(n.) The act or process of scattering or dispersing, or the state of being scattered or separated; as, the Jews in their dispersion retained their rites and ceremonies; a great dispersion of the human family took place at the building of Babel.
(n.) The separation of light into its different colored rays, arising from their different refrangibilities.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results also suggest that the dispersed condition of pigment in the melanophores represents the "resting state" of the melanophores when they are under no stimulation.
(2) Somatostatin inhibited carbachol- and cholecystokinin octapeptide-induced pepsinogen secretion from dispersed gastric mucosal cells in a dose-dependent manner.
(3) The results of the measurements permitted the identification of five main cytologic types, with regard to nuclear size, nuclear area dispersion and irregularity of nuclear profiles.
(4) Considerable glucose 6-phosphatase activity survived 240min of treatment with phospholipase C at 5 degrees C, but in the absence of substrate or at physiological glucose 6-phosphate concentrations the delipidated enzyme was completely inactivated within 10min at 37 degrees C. However, 80mM-glucose 6-phosphate stabilized it and phospholipid dispersions substantially restored thermal stability.
(5) Despite their wide dispersion, Vmax and the stereological determinations correlated strongly at 2 mo of age, confirming that Vmax is a robust indicator of the surface area of the air-blood barrier.
(6) Phosphatidylcholine dispersed on Celite was rapidly solubilized by neutral bovine serum albumin solutions.
(7) The alpha-ScTx receptors seemed to be randomly dispersed on both cell bodies and cell processes.
(8) The RB transcript is encoded in 27 exons dispersed over about 200 kilobases (kb) of genomic DNA.
(9) We show that, in digitonin-permeabilized goldfish xanthophores, the pigment organelles can be induced to disperse by a combination of cAMP, ATP, and xanthophore cytosol.
(10) These results are consistent with the idea that RPE pigment dispersion is triggered by a substance that diffuses from the retina at light onset.
(11) Neither temporal dispersion nor focal conduction block occurred.
(12) Brain macrophages were studied in dispersed monolayer cultures of post-natal mouse cerebella.
(13) These factors include narrowing of septal arteries and the artery to the atrioventricular node, preservation of fetal anatomy with dispersion in the atrioventricular node and His bundle, fibrosis of the sinus node, clefts in the septum, multiple atrioventricular pathways and massive myocardial infarction.
(14) The number of dispersed iccosomes was markedly reduced by day 5.
(15) Further preparations were conducted to evaluate coatings applied from aqueous dispersion (pseudolatex) using air suspension coating technique.
(16) Variation of scrotal colour was not due to changes in melanocyte number or dispersion of melanosomes.
(17) Southern blotting experiments using somatic cell hybrids containing either the human chromosome 3 or the X chromosome confirm the presence of multiple dispersed RTVL-H sequences on these two chromosomes.
(18) A new method based on solid phase dispersion of tissue for the subsequent isolation of drugs is reported.
(19) It appears, therefore, that the aggregation and dispersion of pigment within the melanophores is the primary mechanism responsible for the changes in color of this species.
(20) When detergent-dispersed LA was contaminated with linoleic acid hydroperoxide (LOOH), lipid peroxidation was catalyzed by Fe2+ via reductive cleavage of LOOH (LOOH-Fe2+-induced lipid peroxidation), and Fe2+ was oxidized simultaneously in SDS micelles, even when H2O2 was not present.
Stampede
Definition:
(v. t.) A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic.
(v. i.) To run away in a panic; -- said droves of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies.
(v. t.) To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Resentment towards the political elite, the widening gap between the immensely rich and the poor, the deteriorating social security system, the collapse in oil prices and what Forbes has called "a stampede" of investors out of Russia – an outflow of $42bn in the first four months of 2012 – means the economy is flagging.
(2) They have taken a series of safety measures over the past decade aimed at preventing crowd crushes after tragedies such as the stampede in 2006, which resulted in 350 deaths, a building collapse in the same year which killed 76 and a stampede that killed more than 200 people in 2004.
(3) Titanic's trailer is two minutes 37 seconds of lifeboat-related stampeding intercut with women swishing about in big hats doing seasick Dowager Countess expressions.
(4) Risks include terrorist bombings, riots and stampedes in the tunnels and pedestrian walkways leading to the Jamarat stoning pillars (representing Satan) – as well as the routine hazards of heat and disease.
(5) On day one, we were almost stampeded by elephants, and I had to suffocate a goat and then drink its blood directly from the jugular.
(6) Mr Olie said three people had been killed in a stampede at a store opening in Saudi Arabia last year, but that nothing like this had happened in Britain.
(7) This behaviour has led to stampedes that have killed calves and hampered walruses’ ability to find food.
(8) At the al-Moaysem medical centre, Egyptian Osama el-Gindy said he was looking for a relative who was a few metres ahead of him when the stampede began.
(9) A stampede in 1990 killed 1,426 people and another in February 2004 that killed 244.
(10) The real threat to the Labour party is that we will be stampeded into moving right on race, immigration and welfare in response to the alleged Ukip threat.
(11) In recent years, as media coverage of the event has grown and scenes of rioting and stampedes have become more common, Black Friday has drawn its share of criticism.
(12) Travelling from the Calgary rodeo and stampede in Canada, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will begin their trip to southern California with an exclusive party at the house of Britain's consul general, Dame Barbara Hay.
(13) It wasn't so much the scrambling panic at Westminster, the stampede of cabinet ministers and MPs for seats on the next train north out of Euston.
(14) 1998 9 April: More than 118 people are killed and 180 injured in a stampede at Mina.
(15) In 1990, more than 1,400 died in a stampede inside a tunnel.
(16) White House spokesman Jay Carney made it clear on Tuesday that Obama would not be stampeded into approving the project.
(17) The surges that accompany half-time in major football matches as the nation stampedes to put its kettle on, for example, are the stuff of legend.
(18) The race begins when the NEC opens nominations: as candidates need signatures from 35 MPs they will stampede to collect the most – and MPs will hasten to pledge allegiance to a likely winner.
(19) But when it comes to the stadiums … having reduced our expectations and our needs, we'll have what is necessary," he cheered over the din of the stampede heading towards the canteen.
(20) They ventriloquise the fear of millions into a scream of fire in the crowded theatre of modernity where all the doors are locked, and then they watch the stampede.