(n.) A little mass or collection; a small quantity; a mouthful.
(n.) The mouth.
Example Sentences:
(1) He questioned the point of spending "huge gobs of money" on the media expansion without addressing issues such as China's human rights record.
(2) It wasn’t yet purely about moronic ugliness, uniformity and gobbing.
(3) The cDNAs encoding two forms of mammalian G(o) alpha were also isolated and designated GoA alpha and GoB alpha.
(4) Both GoA and GoB were found in such cloned cells as PC12, NG108-15, C6, GA-1, G8, and 3T3-L1 cells.
(5) On the other hand, relatively high concentrations of GoB alpha were present in the brain, pituitary gland, adipose tissue, lung, and testis.
(6) Picking up seven years after the last episodes of season three, still stuck in the same rut, Michael's promising to spend more time with his son (George Michael, played by Michael Cera), Gob is begging for money, and Lindsay is trying to find herself while stuck in the world's weirdest marriage with Dr Tobias Funke (David Cross).
(7) These results indicate that the major species of G(o) alpha is encoded by GoA alpha cDNA and G(o)*alpha is encoded by GoB alpha cDNA.
(8) It is possible that GoA alpha and GoB alpha have different functions.
(9) (Incidentally, Jeb is not short for Jebediah, as you might have reasonably assumed – it’s an acronym for John Ellis Bush, like Arrested Development ’s Gob Bluth is an acronym for George Oscar Bluth.)
(10) According to University of California-Berkeley's Debt & Society project , rising higher education spending is in large part driven by factors that have little to do with the quality of instruction or academic resources: schools are pouring gobs of capital into material amenities like student lounges and sports arenas, and this spending in turn raises the cost of the debts schools incur to finance these projects.
(11) These two forms, which we call GoA alpha and GoB alpha, appear to be the products of alternative splicing.
(12) To recognize two forms of G(o) type G proteins, we raised antibodies in rabbits against two peptides with sequences found only in the respective proteins of murine GoA alpha (SNTYEDAAAYIQTQF) and GoB alpha (TEAVAHIQGQYWSK).
(13) ‘owl-light’ (Lancashire) fizmer the whispering sound of wind in reeds or grass (Fenland) grimlins the night hours around midsummer when dusk blends into dawn (Orkney) The word-hoard: Robert Macfarlane on rewilding our language of landscape Read more gruffy ground the surface landscape left behind by lead-mining (Somerset) grumma a mirage caused by mist or haze (Shetland) hob-gob a dangerously choppy sea (Suffolk) muxy of land; sticky, miry, muddy (Exmoor) outshifts the fringes and boundaries of a town (Cambridgeshire) roarie-bummlers fast-moving storm clouds (Scots) snow-bones long thin patches of snow still lying after a thaw, often in dips or stream-cuts (Yorkshire) turn-whol a deep and seething pool where two quick streams meet (Cumbria) zwer the whirring sound made by a covey of partridge taking flight (Exmoor)
(14) OK, you write something, and I’ll see if I feel like drawing something to fit it.” “The cartoonists have shut their gobs?” came one reaction, along with another bottle of Côtes du Rhône.
(15) I told him, proudly proffering my bolus of veg and gob.
(16) Of the brain G proteins, GoA, GoB, and Gi1 contain the same set of three gamma subunits, but Gi2 contains only two of these subunits.
(17) Portia de Rossi plays the third Bluth sibling, Lindsay (who's just as self-centred as Gob, but with a much better wardrobe).
(18) The GoB alpha transcript is expressed at highest levels in brain and testis.
(19) "Each time this claim is raised, we ask the GOB (government of Bahrain) to share its evidence," the US embassy reported in a secret dispatch in August 2008 .
(20) This is gob-smackingly untenable and there should be an uproar about it.
Trap
Definition:
(v. t.) To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.
(n.) An old term rather loosely used to designate various dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic-augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock.
