(a.) Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinuous course).
Example Sentences:
(1) Hazard, nominated for the Ballon d’Or earlier in the day, broke away from his industrious defensive running to curl a shot on to the base of the far post early on while Willian struck the crossbar with a free-kick just after the interval.
(2) Peak oxygen uptake was reduced to the greatest extent in patients with heart failure for large muscle mass work (-13% for curl, -32% for one arm and one leg cycle ergometry and -37% for two leg cycle ergometry; p less than 0.05 versus the normal group for the three modes of ergometry).
(3) 4.02am GMT 90 mins Costa Rica get another free kick wide left and they can curl one in.
(4) The Curling's ulcer is a special form of the stress ulcers which occurs in the stomach and duodenum in 2.0-25%.
(5) The Koreans were so well organised that, by half-time, only Maicon's curling from the right shot had tested Ri Myong-guk.
(6) Gough, as the degenerate black sheep of an English family trying to blackmail an American adulterer, would curl a long lip into a sneering smile, which became a characteristic of this fine actor's style.
(7) The home side dominated the opening quarter of an hour as Argentina struggled to find their feet but the tide turned when Di Maria curled a right-footed shot past Claudio Bravo for the equaliser 10 minutes later.
(8) Kroos curls it in from the right, Mertesacker heads it clear again.
(9) There is energy in the room, lots of it, but it’s curled up like a tiger.
(10) The subtle sign of malposition is a slightly curled catheter tip.
(11) In the absence of such accumulations in the cell apices, the reverse curling exhibited by Xenopus ectodermal explants is attributed rather to a separation of the cells' lateral borders.
(12) Liverpool were restricted to shots from the edge of the area throughout the opening half, mainly from Alberto who went close with one curling effort and had fierce drive parried by the goalkeeper Mark Oxley.
(13) Danny takes on a high-pitched, raspy tone when he speaks in Tony's voice, and he curls one of his index fingers up and down in time to Tony's lines.
(14) One test he passed: he could say he loved his country, its values and its spirit without causing a toe-curling cringe.
(15) A syndrome of scanty, fine, curled hair, thin dysplastic nails, taurodontic molars, hypoplastic-hypomature enamel, dysplasia of dentin, and hypohidrosis segregating as an autosomal dominant trait is described in a Japanese family.
(16) The gait of surviving chicks was affected for at least 6 weeks and marked by toes curling under.
(17) Swansea, for whom Jefferson Montero was outstanding, levelled when Gylfi Sigurdsson curled a sublime 25-yard free-kick into the top corner, after Kieran Gibbs had cynically brought down Modou Barrow, the Swansea substitute.
(18) Robert Lewandowski takes Bayern Munich eight clear with win over Köln Read more After Griezmann curled his free-kick over the wall and just inside the post, the 2014 champions were content to cede Sporting the ball and lock down their defence.
(19) Malta, bottom of the group with one point, nearly took a sensational lead just before the half-hour when Alfred Effiong curled a shot just wide of Gianluigi Buffon’s far post.
(20) However, R. leguminosarum 1020 did cause branching, moderate curling and other deformations of root hairs.
Ruffle
Definition:
(v. t.) To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
(v. t.) To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.
(v. t.) To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion.
(v. t.) To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
(v. t.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
(v. t.) To discompose; to agitate; to disturb.
(v. t.) To throw into disorder or confusion.
(v. t.) To throw together in a disorderly manner.
(v. i.) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
(v. i.) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
(v. i.) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
(v. t. & i.) That which is ruffled; specifically, a strip of lace, cambric, or other fine cloth, plaited or gathered on one edge or in the middle, and used as a trimming; a frill.
(v. t. & i.) A state of being ruffled or disturbed; disturbance; agitation; commotion; as, to put the mind in a ruffle.
(v. t. & i.) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; -- called also ruff.
(v. t. & i.) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of any one of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur. See Ootheca.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ruffles of the sub-marginal cells showed different characteristics, being longer and not propagated successively as were the marginal ruffles.
(2) Maturing enamel overlaid by either ruffle-ended or smooth-ended maturation ameloblasts showed similar Ca and P concentrations.
(3) Injection of GTP gamma S inhibited ruffling and increased spreading, suggesting an increase in adhesion.
(4) This is a team who have found their feet after that winless group section, a side who have already seen off the much admired Croatia and who can ruffle the feathers of the hosts or the reigning world champions.
(5) Stimulation of membrane ruffling is one of the first events induced by addition of growth factors to quiescent cultures.
(6) Suddenly he would be picking up speed, scurrying past opponents and, in one instance, slipping the ball through Laurent Koscielny’s legs for a nutmeg that was so exquisitely executed he might have been tempted to ruffle his opponent’s hair.
(7) In the SEM three corresponding types were identified, a relatively smooth spherical type, a highly ruffled type and a fairly smooth flattened type.
(8) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
(9) The Glasman "project" will undoubtedly ruffle feathers inside and outside Labour.
(10) In the active phase of root resorption, the resorption organ contained many odontoclasts with a well-developed ruffled border and a reduced clear zone, cementoblasts, fibroblasts, macrophages, neutrophils, and many blood vessels.
(11) The cells were oval or round, most of them with a rough surface due to presence of microvilli, ruffles, ridges, and blebs of various numbers and shapes.
(12) The osteoclasts secrete a large amount of protons by the action of H(+)-pump on the ruffled border into the sealed resorption cavity, resulting in the acidified microenvironment under which condition the bone matrix is dissolved.
(13) Ruffles were only rarely present in the continuous presence of NGF and were absent after NGF withdrawal.
(14) The presence of wide and short ruffles of epithelial cells covered with mucus is typical of the secretory phase of the cycle.
(15) Six of the orally infected P. maniculatus developed clinical signs including ruffled hair coat, inappetence, reluctance to move, and lameness in the rear legs.
(16) The increases in actin cables were associated with a lack of ruffled edges that are indicative of motile cells.
(17) Osteoclasts are multinucleated giant cells showing specialized membrane structures, clear zones and ruffled borders, which are responsible for the process of bone resorption.
(18) ruffled membrane movement, phagocytosis of some particles, glucose oxidation through the hexose monophosphate shunt and an increase in the activity of a membrane enzyme, adenylate cyclase.
(19) The presence of membrane ruffles at the cell border and of numerous thick bundles of actin crossing the cell body, suggests that the factor promotes cell spreading; this probably interferes with cytokinesis, ultimately leading to the formation of very large flattened multinucleated cells.
(20) They gradually displayed active membrane pseudopodia, thorn-like processes and petal-like ruffles after 2 h to 4 h of cultivation.