(n.) A large brazen vessel placed in the court of the Jewish tabernacle where the officiating priests washed their hands and feet.
(n.) A vessel for washing; a large basin.
(n.) One of several vessels in Solomon's Temple in which the offerings for burnt sacrifices were washed.
(n.) That which washes or cleanses.
(n.) One who laves; a washer.
(n.) The fronds of certain marine algae used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purple laver, Porphyra laciniata and P. vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; -- called also sloke, or sloakan.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Jellied eels were always considered a regional dish, much like haggis is to Scotland, mushy peas are to northern England and laver bread is to Wales."
(2) Murray need all his best tennis in tough conditions to beat Kyrgios 6-3, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 in just over two hours in front of a packed Rod Laver Arena.
(3) He got away with this one, winning 7-6 (7-1), 3-6, 4-6, 6-0 in three and a half hours on a cool night on Rod Laver Arena that never properly warmed up in any sense.
(4) He was by turn patient, stubborn and just too damn good, winning a contest marked by swearing, stare-downs, minor tantrums, an odd time violation and some artful tennis on a chill, still night on Rod Laver Arena, with the man himself among an enthralled audience.
(5) 6.50am GMT Third set tiebreak: Dimitrov 7-6 Nadal* (* denotes next server) Dimitrov has all the space in the world (well a few metres of Rod Laver Arena) to crunch a shot down the line but sends it wide like he was Rafael Nadal .
(6) Photograph: AP Marine biologist Jennifer Lavers told the first day of the inquiry in Sydney on Thursday that she discovered more than one in 10 young flesh-footed shearwater birds – common visitors to Australian coasts – were dying from ingesting plastic or from plastic chemical contamination.
(7) The three-dimensional structure of one of these epitopes, recognized by monoclonal antibody NC41, has previously been determined (W. R. Tulip, J. N. Varghese, R. G. Webster, G. M. Air, W. G. Laver, and P. M. Colman, Cold Spring Harbor Symp.
(8) These artists are watching the machine of the music industry crumble away, so they’re thinking why the fuck not do whatever they want, and while they can still get away with it.” • Madonna plays Melbourne’s Rod Laver arena on Saturday and Sunday, Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 16 and 17 March, and Sydney’s Allphones arena on 19 and 20 March
(9) Most of the changes in the variants selected with monoclonal antibodies occur in those parts of the polypeptide chain which encircle the enzyme active site pocket in the three-dimensional structure (P. M. Colman, J. N. Varghese, and W. G. Laver (1983), Nature (London) 303, 41-44).
(10) The effects of overloading of the sample zone in density gradient centrifugation have been studied by use of a three-component shelf-lavered sample in which the total protein concentration was increased by addition of different amounts of albumin.
(11) Sequence analysis of the neuraminidase (NA) genes of influenza virus X-7(F1) and of 12 variants selected with monoclonal antibodies has been used to define in physical terms the antigenic structure of this NA, which was operationally established by R. G. Webster, L. E. Brown, and W. G. Laver (1984, Virology 135, 30-42).
(12) The final will be played in the 15,000-capacity Rod Laver Arena and the 15-year-old from Bristol, who is now based in Kansas in the United States, said: “I didn’t know until the players’ meeting that that was the deal.
(13) The outteromost laver of the cell wall of all marine ammonia-oxidizing bacteria So far isolated is made up of protein subunits arranged in a regular manner and linked together through metal-oxygen bonds.
(14) 7.51am GMT Rod Laver Arena is slowly starting to fill up with spectators ...
(15) On the Rod Laver Arena on a warm and gentle evening, blood and blisters first delivered the agony, then played at least a small part in cutting it short (although Murray made no excuses) as, his right foot wrapped and anaesthetised, he could not match the champion for movement in the closing stages of a four-set final that ebbed away from him.
(16) Swan saved three match points and won the next two games as well to secure her place in the final, which will be played on the 15,000-capacity Rod Laver Arena, against Slovakia’s Tereza Mihalikova.
(17) Laver's (1980) theory of monitoring is shown to be incongruent with the observed times, as is Levelt's (1983, 1989) main interruption rule.
