(a.) A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ward ignored a weak challenge from young Darnell Furlong as two more experienced Rangers’ players loitered in the vicinity with little intent, then Ward made his way into the box and struck a shot that deflected off Sandro into the net.
(2) The course is a right-handed undulating track one mile and four furlongs long.
(3) The effects of lysophosphatidylcholine (lysoPC) on human erythrocyte (RBC) ghost morphology, transmembrane protein and lipid lateral mobilities, and membrane lipid composition were studied in order to elucidate mechanisms by which lysoPC immobilizes ghost membrane components [Golan, D. E., Brown, C. S., Cianci, C. M. L., Furlong, S. T., & Caulfield, J. P. (1986) J.
(4) And the final furlongs, Miliband's ideas were subjected to the searching gaze of the chancellor.
(5) Other changes to next year's race which have already been announced include a new position for the start, about half a furlong closer to the first fence.
(6) For this match he tried another, making four changes to the side that flopped so meekly at Crystal Palace last week , omitting Darnell Furlong, dropping Adel Taarabt to the bench and sending Shaun Wright-Phillips back to cold storage.
(7) Amino-terminal sequences derived from purified rabbit and human paraoxonase proteins suggested that the signal sequence is retained, with the exception of the initiator methionine residue [Furlong et al.
(8) Ross Furlong, an online public relations expert, said Brown's tweets could help Labour despite the fact that she does not use them for campaigning purposes.
(9) Furlong suspects that the idea of using Twitter did not come to her from public relations: "The PR world is still trying to work out what to do with Twitter.
(10) Jacob led over the last on Ulis De Vassy but was headed by Quaddick Lake inside the final half-furlong.
(11) Nevertheless, the deal is good news for investors, for chemical engineers and crucially, for our low-carbon future,” said Andrew Furlong, director of policy at the Institution of Chemical Engineers.
(12) The second approach took advantage of the fact that ISVPs grow in cells treated with NH4Cl, whereas intact virus does not grow under these conditions (L. J. Sturzenbecker, M. Nibert, D. Furlong, and B. N. Fields, J. Virol.
(13) 8.09pm BST 23 min: Brian Furlong wasn't exaggerating a great deal when he said the pitch was water-logged.
(14) Updated at 10.07pm BST 8.03pm BST 18 min: "We've 2 "You're the ref" scenarios so far tonight," writes Brian Furlong.
(15) The heights of 89 horses were measured at the withers before and after half a furlong of trotting exercise.
(16) These genes encode components of the high affinity ribose transport system in Escherichia coli, and together with the sequences of rbsB (Groarke, J.M., Mahoney, W.C., Hope, J.N., Furlong, C.E., Robb, F.T., Zalkin, H., and Hermodson, M.A.
(17) A Ticking Off Jamie Furlong Street photography project - A Ticking Off by Jamie Furlong Photograph: Jamie Furlong You can't tell what the father and son are doing, but their shadows tell you a lot more.
(18) "There's a lot of thought going into the restriction of publicity around her," says Furlong.
(19) "Although the content is deliberately not party political, she is effectively pressing voter flesh online, as she did in person at the Glenrothes byelection to great effect," Furlong said .
(20) Research carried out by Alasdair Forsyth and Andy Furlong at the University of Glasgow in the last 10 years has shown that students from lower socio-economic groups are more likely than their more advantaged peers to change courses, drop out because of debt or repeat a year, and less likely to achieve a degree or progress to post-degree study.
Length
Definition:
(a.) The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as, the length of a church, or of a ship; the length of a rope or line.
(a.) A portion of space or of time considered as measured by its length; -- often in the plural.
(a.) The quality or state of being long, in space or time; extent; duration; as, some sea birds are remarkable for the length of their wings; he was tired by the length of the sermon, and the length of his walk.
(a.) A single piece or subdivision of a series, or of a number of long pieces which may be connected together; as, a length of pipe; a length of fence.
(a.) Detail or amplification; unfolding; continuance as, to pursue a subject to a great length.
(a.) Distance.
(v. t.) To lengthen.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
(2) A full-length cDNA encoding porcine heart aconitase was derived from lambda gt10 recombinant clones and by amplification of the 5' end of the mRNA.
(3) However, there was no correlation between the length of time PN was administered to onset of cholestasis and the gestational age or birth weight of the infants.
(4) Using the oocyte system to express size-fractionated mRNA, we have also determined that the mRNA coding for this protein is between 1.9-2.4 kilobases in length.
(5) Their contour lengths varied from 0.28 to 51 micron, but unlike in the case of maize, a large difference was not observed in the distribution of molecular classes greater than 1.0 micron between N and S cytoplasms of sugar beet.
(6) In view of reports of the reduction of telomeric repeats in human malignant tumors, we measured the lengths of telomeric repeats in 55 primary neuroblastomas.
(7) Overall length of stay found in this study (14.02 days) is considerably higher than Indian optimum.
(8) A cytogenetic and anatomopathologic study of an embryo of 24 mm crown-rump length showing pure triploidy (69,XXY) is reported.
(9) Both systems indicated that the Kupffer cell modified endotoxin by enriching the lipid content of the molecule and shortening the length of the O-antigen.
(10) The method used in connection with the well known autoplastic reimplantation not only presents an alternative to the traditional apicoectomy but also provides additional stabilization of the tooth by lengthing the root with cocotostabile and biocompatible A1203 ceramic.
(11) Expressed per centimeter of gut length, total DAO activity was also enhanced by +141% in segment B (P less than 0.05 vs controls) and by +87% in segment C (P less than 0.01 vs controls) of resected rats.
(12) Northern hybridization analysis of R. toruloides RNA with a restriction fragment encoding part of the PAL gene indicates that PAL mRNA is 2.5 kilobases in length.
(13) The polymerization of dATP, dCTP, and dGTP onto the defined length initiator, d(pA)10, has been carried out in four buffers.
(14) The scleral arc length is slightly longer than the chord length (caliper setting).
(15) lengths with the subjects equally divided into these four groups: distributed trials, distributed sessions; distributed trials, massed sessions; massed trials, distributed sessions; and massed trials, massed sessions.
(16) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
(17) The diastolic sarcomere length was not affected by the changes in thyroid state.
(18) All 3 drugs increased the basic cycle length of pacing at which VT was induced and the cycle time of the resulting VT.
(19) Restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) were studied in a large Algerian family which includes 6 haemophiliacs and a previously described case of female haemophilia A.
(20) The mean length of the seminal vesicles was 2.98 cm.