(interj.) An onomatopoetic word used as an expression of hesitation, doubt, etc. It is often a sort of voluntary half cough, loud or subdued, and would perhaps be better expressed by hm.
(n.) An utterance or sound of the voice, hem or hm, often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
(v. i.) To make the sound expressed by the word hem; hence, to hesitate in speaking.
(n.) The edge or border of a garment or cloth, doubled over and sewed, to strengthen raveling.
(n.) Border; edge; margin.
(n.) A border made on sheet-metal ware by doubling over the edge of the sheet, to stiffen it and remove the sharp edge.
(v. t.) To form a hem or border to; to fold and sew down the edge of.
(v. t.) To border; to edge
Example Sentences:
(1) PRA and ANG II increased by 4 min after each hem, and although the difference was small the early PRA and ANG II responses were greater after H2.
(2) Because of significant differences of blood-pressure measurements compared to the Riva-Rocci method, the digital measurement with the HEM-812F device (Omron) can not be generally recommended.
(3) Cape Town was conceived with a white-only centre, surrounded by contained settlements for the black and coloured labour forces to the east, each hemmed in by highways and rail lines, rivers and valleys, and separated from the affluent white suburbs by protective buffer zones of scrubland,” he says.
(4) His goal came at a crucial moment , immediately after the Bruins had the Habs hemmed in their own end.
(5) In the streets that hem in the old stadium, he would have been offered plenty of alternatives.
(6) Except for a greater maximum TGF response in HEM, the normalized TGF responses were similar in all three groups, as was the regulation of distal fluid delivery.
(7) The magnetic axes are oriented so that the z axis is tipped approximately 15 degrees from the heme normal toward the hem delta-meso-H and coincides approximately with the characterized FeCO tilt axis in the isostructural MbCO complex [Kuriyan, J., Wilz, S., Karplus, M., & Petsko, G. A.
(8) The 420-pupil school – the numbers have almost doubled in two years, and an extra reception class is being added – is hemmed in by one of the most densely built up parts of south London , with one of the most diverse populations and some of the worst pockets of deprivation in the country.
(9) Even if you can't make a whole dress, little jazzy touches will make the blandest of clothing a billion times better: sewing on snazzy buttons, for example, or putting on some piping, or not going around in dresses covered in moth holes and decked with trailing hems, as some of us do because we never learned to bloody sew.
(10) The effect on the levels of microsomal cytochrome B5 and P450 as well as on that of hem was investigated.
(11) Hemming, who used parliamentary privilege to avoid the legal ban on reporting the use of superinjunctions, asked: "Will the government have a debate or a statement on freedom of speech and whether there's one rule for the rich like Fred Goodwin and one rule for the poor?"
(12) Data from the freeze-dissection (133Xe) analysis revealed that the percentage distribution of blood flow as renal outer cortical (OC) blood flow was less (26%) in the HEM group than in the LABI group (50%), this latter value being very similar to that of control dogs that experienced no hypotension (49%).
(13) Twenty-three MCABs, 20 of which reacted in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with HEM membrane, 2 with human thyroid membrane, and 1 nonreactive negative control, were selected for the study.
(15) This location is distinct from the other known hem loci in E. coli K12.
(16) Tillerson’s counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, tweeted back a jab about the shadow of the Russia investigations hanging over the Trump presidency: “For their own sake, US officials should worry more about saving their own regime than changing Iran’s, where 75% of people just voted.” There is growing concern among US allies in Europe that the Trump administration has struck a posture towards Iran before deciding on a strategy for addressing its influence in the region, and anxiety that such posturing could become louder and more dangerous as Trump feels hemmed in by investigations into his campaign’s Russia links.
(17) A freeze-dried, formalized-erythrocytes-bound VZV antigen for indirect haemagglutination, VZV-HEM, was prepared.
(18) Bill Hemmings, programme manager for international transport at the Transport and Environment pressure group, said: "Opponents of the inclusion of international flights in the EU ETS have always said that a global solution under ICAO is the way to go.
(19) Hemodynamic responses to the hems were not different.