(18) Berdych has now made at least the last four at every grand slam and claimed his first ever victory on Rod Laver Arena.
(19) History dictates it will be Williams accepting the warm applause of the crowd yet again when the dust settles on Rod Laver Arena, as the oldest Australian champion in the Open era, at 33, and still ranked No 1 in the world.
(20) Determinations of trace iodine in table salt, laver, and eggs were demonstrated as practical examples.
Wash
Definition:
(v. t.) To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees.
(v. t.) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore.
(v. t.) To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
(v. t.) To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands.
(v. t.) To cover with a thin or watery coat of color; to tint lightly and thinly.
(v. t.) To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver.
(v. i.) To perform the act of ablution.
(v. i.) To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water; to perform the business of cleansing clothes, ore, etc., in water.
(v. i.) To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.
(v. i.) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc.
(n.) The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once.
(n.) A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire.
(n.) Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc.
(n.) Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs.
(n.) The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
(n.) A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
(n.) That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface.
(n.) A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.
(n.) A liquid dentifrice.
(n.) A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash.
(n.) A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion.
(n.) A thin coat of color, esp. water color.
(n.) A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
(n.) The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water.
(n.) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
(n.) The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it.
(n.) Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
(a.) Washy; weak.
(a.) Capable of being washed without injury; washable; as, wash goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(2) Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) was prepared, and platelet aggregation studies were conducted directly or conducted on washed platelets prepared from PRP collected with ACD.
(3) Channel activation persists through the process of platelet isolation and washing and is manifested in higher measured values of [Ca2+]cyt and [Ca2+]dt in the "resting state."
(4) Spontaneous lipid peroxidation in washed human spermatozoa was induced by aerobic incubation at 32 C and measured by malonaldehyde production; loss of motility during the incubation was determined simultaneously.
(5) After short-term (1 h) incubation in suspension cultures cells were washed and plated in clonogenic agar cultures.
(6) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
(7) Lymphocytes of inbred mice immunized with allogenic tumour cells were labelled in vitro or in vivo by 3H-thymidine, washed out and incubated with target cells in the presence of "cold" thymidine.
(8) A cross-over study (cimetidine, 1 g daily for 19 days; ranitidine, 300 mg daily for 19 days; wash-out period: 20 days) was carried out in six healthy volunteers.
(9) Released aggregates of the 19.6-kDa protein were removed from suspension by ultracentrifugation and separated from contaminating membranes by washing in 1.0% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS).
(10) Removal of bPTH by washing the membranes virtually abolished activity, but washing after addition of bPTH plus Gpp(NH)p did not prevent continued accumulation of cAMP.
(11) The feces contained less than 3% of the dose and the expired 14CO2 and cage wash accounted for less than 0.2 and 1% of the dose, respectively.
(12) The ratio of the metabolically produced Ic to Ib but not the total amount of N-oxygenated metabolites varied greatly depending of the liver microsomal fractions used in the incubation mixtures of Ia; more Ib was produced from Ia using 9000 g supernatant and conversely, more Ic was formed using the washed microsomes of the same liver.
(13) On day 7, washes were collected as on day 0, and a collar was attached to the neck to prevent contamination from saliva.
(14) Chronic exposure of epithelial cells to the lysate mediator preparation, followed by washing, had no effect on their basal electrical or electrolyte-transporting properties.
(15) The binding of [3H]PAF to washed human platelets indicated subtle changes between Days 2 and 4, which became more noticeable by Day 6.
(16) The same ratio occurred when zinc (0 to 0.6 mM in citrate buffer) was added to semen or washed spermatozoa.
(17) While cells that were treated with antibody were unable to aggregate because of the inability to destroy cAMP, they aggregated normally when washed free of antibody.
(18) The philosopher defended his actions by referring to Pierre Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence, naturally enough, but it didn't wash with HR.
(19) Microbiological investigations made by membrane filtration method on antiseptics and disinfectants demonstrated that the filtering membranes present very frequently a remarkable antimicrobial activity, even after washing with 300 ml of peptone water according to the guidelines of the Pharmacopoeia.
(20) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .