(v. t.) A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.7.
(v. t.) Money; riches; wealth.
(v. t.) A yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower tipped with gold.
(v. t.) Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of gold.
Example Sentences:
(1) To investigate the relationship between Helicobacter pylori infection and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) intolerance and the effect of gold use on the seroprevalence of H. pylori.
(2) This activity scheme uses as its base, dose potency measured as TD50, the chronic dose rate that actuarially halves the adjusted percentage of tumor-free animals at the end of the study (Gold et al., Environ.
(3) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
(4) A combined plot of all results from the four separate papers, which is ordered alphabetically by chemical, is available from L. S. Gold, in printed form or on computer tape or diskette.
(5) To determine the nature of the electrochemical treatment on the gold substrate, cyclic voltammetry was performed with various chemical solutions.
(6) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
(7) Injection of albumin-colloidal gold conjugates resulted in an insignificant uptake.
(8) IgG-gold also adhered to M cells and excess unlabeled IgG inhibited IgA-gold binding; thus binding was not isotype-specific.
(9) Colloidal gold immuno-electron microscopy is a powerful tool for defining antigenicity at the subcellular level.
(10) The effects of gold thioglucose loading on Se distribution, and on Se-dependent GSH peroxidase and GSH S-transferase, were examined in rats fed three dietary levels of Se (0, 0.2, and 2.0 ppm), and with or without adjuvant-induced inflammation.
(11) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.
(12) The sectioned worm tissues from each developmental stage were embedded in Lowicryl HM 20 medium, stained with infected serum IgG and protein A gold complex (particle size: 12 nm) and observed by electron microscopy.
(13) We concluded that gold labeling with polymyxin B is useful in localizing the binding sites of polymyxin.
(14) Heads you 'own it' Ian Read, the Scottish-born accountant who runs the biggest drug firm in the US carries in his pocket a special gold coin, about the size and weight of a £2 piece.
(15) Evidence for Golgi apparatus-associated processing of oligosaccharides in the ER was obtained by lectin-gold cytochemistry revealing the presence of the galactose (beta 1----4)N-acetylglucosamine sequence and sialic acid residues.
(16) One of them got a gold medal in medicine, for being top of the year, but they dropped out for exactly these reasons.” These are not alarmist stories being spread by campaigners.
(17) Different techniques for attaching the gold cylinders to the frameworks were used.
(18) A post-embedding cytochemical technique using WGA-gold complexes was used and the quantitative intensity of WGA-labeling on the surface membrane of platelets after convulxin stimulation was determined.
(19) Only 75% of the granules stained for PRL by the protein-A gold technique; the other 25% stained for neither PRL nor GH.
(20) Smoking behaviour, self-reported mood and cardiac activity were examined in 12 "sedative" and 12 "stimulant" smokers, defined using Mangan and Golding's questionnaire.
Goldfinch
Definition:
(n.) A beautiful bright-colored European finch (Carduelis elegans). The name refers to the large patch of yellow on the wings. The front of the head and throat are bright red; the nape, with part of the wings and tail, black; -- called also goldspink, goldie, fool's coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet William.
(n.) The yellow-hammer.
(n.) A small American finch (Spinus tristis); the thistle bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Pulitzer for fiction writing went to Donna Tartt for The Goldfinch, while Annie Baker won the prize for drama for her play set in a cinema, The Flick.
(2) I walked through flocks of goldfinches and starlings and watched mistle thrushes warble and wrens gobble berries.
(3) We watched the volunteers ringing and measuring goldfinches and warblers – a fascinating way to see wild birds very close up – then saw them fly off.
(4) Rights for The Goldfinch are currently under negotiation in the UK, according to the Bookseller .
(5) Dale, G., Goldfinch, M. E., Sibert, J. R., and Webb, J. K. G. (1975).
(6) At the start of the year, everyone was convinced Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch would win; things turned out to be not so predictable.
(7) I know we’re all supposed to be obsessed with The Goldfinch this summer, but I’m planning to reread The Secret History by Donna Tartt in the tub instead.
(8) The retailer is in a long-running dispute with Hachette about the price of e-books that has led to it delaying shipments of books from best selling authors including JK Rowling, Stephanie Meyer, David Foster Wallace, and Donna Tartt, author of this year's Pulitzer Prize winner, The Goldfinch.
(9) The experience led me to conclude that although we love to argue about books, acquire them, express strong opinions about The Goldfinch , etc, etc, more than ever we seem to be losing the knack of reading them.
(10) "The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America.
(11) Some birds in the UK have increased since the 1970s, namely stock doves, wood pigeons, goldfinch, greenfinch and jackdaws.
(12) Regulation of glycolysis was assessed in winter- and summer-acclimatized goldfinches (Carduelis tristis).
(13) The Goldfinch is due out in the US on 22 October this year, and according to a description from its publisher on Amazon.com will tell the story of a young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, who "miraculously" survives an explosion that kills his mother.
(14) The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt The Secret History author may not be prolific , but she's regular.
(15) David Goldfinch, Folkestone, Kent, parent and ex-Lib Dem voter The Liberal Democrats won only 8% of the seats in parliament – and both the larger parties were committed to tuition fees.
(16) Filled with long-tailed tits or goldfinches or cackling green woodpeckers, many are as thick as houses, a coalition of holly, rowan, hazel, dogwood and bramble, with oaks permitted to grow into grand trees.
(17) It would be a day of spiders’ webs, drifting thistledown shredded by goldfinches , ripening berries and lethargic bumblebees clinging to the last of the knapweed flowers .
(18) These include the linnet , Dartford warbler , stonechat , meadow pipit , skylark , goldfinch , bullfinch, hedge sparrow , grey partridge and yellowhammer .
(19) He was recently asked by the New York Times to review Donna Tartt 's new novel, The Goldfinch.
(20) Goldfinch-arm The specific ache you get from Donna Tartt's excellent but heavy hardback .