(a.) Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion.
(a.) Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.
(a.) Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant.
(a.) Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed.
(n.) Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light.
(n.) The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.
(n.) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted.
(v. t.) To darken to obscure.
Example Sentences:
(1) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
(2) The first group was reared in complete darkness while the second one was subjected to permanent noise.
(3) In the dark the 6-azidoflavoproteins are quite stable, except for L-lactate oxidase, where spontaneous conversion to the 6-amino-FMN enzyme occurs slowly at pH 7.
(4) Most notably, retroperitoneal lymph nodes in rabbits remained dark blue up to 28 days after hindlimb endolymphatic instillation of liposomal patent blue.
(5) In the dark cortical zone of the nodes (III group) there occur tissue basophils (mast cells), that, together with increasing number of acidophilic granulocytes and appearance of neutrophilic cells, demonstrates that there is an inflammatory reaction in the organ studied as a response to the lymphocytic suspension injected.
(6) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
(7) We were searching for spontaneous and positional nystagmus in 5 positions with open eyes in darkness and with closed eyes.
(8) Previous FTIR measurements have identified several tyrosine residues that change their absorption characteristics between light-adapted BR and dark-adapted BR, or between intermediates K and M [Dollinger, G., Eisenstein, L., Lin, S.-L., Nakanishi, K., Odashima, K., & Termini, J.
(9) Steady state levels of chloroplast mRNA encoding the core PSII polypeptides remain nearly constant in the light or the dark and are not affected by the developmental stage of the plastid.
(10) The second triplet, which was stable in the dark at 4.2 K following illumination, was assigned to the radical pair Donor+I-.
(11) The results indicate that CRALBP X 11-cis-retinol is sufficiently stereoselective in its binding properties to warrant consideration as a component of the mechanism for the generation of 11-cis-retinaldehyde in the dark.
(12) Although the Ca2+-independent mechanism accounts for about two thirds of the total acetylcholine release in the dark, the amount of acetylcholine released in this way is small compared with the release of acetylcholine triggered by stimulation of the retina with light.
(13) The extracellular concentration of GABA is probably high in prolonged darkness, and it is low after prolonged light exposure.
(14) In lettuce, the presence of 2,4-D in the light lowered the concentration of total Hg (or MeHg) required to reduce growth by 50%, about 13 times relative to that in the dark (i.e., it sensitized the cells).
(15) This suggests that many retinal ganglion cells continue to discharge in total darkness for long periods.
(16) In darkness, raising the concentration of K in the fluid of perfusion gives an increase of the efflux of (86)Rb and increasing the extracellular concentration of Ca yields a retention.
(17) Upon illumination, a dark-adapted photosynthetic sample shows time-dependent changes in chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence yield, known as the Kautsky phenomenon or the OIDPS transient.
(18) One elderly woman was left alone in the dark for hours unable to find food or drink.
(19) These observations indicated a novel mechanism that in the absence of light-dark schedule, mothers taught the circadian rhythm to the pups as they raised them.
(20) It was observed that the circadian rhythm was disrupted by injections of lithium at the beginning of the light as well as the dark phase of the LD cycle.
Lowery
Definition:
(a.) Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
Example Sentences:
(1) Albeit an unloveable, slightly scary Ron Burgundy in a 'I may now be a low level Tesco manager in a cheap suit but I still remember how to handle a stanley knife' kind of way," reckons Robert Lowery, who is forgetting that Jim White has a phone.
(2) From Lowery’s subsequent account, it appears that Jackson intervened and ordered their release.
(3) One week later, assistant director Ed Lowery suggested leaking embarrassing information about Chaffetz in retaliation for aggressive investigations by the House oversight and government reform committee into a series of agency missteps and scandals, the report said.
(4) With no charges, no police report August 14, 2014 Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) It's as if the arrest and the assaults never took place.
(5) Lowery added: "he focus at BAE and EADS has got to be what's going on in France, Germany, Spain and the UK, as well, of course, as with their shareholders and employees.
(6) And because of men and women like John Lewis, Joseph Lowery, Hosea Williams, Amelia Boynton, Diane Nash, Ralph Abernathy, CT Vivian, Andrew Young, Fred Shuttlesworth, Dr King, and so many more, the idea of a just America, a fair America, an inclusive America, a generous America – that idea ultimately triumphed.
(7) Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) "The chief thought he was doing you a favor" - police officer tells me about release.
(8) And it could be a longer negotiation than 75 days," said Lowery.
(9) Last week Ryan J Reilly of the Huffington Post and Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post were detained for several hours .
(10) The following terms are discussed: posterior caval channel, sinus venarum, torus Loweri, atrial septa, and foramen ovale, respectively.
(11) Brie Rogers Lowery, campaigns director for Change.org in the UK, said that in a era where people were increasingly rejecting top-down decision-making, sites such as Change.org put power back in their hands.
(12) Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) Officers decided we weren't leaving McDonalds quickly enough, shouldn't have been taping them.
(13) Clay Lowery, a former US treasury official who oversaw the CFIUS process under George W Bush, said he expected the deal to go through, but scrutiny is likely to last longer than 75 days – the minimum 30-day inquiry plus a 45-day extension.
(14) A number of other artists have also been in the news, publicly complaining about streaming music services ( Black Keys , Aimee Mann and David Lowery of Camper van Beethoven and Cracker).
(15) The Washington Post condemned the detention of its journalist, Wesley Lowery, as “illegal” and an “assault on the freedom of the press to cover the news”.
(16) These results were surprising because Klebsiella pneumoniae Fe-protein substituted by His-100 had been reported to be inactive (Lowery, R. G., Chang, C. L., Davis, L. C., McKenna, M.-C., Stevens, P. J., and Ludden, P. W. (1989) Biochemistry 28, 1206-1212).
(17) Lowery was illegally instructed to stop taking video and followed police instructions, Baron said, after which he was slammed into a machine and handcuffed.
(18) They mocked him August 14, 2014 Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) Got no explaination at any point why in custody other than "trespassing" - at a mcdonalds where we were customers August 14, 2014 Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) I'm emotional, but need to note: Ryan and I are fine.
(19) August 14, 2014 Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) Officers slammed me into a fountain soda machine because I was confused about which door they were asking me to walk out of August 14, 2014 Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) Was waiting to be taken away, large black man SCREAMING for help in back of police truck August 14, 2014 Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) They refused his several calls for paramedics August 14, 2014 Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) "I'm dying.
(20) Lowery and Reilly both tweeted about being asked to leave the restaurant moments before they were seen being arrested.