(n.) The act of indenting or state of being indented.
(n.) A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc.
(n.) A recess or sharp depression in any surface.
(n.) The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph.
(n.) The measure of the distance; as, an indentation of one em, or of two ems.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
(2) Attachment appeared to involve a very close physical proximity of treponemes to the cultured cells; at the site of attachment, no changes such as swelling or indentation of the cultured cell surface were observed.
(3) Analysed were the results of surgical treatment, causes of the failure and early recurrence in 108 patients with retinal detachment in whom was performed an indentation of the sclera by means of a balloon (1st group--50) or by an episcleral implant (2d group--58).
(4) Thus, the area with separated HL, which is restricted to the region of the PMC released at the stage of PMC ingression, spreads almost entirely throughout the area of the indenting vegetal plate at gastrulation.
(5) Evidence for net C3 synthesis was based on (a) incorporation of 14C-labeled amino acids into C3 protein, (b) indentity of the allotype of C3 produced in vitro with that of the doner's serum C3, even in the presence of carrier C3 protein of a different allotype; (c) correspondence of electrophoretic mobility, size, and subunit structure of C3 protein produced in vitro with serum C3; (d) inhibition of C3 production with cycloheximide.
(6) The light touch stimulus was a slight indentation of the skin produced through a displacement controlled stimulating probe (tip diameter of 2 mm).
(7) Dendritic cells were characterized by their slender cytoplasmic processes, indented nucleus and pale cytoplasm.
(8) The monocytes are large cells with an indented nucleus and cytoplasm containing numerous vesicles of different sizes and also a few lysosomes.
(9) Kitten units responsive to skin indentation showed no evidence of encoding stimulus magnitude information.
(10) The anti-inflammatory effect of dexamethasone was also indentical in both normal and EFAD rats.
(11) (1) was employed to calculate the strain rate and stress from the indentation time and the size of the indentation.
(12) A mathematical solution has been obtained for the indentation creep and stress-relaxation behavior of articular cartilage where the tissue is modeled as a layer of linear KLM biphasic material of thickness h bonded to an impervious, rigid bony substrate.
(13) The responses of slowly-adapting neurons were separated into two components, a "dynamic" response corresponding to activity elicited by the initial indenting ramp and a "static" response produced by the sustained indentation.
(14) Therefore, the pleural indentation sign does not exclusively appear in the lung cancer.
(15) In the fluoride group, a moderate increase of the indentation length and a reduced calcium loss were observed.
(16) Histologically, in addition to diffuse infiltrate of large lymphoid cells with deeply indented nuclei, there were many epithelioid cell granulomas, remarkable tissue eosinophilia and stromal fibrosis, mimicking inflammatory disease.
(17) By utilizing high-speed, microcomputer-controlled data logging techniques, simultaneous monitoring of signals from a dynamic load cell and a displacement transducer could be made throughout an indentation test.
(18) The central axon of a primary afferent neuron that responded to indentation of the glabrous skin of the lower lip in a slowly adapting fashion was intra-axonally injected with horseradish peroxidase.
(19) In addition to the macroglossia, the typical facial signs of this syndrome such as capillary haemangioma of the glabella, soft tissue folds under the eyes and linear indentations of the ear lobes are demonstrable.
(20) Cuplike indentations were present on the paunch epithelial surface and were sites of bacterial aggregation.
Punt
Definition:
(v. i.) To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble.
(n.) Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
(n.) A flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use in shallow waters.
(v. t.) To propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion.
(v. t.) To kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands.
(n.) The act of punting the ball.
Example Sentences:
(1) Abbott has punted some key decisions off into a new defence white paper he'll commision if he wins next Saturday.
(2) Brees is sacked by Cliff Avril on third-and-nine, taking his team out of field goal range, and instead Thomas Morstead comes back out to punt.
(3) 6.46pm GMT Falcons 10 - Seahawks 0, 0:31 1st quarter On 3rd down, Wilson can't find Golden Tate on the far sideline and Seattle punt it down to the Atlanta 13.
(4) What a complete mess - a miscued shot, scuffed clearance, and uncontrolled toe-punt as he fell - but a decisive mess all the same."
(5) Backed up against his own end zone after a tremendous Anger punt, Ryan Fitzpatrick succeeded in dumping the ball off to Shonn Greene but then found that his team had given up a safety anyway, on account of a holding call against Chance Warmack in the end zone.
(6) Little Defoe was allowed to meet a hopeful punt with his head, mid-way inside the Arsenal half, and flick on the ball to Rafael van der Vaart.
(7) McGuinness added that the republic was better off when it had its own currency, the punt.
(8) 2.01am GMT Florida State 3-0 Auburn, 5:30, 1st quarter And THERE'S CHRIS DAVIS, he returns Guayo's punt for 22 yards to get Auburn to the Florida State 22!
(9) Sports Direct, the retailer run by its mecurial founder Mike Ashley, bought a 4.6% stake in Debenhams on Thursday night, in the company’s latest multimillion pound punt on a rival retailers’ shares.
(10) June 24, 2014 5.46pm BST Half time: Costa Rica 0-0 England 45 mins: A long punt downfield has the England defence in all sorts of trouble.
(11) Jay Prosch almost muffs a punt and then Auburn goes 3 and out, including an inexplicable wildcat play on 2nd down.
(12) Sacked by Dee Ford, AGAIN, for eight yards to force a punt.
(13) Akinfeev's punt upfield caused consternation in a City defence that never seems the same when Vincent Kompany, still sidelined with a thigh injury , is absent.
(14) 3.41am GMT Ravens 34 - 49ers 29, 0:11 of 4th Quarter On 3rd & 8, Leach runs for a few yards, and the Ravens call time before punting it away.
(15) Chris Davis almost muffs the punt return for Auburn, that's not as dirty as it sounds.
(16) 2.12am GMT And we're back On 3rd & 13, Kaepernick throws short to Walker, short of the first down, and the 49ers punt it into the end zone.
(17) Deep into stoppage time, Allardyce’s defence showed the same nervousness about which he had complained in last weekend’s draw at Stoke, failing to deal either with Cesc Fàbregas’s upfield punt or the header from César Azpilicueta that played in Nemanja Matic who finished neatly past the advancing Mannone.
(18) Panama try a punt forward from a free kick, but it's pretty optimistic and the US cheerfully clear it.
(19) He’s doing what he feels is right and that’s why he’s paid to be manager, to make those decisions.” Even as an inexperienced team they should not have been undone by a hopeful punt into a cluttered penalty box by one of the poorer sides at this tournament.
(20) Doing so would punt the fight over whether to lock in 2014 sequestration levels at $967 billion until December.