(n.) A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed; -- called, according to its position or use, binding joist, bridging joist, ceiling joist, trimming joist, etc. See Illust. of Double-framed floor, under Double, a.
(v. t.) To fit or furnish with joists.
Example Sentences:
(1) This may be because the joists below are defective – it’s worth seeking professional advice in this instance.
(2) They are constructed using rows of thick wooden beams, called joists, topped by floorboards running at a right angle to the joists.
(3) The lines of nails on the boards indicate the position of the joists underneath.
(4) They unloaded bags, tools and two wheelie bins, which they carried (or wheeled) in through the fire escape, and large metal joists.
Moist
Definition:
(a.) Moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air.
(a.) Fresh, or new.
(v. t.) To moisten.
Example Sentences:
(1) During suction a flow of cold, dry room air replaces the warm, moist cavity air, causing cooling both directly and by vaporization of water.
(2) Isolated frog retinas kept receptor side-upward in a moist chamber without perfusion showed the well-known slow PIII generated by the potassium decrease around receptors.
(3) All but one of the isolations were made from moist or wet samples.
(4) Cat corneas were stored at refrigerator temperatures in M-K medium (TC-199, 5% dextran), modified M-K medium (TC-199, 1% chondroitin sulfate), or on the intact globe in moist chambers for intervals of one to nine days.
(5) The vacuum flask method of using boiling water to decontaminate soft contact lenses is better and less expensive than other ways of using moist heat and can be safely and effectively applied under most domestic circumstances.
(6) Moist tissues such as the eyes, respiratory tract, and axillary areas are particularly affected.
(7) Artificial air bubbles in amniotic fluid are measured microscopically in a moist chamber.
(8) The lyophilisate, when exposed to moist atmospheres, picks up moisture to a constant weight.
(10) Pneumoperitoneum may be indicated in the investigation of a bleeding Meckel's diverticulum, in the exclusion or confirmation of remnants of the omphalomesenteric duct, in chronically moist lesions of the umbilicus resistant to symptomatic treatment, in suspected cases of non-communicating urachal cysts which cannot be diagnosed by cystogram, and in the differential diagnosis of abdominal tumours related to the umbilical region.
(11) High histamine content of semi-moist cat food was probably due to condensed fish solubles even though it was not one of the major ingredients.
(12) Sensory evaluation indicated no significant differences (P less than 0.05) between the control and 10 per cent bran cakes for moistness, flavor, and overall acceptability.
(13) As an example the estimated incidence of severe telangiectasia after 44 Gy in 22 fractions increases from 27% to 49% in patients who developed grade greater than or equal to 2 moist desquamation as an early radiation reaction.
(14) Certain E. corrodens strains are mobile on moist surfaces and elaborate an endotoxin, which may destroy human tissues directly and indirectly by means of the immune system.
(15) The kinetics and efficacy of moist heat disinfection for hydrophilic contact lenses were investigated by using representative microorganisms of ophthalmic concern and several heat-resistant species.
(16) The phosphorylated sugars significantly increased and the glycerophosphodiesters significantly decreased in the moist-chamber-stored corneas, whereas both metabolites remained unchanged in the M-K-medium-stored corneas.
(17) It's music that defines compassion, lament, and loss, to which you can only surrender in moist-eyed wonder.
(18) The patient was successfully treated with diuretics and nitrates but on the fifth hospital day moist rales were noted over the entire lung field.
(19) Diets containing gelatinized starch became semi-solid when water was added but the rats still grew faster when fed the moist rather than the dry gelatinized starch diets.
(20) Spores of Aspergillus ochraceus and Septomyxa affinis were produced on a large scale by surface sporulation on moist wheat bran and barley.