(n.) One who, or that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees.
(n.) An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.
Example Sentences:
(1) An explanation of Feller's result enabling the contours of mean viability at a triallelic locus to be rendered circular is offered, and a proof given which does not involve the direct use of homogeneous coordinates.
(2) 'The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke,' symbolically re-enacts the murder and makes talion restitution.
(3) We suggest that the long process of painting 'The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke' recapitulated and made restitution for the murder, encapsulating it so that compulsive expression of violent ideation was largely reduced, allowing other memories and activities to be engaged and expressed.
(4) The word "feller" has a bland meaning of "good fellow" and a more dangerous one of "striker-down".
(5) A similar analysis of expression of the gene CPA1, for which a translational regulation by arginine has been clearly demonstrated (M. Werner, A. Feller, F. Messenguy, and A. Piérard, Cell 49:805-813, 1987), indicates that this gene is also partly regulated at the transcriptional level by the ARGR repressor system.
(6) 11.23am GMT "The gentleman in the car with 'Arry looks suspiciously like this feller ," says Matt Reed.
(7) Its title is "Elimination of a Picture and its subject – called The Feller's Master Stroke ."
(8) Risk was greatest for tree fellers and choker-setters.
(9) Then there is Contradiction: Oberon and Titania (1854-58), depicting the quarrel over the Indian Boy, which was painted for William Charles Hood at Bethlem; and The Fairy Feller , painted for George Henry Haydon, also at Bethlem.
(10) Indirect calorimetry and time studies showed the diurnal energy expenditure in wood fellers to be 5186.2, in their helpers--4476.9 and in branch choppers--5246.9 kcalories.
(11) In Bethlem he painted some amazing paintings, including The Fairy Feller , on which he worked from 1855 and which was left behind unfinished when he was moved to the new asylum of Broadmoor in 1863.
(12) Dadd left a 24-page description of The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke .
(13) There are, as in The Fairy Feller , variegated grasses wreathing randomly over the surface of the work, and delicately depicted lilies of the valley, about as tall as the fairy queen herself.
(14) Our statistical data are similar to those reported by Feller et al.
(15) Richard Dadd' s great painting The Fairy Feller's Master- Stroke shows a leather-clad person, axe raised to cleave a hazelnut, perhaps to make a coach for Queen Mab, as Mercutio describes her in Romeo and Juliet .
(16) There are particularly energetic ones winding across The Fairy Feller , which Dadd describes in "Elimination": Turn to the Patriarch & behold Long pendents from his crown are rolled, In winding figures circling round.
(17) I wanted to be the best in the class but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.'
(18) Last November Erika Feller, assistant commissioner for refugees at the UNHCR, told the Guardian that the UN accepted Turkey's insistence that its borders were open after travelling to Ankara to discuss the issue.
(19) The method for two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of J. Klose and M. Feller [(1981) Electrophoresis 2, 12-24] has been simplified by reducing the thickness of the gels from 3.5 to 1.1 mm for isoelectric focusing gels and from 3.5 to 0.84 mm for sodium dodecyl sulfate slab gels.
Seam
Definition:
(n.) Grease; tallow; lard.
(n.) The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.
(n.) Hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc.
(n.) A thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal.
(n.) A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
(v. t.) To form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to unite.
(v. t.) To mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar.
(v. t.) To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
(v. i.) To become ridgy; to crack open.
(n.) A denomination of weight or measure.
(n.) The quantity of eight bushels of grain.
(n.) The quantity of 120 pounds of glass.
Example Sentences:
(1) It seams rational to proceed to an earlier total correction in these cases when well defined criteria are fullfilled, as the mortality figures of the palliative and corrective procedures have a tendency to reach each other: (3,2 versus 5,7%).
(2) Osteomalacia is characterized by large osteoid seams and a preserved volume of bone trabeculae.
(3) A sclerotic border and osteoid seams were noted, two features that seem not to have been previously reported in early lesions.
(4) Given the Panahi situation, it seems almost appropriate that this year's festival has been quite downbeat with films mining the darker seams of the human condition.
(5) While the functional significance of the seams remains unknown and their specific composition clearly requires further study, it is likely that they represent important functional (e.g., viscoelastic) or biological (e.g., nutritional) subdivisions of ligament substance.
(6) 1.59pm BST 32nd over: Sri Lanka 89-2 (Jayawardene 11, Sangakkara 22) A jaffa from Plunkett from round the wicket beats Sangakkara all ends up – it was angled in on middle stump, then seamed away to beat the outside edge.
(7) But then a mismanaged clean-up in an underground garbage dump ignited a seam of anthracite eight miles long that proved impossible to extinguish.
(8) Carefully pull the frayed seam over the original seam line and pin in place.
(9) The histological study of the tibiae showed decreased mineralization with narrower trabeculae and enlarged osteoid seams; bone resorption at the inner surface was also significantly decreased.
(10) The amount of osteoid and the length of the osteoid seams were normal, whereas the mean width of the osteoid seams was decreased.
(11) A double white line parallel to the lateral ribs produced by the double seam of the bag distinguishes this artifact from a true pneumothorax.
(12) Calcification rate in the cortical bone of the tibia was reduced with a parallel reduction in endosteal osteoid seam width.
(13) It shows the costs in 1979 included £464 spent on replacing linen, £39 on "sewing carpet seams", £19 on an ironing board and £527 on cleaning carpets.
(14) In infants, human femoral arteries display seam-like internal elastic lamina (IEL) covered with endothelium on the luminal side and with smooth muscle cells (SMC) on the medial side.
(15) The second minor discontinuity to appear is planar (seam), shown here in a dryolestid eupantothere.
(16) (5) The transfer function at the bone seams and thinner areas of the bones was insufficient for modal analysis of the facial region and total cranial bone of the human dry skull.
(17) The seams are filled with subunits that appear to bind the flaps together.
(18) Crystallization of bone salt is severely impaired and an osteomalacia-like picture may be produced with decreased osteoblastic activity, widened growth plates, excessive osteoid seams and short, thickened bones.
(19) The complication rate of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the hand of a well trained surgeon seams to be comparable or even smaller than in conventional procedure.
(20) Couple or individual reaction after genetic counselling in case of Recklinghausen disease seams us to be very different according to the patients and for a patient according to the moment of counseling.