(n.) One of the two curved pieces of wood or metal, in the harness of a draught horse, to which the traces are fastened. They are fitted upon the collar, or have pads fitting the horse's neck attached to them.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prince Naseem Hamed, former world boxing champion, lost his MBE in 2007 after being convicted of dangerous driving.
(2) The current status of onchocerciasis in Abu Hamed, Northern Province, Sudan, was studied.
(3) The fourth, Nima Arkani-Hamed , was recognised for "original approaches to outstanding problems in particle phsyics".
(4) One brother, Abou, played at Nîmes alongside Eric Cantona and two others, Seni and Hamed, also went into professional football.
(5) Whether it was leaning through the ropes to interview Ali, as he famously did between rounds during a one-sided fight for "The Greatest" against the Dutchman Rudi Lubbers, or coming up with quips such as "the ego has landed" as Hamed somersaulted over the ropes to enter the ring, Reg always managed to remember that he was entertaining his audience.
(6) 'Hermless, hermless, there's never nae bather fae me, I go to the library, I tak oot a book, and then I go hame for meh tea.'"
(7) Two Iraqi men, Hameed Khalid Darweesh (a former interpreter for the US military) and Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi were released, through the valiant efforts of ACLU lawyers.
(8) If you’re cutting hundreds of millions of dollars out of the South Metropolitan Health Service, this means that patients will wait longer for care, this means the ambulance queues will continue to grow and this means that health services in WA will suffer.” Hames said unless the WA health sector – which accounts for more than 28% of state expenditure – made significant changes to its operating costs, it would affect areas including education and policing.
(9) People tend to say Hame , which is wrong, or Hime , which will do.
(10) Dalia Abdel Hameed says, “I’m not generally the optimistic kind of person, but surely, in my short activism life … I noticed a change.
(11) Duncan Hames, a parliamentary aide to Clegg, said the Tories "had it coming".
(12) Hamed's friend, who does not want to be named, filmed the incident on his phone.
(13) So we refused.” “The smugglers argued with the captain,” Hameed added.
(14) Abu Anas al-Liby's real name is Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai.
(15) So we knew there was a possibility we’d end up with the police.” Damietta On 6 September in the separate apartments where they were being kept across Alexandria, Ahmad Asfour, Hameed Barbakh and Osama and Tariq received the same message.
(16) The winners Nima Arkani-Hamed , Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
(17) Today's PISA figures are shocking evidence of Britain's long-term failure on education December 3, 2013 1.08pm GMT Duncan Hames , a Lib Dem, asks about the pupil premium.
(18) The president of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society , Hameed Haroon, bolstered accusers.
(19) Within a few seconds, our vessel sunk and the other fishing vessel left.” “I found a lifejacket in the sea,” recalls Hameed.
(20) He has received numerous awards from academic societies--among them the Curtis Hames Award and the Certificate of Excellence from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine--has been appointed a Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States, has been awarded an honorary MD by the University of Oslo, and has had a long career of publication and teaching in countries all over the world.
Membrane
Definition:
(n.) A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tryptic digestion of the membranes caused complete disappearance of the binding activity, but heat-treatment for 5 min at 70 degrees C caused only 40% loss of activity.
(2) The extents of phospholipid hydrolysis were relatively low in brain homogenates, synaptic plasma membranes and heart ventricular muscle.
(3) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(4) Activity of Na,K-ATPase activity was measured as a functional marker for synaptosomal membranes.
(5) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
(6) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
(7) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(8) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
(9) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(10) The fraction of the viral dose which became cell associated was independent of the incubation temperature and increased with increasing target membrane concentration.
(11) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
(12) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
(13) We have examined the insertion of bovine 17 alpha-hydroxylase (P45017 alpha) into the endoplasmic reticulum of COS 1 cells to evaluate the functional role of its hydrophobic amino-terminal sequence and membrane insertion.
(14) The transport of potassium ions through membranes of red blood cells was examined in in bitro experiments using a CMF of 4500 oersted.
(15) These membrane perturbation effects not observed with bleomycin-iron in the presence of a hydroxyl radical scavenger, dimethyl thiourea, or a chelating agent, desferrioxamine, were correlated with the ability of the complex to generate highly reactive oxygen species.
(16) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
(17) Membranes of this material were filled with islets of Langerhans and implanted in the peritoneal cavity of rats.
(18) The penicillin-resistant Enterococcus hirae R40 has a typical profile of membrane-bound penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) except that the 71 kDa PBP5 of low penicillin affinity represents about 50% of all the PBPs present.
(19) To investigate the mechanism of enhanced responsiveness of cholesterol-enriched human platelets, we compared stimulation by surface-membrane-receptor (thrombin) and post-receptor (AlF4-) G-protein-directed pathways.
(20) Moreover, in DCVC-treated cells the mitochondria could not be stained with rhodamine-123, indicating severe mitochondrial damage and loss of membrane potential.