(n.) An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass.
(v. t.) To notch, as a sword or knife.
(v. t.) To make an opening in; to breach.
Example Sentences:
(1) Linear and annular gap junctions between neighbouring cells were present, particularly in Group 1.
(2) We conclude that removal of dimers and repair of gaps were similar in all cases.
(3) Hence the major role of the 14-A arm of carboxybiotin is not to permit a large carboxyl migration but, rather to permit carboxybiotin to traverse the gap which occurs at the interface of three subunits and to insinuate itself between the CoA and keto acid sites.
(4) The junctional currents were already constant 1 ms after step changes in the junctional voltage; this was three orders of magnitude faster than the other known examples of voltage-controlled gap junctions between embryonic cells.
(5) These two enzymes may act jointly in filling up the gaps along the DNA molecule and elongating the DNA chain.
(6) Preliminary hearing results of 45 cases show air-bone gap closure of 67% within 10 dB and 98% within 20 dB.
(7) Measurements were made of the width of the marginal gap for three sites at each of four stages: (1) after the shoulder firing, (2) after the body-incisal firing, (3) after the glaze firing, and (4) after a correction firing.
(8) Office of National Statistics figures published in November last year showed that men earn 9.4% more than women, the lowest gender gap since records began in 1997.
(9) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(10) These activities define both the polarity of the anterior-posterior (AP) axis and the spatial domains of expression of the zygotic gap genes, which in turn control the subsequent steps in segmentation.
(11) After loss of permanent central incisors the treatment of choice could be either orthodontic closure or maintenance of the gap for a replacement-prosthetic, autotransplantation or implant.
(12) PTH, an inducer of shape change, did not affect the number of gap junctions appreciably.
(13) The primary aim of future work must still be directed toward preventing the formation of a gap between the restoration and the tooth.
(14) Since testosterone influenced both tissue stores and PDBu-stimulated secretion of LHRH and GAP, this steroid may selectively regulate biosynthesis and secretion of pro-LHRH-derived peptides through activation of the metabolic cascade involving the PKC system.
(15) Microsequencing of the peptides resolved by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicates that the amino terminus of the protein is disposed at or near the cytoplasmic surface of the gap junction, and that this surface also contains a protease-hypersensitive hydrophilic sequence between residues 109 and 123, presumably connecting the second and third transmembrane segments.
(16) The present investigation shows that the intramembranous proteins of tight and gap junctions are mobile structures within the fluid membrane.
(17) The report also recommends including justice and victim of violence targets in the national Closing the Gap strategy, recognising foetal alcohol spectrum disorders as a disability before the courts, and making a national commitment to a justice reinvestment approach to find community-based solutions to youth crime.
(18) Regions within the desmosome where the two plasma membranes converged suggested that gap junctions were a component of the desmosome-like junctions.
(19) The frequency of chromosome and chromatid gaps and chromosome deletions was significantly higher among workers than among controls, and the same was true for the number of individuals with some type of chromosome alteration.
(20) Gap junctions were of different sizes and frequently composed of a small number of connexons organized in polygonal aggregates or linear arrays.
Hollow
Definition:
(a.) Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.
(a.) Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
(a.) Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.
(a.) Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.
(n.) A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.
(n.) A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.
(v. t.) To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.
(adv.) Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv.
(interj.) Hollo.
(v. i.) To shout; to hollo.
(v. t.) To urge or call by shouting.
Example Sentences:
(1) No evidence for consumptive coagulopathy was noted in the absence of heparin during hemodialysis with cuprophane hollow fiber dialyzers.
(2) The buccal glands of adults of the Southern Hemisphere lamprey Geotria australis consist of a pair of small, bean-shaped, hollow sacs, embedded within the basilaris muscle in the region below the eyes and to either side of the piston cartilage.
(3) The whole thing has made me feel hollow inside,” says one Tory MP.
(4) "The hollow words of praise from the home secretary are meaningless today.
(5) In order to clarify the role of dialyzer geometry, the effect of hollow-fiber versus flat-sheet dialyzers and of different surface areas on C3a generation and leukocyte degranulation was investigated.
(6) A significant improvement in the precision of the hollow cathode as an emission source is reported.
(7) These include a redistribution of the neurons that originally were in barrel sides; a reduction in the neuropil between the neurons that originally were within hollows; and differential growth of layer IV dendrites.
(8) In layer IV high NMDA receptor densities were specifically confined to the barrel hollows.
(9) This study presents results from in vitro and in vivo experiments in rodents by the use of a PEEK-hollow fiber.
(10) Pathogenetic and etiologic points of view of the perforation of dermoid cysts of the small pelvis into adjacent hollow organs are discussed in short.
(11) This article describes the presurgical evaluation and surgical procedures for the treatment of partially edentulous patients with ITI hollow-screw implants.
(12) B43 MoAb was produced in vitro by hollow fiber technology and purified to homogeneity by affinity chromatography.
(13) Despite a 30% rate of luminal blockage in stents retrieved after indwelling times up to 3 months, the incidence of clinical obstruction in stented tracts up to 3 months was 4%, confirming other reports that significant urine flow occurs around rather than through hollow, vented stents.
(14) attack of pain, retroperitoneal hematoma, hemoperitoneum, rupture into a hollow viscus, infective aneurysm.
(15) Produced by Morrissey and Johnny Marr with Stephen Street, MIM sounds more full-blooded than anything they had previously recorded – notably Hatful of Hollow , the compilation that preceded it.
(16) Hollowing out legacy media’s revenues while using its content, “ digital colonialism ” and issues of censorship have plagued the company in 2016.
(17) In one clothes shop, with racks of discounted Calvin Klein and DKNY, the manager, Sav, explains what's happened: "In this crisis, the middle classes have been hollowed out."
(18) We also show that the laminin-derived synthetic peptide YIGSR contains sufficient information to induce single endothelial cells to form ring-like structures surrounding a hollow lumen, the basic putative unit in the formation of capillaries.
(19) The story of the past 30 years has been the relentless hollowing-out of industrial Britain, the single biggest change to the British economy in the postwar era.
(20) At the basis of each pilus, a cell wall differentiation was observed appearing, in face-on-view, as a ring-like structure made up of subunits, and in side-on view as a hollow cylinder penetrating through the cell wall.