(superl.) Not bright or distinct; wanting luminousness or clearness; obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished.
(superl.) Of obscure vision; not seeing clearly; hence, dull of apprehension; of weak perception; obtuse.
(v. t.) To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken; to dull; to obscure; to eclipse.
(v. t.) To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.
(v. i.) To grow dim.
Example Sentences:
(1) The birds were maintained at a constant temperature in, dim green light.
(2) There was good agreement between the survival of normally oxygenated cells in culture and bright cells from tumors and between hypoxic cells in culture and dim cells from tumors over a radiation dosage range of 2-5 Gray.
(3) The frequencies of the various anaphase patterns of bright and dim centromere regions were binomially distributed, indicating random distribution of chromatids with respect to the age of their DNA templates.
(4) It will be of particular importance to determine the amount and proportions of lymphokines secreted by T lymphocytes within the mucosal microenvironment, since properties of cells in the peripheral blood or even bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid are likely to reflect only dimly those of cells at this site.
(5) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
(6) If Summer had had a hard time singing Love To Love You (only when Moroder cleared the studio and dimmed the lights did she finally capture the voluptuous feel she was after), listening to the thing presented an even stiffer test.
(7) In this study, the problem of masking was minimized by measuring the timing of melatonin production under dim light conditions.
(8) 1,4-Dideoxy-1,4-imino-D-mannitol (DIM) was synthesized chemically from benzyl-alpha-D-mannopyranoside [Fleet et al (1984) J. Chem.
(9) A circadian rhythm of nociception was displayed by hamsters maintained for 30 days in constant dim light.
(10) The superior fascicle is whitish, dimmed and frequently thinner than the others and was classified under 4 patterns, according to its insertion.
(11) Concert posters that play music when you touch them have been discussed, while an artist has mixed the paint with oil in a lamp so that when the lamp is tilted, the light dims.
(12) Yet its outrage dims when the models – the same models who appear in the usual shows, mind – are walking on the runway in underwear as opposed to haute couture.
(13) In Moscow, the Russian foreign ministry took a dim view of this Guardian report on the Balkan events.
(14) A method for determining the spectral sensitivity of the different color mechanisms of the human eye uses the pattern of color names applied to small, brief, dim, monochromatic flashes.
(15) Individuals complaining of disturbed sleep that was verified by polysomnographic indices (objective DIMS) and a group with complaints of disturbed sleep in the absence of objective findings (subjective DIMS) were compared with normal sleepers.
(16) The pupillary response to 50 microliter of pilocarpine 0.0625% in darkness, dim light, and bright light was measured photographically in 15 healthy adults.
(17) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
(18) Women generally reported a significantly higher prevalence of both disorders of initiating and maintaining sleep (DIMS) and nightmares (NM)(p less than .001).
(19) Experimental conditions were as similar as possible to those used in a separate study in which psychophysical absolute thresholds were measured: large, dim, monochromatic spots 1 sec in duration were projected close to the right eye of alert, self-respiring goldfish.
(20) An extended source gives a dim erect image in the tract region that may come from the pattern of illumination radiating from the cut ends of the tracts.
Gim
Definition:
(a.) Neat; spruce.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have isolated several gamma-ray-induced mutants (GIMs) of the nontumorigenic HeLa x skin fibroblast hybrid CGL1 that were specifically selected for reexpression of IAP to further investigate the potential linkage between IAP regulation and the putative tumor suppressor locus.
(2) The relaxation rates of the exchangeable guanine imino protons (Gim) in H2O and in 90% D2O show that below 20 degrees C spin-lattice relaxation is exclusively from proton-proton magnetic dipolar interactions while proton-nitrogen interactions contribute about 30% to the spin-spin relaxation.
(3) These stimulate the processes of myeloid precursor proliferation directly (by means of lymphokines) and in cooperation with monocytes-macrophages of GIM.
(4) The relaxation rates of the Gim, C-H5, and C-H6 in B- and Z-form poly(dG-dC).poly(dG-dC) cannot be explained by assuming the DNA behaves as a rigid rod.
(5) Gonadotrophin-inhibiting material (GIM) was able to inhibit the binding of 125I-hCG to rat Leydig cells, suggesting that its inhibiting properties are due to its ability to complete for the hCG binding sites on Leydig cells.
(6) The observation that the spin-lattice relaxation is nonexponential and that the initial spin-lattice relaxation rate of the Gim, G-H8 and C-H6 protons depends on the selectivity of the exciting pulse shows that spin-diffusion dominates the spin-lattice relaxation.
(7) However, studies with tumor reconstitutes of the GIMs and transfection studies with an IAP complementary DNA expression vector indicate that high IAP expression alone is not sufficient to confer rapid tumor growth.
(8) Measurements of the 1H spin-lattice (R1) and spin-spin (R2) relaxation rates of the exchangeable thymine (Tim) and guanine (Gim) imino protons have been used to probe the internal dynamics of the B and Z-forms of poly[d(A-br5C).d(G-T)] and the mechanism of the B-Z transition.
(9) The GIMs have a wide range of cell morphology and level of IAP expression (nearly a factor of 40).
(10) The effect of GIM on hCG-induced adenylate cyclase activation and testosterone production was also studied.
(11) Conversion to the Z-form by addition of 4.5 M-NaCl dramatically reduces both the Tim and Gim exchange rates (estimated to be less than 2 s-1 at 70 degrees C).
(12) Binding of fluorescein isothiocyanate-tagged GIM to Leydig cells was also seen.
(13) The tumorigenicity of the GIMs was examined by s.c. injection into nude mice and all were found to be tumorigenic.
(14) The B and Z-forms of poly[d(A-br5C).d(G-T)] coexist in 4.6 M-NaCl at 45 degrees C. Due to slow exchange, two sets of Tim and Gim resonances are observed and can be assigned to the B and Z conformations (the chemical shifts are, respectively, Tim = 13.4, 14.1 p.p.m.
(15) In the second study a combination of music and imagery was examined by randomly assigning subjects to one of five groups: self-generated imagery with music (SIM), guided imagery with music (GIM), self-generated imagery without music (SI), guided imagery without music (GI), or no-treatment control.
(16) The tumor volume-doubling time is in the range of 4 to 8 days for all the cell lines; however, the lag time to reach 500 mm3 tumor volume was significantly longer when the GIM IAP activity was low (less than 20% relative activity), suggesting perhaps that there is a threshold level of IAP expression required for tumor formation and selection for high IAP expression in vivo.
(17) The increased number of committed precursor cells of erythro- and granulomonocytopoiesis, morphologically differentiated elements and enhancing colony-stimulating and erythropoietic activities of GIM cells origin were shown as well.
(18) At elevated temperature, R1 for both Tim and Gim in the B conformation is dominated by exchange with the solvent, with Tim exchanging more rapidly than Gim.