(v. t.) To make aghast; to frighten; to terrify. See Aghast.
Example Sentences:
(1) 69: 1709-1717, 1990) we reported that gastrocnemius (GAST) muscle enlargement failed to occur after 10 wk of 192 contractions performed every 3rd or 4th day.
(2) Hist and Gast caused an increase of PGE2 contents in gastric mucosa.
(3) As in the GAST, results showed that TA protein synthesis rates are increased by acute exercise and principally regulated by translational and possibly posttranslational mechanisms.
(4) Not everyone is convinced... Darius Tahir (@dariustahir) @KidWeil My gast is properly flabbered that Brad Evans is starting.
(5) This indicated that the regulation of protein expression may be different between the GAST and TA muscles.
(6) According to the clinical signs and the result of gastric acid secretion test, (GAST) parietal cell vagotomy (PCV) and selective vagotomy plus antrectomy (SV+A) were performed in 100 and 138 cases respectively.
(7) The gastric protective effects of Hist and Gast were inhibited by pretreatment with cimetidine, timoprazole and indomethacin.
(8) These results suggest that the gastric protective effect of Hist and Gast, induced by the increase of acidity in gastric juice, is due to the endogenous PGE2 synthesized by the stimulation of acid in the gastric mucosa.
(9) Biopsies were taken from the gastrocnemius (gast) and vastus lateralis (vl) muscles as representatives of muscles recruited during Tr and Cy exercise, respectively.
(10) • 5 rue Crespin du Gast, 75011, must phone to arrange visit on +33 1 43 55 52 72, no website Père Lachaise Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Piaf family plot at Père Lachaise cemetery.
(11) GAST obtained its peak EMG activity at 104 degrees at a point when it was still lengthening.
(12) Recently, de Gast and colleagues reviewed the role of environmental antigens in the pathogenesis of GVHD and suggested that immunological responses to environmental antigens by the transplanted donor cells might contribute to an increased donor anti-recipient response.
(13) After confirmation with complementary tests made with manually GAST, RPR with microscopic reading, haemagglutination, and lastly fluorescent method, it appears that the rate of positive reactions is 1,7%.
(14) The follow-up data showed that recurrence rate could be greatly reduced if the mode of vagotomy was selected according to results of GAST.
(15) Daly was the intermediary who pulled many of the interested parties together – and, as a prize, he got to commentate on the fight for Leon Gast’s celebrated film, When We Were Kings.
(16) In cells from gasted rats, where lactate production is greatly reduced and the rate of glucose synthesis is elevated, glucagon did not stimulate gluconeogenesis from dihydroxyacetone.
(17) The differential response in muscle mass between the GAST and TA muscles after training may be due, in part, to greater relative resistances imposed on the TA than on the GAST that result in a more-prolonged effect on protein synthesis rates, with lower numbers of stimulated contractions required to stimulate increases in protein synthesis.
(18) Maxi and Gast compressors increased the quantity of "respirable" (less than 5 micron diameter) carbenicillin aerosol, and reduced nebulisation times; with the weaker compressors, nebulisation times (up to 50 min) were unacceptably long.
(19) The amount of G4 was increased by more than 50% in the ankle extensors GAST and PL, which play a dynamic role, and reduced by about 40% in the ankle flexors TA and EDL, which exhibit a predominant tonic activity during running.
(20) The apparition of Groupamatic has incitated M. GARRETTA to adapt on this material the K. Antigen reagent manufactured by the Blood Transfusion Center in Lille and has led to the definition of GAST reagent (Groupamatic automated syphilis test).
Gist
Definition:
(n.) A resting place.
(n.) The main point, as of a question; the point on which an action rests; the pith of a matter; as, the gist of a question.
Example Sentences:
(1) Should authorities decide not to charge Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot Brown , there will be an explosion, Gist predicted.
(2) In a separate ruling today, the appeal court said the government must reveal the gist of "sensitive" intelligence material to Kashif Tariq , whose cousin was convicted in 2008 of conspiracy to murder in the plot to blow up aircraft with liquid bombs.
(3) The GIST for IgE is simple to perform and requires neither short-lived radioisotopes, expensive scintillation detection equipment, nor scarce, purified IgE.
(4) Chilcot announced last month that after years of heated disputes with successive cabinet secretaries, and discussions with Washington, he had agreed to a settlement whereby summaries, and "the gist", of more than a hundred records of conversations between Blair and George Bush in the runup to the invasion, and of records of 200 cabinet discussions, would be published, but not the documents themselves.
(5) Here's the link to their story (in Spanish), but the gist is that Real's Florentino Perez had agreed a €45m fee with Arsenal, only for Ozil to opt against the move.
(6) It was the negative influence of his former disciple, that teutonically resolute Austrian chap that mislead il Duce; we Italians were less ruthless with the Jews – that was the gist of his speech.
(7) We studied "formal thought disorder" in schizophrenics, schizoaffectives, and manics by examining syntax processing and perception of meaning, using the "embedded click" and "memory for gist tasks," two paradigms that were developed by psycholinguists.
(8) Dedicated political obsessives follow his step-by-step guides to why the Tories are wrong, but few others pick up even the gist.
(9) The immune process of sensitisation was induced with "Tenzym prilled" (TP, Grindstedvoerket) and with "Maxatase" (M, Gist-Brocades) protease enzymes in the epicutaneous test (ET), using concentration series and various durations of application.
(10) However, muscle-specific actin (HHF35) caused a positive reaction in most GIST (92%).
(11) Dow is evaluating Earth Genome’s software to see if GIST can help the company make good water infrastructure decisions that conserve resources, control long term water costs, and help it avoid future competition with farmers and cities.
(12) Nevertheless, Williams says that Bryan's emails, or the gist of them, should have been relayed to the CQC inspector responsible for Winterbourne View.
(13) The gist of that diplomatic foot stamping may seem vaguely familiar to those following Australian politics recently.
(14) Preliminary studies indicate that the GIST makes possible nonisotopic measurement of ragweed-specific IgE antibiotics in human serum.
(15) While the people of Doncaster might not know the detail of the national statistics, they are aware of the gist.
(16) 5.42pm BST Some instant reaction to the Berlusconi video message: Vincenzo Scarpetta (@LondonerVince) Gist of #Berlusconi 's video message: He won't quit politics even if ousted from parliament.
(17) Weick says the forecasting functions in GIST allow him to layer on variables such as local population growth and water use trends, which will impact future water pricing.
(18) "I would rather have root canal surgery without anaesthetic than go to Glastonbury," was the gist of her response.
(19) Excluding 24 cases of gastric schwannoma, 96 cases of GIST consisting of 62 benign tumors and 34 sarcoma (low grade, 17; high grade, 17), with 9 cases arising in the esophagus, 57 in the stomach, 28 in the small intestine, and 2 in the colon, were studied.
(20) The final wording was under review by the White House but the basic gist remained unchanged, scientists who worked on the report said.