(v. i.) To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.
(v. i.) To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins.
(v. t.) To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.
(v. t.) To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
(n.) The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.
Example Sentences:
(1) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
(2) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
(3) A simple method for ultrarapid freezing of cell cultures in monolayers was developed.
(4) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(5) To selectively stain polyanionic macromolecules of growth plate cartilage and to prevent artifacts induced by aqueous fixation, proximal tibial growth plates were excised from rats, slam-frozen, and freeze-substituted in 100% methanol containing the cationic dye Alcian blue.
(6) The freeze-etch technique was used to study the morphology of Treponema refringens (Nichols).
(7) Reconstituted freeze dried allogeneic skin grafts contained virtually no blood, a phenomenon possibly analogous to the 'no reflow' phenomenon of microsurgery.
(8) The freezing procedure increased sperm motility in approximately 30% of samples from both animals.
(9) It is suggested that the intercalated disc functioned as a barrier to the freezing process.
(10) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.
(11) Freeze-dried mannitol preparations were shown to be of a crystalline nature.
(12) Freezing may be valuable while quality control procedures are performed following radiolabeling as well as if temporary storage or shipment of radioantibodies prior to patient dosing is undertaken.
(13) The sea ice usually then begins to freeze again over the winter.
(14) We conclude that differences in incorporation between syngeneic and allogeneic bone grafts are reduced by pretreatment with deep-freezing or demineralisation.
(15) Previous studies are reviewed in the light of new information on retrograde axonal transport, circumventricular organs, the proper use of horseradish peroxidase, freeze-fracturing, immunocytochemistry and plasma protein gene expression in the developing human brain.
(16) Freezing enrichment cultures prior to testing for toxicity eliminated many nonbotulinal toxic substances that killed mice.
(17) The process of interaction between macrophages and promastigote and amastigote forms of Leishmania mexicana amazonensis was analyzed using freeze fracture and cytochemistry.
(18) The results of the rapid-freeze and deep-etch procedure showed that the ridges observed by the surface replica method consisted of linear arrangements of elliptical particles on the ES face of the plasma membrane.
(19) Cryotherapy with high-flow nitrous oxide was applied to the lid margin for 45 seconds in a freeze-thaw-freeze cycle.
(20) Three freeze-thaw cycles released a large proportion (50% to 60%) of the TCA-precipitable radioactivity from the worms.
Liquefy
Definition:
(v. t.) To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.
(v. i.) To become liquid.
Example Sentences:
(1) About 35 million were egg-laying hens that provided 80% of the eggs for the breaker market – eggs broken then liquefied, dried or frozen to be used in processed foods like mayonnaise and pancake mixes, or sold to bakeries to make cakes, cookies and other products.
(2) The BBMs between Bosch and Rodriguez include references to code names for numerous banned substances, such as: Gummies (troches containing testosterone); Pink Food or Pink Cream (a transdermal cream containing testosterone); Blue or PM Cream (a transdermal cream containing testosterone); Liquid Soup or Red Liquid (a melted or liquefied form of a troche containing testosterone); and Cojete or Rocket (a subcutaneous syringe containing, among other things IGF1, [insulin growth factor].
(3) Results of the demonstration tests show that the system, which uses liquefied propane, successfully removed PCBs from contaminated sediments in New Bedford Harbor.
(4) These results indicate that if a clot in the subdural space causes the formation of neomembrane, and excessive fibrinolysis occurs, the subdural clot would not only liquefy, but also enlarge by continuous hemorrhage from the neomembrane.
(5) The vitreous between and above the vitreous-retinal attachments is always liquefied and structureless.
(6) Copper IUDs work by causing a general inflammatory response, reducing implantation, and by liquefying endometrial mucopolysaccharides thereby decreasing sperm transport and metabolism.
(7) The mechanism proposed for the passage of ghost cells to the anterior chamber is through a defect in the anterior hyaloid face, created as the vitreous liquefies and degenerates.
(8) It was not differentiated from C. perfringens in the nitrite motility test, but could be distinguished by its inability to liquefy gelatin.
(9) The lowest level of amylase did not alter these parameters significantly and was sufficient to liquefy 80 per cent of the viscous semen samples.
(10) Read more Reputex says the detailed rules confirm none of Australia’s top 20 emitting facilities – including brown coal-fired power stations Loy Yang A and B and Hazelwood, and new liquefied natural gas processing facilities such as Wheatstone, Gorgon, Itchys and Pluto – will be forced to reduce emissions.
(11) In addition, pepsin or pancrex V could be used to liquefy solidified feed.
(12) In inactive cases, the vitreous was often liquefied.
(13) He points out that if all the CO2 that is likely to be pumped into the air over the next 20 years were captured and liquefied it would fill Lake Michigan.
(14) It was found that the parts of the ejaculate taking more time to liquefy possessed higher concentration of protein than those of the parts liquefied earlier, a relation also appeared to exist with the whole ejaculates.
(15) It consists of drilling three or four small holes into the paraffin block, sealing this block at the extremity of a glass holder and, from the other extremity of the holder attached to a rubber hose, aspirating a liquefied mixture of charcoal-paraffin to fill these cylindrical holes.
(16) If you handle the butter too much with warm hands, it will liquefy.
(17) The source of the emboli was apparently a localized liquefying hematoma with necrotic muscle and fat in the left retroperitoneal space.
(18) Aliquots of the liquefying seminal fluid were removed at specific time points and further liquefaction inhibited with sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS).
(19) In supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC), the mobile phase is a gas (e.g., carbon dioxide) maintained at its supercritical state--that is, above its critical temperature and pressure, above which it cannot be liquefied even with further increases in applied pressure.
(20) Human ejaculates after collecting as a whole, were almost equally divided into five fractions through liquefaction known vesicular, prostatic and testicular components were measured in these subsequently liquefied fractions.