(a.) Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner.
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.
Solidify
Definition:
(v. t.) To make solid or compact.
(v. i.) To become solid; to harden.
Example Sentences:
(1) The binding of radioidinated cholera toxin on its solidified antibody was inhibitable by unlabeled cholera toxin and cholera toxin antibody.
(2) We’d been working in Atlantic City, four in the afternoon to four in the morning, six sets, opening for everybody that came through – the Emotions, Bill Withers, the Pointer Sisters – and they were all really encouraging: “You girls are really good, you should stick with it.” That kind of solidified our desire to continue, but our record company, Atlantic, didn’t quite know what to do with us.
(3) No growth of Coccidioides immitis occurred when fluid from infected tissue or arthrospores suspended in distilled water were plated on the surface of Sabouraud medium, solidified with refined agar, and containing 20 mg of polymyxin B per liter.
(4) (China is currently embarked on a major space programme which is seen as crucial in solidifying its superpower status.)
(5) On involvement with the guru and a new 'family,' the experienced increased well-being and periods of bliss, and their acceptance of mystic Hindu beliefs was solidified.
(6) The mixture of alpha-aminopropionitrile and alpha, alpha'-iminodipropionitrile polymerized to solidify almost at the temperature near 0 degrees C during 8 years.
(7) Cyanoacrylic ester solidifies immediately after injection, leading to a hardened body which fills the renal pelvis, ureters and also the renal vessels.
(8) Colonies of U. hordei and S. cerevisiae removed from the surface of agar-solidified media and prepared for PFGE by this abbreviated method also yield well resolved karyotypes.
(9) The influence of iron concentration in Sauton's medium solidified with agar on the type of colonies of BCG-Poland substrains, BCG-Rio de Janeiro, BCG-France, BCG-Denmark and BCG-Japan substrains has been examined.
(10) Greater cracking susceptibility was interpreted by considering that these eutectics solidified at solidification temperatures far lower than the nominal solidus.
(11) If he is only thinking in terms of 10 years, now is the time to solidify the country and he thinks he knows how to do it.” Yet for all Xi’s apparent muscle – one academic has dubbed him the Chairman of Everything – not everyone is convinced by the growing legend of Xi Dada.
(12) Swarmer cell genes, laf, are induced when V. parahaemolyticus is grown on the surface of solidified media, embedded in solidified media, suspended in viscous media, or agglutinated with antibody in liquid media.
(13) Israeli peace activists say the intention is to solidify Israel's claim to all of Jerusalem and to minimise the amount of the city ceded to an independent Palestine.
(14) They did also acquire Fernando Rodney to close and solidify the bullpen , and bring in Logan Morrison from Miami to possibly DH and Corey Hart to play the outfield - so they’ll score more runs than the previous season, which would mark an improvement in run scoring for a sixth consecutive year, and that is progress I suppose.
(15) Inevitably, this material is used to solidify all of the Earth’s oceans.
(16) Koh Yu-hwan of Dongguk University in Seoul said: "Jang Song-taek is a person who at one point Kim Jongun had to cut out as he solidifies his own power structure … I think the young elite had Kim get rid of Jang, meaning that he will rule without a guardian."
(17) Plaques were produced only with suitable solidifying agents: purified agar (Ionagar, Agarose) or methylcellulose.
(18) In this study the fragmented smear preparation was treated with Pro-Texx, which penetrated, impregnated and solidified the full thickness of the pieces of the smear, enabling them to be lifted from the pieces of the broken slide.
(19) In addition, pepsin or pancrex V could be used to liquefy solidified feed.
(20) He had been led to believe that he would have a White House meeting with Trump, which would solidify his standing in the continuing conflict with eastern Ukraine separatists and their Moscow backers.