(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.
Tailpiece
Definition:
(n.) A piece at the end; an appendage.
(n.) One of the timbers which tail into a header, in floor framing. See Illust. of Header.
(n.) An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book.
(n.) A piece of ebony or other material attached to the lower end of a violin or similar instrument, to which the strings are fastened.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1H-NMR spectroscopy has been used to study the conformation and dynamics of the isolated tailpiece from human serum immunoglobulin M, a 22-residue peptide containing a single asparagine glycosylation site.
(2) A Ser-rich tailpiece (residues 1918-1938) is apparently nonhelical.
(3) The tailpiece sequence thus has profound effects on assembly, yet it is apparently unstructured and can be bisected without affecting its function.
(4) The other wing, and the plane's tailpiece, hang limp and useless.
(5) The anti-NF-L tailpiece antibody recognized only a limited number of sites along native NFs, but labeled reconstituted NF-L homopolymers uniformly and heavily.
(6) A centrally located highly alpha-helical domain of about 310 residues well-conserved in sequence principles and length is flanked by the highly variable sequences of the non-alpha-helical headpiece and tailpiece.
(7) The cell line is X63.653 transfected with the mu gene, whose tailpiece sequence was replaced with the transmembrane sequence of human EGF receptor to hold mu on the cell surface and whose CH1 sequence was removed to prevent mu from being retained in the endoplasmic reticulum.
(8) Our findings indicate that whereas anti-IFA recognizes the highly conserved rod domain, all the NF-specific antibodies, as well as Bodian's silver, react with the carboxy-terminal tailpiece of NF subunits.
(9) The sequence consolidates the structural principle in which an amino-terminal tailpiece of variable length is followed by a core built from four internally homologous segments for those proteins in the 35-40 kd range.
(10) Things have come on: the tailpiece and fins are now in place and the other wing has been unfurled.
(11) This suggests that the NF-L tailpiece extension is relatively inaccessible in native filaments, but is accessible in reconstituted homopolymers.
(12) We have also generated polyclonal antibodies against this peptide and attempted to localize this portion of the tailpiece along desmin IFs by immunological procedures.
(13) The actin-activated Mg2(+)-ATPase activity of myosin II from Acanthamoeba castellanii is regulated by phosphorylation of 3 serines in its 29-residue, nonhelical, COOH-terminal tailpiece, i.e., serines-1489, -1494, and -1499 or, in reverse order, residues 11, 16, and 21 from the COOH terminus.
(14) These results suggest that at least 18 of the 29 residues in the nonhelical tailpiece of the heavy chain are not required for either actin-activated Mg2(+)-ATPase activity or filament formation and that phosphorylation of Ser-1489 is sufficient to regulate the actin-activated Mg2(+)-ATPase activity of myosin II.
(15) The protease-sensitive tailpiece of protein II is very short and lacks the phosphorylatable tyrosine present in the larger tail domains of p36 and p35.
(16) Antibodies directed against the tailpiece extensions of NF-H and NF-M labeled the sidearms of native NFs and reconstituted filaments containing those two polypeptides, but not the backbone of the filaments.
(17) Thus, a +1 change in the C-terminal region of the albumin molecule produces a variant with the same electrophoretic mobility as an alloalbumin with a +2 substitution in the central domain, suggesting a higher degree of exposure to the solvent of the C-terminal tailpiece.
(18) A unique non-helical tailpiece composed of 72 amino acid residues marks the C-terminus of this neuronal myosin isoform.
(19) They were truncated at various restriction sites and expressed in Escherichia coli, yielding a series of mutant myosin rods with or without the COOH-terminal tailpiece and with serial deletions from their NH2-termini.
(20) Antibodies against a synthetic peptide corresponding to the 21 adjacent amino acids at the beginning of the non-helical tailpiece, which include the three regulatory phosphorylatable serines, had no effect on either activity.