(n.) A clasp, especially a metal strap permanently fast at one end to a staple or pin, while the other passes over a staple, and is fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a metallic hook for fastening a door.
(n.) A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on.
(n.) An instrument for cutting the surface of grass land; a scarifier.
(v. t.) To shut or fasten with a hasp.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Hospital Admission and Surveillance Program (HASP) was a pre-PSRO program in Illinois.
(2) Small heat-stable, acid-soluble proteins (HASP) have been isolated from Bacillus subtilis nucleoids obtained from cell lysates of low ionic strength and lysozyme concentration.
(3) HAsp was without effect on excitatory postsynaptic potentials elicited by stimulation of granular layer.
(4) Actions of dihydrokainate (DHKA) and 3-hydroxy-DL-aspartate (HAsp), inhibitors of high-affinity uptake for L-glutamate (Glu), were studied in vitro in thin hippocampal slices of the guinea pig.
(5) were caused by HASP's activities and not by other factors.
(6) Memory models of procedural memory, semantic memory, and working memory, which are necessary to represent the process of the problem-solving, are constructed within a framework of a model of associative processor, HASP, proposed by one of the authors (Hirai 1983).
(7) This study compares patients admitted to 46 hospitals in Illinois before and after the establishment of HASP.
(8) Fast responses to kainate (KA) were augmented by the inhibitors to a similar extent as were Glu responses whereas slow KA responses were insensitive to HAsp.
(9) The amplitude of the depolarizations induced by Glu and by L-aspartate (Asp) in CA3 neurons are markedly augmented by DHKA and HAsp.
(10) Some findings suggest that the "post-HASP" admissions had the greater need for hospital care; this trend affected both Medicaid and non-Medicaid patients, however, The combined evidence suggests that concurrent review, as implemented by HASP, helped shorten L.O.S.
(11) It is not possible to determine the concentrations of unoccupied receptors in intact or gonadectomized males, or rats of either sex treated with androgens, due to masking by the moderate affinity, high capacity oestradiol binder (hepatic atypical sex hormone-binding protein, HASP).
Thread
Definition:
(n.) A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.
(n.) A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.
(n.) The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.
(n.) Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse.
(n.) Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness.
(v. t.) To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.
(v. t.) To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.
(v. t.) To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.
Example Sentences:
(1) Use 3-ml Luer-Lok syringes and 30-gauge needles and thread the needle carefully into the vessel while using slow and steady injection with light pressure.
(2) No infection threads were found to penetrate either root hairs or the nodule cells.
(3) When using a nylon thread for the attachment of a pseudophakos to the iris, it may happen that the suture is slung tightly around the implant-lens.
(4) This thread ran through his later writings, which focused particularly on questions of the transformation of work and working time, envisaging the possibility that the productivity gains made possible by capitalism could be used to enhance individual and social life, rather than intensifying ruthless economic competition and social division.
(5) Santi Cazorla, Sánchez and Mesut Özil were all involved, and when the ball came back to Cazorla he made a fine threaded pass to Walcott.
(6) We've brought on two experts to answer your questions from 1-2pm BST in the comment thread on this article.
(7) The astrocytes had generally two types of processes: (1) thread-like processes of relatively constant width with few ramifications and few lamellar appendages and (2) the sinuous processes with clusters of lamellar appendages.
(8) Electron microscopy showed the presence of bacterial ghosts and protein threads.
(9) George RR Martin , whose series of novels inspired the HBO drama , has woven a tapestry of extraordinary size and richness; and most of the threads he has used derive from the history of our own world.
(10) The left anterior descending coronary artery of dogs and the right common carotid artery of rabbits were subjected to partial constriction with suture thread (40-60% reduction in transluminal diameter).
(11) Neuronal thread protein is a recently characterized, approximately 20-kd protein that accumulates in brains with Alzheimer's disease (AD) lesions.
(12) Small threaded pins do not cause femoral head rotation.
(13) Nematocyst capsules and everted threads from both species contained levels of glycine and proline-hydroxyproline characteristic of vertebrate collagens.
(14) Load transfer from ring to bone is concentrated at the first and last threads where the subchondral bone layer is penetrated.
(15) Furthermore, large numbers of neuropil threads are scattered throughout the nuclear gray.
(16) The histological findings of actinomyces spores, thread-like foreign material and detritus drew out attention to the rare manifestation of abdominal actinomycosis.
(17) Monofilament nylon threads are used as drains in free skin grafting; 2-0 or 3-0 nylon threads are usually applied.
(18) Monoclonal antibodies, raised independently in two laboratories against either pancreatic stone protein (PSP) or pancreatic thread protein (PTP), reacted with the Mr 14,000 protein(s).
(19) With the initial technique, the gastrostomy tube was pulled in by a thread introduced percutaneously into the stomach.
(20) P19 gave by proteolysis a protein of 14 KD (P14), at first named protein X and also called pancreatic thread protein or pancreatic stone protein.