(n.) A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
(n.) A piece of sport; a trick; a prank.
(n.) A trolling bait, consisting of a bright spoon and a hook attached.
(n.) A small machine or handy tool
(n.) A contrivance fastened to or inclosing a piece of work, and having hard steel surfaces to guide a tool, as a drill, or to form a shield or templet to work to, as in filing.
(n.) An apparatus or a machine for jigging ore.
(v. t.) To sing to the tune of a jig.
(v. t.) To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
(v. t.) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n.
(n.) To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
(v. i.) To dance a jig; to skip about.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Del Bosque really want to win this World Cup thingymebob, then he has got to tell Iker Casillas that the jig is up, correct?
(2) Between members of different teams however, only the finger breadth method attained reliabilities above .7, and the plexiglass jig, in particular, showed very low reliability.
(3) A new jig simulating the abdominal cavity and wall is described.
(4) The stain pattern on the stem was analysed in a 3-point-bending jig and also after cementing it into cadaver femurs.
(5) Dipnets and jigs inflicted minimal trauma and were preferred for squid capture.
(6) Once the jig is in position, the patient is asked to produce left and right lateral movements until muscular relaxation is obtained.
(7) We developed some instruments to resolve these problems; i.e., scopes with a large diameter for high resolution, a triangulation instrument for multiple cannulations, a needle set-up jig for disk traction suture, a step cannulation system and a two-channel cannula for operating in the narrow lower joint space and a fixing jig for cannulas in the upper and lower joint space to observe the same portion of the discal tissue from both joint space during disk suturing.
(8) When, in 1996, the Globe theatre in London first experimented with doing it Shakespeare’s way, the scholars and theatre folk encountered the jig problem.
(9) This study used a special jig system, photography, and a sonic digitizer to evaluate the change in canal size and location after retreatment in 20 teeth with small or large curved canals (greater than 23 degrees).
(10) The kinetics of neural uptake and efflux of lidocaine hydrochloride were studies by means of a standardized technique for blocking the intraorbital nerve of the rat, using a palatal jig.
(11) Thermostatic regulation of tissue temperature is provided by on-off control of the average power supplied independently to each heating jig.
(12) It is recommended that the clearance of the hole in the support jig is at least 0.7 mm and that push-out results are only compared with each other when materials with similar Young's modulus are concerned.
(13) The ads have featured a miniature Miliband in Salmond’s jacket pocket and, in one animated film, the Labour leader dancing to a Scottish jig played by Salmond on a recorder.
(14) When a mechanical checkout jig was set up at the same point, a discrepancy of 4 mm resulted when the gantry was moved from 0 degrees to 180 degrees.
(15) The Herbert screw is useful in treating displaced capitellar fractures since the jig maintains the reduction and the screw, compressing the fracture site, is buried beneath the articular cartilage and does not have to be removed.
(16) If you want sustainable supply chains, you have to re-jig how you think.
(17) A two-part German-South African co-production based on the bestselling Kate Mosse novel, it's a window-rattling potboiler bubbling with ancient religious conspiracies, comely medieval wenches, comely 21st-century academics, fogbanks of swirly past-times skulduggery, evil pharmaceutical CEOs in 10 denier tights, priapic chevaliers and, verily, a script that does dance a merry jig upon the very phizog of credibility.
(18) A central distractor, attached to the jig, positions and aligns the knee at 0 degrees or 90 degrees.
(19) A pilot drill with a built-in stop to prevent overpenetration is used first and then the screw can be inserted with jig, or it may be inserted manually if the osteotomy is stablized temporarily with a Kirschner wire.
(20) Single-limb-stance loads and combined axial and torsional loads were applied to the implanted femoral prostheses with the use of a jig that simulated acetabular and trochanteric loading.
Sig
Definition:
(v. t.) Urine.
Example Sentences:
(1) The majority of tumor cells in all lymphosarcoma cases were of the centroblastic type, and in two cases in which the presence of SIg was assayed, the majority of tumor cells were SIg-positive.
(2) The proportion of SIg carrying cells within the population forming EA-rosettes was between 11 and 26-4%.
(3) Nylon-adherent cells were highly enriched for surface immunoglobulin (SIg) bearing B lymphocytes (95.5%) and nonadherent cells for SIg negative non-B cells, presumably T lymphocytes (96.3%).
(4) We have investigated the possible physical interactions between CR, receptors for the Fc gamma R and surface Ig (sIg) on the surface membrane of murine B lymphocytes.
(5) A subpopulation of appendix sIg-negative, RTLA-negative cells has a relatively high concentration of RT2.
(6) SIg-positive lymphocytes (B cells) and T lymphocytes were not effective in mediating ADCC against either CRBC or Chang cell targets.
(7) Modulation of surface immunoglobulin (sIg) with anti-mu, an early membrane activation event, occurred normally on B cells from the spleens of PC-mice.
(8) Those TIL expressing activation antigens were CD2+, SIg-.
(9) This treatment did not affect the proportions of Lyt-2+, L3T4+, or sIg+ cells in the population, however, indicating that the augmentation in PFC was not due to changes in the ratio of T to B cells.
(10) The results of lymphocyte subpopulation studies revealed a decrease of CD4+ cells and a decrease of surface immunoglobulin (sIg)-positive B lymphocytes.
(11) In SLL, 55 were M-rosette positive (67.07%) and 72 SIg positive (87.8%), with weak fluorescence in 63 and strong fluorescence in 9 cases.
(12) The expression of kappa and lambda light chains in surface immunoglobulin (sIg) molecules on B lymphocytes differentiating from murine pre-B cell clones in vitro was analyzed.
(13) With CRBC targets MICC was mediated by polymorphonuclear leukocytes, macrophages, sIg-positive lymphocytes (B cells), and sIg-negative lymphocytes.
(14) Among the B-CLL, cells with high SIg content were either T1+ or T1- and more likely FMC7+.
(15) Antibody N297 (DQ specific), previously shown to react with an epitope expressed on human B cells but not on mitogen-induced T cells, reacted only with sIg+ cells in 42 of 53 horses tested.
(16) At this time, the proportions of low mobility (LM) and SIG-bearing lymphocytes (B cells) were reduced respectively to 28% (control 54%) and 20% (control 45%).
(17) A sudden increase in the number of mitogen-reactive, sIg+ B lineage cells occurs within 24 h between days 16 and 17.
(18) The significance of this spontaneous appearance of fetal sIg cells is discussed.
(19) The finding of sIg light chain in pre-B cell leukemias and in the REH cell line, suggests that these leukemic cells are further differentiated along the B-cell lineage than was previously believed.
(20) The malignant cells of WM patients differed from those of MM in the reactivity with FMC7, being positive in 10 out of 11 cases, and in their high expression of B1, Ia and SIg with a predominant mu+ phenotype.