(v. t.) To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.
(v. t.) To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck.
(v. t.) To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
(v. t.) To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle.
(v. t.) To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.
(v. t.) To gain; to win.
(v. t.) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like.
(v. t.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
(v. i.) To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
(v. i.) To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
(v. i.) To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
(v. i.) To collect or bring things together.
(n.) A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
(n.) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
(n.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prevalence data has been gathered from several autopsy studies.
(2) On the other hand, when the global results were gathered according to male and female categories, the first one proved to be predominant.
(3) And now here we all were, gathered together at Maine Road, on the brink of relegation.
(4) The image of any radiology facility is a direct result of perceptions gathered by the consumer of their services.
(5) Saline-injected controls started gathering the pups immediately and usually showed all elements of maternal behaviour within 10 min.
(6) 5.49am BST I gather Rudd is now on his way to the Brisvegas Show.
(7) 'This is the upside of the downside': Women's March finds hope in defiance Read more As thousands gathered for the afternoon rally and march, Trump tweeted his solidarity with their action.
(8) Down the road another group of protesters gathered outside the chain-link fence surrounding the Marriott's perimeter.
(9) The striking improvements in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in diabetic and non-diabetic Aborigines after a temporary reversion to a traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle highlight the potentially reversible nature of the detrimental effects of lifestyle change, particularly in young people who have not yet developed diabetes.
(10) His bracelets and his hair, neatly gathered in a colourful elasticated band, contrast with his unflashy day-to-day uniform of checked shirts, jeans or cheap chinos and trainers.
(11) Ethological methods were employed to gather normative data on social behavior in long stay male inpatients in the ward environment.
(12) A microcomputer system is described for the collection, analysis and printing of the physiological data gathered during a urodynamic investigation.
(13) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
(14) The interior minister, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, left a gathering of the Mexican diplomatic corps to take a call from President Enrique Peña Nieto.
(15) Shelby Quast, of Equality Now, said the gathering could be a “tipping point” and act as a catalyst for change, so that girls in the US could finally be protected: “It’s the first time that members of the government are coming around the table to meet with civil society, survivors and members of the diaspora – this is the first step towards putting together a comprehensive action plan to tackling FGM.” Campaigners are calling for the government to look at practical ways that FGM could be wiped out in the United States – such as engaging with paediatricians and other doctors, immigration officers and visa offices.
(16) It also seems to be a bit useless as a way of gathering intelligence.
(17) The pair woke up early and gathered their birth certificates, social security cards and passports before making the roughly three-hour commute.
(18) Measures of physical development were gathered at birth and at ages 3, 5 and 7 years on a sample of over 800 children as part of a multidisciplinary development study.
(19) This is why a campaign , orchestrated by Ali and last week discussed in parliament, is gathering speed, and clued-up ministers grow anxious.
(20) This paper reports selected results of a quantitative study of the affective behavior of the Efe, exchange-dependent hunter-gatherers of the Ituri forest in northeastern Zaire.
Molten
Definition:
(p. p.) of Melt
(a.) Melted; being in a state of fusion, esp. when the liquid state is produced by a high degree of heat; as, molten iron.
(a.) Made by melting and casting the substance or metal of which the thing is formed; as, a molten image.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) These flaws were controlled by cooling the metal mold assembly and the cast immediately after the pouring of the molten cerrobend alloy, evenly with water.
(3) Multiparametric kinetic study of bovine alpha-lactalbumin renaturation from the unfolded state has shown the existence of an intermediate which is formed within 10(-2) s with properties close to those of the molten globule.
(4) Bacteriocin producer strains were grown (37degrees C) anaerobically on brain heart infusion-yeast extract agar for 18 h. Bacteriocin indicator strains were suspended to molten brain heart infusion-yeast extract agar and then overlayed onto the producer strain.
(5) The changes of T1 and T2 were treated based on the assumption of two types of molecular motions: (1) isotropic "slow" motions with times approximately greater than 10(-8) s (including the rotation of a molecule as a whole) and (2) anisotropic "fast" motions with times approximately less than 10(-10) s. Experimental data show an essential increase of the scale of intramolecular mobility for the majority of side groups upon transition of the protein from the native to the molten globule state.
(6) Disks cut from each device were attached to the sawed-off ends of 10 ml syringes and dipped in a beaker containing either butoconazole nitrate cream or a molten wax insert.
(7) This model predicted that PEG enhanced refolding of CAB occurred by a specific interaction of PEG with the molten globule first intermediate to form a nonassociating complex which continued to fold at the same rate as the first intermediate.
(8) The following regimes are outlined: 1. the "wet" molten globule, i.e., the compact state with pores occupied by solvent; 2. the swollen globule ("wet," of course); and 3. the coil.
(9) The theory also predicts two populations of denatured species, one open and the other more compact, with densities in the range found experimentally for molten globular states.
(10) The model implies that protein folds by stage mechanism (secondary structure - molten) globule state - native state) in such a way that the results of previous stages are not reconsidered in subsequent ones.
(11) The molten globule has been assumed to be a major intermediate state of protein folding.
(12) We have, using fluorescence and fluorescence quenching, studied the molten globule state of bovine alpha-lactalbumin.
(13) The machine can make decimal dilutions of bacterial suspensions, dispense measured amounts into petri dishes, add molten agar, mix the dish contents, and label the dishes with sample and dilution numbers at the rate of 2,000 dishes per 8-hr day.
(14) These results are discussed in view of the molten globule structure of proteins.
(15) More challenging by far will be digging out the molten cores in the reactors themselves.
(16) When the molten surface of the earth solidified over 4 X 10(9) years ago the quantity of phosphorus to be contained in the storehouse of the new planet had already been resolved.
(17) The source of contamination was sought and it was found that the stone of the mill had been repaired with molten lead on the same day that the wheat of the family had been ground; while grinding the wheat some lead was mixed into the flour.
(18) This alternatively folded state exhibits certain characteristics of the molten globule but differs distinctly from it by its extraordinary structural stability that is characteristic for native protein structures.
(19) Molten metal burns of the feet remain a common injury to foundry workers.
(20) Updated at 8.09pm GMT 8.06pm GMT Falcons 20 - Seahawks 7, 2:20 3rd quarter Gonzalez is a hill of molten lava - get off him!