(n.) An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.
(n.) Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
(n.) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
(n.) The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.
(n.) The gibbet.
(v. i.) To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
(v. t.) To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subtle differences between Chicago urban and Grand Forks rural climates are reflected in arthritic subjects' degree of pain and their perception of pain-related stress.
(2) Dermot Kelly said: "The England Supporters Band is right up there with the vuvuzela for wanting to stab myself in the head with a fork."
(3) It is likely that the target of camptothecin is the "swivel" topoisomerase required for DNA replication and that it is located at or very near the replication fork in vivo.
(4) The two forks of the GIA or the PLC 50 instrument are introduced into the oesophagus and jejunum, and the two organs are brought together at the hiatus.
(5) Although later studies have suggested that fork encounter during termination is an active process involving specific termination sites and the tus protein, the coupling mechanism between termination and cell division remains to be elucidated.
(6) Among the fork-lift truck drivers, a statistically significant higher occurrence of low-back trouble was reported for the year preceding the study, in comparison, according to age, to that of a reference group of 399 working men (65 against 47%); however, there was no significantly increased frequency when compared to that of a reference group of 66 unskilled male workers (65 against 51%).
(7) The position of replication origins and replication forks relative to the nuclear matrix was analysed by autoradiography.
(8) Electron microscopy of the replicating molecules, after digestion with restriction endonucleases, showed that the replication fork proceeds exclusively counter-clockwise towards the unc operon.
(9) The retarded fork progression and shorter initiation intervals may result either from the continued operation of a subset of replication units resistant to the inhibition of protein synthesis, or be manifestations of the inhibition of protein synthesis on all active sites.
(10) I arrange my coins into ascending size in my pockets, for example, and nothing gives me more comfort than the knowledge that my forks, knives and spoons are all in the correct place, tessellating magnificently in their drawer.
(11) However, the mean length of the single-stranded gaps in Drosophila forks is less than 200 nucleotide residues, much shorter than the gaps in phage forks.
(12) The vibrations generated by tapping a simplified mandible model were similar to those of the transverse type of a bar and tuning fork.
(13) Using this system, we have studied the cycle of Okazaki fragment synthesis at the replication fork.
(14) It speaks with forked tongues Leave aside the now acknowledged mistake of featuring Lampitt in the party political broadcast.
(15) "It's important to remember that at every point when there has been a fork in the road about whether Britain should retreat or lead, when we have led we have always surprised ourselves and others about how successfully we can lead," he says.
(16) Relaxation protein could replace the combined action of an endonuclease and a ligase ahead of the replication fork.
(17) They’re not excited but, dammit, they’ll make the best of what’s there, who’s got a fork?
(18) In the slower second stage of breakdown, the aberrant DNA replication intermediates remained nicked and strongly associated with protein as they underwent DNA replication fork breakage and recombinational changes to produce high molecular weight forms.
(19) Whoever was in charge of promoting that coat, stick a fork in yourself because you're done.
(20) The government is at a fork in the road on prisons policy.
Intersection
Definition:
(n.) The act, state, or place of intersecting.
(n.) The point or line in which one line or surface cuts another.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
(2) Using the intersection point of these pH-logPCO2 lines as a point of equal hemoglobin-independent "base excess" for each condition, values for true base excess were plotted.
(3) At 5 micrometer and 2.5 mM sulphanilic acid under aerobic conditions, the regression lines for the permeation from lumen to blood pass almost through the origin, while the regression lines for the permeation from blood to lumen intersect the ordinate at a positive Y-value.
(4) The two molecules in the asymmetric unit form a dimer with its 2-fold axis perpendicular to and intersecting with a crystallographic 4(1) axis.
(5) Senator Edward Kennedy lived his life precisely at the crossroads of all that he encountered – at the intersection of statesmanship, of history, of moral purpose, of tragedy, of compromise.
(6) A combination of direct measurement and point and intersection counting techniques was used.
(7) Quantitative cell types were determined by a grid intersection counting technique at x 1000.
(8) Protests on Wednesday evening continued as smaller groups marched on the city centre, temporarily shutting down traffic on some intersections.
(9) In considering hardware, the optimum detector system for cone-beam tomography is a system that satisfies the data sufficiency condition for which the scanning trajectory intersects any plane passing through the reconstructed region of interest.
(10) There is the sound of engines hissing and crackling, which have been mixed to seem as near to the ear as the camera was to the cars; there is a mostly unnoticeable rustle of leaves in the trees; periodically, so faintly that almost no one would register it consciously, there is the sound of a car rolling through an intersection a block or two over, off camera; a dog barks somewhere far away.
(11) By late afternoon, the intersection of North Avenue and Fulton Avenue had been turned into what one man – bottles of cognac in each hand – called an “open bar”.
(12) These pH-activity profiles gave an intersection at pH 6.6.
(13) Coyne said the project would “greatly enhance our understanding of the intersection of the important issues at play in contemporary Australia and internationally regarding climate change, natural resource conservation and human rights – particularly the rights of Indigenous peoples”.
(14) A projection-less strip appears at the expected retinotopic position in both grisea intersecting radially all the strata of the corresponding neuropiles.
(15) Measurements of the angle of the gibbus and the angle of intersection of the renal axes were made in 68 children with thoracolumbar meningomyelocele.
(16) Moonlight wins best picture Oscar, after Warren Beatty gives gong to La La Land Read more “Peak blackness is a rare metaphysical anomaly that can only occur when an amalgam of black excellence comes together at the same societal intersection,” he said.
(17) Rather than individual voxels, a new exact algorithm is presented that considers the CT data as consisting of the intersection volumes of three orthogonal sets of equally spaced, parallel planes.
(18) Then the intersect of regression line of food hoarded during meal time vs. body weight with the X-axis was measured.
(19) Very few input data are sufficient to enable the program to work out an optimized dose distribution; optimization is obtained by modifying the intersection point of beams and the size, the wedge and the time of each beam.
(20) The intersectional variation in the morphometrically determined collagen density within the sponges was below 20%.