(n.) A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.
(n.) The horned or piked dogfish. See Dogfish.
(v. t.) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn.
(v. i.) To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.
Example Sentences:
(1) HOE was the most active compound, being able to accelerate PIP2 breakdown at concentrations between 10(-12) and 10(-6) M, while in the case of HEE the effective doses ranged from 10(-11) to 10(-7) M and from 10(-9) to 10(-6) M in the case of HNE.
(2) The coding region for a secreted proteinaceous inhibitor of the human alpha-amylase (tendamistat; HOE 467) was identified by using a synthetic oligonucleotide probe.
(3) A carcinogenicity study with the LH-RH analog buserelin (HOE 766) was conducted in male and female Wistar rats.
(4) They show HOE 077 to be a promising agent for the inhibition of hepatic fibrosis.
(5) S 0885 and HOE 077 inhibit CCl4-induced liver fibrosis in rats, as shown by significantly reduced hydroxyproline content of the liver and improved liver histology.
(6) A double-blind cross-over study of the effects of HOE 760 (histamine H2-receptor blocker) on diazepam pharmacokinetics was conducted in 12 healthy men.
(7) In addition, the stability of the kinin antagonist, Hoe 140, in synovial fluid was compared with that of synthetic bradykinin.
(8) The addition of increasing concentrations of Hoe 760 to the histamine concentration-response curve caused a parallel rightward shift.
(9) However, the effect of intravenous Hoe 490 was only half as intense as that of HB 419 in the first hours after treatment and the effect of oral Hoe 490 was initially stronger and thereafter temporarily distinctly weaker than that of HB 419.
(10) Studies on absorption and distribution in both skin and organism, as well as on elimination and biotransformation were performed in rats, pigs, and rabbits following topical application of the corticoid prednisolone-17-ethyl carbonate-21-propionate (prednicarbate; test name: Hoe 777), which had been labeled with 14C in position 4 for this purpose.
(11) Mode of action studies were made with Hoe 296, a new synthetic antimycotic, mainly in Candida albicans.
(12) Treatment with ramipril plus the BK B2-receptor antagonist HOE 140 for 6 weeks significantly attenuated the antihypertensive effects of the ACE-inhibitor in 2K1C hypertensive WI rats, but not in 2K1C hypertensive BN-K rats and in SHR.
(13) Partial inhibition by relatively high concentrations of Hoe 296 of the respiratory activity of yeast cells or mitochondria therefrom with exogenous substrates can be explained by decreased uptake of the substrates from the medium.
(14) HOE 077 wa rapidly and completely absorbed after oral administration.
(15) Hoe 065 prevented the disruption of memory induced by scopolamine administered before training.
(16) Preincubation of the detector cells with Hoe 140 completely abolished this nitric oxide release.
(17) The organ distribution of the 125I-labelled (3-9)-heptapeptide fragments was similar to LH-RH, but not to Hoe 766.
(18) The decrease of cardiac activity in Rhesus monkeys amounted to 69% in 24 h, whereas proscillaridin A decreased cardiac activity only by 41% in 24 h. The absorption of HOE 040 from the duodenum of dogs anesthetized with pentobarbital amounted to 72%, whereas proscillaridin A is observed by only between 14 and 25%.
(19) We have developed a neutral human insulin (Hoe 21 GH) which is stabilized for use in implantable roller pumps.
(20) A radioimmunoassay for HOE 766 was developed using 125I[D-Trp6,Des-Gly10]GnRH ethylamide as tracer and an antiserum raised against HOE 766.
Home
Definition:
(n.) See Homelyn.
(n.) One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives; esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace.
(n.) One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt.
(n.) The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
(n.) The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine.
(n.) A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
(n.) The home base; he started for home.
(a.) Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
(a.) Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
(adv.) To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.
(adv.) Close; closely.
(adv.) To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home.
Example Sentences:
(1) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
(2) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(3) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(4) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(5) Since 1979 there has been an increase of 17,122 in the number of beds available in nursing homes.
(6) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
(7) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
(8) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(9) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
(10) All patients were discharged home from two to six days after surgery (mean (SD) 3.7 (1.2) days).
(11) But at the same time I didn't feel like, 'Aw, I'm home!'
(12) The aim of this study was to describe the contents of daily reports in two homes for the aged.
(13) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
(14) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(15) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(16) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
(17) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
(18) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
(19) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
(20) He is shadow home secretary and will have to defend himself.