(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, galls, nutgalls, and the like.
(a.) Pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallican.
(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, gallium.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
(2) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
(3) This mutant also hydroxylates the product (3, 4-dihydroxybenzoate) to form gallic acid.
(4) The compelling television series The Returned , which concludes on Sunday on Channel 4, and several award-winning titles from French authors are earning fresh international plaudits for Gallic storytelling and proving that it is not only Norway, Sweden and Denmark that can offer a bleak outlook and a half-lit landscape.
(5) A combination of 2% osmium tetroxide-2% uranyl acetate or 2% gallic acid alone resulted in optimum fixation as ascertained by least extraction of radiolabels.
(6) In kidney and bone, only administration of Tiron at 0, 0.25, or 1 hr after uranium injection, or gallic acid at 1 hr after uranium exposure significantly reduced tissue uranium concentrations.
(7) Yves, a quiet, soft-spoken heavy metal fan with a penchant for band T-shirts and political protest, gives what can only be described as a Gallic shrug.
(8) Chelidonic acid, 2,6-pyridine dicarboxylic acid, chelidamic acid, gallic acid, and 3,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid were the most potent inhibitors of the enzyme, and generally the aromatic analogues were much more potent inhibitors than their aliphatic counterparts.
(9) Riva, the oldest nominee ever for best actress category, has a very Gallic disdain for such public adulation.
(10) Among chemically defined natural polyphenols, condensed tannins (epicatechin gallate oligomers) and monomeric and oligomeric hydrolyzable tannins potently stimulated PMN iodination, whereas polyphenols of lower molecular weight (gallic acid, alkyl gallates, epicatechin, epicatechin gallate, epigallocatechin, caffeic acid derivatives and licorice flavonoids) had much less activity.
(11) The French media and aerospace group owns a 7.5% stake in EADS, with the French state bringing total Gallic ownership to 22.35%.
(12) The depression in growth caused by these phenolic materials was compared with that of tannic acid on a gallic acid equivalency basis.
(13) When applied topically to mouse skin, tannic acid (TA), ellagic acid, and several gallic acid derivatives all inhibit TPA-induced ornithine decarboxylase activity, hydroperoxide production, and DNA synthesis, three biochemical markers of skin tumor promotion.
(14) Although gallic acid was a bad substrate, alkyl gallate esters were better substrates than tyramine.
(15) Other less astringent compounds (gallic and tartaric acids) had only slight effects on Isc.
(16) Gallic acid and several of its derivatives inhibit the ODC response to TPA to a lesser degree than TA.
(17) Compositions of (-)-epicatechin, (-)-epigallocatechin, (-)-epicatechin gallate, (-)-epigallocatechin gallate, and gallic acid were identified by fast atom bombardment-mass spectrometry and high-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry and quantified by high-performance liquid chromatography.
(18) Esters of gallic acid (propyl- and methylgallate), as well as pyrogallol, produce a "reversed staining" of all membranes, except for those of communicating (gap) junctions.
(19) Eight compounds resulted in a significant enhancement of the survival rate: Tiron, gallic acid, DTPA, p-aminosalicylic acid, sodium citrate, EDTA, 5-aminosalicylic acid and EGTA.
(20) Generally, these same proteolytic and glycosidic activities were inhibited by tannic acid and to lesser extents by gallic acid and gallic acid methyl ester.
Gaul
Definition:
(n.) The Anglicized form of Gallia, which in the time of the Romans included France and Upper Italy (Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul).
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Gaul.
Example Sentences:
(1) He suspects Hannibal did not intend to come this way, but was forced to avoid the lower cols to the north because of the hordes of Gauls massing there.
(2) They include the so-called Ludovisi Ares, a Roman copy of a 4th-century BCE Greek original, and the Ludovisi Gaul, part of the same group as the better-known Dying Gaul in the Capitoline Museums.
(3) Two other strains from dairy herds were classified as bovine viruses related to the bovine B223 strain reported by Woode and co-workers (G. N. Woode, N. E. Kelso, T. F. Simpson, S. K. Gaul, L. E. Evans, and L. Babiuk, J. Clin.
(4) As the Carthaginian army ascended from the Rhône valley in Gaul, they were harassed and attacked by mountain tribes who, knowing the territory, set ambushes, dropped boulders and generally wrought havoc.
(5) A. O'Brien, J.C. Quintero, W. A. Schleif, K. F. Freund, S. L. Gaul, W. S. Saari, J. S. Wai, J. M. Hoffman, P. S. Anderson, D. J. Hupe, E. A. Emini, and A. M. Stern, Proc.
(6) Fuchs bristles at that suggestion and makes an interesting analogy with a French comic book series and the indomitable Gauls fending off Roman occupation to explain Leicester’s mindset.
(7) Just as Caesar wrote of Gaul in his day, "Omnia [Begg] divisaest in partes tres ... "--Stage I, Stage II, and Stage III.
(8) In the 2004 UK inquiry into the sinking of the Gaul trawler in the Barents Sea, test were carried out on a scale version of the vessel to assess how it would have responded to rough weather.
(9) Such stereotypes have been the jambon-beurre of foreign correspondents in France (bread and butter not being fancy enough for the French) since Julius Caesar dashed off his conquest of Gaul , and never fail to raise a smile at the English breakfast table.
(10) At a recent visit to the Triple Pier Expo, a weekend market on three vast piers that extend from Manhattan into the Hudson River, an ebony art-deco carving of a slave in relief, reminiscent of the Dying Gaul, was attached by a gold chain to a pipe rack.
(11) In a previous study, different U.S. isolates of bovine rotavirus were studied for their serotypes and cross-protective properties (G. N. Woode, N. E. Kelso, T. F. Simpson, S. K. Gaul, L. E. Evans, and L. Babiuk, J. Clin.
(12) It's the 35th adventure that translator Anthea Bell has undertaken with the world's most famous Gaul, and it has transported them to Scotland on a mission to save the Picts from imperialists and usurpers.
(13) MacAroon, the wronged Pictish prince, has a large tattoo on his chest that causes some curiosity among the Gauls.
(14) Even more gallingly for the Gauls, while visits to North America were also down last year by 7.5% to 3.4 million, Spain, Belgium, Italy and Norway all saw the number of British visitors rise, with 2.3 million more Britons visiting Spain than France last year.
(15) I live in the last small corner of Gaul still holding out against the Romans.
(16) The Mistral, the biggest French-built ships after the aircraft carrier the Charles de Gaul, is 199m long, weighs 22,000 tonnes, and can carry 177 crew, 16 heavy helicopters or 30 light, 70 armoured vehicles such as tanks, 450 troops and four landing craft.
(17) He regularly spoke in the Commons on post office issues and on electoral reform, working time, fairness at work, fishermen's compensation and the loss of the trawler Gaul.
(18) Like the last village in Gaul that resists the occupying forces of the Romans, there will always be a group of smokers who do so not only because it can relax one wonderfully (think of all the soldiers who smoke) but precisely because it enrages an enormous number of busybodies.
(19) They cleared the land to protect their armies from ambush – but they knew it also hurt the tree-loving Gauls and the Druid-led tribes they wished to subdue.
(20) Photograph: Oskar Reinhart Foundation Son of Nazi governor returns art stolen from Poland during second world war Read more Nine have been restituted – including Susanna, a sculpture by Reinhold Begas, which was found in Berlin’s National Gallery; August Gaul’s Resting Lion from 1903, also found in Berlin; a Roman child’s sarcophagus from the end of the second century AD; and Lady with Red Blouse, a pastel drawing of Mosse’s sister Emilie by Adolph Menzel, found in Winterthur, Switzerland.