(n.) A top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play.
(n.) A light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise.
(n.) A long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as, the captain's gig.
(n.) A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) I first saw them live at the location of the terror attack, Manchester Arena – then the MEN – aged 15, a teen at a gig with my friends, as many of the Grande’s fans were.
(2) The next day on his blog he called the job "the Holy Grail of animation gigs".
(3) Matthew Taylor was appointed by Theresa May last October to review employment practices in the light of concerns about the precarious nature of work, particularly in the gig economy.
(4) I'm sure Evan wouldn't mind me saying that he makes no secret of an occasional discomfort about conventional chord-change playing in jazz, and tends to sit out occasions where it's required, as he did last year in London on a gig in which the pianist Django Bates was reworking Charlie Parker tunes.
(5) Riccardo Vastola, 28, studied marketing and communications but founded a music business in 2009, organising indie rock gigs, events, club nights in and around Bologna.
(6) You know, I don't mean to be unkind but I think you should put your phone down because you're just being a dick, really, just enjoy the gig because it's a better … it's a dick job, filming the show.
(7) The arts and social space in Deptford opened in 2015 after three years of fundraising and it now runs a programme of gigs, screenings, talks and performances, as well as being home to Tome Records, which has a distractingly good selection of vinyl, as well as tapes and zines.
(8) [When he comes to a gig] it’s like a mate at school turning up.” Watson’s record of campaigns against phone hacking and establishment child abuse have also won him cross-party admiration and a public profile as a righteous crusader.
(9) In 2004, fewer than 100,000 tickets were sold for arena standup gigs.
(10) That was one of the advantages of having a gay "uncle" – he took me to gigs.
(11) And if you're really funny, then provided you're not punching people when you come off, or stealing people's belongings, then you'll get a gig.
(12) Calling London … Prince and 3RDEYEGIRL at Shepherd's Bush Empire Fresh from his Valentine's night double-header of shows at King's Place, beneath the Guardian's offices in north London, Prince has announced his Sunday night appearance at Koko in Camden Town will take the form of three separate gigs.
(13) The boys have just done eight gigs in nine nights and they're knackered.
(14) Their lives are all different: they are creating and organising challenging contemporary art, others setting up literary resources, working as DJs and educators, re-entering education or still progressing in karate at age 43, organising gigs and working in the professions.
(15) White is doing his own bit to turn back the clock: at his gigs, he enforces a strict ban on the audience shooting pictures or video; at home, he only allows his children – Scarlett, eight, and Hank, six – to play with mechanical toys.
(16) He didn't even mind the National Front turning up and sieg-heiling during gigs, which seems enormously sporting of him, given his raft of horrifying stories about experiencing racism in 60s and 70s Britain, and the scars he still bears as the result of a racially motivated 1980 knife attack.
(17) These data suggest that GAMD is very efficient at priming T cells specific for GIg epitopes and that once primed they can be readily re-triggered by GIg.
(18) Earlier this year, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that while the on-demand, gig economy is creating innovations, it is also “raising hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look like in the future”.
(19) In London there are generally four types of rock show: the billions of pub gigs where 20 of the band's mates try to convince you there's still a future in grindie; the arena and stadium blowouts where it's customary to express one's appreciation of the band by dousing one's peers in airborne urine; the east London artronica happenings where everyone's only watching everyone else; and the gigs in Hyde Park you can't hear.
(20) She booked a well-paying gig as a Fox News pundit, wrote two bestselling books and starred in her own reality show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, on TLC.
Gip
Definition:
(v. t.) To take out the entrails of (herrings).
(n.) A servant. See Gyp.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intravenous infusion of porcine GIP in man induces insulin release when a degree of hyperglycemia is present.
(2) The amylase mRNA was not changed by injection of GIP.
(3) To determine if a similar phenomenon occurs in subjects with non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM), serum glucose, insulin, C-peptide, and gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP) responses to three mixed test meals of varying fatty acid composition were assessed in twelve subjects with NIDDM.
(4) Although structurally related, GIP and glucagon may influence liver blood flow through different mechanisms.
(5) Pancreastatin inhibited carbachol- but not forskolin- or GIP-stimulated insulin release from Rin m 5F cells.
(6) By contrast, the N-terminal portion of GIP can be removed without seriously impairing the activity of the molecule.
(7) In contrast to Gip and G34, labeling of the 46 kDa protein (Gsp) was not influenced by light.
(8) Plasma GIP concentrations were elevated in fed but not fasted streptozotocin diabetic mice, and oral fat evoked a greater GIP response than control mice.
(9) glucose) is reduced in type 2 diabetes although GIP secretion is normal or exaggerated.
(10) The clinical and pathophysiological importance of GIP is discussed by means of various diseases (obesity, maturity-onset diabetes mellitus, duodenal ulcer disease).
(11) The effect of glucose and GIP on insulin release from the isolated perfused pancreas of the same animals was investigated to determine if TPN altered the sensitivity of the beta cell.
(12) Gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP) is a gastrointestinal hormone stimulated after oral nutrient ingestion, but not after intravenous nutrient administration.
(13) The GIP was subsequently cleaved from the fusion protein with alpha-thrombin.
(14) Our data indicate that there is a substantial difference in the hemodynamic responses to GIP among splanchnic organs, and suggest that GIP acts specifically on the mesenteric vasculature.
(15) Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) is a forty-two amino acid hormone that stimulates the secretion of insulin from the pancreatic B-cells in the presence of elevated glucose concentrations.
(16) The objective of this study was to compare the gastrin- and gastric inhibitory peptide (GIP)-releasing actions of bombesin, gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP)-27, neuromedin B, and GRP-10 in rats.
(17) The response of GIP to intragastric glucose was not significantly different between pre- and postoperative tests.
(18) We compared the effects of GIP on portal venous and hepatic arterial flow with those of glucagon in conscious dogs.
(19) The basal GIP concentrations were significantly elevated after TV.
(20) At 30 minutes a further increase in IR-GIP to supraphysiologic levels occurred.