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Egger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who gathers eggs; an eggler.
  • (v. t.) One who eggs or incites.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These correspond to the type I and type III precursors analyzed previously at the cDNA level [Richter, K., Egger, R. and Kreil, G. (1986) J. Biol.
  • (2) And then there's a younger generation coming through – Jhumpa Lahiri, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Lethem, Jonathan Safran Foer.
  • (3) The second definition highlights followers of a certain hipster culture, which revels in a childlike naivety; the films of Wes Anderson , the early books of Dave Eggers , and the twee indie pop of Belle and Sebastian are all mentioned.
  • (4) Revisions are suggested in the guidelines given recently by Egger et al.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The crowd greets Trump’s plane Photograph: Dave Eggers The mood among the people gathered was so gentle, so calm and so welcoming, that, when the first notes of “Tiny Dancer” emerged from the sound system, the song didn’t seem at all incongruous.
  • (6) Dave Eggers's 2013 novel The Circle paints a portrait of an America without privacy, where a vast, internet-based, multimedia empire surveys and controls the lives of its people, relying on strict adherence to its motto: "Secrets are lies, sharing is caring, and privacy is theft."
  • (7) But the outcome of ever greater transparency must be that satirised by Dave Eggers’ in his novel, The Circle .
  • (8) This has led to the development of plates that have a greater overall dimension and stiffness compared to earlier plate models, as exemplified by the Lane or Eggers type of plate.
  • (9) (The happiest words: "I told you so") The author "meant everything to me when I was learning how to write and learning how to read", Dave Eggers said at the 2009 National Book Awards ceremony, when he and Vidal received honorary citations.
  • (10) Things have changed since 2003, when there were estimated to be only 500 remaining inhabitants in Marial Bai, and when Eggers accompanied Achak Deng on his first trip back home in 17 years.
  • (11) Photograph: Dave Eggers The vendors in the parking lot had been selling a wide variety of Trump gear, much of it on the extreme end of the messaging scale.
  • (12) When Frey first arrived on the literary scene he showed no qualms about squaring up to the distinguished writers of the period, writers such as Dave Eggers and David Foster Wallace, just as in rehab he wasted no time (by his account) in challenging the toughest guy in the centre to a brawl.
  • (13) © Dave Eggers · Spamalot opens at the Palace Theatre, London W1, on September 30.
  • (14) "I went to Atlanta to meet with Val and Mary, not really expecting to undertake a four-year project," recalls Eggers, who is based in San Francisco.
  • (15) To Eggers’ evident astonishment, he found those present “a broad cross-section of regular people … genial, polite and, with few notable exceptions, their opinions within the realm of the reasonable”.
  • (16) The procedures were either a modified Eggers' operation, a lowering of the patella or a combination of both.
  • (17) The first 85 students at Valentino's and Eggers' Marial Bai secondary school.
  • (18) If you doubt this, I suggest you seek out a copy of Dave Eggers’ recent(ish) novel The Circle and turn to page 299.
  • (19) Joaquin Phoenix in Her Jonze's new movie Her – his first as both sole writer and director (after his splendidly mind-boggling collaborations with Charlie Kaufman on Being John Malkovich and Adaptation , and with Dave Eggers and Maurice Sendak on Where The Wild Things Are ) – is being sold as "A Spike Jonze Love Story."
  • (20) The heavy enzyme is a complex of one molecule of light enzyme (consisting of three alpha subunits) and approximately 60 beta subunits (A. Bacher, R. Bauer, U. Eggers, H. Harders, and H. Schnepple, p. 729--732, in T. P. Singer (ed.

