(n.) The hide of a young or small beef creature, or leather made from it; kipskin.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results suggest that different neurochemical mechanisms can support LTP on the one hand, and kindling and KIP on the other.
(2) The kinetic parameters for the enzyme were determined at pH 7.4 and 37 degrees C, yielding the following values (microM): Ka, 72; Kia, 11; Kb, 110; Kp, 1600; Kip, 7100; Kq, 170; Kiq, 1100, where a = NADH, b = oxalacetate, p = malate, and q = NAD+.
(3) The drinks were still flowing at the Better Together victory party at the Marriott Hotel in Glasgow in the early hours of 19 September when Alistair Darling woke from a brief kip in his room a few floors above the celebration.
(4) Prepare yourself: there will be unrelated questions “It is frustrating to get questions that are unrelated to the job at hand, ” says Kipping-Ruane, who was once asked by a potential employers if he had ever killed anyone.
(5) Comparison of the association rate constants and the normal plasma concentrations of the four inhibitors demonstrates that KIP is ten-times as effective as alpha 2-MG and other two inhibitors are marginally effective in the inhibition of kallikrein.
(6) Absent the federal subsidies, those consumers would face premiums that are 100% to 300% higher,” says Kip Piper , expert on ACA and health insurance exchanges.
(7) However Kip Meek, the Digital Britain consultant charged with doing a deal with the five mobile phone networks in order to push 3G mobile broadband services beyond the 80% of the population already reached, has not yet managed to get a consensus.
(8) The panel will also feature the Universal Music chief executive, Lucian Grainge, who is also part of culture secretary Andy Burnham's creative industries panel; Carphone Warehouse co-founder Charles Dunstone; and Kip Meek, a board member of Ingenious and the Broadband Stakeholder Group, as well as a former Ofcom senior executive.
(9) The payout handed to Sugar, who was appointed at the behest of shareholder Richard Desmond in March 2011 as the venture missed its launch deadlines, dwarfs that of his predecessor Kip Meek, who was paid £97,000 for less than eight months in the role of chairman.
(10) Kip Meek, the former chief policy partner at Ofcom, is understood to be poised to be appointed as the chairman of Project Canvas, the BBC-backed venture to bring video-on-demand to Freeview and Freesat.
(11) YouView had targeted June for the launch but for months its chairman, Kip Meek, who is expected to be replaced by Sugar in an announcement next week, has been conceding the possibility of delays.
(12) From kinetic analysis on the initial stage of the fibrinogen-fibrin conversion catalyzed by thrombin, inhibition constants, Kip, of heparin and heparin analogues were obtained by the turbidimetrical method.
(13) The Inhibitory spectrum of KIP was different from the spectrum of each protease inhibitor in human plasma, but was similar to the spectrum of contrapsin in mouse plasma.
(14) On Sunday, the birthday celebrations go public, with talks on cosmology by the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, Nobel laureate Saul Perlmutter, one of the discoverers of dark energy, and long-time Hawking collaborator Kip Thorne.
(15) KIP is a single chain protein and the apparent molecular weight is estimated to be 59,000 by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(16) These results suggest that KIP is the major kallikrein inhibitor in guinea pig plasma and the proteinase inhibitory spectrum is unique to KIP in spite of the molecular similarity to alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor.
(17) Outside Gucci, a driver kipped yesterday in a black seven-series Mercedes; nearby someone had parked their giant Hummer jeep on the pavement.
(18) Moreover, parents would agree to anything to get those 10-hour-long kips, including pretending to have enhanced attention spans.
(19) In the fibrinogen and thrombin system, heparin and its analogues were observed to act as noncompetitive inhibitors at high concentrations, where the inhibition constant of heparin was 3.91 X 10(-6) M. At low concentrations below 10(-5) M, both heparin and dextran sulphate acted as hyperbolic competitive inhibitors of thrombin, and Kip of heparin was 1.07 X 10(-8) M, which was measured at heparin concentrations below ca.
(20) Ingenious Consulting is chaired by former Ofcom executive board member Kip Meek, who is also a director of the RadioCentre.
Snooze
Definition:
(n.) A short sleep; a nap.
(v. i.) To doze; to drowse; to take a short nap; to slumber.
Example Sentences:
(1) CONS Unpopular with younger staff, who view Switzerland as a snooze.
(2) They have also given us all a contest worth watching – instead of a summer-long snooze.
(3) There's a sense of generations passing in a haze of crisp formalities, with decades of unexpressed emotions left to accumulate, like dust on a snoozing duchess.
(4) But the starter, at least, doesn't say snooze to me.
(5) Photograph: Guardian The leaders met, hugged, talked, and talked, late into the night while the press pack lingered (or snoozed) Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) @graemewearden it's @benedict_king @BrunoBrussels @SpiegelPeter I can see...
(6) Isometimes long for a proper retirement, just pottering about in the garden, going on dog walks, playing the piano, or lying about reading, snacking, watching telly, snoozing the afternoons away.
(7) Contrary to the "snoozing" allegation, Apple Store activity told Apple exactly the what , the how , and the how much of Nest's business.
(8) Immediately after the murder, Mota’s father and brother pursued the getaway vehicles and happened upon some snoozing police officers, who continued the chase.
(9) [...] Google's aggressiveness has once again caught Apple snoozing.
(10) After a couple of days tearing around this undulating terrain, stopping for coffee and Kuchen in cosy places such as Berghotel Körbersee, where I had to step over a snoozing St Bernard to access the toilet, I ventured further into the backcountry with the Warth ski school , whose range of guided off-piste excursions is more original than any I have seen.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Renovated ship crates, known as Zzz pods Top 10 museum cafes and restaurants in Paris Read more We discovered a row of glass “Zzz” pods – renovated ship crates in their own gardens that are free to hire for 1½ hours to snooze or relax in – and also a five-lane running track.
(12) Congressman Gosar can hit the snooze button and be in denial or he can choose to be part of the solution.” A recent poll conducted by Faith in Public Life found significant partisan differences in approval of Pope Francis .
(13) A study, published in the journal Appetite , found differences in the diets of people who slept for seven to eight hours a night compared with those snoozing for five.
(14) And it is thanks to Abbott's arrival, and the effect it has already had, that this long summer will not be the snooze-fest I had feared.
(15) The boom of big data, and the technology that makes its collection and analysis possible, has brought with it a global fascination with tracking every step, snooze and calorie.
(16) Her changes this year include a shake-up of the Sunday schedule, traditionally a day of hangovers and snoozing through long sessions.
(17) Neither change could alter Marseille’s fate, which had been sealed by their three-minute snooze.
(18) And CEOs don't hit snooze: most of them claim to leap out of bed in the morning (even though it's basically still night) and more than one said that "life is too exciting" for sleep.
(19) It was sometimes dull even with him, but without him it really would have been snooze TV.
(20) Some are simple, such as hitting snooze on the alarm clock or choosing what to eat for breakfast, while others – like deciding who to marry, or what career to pursue – require deep reflection, thought and analysis.