(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.
Prong
Definition:
(n.) The tine of a fork, or of a similar instrument; as, a fork of two or three prongs.
(n.) A sharp-pointed instrument.
(n.) A sharp projection, as of an antler.
(n.) The fang of a tooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) To determine if the type of mechanical ventilation used (ie, face mask, nasal prongs, or endotracheal tube) was associated with GPNN, a matched case-control analysis was performed.
(2) After amputation of the closed tip, a cap from a syringe was inserted via a slit made at the base into one prong of a pair of nasal cannulae.
(3) The system called PRONG (Parallel Recording Of Neural Groups) includes a microelectrode, a lightweight reusable connector, a 24-channel FET-hybrid preamplifier, a 3-band 24-channel amplifier, a 24-channel spike monitor, high-speed digital and analog interfaces and a computer.
(4) The studies were performed with a pneumotachograph applied to the upper airway by means of an inflatable face mask or latex nasal prongs.
(5) Twenty patients did not reach the target level of 8.6 kPa (65 mmHg) PaO2 with the nasal prongs, but the reservoir cannula allowed nine of these "refractory" patients to hit this therapeutic goal, a result indicating a clear trend towards improved immediate oxygen response.
(6) The reservoir cannula Oxymizer Pendant (Chad-Therapeutics Inc.) is a nasal prong system incorporating a pendant reservoir which stores oxygen during expiration and delivers it as a bolus at the onset of inspiration.
(7) Oxygen delivery using nasal prongs was assessed using a lung model for spontaneous ventilation.
(8) The surprise offer, described by one member of the audience as having an air of desperation, appeared to form part of a two-prong strategy.
(9) Based on a model successfully used in the US , the three-pronged Operation Shield combines community mobilisation and opportunities for young people to move away from crime with harsh collective punishment for those who remain in gangs.
(10) There was the doll's house-sized two-pronged fork, and the bivalves themselves, pale and ivory against the silvered shell.
(11) Stun gun torch Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Zap Light sends one million volts between six metal prongs at the front of its torch.
(12) In Britain, there has been a three-pronged approach: the bank rate has been cut from 5% to 0.5%, a lower level than at any time in the 316-year history of the Bank of England; public borrowing has risen to around 11% of GDP, a record for peacetime; and the Bank has pumped £200bn into the money supply through quantitative easing.
(13) Nasal prongs are the usual method for delivering O2 on long-term basis, and portable O2 supply systems permit patients to use O2 continuously without significant restriction of their activities.
(14) Coronary artery segments were mounted between two L-shaped prongs in tissue baths with buffer solution.
(15) The students collect fasting samples of expired air from each other using a simple nasal prong technique.
(16) Read more The official added: “Dedicated conduct and discipline personnel deployed in field missions continue to support each field mission with the implementation of the United Nations three-pronged strategy to address sexual exploitation and abuse through prevention, enforcement and remedial actions.
(17) After studying a group of countries including Brazil, Cambodia, Mali, Peru and Tanzania, the Bank said a six-pronged approach was needed to tackle inequality.
(18) It appeared that the multi-pronged formula would inexorably lead to Greece being deemed to be in sovereign default, at least temporarily.
(19) In his meeting with the 1922 committee of Tory backbenchers on Wednesday night, the prime minister echoed a two-pronged message he delivered in a recent interview with the Spectator .
(20) The treatment works by mounting a two-pronged attack on cancer.