(n.) A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.
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Oop
Definition:
(v. t.) To bind with a thread or cord; to join; to unite.
Example Sentences:
(1) And Chalmers alley-oop pass to LeBron who dunks it, the Heat are still here.
(2) So far the Republican primary has spoiled us, from Rick Perry's "oops" to corporate asset-stripper Mitt Romney's admission that he liked firing people, delivered just before he was snapped apparently receiving a sit-down shoe-shine from an underling – not a good look for a would-be man of the people.
(3) We propose that the 3' end of cII mRNA and OOP RNA form a double-stranded complex that is a substrate for the host enzyme RNase III, resulting in degradation of cII mRNA.
(4) Mean serum P levels were significantly lower in women with OOP biopsies undertaken more than 4 days before the onset of menses.
(5) Of 98 biopsies which could be accurately dated, 56 were in-phase (IP) and 42 were out-of-phase (OOP).
(6) The synthesis or stability of oop RNA is much reduced from induced tof-, compared with tof+ prophage.
(7) An alternate OOP RNA-dependent hydrolytic process occurs in RNase III- cells that results in cleavages in one of two regions, one close to the cleavage site observed in RNase III+ cells, and the second several nucleotides beyond the end of the complementary region between OOP RNA and cII-O mRNA.
(8) Oops, I forgot ...) 8.46am BST In October 1946, the same month in which she became president of OUCA, Margaret went for the first time as a representative to the party conference in Blackpool ...She was 'entranced', she wrote.
(9) For validity studies, children and their mothers completed the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control (HLOC) Scale and the Orthodontic Opinion Poll (OOP) Subscales.
(10) We have made a derivative of bacteriophage lambda that makes no OOP antisense RNA.
(11) Unless you decide to get pregnant and move oop north, where even these so-called jobs are pretty much nonexistent.
(12) We have thus shown that the overexpression of oop RNA favors the lytic mode of lambda development.
(13) Come on, you remember Iraq: that little foreign policy blip millions of us protested against to absolutely zero avail, because Straw and his pals figured they knew best, even though it turned out they didn't and - oops!
(14) Brazilian Marcelo Huertas fed Larry Nance Jr for an alley-oop dunk in the fourth that had the fans cheering, seemingly exorcising the demons of another losing season for the once-proud franchise with the league’s third-worst record.
(15) Lambda cII expression from an induced prophage is increased twofold in the presence of a large excess of anti-OOP RNA.
(16) Inhibition by the OOP DNA plasmid is not observed in an Escherichia coli strain deficient in RNase III.
(17) Wow – Kate Bush (or, if you prefer, Kylie Minogue) Wow, oops and the like are interjections.
(18) But not until I have availed myself of the spider-wrangler’s traditional right of playfully saying “oops”, touching your neck with a fingertip and pretending to drop it down your shirt.
(19) Regions that have long been suspected to participate in lambda DNA replication initiation, ice and oop were not required for the O, P-dependent lambda-specific replication initiation.
(20) This experiment, in which the prophage is the sole source of OOP RNA, suggests a physiological role for OOP RNA in regulating cII-gene expression.