(n.) A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.
(n.) A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow.
(n.) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
(n.) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
(n.) A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.
(v. t.) To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse.
(v. t.) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
(v. i.) To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.
Example Sentences:
(1) It could be demonstrated by radioimmune precipitation of virus labeled with[35S]methionine that all three polypeptides are specific for hog cholera virions.
(2) The gastric polypeptides of 100 kilodaltons representing (H+-K+)-ATPase in the rat gastric mucosa or isolated hog gastric membranes were covalently labeled with [14C]omeprazole.
(3) The District became a byword for crime and drug abuse, while its “mayor for life” lived high on the hog and lurched cheerfully from one scandal to the next.
(4) Urate oxidase from hog liver (urate: oxygen oxidoreductase, EC 1.7.33) has been entrapped in a crosslinked 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate gel with a 47% retention of activity.
(5) This report describes the partial purification of an HMW renin from hog kidney extracts which had previously been acidified to pH 2.5.
(6) Optimal conditions with respect to pH, concentration of glutaraldehyde and enzyme, and order of addition of enzyme and crosslinking reagent were established for the immobilization of hog kidney D-amino acid oxidase to an attapulgite support.
(7) They confirm the original identification of the three color vision genes, which was based on genetic evidence [Nathans, J., Thomas, D., & Hogness, D.S.
(8) Pestiviruses comprise a group of economically important animal pathogens, namely hog cholera, bovine viral diarrhoea and border disease viruses.
(9) We used the polymerase chain reaction to amplify one common fragment of several different strains of both hog cholera virus and bovine virus diarrhea virus (BVDV).
(10) In the purified hog preparation only a 95,000-Da band, the (H+ + K+) ATPase was labeled, while in the rabbit preparation a 95,000-Da band and one other membrane protein of 70,000 Da were labeled with this reagent.
(11) The work, The Spear, by Brett Murray, unleashed a brouhaha that has hogged headlines for more than a week in South Africa and earned that inexhaustible accolade "painting-gate".
(12) Cultural examination of cecal contents from 109 market weight hogs slaughtered in Prince Edward Island during May-July 1988 yielded 62 isolates of Campylobacter coli and seven Campylobacter jejuni.
(13) This material could be removed in bovine and hog plasma by a cation-exchange resin, allowing an assay of the plasma prorenin concentration to be constructed in these species.
(14) There was no evidence that the rapid initial kinin release in plasma from allergic patients caused by submaximum concentrations of hog pancreas kalikrein or by acetone-activated human plasma (2) was due to an increased level of prekallikrein activator (activated factor XII), to prekallikrein itself or to a factor possibly positioned between active factor XII and prekallikrein.
(15) The enzyme concentration dependence of spectrophotometric titrations of hog kidney D-amino acid oxidase [EC 1.4.3.3] with p-aminobenzoate was studied.
(16) The results suggest that the active site of hog liver flavin-containing monooxygenase places greater constraints than that of cytochrome P-450IIB-1 on substrate orientation, but in both cases trans-S-oxide formation is strongly preferred possibly due to steric interactions of the substrate and the active site.
(17) Km values are 6.6 mM and 13 mM for human and hog enzymes respectively.
(18) This colonic K(+)-ATPase activity was inhibited completely by monoclonal antibody HK4001, which inhibits the hog gastric H+,K(+)-ATPase activity but not Na+,K(+)-ATPase or Ca(2+)-ATPase.
(19) With a long-term (1 and 4 months) introduction of an additional amount of edible fats (beef, hog fats, butter, sunflower seed oil) to intact and intratracheally quartz-dust laden sexually mature male rats an organ-specific reaction to the supply of fat, and in intact rats, also some peculiarities of the reaction depending upon the kind of the introduced fats, were discovered.
(20) Atomic absorption spectrophotometry and neutron activation analysis showed the presence of mercury in organic extracts of seed grain and in tissues of hogs fed the contaminated grain.
Hot
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(superl.) Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air.
(superl.) Characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager.
(superl.) Lustful; lewd; lecherous.
(superl.) Acrid; biting; pungent; as, hot as mustard.
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Example Sentences:
(1) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
(2) The analgesic activity of morphine was assessed by the hot-plate technique in the offspring of female CFE rats that had received morphine twice daily on days 5 to 12 of pregnancy.
(3) The data indicate that hot flashes may start much earlier and continue far longer than is commonly recognized by physicians or acknowledged in textbooks of gynecology.
(4) The phage is also thermostable in water of the hot spring from which this phage was isolated.
(5) In short term clinical studies, the beneficial effects of transdermal estradiol on plasma gonadotrophins, maturation of the vaginal epithelium, metabolic parameters of bone resorption and menopausal symptoms (hot flushes, sleep disturbance, genitourinary discomfort and mood alteration) appear to be comparable to those of oral and subcutaneous estrogens, while the undesirable effects of oral estrogens on hepatic metabolism are avoided.
(6) "The government should be doing all it can to put the UK at the forefront of this energy revolution not blowing hot and cold on the issue.
(7) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
(8) To test the hypothesis that EAA agonists are involved in transmission of nociceptive information in the spinal cord, we tested the effect of various opioid, sigma and phencyclidine compounds on the action of NMDA in the tail-flick, hot-plate and biting and scratching nociceptive tests.
(9) Antinociception was studied by measuring tail-flick response to hot (55 degrees C) water.
(10) We had hoped to be back in by now but there was a problem with the hot water.
(11) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.
(12) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
(13) The influence of hot and dry climate and nutritional status on dry eye incidence is discussed.
(14) Spoon over the dressing and eat immediately, while the tomatoes are still hot and the bread is crisp.
(15) "The rise in those who are self-employed is good news, but the reality is that those who have turned to freelance work in order to pull themselves out of unemployment and those who have decided to work for themselves face a challenging tax maze that could land them in hot water should they get it wrong," says Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
(16) Writhing response was more influenced after systemic administration of drugs while hot plate latencies was not.
(17) Illness was also significantly associated with eating lightly cooked eggs (unmatched p = 0.02), but not soft boiled eggs, and precooked hot chicken (matched p = 0.006).
(18) Gamma spectra were measured and activities of the detected isotopes were analyzed for 206 high-activity particles (hot particles, HPs) found in northeastern Poland after the Chernobyl accident.
(19) A hot spot in the lung emboli was visualized in two cases.
(20) Every time we have a negotiation, the bidding process (for the project) slows and postpones things.” Water quality has become a hot-button issue as the Olympics draw closer with little sign of progress in cleaning up the fetid bay, as well as the lagoon system in western Rio that hugs the sites of the Olympic park, the very heart of the games.