Moth


Definition:

  • (n.) A mote.
  • (n.) Any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not included among the butterflies; as, the luna moth; Io moth; hawk moth.
  • (n.) Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth. See these terms under Clothes, Grain, etc.
  • (n.) Any one of various other insects that destroy woolen and fur goods, etc., esp. the larvae of several species of beetles of the genera Dermestes and Anthrenus. Carpet moths are often the larvae of Anthrenus. See Carpet beetle, under Carpet, Dermestes, Anthrenus.
  • (n.) Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Radiologic abnormalities included an unusual "moth-eaten" appearance of the markedly short long bones, bizzare ectopic ossification centers, and marked platyspondyly with unusual ossification centers.
  • (2) The appearance of the corpus allatum, the central endocrine gland of diapause, was examined histologically in the slug moth prepupae, Monema flavescens (Lepidoptera).
  • (3) This paper describes the distribution of histamine-like immunoreactivity in the midbrain and suboesophageal ganglion of the sphinx moth Manduca sexta.
  • (4) There was no difference in LC50 between the two strains to larvae of spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana), gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar), eastern hemlock looper (Lambdina fiscellaria fiscellaria), and whitemarked tussock moth (Orgyia leucostigma), whether expressed as total alkaline soluble protein, activated toxin protein, or International Units as determined by bioassay against Trichoplusia ni.
  • (5) The aetiology was established when patch tests with crude moth material produced similar eruptions in 5 out of 7 adult volunteers between 40 min and 12 h. Pharmacological experiments with an aqueous extract of moth hairs in isolated guinea pig ileum elicited a response similar to that induced by histamine.
  • (6) The subjective signs of the syndrome are floating 'moths', photopsias presenting as a 'lateral lightning', sudden appearance of a central macula (central positive scotoma).
  • (7) An unusually heavy infestation of the tussock moth resulted in a high incidence of symptoms affecting the skin and mucous membranes of those exposed to high concentrations of particulate matter of this insect.
  • (8) The mouse antibodies reacted very poorly with fragmented forms of the immunogen or with tobacco hornworm moth cytochrome c, even though both of these antigens had been shown previously to strongly stimulate pigeon cytochrome c-primed T cells.
  • (9) You can’t be preparing 7 million students for the future on one hand, while undermining every chance of a decent future Institutions that keep trying to make these moth-eaten arguments are sounding feebler by the day.
  • (10) When, in the course of studying this behavior, moths are removed by stages from the natural circumstances of this interaction their evasion responses become much less invariant; that is, more evitable.
  • (11) Moth-allergen activity was distributed in particle sizes ranging from 0.8 to greater than 4.1 micron when sized samples were obtained by use of an Andersen cascade impaction head.
  • (12) thuringiensis towards brown-tail moth, as compared to its action on lackey moth, may be due to the bactericidal properties of some intestine microorganisms of brown-tail moth, and also the absence in their intestines of microorganisms stimulating growth of the entomopathogenic bacteria.
  • (13) Magainins and cecropins are families of peptides with broad antimicrobial and antiparasitic activities derived respectively from the skin of frogs or from giant silk moths.
  • (14) The oak processionary moth, a native of southern and central Europe, has become established in south-west London and parts of the home counties since being found in England in 2006.
  • (15) Even if you can't make a whole dress, little jazzy touches will make the blandest of clothing a billion times better: sewing on snazzy buttons, for example, or putting on some piping, or not going around in dresses covered in moth holes and decked with trailing hems, as some of us do because we never learned to bloody sew.
  • (16) Caripito itch, a pruritic dermatosis rarely seen in the United States, is caused by contact with moths of the genus Hylesia--specifically, with urticating abdominal hairs of the adult female moth.
  • (17) The radiographic features of renal coccidioidomycosis parallel those of renal tuberculosis, with feathery, moth-eaten calices, infundibular constriction and caliceal ballooning, and eventual calcification of granulomas.
  • (18) Tobacco hornworm moth cytochrome c, which contains a glutamine at residue 100 but a terminal lysine at residue 103 (one amino acid closer to the glutamine), stimulated pigeon cytochrome c immune T cells better than the immunogen.
  • (19) Starting from a crystal-negative parental strain of Bacillus thuringiensis, we isolated certain bacteriophage-resistant mutants which showed decreased virulence in pupae of the cecropia moth (Hyalophora cecropia).
  • (20) We have elucidated the complete nucleotide sequence of two tRNA(Ala) species from HeLa cells that are closely related to silkworm moth tRNA(Ala), as well as the partial sequence of a third species.

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