(n.) A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.
(n.) The distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself.
(n.) Same as Bendlet.
(v. t.) To bind with a garter.
(v. t.) To invest with the Order of the Garter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The [14C]2-deoxyglucose (2-DG) technique was used to study patterns of neural activity associated with the species-typical courtship behavior of male red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis).
(2) Motor units in the thin transversus abdominis muscle of the garter snake were identified and physiologically characterized in the living state.
(3) Viremia in garter snakes has a cyclic rhythm independent of the temperature of the environment.
(4) Fibers of the garter snake transversus abdominis muscle fall into three classes according to contraction speed: faster and slower twitch and tonic.
(5) But it is also the incantatory darkness of dreams and visions, death and memory, as an observing consciousness creeps into the "blinded bedrooms" of the town's inhabitants, hushing and inviting us on: "Come now, drift up the dark, come up the drifting sea-dark street now in the dark night seesawing like the sea ... " Blind Captain Cat is dreaming of long-ago sea voyages and long-dead lovers; twice-widowed Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard of her henpecked husbands; Organ Morgan of musical extravaganzas; Polly Garter of babies; Mary Ann Sailors of the Garden of Eden; Dai Bread of "Turkish girls.
(6) The actions of two reversible anticholinesterase agents, edrophonium and physostigmine, were compared with the irreversible agent methanesulfonyl fluoride (MSF) on miniature end-plate currents (MEPCs) and ACh-induced end-plate current fluctuations recorded from twitch fibers of costocutaneous muscles of garter snakes (Thamnophis sp.).
(7) A study was made of feeding and temperature as factors affecting the appearance of western equine encephalitis (WEE) virus-neutralizing serum (VNS) antibodies in the serum of garter snakes (Thamnophis spp).
(8) A granulosa cell tumor was identified in a captive six year old Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis).
(9) The oxygen affinity of red cell suspensions from fetal garter snakes was higher than that of cell suspensions from their mothers.
(10) Now a 42-year-old lecturer in film and music at Trafford College, Manchester, she is a regular at the Morrissey Smiths Disco at the Star and Garter pub and, thanks to listening to Meat is Murder , a committed vegetarian.
(11) Male red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) court only on emergence from winter dormancy.
(12) Testosterone (T) was administered intracranially to intact adult male Canadian red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) in the fall and in the summer.
(13) Traits were measured for six or fewer presumed full-sibling offspring from each of 45 wild-caught gravid garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis).
(14) Four enantiomers of chloramphenicol have been tested for their effects on end-plate current and miniature end-plate current decay and amplitude characteristics in the voltage-clamped costocutaneous nerve-muscle preparation of the garter snake.
(15) He has already received the Garter and could retire as early as next summer.
(16) Newborn garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) responded similarly to worm and fish surface extracts regardless of whether the mothers were fed exclusively on fish or worms during the gestation period.
(17) Then, for his 15 minutes, Gove was before us, cross-gartered like foolish Malvolio, until another grandee, Kenneth Clarke , in concert with the Daily Mail, was ready to knife his guts.
(18) The model is applied to a vascular network of the glomerulus of the garter snake.
(19) Garter snakes were used to study the effects of venous CO2 loading using the skin as an exchanger.
(20) Using a simple ophthalmoscopic technique, the cone mosaic of a live garter snake was clearly visible when viewed directly through its natural pupil, providing the first definitive cone map in a vertebrate eye.
Grater
Definition:
(a.) One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs.
Example Sentences:
(1) He locked horns with the architect again in 2008, using Rogers' 44-storey "cheese grater" tower in the City of London to warn that historic cities were being wrecked.
(2) I use the wide side of the grater or the mandolin for this, although those with better knife skills than me should be able to do a good job of it that way.
(3) Today, London's skyline is dominated by such sights as the Cheese-grater in Leadenhall, the Walkie-talkie in Fenchurch Street, the Gherkin in Aldgate and the Razor at Elephant and Castle.
(4) DL-methinionine in the diet of cows for the first months of lactation leads to grater amounts of milk of higher quality as well as to improving the health of the animals.
(5) The majority of the compounds showed clear antagonist activity towards BaCl2, histamine and acetylcholine contracting responses, generally grater than that of papaverine; on the contrary, their antagonist activity towards 5-HT responses was slightly lower.
(6) On the other hand, the patients who had undergone muscle release had, to grater or lesser extent, disturbances of the range of movement.
(7) Try Auctionstealer , an online tool which bids for you at the last nanosecond, meaning you can watch The Cube while simultaneously winning a grater.
(8) "Russia is already paying a serious price for its actions," William Hague assured the house, the extra helium in his cheese-grater voice an indication of his own gravity.
(9) Although the two-year-olds' extent of exploration and amount of time spent in a playroom were significantly grater when their mother was present than when an unfamiliar person was present, the grandmother's functional characteristics were on an intermediate level between those of the mother and those of the unfamiliar person.
(10) • Prominent in this list are kitchen implements like cheese graters and bottle openers; if you want to make it a bit more fun then you can get various novelty themed equipment .
(11) This paper describes a simple method of obtaining cancellous graft from femoral heads, either allograft or autograft, with "cheese grater" type acetabular reamers.
(12) Roughly grate the eggs on the large holes of the grater, then grate the garlic on the fine side.
(13) The effect of the dnaA mutation was grater on plasmid DNA synthesis than on host chromosomal DNA synthesis.
(14) Out of 49 cases, histologic diagnosis of chronic diffuse lymphocytic thyroiditis was established in nine patients (18%) but the frequency of the appearance of this autoimmune disease may well be grater because a relatively small number of patients underwent the operation.
(15) Epinephrine and insulin increased glucose uptake in Planaria, but epinephrine did so to a much grater extent.
(16) They were quickly alerted to the fact that the Japanese generally do not eat cheese or mashed potatoes during a presentation, leaving the potato masher and grater largely redundant - although the brand has proved particularly successful there and in the US out of the 105 countries they now sell in, mostly through third-party distributors.
(17) Just as the distinctively named Shard of Glass, the Helter Skelter, the Cheese- grater and the Walkie Talkie are being erected across the City, the architect who created the eye-catching Gherkin has declared the London skyscraper building boom is nearing its end.