(a.) To make full; to supply with as much as can be held or contained; to put or pour into, till no more can be received; to occupy the whole capacity of.
(a.) To furnish an abudant supply to; to furnish with as mush as is desired or desirable; to occupy the whole of; to swarm in or overrun.
(a.) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
(a.) To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair.
(a.) To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy.
(a.) To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails.
(a.) To trim (a yard) so that the wind shall blow on the after side of the sails.
(a.) To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel.
(v. i.) To become full; to have the whole capacity occupied; to have an abundant supply; to be satiated; as, corn fills well in a warm season; the sail fills with the wind.
(v. i.) To fill a cup or glass for drinking.
(v. t.) A full supply, as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
(2) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
(3) Membranes of this material were filled with islets of Langerhans and implanted in the peritoneal cavity of rats.
(4) In the stage 24 chick embryo, a paced increase in heart rate reduces stroke volume, presumably by rate-dependent decrease in passive filling.
(5) "Acoustic" craters were produced by two laser pulses delivered into a saline-filled metal fiber cap, which was placed in a mechanically drilled crater.
(6) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(7) The intestinal cells are filled with concentric spherules, and the intestinal lumen is reduced.
(8) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
(9) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
(10) Sadler shook her head again when Cameron repeated the much-used statistic that enough water to fill Wembley Stadium three times was being pumped from the Levels each day.
(11) Recurrence of the dermatitis one day after amalgam dental fillings had been made and again one year later, this time without new fillings, raised the possibility that it was due to the old amalgam fillings.
(12) Atrioventricular (AV) delay that results in maximum ventricular filling and physiological mechanisms that govern dependence of filling on timing of atrial systole were studied by combining computer experiments with experiments in the anesthetized dog instrumented to measure phasic mitral flow.
(13) Rings of isolated coronary and femoral arteries (without endothelium) were suspended for isometric tension recording in organ chambers filled with modified Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate solution.
(14) These two enzymes may act jointly in filling up the gaps along the DNA molecule and elongating the DNA chain.
(15) Emergency CT showed evidence of pericardial effusion suggesting hemopericardium, enlargement of the ascending aorta and a peripheral semilunar filling defect which caused a slight deformation of the true channel.
(16) In several eyes, apparent intraretinal blood-filled cavities were seen acutely in the macular region and elsewhere.
(17) This could, however, not be related to a reduced LV diastolic filling rate.
(18) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
(19) Size of both areas gradually decreased as the medulla filled with plasma cells, 7-30 days after injection.
(20) In junctions, 3' PSS termini are preserved by fill-in DNA synthesis, although their 5' recessed ends cannot serve as a primer.
Pug
Definition:
(v. t.) To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.
(v. t.) To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See Pugging, 2.
(n.) Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.
(n.) A pug mill.
(n.) An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck.
(n.) A name for a monkey.
(n.) A name for a fox.
(n.) An intimate; a crony; a dear one.
(n.) Chaff; the refuse of grain.
(n.) A prostitute.
(n.) One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.
(n.) Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Syncope and sudden death occurs in certain purebred Pug dogs which have been found to have intermittent sinus pauses and paroxysmal second degree heart block on electrocardiographic (ECG) study.
(2) "gamma"-type phages contain DNA molecules of uniform size (about 52 kb) and of variable ends; their genome is able to promote highly efficient transduction (pug type) regardless of the origin of the right arm.
(3) Clinical and pathologic features of a sporadic, necrotizing meningoencephalitis affecting adolescent and mature pug dogs are described.
(4) Upstairs from the shop, full of quirky impulse buys such as Gemma Correll's Pugs not Drugs tote bags and Emily Warren's papier-mâché busts, there's studio and workshop space, with screen-printing equipment and sewing machines for regular workshops of up to six people.
(5) When PUG was tested for synergistic inhibition in the presence of caffeine, the Dixon plots of reciprocal velocity versus PUG concentration at different fixed caffeine concentrations provided intersecting lines with interaction constant (alpha) values of 0.95-1.38, indicating that the binding of one inhibitor is not significantly affected by the binding of the other.
(6) In solution, PUG was shown to be a potent inhibitor of phosphorylase b, directly competitive with alpha-D-glucopyranose 1-phosphate (glucose-1-P) (Ki = 0.40 mM) and noncompetitive with respect to glycogen and AMP.
(7) The properties of the second channel (channel 2), which is the more extensive channel, have been investigated with the potent beta-glycosidase inhibitor D-gluconohydroximo-1,5-lactone N-phenylurethane (PUG).
(8) Dogs of the Poodle, Pug, German Shepherd Dog, Cocker Spaniel, Bulldog, Schnauzer, Doberman Pinscher breeds, of mixed breeding, and of terrier breeds other than the 2 aforementioned were not found to have a higher prevalence, when compared with the general hospital population.
(9) Laryngeal obstruction occurs commonly in brachycephalic dogs (Bulldog, Boxer, Boston Terrier, Pug, Pikingese).
(10) A six-year old female pug had very severe dysponea.
(11) Lentiginosis profusa was diagnosed in 3 pedigree Pugs namely two unrelated parents and their female offspring.
(12) (1988) Biochemistry 27, 6733-6741] has shown that PUG binds in the catalytic site of phosphorylase b crystals with its gluconohydroximolactone moiety occupying a position similar to that observed for other glucosyl compounds and the N-phenylurethane side chain fitting into an adjacent cavity with little conformational change in the enzyme.
(13) However, in the presence of AMP, PUG exhibited complex kinetics, acting as a noncompetitive inhibitor with respect to glucose-1-P, while a twofold decrease of PUG binding to the enzyme-AMP-glycogen complex was observed.
(14) As he spoke an excited pug dog set itself the challenge of leaping backwards and forwards across his latest creation, Boyhood Line, a stripe of brilliant white limestone in the lush grass.
(15) The tale, drawn in the retro style of the golden age of adventure comics, portrays Johnson as a "dashing, pug-nosed chap, gallivanting around the world in search of danger and adventure".
(16) Christmas Pugs Snuggly pugs 3. iPad Art - Morgan Freeman Finger Painting Art with heart 5.
(17) The effect of the beta-glycosidase inhibitor D-gluconohydroximo-1,5-lactone-N-phenylurethane (PUG) on the kinetic and ultracentrifugation properties of glycogen phosphorylase has been studied.
(18) Ultracentrifugation experiments demonstrated that PUG does not cause any significant dissociation of phosphorylase alpha tetramer.
(19) Similarities among them were striking and consisted of varying combinations of the following features: moderate growth retardation; mild to severe mental retardation; facial elongation with frontal bossing; primary telecanthus and downward-slanting palpebral fissures; broad, flat, nose bridge and pug nose; pouting lower lip and blunt, square chin; umbilical eversion; deep sacral pit; and, in males, moderate to severe external genital anomalies ranging from mild hypospadias to genital ambiguity.
(20) Furthermore the dimerization of phosphorylase alpha by glucose is completely prevented in the presence of PUG.