(n.) A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains.
(n.) A minute quantity; a mite.
(n.) As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison.
(n.) A Persian daric.
(v. i. & t.) To drink drams; to ply with drams.
Example Sentences:
(1) You’d think he’d just performed a one-man am-dram re-enactment of the Saving Private Ryan trailer.
(2) There were no significant differences between the groups in reduction in alcohol consumption, but patients in the DRAMS group showed a significantly greater reduction in a logarithmic measure of serum gamma-glutamyl-transpeptidase than patients in the group receiving advice only.
(3) Aspects of dram shop imposed by 27 states and the District of Columbia are described, with emphasis on recent developments in California.
(4) Just down the road is the Talisker Whisky Distillery, while if you fancy a dram and a tune, the inn in Carbost has regular live music.
(5) At these two wooden one-bedroom cottages on the shores of Loch Tay, you can listen to the gently lapping water as the sun goes down or snuggle up with a dram in front of the woodburning stove.
(6) The visiting manager duly looked almost as disappointed as Taylor after Afobe’s rather am-dram tumble in the area under Colback’s challenge but, despite slight contact, the referee failed to buy the resultant penalty appeals.
(7) Differences among states in observed intervention were not related to dram shop law, but did appear to be related to prior level of intervention, type of establishment and business volume.
(8) The assay was performed by adding 50 microliters of cell concentrate of an overnight culture of TA98 resuspended in the appropriate buffer; 50 microliters of the same buffer or S9 mix; and 2 microliters of mutagen or dimethyl sulfoxide to a 1-dram vial or 13 x 150-mm test tube.
(9) Fahey teamed up with Marcella Detroit to mix industrial techno with bright funk (think Zola Jesus), while styled like Siouxsie Sioux starring in an am-dram Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
(10) The scheme was evaluated by randomly assigning 104 heavy or problem drinkers to three groups - a group participating in the DRAMS scheme (n = 34), a group given simple advice only (n = 32) and a non-intervention control group (n = 38).
(11) The procedure utilized virus-infected human fetal diploid cells or brain tissue smears in the bottom of 1-dram glass vials, antigen was detected through the use of intermediate HVH antisera produced in rabbits or hamsters and cross-absorbed with the HVH heterotype, and (125)I-labeled anti-species (rabbit or hamster) globulins produced in goats were used for detection of immune complexes.
(12) Monoclonal antibody, specific for the adenovirus group-reactive hexon antigen, was used for the detection of this agent by immunofluorescence 24 and 48 hours after inoculation of HEp-2 cell monolayers in 1-dram shell vials after low-speed centrifugation (700 X g, 30 minutes).
(13) He doesn't paint, draw or sculpt so people tend to call him a curator but what he does seems both more spirited and more human than that dusty word suggests (in the watery fantasy of Venice it is tempting to think of him as an inspired am-dram Prospero).
(14) Only 14 patients in the DRAMS group completed the full DRAMS procedure.
(15) Mating occurred readily in this strain, even when the adults were confined in 8-dram glass shell vials.
(16) Afterwards have a celebratory dram at Maxwell's erstwhile local, the Glenelg Inn ( glenelg-inn.com ).
(17) A monoclonal antibody was used to detect an early antigen of cytomegalovirus (CMV) by fluorescence 16 h after inoculation of MRC-5 monolayers in 1-dram (ca.
(18) Art, am-dram, film-making and comedy are catered for by societies.
(19) Recommendations include broadening the focus of dram shop liability to include the prevention of alcohol-related problems.
(20) Please don't make it one' Read more Demonstrators are furious over reports such as Transparency International Armenia’s, which claimed that the company spent 450 million-drams (about £600,000) on luxury cars.
Slug
Definition:
(n.) A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.
(n.) A hindrance; an obstruction.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails.
(n.) Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.
(n.) A ship that sails slowly.
(n.) An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.
(n.) A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, -- used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc.
(v. i.) To move slowly; to lie idle.
(v. t.) To make sluggish.
(v. t.) To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.
(v. t.) To strike heavily.
(v. i.) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; -- said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm.
Example Sentences:
(1) The appearance of the corpus allatum, the central endocrine gland of diapause, was examined histologically in the slug moth prepupae, Monema flavescens (Lepidoptera).
(2) It was found that: the two cell types have the same basal adenylate cyclase activity; prespore cells and prestalk cells are able to relay the extracellular cAMP signal equally well; intact prestalk cells show a threefold higher cAMP phosphodiesterase activity on the cell surface than prespore cells, whereas their cytosolic activity is the same; intact prestalk cells bind three to four times more cAMP than prespore cells; no large differences in cAMP metabolism and detection were observed between cells derived from migrating slugs and culminating aggregates.
(3) We propose a model whereby a protein repressor, under the control of PKA, inhibits precocious induction of stalk cell differentiation by DIF and so regulates the choice between slug migration and culmination.
(4) The circadian locomotor rhythm of the terrestrial slug, Limax maximus, was measured with activity wheels during exposure to both humid and drying conditions.
(5) The Dictyostelium slug contains a simple anterior-posterior pattern of prestalk and prespore cells.
(6) "The truth is that no Chagossian has anything like equal rights with even the warty sea slug.
(7) Analysis by high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) using different solvent systems shows that the major species of DIF activity extracted from slugs coelutes with DIF-1, the major species of released DIF and is similarly sensitive to sodium borohydride reduction.
(8) We also show that expression of the ecmA gene becomes uniformly high throughout the prestalk zone when slugs are allowed to migrate in the light.
(9) Beejin is distributed in the posterior region of slugs.
(10) A section of the mantle edge enlarged to produce a posterior mantle lobe upon which sit both the shell and viscera, and which later became redundant as posterior elongation of the head-foot produced a slug-like form, the viscera being incorporated within the head-foot.
(11) The errors are greatest when hydrogen is given by intra-arterial slug injection, and when the electrode is within 2mm of another tissue compartment, CSF, or air.
(12) Giant mucin granules of the slug (Ariolimax columbianus) are released intact from mucus-secreting cells of the slug's skin.
(13) A good slug of booze (brandy or calvados) makes for a very adult crumble.
(14) A small number of prestalk cells become redistributed in the posterior during slug migration and appear to undergo respecification when their position is changed.
(15) Prespore and prestalk cells from slugs were enriched on Percoll density gradients and allowed to regulate in suspension culture under 100% oxygen.
(16) In this paper we develop and analyze a class of mathematical models of the slug in which cell determination can be less rigidly tied to spatial location, and which involve chemotactic cell sorting to re-establish and maintain the spatial pattern of cell types.
(17) Recent experimental work suggests that under normal conditions cell sorting plays an important part in maintaining and re-establishing the axial pattern of cell types in the slug stage of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum.
(18) When DIF-1 is added to intact slugs, it causes a substantial enlargement of the prestalk tissue at physiological concentrations in the time previously shown to be required for pattern regulation.
(19) X marks the spot where sea slug A gently inserts its penile stylet into sea slug B's forehead.
(20) We demonstrate that adenosine affects the immunological prespore specific staining pattern in slugs in a manner opposite to cAMP:cAMP induces an increase of prespore antigen; adenosine induces a decrease.