(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.
Wink
Definition:
(v. i.) To nod; to sleep; to nap.
(v. i.) To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion.
(v. i.) To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink.
(v. i.) To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only.
(v. i.) To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; -- generally with at.
(v. i.) To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.
(v. t.) To cause (the eyes) to wink.
(n.) The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment.
(n.) A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maréchal-Le Pen, who was six months old at the time of the attack, said her grandfather's name was wrongly sullied in Carpentras and never "publicly cleansed", that her election would be "a wink at history".
(2) His wink-wink, nod-nod racist slogan, “Make America great again,” together with his apocalyptic dirge of a convention, left exposed and unguarded a flank that is usually the Republicans’ specialty.
(3) A Tumblr page succinctly called Fuck Yeah, Cillian Murphy's Eyes consists of pages and pages of photographs of the actor, looking up, down, left, right, blinking, winking, staring, gazing – you name it.
(4) The first case was characterised by a bilateral jaw-winking phenomenon along with an asymmetric bilateral congenital ptosis, whereas the second case had bizarre spontaneous movements of the affected lid, deficient abduction and pseudoptosis in association with jaw-winking.
(5) 'I couldn't imagine a worse scenario than not enjoying being Thor, because it's gonna consume a good 10 years of my life' Hemsworth, a gentle giant who seems both grateful and gracious, talks passionately about Thor, with no winking and no weariness.
(6) On the way into the ministerial press conference room – the blue room – Abbott gave his characteristic wink.
(7) Since then, several of you have tipped us a wink in the direction of one such man in black who actually did find the net - in a third division game between Barrow AFC and Plymouth Argyle back on November 9 1968.
(8) In England you have the big games but you don’t have el clásico, ” he offered with a wink.
(9) This method eliminates the jaw winking phenomenon as well as lifting the lid.
(10) "Apart from anything else, with Superman returning to a cinematic landscape that now also has that other god-alien Thor, not to mention Iron Man, Hulk – hell, all the Avengers – it wasn't a daft move to avoid any winks to his inherent absurdity," he writes.
(11) Without nudging and winking, the impression given to the US seems clear enough.
(12) I’m so tortured with guilt and remorse, I haven’t slept a wink in the last 13 years.” 2007.
(13) He laughs and winks: “And we gave up sitting in pubs for three or four hours a day!
(14) And it may be the sunshine, but he appears to be winking.
(15) Where Heal nodded politely to Wren, Nouvel winks at him cheekily as if saying: "Come on, grandpa; get down with the bling, and get shopping."
(16) When he finally deigned to sit down formally, it was in typically theatrical fashion: after midnight, on a big bed in a five-star suite, the Monte Carlo casino winking beneath our balcony, the ocean sighing behind us.
(17) That’s a specialised form of garden work they’re wanting,” he told me with a wink, and when I still didn’t twig, he explained that Garberville is the capital of Californian marijuana culture.
(18) In a wink to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Whaledump lists as its contact address “Flat 3b, 3 Hans Crescent”, site of the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
(19) In patients with severe Marcus Gunn jaw-winking, ablation of the synkinetic eyelid movement requires surgical removal of a significant portion of the levator complex (muscle and aponeurosis).
(20) Asked who collects these objects, Darrow winks: "People who have money."