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Eek


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Alt. of Eeke

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Synovectomy of the elbow is highly effective even when performed relatively late (stage 3 according to Larsen-Dahle-Eek) insofar as pain relief and swelling are concerned.
  • (2) Sometime, somewhere in the limitless future it will be listened to, and, if there is intelligent life in another galaxy and creatures from outer space do land on earth having learned English from BBC broadcasts, the chances are they will not say 'Take me to your leader' but 'How bona to vada your dolly old eek!'"
  • (3) The virus produced cytopathic effects (CPE) in equine embryo kidney (EEK) cell culture, contained deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), was resistant to chloroform and pH 3, and was moderately resistant to heat.
  • (4) Sixteen protected NAc-tetrapeptide amides were studied, namely the variants of DEKS: NEKS, EEKS, DDKS, DQKS, NQKS, DERS, NERS, EERS, DDRS, NDRS, DQRS, and DKES.
  • (5) The extreme C-terminus of the NF-M tail contains two highly conserved homologous sequences each of 15 amino acids, with the consensus EEK-V-TKKVEK-TS, plus another very closely related 7 amino acid sequence.
  • (6) 3.09am BST Eek, Mitt Romney – asked to respond about his crappy "self-deportation" thing, decides to relitigate some old answers he's obviously still fuming about.
  • (7) Most of you managed to get this one right ... " They would frequently reinvent language - "How bona to vada your dolly old eek" meant "How nice to see you" in Julian and Sandyspeak.
  • (8) The predicted eek protein contains all the amino acid residues conserved in the catalytic domains of protein-tyrosine kinases and is most similar to two putative receptor protein-tyrosine kinases of the eph subclass, elk (69%) and eph (57%).
  • (9) Human genomic DNAs encoding part of eek (EEK) as well as another putative protein-tyrosine kinase most similar to elk (90%), ERK (elk-related kinase), were isolated and partially characterized.
  • (10) PBMC isolated from these foals at different days after inoculation did not display appreciably reduced or elevated NK cytotoxicities against Chang liver cells and EHV-1-infected EEK targets, when compared with that of a PBMC reference from a healthy adult horse.
  • (11) In Northern blot analysis of rat RNA, DNAs encoding rat eek and human ERK hybridized to transcripts most abundant in brain and lung, respectively.
  • (12) Chang liver, rabbit kidney (RK-13), equine sarcoid (ES) and embryonic equine kidney (EEK) cells were more susceptible when presented to horse PBMC than monolayer cultures.
  • (13) 3.34am GMT Florida State 10-21 Auburn, 13:47, 3rd quarter Eek.
  • (14) Cytotoxicity against EHV-1-infected EEK cells developed faster, between 4 and 8 h of incubation and reaching a maximum at 24 h. By contrast, cytotoxicity against uninfected fibroblasts was not significant until approximately 16 h of incubation with maximum cytotoxicity observed between 32 h and 48 h. Specific pathogen-free (SPF) foals were inoculated with live EHV-1.
  • (15) The indications for each of three operative methods were presented with clinical assessment and Larsen, Dahle, Eek scale of radiological changes taken into consideration.
  • (16) Rat cDNA clones encoding eek (eph- and elk-related kinase) were isolated from a brain cDNA library probed with DNA encoding the kinase region of the insulin receptor-related receptor.
  • (17) In Manhattan’s chi-chi Sant Ambroeus restaurant, the pair of smartly dressed women at the next table are making not-so-surreptitious “eek” faces at each other, having clocked that their neighbour for lunch is Taylor Swift .
  • (18) Horse PBMC demonstrated higher levels of NK-type activity against EEK, EEL and RK-13 cells infected with equine herpesvirus 1 (EHV-1) compared with uninfected cells.
  • (19) It's like a real-life cartoon, with all the sound effects – thump, thwack, bang, crash, eek, splat – as they roll, bite each other and tumble slowly off their bamboo platform on to the grass.
  • (20) These two new members of the eph subclass of receptor protein-tyrosine kinases, eek and erk, may therefore have tissue-specific functions distinct from those of other eph family members.

Geek


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Freaks And Geeks was my thing, based on my experiences.
  • (2) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
  • (3) Google has tried hardware – even home hardware – before with a smart power meter (shut down in September 2011), the Nexus Q set-top box (never went on sale), and is currently trying to persuade people beyond geek boundaries to try its Google Glass headset.
  • (4) There have always been geeks and fans here, it’s just now they call it Comic-Con.
  • (5) Shadowtroopers and AT-AT walkers should keep the geeks happy At-AT walkers Photograph: YouTube Black-armoured stormtroopers have featured in numerous (largely non-canonical) Star Wars novels, games and comic books over the years, but never in the movies themselves.
  • (6) At the same time, however, I also know to expect a series of variations on two classic negative comments: "You geeks need to get out more" and "Do adults really play these things?"
  • (7) In the spirit of the page, this is a reception where 900 science enthusiasts can chat, meet pop-science experts and geek out.
  • (8) Geek Girl Meetup Geek Girl Meetup is targeted at females with an interest in tech, design and startups.
  • (9) Jeff Jarvis , professor, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jeff, author of Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News; What Would Google Do?
  • (10) He inhabits a variety of modes: the lecturer, the thinker, the math geek in a hoodie in front of a chalkboard of formulas, the leader with a lightly clenched fist to show decisiveness and determination.
  • (11) • Week in Geek sees Ben Child hoping James Mangold will get it right for The Wolverine , a second attempt to spin off Hugh Jackman's X-Men character.
  • (12) Comic-book epics Finally, no Week in Geek preview would be complete without a rundown of the coming year’s superhero stylings.
  • (13) Silberman’s story on the topic, The Geek Syndrome , was published by Wired in 2001.
  • (14) Tobey Maguire fans – and there are many vocal and vehement ones – will insist that no one can replace the king of geek chic in the Spider suit, but they may come to accept that if anyone can, it's Garfield.
  • (15) All your baby has actually done – in geek terms – is receive the latest OS update, which fixes a few bugs (it goes cross-eyed less often), clears up some performance issues (it feeds more efficiently), and enables new features (object-batting now included).
  • (16) They tried to make the geek the hero, and audiences don't get the excitement of projecting on to that, because that's who they are already.
  • (17) Geek culture is made up of, and enjoyed by, all kinds of people and our norms should reflect that.
  • (18) The others were fiddly, trivial-looking plastic things cluttered with buttons and dials, appealing mainly to gadget-obsessed geeks with the time to figure out how to work them.
  • (19) Hamilton can be enjoyed by both the musical theater geek and the rap aficionado, but it ultimately has more to offer the former.
  • (20) Simon Brew of Den of Geek wrote : "He might not be Ryan Gosling, but Affleck has quietly been impressing as an actor, and maturing as one too.

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