(n.) A short entertainment exhibited on the stage between the acts of a play, or between the play and the afterpiece, to relieve the tedium of waiting.
(n.) A form of English drama or play, usually short, merry, and farcical, which succeeded the Moralities or Moral Plays in the transition to the romantic or Elizabethan drama.
(n.) A short piece of instrumental music played between the parts of a song or cantata, or the acts of a drama; especially, in church music, a short passage played by the organist between the stanzas of a hymn, or in German chorals after each line.
Example Sentences:
(1) He has just released a new album, Epigrams and Interludes .
(2) The decline in the hypoxic ventilatory response during the 1st 25 min of hypoxia was not restored after a 7-min interlude of room air breathing; inspired ventilation (VI) at the end of the first hypoxic period was not different from VI at the beginning and end of the second hypoxic period.
(3) he said during one of the comedic interludes which bafflingly showed two police officers trying to prevent the presenter filming and then bursting into song.
(4) Musical interludes, courtesy of Gwyneth Paltrow, Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson and, in over the end credits, an enormous children's choir belting out Over the Rainbow were only marginally better received.
(5) He pre-empts this by varying the rhythm, inserting musical and visual interludes, and keeping jokes that use the same formula apart from one another.
(6) No hoedown interlude on this one, but after a verse of Withers' song Mumford starts messing with the lyrics.
(7) The interlude lasted barely 10 seconds before the vixen trotted out and resumed her nocturnal warbling.
(8) The gender pay gap only exists because women have babies Let’s have a brief mythbusting interlude here to point out that if this assertion were true, it would still constitute discrimination against women on the basis of sex, which is unacceptable.
(9) A morale-raising interlude came in 1978 with the holding of the football World Cup, which the hosts won.
(10) He's just returned from the Gold Coast, where he was filming his latest movie – Hard Drive , a heist thriller – and there's a brief interlude before he heads off again.
(11) I don’t know what combination of factors led to this particular interlude of family harmony, but an elderly woman was moved to approach our table and say that she had never before seen such charming, well-mannered and beautifully brought up children.
(12) Having regarded an interlude at Benfica as a highlight of his playing career it felt good to be an expatriate again but a little English mentoring has proved beneficial.
(13) Prolonged survival in these patients bore no relationship to age, sex, state of axillary lymph nodes or length of interlude between the breast and the lung cancer.
(14) It's a rare interlude of childish exuberance for girls whose young lives are dominated by the twice daily walk to the well and home, carrying heavy water cans, and other domestic chores.
(15) Maybe the unfortunate Fearn Cotton interlude (royal-themed sick bags and all) was what Entwistle had in mind when he said: "I don't mean we can't afford for anything ever to go wrong.
(16) After a sobering interlude, children who had sat rapt at the sight of the moon landings grew up, and accepted that terraforming space – once briefly assumed to be easy – was actually really, really hard.
(17) Now, having led his party for two periods of 10 years, with a four-year interlude at Westminster, speculation is rife that he will return to the Commons.
(18) About a hundred journalists were crammed in, sitting or standing, for a debate of noise and passion with interludes of loud hilarity.
(19) Hypoxia without trauma leads to a significant increase in capillary luminal area, which, however, is abolished when trauma precedes the hypoxic interlude.
(20) 9.16pm BST 72 min: A scrappy interlude in proceedings.
Mobile
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
(a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
(a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
(a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
(a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
(a.) The mob; the populace.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(2) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(3) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(4) Their particular electrophoretic mobility was retained.
(5) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
(6) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
(7) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(8) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
(9) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
(10) Furthermore, carcinoembryonic antigen from the carcinoma tissue was found to have the same electrophoretical mobility as the UEA-I binding glycoproteins.
(11) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(12) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(13) In order to obtain the most suitable mobile phase, we studied the influence of pH and acetonitrile content on the capacity factor (k').
(14) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
(15) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(16) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
(17) Heparitinase I (EC 4.2.2.8), an enzyme with specificity restricted to the heparan sulfate portion of the polysaccharide, releases fragments with the electrophoretic mobility and the structure of heparin.
(18) The transference by conjugation of protease genetic information between Proteus mirabilis strains only occurs upon mobilization by a conjugative plasmid such as RP4 (Inc P group).
(19) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(20) Moreover, it is the recombinant p70 polypeptides of slowest mobility that coelute with S6 kinase activity on anion-exchange chromatography.