(n.) A name given to several species of flounders, esp. to the European species, Pleuronectes limanda. The American rough dab is Hippoglossoides platessoides.
(v. i.) To strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist substance; to tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber.
(v. i.) To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.
(n.) A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck.
(n.) A small mass of anything soft or moist.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dynamic changes of fibronectin (FN) content and nuclear features (DNA content, morphological parameters) during the development of hepatoma induced by 3'-Me-DAB were studied via computer-assisted image analysis.
(2) But DAB radio, the likely broadcast replacement for analogue AM and FM in the digital-only age, saw its share of listening drop, to 15.3% from 15.8% in the second quarter of 2010.
(3) Thus it is clear that DAB induced hepatoma exhibits retrogressive change in hepatic differentiation in its isozyme profile.
(4) The number of DAB positive organelles per surface area decreased steadily with culture age, and significantly on day 2 (p less than 0.01) to become drastically low on day 5 and negligible on day 7.
(6) The lecithins of the primary hepatoma induced by 3'-methyl-4-dimethylaminoazobenzene (DAB) and host liver of rat were isolated, and the individual molecular species were estimated quantitatively by combined thin-layer and gaschromatographic analysis and specific enzymic hydrolysis.
(7) This is unlike DAB-1 and DAB-2 which showed poorly differentiated trabecular or anaplastic carcinomatous patterns.
(8) Oral administration of 1,2-DEB (75 or 100 mg kg-1 once a day, 4 days a week, for 8 weeks) and intraperitoneal injection of 1,2-DAB (10 or 15 mg kg-1 once a day, 4 days a week, for 8 weeks) produced time- and dose-dependent increases in the peak latencies of all BAEP components as well as in interpeak (I-V) differences, and a decrease in the amplitudes of all the components.
(9) Regional stations and AM services would be upgraded to quasi-national networks, provided they are available to at least 65% of the UK population on digital audio broadcasting (DAB) radio, and commit to broadcasting to the whole of the UK by 2015.
(10) You can buy this from Dabs for £30.96 , plus 99p P&P if you opt for standard delivery.
(11) We selected retrospectively 18 rejectors and 18 nonrejectors by clinical criteria and assayed for anti-Dab (by fluorescence-activated flow cytometry) and CMV antibody (by complement fixation and Western blot for IgG and IgM) over a 3-6-month period after transplantation.
(12) The inner and outer hair cells are degenerating between 12 and 24 DAB and are gone by 45 DAB.
(13) It was one of the fake tongue extensions from The Exorcist, with a note saying, 'Just stick a dab of peanut butter on the end and put it on.'
(14) The use of H2PtCl6 is proposed for the selective visualization of the poly-DAB reaction product created, in aldehyde-fixed tissue, with the cytochemical reaction according to Graham and Karnovsky (1966) or to Hoefsmit (1975).
(15) The roles of gonads in tumorigenesis induced in mouse liver by 3'-methyl-4-dimethylaminoazobenzene (3'-Me-DAB) were investigated.
(16) But this is the first year it will be offering non-stop, round-the-clock coverage on one service, in a move aimed at trying to boost the profile of digital audio broadcasting – DAB.
(17) A chromophoric hydrazide, 4'-N,N-dimethylamino-4-azobenzene sulfonyl hydrazide (DABS-hydrazide), was prepared from 4'-N,N-dimethylamino-4-azobenzene sulfonyl chloride by reaction with hydrazine.
(18) It is concluded that DAB is oxidized in the rice coleoptile tissue by a cytochrome system, and the development of this system is inhibited by anaerobiosis, but the oxidation cannot be claimed to represent cytochrome oxidase activity exclusively.
(19) In our experimental studies, LDH4 increased in AH 66 F metastatic hepatic cancer, but DAB hepatic cancer showed a significant increase of LDH5.
(20) The best result was obtained using nickel-modified DAB at pH 6.0 to develop the peroxidase enzyme, with further enhancement in cobalt chloride at neutral pH.
Gallon
Definition:
(n.) A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.
Example Sentences:
(1) BP sprayed almost 2m gallons of Corexit on the slick and at the leak site on the seabed.
(2) Individual males held in gallon-sized containers inseminated as many as 10 females.
(3) On July 14, 1991, a train tanker car derailed in northern California, spilling 19,000 gallons of the soil fumigant metam sodium (sodium methyldithiocarbamate) into the Sacramento River north of Redding (Figure 1).
(4) Already the price of petrol has risen to at least $3.50 a gallon (94 cents a litre) – just over double Sunday's morning price of about $1.70 a gallon (45 cents a litre).
(5) A major 1970 oil spill in Ogoniland in the south-east of Nigeria led to thousands of gallons being spilt on farmland and rivers, ultimately leading to a £26m fine for Shell in Nigerian courts 30 years later .
(6) Satellite data, analysed by University of California at Irvine scientists, suggest that the state has been losing about 4tn gallons of water a year from the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins since the drought began in 2011.
(7) His shop was destroyed by water damage What destroyed my business completely was not the fire [next door] but the gallons and gallons of water which the fire brigade poured over the building.
(8) They replied that an average day’s drilling uses about 1,000 gallons of diesel.
(9) 25.4 cm) fiberglass depth cartridge and a 10-inch pleated epoxy-fiberglass filter in a series at flow rates of up to 37.8 liters (10 gallons) per min.
(10) "And just as cars will go further on a gallon of gas, our economy will go further on a barrel of oil."
(11) That's barely a quarter of the average daily use in the US , a global water-hog that uses nearly 500 gallons a day per capita (or nearly 600 US gallons).
(12) GRRRR," he guffawed, eyebrows wiggling lasciviously, before being ejected from Booty at 230mph courtesy of a broom and a gallon of budget acrylic nail glue.
(13) But the bigger question is why in a shortsighted attempt to reduce greenhouse gases by a tiny amount (diesel cars do more miles to the gallon) the risks were ignored, and customers persuaded that diesel cars were actually greener.
(14) That's barely a quarter of the average daily use in the US, a global water-hog that uses nearly 500 gallons a day per capita."
(15) The helicopters can haul up to 2,000 gallons of water.
(16) The nationwide average price of a gallon of regular is now $2.02 (£1.36), down 58 cents from this time last year, according to auto club AAA, and expected to fall further.
(17) The response of microorganisms to an accidental spillage of 55,000 gallons of leaded gasoline into an Arctic freshwater lake was studied.
(18) They could have taken a thousand gallons of water and just intercepted the fire before it got to my place.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Belles stands on a scorched hill overlooking his concrete dome house.
(19) A 14-year-old male drank two glasses of milk from a gallon inoculated with 21 vials of live virus vaccine intended to immunize 1000 baby chicks against Newcastle Disease.
(20) The plaintiffs claim Chevron's operations discharged billions of gallons of toxic waste into Amazon lands, affecting over 1,500 square miles of the Amazon, causing cancer rates to soar, destroying locals' livelihoods and habitats, and killing flora and fauna.