(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.
Prospector
Definition:
(n.) One who prospects; especially, one who explores a region for minerals and precious metals.
Example Sentences:
(1) The village is situated inside a nature reserve in the Ituri rainforest, an area covering 5,000 square miles that is supposed to be off limits to hunters and gold prospectors.
(2) Or if there are, they are meaningless and entirely ineffective; they might, in fact, just as well not be lying about at all until the prospector - the journalist - puts them into relation with other facts: presents them in other words.
(3) Lord Browne, the former chief executive of BP and now chairman of Cuadrilla, one of the UK's main shale prospectors, is an adviser to the government.
(4) Previous probes have included Lunar Prospector, which studied the moon's geology; Stardust, which returned a sample of material scooped from a comet's tail; and Mars Pathfinder, which deployed a tiny motorised robot vehicle on the Red Planet in 1997.
(5) Those irate British nimbys, along with the green groups who want to leave fossil fuels in the ground, are quite capable of making life miserable for the shale prospectors.
(6) It was a separate award to the AMEC awards, which include a media award and a prospector award,” an AMEC spokeswoman told Guardian Australia.
(7) Steve McIntyre, a Canadian former minerals prospector and climate sceptic who has analysed the data, suggests that one tree, known as YAD06, could be " the most influential tree in the world ".
(8) Folks say there’s a cabin of an old-time gold prospector up there still exactly as he left it.
(9) High risk groups included persons of such professions as forestry workers, truck and tractor drivers, oil workers and prospectors, livestock breeders, builders.
(10) Prospectors (28%) like success, ambition, seek the esteem of others and if they think a party can help them help themselves, they are on board.
(11) Palm oil risk to Africa as prospectors eye swaths of land Read more That’s all supposing the company can deliver, of course.
(12) The results of the study underline the importance of making available more prospectors in the district of Dresden to meet the expanding tasks of the clinically active pathologist in autopsy and biopsy diagnostic efforts.
(13) Born Jeane Jordan, in Oklahoma, she was the daughter of an itinerant and unsuccessful oil prospector.
(14) With so many prospectors on the lookout for so long, you're unlikely to find gem-quality shards of the blue-green stone just lying around, but the hills are a worthy destination on their own for the spectacular high-desert hiking and wild west lore.
(15) If he does win, it will be painful for bookmakers as three-quarters of all money backed has been for the writer who has been shortlisted three times (Flaubert's Parrot, England, England and Arthur and George) but never won.The wild card on the list is DeWitt, who tells the story of Charlie and Eli Sisters, two assassins who work for the shadowy "Commodore", and who travel from Oregon to California on the trail of a prospector called Hermann Kermit Warm.
(16) Instead, they have used psychological profiling around values, dividing the electorate into three “tribes”: pioneers, motivated by ethics and inner fulfilment, prospectors, motivated by “getting on”, and settlers, a socially conservative group motivated by security and safety.
(17) "Virunga's rich natural resources are for the benefit of the Congolese people, not for foreign oil prospectors to drain away.
(18) In 1896, after pair of prospectors discovered gold along a tributary of the Klondike River, an estimated 100,000 Americans and Canadians tried to climb over the Coast mountains of Alaska and British Columbia and boat down the Yukon river in an effort to find a fortune of their own.
(19) "The question is which politician can harness the Pioneer, the Prospector and the Settler in a convincing way."
(20) And Gammell may soon also be one of Britain's most successful oil prospectors, striking it rich in regions where the world's largest energy companies found dry rock.