(n.) A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.
(n.) An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.
(n.) A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
(n.) The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
(n.) In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
(n.) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.
(n.) The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.
(v. t.) To supply with a gate.
(v. t.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.
(n.) A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).
(n.) Manner; gait.
Example Sentences:
(1) Modulation of the voltage-gated K+ conductance in T-lymphocytes by substance P was examined.
(2) She said that even as she approached the gates, she was debating with the boy’s father whether to let the first-grader enter.
(3) The Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the German flag.
(4) The committee is chaired by John Thompson, the board's lead independent director, and includes Microsoft founder and chairman, Bill Gates, as well as other board members Chuck Noski and Steve Luczo.
(5) Right ventricular volumes were determined in 12 patients with different levels of right and left ventricular function by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an ECG gated multisection technique in planes perpendicular to the diastolic position of the interventricular septum.
(6) Britain has been the Gates foundation’s second largest recipient, receiving 25 grants worth $156m since 2003.
(7) A method using selective saturation pulses and gated spin-echo MRI automatically corrects for this motion and thus eliminates misregistration artifact from regional function analysis.
(8) Gated blood pool images were stored in modified left anterior oblique views by the multiple gated method (28 frames per beat) after the in vivo labeling of erythrocytes using 25 mCi 99m-Tc.
(9) Four days after a 5 minute bilateral carotid artery occlusion, receptor autoradiography was performed to measure the binding of [35S]t-butylbicyclophosphorothionate (TBPS) to the GABA-gated chloride channel.
(10) Similar responses were obtained with gated noise bursts and by pauses in a series of clicks.
(11) The estimated forward (k) and backward (1) rate constants are: 2.45 x I05 M-1 s- and 0.23 x 103 s-1, respectively, for k and I for the case when the drug is trapped by both activation and inactivation gates, and 3.58 x 105 M-l s-l and 4.15 x 10-3 S-l for the case when the drug is not trapped.
(12) p-NCS-TBOB should prove useful in electrophysiological and biochemical studies examining the properties of GABA-gated Cl- channels.
(13) The involvement of the endothelium and the role of change in membrane potential are evaluated and lead to the conclusion that pressure and flow effects do not depend exclusively on the release of endothelial factors nor the activation of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels.
(14) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
(15) This conductance is activated when the cis side is made positive, with an apparent gating charge of 3.
(16) In addition to improved image quality, the characteristics of 99mTc sestamibi allow gated planar or SPECT perfusion images to be obtained.
(17) Perijunctional Na+ channels had the same voltage dependence, gating kinetics and sensitivity to tetrodotoxin as extrajunctional Na+ channels, suggesting that these cells express a single type of Na+ channel.
(18) Charge conservation analysis explicitly includes the gating charge when applied in the laboratory frame.
(19) We found the incorporated channels to be insensitive to calcium and octanol, and in most cases to pH in the range of 5-7, suggesting that either these agents do not interact directly with the junctional channels or that the corresponding gating regions are inactivated during the isolation and reconstitution procedures.
(20) "You could be in an open-world single-player environment where you can go up to a gate and when you enter that base, you're walking into a multiplayer map.
Pad
Definition:
(n.) A footpath; a road.
(n.) An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
(n.) A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a footpad.
(n.) The act of robbing on the highway.
(v. t.) To travel upon foot; to tread.
(v. i.) To travel heavily or slowly.
(v. i.) To rob on foot.
(v. i.) To wear a path by walking.
(n.) A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing.
(n.) A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting; esp., one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper, or layers of blotting paper; a block of paper.
(n.) A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
(n.) A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
(n.) A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.
(n.) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
(n.) A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
(n.) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
(n.) A measure for fish; as, sixty mackerel go to a pad; a basket of soles.
(v. t.) To stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding.
(v. t.) To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) We describe an enzymatic fluorometric method for determining glucose concentrations in blood samples by analysis on a semi-solid surface (silicone-rubber pads).
(2) Specific antisera prepared in rabbits or in foot-pad-inoculated chickens were adequate for culture typing.
(3) The remaining fat pad was used for calculations of cell numbers in the fat cell and connective tissue cell compartment.
(4) A peculiar emphasis is given to the microarchitecture and functional significance of longitudinal muscle columns as a prevalent structural component of branch pads.
(5) The superficial bacterial flora were sampled by velvet pad imprints, and the deep flora were determined from whole skin biopsies.
(6) Lymphocytes obtained from lymph nodes draining foot pads infected with R. conorii or R. akari demonstrated cross-reactivity similar to that found with immune spleen cells.
(7) It is suggested that this is due to the fact that the small animals have discrete, elevated volar pads.
(8) We present our results with 8 free transfers of the toe pulp and demonstrate the successful restoration of a well-padded and sensitive fingertip.
(9) Some foot-pad dermatitis was still observed in poults fed levels of methionine more than adequate to meet the requirements for optimum growth and feed efficiency.
(10) Minor amounts were deposited in liver, kidneys and epididymal fat pads.
(11) Moontain Hostel is a new pad for skiers on a budget, with dorm beds from just €20 and private rooms from €60.
(12) Human chorionic somatomammotropin extracted and purified from placenta at term was proved to have a lipolytic action in the epididymal fat pad of rats.
(13) Many pharmacy departments in Michigan hospitals can substantially improve their adherence to ASHP and OSHA recommendations related to PADs.
(14) A foot-pad oedema model was used to investigate the presence of free radicals using a chemiluminescence method.
(15) Therefore, the plantar forces acting under the metatarsal heads of the 1st, 2nd and 5th rays and under the pads of the 1st and 2nd toes were measured during walking, so that with the aid of anthropometric information pertaining to the forefoot, reaction forces in the flexor tendons and in the joints could be estimated.
(16) Infections of mice with Mycobacterium leprae in one rear foot pad immunized them against a second infection in the other rear foot pad.
(17) Incorporation of glucose into fat pad glycogen and CO2 was decreased.
(18) In vitro attempts to demonstrate local activated macrophages in the foot pads of M. leprae infected mice failed, but, because of the technical problems encountered, do not preclude their presence.
(19) We performed comprehensive electrophysiologic studies and skeletal muscle histologic analysis in six patients with unilateral PAD and five control subjects matched for age and activity level.
(20) The fat pads were stimulated with continuous-pulse trains for 15 seconds via a hand-held bipolar electrode using constant current (10-15 mA), constant pulse width (0.02-0.05 msec), and at 6.6, 10, 20, 25, and 30 Hz.