(n.) A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes.
(n.) A clownish person; a rustic.
(v. t.) To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The histologic features that caused diagnostic difficulty were: a solid, sheet-like proliferation of cells (four cases), a pseudoinfiltrative pattern (one case), abundant stromal hyalinization (one case), signet ring cells (two cases), hobnail cells (two cases), and the presence of moderate degrees of nuclear atypicality (two cases) and occasional mitotic figures (two cases).
(2) A malignant clear cell pattern was present in 8 patients and in 3 of these individuals that prominent morphologic feature was associated with hobnail cells.
(3) Huhhhhhhhh,” goes another, when the drowsy, pitched-down vocal of DOEP drops in, a sliver of R&B squashed under a hobnailed boot.
(4) Histologically, all tumors resembled those described in previous study, containing the characteristic clear cells and "hobnail: cells.
(5) The DNA nuclear content of 83 'pure' intraductal cancers (DCIS), 30 DCIS with an invasive component, 7 intraductal papillomas, 26 atypical hyperplasias, and 5 'hobnail' lesions was determined with a Cell Analysis Systems Image Analyzer (CAS 200).
(6) Tall columnar cells were observed more often in KH (43.1% in KH and 20.8% in CIH), and hobnail and cuboidal cells more often in CIH (31.4 and 80.4% respectively in KH, and 54.2 and 95.8% respectively in CIH).
(7) The tumor was histologically composed of tubular component lined in part with flat or cuboidal clear as well as hobnail cells with mild cytologic atypia and abundant stromal component containing foci of calcification.
(8) The difference may be explained by the frequent presence of tall columnar cells in the glands of central carcinomas, and hobnail and cuboidal cells in peripheral adenocarcinomas.
(9) Cells with abundant glycogen-rich clear cytoplasm and hobnail cells were identified in most of the tumors.
(10) While a fairly detailed profile of the morphologic criteria for hobnail cells was developed, the cellular profiles of the other malignant glandular cells originating in primary vaginal adenocarcinoma remain less certain.
(11) Microscopically, the tumor tissue was composed of clear and hobnail-type cells.
(12) The histological characteristics of the transplanted tumor were similar to those observed in the original tumor which was composed of dark cells, clear cells, and hobnail cells.
(13) They were histologically classified into a tubular type with hobnail cells and a solid type without tubular pattern or hobnail cells.
(14) Clear cells predominated in 48% of the cases and 23% displayed hobnail cells.
(15) "Hobnail" cells were present in four cases and clear cells in two.
(16) Wartime Farm follows in the hobnailed footsteps of Victorian Farm and Edwardian Farm, hugely successful living history series in which Alex, fellow archaeologist Peter Ginn and historian Ruth Goodman recreated the past by immersing themselves in the minutiae of daily life.
(17) Each specimen, however, had one or more features establishing it as a clear cell carcinoma, including tubules and cysts lined by cuboidal, hobnail, or flattened cells; nests and sheets of cells with abundant clear cytoplasm containing glycogen; and an adjacent adenofibromatous component.
(18) The metaplasias were classified as squamous, syncytial papillary, ciliated-cell, eosinophilic, mucinous, clear-cell, or hobnail.
(19) Histologically, the tumor revealed mainly small, elongated glands consisting of single-layered cuboidal or columnar cells with scanty cytoplasm and a focally hobnail appearance.
(20) The constituent cells included clear cells, hobnail cells and secretory and nonsecretory tubular cystic cells.
Tread
Definition:
(v. i.) To set the foot; to step.
(v. i.) To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step.
(v. i.) To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males.
(v. t.) To step or walk on.
(v. t.) To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path.
(v. t.) To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, or the like.
(v. t.) To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
(v. t.) To copulate with; to feather; to cover; -- said of the male bird.
(n.) A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; a footstep; as, a nimble tread; a cautious tread.
(n.) Manner or style of stepping; action; gait; as, the horse has a good tread.
(n.) Way; track; path.
(n.) The act of copulation in birds.
(n.) The upper horizontal part of a step, on which the foot is placed.
(n.) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
(n.) The part of a wheel that bears upon the road or rail.
(n.) The part of a rail upon which car wheels bear.
(n.) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
(n.) A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) Will it continue treading water, deciding cases in pretty much the same way as the law lords used to do - although using blunter language?
(2) He has to tread some of the same path as Joe Biden but without the posturing and aggression.
(3) I'm not in the least ambitious, never have been, and I don't tread on people.
(4) Dombey treads proudly towards his doom with the author's unheard warnings ringing in his ears.
(5) Admittedly, there has been a bit of sour grapes in the English response to the success of Dempsey et al, and no doubt we will be treading those grapes into wine and drinking ourselves into oblivion if Team USA get much further – they are, as today's typically excitable NY Daily News front page informs us, now just "four wins from glory" .
(6) Kristen Woolf, girl-centred practice and strategy director, The Girl Hub , London, UK, @girleffect Don't lose focus on girls: Very clearly men and boys have got to be a central component of the solution, but we need to tread carefully here not to lose the focus on equality and empowerment for girls and women.
(7) Incongruous and illusory depth cues, arising from 'interference patterns' produced by overlapping linear grids at the edges of escalator treads, may contribute to the disorientation experienced by some escalator users, which in turn may contribute to the causes of some of the many escalator accidents which occur.
(8) This assignment to Cairo had been relatively routine - an opportunity to get to know Egyptian politics a little better; but with only three weeks on the ground, hardly time to do anything other than tread water.
(9) UK schools are treading water when we know that matching the very best could boost the growth rate by one percentage point every year.
(10) A noninvasive criterion of occlusions of the lower limb arteries was elaborated from the results of transcutaneous measurement of oxygen tension (TmO2) during treading on a treadmill.
(11) 1982) suggested to require DA (head weaving, reciprocal forepaw treading).
(12) But the oxygen saturations on swimming were in all patients higher than after tread-wheel exercise.
(13) The changes at CDC, which is supposed to invest where other investors fear to tread, follow criticism of the organisation for focusing too much on profits and not enough on development.
(14) Now he’s remarried, with a young, new family, and treading the boards on Broadway.
(15) These figures illustrate how millions of people are treading water, struggling to keep afloat and afford the very basics.
(16) It was only when I was criticized for writing science fiction that I realized I was treading on sacred ground."
(17) That line is trickier to tread for working-class comics, into which category Bishop – with a Liverpool accent so rich it's got calories – falls.
(18) We tread a fine line and, because each picture is judged on its merits on the day, it is very difficult to have hard and fast rules.
(19) Where German officials have feared to tread, dramatists have rushed in.
(20) That doesn’t mean no one should ever criticise Israel, for fear of treading on Jewish sensitivities.