(v. t.) To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers.
(v. i.) To separate, to open; to cleave.
(n.) The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.
(n.) A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore; -- called also dispart sight, and muzzle sight.
(v. t.) To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.
(v. t.) To furnish with a dispart sight.
Example Sentences:
(1) A quantitative estimate of the dispartate affinities of Mg(II) to ATP bound at the two sites on the enzyme was made on the basis of computer simulation of changes in the line shape of beta-P (ATP) resonance and of changes in 31P chemical shift of the corresponding gamma-P (ATP) in the E.ATP complex with increasing [Mg(II)].
(2) In separate experiments, subfraction differences in oxidation rates as assessed by TBARS formation were verified by the finding of similarly dispartate changes in fluorescence intensity and anionic electrophoretic mobility.
Patch
Definition:
(n.) A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole.
(n.) A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
(n.) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.
(n.) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
(n.) Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.
(n.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
(n.) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
(v. t.) To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.
(v. t.) To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.
(v. t.) To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.
(v. t.) To make of pieces or patches; to repair as with patches; to arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; -- generally with up; as, to patch up a truce.
Example Sentences:
(1) Graft life is even more prolonged with patch angioplasty at venous outflow stenoses or by adding a new segment of PTFE to bypass areas of venous stenosis.
(2) The surface phenotypes of bovine intestinal leukocytes isolated from the intraepithelium (IEL), lamina propria (LPL) and Peyer's patches (PPL) of the small intestinal mucosa of normal adult cows were determined using monoclonal antibodies (mAb) specific to adult bovine peripheral blood leukocytes (PBL).
(3) We retrospectively studied the incidence and course of epoxy resin contact dermatitis in 2265 patients in whom contact dermatitis was confirmed by patch testing.
(4) A marked analgesic effect was found after application of morphine hydrochloride patch containing Azone and N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone.
(5) The internal carotid diameters increased 20% to 30% for both the vein and synthetic patched arteries.
(6) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
(7) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
(8) Patch and photopatch tests with fibric acid derivatives and ketoprofen were performed in the patients, in 12 normal volunteers, and in 7 patients with photopatch-proven photocontact dermatitis to ketoprofen.
(9) Here we report that the increase in the probability of S-channel opening with FMRFamide is mimicked by application of 12-HPETE to cell-free membrane patches that lack ATP and GTP.
(10) The effects of alanine, glucose and tolbutamide on insulin-secreting cells (RINm5F) have been investigated using patch-clamp and single cell intracellular Ca2+ measurements.
(11) Trichophytosis (T. equinum) is characterized as typical numerous small and round patches, covered by small, bran-like, asbestos-coloured scales.
(12) The distributions of the probabilities of seeing N channels open in multichannel patch records were not not always well fitted by the binomial distribution: it is suggested that adjacent channels could have different probabilities of being open.
(13) We observed a significant content of ELCF in three of seven patients with eczema prior to patch testing.
(14) Primary closure without a patch was associated with the least platelet uptake of all (PTFE versus vein patch, P less than 0.01; PTFE versus no patch, P less than 0.01; vein patch versus no patch, P less than 0.05).
(15) The channels usually ceased conducting within a few minutes after seal formation with the patch pipette and could not be re-activated with depolarizing voltage steps.
(16) Rupture of an attached patch was followed by a rapid (approximately 10 s), approximately 10-fold increase in outer-segment membrane current, all of which was light-sensitive.
(17) Five different surgical procedures were done: internal urethrotomy, Johanson-Leadbetter, patch-graft, Turner-Warwich, and dismembered technics.
(18) This retrospective study of forty-six patients with stasis dermatitis found a 60.9 percent incidence of at least one significantly positive patch test reaction.
(19) However, safe management of large duodenal defects may require the use of other methods, such as a serosal patch or creation of a duodenojejunostomy.
(20) Furthermore, clonidine can abolish, in reversible fashion, the acetylcholine-activated inward current determined with patch-clamp.