(v. t.) To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle.
(n.) A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
Example Sentences:
(1) The function of the frizzled (fz) locus in Drosophilia melanogaster is required to coordinate the cytoskeletons of epidermal cells to produce a parallel array of cuticular hairs and bristles (for example on the wild-type wing all hairs point towards the distal tip).
(2) David Brisbane (@DavidB1996) "With Adrian Chiles" #BritishThreatLevels May 24, 2017 Rupert Myers (@RupertMyers) And now on radio four, our new comedy drama #BritishThreatLevels May 24, 2017 Friz Frizzle (@FrizFrizzle) And the next Doctor Who is... Kris Marshall!
(3) The nerve patterns formed in the mutants prickled, inturned, and frizzled, however, were largely normal, indicating that in these cases the polarity of the cuticular structures produced by the epithelial cells is altered without any effect on the polarity of the associated axons.
(4) The function of the frizzled (fz) locus is required to coordinate the cytoskeletons of pupal epidermal cells so that a parallel array of cuticular hairs and bristles is produced.
(5) The function of the frizzled (fz) locus is required for the development of a parallel array of bristles and hairs on the adult cuticle of Drosophila melanogaster.
(6) The frizzled (fz) locus of Drosophila encodes a protein (Fz) with a seven-transmembrane-domain profile characteristic of G-protein-coupled receptors.
(7) The modifications include naked necks, leg feathering, frizzle feathering, silky feathering, fat quills, and feather abnormalities caused by behavioural hypertrophies.
Grizzle
Definition:
(n.) Gray; a gray color; a mixture of white and black.
Example Sentences:
(1) His defense was a big reason that the Grizzlies' offense was often stymied during the conference finals, so much so that he would probably be a person of interest if basketball investigators looked into the mysterious May disappearance of Grizzles forward Zach Randolph.
(2) There’s not an insignificant ‘if’ in that question, and that’s what everybody is pretty interested to find out, is what decision the vice-president is going to make.” ‘I didn’t deserve to be president’ Biden is a grizzled campaign veteran, and not in an entirely good way.
(3) John Simm plays a grizzled ex-cop from LA living in the Pacific north-west, who, when his wife (Mira Sorvino) goes missing, finds himself hurled into a mysterious, murky world.
(4) During his swing through the state on Thursday, he stopped to open a new campaign office in Ottumwa, packed to overflowing with wide-eyed students and grizzled party veterans.
(5) Art Cashin, a grizzled veteran of the New York Stock Exchange trading floor, just compared Bitcoin to the infamous Dutch tulip bubble , one of the standard comparisons for any serious modern financial crisis.
(6) I'd like to say I tasted them first on some misty Irish moorland, or was fed them by grizzled crofters in the Scottish highlands (where they are known as tattie scones).
(7) I’m grey, grizzled, just counting down the days to my death panel.” He added: “Even some foreign leaders have been looking ahead, anticipating my departure.
(8) It is like a driver coming to a roadblock on a road they’ve never travelled before and three grizzled veterans say: “Don’t go any further, we have been up and down this road many times and we’re warning you there are falling rocks, mudslides, dangerous hairpin bends and then a sheer drop.” And the driver says: “Screw you, stop patronising me.
(9) Ashker's journey from teenage tearaway to grizzled jailhouse scholar underpins a largely untold story of how Bobby Sands, Mayan cosmology, class-consciousness and the Arab spring inspired one of the biggest challenges to US penal policy in living memory.
(10) "That guy looks like he just got off tour in 1987," says Carney, gesturing at a particularly grizzled rocker, before quickly adding, "You have to be careful in Nashville about how loud you observe."
(11) In the red corner, Raúl Castro, grizzled veteran of the revolution led by his older brother Fidel, and now president of a Cuba once again undergoing dramatic change.
(12) Le Pen père is a grizzled ex-paratrooper who fought to keep Algeria French and founded the Front National in 1972 to highlight issues such as immigration, race and identity.
(13) "I don't know about you, but I'm getting tired of the big oil companies always bellyaching that we can't afford clean energy," says a grizzled old man in a faded checked work shirt.
(14) But the Tory MP Dominic Raab, a former government lawyer and member of parliament's joint committee on human rights, said: "We need a grizzled, criminal prosecutor rather than a defence, human rights lawyer.
(15) Second, black and white hair was collected from each of seven human subjects with grizzled hair, who were receiving or had been administered haloperidol at fixed daily doses for more than 1 month, and the concentration of haloperidol in each type of hair was measured.
(16) They soon find themselves in the middle of a blizzard, before they take shelter in a tiny shack alongside a group of grizzled, gun-toting outlaws.
(17) And the tiny facial gesture that a grizzled Donald Sutherland makes with his mouth at the very end, when he realises that the perfect running of his system has been undermined, made me give an inward cheer.
(18) When black and white hairs were taken from a patient with grizzled hair, who had been treated with ofloxacin, a much larger quantity of the drug was detected in the black hair.
(19) Then, as an illustration of exploratory categorical data analysis, the experimental data of Grizzle are analyzed by using the second method of quantification.
(20) Grizzle first proposed a two-stage procedure for analysing the data from such a trial.