(a.) Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc.
(a.) Being in pairs; presenting two of a kind, or two in a set together; coupled.
(a.) Divided into two; acting two parts, one openly and the other secretly; equivocal; deceitful; insincere.
(a.) Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double.
(adv.) Twice; doubly.
(a.) To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like; multiply by two; to double a sum of money; to double a number, or length.
(a.) To make of two thicknesses or folds by turning or bending together in the middle; to fold one part upon another part of; as, to double the leaf of a book, and the like; to clinch, as the fist; -- often followed by up; as, to double up a sheet of paper or cloth.
(a.) To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
(a.) To pass around or by; to march or sail round, so as to reverse the direction of motion.
(a.) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
(v. i.) To be increased to twice the sum, number, quantity, length, or value; to increase or grow to twice as much.
(v. i.) To return upon one's track; to turn and go back over the same ground, or in an opposite direction.
(v. i.) To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false.
(v. i.) To set up a word or words a second time by mistake; to make a doublet.
(n.) Twice as much; twice the number, sum, quantity, length, value, and the like.
(n.) Among compositors, a doublet (see Doublet, 2.); among pressmen, a sheet that is twice pulled, and blurred.
(n.) That which is doubled over or together; a doubling; a plait; a fold.
(n.) A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice.
(n.) Something precisely equal or counterpart to another; a counterpart. Hence, a wraith.
(n.) A player or singer who prepares to take the part of another player in his absence; a substitute.
(n.) Double beer; strong beer.
(n.) A feast in which the antiphon is doubled, hat is, said twice, before and after the Psalms, instead of only half being said, as in simple feasts.
(n.) A game between two pairs of players; as, a first prize for doubles.
(n.) An old term for a variation, as in Bach's Suites.
Example Sentences:
(1) An unsaturated fatty acid auxotroph of Escherichia coli was grown with a series of cis-octadecenoate isomers in which the location of the double bond varied from positions 3 to 17.
(2) Theoretical computations are performed of the intercalative binding of the neocarzinostatin chromophore (NCS) with the double-stranded oligonucleotides d(CGCG)2, d(GCGC)2, d(TATA)2 and d(ATAT)2.
(3) The use of glucagon in double-contrast studies of the colon has been recommended for various reasons, one of which is to facilitate reflux of barium into the terminal ileum.
(4) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
(5) We report the results of a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of acitretin (Soriatane) in 15 patients with moderate to severe psoriasis.
(6) To determine the accuracy of double-contrast arthrography in complete rotator cuff tears, we studied 805 patients thought to have a complete rotator cuff tear who had undergone double-contrast shoulder arthrography (DCSA) between 1978 and 1983.
(7) For the detection of this antigen, a double antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was employed.
(8) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
(9) Aberrant forms (elongated and twisted) in the vacuole and double virions in the plasma membrane were observed as early as 65 h after infection.
(10) Such an approach to investigations into subclinical mastitis is not feasible by means of either single- or double-parameter techniques.
(11) In a randomized double-blind study, 40 patients with coronary heart disease received intravenously either 0.025 mg nitroglycerin or placebo.
(12) In the present study, 125 oesophageal biopsies obtained under direct vision at endoscopy from 22 patients with Barrett's oesophagus were systematically studied using fluorescence and peroxidase antiperoxidase single and double-staining immunocytochemical methods employing highly specific antibodies to localize the following peptide-containing cell types in Barrett's mucosa: gastrin, somatostatin, gastric inhibitory polypeptide, motilin, neurotensin and pancreatic glucagon.
(13) The M 13 specific DNA present in minicells isolated several hours after infection consists of single stranded viral DNA and double stranded replicative forms in nearly equal amounts.
(14) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
(16) The effect of ipratropium bromide administered at two dosage levels, 40 and 80 mug, isoproterenol, 150 mug, and placebo using a metered dose inhaler was evaluated in ten adult patients with asthma in a double-blind, crossover study.
(17) PNS at 7 Hz approximately doubled mesenteric venous plasma levels of PGE2 in both 16-week-old SHR and WKY, but PNS did not increase levels of 6-keto-PGF1 alpha in either strain.
(18) In contrast, strains carrying the substitutions Ile-30----Phe, Gly-33----Leu, Gly-58----Leu, and Lys-34----Val and the Lys-34----Val, Glu-37----Gln double substitution were found to possess a coupled phenotype similar to that of the wild type.
