(n.) An instrument, first used in the East, made of an alloy of copper and tin, shaped like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a harsh and resounding noise.
(n.) A flat saucerlike bell, rung by striking it with a small hammer which is connected with it by various mechanical devices; a stationary bell, used to sound calls or alarms; -- called also gong bell.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now, 42 years later, he lives in the same flat in Portland Place, central London, though he is richer by £1bn, a peer in the House of Lords, and this week received a lifetime achievement gong at the Asian Business Awards.
(2) Simeone, despite having received his marching orders, trots up to accept his gong from Michel Platini.
(3) The Tribe triumphed in Critics' Week, while Love at First Fight won the top gong at the Directors' Fortnight.
(4) Moonlight wins best picture Oscar, after Warren Beatty gives gong to La La Land Read more “Peak blackness is a rare metaphysical anomaly that can only occur when an amalgam of black excellence comes together at the same societal intersection,” he said.
(5) So as Dame Quentin and the soon to be Sir Peter amble off, who is in for a gong at our next round of knighthoods?
(6) ITV stars Ant and Dec also won their first ever Bafta, beating Harry Hill, Stephen Fry and the comedian Michael McIntyre to the entertainment performance gong for I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!.
(7) Freeman was awarded an MBE in 1998 and over the years picked up an assortment of prestigious gongs for his radio work, including the Sony awards radio personality of the year in 1987, the Radio Academy's outstanding contribution to UK music radio award in 1988, and a special Sony award in May 2000 commemorating 40 years of service to broadcasting.
(8) There may be lingering doubts over whether Meryl Streep , Viola Davis or outside bet Rooney Mara will claim the Academy Award for best actress later this month, and no-one is absolutely certain if Jean Dujardin , George Clooney or Gary Oldman will be picking up the equivalent male gong at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
(9) More predictable were the three awards that went to Tom Hooper's Les Misérables – two technical, and a best supporting actress gong for Anne Hathaway's showstopping role as warbling prostitute Fantine.
(10) "I object strongly to the persecution of the Falun Gong and other human rights abuses," says a graduate from an MBA programme in the US, "but I simply did not recognise my country in the one-sided reporting there."
(11) By all accounts he's more interested in hotdogs than gongs.
(12) "Qi Gong" (QG) is a meditation exercise known for thousands of years in China and has always been widely practiced.
(13) These were split between members of the Falun Gong spiritual group, banned and repressed in China, Tibetans and other activists.
(14) In fact, as part of its deal with the Chinese government, searches conducted on google.cn did not completely screen out controversial subjects such as Tiananmen Square or the Falun Gong.
(15) Best screenplay goes to Leviathan Andrei Zvyagintsev strides to the stage to pick up the gong for best screenplay.
(16) Qi-gong relaxation exercise was used for treatment of pregnancy induced hypertension(PIH).
(17) Graph Search has served up lists of family members of people who live in China and like Falun Gong, people who like the extreme rightwing group English Defence League but also enjoy a curry, and Islamic men who are interested in other men and live in Tehran, where homosexuality is persecuted.
(18) The first woman to be awarded the prestigious gong in her own right, the 64-year-old earned a place as one of the most sought-after architects in the world, having bestowed her trademark blobs on cityscapes from Baku to Guangzhou This article was amended on 25 September 2015.
(19) Falun Gong groups overseas dispute that - and in 2011 a man set himself alight near the site of the car crash.
(20) She won an Olivier award for her role in as the Marquise in Les Liaisons Dangereuses and an Evening Standard gong for playing Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Pong
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The kinetic data are compatible with a tert-uni ping-pong mechanism, as in the case of the 'classical' glutathione peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.9).
(2) Initial-velocity kinetic studies indicate the enzyme acts by a ping-pong mechanism.
(3) Initial velocity and isotope exchange studies confirmed that the over-all reaction, like that catalyzed by pyruvate carboxylase purified from rat liver and chicken liver, was a nonclassical Ping Pong Bi Bi Uni Uni sequence with ATP and HCO3-binding randomly in the Bi Bi partial reaction.
(4) The asymptotic kinetics of lipoamide oxidoreductions switch between the ping pong and ordered mechanisms by varying pH of the reactions.
(5) Penetration of these drugs into perforated ping pong balls implanted intraperitoneally in rabbits was studied.
(6) The results obtained were consistent with a ping-pong or substitution mechanism.
(7) Since each catalytic cycle step is irreversible, the data fit a peroxidase ping-pong mechanism rather than an ordered bi-bi ping-pong mechanism.
(8) And then, proving that in the celebrity world of self-abasement there really is no such thing as "bottoming out", Shane started tweeting Ping Pong, otherwise known as Elizabeth Hurley's parrot Why has Australia not staged an intervention?
(9) It seems most probable that, as previously suggested by others for Ts, eIF-2B effectively catalyses an exchange reaction through a "ping-pong" type mechanism.
(10) Initial velocity studies indicate that the enzymatic reaction proceeds by a Ping-Pong mechanism.
(11) This reaction pathway is compared with the double displacement (Ping Pong) mechanisms that have previously been described for pyruvate carboxylases from other sources.
(12) The wild-type enzyme and Y177F mutant displayed ping-pong kinetics, but the Y177S and Y177G mutants appeared to have switched to an ordered sequential mechanism.
(13) But I don’t think [Lords chief whip] Ben Stoneham is going to be very accommodating to anyone.” Brexit weekly briefing: article 50 moves closer but EU dashes divorce deal hopes Read more Labour has promised no “extended ping pong” as it does not want to frustrate the timetable for triggering article 50, but it has laid eight amendments on issues from EU nationals to quarterly reporting to parliament about the Brexit process.
(14) Initial velocity measurements in which the concentration of L-alpha-methyl-gamma-glutamyl-L-alpha-aminobutyrate was varied at several fixed acceptor concentrations, and either the release of alpha-aminobutyrate or the formation of the transpeptidation products was determined, yielded results which are consistent with a ping-pong mechanism modified by a hydrolytic shunt.
(15) Contrary to findings with another enzyme (fraction I), a Bi Uni Uni Bi Ping Pong mechanism (Cleland, 1963a,b,c) corresponding to Berg's (1956) scheme of reaction was eliminated and an ordered Ter Ter mechanism with an A-C-B (standing for ATP, CoA and butyrate respectively) sequence of substrate entry for the overall reaction was established for fraction II.
(16) The Peak Ia and Peak II enzymes both absolutely require alpha-D-glucose 1,6-bisphosphate and Mg2+ for activity, and appear to have a "ping-pong" mechanism.
(17) Neuronal as well as astrocytic GABA-transaminase obeyed a bi bi ping-pong reaction mechanism.
(18) The N-acetylglucosamine and mannitol enzymes II, which do not function with an enzyme III, catalyze sugar phosphorylation by a ping-pong mechanism when the two substrates are phospho-HPr and sugar.
(19) Constant-ratio double-reciprocal plots confirm that the enzyme mechanism is nonsequential (ping-pong bi-bi).
(20) In contrast, a comparable reaction of the A-U-G analog with 30S subunits lead to a predominant crosslinking of A-U-G to proteins S4 and S12 (Pongs, O., Stoffler, G.A., Lanka, E., (1975) J. Mol.