(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.
Sprue
Definition:
(n.) Strictly, the hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold.
(n.) The waste piece of metal cast in this hole; hence, dross.
(n.) Same as Sprew.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aetiology of tropical sprue, which is common in Puerto Rico and absent from Jamaica remains to be explained although a hypothesis has been put forward.
(2) The inflow rate at the middle stage of casting was evaluated as v = 21.05 + 1.79 C (C: the cross-sectional area of the main sprue).
(3) These results showed rapid clearance of the D3-3H in the subject with tropical sprue and steatorrhea indicating depletion of vitamin D stores in the tissues and decrease in the net absorption of the dose when given orally.
(4) Finally, there appears to be an increased incidence of intestinal malignancies (lymphoma, adenocarcinoma) in nontropical sprue.
(5) Normal jejunal pattern reported by some workers in patients with tropical sprue could possibly be due to inadequate sampling of the total biopsy piece.
(6) These findings in patients with chronic tropical sprue are similar to findings in normal Indians and suggest that jejunal handling of sodium and water is abnormal when compared with normal English subjects, but that the mucosa is not in a secretory phase as seen in certain other diarrhoeal states or in the acute early phase of sprue.
(7) In addition, excessive alcohol use, smoking, malnutrition, and a latent case of sprue were involved in bringing about the folic acid deficiency.
(8) In the case of glycyl-L-leucine considerably more glycine and leucine were found in the perfusate in patients with sprue than in the control subjects.
(9) Bacterial overgrowth, which sometimes occurs after infective diarrhoea in the tropics and gives rise to tropical sprue, is a result of stasis.
(10) Celiac sprue and Crohn's disease have very rarely been documented in the same patient.
(11) The margin widths of the flared and the straight sprue attachment groups were significantly less than the abrupt or gradual constriction attachment group (p less than 0.05).
(12) However, intestinal permeability was decreased in patients with idiopathic sprue and increased in those with idiopathic hyperamylasemia.
(13) These 12 cases had a mean of 30.4 lymphocytes per 100 superficial colonic epithelial cells, compared with means of 8.4 in sprue cases without colonic epithelial lymphocytosis, 4.8 in normal controls, and 32.4 in nine cases of lymphocytic colitis without concurrent celiac sprue.
(14) The virus of transmissible gastroenteritis produced sprue-like lesions in the small intestines of young pigs.
(15) Three additional cases of small-bowel adenocarcinoma in association with nontropical sprue are reported.
(16) In a series of 28 sequential patients found to have microscopic changes characteristic of sprue on biopsy, distinctive endoscopic changes were found in 22 (in 6 of 9 with sprue in relapse, and 16 of 19 presenting with initial symptoms).
(17) Two patients with tropical sprue had agamma-A-globulinaemia.Turnover studies with (125)I-labelled IgG showed a high rate of synthesis in three Indian controls and an appreciably reduced or low rate in seven of the eight cases of tropical sprue.
(18) We report coexistent collagenous colitis and collagenous sprue in a 62-year-old woman with diarrhea.
(19) The radiologic findings are described of mucosal folds thickening in coeliac sprue in patients with short clinical history.
(20) The mean amount of internal porosity from all analyzed sites for each sprue design was calculated as a percent site porosity per total site and differences between the experimental sites and groups tested.