(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.
Press
Definition:
(n.) An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to maroon and to brownish black.
(n.) To force into service, particularly into naval service; to impress.
(n.) A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
(v.) To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to bear upon; to squeeze; to compress; as, we press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands, fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd.
(v.) To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of; to squeeze out, or express, from something.
(v.) To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus, in order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes.
(v.) To embrace closely; to hug.
(v.) To oppress; to bear hard upon.
(v.) To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger.
(v.) To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or over; to constrain; to force; to compel.
(v.) To try to force (something upon some one); to urge or inculcate with earnestness or importunity; to enforce; as, to press divine truth on an audience.
(v.) To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard; as, to press a horse in a race.
(v. i.) To exert pressure; to bear heavily; to push, crowd, or urge with steady force.
(v. i.) To move on with urging and crowding; to make one's way with violence or effort; to bear onward forcibly; to crowd; to throng; to encroach.
(v. i.) To urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong or compelling influence; as, an argument presses upon the judgment.
(n.) An apparatus or machine by which any substance or body is pressed, squeezed, stamped, or shaped, or by which an impression of a body is taken; sometimes, the place or building containing a press or presses.
(n.) Specifically, a printing press.
(n.) The art or business of printing and publishing; hence, printed publications, taken collectively, more especially newspapers or the persons employed in writing for them; as, a free press is a blessing, a licentious press is a curse.
(n.) An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles; as, a clothes press.
(n.) The act of pressing or thronging forward.
(n.) Urgent demands of business or affairs; urgency; as, a press of engagements.
(n.) A multitude of individuals crowded together; / crowd of single things; a throng.
Example Sentences:
(1) People should ask their MP to press the government for a speedier response.
(2) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(3) Channel 4 News said on Friday that Manji and the programme’s producer, ITN, had made an official complaint to press regulator Ipso.
(4) All aircraft exited the strike areas safely.” Earlier, residents living near the Mosul dam told the Associated Press the area was being targeted by air strikes.
(5) Since the employment of microwave energy for defrosting biological tissues and for microwave-aided diagnosis in cryosurgery is very promising, the problem of ensuring the match between the contact antennas (applicators) and the frozen biological object has become a pressing one.
(6) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
(7) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
(8) In this experiment animals were trained to lever press in two distinctive contexts.
(9) Older women and those who present more archetypically as butch have an easier time of it (because older women in general are often sidelined by the press and society) and because butch women are often viewed as less attractive and tantalising to male editors and readers.
(10) Following each stimulus, the subject had to press a button for RT and then report the digit perceived.
(11) 12pm, Channel 4 press office: "I refer you to the statement put out last night."
(12) Experimental animals pressed the S+ bar at a significantly higher rate than the S- bar.
(13) The home secretary was today pressed to explain how cyber warfare could be seen as being on an equal footing to the threat from international terrorism.
(14) Pekka Isosomppi Press counsellor, Finnish embassy, London • It may have been said tongue in cheek, but I must correct Michael Booth on one thing – his claim that no one talks about cricket in Denmark .
(15) She said a referendum was off the table for this general election but, pressed on whether it would be in the SNP manifesto for 2016, she responded: “We will write that manifesto when we get there.
(16) The Press Association tots up a total of £26bn in asset sales last year – including the state’s Eurostar stake, 30% of the Royal Mail and a slice of Lloyds.
(17) When S+ followed cocaine, stereotyped bar-pressing developed with markedly increased responding during the remainder of the session.
(18) The deteriorating situation would worsen if ministers pressed ahead with another controversial Lansley policy – that of abolishing the cap on the amount of income semi-independent foundation trust hospitals can make by treating private patients.
(19) According to Australian Associated Press the woman made an official complaint to police on Wednesday morning and supplied some evidence.
(20) The £1m fine, proposed during the Leveson inquiry into press standards, was designed to demonstrate how seriously the industry was taking lessons learned after the failure of the Press Complains Commission tto investigate phone hacking at the News of the World.