(n.) A pointed or wedge-shaped instrument of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc.
(n.) A sharp-pointed rod; a goad.
(n.) A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
(n.) A wedge-shaped billet of iron or steel.
(n.) A rod or stick, as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with.
(n.) To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled.
Example Sentences:
(1) N-Acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (GAD) activities did not change significantly duringlate fetal, neonatal or young adult stages but increased significantly with advancing age.
(2) A more specific differentiation, as indicated by the sharp increase in GAD levels which was concurrent with an increase in interneuronal contacts, lagged behind the initial growth.
(3) GAD activity appeared in mutant spores after germination and increased to levels comparable to parent spores after 9 min of germination.
(4) In situ hybridization in normal visual cortex revealed a complex sublaminar organization of GAD-expressing cells within layers IVC and VI and a distribution of CaM II kinase alpha-expressing cells that was greatest in layers II, III, IVB, and VI.
(5) Neurogenesis of GABAergic neurons in the rat area dentata was studied combining [3H]thymidine autoradiography with immunostaining for glutamate decarboxylase (GAD), the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) synthesizing enzyme.
(6) The presence of glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) was investigated in neuroretina sections from hatching quail embryos by immunocytochemistry.
(7) The hippocampal cell counts showed an increase in GAD-immunoreactive somata visualized on the fourth postischemic day.
(8) The postnatal maturation of the GABAergic innervation of the rat inferior olive was studied with an antiserum to glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD), the GABA-synthesizing enzyme.
(9) In contrast, only modest alterations in GABA-immunoreactivity and glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) activity were observed in the same region.
(10) Approximately 25% of the neurons in the IC in SD rat are GAD-positive, while about 35% of the neurons in the GEPR are GAD-positive.
(11) The oxidation reaction ends in a mixture composed largely of oxidized GAD species.
(12) Although their numbers are greatest in the polymorph region of the fascia dentata (FD) and in the principal cell layers stratum pyramidale (SP) and stratum granulosum (SG), GAD immunoreactive (GAD-IR) cells are numerous in other strata that contain mostly dendrites and scattered cells.
(13) The methods and chemicals utilized were the same as those used and reported by Gad et al.
(14) However, the administration of thyroxine markedly increased CNPase activity in normal rats, whereas in hypothyroid rats the effect on both CNPase and GAD was also significant.
(15) No change in parameters of GABAergic activity, namely the glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) activity and high affinity GABA uptake, were observed in any of the structures examined.
(16) None of the drug treatments altered nigral GAD activity when examined after 1, 3, 6, 9 or 12 months administration.
(17) Addition of alkali to the culture media results in decrease of cell GAD activity, whereas increase of enzyme level occurs only in cells growing in unbuffered media.
(18) Vibratome sections of rat substantia nigra (SN) topically injected with colchicine were processed for glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) immunocytochemistry to reveal GABAergic neurons using electronmicroscopic procedures.
(19) GAD and ChAT omnipresence may indicate constant GABAergic HCII and its cholinergic efferent synapses, their raised content, appearance of GABA-containing HCI and related cholinergic boutons in higher vertebrates.
(20) Interestingly, the beta-galactosidase-GAD fusion protein encoded by lambda GAD is enzymatically active, catalyzing the conversion of glutamate to CO2 and GABA.
Saunter
Definition:
(n. & v.) To wander or walk about idly and in a leisurely or lazy manner; to lounge; to stroll; to loiter.
(n.) A sauntering, or a sauntering place.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s also good decorum to cover your parts with both hands on entering and leaving the water (note bottoms are generally considered less offensive) and not to saunter around once on land.
(2) Magic in the Moonlight (25 July) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The latest from Woody Allen is something of a small gem, with Colin Firth and Emma Stone sauntering through a 1930s-era Côte d'Azur, saying witty things about magic and love and faith.
(3) I can see him very clearly now, leaving Magdalen and sauntering up the High Street, looking about him in his friendly but slightly abstracted fashion.
(4) "We call them our girls," says David Strachan affectionately, watching the line of bright-eyed brown Jersey cows saunter obligingly from their cubicles – their indoor home during the chilly winter months – and into the adjoining milking parlour.
(5) Smooth South African Trevor Noah saunters into shot, smiling, while the show’s trio of regular comedy sidekicks, Jessica Williams, Hasan Minhaj and Jordan Klepper, play around with a vuvuzela and some basic rugby terminology in a lame effort to ingratiate themselves with the new star.
(6) They saunter off to a standing ovation accompanied by much appreciative hat waving.
(7) 9.03pm GMT 62 min: Rafael bowls Alonso to the floor as the Sunderland defender saunters up and down the left wing.
(8) Then the lock passed the ball down to Woodcock who sauntered straight through the middle.
(9) This is a format where two players who pride themselves on sauntering through bars in stupid clothes compete to seduce REAL women in REAL clubs, judged by a panel of "expert pick-up analysts".
(10) She has been banned from attending Ukip meetings since publishing last month’s cover lampooning Farage , his beaming face flanked by Al Murray and the Prophet Zebadiah with a shared speech bubble: “I’m the joke candidate.” This kind of strong-arm behaviour seems par for the course: two young chaps saunter in, looking very different from tonight’s retired-double-glazing-magnate-with-small-brushy-moustache style.
(11) Brazil deserved to win, though the Dutch could legitimately claim that Bebeto's goal should have been chalked off, Romario sauntering around offside in the build-up.
(12) They had just confessed to war crimes, to heinous acts, and I had videotaped it, and then they just sauntered off into the woods.
(13) Occasionally he makes geography itself impossible – the Bohemian seacoast in A Winter's Tale , or the lion that saunters through Arden in As You Like It – but even these, it might be argued, are testament to the boundlessness of his imagination.
(14) This pith squirt stings because we want our politicians to be motivated by high ideals and compassion and not to secretly seethe every time Harry Styles impeccably saunters through the public mind with hair that gently binds his scalp to the heavens and mankind to the angels.
(15) Robben, replacing Mandzukic in the existential vagueness down the right, takes his time, saunters into the area, cuts inside Adriano, and curls a peach into the top-left corner.
(16) A s he saunters into the shisha bar atop one of Kabul's most exclusive hotels, the man accused of rivalling only the Taliban in terms of the damage he has done to Afghanistan does not seem particularly haunted by his actions.
(17) Poise was restored as Charlotte Higgins deboulé-d around Powell and Pressberger's The Red Shoes and Jonathan Haynes kissed the ring of The Princess Bride , before Tony Paley sauntered in and ordered two and half hours of straight up Rio Bravo .
(18) On one occasion, as I was interviewing Le Pen père in his study (covered in nautical memorabilia, gorgeous view of the capital), Marine came sauntering in.
(19) So when Spirescu sauntered through with a woolly cap pulled down over his ears and admitted it was his first time in the UK and that he was here to work, he was quickly surrounded by journalists – as well as the chairman of the home affairs select committee, Keith Vaz.
(20) That Blair and his ministers still saunter among us, gathering money wherever they go, is a withering indictment of a one-sided system of international justice: a system whose hypocrisies Tutu has exposed.