(n.) The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs.
(n.) A fluid, or a viscous material or preparation of various kinds (commonly black or colored), used in writing or printing.
(n.) A pigment. See India ink, under India.
(v. t.) To put ink upon; to supply with ink; to blacken, color, or daub with ink.
Example Sentences:
(1) She got it when Alyssa was born and her daughter’s name is inked in black just above her wrist.
(2) Histologically, the ink was noted within macrophages which aggregated around blood vessels.
(3) The root canal anatomy of 149 mandibular second molars was studied using a technique in which the pulp was removed, the canal space filled with black ink and the roots demineralized and made transparent.
(4) After visualization with an avidin-biotin alkaline phosphatase procedure, the blot is post-stained with India ink to visualize the protein pattern context.
(5) Twitter and Facebook were filling up with pictures of proud, defiant Afghans holding up fingers stained with ink.
(6) The media is utterly self-obsessed and we get more ink than perhaps we should do.
(7) The apical 5 to 6 mm of the filling materials were exposed to india ink for 48 hours.
(8) The unesterified resins are mainly used in paper size and the esters in printing inks, varnishes and adhesives.
(9) "It is a good idea," she noted in blue ink on the letter, "but not at that price.
(10) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(11) The microvascularization of the sternum of the child has been studied by a method of India ink injection and by histology.
(12) The government is expected to borrow £165.7bn this year to balance the books, with further massive borrowing already inked in for future years.
(13) These are very accomplished people and they’ve never seen so much red ink on their copy.” And yet Ademo says he would welcome more submissions from scholars.
(14) The anatomy of the venous system was determined from observations of vascular casts in adult rats; the development of the vascular system was established by examination of ink-injected embryos.
(15) The pad is saturated with gentian violet ink which enables an ideal transfer of inked marks from the marker to the eye or skin.
(16) An immune Indian ink micro-agglutination method has been evolved for the detection of an antigen present in the blood associated with infectious hepatitis (called IHxAg).
(17) A version of the Stroop colour-word test was used, in which the words 'red' and 'green' were presented in the complementary coloured 'ink'.
(18) The transplants survived and at 7 days were able to entrap india ink particles, or particles of radioactive gold, injected in the distal part of the extremity.
(19) The staining sensitivity of directly blotted proteins is about 200 ng protein per band as revealed by India ink staining.
(20) Phagocytosis of India ink and nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) reduction were revealed tend to be increased, but not exceeded significantly to normal range.
Offset
Definition:
(n.) In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something
(n.) A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek.
(n.) A sum, account, or value set off against another sum or account, as an equivalent; hence, anything which is given in exchange or retaliation; a set-off.
(n.) A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
(n.) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; -- called also set-off.
(n.) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
(n.) An abrupt bend in an object, as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
(n.) A more or less distinct transfer of a printed page or picture to the opposite page, when the pages are pressed together before the ink is dry or when it is poor.
(imp. & p. p.) of Offset
(v. t.) To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another.
(v. t.) To form an offset in, as in a wall, rod, pipe, etc.
(v. i.) To make an offset.
Example Sentences:
(1) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
(2) He said: "Monetary policy affects the exchange rate – which in turn can offset or reinforce our exposure to rising import prices.
(3) Displacement of a colinear line over the same range without an offset evoked little, if any, response.
(4) Simple interconversion cannot account for the changes in binding that occur upon adding GMP-PNP or removing magnesium, since the increase in [R2]t exceeds the decrease in [R1]t. Moreover, the apparent amount of high-affinity complex exhibits a biphasic dependence on the concentration of [3H]histamine; an increase at low concentrations is offset by a decrease that occurs at higher concentrations.
(5) That the opposite was observed in our study indicates that the increase in Pst(L), which results from parenchymal hysteresis, offsets any dimensional decrease in upstream airways due to airways hysteresis.
(6) The minimal advantage in rapidity of stone dissolution offered by tham E over tham is more than offset by the considerably increased potential for toxic side effects.
(7) Updated at 3.42pm GMT 3.12pm GMT Key issue: Local authorities may lack expertise to implement BO The EAC raised concerns about the management and oversight of biodiversity offsetting.
(8) The wave forms of the equiluminance stimulus onset responses were similar to ERGs evoked with luminance decrease and the stimulus offset PERGs were like ERGs elicited by luminance increase.
(9) The median offset potential ranged from 0.5 to 4 mV.
(10) During each session, measurements were made of either tonic accommodation or tonic vergence 30 s before stimulus onset and at 0.5, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 min after stimulus offset.
(11) But Matt Collins of Exeter University said it was unlikely to cause an absolute cooling: "It could offset some of the warming, but really the greenhouse gas signal wins over the AMOC.
(12) These channels underlie the graded active responses that can be elicited at the offset of abrupt hyperpolarizing and depolarizing intracellular current pulses.
(13) This would explain why the presence of ammonium sulphate appreciably offsets the effects of decreasing pH and also the exponential relationship between rate of nitrite loss and ammonium sulphate concentration.
(14) This will be vital to offset diminishing contributions from government spending and sluggish household demand.
(15) That would mark a controversial break from its existing policy, whereby the ECB offsets bond purchases by draining liquidity from the system in separate operations.
(16) Flow-karyotypes are normalized using an iterative fitting procedure, using corrections for (1) amplification of HO and CA fluorescence, (2) cross-talk between the fluorescence signals of HO and CA, and (3) offset of the HO and CA origin.
(17) "2013 was a tough year for us both in minerals and in oil and gas," Cochrane said, adding that the group had relied on"self help", including diversification which offset some of the challenges in its core mining market, improving operational efficiency, and strong growth in its after sales business, where orders were up 16% on 2012 and which accounted for 63% of revenues last year.
(18) During rest at high altitude, a 32% decrease in coronary blood flow was largely offset by a 28% increase in coronary arterial O2 extraction to maintain myocardial O2 delivery.
(19) Alternatives include treatment with sufficient human or porcine FVIII to offset inhibitors, use of materials that reestablish hemostasis even though FVIII levels are not increased (the so-called FVIII-bypassing agents), manipulation of immune responses through physical depletion of inhibitor by plasmapheresis or affinity chromatography, and administration of intravenous immunoglobulin or immunosuppressive cytotoxic drugs.
(20) The smoky density of the mackerel was nicely offset by the pointed black olive tapenade and the fresh, zingy flavours present in little tangles of tomato, shallot, red pepper and spring onion, a layer of pea shoots and red chard, and the generous dressing of grassy olive oil.