(v. t.) To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast.
(n.) A thin, single-cut file for combmakers.
(v. i.) To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly.
(v. i.) To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
(2) None of the strains was found to be positive for cytotoxic enterotoxin in the GM1-ELISA.
(3) The Wales international and Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald both admitted having sex with the victim, – McDonald was found not guilty of the same charge.
(4) It was found that the skeletal muscle enzyme of the chick embryo is independent of the presence of creatine and consequently is another constitutive enzyme like the creatine kinase of the early embryonic chick heart.
(5) By electrophoresis and scanning densitometry, actin was found to constitute about 4% to 6% of the total cellular protein in the human corneal epithelium.
(6) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(7) In 49 cases undergoing systemic lymphadenectomy 32 were found to have glandular involvement, of which both aortic and pelvic nodes were positive in 17 cases (53.1%), aortic nodes positive but pelvic negative in six (18.8%), and pelvic nodes positive but aortic negative in nine (28.1%).
(8) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(9) During control, no significant difference between systolic fluctuation (delta Pa) and pleural swings (delta Ppl) was found.
(10) These organic compounds were found to be stable on the sorbent tubes for at least seven days.
(11) We have determined the genomic structure of the fosB gene and shown that it consists of 4 exons and 3 introns at positions also found in the c-fos gene.
(12) Maximum increases in portal plasma secretin concentrations of 143, 146 and 190% and maximum increases in VIP of 116, 155 and 147% after, respectively, intraduodenal 0.1 M NaHCO3, 0.1 M Na2CO3, and 0.025 M NaOH were found.
(13) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(14) We similarly evaluated the ability of other phospholipids to form stable foam at various concentrations and ethanol volume fractions and found: bovine brain sphingomyelin greater than dipalmitoyl 3-sn-phosphatidylcholine greater than egg sphingomyelin greater than egg lecithin greater than phosphatidylglycerol.
(15) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
(16) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
(17) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
(18) We have investigated the increase in the spcDNA population upon cycloheximide treatment of individual sequences, which are found to amplify differentially.
(19) No consistent relationship could be found between the time interval from SAH to operation and the severity of vasospasm.
(20) It was also found that lipocortin I and ONO-RS-082, but not neomycin, facilitated the generation of GIF-producing T cells.
Foundry
Definition:
(n.) The act, process, or art of casting metals.
(n.) The buildings and works for casting metals.
Example Sentences:
(1) The general methodology of the Finnish foundry project is presented.
(2) A survey was carried out in response to complaints of increased respiratory symptoms in children at schools near a foundry in Walsall, West Midlands.
(3) The prevalence of functional impairment and chronic bronchitis was higher in the foundry workers than in the group of non-exposed workers.
(4) Two occupational categories were extracted--"mining, tunneling, and quarrying" (n = 284) and "iron and steel foundries" (n = 428), respectively.
(5) Eight foundries using the "Ashland" process for the production of cores were surveyed to assess the occupational exposure to carcinogenic volatile nitrosamines.
(6) No pretreatment of the samples was necessary, and no interfering substances from the air in the foundries affected the analysis.
(7) The research has been conducted in two steps: in the first, we selected a sample of 100 subjects, all working in the iron foundry, who were affected only by small airway obstruction.
(8) Valid analyses of cause specific mortality among non-whites could be conducted for the foundry plant only.
(9) A cross-sectional evaluation was performed of workers in a steel foundry in which methylene diphenyldiisocyanate (MDI) was used as a component of a binder system used to make cores and molds.
(10) The same was true for smoking controls and foundry workers (9.10, 95% CI 8.00-10.20 and 8.69, 95% CI 7.37-10.01).
(11) Workers in the following job categories experienced the highest annual mean PbB levels: paste machine operators (battery plants), solder-grinders (assembly plants), and crane operators (foundries).
(12) Blood samples were obtained from volunteers who were occupationally exposed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in a Finnish iron foundry and from referents not known to be occupationally exposed to this class of chemical carcinogens.
(13) An estimation is made that 24,889 workers employed in ferrous and nonferrous foundries are at risk of silica-related pulmonary effects.
(14) A significant hearing threshold shift was observed at 4 kHz among the foundry workers when compared with non-exposed controls.
(15) The major gases evolved from foundry molds have been determined in the laboratory.
(16) The subjects were 3,425 workers with at least one year's employment in an iron foundry sometime between 1918 and December 31, 1972.
(17) For decades hand-held instruments have been widely used in foundries for material densening and cast after treatment, which introduce a vibration into the hand-arm-system.
(18) The prevalence of sensitization was studied in a group of 76 foundry workers with occupational exposure to diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI).
(19) The results of the noise measurements obtained in three foundries, two of cast-iron and one of aluminium, are reported.
(20) High concentrations of most metals were found in areas close to the local steel foundry.