(n.) A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The turnover rates and oxidation rates of plasma glucose, lactate, and free fatty acids (FFA) were measured in three harbor seals (average mass = 40 kg) at rest or during voluntary submerged swimming in a water flume at 35% (1.3 m.s-1) and 50% (2 m.s-1) of maximum oxygen consumption (MO2max).
(2) These results both from the flume and the pool indicated extremely good linearity.
(3) In flame projection tests each MDI was fired horizontally into a flame, and the ignited flume length emitted from the MDI was measured.
(4) The biggest, Zoom Flume, continues for a quarter of a mile.
(5) It was a little like being invited to an exhibition of the latest developments in trouser pressing technology, going along because you felt you had to, and then finding it was actually being held at a gigantic water park with no queues for the flumes.
(6) Filming was continued till the flume could no longer be visualized on the TV monitor.
(7) At any given oxygen uptake, Q obtained by the CO2 rebreathing method during tethered swimming was not significantly different from the Q obtained by the dye-dilution method during flume swimming.
(8) High speed photography was used to record flumes seen on the video monitor, to enable characterization of flume appearance, dimensions and mean velocity.
(9) Six healthy male swimmers, aged 10-12, swam tethered using the breast-stroke in a flume.
(10) Thirdly, maximal direct conventional techniques used to evaluate maximal oxygen consumption (VO2 max) in swimming include free swimming, tethered swimming, and flume swimming.
(11) Six male college swimmers performed submaximal and maximal exercise tests in both styles in a swimming flume.
(12) Four healthy subjects were studied during exercise in water, using a swimming flume, and in air, on a stationary bicycle ergometer at mean skin temperatures of 30 and 33 degrees C, respectively.
(13) In the results of CS-flume and CS-pool, the regression relations between D and T were expressed in the general form, D = a+b x T, with r2 being higher than 0.998 (p less than 0.01), respectively.
(14) William Hague sipped cocktails with his wife at the Notting Hill carnival; he rode a log flume at an adventure park wearing the baseball cap that became so notorious.
(15) We have examined the aerosol spray flumes generated by four commercially available MDI products using high speed video photography.
(16) The propulsive motions of swimming harp seals (Phoca groenlandica Erxleben) and ringed seals (Phoca hispida Schreber) were studied by filming individuals in a flume.
(17) Ifeel about weddings the way cats feel about log flumes; the way babies feel about bathwater; the way cows feel about bolt guns and sloping floors.
(18) Eight highly trained swimmers were instructed to swim until onset of fatigue at four predetermined swimming speed levels in the swimming flume and at maximal effort over four different swimming distances in the swimming pool.
(19) Waterworld (adults £14.50, kids from £7.49) at Festival Park in Stoke-on-Trent has rapids in the dark, ringos and a wave pool; Wet 'N Wild (adults £11.95, kids £6.95) in North Shields , Tyneside , is one of the UK's biggest, with a flume running down three floors and a black hole ride; the LC in Swansea (adults £7, kids £4) offers up Wales's biggest indoor pool, with a rollercoaster water slide and whirlpool.
(20) Trout were infected at 7.5 degrees C for 10-50 min and all attached cercariae were washed off and removed from the flume.
Glume
Definition:
(n.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt.
Example Sentences:
(1) All of the Ac insertions affect both pericarp and cob glume pigmentation, providing further evidence that the P-rr allele contains a single gene required for both pericarp and cob glume pigmentation.
(2) flower glume colour, degree of lateral spikelets development, hairy rechis of the ear, were observed in diallel crosses among the varieties Nutans 244, Trumpf, DZ-02389, Hiproly and Brachitic.
(3) The P-rr allele of the maize P gene regulates the synthesis of pigments derived from flavan-4-ol in the pericarp, cob glumes and other floral organs.
(4) Four general conclusions are made: (1) anthers are initiated from small groups of 12 or fewer cells in each of two floral meristematic layers; (2) the early growth of the anther is more like a shoot than a glume or leaf; (3) cell ancestry does not dictate basic structure and (4) the orientation of initial cells predicts the orientation of the four pollen-containing microsporangia, which define the axes of symmetry on the mature anther.