(a.) Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.
(n.) A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes.
(n.) Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares.
(n.) A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball. It consists of a pivoted arm on one end of which is placed the ball to be thrown into the air by striking the other end. Also, a machine for throwing into the air glass balls, clay pigeons, etc., to be shot at.
(n.) The game of trapball.
(n.) A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids.
(n.) A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
(n.) A wagon, or other vehicle.
(n.) A kind of movable stepladder.
(v. t.) To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.
(v. t.) Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
(v. t.) To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.
(v. i.) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.
Example Sentences:
(1) Magnetic polyethyleneimine (PEI) microcapsules have been developed for trapping electrophilic intermediates in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
(2) tert-Butyl hydroaminoxyl is detected as a degradation product of the hydroxyl adduct from all spin traps.
(3) This suggests that the fusion protein traps the SII in nonstimulatory interactions and that antibody 2-7B inhibits SII binding to RNA polymerase II.
(4) The mosquitoes coming to bite in bedrooms were monitored with light traps set beside untreated bednets.
(5) They alter most immune functions and create a state of immunity deficiency; they damage the tubules which may lead to interstitial fibrosis and increased postglomerular capillary resistance furthering the trapping of macromolecules in the glomeruli; and they probably increase tissue permeability to macromolecules.
(6) Direct surgical exposure of the cervical or cavernous internal carotid artery (ICA) was necessary in the remaining 3 patients, who had undergone unsuccessful surgical trapping.
(7) One of the reasons for doing this study is to give a voice to women trapped in this epidemic,” said Dr Catherine Aiken, academic clinical lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the University of Cambridge, “and to bring to light that with all the virology, the vaccination and containment strategy and all the great things that people are doing, there is no voice for those women on the ground.” In a supplement to the study, the researchers have published some of the emails to Women on Web which reveal their fears.
(8) 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.
(9) These results suggest that [99mTc]LDL acts as a trapped ligand in vivo and should therefore, be a good tracer for noninvasive quantitative biodistribution studies of LDL.
(10) Godiya Usman, an 18-year-old finalist who jumped off the back of the truck, said she feels trapped by survivor's guilt.
(11) Relative to the rate of formation of the 3-oxo intermediate trapped with N-acetylcysteine, epoxidation of octene and subsequent hydrolysis to octane-1,2-diol was over 40 times more rapid.
(12) Charcoal was added to the homogenization buffer in these experiments to prevent the artifactual activation of PKA by cAMP analogs trapped in the extracellular space.
(13) Best fit of the thyroid data was achieved with a model in which the trap is described by two compartments, a fast ("follicular cell") compartment and a slower ("colloid") compartment.
(14) The aggregation product is of high molecular weight and composed of monomers which are trapped in a minium of conformational energy different from the one characterizing the native enzyme.
(15) A continuous fluorometric assay that utilizes apoflavodoxin as a trapping agent for riboflavin 5'-phosphate (FMN) has been developed for flavokinase (ATP:riboflavin 5'-phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.26).
(16) Solid-phase adsorbents were compared in their trapping efficiencies for dichloromethane (DCM), ethylene dibromide (EDB), 4-nitroblphenyl (4-NB), 2-nitrofluorene (2-NF), and fluoranthene (FI).
(17) Gas trapping and corneal edema were not observed in uncovered corneas or corneas covered with membrane lenses.
(18) The cells were trapped on glass fiber filters and incorporated radioactivity was measured.
(19) Based on these results we propose that the linearization of the DNA elution dose-response curve observed after chromatin decondensation reflects a reduction in the degree of chromatin compactness in the nuclear complexes that leads to a relatively uniform distribution of the DNA on the filter and reduces trapping of elutable material in the compact nuclear structures otherwise present.
(20) At this time the circulating MN population probably contained labeled long-lived lymphocytes that did not enter inflammatory sites (the traps) as readily as the short-lived lymphocytes.