(n.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high transition enthalpy for kerasin is ascribed to a lesser accommodation of gauche conformers in the hydrocarbon chains just below the transition temperature.
(2) Following Nagle, we assume that the steric repulsions between chains and between head groups and the trans-gauche rotation energies are the dominant interactions in determining the transition and we describe the effect of the other interactions with a mean field approximation.
(3) It is also true in France , where the pro-EU, anti-cuts Front de Gauche performed so well in the first round of the presidential election.
(4) The crystalline structure of five enantiomeric hydrochlorides were determined, the CPhe-C-C-N torsion angle is anti-periplanar in all cases but in p-fluoro-amphetamine where it is gauche.
(5) Interestingly, chi 2(3) (63.6 degrees) of lysine side-chain has a gauche+ conformation unlike in most of the other structures, where it is trans.
(6) The vibrational Raman spectra of dimyristoyl (DMPC)-, dipalmitoyl (DPPC)-, and distearoylphosphatidycholine (DSPC)-water bilayer system were used to probe lipid hydrocarbon chain trans-gauch isomerization dynamics below the gel-liquid crystalline phase transition temperature.
(7) The results suggested the gauche conformation for the C alpha-C beta bond in the choline moiety, a constrained glycerol region, a magic angle orientation for the sn-2 carbonyl, and a preferred orientation close to the bilayer normal for the plane of the sn-1 carbonyl bond and acyl chain C = C bond.
(8) The glycosidic torsional angle, chiCN = -28.4 degrees, is in the anti region; the sugar pucker is C(2')exo-C(3')endo in a nearly pure 32H twist; and the conformation of C(4')-C(5') is gauche-gauche.
(9) This leads us to assume that the gauche-gauche conformation is an essental prerequisite for substrates of RNA polymerase.
(10) All backbone torsion angles fall into the range expected for the A-DNA form, except for the nucleotide G5, whose alpha and gamma torsion angles adopt the trans, trans conformation instead of the common gauche-, gauche+ conformation.
(11) The percentage of (single gauche bend + kink) conformers, relative to multiple gauche forms, decreases dramatically from 78% in the 30:1 mixture to 15% in the 10:1 mixture at 44C.
(12) On 5th Gear, from 2007, he talked about internet nerds reinventing themselves through social media, and offered an intentionally redneck perspective on the battle of the sexes in the deliberately gauche I'm Still a Guy.
(13) Part of their appeal was their apparent nonchalance, which tended to be mistaken for cool but was really, she says, just gauche bemusement.
(14) In contrast, a substantial population of gauche rotamers was observed for the 4-d4-DPPC.
(15) The following year, he and the slightly gauche new prime minister, John Major, took part in the fraught Maastricht treaty negotiations that created the modern European Union.
(16) A method is proposed and demonstrated for the direct determination of conformational disorder (trans-gauche isomerization) as a function of acyl-chain position in phospholipid bilayer membranes.
(17) Even below the main transition temperature, considerable amounts of the methylene segments of the acyl chains of lipid A were found to assume gauche conformations.
(18) These results favour the view that the dopamine uptake site is able to accept the substrate as the gauche rotamer.
(19) The IleRS-bound L-valine takes the gauche- form about the C alpha-C beta bond.
(20) The ribose is puckered C(2')-endo, the heterocycle is in anti position and the C(5')-O(5') bond gauche, gauche.
Gawky
Definition:
(superl.) Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk.
Example Sentences:
(1) But later, by the time he was selling out theatres for his live shows, that gawky guile and snotty cheek had morphed into relentless anxiety and slapstick self-consciousness.
(2) But the gawky Furth, who specialised in nervous, oddball characters, began to get lots of work on television at the beginning of the 60s, something which continued into the 90s.
(3) One thing you'll soon realise is that this new generation of superstar YouTubers are not just gawky kids sitting in their bedrooms with a webcam.
(4) He’s not really gawky, although he will laugh his way through anything.
(5) Core team Groomed, drilled and polished by a team of advisers, including former TV producer Thea Rogers, the chancellor has replaced the squeaky-voiced gawkiness of his early days in the job with a carefully constructed image.
(6) He has all of Maguire's innate intelligence and endearing gawky awkwardness, as well as one crucial advantage over his predecessor – as a former gymnast, Garfield can do his own backflips.
(7) What delights the women most is anyone with a “past”, and when this gawky, evangelical new girl confesses that she “thinks” she is married, but isn’t quite sure, they draw closer and hold their breath.
(8) The good news is that she dances far better than that gawky teen shuffle of "Joe le Taxi"; the bad news is that… well, there's no bad news.
(9) She seems gawky and guileless, a galumphing work in progress; “more goose than swan” in the view of New York Times critic AO Scott .
(10) Then in 1968 he met Gates, another gawky kid who was also spending all his free time hunched over the school's first computer, an ASR-33 Teletype model .
(11) He is joined at the podium by director Danny Boyle; by gawky Dev Patel, preening Freida Pinto and by the pint-sized child actors flown out from Mumbai to attend the event.