
(2) In a country crisscrossed from sea to shining sea by some of the world’s longest and most famous roads, what could be more simple?
(3) Monáe sits with her back to me on a high stool, jacket removed, braces crisscrossed over an immaculate white shirt.
(4) In patients with crisscross heart the ventricles appeared to have been rotated about their long axes without concomitant motion of the AV valve anuli, producing actual crossing of the ventricular inflow tracts.
(5) This is due to the complex anatomy of SCG microcultures, which have many crisscrossing neurites that often pass over cell bodies.
(6) Two infants with complex congenital cardiac disease had malposition of the branch pulmonary arteries (crisscross pulmonary arteries) detected by angiography and confirmed during surgery and in one case, at autopsy.
(7) Twenty years after Nelson Mandela cajoled, threatened and shouted down even his own comrades and led us down the path of freedom, his successor Jacob Zuma has been crisscrossing the country campaigning to be re-elected .
(8) There are publicly run systems across Europe that are cheaper, more efficient, and of a better quality than ours Much of my life is spent in train carriages, crisscrossing the country.
(9) Both types of helper molecule were shown to be antigen-specific in crisscross experiments.
(10) Neuronal perikaria exhibited numerous surface protrusions and were covered by a rich meshwork of crisscrossing, varicosed fibers.
(11) Three fault lines crisscross Nigeria's troubled land: ethnic, religious and socioeconomic.
(12) Therefore, the tendency of 3T3 cells to form monolayers and of Py3T3 cells to form crisscrossed multilayers cannot be explained on the basis of the presence versus the absence of contact inhibition.
(13) Speaking to reporters on the Clinton plane, campaign chair John Podesta said: “[Christie’s] two top aides today were just convicted of corruption for political intimidation.” Noting Christie was a top surrogate for Trump, Podesta added: “Rather than just crisscrossing the country … and talking about cleaning up the swamp, [Trump] might start by draining his own swamp and asking Mr Christie to resign.” Christie was scheduled to campaign on Trump’s behalf on Saturday, in the battleground states of New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.
(14) During the election battle, Hollande had spent little time holed up in his office here, preferring instead to crisscross France on a perpetual campaign trail, which had been going for over a year when he first ran in the Socialist primary race.
(15) Colonies were considered to contain neoplastically transformed cells when the cells were densely stacked and made a crisscross pattern.
(16) We ride endless trams, crisscrossing Prague, and though I’m not always sure where we are headed, Robert seems to know how to get there.
(17) At the end of a long and vigorous battle for the party leadership in 2012, Renzi, despite crisscrossing the country in a camper van, lost out to Pier Luigi Bersani, the candidate of the PD's old guard.
(18) On the basis of these observations, it is concluded that the differences in culture patterns are the result of differences in the shapes of the individual cells, such that underlapping, and hence crisscrossing, is favored in Py3T3 cell interactions and discouraged in 3T3 cells.
(19) In vitro morphologic transformation occurs in a dose-dependent manner and is characterized by random crisscrossing and piling of cells; it correlates with tumorigenicity because individually transformed cell colonies can be isolated, cell lines can be developed, and the formation of tumors can be demonstrated after the injection of the transformed cells into either Syrian hamsters or athymic nude mice.
(20) All five cases shared a distinctive and consistent combination of anomalies: 1) dextrocardia; 2) visceroatrial situs solitus, concordant ventricular D-loop and double outlet right ventricle with the aorta positioned to the left of and anterior to the pulmonary artery; 3) hypoplasia of right ventricular inflow (sinus) with tricuspid valve stenosis or hypoplasia; 4) large right ventricular infundibulum (outflow); 5) malalignment conoventricular septal defect; 6) straddling mitral valve with chordal attachments to the left ventricle and right ventricular infundibulum; 7) severe subpulmonary stenosis with well developed pulmonary arteries; and 8) superoinferior ventricles with crisscross atrioventricular (AV) relations.
Line
Definition:
(n.) Flax; linen.
(n.) The longer and finer fiber of flax.
