(n.) A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, or small mark.
(n.) Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen; as, a dot of a child.
(v. t.) To mark with dots or small spots; as, to dot a line.
(v. t.) To mark or diversify with small detached objects; as, a landscape dotted with cottages.
(v. i.) To make dots or specks.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have developed a new procedure for the rapid preparation of undegraded total RNA from cultured cells for specific quantitation by dot blotting analysis.
(2) Analysis of glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) expression by enzyme assay and immunoblots, as well as Northern and dot blots of poly (A)+ RNA, in the deletion strains indicates that there are two upstream regulatory sequences that control the level of gene expression.
(3) The method described uses film DOT-I and DOT-II by Dupont, whereby the exposure of the step wedge takes place on a linear accelerator with a photo energy of 10 MeV.
(4) The results indicated a very good comparability between the dot-blot assay and IF-tests, and this dot-blot method was ascertained as a simple and useful method for the scrub typhus serodiagnosis.
(5) Using a silver staining technique (AgNOR technique), we have investigated the nucleolar organizer-associated proteins (NORs) in formalin-fixed paraffin embedded conjunctival specimens of 15 intraepithelial squamous carcinomas, 10 hyperplastic-dysplastic samples and 10 control epithelial fragments; the mean number of intranuclear black dots was determined for each case.
(6) An increase in cytoplasmic PRL mRNA content was evident in all the animals treated with estrogen as revealed with cytoplasmic dot blot analysis.
(7) All these strains produced an enterotoxic principle, antigenically related to cholera coli family of enterotoxins, as detected by latex agglutination and immuno-dot-blot tests.
(8) ELISA, cDNA dot blot hybridization and transmission by vector aphids were used to investigate the occurrence and degree of cross-protection produced in oat plants by virus isolates representing five strains or serotypes of barley yellow dwarf virus, namely PAV, MAV, SGV, RPV and RMV.
(9) With anti-Go alpha antibodies, the immunofluorescence was more clearly focussed on a dotted pattern and the co-location with the voltage-dependent Ca2+ channel immunoreactivity indicates that both proteins were located in very close subcellular structures.
(10) Thresholds were measured for detecting perturbations in a regular lattice of dots by modulating local dot density, local dot luminance, or some combination of the two.
(11) As revealed by a dot immunobinding assay, the amount of immunoreactive bovine and human MFGM-associated antigen increased dramatically with the onset of lactation after delivery.
(12) All nine responders were negative for HBV DNA in serum by dot blot during or after treatment, but seven remained positive by polymerase chain amplification and Southern-blot hybridization.
(13) DNA sequencing and oligonucleotide dot-blot analysis of class II genes from two race-specific haplotypes indicate that susceptibility to IDDM is closely linked to the DQA1 locus and suggest that both the DQB1 (ref.
(14) The number of dots, the summed area of dots and the MF were separately evaluated by the "t" test.
(15) Hepatitis B virus DNA (HBV-DNA) in serum was studied in 67 anti-HBe patients using dot-blot hybridization, a modified technique and polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
(16) Dot Masr reporter Mohamed Abu Asay says in the past he could never report on the budget deficit in Egypt and the Saudi-Egyptian military operation in Yemen in the same piece.
(17) Nuclei from the normal mouse liver were partially digested with micrococcal nuclease, followed by DNA extraction, agarose gel electrophoresis and dot blot hybridization with 32P-labeled cDNA probes of CPS1 and ACT complex.
(18) Reconstituted flagellar filaments were demonstrated by three complementary methods: transmission electron microscopy, antigenic reactivity with H7 antiserum by a dot blot immunoassay, and immunogold localization of antiserum raised to the purified antigen to intact flagella on whole E. coli O157:H7.
(19) Rather, the sequences of alpha-amylase mRNA are rapidly degraded during heat shock as shown by in vitro translation and dot blot hybridization with a cDNA probe.