(20) The resolution of the latter method was found to be approximately 10 times more sensitive than that of the former (Hemmings & Williams, 1976); thus rendering the site of labelled protein easier to locate.
Tassel
Definition:
(n.) A male hawk. See Tercel.
(n.) A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
(n.) A pendent ornament, attached to the corners of cushions, to curtains, and the like, ending in a tuft of loose threads or cords.
(n.) The flower or head of some plants, esp. when pendent.
(n.) A narrow silk ribbon, or the like, sewed to a book to be put between the leaves.
(n.) A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers; -- rarely used in the United States.
(v. i.) To put forth a tassel or flower; as, maize tassels.
(v. t.) To adorn with tassels.
Example Sentences:
(1) In order to elucidate the impact of these factors, we have undertaken the analysis of these gene families in the tassel-eared squirrel (Sciurus aberti) which has been separated into discrete subspecies by geographic barriers and whose food resources can be quantitated for estimating environmental quality.
(2) Black-and-white tasselled patent-leather pumps, Madras-print sandals and neon-pink stilettos all featured.
(3) Series nine of The Apprentice ( Tue & Wed, 9pm, BBC1 ) and the winds of change are howling around Lord Sugar's tasselled loafers.
(4) Spray-painted monk-strap shoes, desert boots and tasselled loafers paraded on a catwalk raised to audience eye-level in order to give a an ant's-eye view of the main event.
(5) Each packaging unit consists of a thick fasicle, formed by the alignment of smooth chromatin fibers, which frays out into tassels of looped fibers.
(6) Indeed, it has come some distance since the Fifa President, Sepp Blatter, suggested the women should play in skimpies and tassels to make the sport more popular (mind you, that was all of eight years ago).
(7) One thousand five hundred and seven tasselled maize plants in Lusaka and 96 in a rural village where mosquitoes were plentiful, have been surveyed.
(8) 'Is it proper to wear tasselled loafers with a business suit or not?'"
(9) The conservation ethos is neatly summarised in the forester Ritchie Tassell’s sarcastic question, “how did nature cope before we came along?” Through rewilding – the mass restoration of ecosystems – I see an opportunity to reverse the destruction of the natural world.
(10) The rules say shoes "must be sturdy and plain black, no trainers, heels, patent leather, open toes or slipper type shoes … Kickers must be plain black with no tassel".
(11) Using somatic excision as an assay of Mutator activity, we found that activity can change in small sectors of the tassel; however, there are no overall activity changes in the tassel during the period of pollen shedding.
(12) His mother says that when she sent Noah back wearing Kickers with the branded label cut off, he was searched while queuing for assembly and given detention because she had failed to spot a tassel on the inside of his shoe.
(13) Taken from this set, 3RDEYEGIRL and Prince - who is wearing a small pair of flares and a tasselled waistcoat - tear through an electric version of the 1984 hit.
(14) The medical attendance of the congenital imperforation of the tear-nasal tassel continues to be an actual problem because of the great number of cases met in practice.
(15) Wearing her gold tasselled collarette over a bright summer dress, she explained: "We're Christian, we embrace Scotland as a nation but we embrace the UK; we're part of the UK.
(16) Surrounded by golden mantlepieces, tasselled curtains and a coterie of suits, Mohamed Morsi did not have the air of a man about to be ousted as president.
(17) Heterozygosity estimates of Tcrb-C and Tcra-V1 sequences were determined for annually collected samples and compared with the yearly estimates of availability of hypogeous fungi, one of the major diet items of tassel-eared squirrels.
(18) At the higher temperature of 45 degrees C these vegetative tissues were blocked in removal of an intron from the HSP70 mRNA precursor, which accumulated to a high level in tassel tissue.
(19) S14 transcript levels are highest in mitotically active tissues, such as seedling shoot, developing endosperm, and tassel primordia, and lowest in tissues with little cell division, such as mature leaf and root.
(20) The retinula cells 1 and 4 (group I according to Gribakin, 1967) end as svf type 1 with three tassel-like branches in stratum B of the first synaptic region.