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Hickey


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hickey initially courted Belarus but then turned to Azerbaijan when that trail went cold.
  • (2) Evidence that the sensitivity of lysU expression to anaerobiosis, as well as to low external pH conditions (E. W. Hickey and I. N. Hirshfield, Appl.
  • (3) We are very concerned about journalists ... not getting in,” Hickey told Around the Rings.
  • (4) Cells grown in the presence of ethidium bromide continued to produce low enzyme levels after regrowth in the absence of dye, but formed normal amounts of puromycin on Hickey-Tresner agar.
  • (5) Among those who had travelled to Oman to await the release of the hikers were Cindy Hickey and Al Bauer, Shane's mother and father, his sisters, Nicole Lindstrom and Shannon Bauer, Jacob and Laura Fattal, Josh's mother and father and his brother, Alex.
  • (6) In addition, physicians are seeing a wide variety of traumatic lesions of the genitals from "hickeys" of the labia to dental imprints and ulcerations of the glans penis.
  • (7) Only the larger form, hsp89 alpha, is induced by the adenovirus E1A gene product (M. C. Simon, K. Kitchener, H. T. Kao, E. Hickey, L. Weber, R. Voellmy, N. Heintz, and J. R. Nevins, Mol.
  • (8) He then moved to the Sunday Express before joining the Daily Express's William Hickey column.
  • (9) Hickey came calling at just the right time for Baku and a marriage of convenience was quickly sealed.
  • (10) Most people think of the island and think of Cowes Week and the festival but we’ve also got 28% child poverty levels.” Jack Hickey: ‘Just throwing money at problems doesn’t always solve them’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest A primary school teacher, Hickey qualified two years ago and has taught at Blackthorn academy in Northampton since last October.
  • (11) They should start using their influence now and urge President Aliyev to stop the crackdown, allow a free press and immediately and unconditionally release government critics who have been unfairly imprisoned.” Pat Hickey, the Irish head of the European Olympic Committees who hosted a lunch for 70 IOC members including the president, Thomas Bach, before the opening ceremony, said on Friday that there was no more it could do to ensure freedom of reporting.
  • (12) Then, almost immediately, she came to the UK for publicity, bringing long-time friend and colleague John Benjamin Hickey, who plays her brother in The Big C, as her prompt and protector through the interview.
  • (13) He pulled himself together as a wryly observant Larry Slade in one of the landmark productions of the past 20 years: O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh at the Almeida in 1998, transferring to the Old Vic, and to Broadway, with Kevin Spacey as the salesman Hickey revisiting the last chance saloon where Pigott-Smith propped up the bar with Rupert Graves , Mark Strong and Clarke Peters in Davies’ great production.
  • (14) Lille and back for two at under £62 Finding a reasonably priced last-minute weekend away for the spring bank holiday was always going to be an uphill struggle, writes Shane Hickey .
  • (15) The publication deal is understood to have been signed off by Dan Hickey, the TMG's general manager of lifestyle, who was brought in last year by fellow American Jason Seiken, TMG's chief content officer and editor in chief.
  • (16) NUMBER IS UP FOR ANONYMOUS DIALLERS Plans to make marketing companies display their phone numbers on caller identification screens would give people the opportunity to avoid answering unwanted contact from cold callers, writes Shane Hickey .
  • (17) Results of the hypertonic saline (Hickey-Hare) test were positive in only one case.
  • (18) Julian Hickey, partner at Lawrence Graham, a law firm, said the increase might hasten the departure of wealthy individuals from Britain.
  • (19) Labeling with [3H]thymidine shows that the ganglion cells which survive in the adult are produced as several temporally shifted, overlapping waves: medium-sized cells are produced before large cells, whereas the smallest ganglion cells are produced throughout the period of ganglion cell generation (Walsh, C., E. H. Polley, T. L. Hickey, and R. W. Guillery (1983) Nature 302: 611-614).
  • (20) The Games are the brainchild of Patrick Hickey, the Irish International Olympic Committee member who is also head of the European Olympic Committees.

