(a.) Full of gas; like gas. Hence: [Colloq.] Inflated; full of boastful or insincere talk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The flesh rolled away like blancmange, soft and gassy with putrefaction.
(2) Independent brewing has boomed as drinkers, often in their 20s, have rejected gassy, bland lagers in favour of characterful beers made with a widening array of ingredients.
(3) Visualizing the gassy effusion above the pleural fluid, the disappearance of the "gliding sign" (n = 11) indicates PN.
(4) But this week, the climate change movement may have gotten a symbol to rally around, because apparently it was never quite enough to motivate ourselves out of love for this large gassy orb,” Oliver joked.
Glassy
Definition:
(a.) Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance.
(a.) Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep.
(a.) Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the eyes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
(2) Flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) was covalently attached to an electron-conducting support, i.e., glassy carbon.
(3) The second, with amphibole or glassy fibres, is mediated by fibronectin which first binds to the fibre.
(4) The glassy cell carcinoma is considered to be a poorly differentiated mixed adenosquamous carcinoma.
(5) From these studies, it was suggested that the inelastic behavior of bioactive glass-ceramics was produced by the plastic deformation of glassy phase on the grain boundary.
(6) They tricked us.” When Morales speaks of it his eyes turn glassy.
(7) Its mechanical behaviour when dry is that of a glassy polymer with tensile strength about 300 MPa and modulus about 20 GPa.
(8) Cell lines were established from two uterine cervical cancers, a glassy cell carcinoma (GCC) and a large cell nonkeratinizing squamous cell carcinoma (LCSC), and studied by a variety of techniques, including histology, chromosome analysis, heterotransplantation and tumor marker analyses.
(9) In KGS and A-W.GC, which had macrocrystals in the glassy phase, an intervening apatite layer about 0.5 micron thick was observed between the materials and bone.
(10) When bimodal therapy with radical surgery and radical radiotherapy was used, the survival of patients with Stage IB glassy cell carcinoma improved to 87%.
(11) No significant association between HPV status and prognosis or glassy cell features was detected.
(12) We have developed a new type of glassy carbon electrode whose smooth surface with scattered craters reduces its polarization voltage.
(13) The detection system consists of two electrochemical detector cells aligned in series: a glassy-carbon electrode for catecholamines and serotonin, and a platinum electrode for acetylcholine and choline.
(14) The cytopathologic and histopathologic findings are presented for five cases of glassy-cell carcinoma.
(15) Further, the apparent "tightly bound" state, observed at low relative humidities, appears to exist when the polymer enters into a very viscous glassy state.
(16) Photo-switchable ion and enzyme sensors were fabricated by the use of glassy carbon electrode coated with nonactindoped or enzyme modified poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) membranes.
(17) And if that sentence leaves you glassy-eyed, we'll do our best to explain it as things proceed.
(18) Eighteen cases of glassy cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix are presented.
(19) In lesional catagen follicles, the glassy membranes showed marked convolution and thickening.
(20) A method is proposed for the determination of paracetamol in whole undiluted blood, based on the enzymatic hydrolysis of the drug to p-aminophenol, which is then measured by chronoamperometry at a glassy carbon electrode.