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Kinkle


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as 3d Kink.

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Winkle


Definition:

  • (n.) Any periwinkle.
  • (n.) Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (F. canaliculata, and F. carica).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Issues raised include the problem of labelling and the Rip Van Winkle situation of unanticipated recovery 14 years after this diagnosis was made.
  • (2) A Rip Van Winkle from 1979 would be astonished that earnings have all but evaporated from British politics, as if pay were as ineluctable as the weather.
  • (3) Tate, C. A., Bick, R. J., Chu, A., Van Winkle, W. B., and Entman, M. L. (1985) J. Biol.
  • (4) Revisiting some of the seats of power after 40 years, I have felt like a Rip Van Winkle waking up after a revolution.
  • (5) We investigated the reaction mechanism for GTP-dependent Ca2+ uptake by canine cardiac microsomes enriched in fragmented sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), because previous studies reported that GTP utilization in cardiac SR occurs via a pathway very different from that for ATP utilization (for a review, see "Entman, M.L., Bick, R., Chu, A., Van Winkle, W.B., & Tate, C.A.
  • (6) Previous equilibrium binding experiments (S.A. Winkle and T.R.
  • (7) "There's a story doing the rounds at my local that Blackpool once resorted to using a flamethrower to thaw out their frozen pitch," writes Bill Winkles.
  • (8) It has previously been reported that the presence of multiple B-Z conformational junctions in constructed DNA oligomers results in unusually enhanced electrophoretic gel mobilities of these oligomers [Winkle, S. A., & Sheardy, R. D. (1990) Biochemistry 29, 6514-6521].
  • (9) The changes would see "attrition through enforcement" – the state-level clampdown pioneered by Kobach in Arizona, Alabama and several other states – extended across the entire US in an attempt to winkle undocumented workers out of the country.
  • (10) Writers such as Washington Irving (in his short stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) and James Fenimore Cooper (in The Last of the Mohicans ) had begun to pioneer American subjects in a distinctive American voice.
  • (11) Having failed to winkle Berezovsky out of London, the Kremlin pursued his money – going after his assets in Brazil, France (a stunning seaside villa in Cap D'Antibes), and other jurisdictions.
  • (12) And naturally the idea that a claimant could use closed material procedure to winkle out information from the intelligence services horrified the spies' lawyers.
  • (13) Strict guidelines indeed, but Olly Winkles is one of several readers to remember at least one hairy-faced winner.
  • (14) Rozanne Colchester is 89 and lives in a Mrs Tiggy-Winkle-style cottage in deepest Gloucestershire next to her grandchildren.
  • (15) Reed and S.A. Winkle, J. Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, in press (1992)) have indicated that a small number of locations on the plasmid pBR322 may be high affinity binding sites for the carcinogen N-acetoxy-N-acetyl-2-aminofluorene (acetoxyAAF).
  • (16) Such a situation arises near the Sellafield nuclear-reprocessing plant where a high proportion of the radiocaesium (and plutonium) in the winkles collected locally and subsequently cooked is associated with inorganic particulate matter.
  • (17) Winkles (Littorina littorea) and mussels (Mytilus edulis) collected on the Cumbrian coast contain americium-241 and isotopes of plutonium discharged from the nuclear-fuel reprocessing plant at Sellafield.
  • (18) A reduction in number and size of digestive lysosomes in winkles acclimated to 75% of Sea Water evidences the functioning of regulatory mechanism of digestive cell volume.
  • (19) The restaurant's long beer list – and much-heralded barbecue – cannot be ignored, but the pride is the long list of bourbons, including Colorado brands and the sought-after Pappy Van Winkle, a Kentucky variety so rare a Wall Street Journal article referred to it as "unobtanium" .
  • (20) Far harder to winkle out illegal entrants and overstayers.

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