(a.) To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.
(a.) To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts.
(a.) To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow.
(v. i.) To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors tested their own technique, using transplants or implants of corium, fascia, dura mater and polyester net, internally in the tendons, fastening them with an external cross suture.
(2) A woman who was 30 weeks pregnant was sitting with a three-point seat belt fastened in the front passenger seat of an automobile that was involved in a head-on collision.
(3) Total radioactivity, including the volatile part of the solvents were registered by autoradiography of dried, evaporated tape-fastened sections.
(4) In order to more effectively separate the walls, a protector was applied consisting of a soft polyethylene tube, whose ends were fastened to the cervix uteri and remained there for 3-4 weeks.
(5) A penile problem that physicians are confronted with in the emergency room is entrapment of the foreskin by a zipper fastener.
(6) Mohamedou Ould Slahi: “smart, witty, garrulous, and curiously undamaged” Another team inside the plane dragged me and fastened me on a small and straight seat.
(7) It is made light-impermeable through the use of nylon hook-and-loop fasteners.
(8) Given that the economy is kind of coming back right now, I just didn’t understand why trade was so prominent this race David Lawrence, vice-president, AlphaUSA “Given that the economy is kind of coming back right now, something that is so key to the economy [as trade], I just didn’t understand why it was so prominent this race, and not some other issue,” said David Lawrence, vice-president of AlphaUSA, a fastener manufacturer based in suburban Detroit.
(9) Sheets of oil paper fastened vertically to two wires at a height of 60 cm above the ground at a distance of 20 cm one from another (barriers) and sheets in the form of "flags" (Dergachova and others, 1973) were used simultaneously.
(10) One group was exposed to the regular hospital program and the other group had, in addition: a mock-up demonstration for the mothers on the correct method of fastening the baby into the car seat and the car seat into the automobile seat; written handouts of how to use a car seat with an infant; a physician's order for the mock-up demonstration; and a physician's order to be discharged in a car seat.
(11) Erection, increase in circumference as well as rigidity, can be measured with a simple device consisting of a calibrated felt band with a sliding collar fastened to 1 end.
(12) A supporting harness is attached to the mask by use of three flat straps connected by Dot fasteners.
(13) Prevention includes feeding with human milk in prematures with slow increase of partial and total volumes, early initial fastening in cases of asphyxia and careful and close surveillance of high-risk newborns.
(14) Based on its membrane topology, it has been suggested that MotB might be a linker that fastens the torque-generating machinery to the cell wall.
(15) Spontaneous "overnight" deflation of inflatable prostheses is rather uncommon, but we have had a 5.7% incidence of it in a 24-month period in which we used implants with a suturable tab and fastened them to the subjacent fascia.
(16) In case of a transverse position of the fetal head, a special fastener on the forceps makes it possible to use an excentric handle on the traction hook of the Kielland forceps and thus render possible rotation of the fetal head from the transverse position.
(17) A brightly coloured train rattles across their path and stops abruptly and, after an affectionate hug, the two creatures climb aboard, carefully fasten their seatbelts and are bounced away to a rendezvous with their friends (a lavishly hatted family of peg dolls called the Pontipines; Makka Pakka, a squat, fuzzy troglodyte with OCD, and the Tombliboos, a triumvirate of pastel-coloured pepper pot creatures who live inside a topiary bush).
(18) Over a 0.009 inch flexible tip steel wire a diamond-coated brass burr fastened to a flexible drive shaft that rotates and tracks was advanced.
(19) Granulation tissue grows through the prosthesis which is fastened well to the connective-tissue cuff forming around it.
(20) The extension of the tracheostoma is achieved by means of an parallel incision which widens the trachea with the acid of 2 tough threads on each side, which are fastened to the clavicle.
Hank
Definition:
(n.) A parcel consisting of two or more skeins of yarn or thread tied together.
(n.) A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
(n.) Hold; influence.
(n.) A ring or eye of rope, wood, or iron, attached to the edge of a sail and running on a stay.
(v. t.) To fasten with a rope, as a gate.
(v. t.) To form into hanks.
Example Sentences:
(1) It involved preservation of unstained chromosome slides in a vacuum desiccator up to 18 months, Q-staining, destaining, and treatment in Hanks' solution, pH 5.1, at 85 degrees C for 13 min, and acridine orange staining.
