(n.) A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.
(n.) A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.
(n.) A grain sieve.
(n.) To play on the harp.
(n.) To dwell on or recur to a subject tediously or monotonously in speaking or in writing; to refer to something repeatedly or continually; -- usually with on or upon.
(v. t.) To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are not a people who harp upon colour or race,” he said.
(2) Harping on endlessly about a woman’s hair, legs and handbag instead of her ideas and achievements can be horribly belittling, a way of refusing to take her seriously as a professional.
(3) Total mercury and methylmercury values in the tissues of the experimental animals indicated that harp seals can tolerate high levels of mercury in the brain and that the observed renal and hepatic dysfunction were related to the high accumulation of mercury in these tissues.
(4) ECoG of both hemispheres, EOG, neck EMG and EKG were recorded in 2 white (age 10 days) and 2 gray pups (age 1 month) of harp seal.
(5) Hematological and blood chemistry values were examined in harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus) exposed to daily oral dosages of methylmercuric chloride (MMC).
(6) On the right is her rival, Kosciusko-Morizet, known as NKM, 40, a former minister in Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right government, nicknamed "the harpist" ever since she was photographed for Paris Match lounging in a party gown in a forest next to a harp, like some posh wood nymph, in 2005.
(7) Further simulations showed that the lower critical temperature of a lean newborn harp seal pup with standard metabolism is only--1 degree C while it is depressed to--59 degree C as the pup grows, aquire a 10 cm thick layer of blubber and the metabolism increases to 1.5 times standard.
(8) Following a long and rich tradition of "blues doctors", Middleton is an accomplished frontman with Dr Harp's Medicine Band .
(9) That’s the case at the Ice Music Festival in the Norwegian ski resort of Geilo, where even the instruments – harps, xylophones, guitars and trombones – are made of ice, bringing a wholly original atmosphere and sound.
(10) The relationship between KP and HRP resides in the repeated polyhistidine sequences, (His) 6-9, from the core of the multiple tandem repeats of HRP, whereas, the peptide Ala-His-His is commonly shared by HRP and two other proteins of P. falciparum (soluble HARP and SHARP).
(11) They took up so much time that “laser harp” player Gene Breads didn’t get any time to play his instrument.
(12) Photograph: Martin Godwin for The Guardian Not that he wants to harp back to the days when he went to work with a trowel.
(13) World Cup knockout stage interactive planner World Cup knockout stage interactive planner Updated at 2.14pm BST 2.06pm BST The murkiness in the application of football's rules is something I have frequently written about - endless harped on about - and the lack of transparency, as well as the sheer inaccuracy, of time-keeping is equally annoying.
(14) The largest harp seal population in the world is found in Canadian waters of the Northwest Atlantic.
(15) Expired air temperature (Tex), metabolic rate (MR), and skin (Ts) and body (Tb; rectal) temperatures were recorded in four or five young (1-2 yr) harp seals (Phoca groenlandica) in air [mean air temperature (Ta) = -30, -10, or 10 degrees C] and in water [mean water temperature (Tw) = 2.3 or 24.8 degrees C, with Ta = -30, -10, 0, or 10 degrees C].
(16) condition of my present instrument I only produce ridicule"; it was enough to buy him a new harp.
(17) Samples of blubber, liver, kidney and brain, obtained from 10 male, 6 female neonatal, and 4 lactating female harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus), were analysed for DDT, dieldrin, PCB, and total mercury.
(18) There is a bizarre irony that if a woman talks about receiving abuse, more people feel compelled to abuse her – for “harping on” about it; for being a “professional victim”.
(19) This was not Soviet propaganda, harping constantly on one note.
(20) S harp Objects had also gone through several stages.
Trigon
Definition:
(n.) A figure having three angles; a triangle.
(n.) A division consisting of three signs.
(n.) Trine, an aspect of two planets distant 120 degrees from each other.
(n.) A kind of triangular lyre or harp.
(n.) A kind of game at ball played by three persons standing at the angular points of a triangle.
Example Sentences:
(1) One lattice was trigonal, as in purple membrane, and showed a high-resolution electron diffraction pattern from glucose-sustained patches.
(2) Lateralis dorsalis nucleus of thalamus belong to the limbic system of Papez more by its trigonal than cingular afferent pathways.
(3) Retro-molar trigones call for combined telecobaltherapy-electrontherapy;--curie-therapy is too difficult in this area.
(4) The development of the muscular tissue of the ureter, ureterovesical junction and vesical trigone in the human fetus has been investigated using serial histological sections.
(5) The crystals are trigonal, space group P3(1)21 with axes a = b = 102.2 A and c = 58.5 A.
(6) We conclude that the bladder trigone will tolerate IORT to 20 Gy without major clinical sequellae.
(7) Enuresis after sphincteroplasty was linked with functional insufficiency of the trigonal muscle due to tissue dysembryogenesis.
(8) These findings show that an extensively ionized substrate is needed for reaction at the exocyclic N2 and O6 sites on guanosine but that the reactive intermediate is not an ideal planar trigonal carbonium ion.
(9) Two boys presented with acute bullous cystitis limited to the trigone and periureteral zone and producing marked but transient acute ureteral obstruction.
(10) MRI was better than CT at demonstrating tumours in the roof of the bladder and at the trigone.
(11) A case of adenocarcinoma development in the trigone 34 years after trigonosigmoidostomy for exstrophy of the bladder is presented.
(12) A pyramidal configuration of D-quisqualic acid would allow either rapid interconversion between active and inactive configurations at its ring junction or adoption of a trigonal configuration in solution.
(13) Two UCN join the ureters and the cecum, to which the trigone, the cervix vesicae, or the prostatic or membranous urethra is anastomosed, depending on the case.
(14) 1, The repeat length per disaccharide was 0.913 nm: 2, The molecular chain had three-fold screw symmetry: 3, The shape of the unit cell was a trigonal prism with dimensions a=b=1.28 nm, c=2.74 nm, and gamma=120 degrees: 4, The number of disaccharide residues in the unit cell was six.
(15) Although much remains to be learned, most pediatric nephrologists and urologists are now in comfortable agreement with the following assumptions: (1) Most reflux (primary reflux) is due to a congenital anatomic abnormality of the bladder trigone.
(16) The common field, where the valvular diseases and conduction disturbances occurred, was the fibrous trigone of the heart.
(17) Lesions were in the anterior part of the third ventricle in 32 cases, in the frontal horns in 6, in the trigone in 3, and in both lateral and third ventricles in 1 case.
(18) The superficial trigone responded maximally to alpha-adrenergic receptor stimulation but also produced a significant cholinergic response.
(19) Few adrenergic nerves were also found in the urinary bladder, except in the trigone area, where they were abundant.
(20) Dosimetric-computerized studies were expressed as the maximum bladder dose on the trigone, as proposed by the I.C.R.U.