(n.) A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, fiat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun.
(v. t.) To strike, catch, or kill with a harpoon.
Example Sentences:
(1) This result can best be explained by assuming the reversibility of the reaction Delta(8)-cholestenol right harpoon over left harpoon Delta(7)-cholestenol.
(2) It is a career that has seen Mompo stand between harpoons and whales, document the environmental impact of the war between Israel and Lebanon and listen in horror to live radio updates from the captain of a nearby ship being captured by Somali pirates.
(3) Skrillex and Chance The Rapper Recess tracklist All is Fair In Love And Brostep with Ragga Twins Recess, with Kill the Noise, Fatman Scoop and Michael Angelakos Stranger, with KillaGraham from Milo and Otis and Sam Dew Try It Out (Neon Mix), with Alvin Risk Coast Is Clear, with Chance the Rapper and the Social Experiment Dirty Vibe, with Diplo, G-Dragon from Big Bang and CL from 2NE1 Ragga Bomb, with Ragga Twins Doompy Poomp Fuck That Ease My Mind, with Niki and the Dove Fire Away, with Kid Harpoon
(4) These findings indicate that the reaction: CDP choline + diglyceride right harpoon over left harpoon phosphatidyl choline + CMP is freely reversible in vivo.
(5) Thus, the pathway of d-arabinose catabolism in E. coli K-12 is believed to be: d-arabinose right harpoon over left harpoon d-ribulose --> d-ribulose-l-phosphate right harpoon over left harpoon dihydroxyacetone phosphate plus glycolaldehyde.
(6) 2.53pm BST There's no Bass Like Home Lily Allen just tweeted a link to her "unofficial World Cup song", which turns out to be the full version of the Kid Harpoon-produced Bass Like Home.
(7) Such mechanisms can be in accord with the observed rapid turnover rates of the enzyme, since rapid proton exchange can occur with the buffer components, EH(+) + B right harpoon over left harpoon E + BH(+).
(8) Almost five months ago, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Japan to lay down its harpoons, concluding that its scientific output appeared “limited” .
(9) In the New York magazine interview, Dimon said the Whale was not just dead, but "harpooned.
(10) The electrodes are equipped with small, gold-plated barbed tips which have the form of harpoons that may be pushed directly into a muscle, where they remain without being sutured into place.
(11) The saturable saxitoxin (STX) interaction with the nerve membrane is reversible and can be described by the equation STX + R right harpoon over left harpoon STX.R where R is the binding site or receptor.
(12) Incorporations from the other exogenous amino acids indicated the metabolic sequence: aspartate --> threonine --> glycine right harpoon over left harpoon serine.
(13) The last track, Fire Away, also includes British singer-songwriter Kid Harpoon, who has penned songs for Florence and the Machine, Calvin Harris, Shakira and Rihanna.
(14) Tannen calls hair, clothes and weight The Big Three because they are the killer subjects for the maternal harpoon: "All women are judged on their appearance.
(15) The fleet's other vessels are unable to operate unless the Nisshin Maru is present to haul in harpooned whales and process them.
(16) The U(S) right harpoon over left harpoon U(F) reaction in unfolded RNase A is used both to provide data on the kinetics of proline isomerization in the unfolded protein and as the basis of an assay for measuring proline isomerization during folding.The tyrosine-detected folding kinetics at low temperatures have been compared to those of proline isomerization in unfolded RNase A.
(17) Changes are represented kinetically by h(1) right harpoon over left harpoon x right harpoon over left harpoon h(2), where x signifies the inactive state.
(18) It is the first time the Antarctic hunt, during which harpoon vessels target almost 1,000 mainly minke whales, has been cancelled in more than a quarter of a century.
(19) The comparison is based on the recent observation that the U(S) right harpoon over left harpoon U(F) kinetics are independent of guanidinium chloride concentration, so that they can be extrapolated to low guanidinium chloride concentrations, at which folding takes place.
(20) Isotope-exchange studies indicated that the reaction proceeds in the following steps:Enzyme+ATP+P(i) right harpoon over left harpoon Enzyme-P+AMP+PP(i)Enzyme-P+pyruvate right harpoon over left harpoon Enzyme+phosphoenolpyruvate
Lance
Definition:
(n.) A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
(n.) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
(n.) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
(n.) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
(n.) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
(v. t.) To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
(v. t.) To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
(v. t.) To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch.
Example Sentences:
(1) 8.17pm BST Meanwhile... Lance Lynn is having a bad day over at Busch Stadium.
(2) They revealed that Lance Corporal Craig Roberts, who died in searing temperatures on the Brecon Beacons, had been about to begin a new post in the office of the education secretary.
(3) Lance Sergeant Darren Shaw, whose daughter was two weeks old when he left for Afghanistan, said the parade would bring closure to the Afghan tour "then we can get ready and move on to what our next tasks are".
(4) The coroner, Alan Craze, blamed poor communication and lack of organisation for the death of Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard, who was killed by a gunshot wound to the chest and abdomen in the "blue on blue" incident in Helmand province.
(5) Six years and three months on, it was Landis's predecessor, Lance Armstrong in the eye of the storm as speculation built over what he might or might not have revealed to Oprah Winfrey.
(6) 1.06am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 3rd And Clay faces Lance Lynn to start off the third, and the Superman-character named pitcher works a decent at-bat, working the count to 2-2 and then fouling off the next two pitches and taking ball three to a full count.
(7) Lance Payton, a freelance hairdresser in his late 40s from Bath, who joined the Tories seven years ago, is one exception in his green-and-pink tartan suit.
(8) Lance Armstrong held the meanest grudges in cycling, in effect ruining the career of Christophe Bassons after the French rider dared to talk publicly about doping.
(9) He said the "blue on blue" death of Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard in Sangin during their tour in the winter of 2009-10 was symptomatic of the problems British soldiers faced in tackling the Taliban.
(10) Cardinals 6 Brewers 4 Top 3rd: Lance Berkman follows Pujols with a ground out to second.
(11) 1.23am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 1, top of the 4th Dustin Pedroia, quiet most of this postseason, is up to salvage anything here, it seems improbable that these Sox hitters can be rendered mute by Lance freaking Lynn, but so it goes.
(12) It is a major blow to the image of a team that commissioned anti-doping consultant Nicki Vance to conduct an independent review of their operations and staff in the wake of the Lance Armstrong scandal.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lance Stephenson has become unstuck in time.
(14) And it worked by finally lancing the boil that had been swelling ugly all week.
(15) In the chaos that followed, and believing he was firing at an insurgent, a sniper, Lance Corporal Malcolm Graham, took aim.
(16) In the wake of the Lance Armstrong case , the revelations emerging from the Operation Puerto trial in Spain and the dire picture painted by the Australian Crime Commission investigation into organised crime and drugs, the Wada director general David Howman has admitted the problem is getting "bigger and more serious" and is "getting too big for sport to manage".
(17) This is the first reference in the medical literature of the unilateral localization in the Lance-Adams syndrome.
(18) For many, fantasy is typified by The Lord of the Rings ; Miéville worked up a righteous fury against Tolkien's "cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos", calling him "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature" and setting out to "lance the boil".
(19) Previous experiments had shown that motoneurons are specified to project to their appropriate target muscles prior to axon outgrowth and that they respond to cues in the limb in order to grow to those targets (C. Lance-Jones and L. Landmesser, 1980, J. Physiol.
(20) I got Lance’s number from one of the boys at St Helens.