(2) One hundred fifty-five freeze-dried, 63 frozen, and 337 Hanks'-antibiotic solution preserved or nutrient-antibiotic solution preserved homografts used for isolated aortic valve replacement have been followed for 1 to 20 years (mean, 5.3 years), a total of 2,931 patient-years of follow-up information.
(3) Mice autopsied at time of death revealed a massive involvement of tumor in the lungs and liver in the group receiving Hanks' balanced salt solution alone compared to a small number of residual large lung or liver metastases in the group receiving LAK cells plus RIL-2.
(4) Along the way, in the heart of the heart of Dixie – his office stands next to the Hank Williams museum – he has been a tireless advocate of the pressing need to confront racial bias at every point in the American justice system.
(5) Green's video blog with his brother Hank (aka the Vlogbrothers ) was a major inspiration here.
(6) In this study, we have conducted a systematic investigation of various aspects of cell viability and function of isolated hepatocytes stored at 4 degrees C for 24 and 48 hr in either University of Wisconsin solution or Hanks' HEPES buffer, a control solution clinically unsuitable for organ preservation.
(7) Hall-of-famer Hank Aaron , an African American, called for her to be suspended, and she was, but not for life.
(8) When the optimal conditions of meat extract preparation (meat mass: Hanks' solution ration 1: 10) were observed, followed by virus concentration in polymers of silicagel 2--4 PFU of enteroviruses in 1 g of meat could be determined in all the experiments.
(9) White is doing his own bit to turn back the clock: at his gigs, he enforces a strict ban on the audience shooting pictures or video; at home, he only allows his children – Scarlett, eight, and Hank, six – to play with mechanical toys.
(10) The length of storage in the Hank's antibiotic or nutrient-antibiotic medium before insertion did not seem to influence the final metabolic activity nor the structural integrity of the allografts when they were removed.
(11) A comparison of Hanks balanced salt solution, veal infusion broth (VIB), and charcoal viral transport medium for maintaining viability of type A influenza virus indicated approximately equal survival of virus on all three media at -70 and 4 degrees C, whereas at 25 degrees C virus survived best in VIB.
(12) Two days later, another letter was dispatched to Blears, this time from Hank Dittmar, the chief executive of the foundation and an aide to the prince.
(13) A sample of 10(8) E. coli incubated in Hanks balanced salt solution for 5 min also eliminated phorbol myristate acetate induced neutrophil H2O2 production.
(14) With the use of flowthrough diffusion cells, Eagle's minimal essential medium (MEM), Hepes-buffered Hanks' balanced salt solution (HHBSS), or Dulbecco modified phosphate-buffered saline (DMPBS), acting as receptor fluids, were able to sustain aerobic and anaerobic glucose utilization, testosterone and estradiol metabolism, and histopathological appearance of perfused rat skin sections for 24 hr.
(15) The superior cervical ganglia of the rat have been incubated in vitro for 1 h in basal medium Eagle (BME) with Hanks' salts, BME with Earle's salts, Kreb's solution and NCTC 109 medium.
(16) The Lp of endothelial monolayers perfused with albumin-free Hanks Balanced Salt Solution (HBSS) was compared to perfusion with HBSS containing either native albumin, or albumin in which the arginyl residues were modified by a condensation reaction with 1,2-cyclohexanedione (CHD-albumin), or albumin in which the lysinyl residues were modified by a substitution reaction with succinic anhydride (SC-albumin).
(17) Their titles, like Jesse In Mexico and Hank In Pursuit, point to their primary use as emotional catalysts for the show rather than standalone pieces of music, though diehard fans will likely still covet it alongside their Breaking Bad cufflinks and Converse trainers .
(18) On day 4 (6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.) of gestation the uterine horns of the recipient rats were exposed and injected with neutrophils, supernatant luminal fluid, or Hanks' solution.
(19) Intact whole pulps of the rat incisors were incubated with N alpha-benzoyl-arginine-beta-naphthylamide (BANA), a substrate for cathepsin B, in the presence or absence of BK and PGE2 in Hanks solution (pH 7.4), in order to determine the BANA-degrading activity and EK producing activity.
(20) ", while fellow swimmer Michael Phelps is taking part in a programme called "The Haney Project", in which he is given golf tips by Tiger Woods' former swing coach Hank Haney.