(n.) A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation.
(n.) A part broken off; a fragment.
(n.) A cleft or division.
(v. t.) To cut into notches or teeth like those of a saw; to notch.
(n.) A small load, as of hay or grain in the straw, or of ore.
(v. t.) To carry, as a load; as, to jag hay, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Jags are doing a nice job of showing a 'worst case scenario'.
(2) Truth told, I simply hadn't the time to do anything more than snap a bar of expensive chocolate into jagged shards and put it in the middle of the table.
(3) From here the view is breathtaking; looking down on Loch Coruisk and tiny sandy beaches below all ringed by the looming jagged peaks of the Cuillin.
(4) The turbine housings, which are half-complete, resemble the jagged ramparts of a fort.
(5) She told the Jags their actions to improve the military sexual abuse crisis was "not enough" Gillibrand asked Harding which he believed had done their duty in the Aviano case – the jury or the convening authority.
(6) Is it a waste of money to spend this fantastic sum on one painting, a canvas depicting a mess of jagged female limbs?
(7) Biopsy specimen from deltoid muscle consisted of untypable fibers of varying diameters with jagged Z-lines and increased variability of myofibrillar diameters.
(8) The Jags' owner, Shahid Khan, is investing substantial sums of his own money into upgrading Jacksonville's existing stadium , and successful businessmen rarely spend their own cash for no reason.
(9) A breakthrough was already looking inevitable and, sure enough, in the seventh minute Bale embarked on another jagged dash down the left.
(10) Surfaces with poor cleanability before and after abrasion were characterized by pitting, crevices or jags.
(11) On the day of the accident, Simon Lowe, Jagged Globe’s managing director, flew to Kathmandu, on to Lukla, and then made the full day’s trek to her home.
(12) When it rains in Bogotá the clouds swallow up the jagged Andean peaks that surround the city.
(13) The reduced-quintinomial distribution provides theoretical results that describe the characteristics of the PND's quite well, accounting for the smooth or scalloped behavior of short-counting-time data, the jagged nature of long-counting-time data, and the Poisson-like character of very-short-counting-time data.
(14) He lifts his trouser leg to reveal a long, jagged scar on his left ankle.
(15) The cells of the stratum corneum are rough, jagged, and contain myriad niches in which bacteria dwell.
(16) Jaguars 20-7 Titans The boos are ringing out in Tennessee, where Jordan Todman just took the ball in on a five-yard run to restore the Jags’ two-score advantage.
(17) When they lifted them they saw through the tears the smiles of the doubters, their jagged teeth shining through oily jaws.
(18) The scenic drive along Bear Lake Road skirts broad meadows full of elk grazing beneath jagged peaks.
(19) And there is the flinty personality, sharp, jagged, unyielding.
(20) Photograph: Alamy While the Westfjords’ main roads (Route 60 and Route 61) provide views along the jagged routes that rise, fall, twist and turn along each fjord, there are also activities to try: kayaking, hiking, cycling.
Jeg
Definition:
(n.) See Jig, 6.
Example Sentences:
(1) This enhancer sequence is not strictly cell-type specific since it functions in cell lines of both placental (JEG-3) and pituitary (18-54,SF) origin.
(2) VIP maximally increased the transient expression of CRE alpha CAT and the expression of endogenous hCG-alpha mRNA in JEG-3 cells by 4- and 9-fold, respectively.
(3) This result may be explained by the observation that the JAr cells lacked any detectable glucocorticoid receptor and the receptor levels in cytosol prepared from JEG and BeWo cells were 12% and 2%, respectively, of those measured in HeLa cytosol.
(4) The HLA-6.0 or HLA-E genes may encode the lower molecular mass component on Jeg-3 cells, because these genes express molecules of about 38 kDa and 41 kDa, respectively, when transfected to appropriate host cells.
(5) In order to determine whether RA stimulates the hCG secretion by other trophoblastic cell lines, we evaluated the effect of RA on hCG, hCG-alpha subunit (hCG-alpha), and progesterone secretion in three choriocarcinoma cell lines: JEG-3, JAR, and BeWo.
(6) Reporter genes containing either the intact 1.5 kilobase of 5'-flanking sequence from the HCG alpha gene, or just the 36-bp tandem repeat cAMP response element, when coupled to an enhancerless promoter, both exhibit a vigorous cAMP stimulation of expression but no response to phorbol ester in JEG-3 cells.
(7) We demonstrate the molecular peculiarities of these modified smooth muscle cells using monoclonal antibodies produced against a benign human JEG-cell tumour.
(8) The transcriptional activities of P1 + P2 in their natural tandem orientation were additive in rat keratinocytes and human JEG choriocarcinoma cells.
(9) Using DNase I protection analyses and gel-mobility shift assays, we examined in vitro the domains in the human alpha-gene 5'-flanking sequence that bind nuclear proteins extracted from JEG-3 choriocarcinoma cells.
(10) The effect of JEG-3 choriocarcinoma supernatant on human natural killer cell and lymphokine-activated killer cell activity was investigated.
(11) Similar observations have been made in JeG-3 cells and Chinese hamster ovary cells stably transfected with human apoE cDNA constructs.
(12) In human choriocarcinoma JEG-3 and monkey COS-1 cells, the cytosolic thyroid hormone binding protein is a monomer of the tetrameric pyruvate kinase, subtype M2, which does not bind T3.
(13) In this study the 5'-flanking sequence of the CG beta gene was fused to a sensitive luciferase (LUC) reporter gene, allowing delineation of a CG beta CRE in transient expression assays performed in JEG-3 choriocarcinoma cells.
(14) JEG-3 choriocarcinoma cells demonstrate c-myc transcript levels that are greater than those of nonmalignant trophoblastic tissue at any stage of gestation.
(15) No significant expression of any of these ANG-GH fusion genes over the promoterless pOGH was observed in JEG-3 cells.
(16) Results of these studies suggest that there is some degree of tissue specificity of FN gene expression and reveal that cAMP induction is mediated, in part, by the same element (CRE) in both HT-1080 and JEG-3 cells.
(17) Epidermal growth factor (EGF) binds to JEG-3 cells, a tissue culture line of human choriocarcinoma.
(18) In JEG-3 choriocarcinoma cells the MMTV promoter is transcribed inefficiently, even after transfection of the receptor cDNA and treatment with glucocorticoids or progestins.
(19) A similar increase in Class I antigens is also found in JEG-3 choriocarcinoma cells after treatment with IFN-gamma.
(20) Deletion of the FN promoter from positions -510 to -56 resulted in an ~30-fold decrease in promoter activity when this construction was transfected into HT-1080 cells, and similar results were observed in NIH 3T3 cells; however, less than a 2-fold effect was observed in JEG-3 cells.