(n.) A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security.
(n.) A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance.
(n.) A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage.
(n.) To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.
(n.) To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
(n.) A measure or standard. See Gauge, n.
(v. t.) To measure. See Gauge, v. t.
Example Sentences:
(1) Measurements of acetylcholine-induced single-channel conductance and null potentials at the amphibian motor end-plate in solutions containing Na, K, Li and Cs ions (Gage & Van Helden, 1979; J. Physiol.
(2) 20 November 2008: Gage said he intended to question every soldier who witnessed the incident , whether or not they were directly responsible.
(3) Comprised of four octagonal half strain rings, the strain gage dynamometer measures the three moment load components at the boot.
(4) They lack the site that is ordinarily modified by pertussis toxin and their sequences vary from the canonical Gly-Ala-Gly-Glu-Ser (GAGES) amino acid sequence found in most other G protein alpha subunits.
(5) Experiments in dogs revealed that mercury-in-silastic strain gage apparatus can successfully be used to measure the biomechanical dynamics of the trachea and subglottis.
(6) A highly sensitive M136 gage with 0.5 microA complete deviation current is employed in the scheme, this permitting measurements of high electric resistance of dental hard tissues within a range of 1-200 M omega, painless for patients.
(7) Rosette strain gage, electromyography (EMG), and cineradiographic techniques were used to analyze loading patterns and jaw movements during mastication in Macaca fascicularis.
(8) The abuse of Mousa and nine other detainees "did not amount to an entrenched culture of violence in the [British] battlegroup – a reference to the rest of British forces in southern Iraq", Gage concludes.
(9) Stress wave propagation in a long bone with a progressively increasing defect in the bony cortex, simulating a healing fracture, was studied by recording the outputs of bonded semiconductor strain gages, proximal and distal to the defect.
(10) The FEM was validated against a normal strain-gaged turkey ulna, loaded in vivo in an identical fashion to the experimental ulnae.
(11) The lack is seen most clearly in the experimental and clinical literature on frontal lobe function, especially in relation to the kinds of changes seen in the Gage case.
(12) Furthermore the "head at risk" signs, except the gage-sign, were better to describe by BRI than by conventional x-rays.
(13) Inter-rat difference, leg positioning and strain gage placement were evaluated as sources of variability of applied strains.
(14) The angular accelerometer of vertebrates, the semi circular canal, is a pressure gage.
(15) Remnant gastric motility was studied during the digestive and interdigestive states by chronically implanted strain gage transducer (S.G.T.)
(16) Gage's report noted: "He must have seen the shocking condition of the detainees.
(17) The overall Berkson-Gage actuarial survival at 3 years, uncorrected for death from intercurrent disease, is 85.8%.
(18) Only 14 of those referred to in the Gage report are still in the army.
(19) The design and operation of a strain gage signal conditioning amplifier is described.
(20) The heart was driven at a steady heart rate through one electrode and very late premature beats were applied at various coupling times at another site through an electrode attached to the miniature strain gage.
Gave
Definition:
() imp. of Give.
(imp.) of Give
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(2) Altogether 47 variables were investigated, and of these 34 gave results which were statistically significant.
(3) Further purification of ZAB by filtration through Sephadex G-100 gave a preparation (ZAB2) which contained the common antigen as shown by the cross-reactivity of anti-ZAB2 rat serum with seven stains of N. gonorrhoeae.
(4) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
(5) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
(6) There was a highly significant relationship between the two tests, r = 0.88, P less than 0.001, although the uptake method gave consistently higher results than those obtained from plasma disappearance.
(7) Sera from three of these patients gave a precipitin band in gel diffusion tests identical to that produced by a monospecific rabbit anti-E. granulosus antigen 5 serum, when tested against whole hydatid fluid.
(8) Treatment with trypsin gave essentially one radioactive peptide, the active site peptide, of approximately 2300 molecular weight.
(9) The first experiment gave good results, although only one participant had any previous experience of hinge axis location, and it is debatable whether or not this experience is necessary before satisfactory results can be obtained.
(10) Thin films (OD approximately 0.7) of glucose-embedded membranes, prepared as a control, showed virtually 100% conversion to the M state, and stacks of such thin film specimens gave very similar x-ray diffraction patterns in the bR568 and the M412 state in most experiments.
(11) Two-thirds of the specimens tested gave positive results.
(12) Thus Sephadex chromatography of the solution obtained by dissolving the antigen-antibody precipitate in these media repeatedly gave two peaks corresponding to anti-ovalbumin and ovalbumin.
(13) The combined evidence from immunoglobulin light chain staining and the analysis of immunoglobulin heavy chain gene rearrangement indicated that the lesions in most patients represented polyclonal proliferations that gave rise to clonal subpopulations.
(14) Pure bile gave 32 correct diagnoses (67%) and 14 diagnoses of inadequate material (29%), which contained few nondegenerated cells and made microscopic diagnosis unreliable.
(15) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
(16) Temperature, heart rate and respiratory rate as well as enzymatic activities (CK, CK-MB, AST, LDH), and characteristics of base-acid-balance (pH, BE, pCO2, Lactate) were taken from 52 pigs during the period shortly before and after they gave birth.
(17) To safeguard its long-time regional ally, Iran gave full political, economic and military backing to the embattled Syrian president.
(18) For the 20 patients who received treatment in the latter period (1987-1990), we gave priority to conservative treatment for type T cases that were free from complications, and adopted a treatment method attaching greater importance to the resection of intimal tears.
(19) During Pakistan's recent floods, Chinese aid totalled $18m; the US gave nearly $700m.
(20) When we gave her a gift of a few books in English, she burst out crying.