(superl.) Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask.
(superl.) Apt to disclose secrets; tattling; not close.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is therefore suggested that salt water adaptation triggers a cellular reorganization of the epithelium in such a way that leaky junctions (a low resistance pathway) appear at the apex of the chloride cells.
(2) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
(3) No net synthesis of ATP was demonstrated in leaky vesicles.
(4) Results indicated that the synthesis of both core and pol proteins was concomitantly reduced in these three conditions, which suggested that leaky scanning is the most probable mechanism for pol protein synthesis in vitro.
(5) One possibility is that the membrane of dystrophic muscle is weakened and becomes leaky to Ca2+.
(6) A combination of the leaky-patch and doughnut models may represent the most likely mechanism.
(7) Interstitial cystitis patients were shown to have a leaky epithelium by placing a solution of concentrated urea into the bladder and measuring the absorption.
(8) The affinity labeling was intensified when resealed vesicles were made leaky by freezing or ultrasonication, suggesting that the poly(A) binding proteins are accessible from the nucleoplasmic but not the cytoplasmic face of the envelope.
(9) Increases in permeability of the hamster cheek pouch were quantitated by the formation of microvascular leaky sites.
(10) This alteration in Ca2+ pump activity is not due to (i) non-specific effects of vesicle preparation in the two animal groups, (ii) increased leakiness to Ca2+, or (iii) any apparent alteration in permeability of the membrane to K+ and Cl-.
(11) Acetyl phosphate is hydrolyzed by the calcium ATPase of leaky sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles from rabbit skeletal muscle with Km = 6.5 mM and kcat = 7.9 s-1 in the presence of 100 microM calcium (180 mM K+, 5 mM MgSO4, pH 7.0, 25 degrees C).
(12) Analysis using an SV40-derived vector indicates that the transcription termination site in the HBV genome is also leaky for X gene transcription when a heterologous promoter initiates the transcription.
(13) The ability of the position 236 mutants to grow better than the parent in the presence of low concentrations of thiodigalactoside appears to be due to a decrease in affinity for this particular sugar rather than a generalized defect in H+ leakiness.
(14) These observations confirm previously published data and add further support to the proposition that channeling of glycolytic intermediates occurs in DSP cells but is of the "leaky" type.
(15) they were prominent around the leaky vessels in the grey matter, in the subpial zone and in the white matter.
(16) The severe and prolonged asphyxia rendered the blood-brain barrier leaky to the albumin tracer Evans blue.
(17) A gpp spoT double mutant, constructed by employing a leaky spoT mutation, was found to have a slower rate of pppGpp degradation than the gpp mutant alone.
(18) Administration of histamine (10(-4) M) to the exposed brain surface for 5 min increased the number of leaky sites to Na-fluorescein and FITC-albumin 3.2 and 3.6 times, respectively.
(19) Mutant strains of E. amylovora, selected for resistance to each separate antibacterial agent (or to all three of them), showed a direct correlation (in all but the novobiocin-resistant mutant) between drug resistance and reduced periplasmic leakiness.
(20) The model is a simple network consisting basically of (1) two subunits that have receptive fields with a center-surround organization and an adaptational gain control, (2) a lateral inhibitory pathway, (3) a site of nonlinear interaction, followed by (4) a leaky temporal integrator.
Leavy
Definition:
(a.) Leafy.
Example Sentences:
(1) A follower of FR Leavis by intellectual affiliation, he had little time for "theory".
(2) Influx and efflux of 45Ca++ ions in Xenopus leavis isolated full-grown oocytes were measured.
(3) Annan had little difficulty in pointing to the contradictions and inadequacies of Leavis's arguments and denouncing him as callous and dismissive.
(4) Perhaps Michael Winner should have made a film about the Goncourt Brothers casting FR Leavis, his fellow member of Downing College, Cambridge, as Flaubert.
(5) In 1948, the cantankerous but influential scholar FR Leavis crowned Austen mother of his great tradition of the English novel.
(6) 116, 269-272; Wang, C.-L. A., Aquaron, R. R., Leavis, P. C., and Gergely, J.
(7) One of his best known and most successful plays, The Common Pursuit (1984) - revived this year in London - took its title from Leavis's famous book.
(8) In an analogous study on the binary complex of TnC and TnI [Leszyk, J., Collins, J. H., Leavis, P. C., & Tao, T. (1987) Biochemistry 26, 7042-7047], we previously showed that Cys-98 of TnC was cross-linked mainly to CN4, the "inhibitory region", of TnI.
(9) Aeromonas hydrophila caused severe disease in a group of 50 Xenopus leavis three weeks after being transferred from their laboratory conditions.
(10) Outside his office was another of Leavis's hates, Jeremy Bentham, whose clothed skeleton occupies a box.
(11) The amino acid sequence showed marked homology with the reported partial sequence of Xenopus leavis ribosomal protein L32, but not significant homology with Escherichia coli ribosomal proteins that bind to tRNA.
(12) It was here (as well as over CP Snow's ideas of the two cultures, the scientist and the humanist) that he came into conflict with FR Leavis (and his wife, QD Leavis).
(13) Translation of the same RNA in Xenopus leavis oocytes revealed a lectin polypeptide which was about 2 kDa smaller than the in vitro synthesized precursor, suggesting that the oocyte system had removed a 2-kDa signal peptide.
(14) This became a classic antagonism, with Leavis denouncing Annan as a key member of the establishment and ridiculing him because he supposedly thought of a university as an industrial plant, for ever humming away in ceaseless training of the hapless young.
(15) He once wrote, "all public controversy is dispiriting; controversy with Dr Leavis is degrading".
(16) From the Convent of Our Lady of Sion school, Notting Hill, west London, Bernardine went to Newnham College, Cambridge, where her lecturers in English included CS Lewis , EM Forster and FR Leavis .
(17) Sir Walter Scott was another new passion, and the poem "Diehard" is about him, a kind of essay-poem, describing Scott himself in amusing and touching episodes and digressions, and also paying tribute to him as a novelist in a challenge to critics such as Leavis ("Who now reads Anne of Geierstein?
(18) Our earlier kinetic studies [Wang, C.-L. A., Leavis, P. C. & Gergely, J.
(19) In Cambridge, Leavis and others had attacked him for being at the centre of the supposed Bloomsbury-King's cult (King's had been described as Bloomsbury-on-Cam) and now Annan was within a few hundred yards of Bloomsbury Square and his new college occupied many houses where the Bloomsbury set used to live in Gordon Square, and where Maynard Keynes's widow was still to be seen walking her dog in the mornings.
(20) Previously, we showed that Cys-98 of TnC can be cross-linked via BP-Mal to TnI residues 103-110 (Leszyk, J., Collins, J.H., Leavis, P.C., and Tao, T. (1987) Biochemistry 26, 7042-7047).