(n.) A white waxy solid, C16H33.OH; -- called also cetylic alcohol. See Cetylic alcohol, under Cetylic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Host-cell reactivation of CEES-treated TI bacteriophage shows that the production of the (pre)ethal lesion is dependent on both the initial dose and post-treatment incubation.
(2) The efficient repair of the (pre)ethal lesion requires both endonuclease II and polymerase I.
Ethel
Definition:
(a.) Noble.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1936 Lee was briefly drummer with trumpeter Buck Clayton's Fourteen Gentlemen of Harlem and later toured with singer Ethel Waters's orchestra.
(2) He was by this time married to Ethel, daughter of the Chichester Cathedral sacristan, and had already committed adultery with their maid-of-all-work Lizzie.
(3) The section began with 12 charter members headed by Chairman Pro Tem Col. Ethel Kovach.
(4) Clothes chain Ethel Austin, home furnishings stores Texstyle World and menswear group Ciro Citterio all subsequently hit trouble, although their problems occurred some time after Hilco's involvement.
(5) Wodehouse and Ethel had little money when they married, but the letters record them being all the happier for their makeshift existence together.
(6) The Charleston County coroner, Rae Wooten, identified the other victims of the attack, as Reverend DePayne Middleton-Doctor, 49; Myra Thompson, 59; Ethel Lance, 70, and her cousin Susie Jackson, 87, both longtime members of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church.
(7) During this period, according to a US justice department memo, Bradlee promulgated CIA-directed European propaganda urging the controversial execution of the convicted American spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
(8) Wodehouse's own romantic life was sealed by a 1914 meeting with a twice-widowed actress and dancer, Ethel Wayman .
(9) Just before 8am, Ethel Guedj dropped off two of her sons, aged 15 and 11, at the Ozar Hatorah private Jewish secondary school in a quiet residential street of north east Toulouse.
(10) Other stage successes followed: Cole Porter's Red, Hot And Blue, with Jimmy Durante and Ethel Merman, and the 1936 Ziegfeld Follies, in which he sang I Can't Get Started With You to chorus girl Eve Arden.
(12) Romero, Ethel M. (Universidad Nacional de la Plata, La Plata, Argentina), and Rodolfo M. Brenner.
(13) The year was 1939. Letters from Wodehouse and Ethel give details of the moment when their tranquil Le Touquet life was shattered as invading Germans surrounded their house.
(14) In marrying Ethel, Wodehouse not only gained a wife.
(15) Ethel, he reported, was "very pro-British", while Wodehouse was "entirely childlike and pacifist".
(16) Russell was born in Southampton to Ethel and Henry, a shoe-shop owner.
(17) Pinky, a 1949 race drama about a light-skinned black woman passing for white, was another exception, garnering a best supporting nomination for Ethel Waters.
(18) After West Side Story , he was in line to write the music for Gypsy , but Ethel Merman thought him too green, and it went to Jule Styne.
(19) Ethel has quite the sweetest daughter, Leonora, so I suspect I shall be staying out here for a little while longer, especially as I have to write another 15 novels by the end of next year.
(20) July Discount retailer Ethel Austin, health food company Julian Graves.