(19) The epidemiological effectiveness of dipyridamol, an interferon-inducing agent used for the prevention of influenza and viral acute respiratory diseases, was tested in 4 epidemiological trials, 3 of them carried out as double blind trials.
(20) Neutral sucrose density sedimentation patterns indicate that neutron-induced double strand-breaks sometimes occur in clusters of more than 100 in the same phage and that the effeciency with which double strand-breaks form is about 50 times that of gamma-induced double strand-breaks.
Ogee
Definition:
(n.) A molding, the section of which is the form of the letter S, with the convex part above; cyma reversa. See Illust. under Cyma.
(n.) Hence, any similar figure used for any purpose.
Example Sentences:
(1) Given the unique circumstances of the Presidency, OGE’s view is that a President should comply with this law by divesting conflicting assets, establishing a qualified blind trust, or both,” the agency wrote in response to questions from the Democratic senator Thomas Carper.
(2) However, although every President in modern times has adopted OGE’s recommended approach, OGE has no power to require adherence to this tradition.” Peter Henning, professor of law at Wayne State University Law School, said that even if Trump himself were legally free from conflicts of interest charges, a debatable point, the new arrangement would do little to address those conflicts.
(3) UEA-I reacted with the upper spinous layer of OGE, OSE and epithelia of hard palate, but not with any of the cells of the JE.
(4) The formation of JE by downgrowth of the oral gingival epithelium (OGE) during tooth eruption has been suggested but morphological studies indicate that it may be derived from the reduced enamel epithelium (REE) that covers the crown of the unerupted tooth.
(5) BPA binding was seen in the lower spinous layer of OGE, OSE, buccal and palatal epithelia, and in most of the JE.
(6) Twenty-one biopsies of clinically healthy marginal gingiva from children, who performed conventional oral hygiene but received no additional professional prophylaxis, were studied in order to obtain information on distribution and density of Langerhans cells (LC) in the oral gingival epithelium (OGE), the sulcular epithelium (SE) and the junctional epithelium (JE).
(7) Both these populations are separated from OGE by over 160 km (with low to undetectable distribution of species C in the transect regions).
(8) The ogee-flanged socket gave a consistently high injection pressure which could be maintained throughout the process of polymerisation.
(9) Comparison of the rigid (MD-71M) and flexible (OGE-1) endoscopes has shown the advantages of the latter design for intraocular surgery.
(10) Differences in keratin staining of gingival epithelia and the AE was found with respect to AE1-reactivity (keratins 10, 14-16, 19) which was suprabasal in JE, SE and OGE but basal in AE.
(11) The patterns of phenotypic expression of specimens of dissected JE, OGE and REE, and of cell cultures of these epithelia grown under standardized conditions, were examined (1) by immunocytochemistry using monoclonal antibodies with specificity for individual cytokeratins, vimentin and ICAM-1, and (2) by two-dimensional SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting.
(12) Species C of the Anopheles quadrimaculatus complex has a patchy distribution and has been found principally near the coast in river and springs systems of northwest Florida (GULF, SR, SFR--designated as C1, and CHOC--designated as C2) and the Ogeechee River (OGE--C2) near Savannah, Georgia.
(13) All epithelia showed changes in vitro but OGE remained different from JE and REE.
(14) The higher genetic similarity of the CHOC with OGE populations indicated either selective pressures or genetic drift or both as being responsible for the differences between C1 and C2 populations.
(15) Oral gingival epithelium (OGE), oral sulcular epithelium (OSE) and junctional epithelium (JE) were examined histochemically by using different lectins as markers for epithelial differentiation.
(16) It is a deadly place, making up for what it lacks in soul and vitality with ogee curves and pop antiquarianism.
(17) OGE-derived bFGF is bioactive and stimulates the proliferation of capillary endothelial cells or OGE cells.
(18) In chronic marginal periodontitis Fc gamma R were also observed on cells within the oral gingival epithelium (OGE) and the pocket epithelium (PE).
(19) OGE lost expression of the differentiation markers K1, K10 and K13; it acquired some expression of K19, but less than JE and REE.
(20) Our results agree with previous data suggesting that OGE and OSE exhibit squamous differentiation similar to that of the masticatory epithelium of hard palate.