Knot


Definition:

  • (n.) A figure the lines of which are interlaced or intricately interwoven, as in embroidery, gardening, etc.
  • (n.) A fastening together of the pars or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling.
  • (n.) A lump or loop formed in a thread, cord, rope. etc., as at the end, by tying or interweaving it upon itself.
  • (n.) An ornamental tie, as of a ribbon.
  • (n.) A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
  • (n.) Something not easily solved; an intricacy; a difficulty; a perplexity; a problem.
  • (n.) A cluster of persons or things; a collection; a group; a hand; a clique; as, a knot of politicians.
  • (n.) A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.
  • (n.) A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
  • (n.) A protuberant joint in a plant.
  • (n.) The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
  • (n.) See Node.
  • (n.) A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a mile that thirty seconds do to an hour. The number of knots which run off from the reel in half a minute, therefore, shows the number of miles the vessel sails in an hour.
  • (n.) A nautical mile, or 6080.27 feet; as, when a ship goes eight miles an hour, her speed is said to be eight knots.
  • (n.) A kind of epaulet. See Shoulder knot.
  • (n.) A sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the northern parts of all the continents, in summer. It is grayish or ashy above, with the rump and upper tail coverts white, barred with dusky. The lower parts are pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white. When fat it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne.
  • (v. t.) To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form a knot on, as a rope; to entangle.
  • (v. t.) To unite closely; to knit together.
  • (v. t.) To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
  • (v. i.) To form knots or joints, as in a cord, a plant, etc.; to become entangled.
  • (v. i.) To knit knots for fringe or trimming.
  • (v. i.) To copulate; -- said of toads.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two years ago I met a wonderful man and we now feel it’s time to tie the knot.
  • (2) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
  • (3) It is emphasized that surgeons should be more aware of the relationship of the holding power of surgical knots to not only the knot-typing technique but also the kind of suture material used.
  • (4) When a supercoiled substrate bearing two FLP target sequences in inverse orientation is treated with FLP, the products are multiply knotted structures that arise as a result of random entrapment of interdomainal supercoils.
  • (5) In principle, the more turns and throws the stronger the knot.
  • (6) Also numerous small knots on the small intestine, peritoneum, and omentum, as well as a considerable amount of ascites were observed.
  • (7) Suture knots are buried in the sclera to minimize the risk of late-onset endophthalmitis.
  • (8) The catheter with intact triple knots could be withdrawn without an invasive maneuver.
  • (9) A more detailed analysis of the products from recombination between wild-type sites indicates: (1) that the catenanes or knots produced by recombination are both simple and complex; (2) that the ratio of free products to catenanes is independent of the distance between the two directly repeated loxP sites; and (3) that for DNA substrates with four loxP sites significant recombination between non-adjacent sites occurs to give free circular products.
  • (10) This article studies the different knots, modalities and sutures.
  • (11) The mechanical performance of these sutures was judged by the following parameters: knot breakage force, configuration of secure knots, and knot run down force.
  • (12) This could be of important use in expediting root-knot nematode resistance (based on the Aps 1-linked resistance gene Mi) screening for breeding programs, or F1 testing for seed production purposes.
  • (13) After this manoeuvre, both the introducer and the small knot could be withdrawn from the jugular vein without further incident.
  • (14) The former appears characteristic of circularly bent DNA and gives rise to a substantial retardation, the latter of bending across a knot or kink in the DNA chain associated with a relatively minor retardation relative to standards.
  • (15) The suture appears to be solid, and the knots do not loosen.
  • (16) Now before you get your knickers in a knot, of course I love my children – and I do a decent job of caring for them.
  • (17) With respect to handling, knotting, tissue drag, absorption, and postoperative complications, the improved Dexon suture was found to be well suited for use in cataract surgery.
  • (18) The reduced phacoemulsification incision size in combination with a scleral pocket closed with a continuous single knotted 10-0 monofilament nylon suture under tonometric and keratometric control significantly dampens the changes in corneal astigmatism during the early and late postoperative periods.
  • (19) Two new triterpenoid saponins, wistariasaponins D [1] amd G [2], and the known saponin dehydrosoyasaponin I [3] were isolated from the knots of Wistaria brachybotrys.
  • (20) Loose ends in efforts to untangle the Gordian knot of Syria | Letters Read more “What is important is Russia has to not be engaged in any activities against anybody but [Isis],” secretary of state John Kerry said.