(a.) Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery.
Example Sentences:
(1) 62.1% were from disrupted families (39.5% divorced, 12.9% remarried, and 9.7% widowed).
(2) Immunocytochemistry was used to visualize cytoskeletal structures and to assay selective disruption of neurofilaments by acrylamide.
(3) Sepsis resulted from intravenous absorption through inflamed or disrupted urothelium.
(4) An “out” vote would severely disrupt our lives, in an economic sense and a private sense.
(5) Thus, saponin and ammonium chloride can be used to isolate whole infected erythrocytes, depleted of hemoglobin, by selective disruption of uninfected cells.
(6) This would disrupt and prevent Isis from maintaining stable and reliable sources of income.
(7) The pathology resulting from a missense mutation at residue 403 further suggests that a critical function of myosin is disrupted by this mutation.
(8) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
(9) Hepatic enzyme elevations were more dramatic after blunt trauma, reflecting greater hepatocellular disruption.
(10) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(11) Displacement of the surface of the cornea of bovine eyes after disruption of intact structures was investigated by means of holographic interferometry.
(12) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(13) The samples are first disrupted by sonication and the insoluble proteins concentrated by high-speed centrifugation.
(14) Electron microscopic observations of the masseter nerve in the aged cats revealed a disruption of the myelin sheaths and a pronounced increase in collagen fibers in the endoneurium and perineurium.
(15) Light microscopy of both apneics and snorers revealed mucous gland hypertrophy with ductal dilation and focal squamous metaplasia, disruption of muscle bundles by infiltrating mucous glands, focal atrophy of muscle fibers, and extensive edema of the lamina propria with vascular dilation.
(16) We propose that, for a GC base pair in B conformation, there are two amino proton exchangeable states--a cytosine amino proton exchangeable state and a guanine amino proton exchangeable state; both require the disruption of only the corresponding interbase H bond.
(17) No signs of the blood-brain barrier disruption were observed.
(18) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
(19) On histopathologic examination there were microabscesses in the inner choroid and subretinal space, disrupting the outer retina but sparing the inner retina.
(20) Of 55 new open reading frames analysed by gene disruption, three are essential genes; of 42 non-essential genes that were tested, 14 show some discernible effect on phenotype and the remaining 28 have no overt function.
Skeet
Definition:
(n.) A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel, and formerly to wet the sails or deck.
Example Sentences:
(1) Skeet shooter Amber Hill, who was 15 when she became the youngest winner of a senior World Cup event this year, won the Young Sports Personality of the Year award.
(2) Shotguns can easily propel pellets with enough energy to penetrate the human eye, and a large percentage of shotgun eye injuries occur during shotgun sports such as hunting, trap, skeet, and sporting clays.
(3) Mr Blair underlined this when he expressed his concern about the "dreadful case" of Mavis Skeet, whose operation for throat cancer was cancelled four times in five weeks because of bed shortages, adding that people should "retain some sense of balance".
(4) Asked if he had ever personally fired a gun, the president replied: "Yes, in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time".
(5) Frankie Gavin squeaked by Bradley Skeete by scores of 116-112 and two of 116-113 to add the vacant Commonwealth welterweight title to the British championship, but there were a lot of close rounds in a contest that was enlivened only at the very end – first by a little scrap in the crowd before the start of the 12th round, then by the premature playing of the ring-walk music for the Saunders-Eubank fight.