(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.
Goldilocks
Definition:
(n.) Same as Goldylocks.
Example Sentences:
(1) "What we need is a Goldilocks market, where it's neither too hot nor too cold.
(2) Kepler 438b: Most Earth-like planet ever discovered could be home for alien life Read more The Earth-sized planets are all thought to have regions where surface temperatures fall within the Goldilocks zone and are neither too hot nor too cold for water to run freely, making them at least potentially hospitable to life.
(3) I call this the 'Goldilocks exit' – not too hot, not too cold, just right.
(4) Lib Dems are to be an anchor on the larger parties, a perpetual Goldilocks – although his centre position was unmistakably to the right.
(5) The first is called the habitable zone distance, which reflects the planet's position in the Goldilocks region of space around a star, where the conditions are neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to form.
(6) In a report that forecasts a "Goldilocks" outcome of stable growth, IMF financial counsellor José Viñals said the end of low interest rates in the US, coupled with a failure by the Obama administration to monitor risky lending, a sharp slowdown in China and disruption to emerging markets could all upset expectations of a smooth recovery.
(7) This is the Goldilocks moment for the UK economy, with growth neither too hot nor too cold.
(8) Only a few have a solid surface and even fewer orbit their host suns inside "the Goldilocks zone", the region of space around a star that is neither too hot nor too cold, and which therefore offers the best prospects of allowing liquid water to gather on its surface and to provide home for life.
(9) "These 'Goldilocks' devices – not too big, not too small – are expected to have a break out year in 2010," said Jim Sloane, lead technology partner at the consultancy Deloitte.
(10) Also known as the "Goldilocks zone", this is the orbital region that is neither too hot nor too cold to allow liquid surface water and, potentially, life.
(11) Kepler 22-b, which is about 2.4 times the size of Earth and lies in the so-called "Goldilocks zone", has a relatively comfortable surface temperature of about 22C (72F) and orbits a star not unlike Earth's sun.
(12) Pale ale might leave a cake unpalatably bitter or brown ale too beery, but stout – the unlikely Goldilocks of the bunch – gets the balance just right: strong enough to lend depth of flavour, but smooth enough not to clash.
(13) Although it is well within the solar system’s Goldilocks zone, that band of space round the sun where conditions for planets were thought to be “not too cold and not too hot” to prevent a world from becoming habitable, Venus is nevertheless utterly lacking in water.
(14) Ostwald adds: One has to wonder whether the bell is tolling for the UK's economic "goldilocks" period, and by extension for the pound's strength.
(15) One official called this the "Goldilocks exit", by which he meant the transition would be one that involved the patient getting neither too hot nor too cold, but with a temperature that was just right.
(16) Signature video Sherlock (Parody) , in which the great detective solves the cases of Humpty Dumpty, Goldilocks and more.
(17) From this vantage point, the spacecraft will spend three-and-a-half years gazing at a star-rich region of the Milky Way in the hope of spotting planets like our own that are in their solar systems' "Goldilocks zone", or just the right distance from their suns for liquid water to exist.
(18) Robinson refers to good social game design as the Goldilocks approach: make it not too easy but never too hard.
(19) Just before Christmas 2011, Nasa announced that its space telescope had discovered Kepler-22b , the first confirmed planet to orbit squarely within what scientists call the "Goldilocks zone" of a Sun-like star, where temperatures would be just right to allow surface water throughout its orbit, and thus sustain life.