(n.) A piece or slip of metal or wood, notched or otherwise, in a machine or structure, to hold other parts in place or bind them together, or to afford a bearing surface; -- usually held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw.
(v. t.) To secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs.
(v. i.) To balk. See Jib, v. i.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fund is a new development for Gib because it raises private money up front for investment in a particular industry instead of investing project by project.
(2) Chris Huhne , the energy and climate change secretary, appears to concede the Treasury's concern that the liabilities taken on by the GIB would be added to the government's budget book.
(3) To analyse the importance of GIB we studied, retrospectively, the causes of hospitalization in 301 patients, all on HD in the same Unit in January 1990.
(4) Today's report also appeared to put pressure on Osborne as he works towards this autumn's comprehensive spending review (CSR), by warning that the task of setting up a GIB needs to begin immediately.
(5) Kingsbury is particularly proud of the large investments made this year in windfarms such as the £241m Gib put into Westermost Rough off the coast of Yorkshire and the £220m for a 10% stake in Gwynt y Mor, the biggest offshore field under construction in Europe.
(6) Extracts of B. malayi adult male worms, female worms, and microfilariae contained Gib 13 monoclonal antibody-reactive antigens of Mr 25-30,000, 57-90,000, and approximately equal to 200,000.
(7) "The GIB will build on this lead and enable businesses such as Aquamarine Power to leverage the significant private sector capital which will allow the UK's green energy sector to flourish," he said.
(8) A green investment bank (GIB) is being pushed for to turn the £50-80bn of traditional project capital available into the much higher amounts funding experts say will be needed to pay for the low-carbon technologies the UK is expected to need.
(9) Sue Charman, the "one planet finance leader" at WWF-UK, said the GIB had an essential role to play in shifting the UK to a low carbon economy, but giving it no immediate borrowing powers was a critical mistake.
(10) Vince Cable, the business secretary, has officially marked the launch of the new green investment bank ( GIB ) by announcing funding of a new waste-to-energy plant and an energy saving scheme.
(11) NSAID appear to be a risk factor for GIB from erosive Gastritis and or Duodenitis.
(12) I am confident that the sale process will provide GIB with good new owners who will support GIB’s continued growth and leadership role in the global green economy long into the future,” he said.
(13) Energy efficiency is a no-brainer, as is letting the GIB off the Treasury leash.
(14) The Gib 13 monoclonal antibody was raised against eggs of Onchocerca gibsoni and subsequently found to react with a phosphorylcholine epitope designated as the T15 idiotype.
(15) Salmond, who has played a prominent role in building up overseas investments in green energy, pointed out instead that £103m of the GIB's start up capital of £3bn came from the money owed to Scotland by the Treasury, which has been sitting on Scotland's share of the fossil fuel levy for some years.
(16) The evidence now indicates that only cells in a certain intermitotic state, called GIb, can be thus detached, and that when such cells are not locally available the expanding mitosis is forced into the vertical axis.
(17) Detection of circulating antigen in amicrofilaremic subjects with acute symptoms of lymphatic filariasis, and 53% of asymptomatic amicrofilaremic subjects, but not in nonendemic controls, suggests that the Gib 13 IRMA will also be of value in the diagnosis of occult filariasis.
(18) Lib Dem minister and energy secretary, Chris Huhne, wants the GIB to operate as a fully fledged bank that is able to issue bonds and underwrite loans, rather than just a fund, which would be more limited and unable to release the required capital.
(19) Cable will be in front of the environmental audit committee of MPs to discuss the GIB tomorrow.
(20) The report said that the forthcoming spending review on 20 October is a good time to deliver a GIB which is backed by between £4-6bn of capital until 2015.
Gim
Definition:
(a.) Neat; spruce.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have isolated several gamma-ray-induced mutants (GIMs) of the nontumorigenic HeLa x skin fibroblast hybrid CGL1 that were specifically selected for reexpression of IAP to further investigate the potential linkage between IAP regulation and the putative tumor suppressor locus.
(2) The relaxation rates of the exchangeable guanine imino protons (Gim) in H2O and in 90% D2O show that below 20 degrees C spin-lattice relaxation is exclusively from proton-proton magnetic dipolar interactions while proton-nitrogen interactions contribute about 30% to the spin-spin relaxation.
(3) These stimulate the processes of myeloid precursor proliferation directly (by means of lymphokines) and in cooperation with monocytes-macrophages of GIM.
(4) The relaxation rates of the Gim, C-H5, and C-H6 in B- and Z-form poly(dG-dC).poly(dG-dC) cannot be explained by assuming the DNA behaves as a rigid rod.
(5) Gonadotrophin-inhibiting material (GIM) was able to inhibit the binding of 125I-hCG to rat Leydig cells, suggesting that its inhibiting properties are due to its ability to complete for the hCG binding sites on Leydig cells.
(6) The observation that the spin-lattice relaxation is nonexponential and that the initial spin-lattice relaxation rate of the Gim, G-H8 and C-H6 protons depends on the selectivity of the exciting pulse shows that spin-diffusion dominates the spin-lattice relaxation.
(7) However, studies with tumor reconstitutes of the GIMs and transfection studies with an IAP complementary DNA expression vector indicate that high IAP expression alone is not sufficient to confer rapid tumor growth.
(8) Measurements of the 1H spin-lattice (R1) and spin-spin (R2) relaxation rates of the exchangeable thymine (Tim) and guanine (Gim) imino protons have been used to probe the internal dynamics of the B and Z-forms of poly[d(A-br5C).d(G-T)] and the mechanism of the B-Z transition.
(9) The GIMs have a wide range of cell morphology and level of IAP expression (nearly a factor of 40).
(10) The effect of GIM on hCG-induced adenylate cyclase activation and testosterone production was also studied.
(11) Conversion to the Z-form by addition of 4.5 M-NaCl dramatically reduces both the Tim and Gim exchange rates (estimated to be less than 2 s-1 at 70 degrees C).
(12) Binding of fluorescein isothiocyanate-tagged GIM to Leydig cells was also seen.
(13) The tumorigenicity of the GIMs was examined by s.c. injection into nude mice and all were found to be tumorigenic.
(14) The B and Z-forms of poly[d(A-br5C).d(G-T)] coexist in 4.6 M-NaCl at 45 degrees C. Due to slow exchange, two sets of Tim and Gim resonances are observed and can be assigned to the B and Z conformations (the chemical shifts are, respectively, Tim = 13.4, 14.1 p.p.m.
(15) In the second study a combination of music and imagery was examined by randomly assigning subjects to one of five groups: self-generated imagery with music (SIM), guided imagery with music (GIM), self-generated imagery without music (SI), guided imagery without music (GI), or no-treatment control.
(16) The tumor volume-doubling time is in the range of 4 to 8 days for all the cell lines; however, the lag time to reach 500 mm3 tumor volume was significantly longer when the GIM IAP activity was low (less than 20% relative activity), suggesting perhaps that there is a threshold level of IAP expression required for tumor formation and selection for high IAP expression in vivo.
(17) The increased number of committed precursor cells of erythro- and granulomonocytopoiesis, morphologically differentiated elements and enhancing colony-stimulating and erythropoietic activities of GIM cells origin were shown as well.
(18) At elevated temperature, R1 for both Tim and Gim in the B conformation is dominated by exchange with the solvent, with Tim exchanging more rapidly than Gim.