(n.) A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.
(v. i.) To behave foolishly.
Example Sentences:
(1) George is unreliable... untrustworthy... to coin a phrase, a dolt."
(2) 28 mins: Look at the pedantic dolts I have to deal with: "So which bit of '4 mins ... 7mins ... 10 mins' is 'minute-by-minute' commentary, exactly?"
(3) His predecessor, Richard Daley, was embraced as an authentic Chicagoan with no ambitions beyond the city, even if he came across in public as a monosyllabic dolt.
(4) Analyses were conducted on three reference standard materials certified for their methyl mercury content, DOLT-1, DORM-1, and TORT-1, provided by the National Research Council of Canada.
(5) The cull might help to destroy the industry these bloody-minded dolts claim to defend.
(6) Some dolt in a car coat jogs around for a while, before being shoved to the ground by several police officers waving sticks.
(7) Of course, if you have £9bn to spend on a party, surely only a dolt could fail.
(8) Another critique of the great war is that the troops were commanded by dolts, a fact it must be said that is contested by many eminent historians.
(9) That's the point of the episode, you catastrophic dolt.
Molt
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Moult
() imp. of Melt.
(v. t.) Alt. of Moult
(v. t.) Alt. of Moult
Example Sentences:
(1) In Experiment 1 (summer), hens regained body weight more rapidly, returned to production faster, and had larger egg weights (Weeks 1 to 4) when fed the 16 or 13% CP molt diets than when fed the 10% CP molt diet.
(2) After molting, resulting nymphs (n = 74) were fed on susceptible mice.
(3) The MT-2, derived from an adult T-cell leukaemia (ATL) cell, the Molt-4F, a human T-cell line, and the Isk, an EB virus-transformed B-cell line, were found to have high-affinity receptors for somatostatin, a cyclic tetradecapeptide that inhibits the release of substances such as growth hormone, TSH, glucagon, insulin, secretin, gastrin and cholecystokinin.
(4) The demonstration of cAMP-dependent protein kinase and of VIP- and PHI-mediated protein phosphorylation in Molt 4b lymphoblasts provides evidence on a molecular level for neuropeptide modulation of human lymphocyte function.
(5) The ability of various gangliosides to inhibit the cytotoxic activity of natural killers (NK-cells) from Syrian hamsters towards human lymphoma MOLT-4 cells was studied.
(6) Measurements were made at the imaginal molt and on fed and crowded imagos at 10, 20 and 30 post-imaginal days.
(7) A comparison between primary cells and resulting cell lines showed that the cell lines established from patients with T-ALL (MOLT 12, 13, 14 and MOLT 16, 17) expressed similar phenotypes and isoenzyme patterns, but were different in a few specific aspects.
(8) At the culmination of each molt, the larval tobacco hornworm exhibits a pre-ecdysis behavior prior to shedding its old cuticle at ecdysis.
(9) 2'-Deoxycytidine (10 microM) also blocked dGTP accumulation in MOLT-4 cells.
(10) Cytotoxicity resulting from dUMP misincorporation was consistent with the enhanced toxicity of piritrexim which was observed when HL-60 cells or MOLT-4 cells were exposed concurrently to exogenous deoxyuridine.
(11) Molting occurred in almost all kinds of organs examined.
(12) Syncytium formation between HUT-78 cells persistently infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and uninfected CD4-bearing MOLT-4 or CEM cells results in a rapid destruction of the MOLT-4 or CEM cells.
(13) Furthermore these cells exhibited cytotoxic activity against several tumour cell lines including the syngeneic L1210, the TNF-insensitive P815 mastocytoma, the human MOLT-4 lymphoblastic leukaemia, as well as the murine TNF-sensitive L929 fibroblast cell line.
(14) Second instar larvae which survive the molt exhibit a marked reduction in growth and eventually die as small second instar larvae.
(15) These lines of evidence were in accord with previous accounts of the so-called "molt inhibiting hormone" (MIH) effect.
(16) The objective of this study was to determine the molting process of Dirofilaria immitis third-stage larvae (L-3) to fourth-stage larvae (L-4), as it occurred in vitro.
(17) Injections of ovine prolactin during the pause-inducing procedure significantly reduced the subsequent rate of loss of primary wing feathers, suggesting that in certain physiological states, PRL may function to suppress molting.
(18) 1-beta-D-Arabinofuranosyl-E-5-(2-bromovinyl)uracil (BV-araU) and E-5-(2-bromovinyl)uracil, a metabolite of BV-araU, did not affect either the anti-human immunodeficiency virus activity or the cytotoxicity of azidothymidine in MT-4 and MOLT-4 cells.
(19) After the L1 molt, energy metabolism in animals destined to become dauer larvae diverges from that of animals committed to growth.
(20) Thus, one may deduce that stopped larvae could have low levels of ecdysone, and perhaps these are the ultimate physiological cause of their arrested development before the critical larva-pupa molt.