(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.
Lag
Definition:
(a.) Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
(a.) Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
(a.) Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
(n.) One who lags; that which comes in last.
(n.) The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
(n.) The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
(n.) A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine.
(n.) See Graylag.
(v. i.) To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
(v. t.) To cause to lag; to slacken.
(v. t.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
(n.) One transported for a crime.
(v. t.) To transport for crime.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the moment we are, if anything, slightly lagging."
(2) Initiation of the alternative pathway by the cryptococcal capsule is characterized by a lag in C3 accumulation and the appearance of a limited number of focal initiation sites which resemble those observed when the alternative pathway is activated by zymosan and nonencapsulated cryptococci.
(3) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
(4) It is conceivable that DNA replication of RSF1010 does not need the priming mechanism for lagging strand synthesis and proceeds by the strand displacement mechanism.
(5) Supplementation of neuraminidase-treated Lp(a) with N-acetylneuraminic acid (NANA) at concentrations comparable to the naturally occurring amounts of NANA in the Lp(a) protein moiety led to an increase of the lag-phase yielding values which were comparable to those observed with native Lp(a).
(6) A more specific differentiation, as indicated by the sharp increase in GAD levels which was concurrent with an increase in interneuronal contacts, lagged behind the initial growth.
(7) It appears that the decline in plasma IGF-I lags considerably behind the sharp fall in plasma GH levels and expression of hepatic IGF-I mRNA.
(8) This causes a time lag, with money continuing to be taken until the SLC is made aware that the debt has been settled.
(9) The drug-induced effect changes lagged behind the plasma drug level changes.
(10) The first transient increase in conductance developed with very short time lag (2-10 s) after serum addition, while the period between successive transients was 30-90 s, being remarkably constant in each particular cell.
(11) The Bank of Spain estimates that GDP grew 0.1% in the first quarter of this year, ending seven consecutive quarters of contraction but lagging the rest of the euro area's recovery by six months.
(12) Lysine was unique in accelerating gluconeogenesis beyond the lag period.
(13) This pattern is still 2 months off from the actual birth distribution; however, the retrospective data probably underestimate the real pregnancy lag.
(14) For example, after imported mouse dihydrofolate reductase (a soluble monomeric enzyme) had been released from mhsp70, folding to a protease resistant conformation occurred only after a lag and was much slower than the release.
(15) The company lagged "far behind its major competitors, with zero reporting of its energy or environmental footprint to any source or stakeholder", the report said.
(16) The temporal lag varied inversely with the dose and was more pronounced with HA.
(17) This multistage schema would account for the lag between injury and restenosis and the failure of chronic antithrombotic therapy to prevent this process.
(18) The results are interpreted as follows: bleomycin induces chromosomal aberrations that in turn give rise to micronuclei by means of lagging chromatin, main and micronuclei eventually become asynchronous in their cell cycles and mitosing main nuclei induce PCC in the micronuclei.
(19) Furthermore, the rate of superoxide generation decreased after a prolonged lag period.
(20) The hypothesis that a measure of intellectual speed assessed at one point in time would predict intellectual achievement at a later point in time was evaluated with a time-lagged cross-correlational analysis, an application of causal modeling techniques.