(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.
Upstart
Definition:
(v. i.) To start or spring up suddenly.
(n.) One who has risen suddenly, as from low life to wealth, power, or honor; a parvenu.
(n.) The meadow saffron.
(a.) Suddenly raised to prominence or consequence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then in May, the upstart New Democratic Party won a stunning victory in Alberta’s provincial elections , ending 44 years of Conservative rule.
(2) It was one of at least half a dozen such unionist experiments, with a variety of partners, which foundered on the rocks of the would-be partners' infirmity of purpose, fear, suspicion and disdain of this bizarre, arrogant, impetuous upstart.
(3) The part played by the two men in the ousting of well-respected chairman David Plowright the following year earned them a stinging rebuke from John Cleese, whose fax famously read "fuck off out of it, you upstart caterer".
(4) Come the bell, the upstart nervelessly played it cool, almost a laughingly gay matador, his speed of hand and foot totally nullifying Liston’s wicked jab, the key to his armoury.
(5) In a food retail market that currently favours the discount Davids over the grocery Goliaths, one particular upstart has put in a storming performance over the past six months.
(6) Malcolm Turnbull: three things we need to know about our new prime minister Read more And here the upstart was, the leader of the federal parliamentary Liberal party .
(7) Rush treated him as upstart who knew little of life in Chicago's poor, African-American neighbourhoods.
(8) Next year, a new force will try to join the mix, an upstart party called the Pirates, which has made striking gains in four state elections so far.
(9) Cavendish does not seem overly perturned, rolling along towards the front of the peloton, satisfied that his team-mates will reel in the upstarts and set the stage for a sprint finish.
(10) My novel The Upstart is based on my experiences of the snobbery of worrying about saying the wrong thing.
(11) Meanwhile, the bones that have just been confirmed as those of Richard III – the last Plantagenet king, the last English monarch to die on a battlefield, whose death ushered in the upstart Tudors – lay quietly in a calm room on the second floor of the Leicester University library, unknown to many of the students bustling in and out of the building.
(12) "They said: 'How could a young upstart who isn't transgender play the part seriously?'"
(13) Dorky prop-comic Spencer Jones, now a star of Shakespeare sitcom Upstart Crow, brings back his 2015 hit show Proper Job alongside his new one, Eggy Bagel.
(14) The mayor is a member of a protest group turned upstart party called Vetëvendosje ("self-determination"), while the landfill director is the brother of a powerful member of the ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) who is close to the prime minister, Hashim Thaçi.
(15) Some believe that officials are seeking to protect state broadcaster CCTV as it loses viewers to slicker, livelier provincial upstarts such as Hunan and Jiangsu Television.
(16) In fact, in 2008 the Democratic party split in half during their primary, almost annihilating both Hillary Clinton and upstart Barack Obama in the process.
(17) "When the upstart is too successful, somehow the old interests surface, and restrictions on growth are proposed or imposed," he said.
(18) Just days into the new year Tesco and Morrisons were forced to warn that profits would be lower than expected amid heavy competition from their upstart rivals.
(19) He was always a bit of a social upstart in an English theatre world full of great families, a self-made actor with no advantages, dependent on a very spiritual stillness and charisma.
(20) As a Latino, Cruz helps Texas Republicans to woo an increasingly important and left-leaning demographic while retaining traditional conservative values – even though he comes across as an upstart outsider.