(n.) A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green.
(a.) Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fifty-eight households were studied in the Red Pond community, the site of the established smelter and several backyard smelters, and 21 households were studied in the adjacent, upwind Ebony Vale community in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica.
(2) We investigated the repair of X-ray-induced DNA breaks and alkaline-labile sites in primary cell cultures of ebony and mus(1)101D1 and in cultures of their control strains.
(3) All genotypes showed greater survival in the presence of 10% ethanol (E) than on the control agar medium (C), with wild type showing greatest and the double mutant ebony-yellow least response.
(4) The diagnosis was confirmed using a realistic provocation test; after sanding and smoothing the ebony for 20 minutes the patient developed bronchial spasm with fall of the force expired volume in one second (VMS) of 45% which was reversible following the inhalation of beta 2 agonists.
(5) The sculptor Rudolph Markoeser even carved his bust in ebony.
(6) Protesters observed a heavy police and national guard presence in the area, with one, 26-year-old Ebonie Tyse, telling the Associated Press: “I served my country.
(7) Interestingly, the visual system mutation norpA partially suppresses effects of the e1 allele, which suggests that aberrant visual system inputs might contribute to the rhythm deficits of ebony mutants.
(8) I am worried about the safety of my family, the safety of my environment and the safety of our lifestyle here on the Fylde coast.” Concern for her five-year-old daughter also spurred Ebony Ava Johnson, a print designer in Lytham, into protest, as part of the Residents Action on Fylde Fracking group.
(9) Habrobracon females homozygous for the mutant ebony produce about 5% mosaic progeny among fertilized eggs.
(10) In what is perhaps the worst musical attempt at racial reconciliation since Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder teamed up for "Ebony and Ivory", country music star Brad Paisley and hip-hop legend LL Cool J have released a new duet aimed at healing the country's lingering racial divide.
(11) The gene sequence (and map distances) on chromosome 2 beginning from the left arm is: brown larva--40--ebony (eb)--centromere--pep-4--?--bent(be)--?--Glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (Got)--11--Glucose oxidase-2(Go-2)--17--green larva (gl)--9--amber (am)--2--propoxur resistance (prr)--2--red eye (re)--21--6-Phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6-Pgd)--1--yellow.
(12) Experiments with macassar quinone (oxidation product of a naphthalene constituent of macassar ebony) still demonstrate that even ortho-naphthoquinones are capable to induce contact allergy.
(13) A novella by John Fowles, The Ebony Tower, is presented as an allegorical account of the mid-life crisis, and its inherent myths examined.
(14) Ebony males, although maturing earlier than wild-type males, were less successful than wild-type males in mating.
(15) She told Ebony magazine that her partner, Ian, "was a Royal Marine, then a fireman, then a Cambridge graduate in chemistry.
(16) Returning home one day, he found Ebony Hoorn sitting at his kitchen table.
(17) His hair is cormorant-black, he flashes ebony eyes and his smile reveals a row of pearly white teeth which look ready to plunge into a meal of little girl burgers.
(18) According to his sister Ebony, the only time he had anything to say was when "he was seeing a girl or making jokes".
(19) In contrast to their effects on the locomotor activity rhythm, ebony mutations have no apparent impact on the circadian rhythm of adult eclosion, and thus exert rhythm-specific effects on circadian periodicity.
(20) At a recent visit to the Triple Pier Expo, a weekend market on three vast piers that extend from Manhattan into the Hudson River, an ebony art-deco carving of a slave in relief, reminiscent of the Dying Gaul, was attached by a gold chain to a pipe rack.
Sable
Definition:
(n.) A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur.
(n.) The fur of the sable.
(n.) A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural.
(n.) The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other.
(a.) Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry.
(v. t.) To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black.
Example Sentences:
(1) The spontaneous v alleles that are suppressed by the suppressor of sable [su(s)] are apparently identical insertions of 412, a copia-like transposable element.
(2) Unlike the cat, there is no difference in retinal decussation patterns in wild-type sable ferrets and heterozygous ferrets carrying one albino gene.
(3) The course of experimental infection of a type SAT 1 FMDV strain was studied in buffalo, sable antelope and eland following tongue inoculation and contact and has been compared with that in cattle.
(4) Six years after the GER, the only event I still consider to be bonkers beyond belief is the Marathon des Sables .
(5) Six-day-old rats received 20 forward pairings of an odor-conditioned stimulus (CS) with one of two unconditioned stimuli (UCS); 1) intra-oral milk infusions or 2) stroking with a sable-hair brush.
(6) Her two major accomplishments in this province include laying the groundwork for its first psychiatric hospital and the outfitting of treacherous Sable Island with rescue equipment to aid ships stranded off its shore.
(7) Positive reactions were also recorded in lechwe (Kobus leche), tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus), red hartebeeste (Alcelaphus buselaphus), gemsbok (Oryx gazella), sable (Hippotragus niger) and impala (Aepyceros melampus).
(8) This effect on Q biosynthesis was found in both the wild-type and the suppressor of sable [su(s)2] mutant.
(9) The parasite was recovered from the subdural space of one reindeer and was seen histologically within the neuropil of another reindeer and a sable antelope.
(10) Sables with a normal course of pregnancy displayed a regular increase in the progestin level already at the period of diapause, although relatively small in value.
(11) Parelaphostrongylus tenuis caused neurologic disease in 6 reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) and 2 sable antelope (Hippotragus niger) that were housed at the National Zoological Park Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Va. Progressive hindlimb ataxia and weakness were seen in all affected animals.
(12) We have examined the retinal decussation patterns in pigmented ferrets that were either wild-type sable or heterozygous with one albino gene.
(13) Examination of the estrogen and progestin levels in sables can aid in the establishment of pregnancy and differentiation of its normal course from the pathological one.
(14) It was identified as Babesia irvinesmithi Martinaglia, 1936, which is unique to sable.
(15) To date, spontaneous infection of T. spiralis in wildlife in Japan has been reported in sables (in Hokkaido, 1963), Japanese black bear (in Aomori, 1974, 1975), brown bear (in Hokkaido, 1980) and raccoon dog (in Yamagata, 1984).
(16) Cryptosporidium was found in the intestinal tract of 10 blackbuck, 2 scimitar-horned oryx, 2 fringe-eared oryx, 2 addax, and 1 sable antelope that had diarrhea.
(17) Mutations at suppressor of sable [su(s)], which increase the accumulation of v1 transcripts, slightly elevate the level of v+37 RNA.
(18) The cute little face, the Calvin Klein underpants, the soft sable hair (I was the target audience.
(19) The significance of the change from sable to hogs' hair brush and flake white to Kremnitz white in the late 1950s was exaggerated.
(20) We have studied the effect of mutations in the suppressor of sable [su(s)] gene on P element-induced yellow alleles.