(n.) A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, TNF-alpha produced an even greater increase in IL-1 mRNA in HOBIT cells, a well-differentiated clonal cell line derived from normal hOB cells transfected with the SV40 large T antigen.
(2) Constitutively, hOB and HOBIT cells produced a similar pattern of IGFBPs, while all other cell lines produced their own unique pattern of IGFBPs.
(3) Treatment of hOB and HOBIT cells with IGF-I resulted in a 2-fold increase in medium levels of IGFBP-3; IGF-I decreased levels of 24-kilodalton (kDa) IGFBP in hOB cell-conditioned medium.
Obit
Definition:
(n.) Death; decease; the date of one's death.
(n.) A funeral solemnity or office; obsequies.
(n.) A service for the soul of a deceased person on the anniversary of the day of his death.
Example Sentences:
(1) In legal terms, her entire judgment was obiter , meaning that it was not part of the court's ruling and not binding on anyone else.
(2) When Robert Harris read this as part of his research for The Ghost , he sought permission to quote some of Crofts's obiter dicta ("Of all the advantages that ghosting offers, one of the greatest must be the opportunity to meet people of interest") as chapter-heads.
(3) Another email to Entwistle when he was running BBC Vision from Jan Younghusband, the commissioning editor for BBC music and events, sent on the day after Savile's death in October 2011, said: "I gather we didn't prepare the obit because of the darker side of the story ...
(4) When interviewed by Pollard last month Vaughan-Barratt explained that by "dark side" he meant: "We haven't got an obit for him.
(5) Those emails prompted Younghusband to reply to the two executives: "'I gather we didn't prepare the obit because of the darker side of the story.
(6) This work was carried out in 50 hearts of human adult cadavers of both sexes, whose obit causes were not related to diseases which could have been directly involved with the heart.
(7) Vaughan-Barratt told Entwistle in the email in May 2010: "We have no obit and I am not sure we would want one ... My first job in TV was on a JS show, I saw the complex and sometimes conflicting nature of the man at first hand ...
(8) We have a crisis in Yemen that is intractable and a burgeoning crisis on Egypt, and those are to my mind far more important than any obiter dicta you may have disinterred from 30 years of journalism.” The event was probably Johnson’s bumpiest ride since his appointment as foreign secretary less than a week ago, although he was booed by a section of the audience after speaking at the French ambassador’s party on Bastille Day.
(9) ('I'm sorry I'm going to be a bit technical - the ruling was obiter dictum rather than the ratio meaning that it was a passing remark ...').