(a.) Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mating experiments indicated that the kinky-coat character is controlled by a single autosomal recessive gene designated kc (kinky coat), which is not allelic to the gene ch (curly hair) previously reported in the Tr strain derived from wild musk shrews on Taramajima Island, Japan.
(2) Girls loved him, his flouncy lace sleeves, tight trousers, big hats, curly hair.
(3) We also recognized areas of early involvement with deposition of this "peculiar curly" material between a distorted epithelial basal lamina and a normal undisturbed Bowman's layer.
(4) Rosemary antioxidants (RA) and Curcumin (Cur) have weaker scavenging effects than Vc, but stronger than VE.
(5) The analysis and expression of the cur genes for detailed molecular studies of the mechanism of polyketide biosynthesis is discussed.
(6) The subunit protein of curli was highly homologous at its amino terminus to SEF-17, the subunit protein of thin, aggregative fimbriae of Salmonella enteritidis 27655 strain 3b, suggesting that these fibres form a novel class of surface organelles on enterobacteria.
(7) The structures were curly, fibrillary strands, resembling paramyxoviral filaments morphologically, but larger in diameter (25 to 40nm).
(8) Preincubation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells with interferon alpha (IFN alpha), interleukin 2 (Il-2), interleukin 1 (Il-1) and tumor necrosis factor alpha greatly increased the rate and magnitude of Cur killing.
(9) He is sporting a bohemian look, with a long, curly ponytail and large spectacles.
(10) The PT23 Cur gene(s) was located on pCOP1 by subcloning PstI restriction endonuclease fragments of pCOP1 in the broad-host-range vector pRK404.
(11) We have investigated in detail the cytokine induced killing of a NK resistant renal carcinoma cell line Cur by human NK cells.
(12) The copper resistance (Cur) genes encoded on pXV10A, a 190-kb plasmid in Xanthomonas campestris pv.
(13) No differences were observed in the severity of symptoms or levels of viral DNA when transformants and controls were challenged with the related geminiviruses beet curly top virus and tomato golden mosaic virus, demonstrating the specific nature of the interaction.
(14) My dark, curly (and at the time) unnecessarily long hair was an obvious display of my Greek heritage.
(15) When males with curly wings were mated, females dropped either unfertilized egg cases (no mating) or partially fertilized egg cases.
(16) In plants infected with the curly top virus, the crystalloids do not differ from those in non-infected controls in structure and conformation.
(17) A curly-toe system was observed in coturnix chicks fed low levels of folacin and might also be a consequence of folacin deficiency.
(18) Curli, an extracellular structure that binds fibronectin, was recently described (A. Olsén, A. Jonsson, and S. Normark, Nature [London] 338:652-655, 1989).
(19) BGMV DNA 1 and beet curly top virus (BCTV) DNA are closely related, whereas BGMV DNA 2 and BCTV DNA are not related.
(20) SamCam: He's not the plebby, curly-haired golfer, is he?
Straight
Definition:
(a.) A variant of Strait, a.
(superl.) Right, in a mathematical sense; passing from one point to another by the nearest course; direct; not deviating or crooked; as, a straight line or course; a straight piece of timber.
(superl.) Approximately straight; not much curved; as, straight ribs are such as pass from the base of a leaf to the apex, with a small curve.
(superl.) Composed of cards which constitute a regular sequence, as the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten-spot; as, a straight hand; a straight flush.
(superl.) Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing.
(superl.) Unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight.
(superl.) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party; as, a straight Republican; a straight Democrat; also, containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others; as, a straight ballot.
(adv.) In a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith; immediately; as, the arrow went straight to the mark.
(n.) A hand of five cards in consecutive order as to value; a sequence. When they are of one suit, it is calles straight flush.
(v. t.) To straighten.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast to L2 and L3 in L1 the mid gut runs down in a straight line without any looping.
(2) It was so difficult to keep a straight face when I was filming a sauna scene with Roy Barraclough, who played the mayor of Blackpool.
(3) The region of the tentorium and straight sinus can occasionally give rise to a vermiform appearance (the "AVM artifact").
(4) In testing the contribution of the long, curved stem to the torsional stability of uncemented prostheses by comparing it with other stems, the long, curved stem was the most stable, followed by a shorter straight stem, and a short, proximally curved stem.
(5) Every time I have seen him since – you stand up straight and it’s: ‘Hi, boss.
(6) Both sets of experiments revealed a straight linear relationship between the dose of VC and the % foci area induced.
(7) Despite a few initial concerns about the technology and how it would fit into their daily routines, staff really see the benefit and find it rewarding to see the messages and be able to respond straight away.
(8) The results may be due to stronger social reinstatement tendencies in females than in males: Higher levels of social motivation facilitate behavioral performance when the task is easy (straight runway) and inhibit it when the task is difficult (V-shaped runway).
(9) The contrast threshold for line orientation was studied using two lines with the same orientation under three different experimental conditions (series): (1) the two lines were presented in the same part of the receptive field; (2) they were along the same straight line and separated by 14' visual angle; (3) they were parallel and displaced at 4' of visual angle.
(10) Only eye position proved statistically significant; straight-ahead eye position induced more bias than did fixation of the visual stimulus.
(11) Ultrastructural examination of a tumor with a typical cribriform pattern showed spaces of two types; the more frequent type was bounded by cells with straight plasma membranes and contained filamentous and basement-membrane-like material, and the less frequent type was surrounded by cells with numerous microvilli and contained nonfilamentous homogeneous material.
(12) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(13) Atlético Madrid maintained their faint hopes of catching Barcelona by recording a fourth straight league win, comfortably beating Deportivo la Coruña 3-0 with goals by the midfielder Saúl Ñíguez, top scorer Antoine Griezmann and Argentinian forward Ángel Correa.
(14) The chemotactic receptor-transducer proteins of Escherichia coli are responsible for directing the swimming behavior of cells by signaling for either straight swimming or tumbling in response to chemostimuli.
(15) These observations suggest that the inner dynein arms in Chlamydomonas axonemes are aligned not in a single straight row, but in a staggered row or two discrete rows.
(16) Following a run which included eight straight draws in the Premier League and a 3-0 defeat at Tottenham last Wednesday, Mubarak had reached the conclusion that Hughes and his coaching staff were not realising the potential of the players City had assembled.
(17) When plotted against [Ca]o on a double log scale, the above relation yielded a straight line with a slope of 1.0.
(18) The torque versus rotation curves can be divided into two straight regions and two transition zones.
(19) Its middle, straight portion (between 2.30 and 3.30 microns sarcomere spacings) extrapolated to zero tension at 3.49 microns sarcomere length.
(20) New observations include: (1) In 15 nm cross sections that show single 14.5 nm levels: (a) The flared X structure characteristic of rigor is replaced by a straight-X figure in which the crossbridge density is aligned along the myosin-actin plane, rather than skewed across it as in rigor.