(n.) A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.
(n.) The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods."
(n.) The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.
(n.) A hollow place, as in a field.
(n.) A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.
(n.) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
(v. t.) To put in a dish, ready for the table.
(v. t.) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.
(v. t.) To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
(2) The menu has mainly Russian dishes but there are British and French influences too.
(3) The densities of hepatocytes attained with PVF were about 10 times as high as those in the monolayer culture using conventional collagen coated Petri dishes.
(4) The teflon dish is re-usable, resistant to sterilization procedures, and easy to assemble.
(5) A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a blog documenting her school lunches , consisting of unappealing and unhealthy dishes served up to pupils, has been forced to end the project after the council banned her from taking pictures of the food in school.
(6) Human melanocyte cultures were established using disaggregated epidermal cell suspensions derived from foreskins and plated onto culture dishes in medium containing 2% fetal bovine serum, growth factors, hormones, and melanocyte growth factor (MGF) extracted from bovine hypothalamus (Wilkins et al., J.Cell.
(7) 1: Good news It's been a scarce commodity throughout the Osborne chancellorship, but he will have a decent amount of it to dish round the chamber – notably lower inflation and higher growth than was being forecast a short while ago.
(8) Culture dishes precoated with thin layers of acid soluble rat tail collagen simplify conditions necessary to obtain in vitro high IgG anti-DNP responses from primed and boosted mice.
(9) These tacos, the legacy of the city's many Lebanese immigrants, a variation of shawarma , the grilled marinated meat dish popular throughout the Middle East.
(10) And on those occasions where I'm in the mood to take the wine pairing very seriously it's the vegetable dishes that require the most creative thought.
(11) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(12) Confluent monolayers of the fibroblasts were grown in petri dishes.
(13) To obtain the subcellular fractions, cell monolayers or cells previously detached from the culture dish were treated with non-ionic detergent N onidet P-40.
(14) Thus, human peripheral T lymphocytes coated with mouse monoclonal antibodies directed against the CD4 marker may be selectively and reproducibly removed from a lymphocyte population by a short incubation in modified plastic dishes coated with rabbit anti-mouse IgG antibody.
(15) The division block is independent of cell density in suspension culture and is not prevented by cell contact when cells grow attached to Petri dishes.
(16) Keratinocytes were plated onto tissue culture dishes using one of three basic serum-free media protocols; a) with no feeder layer in keratinocyte growth medium (KGM); b) onto mitomycin C-treated 3T3 mouse embryo fibroblasts; or c) onto mitomycin C-treated dermal human fibroblasts.
(17) Wide-eyed, tentative and much given to confidences – her voice falls to an eager whisper when she's really dishing – she seems far younger than her years.
(18) Moving away from home and discovering oats (not a common ingredient in Transylvanian food), I thought about mixing the cultures and came up with this savoury breakfast or lunch dish.
(19) Trypsinized epidermal cells were plated at nonconfluent concentrations in dishes coated with a collagen type I gel.
(20) We cultured thymic cells derived from various mouse strains on extracellular matrix coated tissue culture dishes, in the presence of conditioned medium.
Plateau
Definition:
(n.) A flat surface; especially, a broad, level, elevated area of land; a table-land.
(n.) An ornamental dish for the table; a tray or salver.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is followed by rapid neurobehavioral deterioration in late infancy or early childhood, a developmental arrest, plateauing, and then either a course of retarded development or continued deterioration.
(2) The enzyme activity can be raised to a plateau by Se supplements, but there is no evidence that supplementation leads to better health.
(3) The pump function of the heart (oxygen debt dynamics), the anaerobic threshold (complex of gas analytical indices), and the efficacy of blood flow in lesser circulation (O2 consumption plateau) were appraised.
(4) The height of this plateau depended on the CS concentration.
(5) Testosterone was low until 68 weeks after which concentrations rose slowly to 80 weeks and increased rapidly to a plateau at 92 weeks.
(6) An examination of the history of cytotoxic cancer drugs development suggests that this activity is now on a plateau.
(7) The kidneys with obstructive hydronephrosis demonstrated a plateau of signal enhancement without decrease (-0.7% within 40 minutes).
(8) For ACH reactions the area of inflammation continued to increase at dilutions where blood flux had reached a plateau.
(9) The effects of nine intra- and extracellular proteinases and six proteinase inhibitors on the repair of potentially lethal damage (PLDR) induced by gamma-rays in plateau-phase V79 cells were examined.
(10) At reoxygenation the contraction force increased with a first peak overshooting 50% of the initial aerobic value after 5-10 min, to decline during the following 10-15 min to a plateau slightly below the initial aerobic value.
(11) It is suggested that the measurement of functional residual capacity, closing volume, and the slope of the alveolar plateau (phase III in the single breath nitrogen washout technique) might give more valuable information.
(12) Trout fishing is excellent in both, and after they fall over the edge of the Piedmont Plateau to the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the lower stretches of both waterways boil into class-2 and -3 whitewater for kayakers and canoeists.
(13) The PFV technique failed in five infants in whom no acceptable plateau of airway pressure during occlusion and no Trs could be obtained from a single breath.
(14) Pretreatment with wortmannin, a specific inhibitor of myosin light chain kinase, suppressed only the plateau phase and had no effect on the initial rapid increase in [Ca2+]i.
(15) After TD onset, ratings decreased for 4 years, then plateaued and rose during the 7th year.
(16) Free and total plasma carnitine levels reached a plateau corresponding to an average rise of 25% for both fractions, 9-10 days after the beginning of the L-carn diet.
(17) We conclude that there appears to be no benefit from exceeding a concentration of 5% crude coal tar in yellow soft paraffin in the treatment of patients with psoriasis and that the plateau in the dose-response curve for the action of crude coal tar in psoriasis begins at a point between 1 and 5%.
(18) At constant heart rate, nifedipine considerably depressed contractions, shortened the action potential duration and reduced the height of plateau.
(19) The prevalence increased rapidly with age and reached a plateau at 70-80% in adults.
(20) Further, from the plateau values of the ratios, it follows that the substrates dissociate very infrequently from the ternary complex and that at a low substrate concentration 72% of the reaction follows the pathway in which ATP adds first to the enzyme.