(n.) A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
(n.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
(n.) A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish.
(n.) A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
(n.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
(v. t.) To form into flakes.
(v. i.) To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most common microscopic features included dense marrow fibrosis or "scar" formation, a sprinkling of lymphocytes in a relative absence of other inflammatory cells (especially histiocytes), and smudged, nonresorbing necrotic bone flakes.
(2) In a local television interview last week, Senator Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, said of Trump’s run: “I don’t think it’s a very serious candidacy, frankly.” Trump also came under fire on Monday from Bush, who performed shabbily in the most recent polls.
(3) Textures observed include spherulites with Maltese crosses, striated and highly colored ribbons, whorls of periodic interference fringes, and colored flakes.
(4) No differences were observed in cocoa powder for drinks and plain chocolate flakes treated with 0.5 dm2 polystyrene of 1 mm thickness.
(5) The first case involved the identification of flakes of a metallic material claimed by a 14-year-old girl to appear periodically between her mandibular molars.
(6) Aggie Wai, a first year business student at Reading University, faced the same scenario when she arrived to try and fly to Hong Kong, and found herself stood outside as flakes of snow drifted to the ground.
(7) Irritation, as manifested by erythema or flaking, occurred in 61.5% of topical masoprocol-treated patients versus 26.7% of those treated with vehicle and did not correlate with clinical response.
(8) John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of Corn Flakes, also invented the sunbed, patenting his first device in 1896 – by royal appointment no less, as Edward VII apparently kept one at Windsor Castle for his gout.
(9) 3 Add the rice to the salmon flakes along with the spring onion, ginger, soy and mirin.
(10) A method has been developed for estimating crudely the quantity of lead in dusts derived from paint flakes.
(11) Then there were the plastic domes with Mao inside that rained gold flakes when you shook them.
(12) Lower the heat, add the ginger, garlic, chilli flakes and rosemary.
(13) The basal ration fed to the sows consisted of ground barley+oats+flaked potatoes or ground barley+sugar beet chips.
(14) The company, whose brands include Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Special K and Pringles is thought to use about 50,000 tonnes of palm oil a year, said that it planned to impose the changes by December 2015.
(15) On 9 April, it warned against Republicans such as Flake, who voted for the gun debate, and urged members to call these senators and "tell them that when the Bill of Rights reads 'shall not be infringed' with regards to the second amendment, it means exactly that".
(16) And now, in a damp-smelling dressing room at Berlin's Admiralspalast, with its flaking plaster and a carpet that looks like a relic from the communist East, he reveals German is next on his list.
(17) Flaked rye seemed to contain both faster and slower carbohydrates than the corresponding rye bread of similar fibre content.
(18) Mucus flakes and plaques are transported by the tips of the cilia over this interciliary liquid.
(19) It can also be highly saline and contain solids, such as flakes of rock.
(20) Para-tertiary butylphenol [(PTBP); the Union Carbide Corporation trademark for this chemical is UCAR Butylphenol 4-T Flake] has applications as a raw material in the manufacture of resins and also as an industrial intermediate.
Paling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pale
(n.) Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a limit; an inclosure.
(n.) The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves.
Example Sentences:
(1) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
(2) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
(3) The inclusions were large, intracytoplasmic, pale, eosinophilic and kidney-shaped and were periodic acid-Schiff positive and HBsAg negative.
(4) The lesions were annular or serpiginous and their surface was livid-red to pale-red.
(5) At surgery, upon incision of the paravertebral muscle fascia, viscous pale fluid was encountered emanating from a foramen in the thoracic lamina.
(6) Large (about 2 micron in diameter), pale vacuoles, probably of extracellular character, were found mostly in the vicinity of the perivascular septum.
(7) Kidneys were approximately double the normal size and were pale tan to grey in color.
(8) Too distressed to utter more than a single word - "Devastated" - in the immediate aftermath of her withdrawal, a pale and red-eyed Radcliffe emerged yesterday to give her version of the events that ended the attempt to crown her career with a gold medal.
(9) In 1850 you could see Benjamin West’s ever popular vision of the apocalypse, Death on a Pale Horse , riding melodramatically back into view on Broadway for the fourth time in as many years; and a gallery of Rembrandts at Niblo’s theatre, where Charles Blondin once walked a tightrope.
(10) The main clinical symptoms were paleness, dark urine and oliguria.
(11) In our series of 31 patients, it was found that severe conductive hearing loss, abundant pale granulations, and denuded malleus handle are constant findings and, in our opinion, are significant clinical features of the pathology.
(12) But lest the duchess feel overlooked, the end section of the show featured long, pale-blue bias-cut crepe dresses with more of a charity gala feel; and knee-length silk crepe dresses with black grosgrain belts seemed princess friendly.
(13) Hatched chicks were small and had pale feathers, skin, skeletal muscles, bone marrow, and viscera.
(14) These immunoreactive pale cells occurred in the distal caput and proximal corpus of the epididymidis.
(15) Antibodies to Le(a), Le(b), and X showed no staining or only pale staining of less than 10% of the normal prostatic epithelial cells.
(16) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
(17) The numbers pale in comparison to the 24,000 jobs predicted to disappear from South Australia by the end of 2017 due to the collapse of car manufacturing.
(18) The incidence of dysplasia increased with increasing age and was significantly associated with pale skin type, excess sun exposure, and duration of allograft.
(19) Dendritic cells were characterized by their slender cytoplasmic processes, indented nucleus and pale cytoplasm.
(20) I find Harry Reid’s public comments and insults about Donald Trump and other Republicans to be beyond the pale,” she said.