(v. t.) To cover the inner surface of; as, to line a cloak with silk or fur; to line a box with paper or tin.
(v. t.) To put something in the inside of; to fill; to supply, as a purse with money.
(v. t.) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding anything; to fortify; as, to line works with soldiers.
(v. t.) To impregnate; -- applied to brute animals.
(n.) A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline.
(n.) A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line.
(n.) The course followed by anything in motion; hence, a road or route; as, the arrow descended in a curved line; the place is remote from lines of travel.
(n.) Direction; as, the line of sight or vision.
(n.) A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column.
(n.) A short letter; a note; as, a line from a friend.
(n.) A verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure.
(n.) Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
(n.) That which has length, but not breadth or thickness.
(n.) The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline.
(n.) A threadlike crease marking the face or the hand; hence, characteristic mark.
(n.) Lineament; feature; figure.
(n.) A straight row; a continued series or rank; as, a line of houses, or of soldiers; a line of barriers.
(n.) A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings.
(n.) A connected series of public conveyances, and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; as, a line of stages; an express line.
(n.) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
(n.) The equator; -- usually called the line, or equinoctial line; as, to cross the line.
(n.) A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline.
(n.) A measuring line or cord.
(n.) That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
(n.) Instruction; doctrine.
(n.) The proper relative position or adjustment of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working; as, the engine is in line or out of line.
(n.) The track and roadbed of a railway; railroad.
(n.) A row of men who are abreast of one another, whether side by side or some distance apart; -- opposed to column.
(n.) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
(n.) A trench or rampart.
(n.) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.
(n.) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.
(n.) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
(n.) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
(n.) A series of various qualities and values of the same general class of articles; as, a full line of hosiery; a line of merinos, etc.
(n.) The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, or the whole of a system of telegraph wires under one management and name.
(n.) The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver.
(n.) A measure of length; one twelfth of an inch.
(v. t.) To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines; as, to line a copy book.
(v. t.) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
(v. t.) To read or repeat line by line; as, to line out a hymn.
(v. t.) To form into a line; to align; as, to line troops.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similar experimental manipulation has yielded in vitro lines established from avian B-cell lymphomas expressing elevated levels of c-myc or v-rel.
(2) The effect of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) on growth of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines was studied.
(3) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
(4) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
(5) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(6) On the other hand, human IL-9, which is a homologue to murine P40, was cloned from a cDNA library prepared with mRNA isolated from PHA-induced T-cell line (C5MJ2).
(7) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(8) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
(9) In contrast to L2 and L3 in L1 the mid gut runs down in a straight line without any looping.
(10) In addition, KM231 could detect a small amount of the antigen ganglioside in human gastric normal and cancerous mucosa and in gastric cancer cell lines by HPTLC-immunostaining.
(11) Taken together these results are consistent with the view that primary CTL, as well as long term cloned CTL cell lines, exercise their cytolytic activity by means of perforin.
(12) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(13) The aetiological factors concerned in the production of paraumbilical and epigastric hernias have been reviewed along structural--functional lines.
(14) The antiproliferative activity of IFN was studied using the parental L cell line, a tk- derivative, and a tk- (tk+) subline into which the tk gene of herpes simplex virus was introduced.
(15) A murine keratinocyte cell line that is resistant to the growth-inhibitory effects of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1) was examined for differential gene expression patterns that may be related to the mechanism of the loss of TGF beta 1 responsiveness.
(16) "This was very strategic and it was in line of the ideology of the Bush administration which has been to put in place a free market and conservative agenda."
(17) Cell lines specific for class I or class II loci of the MHC produced interferon and colony-stimulating factors.
(18) Seven patients were treated with combination chemotherapy, consisting of CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) or MOPP (chloromethine, vincristine, procarbazine, prednisone), in some cases followed by non-cross-resistant second line chemotherapy, if no complete response was attained.
(19) Displacement of a colinear line over the same range without an offset evoked little, if any, response.
(20) N-Ethylmaleimide-sensitive 5'-nucleotide phosphodiesterase and alkaline phosphatase activities from other cell lines were also recovered in the cytosol.