(n.) A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper.
(n.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens.
(n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.
(n.) The whole surface of a leaf.
(n.) The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower.
(n.) A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil.
(n.) The anterior surface or oral area of coelenterate animals, as of sea anemones.
(n.) The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk.
(n.) In owls, the space around the eyes.
Example Sentences:
(1) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
(2) These observations suggest that the liver secretes disk-shaped lipid bilayer particles which represent both the nascent form of high density lipoproteins and preferred substrate for lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase.
(3) Opsin becomes incorporated into the disk membrane by a process of membrane expansion and fusion to form the flattened disks of the outer segment.
(4) Somatic and functional antigens of Dictyocaulus filaria were comparatively studied by means of disk electrophoresis.
(5) We performed a prospective study on 68 eyes of 68 patients to compare the vertical cup-disk ratio obtained with the video-ophthalmograph to that obtained with manual analysis of black-and-white stereoscopic photographs.
(6) Visible light activates a large guanosine cyclic 3',5'-phosphate (cGMP)- and phosphodiesterase (PDE)-dependent infrared light-scattering change in suspensions of photoreceptor disk membranes.
(7) Three disks of different sizes (10, 25, and 45 mm in diameter) were attached to the edge of the baresthesiometer, and pressures of 1, 3 and 5 kg were applied to the 10 mm disk, and 1, 3, 5, and 7 kg to the other disks.
(8) The hemolytic characteristics of 14 different polydimethyl-siloxane materials were studied, using a rotating disk device to shear whole human blood for 6000 sec.
(9) These optic disk anomalies occurred bilaterally with some inter- and intra-individual variable expressivity.
(10) This is the first reported case, to the best of my knowledge, of disk neovascularization occurring after intravenously injected, crushed, unfiltered, methylphenidate HCl tablets.
(11) We have investigated the relationship between rhodopsin photochemical function and the retinal rod outer segment (ROS) disk membrane lipid composition using flash photolysis techniques.
(12) We found that the Na-Ca exchanger is distributed throughout all membranes in contact with the extracellular space, including the sarcolemma, the transverse tubules (T-tubules), and the intercalated disks.
(13) The minimal inhibitory concentration of netilmicin determined by the agar dilution method was correlated with the disk diffusion zone of inhibition against 322 clinical isolates.
(14) The initiation step consisting of the binding of RNA with the 36S disk of protein was easily accomplished.
(15) The state of the intervertebral disks, intervertebral joints and cerebrospinal canal in degenerative vertebral diseases was assessed.
(16) It is concluded that although a rapid automated system for antibiotic sensitivity testing is desirable, the conventional disk agar diffusion method is easier to perform, more reliable, and a less expensive procedure for antibiotic sensitivity determination.
(17) The diagnostic accuracy of CT in cases of lumbar disk prolapse was investigated on the basis of a group of 158 of our own patients who were divided into three separate groups.
(18) Disk position was assessed inaccurately in either plane in patients with severe degenerative joint disease.
(19) Based on the morphology and magnetic anisotropy of the rod outer segment, the major phospholipid peak is attributed to the flat part of the disk membranes while the phospholipids of the plasma membrane are thought to contribute only to the minor peak.
(20) QC range for H. Influenzae ATCC 49247 were established using multiple HTM agar and broth base lots, three disk lots for each drug, and a number of test replicates consistent with the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards M23-T guideline.
Gramophone
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A drop of the particle suspension is spread out on a flat disk or plate equipped with V-shaped grooves such as are present on a gramophone disk.
(2) Death by digital Jessops History: founded in 1935 by Frank Jessop in Leicester Collapsed: 9 January Jobs: 1,370, now redundant Stores: 200, now closed HMV History: traces its roots back to the turn of the 20th century and the first gramophone records, but the first Oxford Street store was opened in 1921.
(3) Its ground floor is decorated only in yellow, its first floor only in red; there’s Cole Porter on the gramophone and the Hatter himself serving in full costume.
(4) Francis Barraud painted Nipper in 1898, and sold the painting and the rights to the Gramophone Company two years later for £100.
(5) A neighbour brought a gramophone to spice up the act, and Joan became adept at increasing her wardrobe by asking the passengers for cast-off clothes.
(6) On the Sunday the pub will host a Big Lunch, where everyone will bring their own dish for a community party, and on Monday it is offering afternoon tea to music from 78rpm records on a wind-up gramophone.
(7) He was a frequent lecturer and after-dinner speaker and a fanatical proponent of American popular music: in the 1950s he produced a gramophone record entitled An Evening With Alistair Cooke - an unlikely combination of singing, whistling and blues numbers tapped out on the piano.
(8) At the conclusion of Awopbopaloobop , he predicted “formal works for pop choirs, pop orchestras; pop concerts held in halls … sounds and visuals combined … on something like a gramophone and TV set knocked into one”.
(9) The advertising strapline we created which sat alongside the iconic image of "Nipper" listening to the gramophone was "Top Dog for Music" and that's exactly what HMV was with record companies kowtowing to this all-powerful retailer, offering up millions of their own money to contribute to HMV's "co-operative" advertising.
(10) He also promised to help fix Burgess’s gramophone.
(11) Armchair executives may well say that HMV should have come up with a decent digital strategy earlier (these days, Nipper the dog would not be perched by a gramophone but plugged into an i-Something via a pair of white earbuds).
(12) There’s no reception desk, just an iPad-wielding greeter in a space decked out with baby grand piano, repurposed theatre seats, vintage spotlights and gramophone horn light fittings.
(13) They honeymooned in Central America, travelling to Panama on a Japanese freighter with two steamer trunks, 18 large valises and a gramophone - a parrot was acquired en route.
(14) Only now, with the release of Foreign Office and MI5 Burgess files to the National Archives, can Crankshaw’s exclusive report to the British authorities, and some intercepted correspondence about gramophone records, be read outside Whitehall.
(15) Part of that, even now, is down to the charm of that iconic logo, Nipper the dog listening intently to the gramophone, which inspired the His Master's Voice name back when Victoria was on the throne.
(16) He quickly progressed to the gramophone department and began presenting jazz programmes, but was thwarted by a head of variety whose objection to the sound of his voice compelled him to take elocution lessons.
(17) Nipper, the mascot dog who has looked quizzically down the gramophone trumpet in store windows for more than 90 years, will no longer hear His Master's Voice.
(18) They act as the bedrock for the BBC Proms, now easily the biggest classical music festival in the world, and the station was recently honoured by a Gramophone special achievement award for services to classical music.