(n.) A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad.
(n.) Anything resembling a cushion in properties or use
(n.) a pad on which gilders cut gold leaf
(n.) a mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston
(n.) the elastic edge of a billiard table.
(n.) A riotous kind of dance, formerly common at weddings; -- called also cushion dance.
(v. t.) To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.
(v. t.) To furnish with cushions; as, to cushion a chaise.
(v. t.) To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immunostaining revealed that cushion mesenchymal cells cultured on substrata other than vitronectin synthesized vitronectin.
(2) In general, after recording a baseline tympanogram, mechanically created positive and negative air pressures are created in a hermetically sealed ear canal causing increased pressure on the middle ear air cushion.
(3) Despite campaign pledges from both leading parties that, if elected, they will try to cushion the blow, the measures add amount to a daunting legislative programme from which Greece’s new prime minister – whatever his name – will find it difficult, if not impossible, to deviate.
(4) PNA binding sites capped by sialic acid were most abundant in the developing rat heart during the critical period of endocardial cushion formation and decreased as development proceeded.
(5) Pancreatic RNAs were isolated by the guanidinium thiocyanate method and layered onto CsCl cushion.
(6) Updated at 7.20pm BST 7.18pm BST Frame 25 Good break from Ronnie, cue ball tight on the top cushion behind the green.
(7) An increase in the bank’s capital cushion during the first three months of the year has helped fuel expectations that the size of the payout could rise rapidly in the future.
(8) Shrewsbury and University College also cemented a lifelong friendship with Richard Ingrams, one of the founders and editors of Private Eye, for which Foot was to do some of his finest work, cushioning attacks on the scandalous nature of Ingrams' organ with corruption exposed by the "serious side".
(9) In nine specimens removed 5 days to 16 months after embolization therapy, a series of pathologic changes was seen, including patchy mural angionecrosis (adjacent to bucrylate fragments) up to six weeks after embolization, the presence of bucrylate in vessel walls and fibromuscular intimal cushions, and the occurrence (after several months) of entirely extravascular bucrylate.
(10) The plantar cushion reflex in cats was examined as a model system in a mammal for the study of the effects of repeated stimulation on neural transmission.
(11) The EBA found that, among the British-based banks, Royal Bank of Scotland had the lowest capital cushion after the stress tests of 6.3%, followed by Barclays with a ratio of 7.3%, Lloyds at 7.7%, and HSBC the highest at 8.5%.
(12) Ali said the cushioning would have made little difference.
(13) During heart development in the chick some of the endocardial cells that cover the cushion areas leave the cushion endocardium, seed the underlying cardiac jelly, and are transformed into mesenchyme.
(14) The diagnosis of overriding mitral valve should be suspected in any patient with significant conotruncal anomalies and underdeveloped left ventricle, especially the patient with double outlet right ventricle, and in the patient with endocardial cushion defect, hypoplasia of the left ventricle, and obstructive anomalies of the aortic arch.
(15) Her cushions featuring maps of two countries have been popular as wedding gifts for multinational couples.
(16) While sphincteric activity is important for continence, other mechanisms such as the anorectal angle and anal cushions are also of relevance.
(17) The formation of small craterlike defects was observed on the distal ventral and proximal left bulbar cushions.
(18) The Bank of England sends a clear message to banks today to cut staff bonuses and share dividends so that they can bolster their capital cushions while maintaining lending to businesses and households.
(19) The dynamic impact tests at Southwest Research Institute for the first time exposed human volunteers to production-like driver air cushion system depolyments at impact levels equivalent to a 30 mph barrier crash (48 kph).
(20) However, to cushion the blow ministers offered £100m in "transitional grants" to councils that designed schemes that would offer some protection to the poor.
Mat
Definition:
(n.) A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.
(a.) Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain.
(n.) A fabric of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, hemp, or similar material, used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room, and for other purposes.
(n.) Any similar fabric for various uses, as for covering plant houses, putting beneath dishes or lamps on a table, securing rigging from friction, and the like.
(n.) Anything growing thickly, or closely interwoven, so as to resemble a mat in form or texture; as, a mat of weeds; a mat of hair.
(n.) An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype.
(v. t.) To cover or lay with mats.
(v. t.) To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
(v. i.) To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sires of the cows had been divergently selected on yearling weight (YW) and total maternal (MAT) EPD to form four groups: high YW, high MAT EPD; high YW, low MAT EPD; low YW, high MAT EPD; and low YW, low MAT EPD.
(2) Special conditions apply for the scoring of a first and a last bone stage in a sequence, which will introduce less bias in the estimation of individual skeletal maturity with the MAT-method than with the TW-method.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the Mat yoga pant by lulelemon.
(4) Immature mosquito populations were reduced by mats of Azolla microphylla covering more than 80% of the water surface.
(5) Except for the posterior end, the rest of the sperm is covered by longitudinally distributed electron-dense cellular processes and an outer mat of more electron-lucent tubular elements.
(6) The Km for L-methionine for enzyme from resting peripheral blood mononuclear cells was 19-23 microM, which is 3-8-fold higher than purified MAT from fresh leukemic cells or enzyme from Jurkat cells, both of which have a Km of 3.5-3.8 microM.
(7) The Brinks Mat gang, some with guns, surprised six security staff as they started the Saturday shift between 6.30am and 8.15am at the warehouse, on the Heathrow industrial estate at Hounslow.
(8) Hold the left side of the nori with both hands and flip over on the mat, so that the rice is facing down.
(9) Staggerer cerebellar cortex exhibits the greatest fluorescence with most terminals appearing as matted tangles adjacent cell bodies.
(10) Sialic acid analysis demonstrated that, whereas MAT-C1 ASGP-1 contained approximately equal amounts of N-acetylneuraminic acid (NeuAc) and N-glycolylneuraminic acid (NeuGl), MAT-B1 ASGP-1 was devoid of NeuGl.
(11) The mean IgM response was short lived whereas the IgG antibody response and the MAT persisted for much longer.
(12) The number of methylation sites in alpha Bgt has been shown to decrease significantly upon binding of the toxin to the AcChR [Soler, G., Farach, M. C., Farach, H. A., Mattingly, J. R., & Martinez-Carrion, M. (1983) Arch.
(13) The alpha 2 protein, the product of the MAT alpha 2 gene, is a regulator of cell type in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
(14) Using tonal stimuli based on the nonspeech stimuli of Mattingly et al., we found that subjects, with appropriate practice, could classify nonspeech chirp, short bleat, and bleat continua with boundaries equivalent to the syllable place continuum of Mattingly et al.
(15) Reader was previously jailed for a total of nine years for conspiracy to handle stolen goods and dishonestly handling cash, after the £26m robbery at the Brink’s-Mat warehouse near Heathrow airport in 1983.
(16) Jurkat MAT was determined to be structurally indistinguishable from enzyme from T- or B-leukemia cells but was different from resting, normal T-cells in that it lacked the lambda form.
(17) Res-O-Mat T4 was chosen as CPBA, and RIAMAT-T4(St) and T4-RIAKIT(Sp) were chosen as RIAs.
(18) Since both CG and MAT suffer some fundamental limitations, it is recommended that whenever problems arise, one should compare absorption rates by nonparametric system analysis methods (e.g., deconvolution) if possible.
(19) First, the fragment was inserted into a 53-base-pair MAT alpha deletion that expresses alpha 1 and alpha 2 constitutively.
(20) Monkeys treated with HAT daily for 14 days exhibited anti-HAT antibody titers which were 5- to 10-fold lower than their MAT-treated counterparts and these antibodies developed later than in the MAT-treated monkeys.