(n.) A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard.
(n.) An ugly old woman.
(n.) A fury; a she-monster.
(n.) An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.
(n.) The hagdon or shearwater.
(n.) An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
(v. t.) To harass; to weary with vexation.
(n.) A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or inclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
(n.) A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hag gene and adjacent regions of the B. subtilis chromosome were restriction mapped, and the nucleotide sequence was determined.
(2) (i) The hag gene was expressed constitutively in Fla+ cells.
(3) Group B mutants were segregated from the hag locus and appeared closely linked to the phage adsorption site gene (gtaA), and group C was only loosely linked to hisA1 and thus far contains only one mutant.
(4) The addition of 3M KCl-extracted donor antigen (HAg) to immunosuppressive therapy with 16 Gy total lymphoid irradiation produces a significantly higher fraction of Wistar-Furth (WFu) recipients displaying indefinite survival of heterotopic buffalo (BUF) heart allografts, namely 80 versus 20%.
(5) The atherometric system proved to be useful to distinguish between HAG and LAG.
(6) Lowering the extracellular Ca2+ concentration to 6 or 50 microM attenuated markedly the glycogenolytic and haemodynamic responses to HAG; efflux of Ca2+ from the liver was not observed in response to HAG.
(7) The chromosomal locus containing the wild-type flagellin allele was replaced with a defective allele of the gene (delta hag-633) that contained a 633-base-pair deletion.
(8) (iii) The hag gene was expressed in mutants with flaS, flaT, flaU, and flbC defects.
(9) HAG and HAgC were observed to collect in coated pits whereas wild-type HA was excluded from those structures.
(10) lambda pflaL1 carries all nine fla genes at 43 min, and lambda pflaH14 carries hag and two fla genes at 42.5 min.
(11) Data derived from the responses of 69 adults to the Cornell Medical Index (CMI) indicate that there are no significant differences in psychological or physical illness complaints between adults who have experienced the Old Hag and adults who have not had this experience.
(12) In the presence of chloroquine, which inhibits the exit of receptors from endosomes, HAG and HAgC accumulated in intracellular vesicles.
(13) The positive inotropic responses and coronary perfusion pressure effects elicited by PMA and PDBu were largely prevented by the addition of the PKC inhibitors H7 (6 nM) or HAG (10 nM); however, these drugs were without effect on the negative inotropic response to higher concentrations of both PKC-activating (PMA, PDBu) and non-PKC-activating (alpha PDD, 4 alpha-phorbol) phorbol compounds.
(14) The patients were classified according to the primary cause of death, as high atherosclerotic (HAG) or low atherosclerotic groups (LAG), comprising 1,171 and 872 cases, respectively.
(15) The mononitrobenzylidene-HAGs were more active than the dinitrobenzylidene-HAG compound.
(16) Heat aggregated human (HAG) IgG pretreated with total rheumatoid factors isolated from the serum of rheumatoid arthritis patients showed decreased superoxide generation enhancing activity as compared with HAG pretreated with buffer alone.
(17) Sequencing of this hag gene revealed that it encodes a protein of 272 amino acids (M(r) 29,995).
(18) These results suggested that 5-HT does not release PRL through a direct pituitary action, and that the effect observed in HAG animals could be mediated through the release of a PRL-releasing factor after 5-HT administration.
(19) Of eighteen such transductants sixteen failed to show phase variation, and on transduction back to Salmonella each structural gene for a phase-2 flagellin (or at least for its antigenically determinant part) now behaved as an allele of H1, presumably in consequence of incorporation in the hag region of the K12 recipient, in place of H1-i ah1.
(20) It was shown that at HAg greater than or equal to 25% the strains used for antigen and antibody generation were closely related and at HAg less than or equal to 6.25% belonged to different subtypes.
Hat
Definition:
(a.) Hot.
() sing. pres. of Hote to be called. Cf.
(n.) A covering for the head; esp., one with a crown and brim, made of various materials, and worn by men or women for protecting the head from the sun or weather, or for ornament.
Example Sentences:
(1) The result of this study demonstrates that both the "hat" and "inverted" type grafts are highly successful and satisfactory procedures.
(2) On the other hand the TUC says people should also be prepared to be out in the sun for several hours and bring sunscreen and if possible a hat.
(3) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
(4) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).
(5) It’s not going to change whether I score a hat-trick or don’t score at all.
(6) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(7) "On 22 May," reads the legend above their black fedora hats, "Jens and Sedsel will choose who's in charge in Europe .
(8) But that Monday night, I went to bed and decided to throw my hat in the ring."
(9) That is the question facing Major League Baseball pitchers who are faced with the horrendous looking but protective hat that made its debut this week.
(10) In the present study, the clinical value of handgrip-apexcardiographic test (HAT) for identifying patients with new ischemia by the assessment of LV diastolic abnormalities during HG was prospectively investigated.
(11) Now, you have to put on a producer's hat, a director's hat, a writer's hat.
(12) It was his second hat-trick in four games and he has now scored 10 times in seven.
(13) Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) in Zaïre is a medical problem of first importance, particularly in endemic areas where sleeping sickness threatens about 10 millions of human beings almost the third of the whole population.
(14) It is proposed that the acceleration of 3-HAT oxidation leads to the enhancement of the 3-HAT toxicity.
(15) Christian Benteke has been revitalised under Sherwood and he followed up his hat-trick in last Tuesday’s 3-3 draw with Queens Park Rangers by scoring the winner here.
(16) He had to watch her score a hat-trick and lift the trophy on television instead.
(17) Girls loved him, his flouncy lace sleeves, tight trousers, big hats, curly hair.
(18) Highlight: Mike Magee’s opening day hat-trick against the team he ended the season with.
(19) "What I realised is that the most important thing is China," he says, cradling a beer and still wearing his trademark cowboy-style wide-rimmed hat.
(20) There was more magic on ITV at 9.10pm with The Illusionists, but it was unable to pull an overnights rabbit out of the hat, with just under 2 million viewers, an 8.5% share.