(n.) A station for rest and entertainment; a place of security and comfort; a refuge; a shelter.
(n.) Specif.: A lodging place; an inn.
(n.) The mansion of a heavenly body.
(n.) A portion of a sea, a lake, or other large body of water, either landlocked or artificially protected so as to be a place of safety for vessels in stormy weather; a port or haven.
(n.) A mixing box materials.
(n.) To afford lodging to; to enter as guest; to receive; to give a refuge to; indulge or cherish (a thought or feeling, esp. an ill thought).
(v. i.) To lodge, or abide for a time; to take shelter, as in a harbor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 1983, pp.
(2) One week after initiation is 1-2 months before the appearance of benign papillomas that harbor activated Ha-ras oncogenes when the initiated mice are promoted with the tumor promoter phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate.
(3) In confirmation and extension of observations by Carp and his associates, brain tissue and sera from patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) were found to harbor an agent which induces a transitory depression in polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) in mice as well as in rats, hamsters, and guinea pigs.
(4) The present findings imply that patients in whom an apparent cure has been brought about by conservative treatment may harbor latent malignancy.
(5) The defective hybrid genome thus harbors two origins for SV40 DNA replication in addition to the leftward operator and the N gene of lambda.
(6) It is concluded that the precursor cells for various modes of nonspecific and antigen-specific cytotoxicity are related and appear to be harbored in the NK-9-positive pool in the bone marrow.
(7) One patient harbored a basilar trunk aneurysm, 1 an aneurysm of the proximal posterior cerebral artery, 3 an aneurysm of the superior cerebellar artery, and 10 an aneurysm at the basilar tip.
(8) The mutant larvae are apparently normal, but they harbor serious defects in the organs containing proliferating cells of both somatic and germ line origins.
(9) Previous studies suggest that patients who are in clinical remission harbor tumor in multiple occult "sanctuaries."
(10) Iowa senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican who chairs the Senate judiciary committee, introduced legislation on Tuesday that would crack down on jurisdictions that provide safe harbor for undocumented migrants by withholding some federal funding for state and local entities if they decline to cooperate with the government on the holding or transferring of undocumented migrants with criminal records.
(11) In contrast, lymphomas harboring EBV in only proportions of the tumor cells (such as cases of peripheral T cell lymphoma and some B cell lymphoma types) argue against an etiologic role in the primary process of malignant transformation for the virus in these instances.
(12) A total of 2,208 male subjects, enrolled as merchant marine seamen at the Civitavecchia (Italy) harbor from 1936 to 1975 were followed up through 1989 in order to evaluate their mortality experience.
(13) Despite the great capacity for the pediatric brain to recover from stroke, the morbidity and mortality in children who harbor an arteriovenous malformation (AVM) remains high.
(14) Our multiplex gene regulatory system (MGR) allows the establishment of transgenic lines that harbor inducible potentially lethal transgenes.
(15) The agglutination test combined with oral penicillin yielded the lowest expected loss (.50) of QALD for a typical child with a risk of harboring streptococci of .60.
(16) A polypeptide with an apparent M(r) of 35,000, corresponding to that predicted from the nucleotide sequence, was observed by maxicell analysis of whole-cell extracts of E. coli harboring the clostridial gene.
(17) The concentrations of several acidic and neutral amino acids of brain, liver, and skeletal muscle were determined in field voles, Microtus montanus, and compared to values obtained from voles harboring a chronic infection of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense.
(18) Conversely, MS patients, especially those in AF, appear to be at high risk of harboring an LAT.
(19) In our study we demonstrate that human rTNF-alpha specifically blocks growth of SK-v keratinocyte cell line harboring and expressing human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) sequences.
(20) It was confirmed that E. coli CSH2, harboring the mutant plasmid, produces a temperature-sensitive beta-lactamase and is resistant only at low temperatures (below 33 degrees C), but not at 42 degrees C, to ampicillin, sulbenicillin, and carbenicillin simultaneously.
Pier
Definition:
(n.) Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings.
(n.) Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.
(n.) A projecting wharf or landing place.
Example Sentences:
(1) In north Wales, Llandudno town council has had to cancel its annual display at short notice after it was told it would have to pay at least £22,000 to insure the wonderful Victorian pier in case of a fire.
(2) The centre-left PD party, for example, is in turmoil - with leader Pier Luigi Bersani resigning over the weekend after both his favoured candidates for the presidency were rejected.
(3) In between, I watch a parade of Berliner life: women chain-smoking in the pool’s trademark wicker chairs, fully clothed men sipping a morning beer in the 26C heat, kids jumping off the diving pier and screaming down the large waterslide.
(4) The Piers Harris Self-Concept Scale was administered to 174 fourth and sixth graders, half of whom attended SDP schools and half control schools.
(5) For all that it might suggest seaside breaks and afternoons whiled away on the pier, the Norfolk town of Great Yarmouth does not feel like a happy place.
(6) You think that your experiences are anything compared to mine?” In response to the recording journalist, Piers Morgan tweeted: “This tape is outrageous.
(7) Model Katie Price's interview with Piers Morgan, in which she spoke about her breakup with husband Peter Andre and her recent miscarriage, brought 4.5 million viewers to ITV1 on Saturday, 11 July.
(8) "I ask because I saw Piers Morgan on TV suggesting that Arsenal were the best team ever because they went a season without losing.
(9) Two reservation groups, matched for age and sex, received four administration of a personal (Piers-Harris) and an Indian self-concept scale, in a repeated measures counterbalanced design, varying language and order.
(10) "I have a lot of admiration for Rupert Murdoch personally," Brown told GQ's interviewer, Piers Morgan.
(11) Abbado's land cascades down a steep slope into the Mediterranean, and you have to negotiate a series of crazily angled wooden walkways, designed by him, to get to his beach and the pier for his yacht.
(12) Jeremy’s older brother Piers – a self-employed weather forecaster – was a prime example.
(13) Is it any wonder that Piers Morgan has moved to the US?
(14) He would soon find strong allies in Pier Luigi Bersani, leader of the Italian left, who would sweep Italy off her feet, and in the German Social Democrats who would finally oust Angela Merkel from power.
(15) That wasn't a problem, as long as there was a high turnover of new initiates, all figuratively staggering out of Margate pier at six in the morning, convinced they had just discovered the future of music.
(16) Piers Morgan has spent a bitter week hitting out at his former CNN colleague Anderson Cooper, blaming the dismal ratings for Piers Morgan Tonight on Cooper’s poor lead-in.
(17) Because – and I hate to break this to Piers – if you are emasculated by the notion of a woman making her own reproductive choices, then you were never much of a man to begin with.
(18) What's always puzzled me about the charge sheet against Boris is the Piers Gaveston problem.
(19) Compared with the other designs, prostheses with nonrigid connectors at the pier exhibited greater apical and horizontal stress particularly with one-point loading on the pier.
(20) There are bad days, increasingly so for them, but then there are days like this that break new boundaries of cataclysmic play and make those of us who predicted a close series seem like end-of-the-pier charlatan soothsayers.