(20) Prism fixation disparity curves were determined in three different experimental situations: the routine method according to Ogle, a method to stimulate the synkinetic convergence (Experiment I, with one fixation point as sole binocular stimulus) and a method to stimulate the fusion mechanism (Experiment II, with random dot stereograms).
Speck
Definition:
(n.) The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.
(n.) A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit.
(n.) A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.
(n.) A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmaea) common in the Eastern United States.
(v. t.) To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture.
Example Sentences:
(1) Given how Bank forecasts have been all over the shop, it is possible that the Old Lady's spreadsheet wizards could scupper Mr Carney's plans by spying a speck of price pressure and panicking about it turning into a giant inflationary boulder.
(2) 11.21pm GMT Tweets Jeremiah Tittle (@WWWJT) @LengelDavid @Paolo_Bandini @HunterFelt @GdnUSsports remove the wooden beam from your own eye before you remove the speck from the umpires'.
(3) Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) died young, had a public career for only 10 years, had no workshop, bequeathed no drawings and left no pupils, and the only places he travelled to outside mainland Italy were the Mediterranean speck of Malta and, briefly, Sicily.
(4) Andreas Speck London • David Miranda's detention was an extreme case of a large-scale harassment, especially of Muslims and political activists monitored by MI5.
(5) The darting speck of fiery orange had gone, perhaps already on his way to another continent.
(6) The smallest speck, fibre and mass sizes visible in the radiographs were 0.24, 0.75 and 0.5 mm, respectively.
(7) A qualitative description of electrostatic interactions between the two cytochromes based on limited electrostatic interaction domains on the cytochrome c oxidase surface was found to be in good agreement with all our data and supports the model of Speck et al.
(8) The best machines could resolve 0.2 mm aluminium oxide specks with the contact technique.
(9) Ulrich Speck is senior fellow at the Transatlantic Academy, Washington DC
(10) Speck visibility was as dependent on the composition of the specks and of the surrounding material as on the size of the specks.
(11) The Cocos Islands is a tiny green speck in the Indian ocean nearer to Penang than Perth, settled in 1826 as a resupply base for Indian ocean traders.
(12) Fairly easy Salads Tabbouleh Most of us visualise tabbouleh as bulgur with specks of herbs, but in the Lebanon it is very green with specks of bulgur.
(13) This was the scene in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) in which Lawrence ( Peter O’Toole ) first makes contact with the Arab chieftain Sherif Ali (Sharif), who will become his key ally in the desert fighting, and the latter, in a daringly protracted sequence, develops from a speck on the horizon into a towering, huge horseman, rifle at the ready.
(14) (Speck, S.H., Dye, D. and Margoliash, E. (1984) Proc.
(15) The area is a busy shipping route connecting to the Strait of Malacca and the Pacific and is believed to have rich oil and gas deposits, meaning that the tiny specks of land that dot it have been contested by many neighbouring powers for decades.
(16) Photograph: Penny Bradfield Julia Gillard leaves the press conference Photograph: Penny Bradfield Updated at 10.01am GMT 9.09am GMT Lenore Taylor on a "speck of silver lining for Labor" Guardian Australia’s incoming political editor Lenore Taylor writes for Fairfax media that Labor’s political dysfunction has reached levels unprecedented “even for a party that has spent much of the last three years tearing itself asunder”.
(17) We obtained 2-8 fold variations for the smallest sizes of the three objects (specks, fibres and masses) visible in the X-ray images and 3.0-3.7 fold variations for an "image score".
(18) Climbing over rough ground, the route follows the rim of a dramatic escarpment above the sea, with wonderful views down to the water, often specked with passing porpoises and dolphins.
(19) This consists of multiple echogenic specks in an otherwise normal testicular parenchyma.
(20) Interphase nuclei are characterized by the distribution of chromatin; aside from the cortical chromatin spread along nuclear envelope and nucleolus, there are chromatin accumulations that belong mainly in two different classes: 1) numerous chromatin "specks" ranging in size from about 5 to 70 nm and averaging 47 nm; 2) a few roughly circular or elongated chromatin "packets" measuring from 70 to 230 nm.