(a.) A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time.
(a.) A close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century.
(a.) A counterfeit gem, composed of two pieces of crystal, with a color them, and thus giving the appearance of a naturally colored gem. Also, a piece of paste or glass covered by a veneer of real stone.
(a.) An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
(a.) Two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as, to throw doublets.
(a.) A game somewhat like backgammon.
(a.) One of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, analogous OMPs in the LGV strains existed as a doublet with a molecular mass of about 60,000 Da.
(2) The antigen (a protein doublet of Mr 75,000-80,000) is present in, but not restricted to, the myelin lamellae, since it is distributed along the whole myelinating Schwann cell membrane.
(3) In this respect earlier reports by other authors were confirmed but minor compounds not detected so far could be revealed as 15:1, the doublet 18:1 and i-18:0, 19:1 and 20:1.
(4) Studies with substrate analogs selectively modified at the basic doublet indicated that the integrity of both basic amino acids is essential but that conformational parameters, probably governed by the amino acid sequences flanking the basic doublet, play an important role.
(5) During FV, 10 of 26 motoneurons began their discharges with doublets (interspike interval < 10 ms); doublets occurred in only 4 of 67 motoneurons during FC.
(6) The model suggests that the diversity of beat phenotype may be explicable by changes in the timing of switching between active and inactive states of doublet arm activity.
(7) The proacrosin appeared as a doublet (Mr = 55,000 and 53,000) on both of these systems.
(8) The excess intensity (approximately 17%) of the low-spin doublet must therefore be assigned to heme a3 in a modified environment.
(9) The other, p24, migrated as a sharp band or closely spaced doublet with an apparent molecular weight of 24 kD.
(10) Twenty-four amino acid doublets were found; the most abundant of these are Pro-Pro and Ala-Ala which each occur five times.
(11) Rat vascular smooth muscle cells (SMC) in culture synthesize and secrete a approximately 38,000-Mr protein doublet or triplet that, as previously described (Majack and Bornstein.
(12) The free ends of the microtubules appear unraveled; they are seen first as single elements, then as doublets, and finally are arranged into a cylinder.
(13) In one recombinant clone the large CRP appeared to be posttranslationally cleaved at two sites, forming a doublet in a manner similar to the large-CRP doublet made in native C. psittaci 6BC.
(14) Ciliary abnormalities fell into four major categories: (1) cilia with a single axoneme and excess cytoplasmic matrix; (2) compound cilia; (3) intracytoplasmic microtubular doublets; and (4) cilia within periciliary sheaths.
(15) The mobility of this doublet is identical under reducing and non-reducing conditions.
(16) The head seems to float uncomfortably above the collar, while the doublet is ineptly managed.
(17) When cytosines in CpG doublets in G + C-rich fragments were methylated (mCpG), the reactivity increased up to 100-fold.
(18) When analyzed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate and mercaptoethanol, the protein migrated as a doublet with apparent molecular masses of 55 and 60 kilodaltons (kDa) and as a 50-kDa band in nonreducing gels.
(19) The N-acetylimidazole-reacted apoprotein supplemented with hemin and reacted with hydroperoxides, neither showed electronic absorption spectra of higher oxidation states nor an EPR doublet signal due to a tyrosyl radical.
(20) Stimulus trains starting with an initial doublet produced maximum rate of tension development (optimum impulse pattern).
Hose
Definition:
(pl. ) of Hose
(n.) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee.
(n.) Covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; a stocking or stockings.
(n.) A flexible pipe, made of leather, India rubber, or other material, and used for conveying fluids, especially water, from a faucet, hydrant, or fire engine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Escherichia coli, Citrobacter freundii and Klebsiella pneumoniae grew after the experimental contamination for many weeks on the rubber hose until the test was finally stopped, in the other pipes and hoses (glass, high-grade steel, PVC, PE, PA, PTFE and silicone) E. coli could be found for maximal 7 weeks, Citrobacter freundii for 1 week and Klebsiella pneumoniae for maximal 3 weeks.
(2) Long breathing hoses should not be used in smaller aircraft since small cabin volume will result in rapid decompression rates and high mask pressure.
(3) The reaction of an unspecific microorganism flora and of Legionella pneumophila in pipes and hoses has been described in the two previous communications.
(4) They – we – had come by bus, plane, train, car and hitch-hiker's thumb to demonstrate to ourselves and a watching world that there was a better, more righteous America than the Birmingham of Bull Connor who had set the dogs and fire hoses on black children.
(5) A spokesman for Pyne then began hosing down the idea by saying it was “not on the current agenda”.
(6) When firefighters arrived to put out the blaze, someone cut through the hose with a knife.
(7) Fracketeering: how capitalism is power-hosing the last drops of value out of us all Read more The source said: “It is incredibly frustrating for the government.
(8) Earlier attempts to cool the reactor by hosing water from fire engines and helicopters left pools of contaminated water and flooded basements, hampering the containment operation and efforts to restart the cooling pumps.
(9) A low dose warfarin prophylaxis combined with anti-embolic hose, elevation of the legs and early ambulation was employed in 415 total hip replacements.
(10) In a 12-year-old boy, air accidentally introduced subconjunctivally from the pointed tip of an air compressor hose, moved to an intracranial position over the sella turcica as demonstrated by x-ray films.
(11) The catheter was inserted and secured into the trachea of 250- to 500-g Sprague-Dawley rats with the adaptor hose of the respirator fitted onto the 15-mm connector following tracheostomy.
(12) The tests were designed to evaluate the performance of monitors as installed on anaesthesia systems under a variety of failure conditions, including endotracheal tube disconnection with and without occlusion of the opening, kinks in the inspiratory and fresh gas hoses, disconnection of the fresh gas hose, leaks in the breathing circuit, excessive high or low pressure in the scavenging circuit, continuing high breathing circuit pressure, and kinks in the circuit pressure sensing hose.
(13) We modified a Bain circuit by placing the circuit into the Y piece of a standard carbon dioxide absorber circle, connecting the fresh gas hose on the anesthetic machine to the Bain's fresh gas inlet, and occluding the circle's fresh gas inlet.
(14) Squirrel monkeys were periodically exposed to brief electric tail shocks in a test environment containing a rubber hose, response lever, and a water spout.
(15) Recommendations to the company included: 1) installation of a warning system or lock-out device on the mixing machine to prevent the opening of the MBOCA hose prior to the release of pressure; and 2) annual medical surveillance of this individual for bladder cancer with urinalysis and urine cytology.
(16) The agent's fragility in water led hospital staff in Syria to uses hoses to drench rooms where they received victims after chemical attacks.
(17) The efficacy of the "hose" as a method of oxygen supplementation in children at low and high risk for developing postoperative hypoxaemia was also compared with the face mask.
(18) Suzanne Moore relaxing in her yurt A friend had said I could recreate the experience of Glastonbury by putting on my garden hose, rolling in mud and listening to bad music.
(19) Earlier attempts to cool the reactor by hosing water from fire engines and helicopters have left pools of contaminated water and flooded basements, hampering the containment operation and efforts to restart the cooling pumps.
(20) While relatives hosed down her yard, inches of mud still coated the floors of her home.