(n.) A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog.
(n.) A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general.
(n.) A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
(v. t.) To tie together, or hold, with a leash.
Example Sentences:
(1) The activated matrix (an imidazolyl carbamate) is relatively stable to hydrolysis but smoothly reacts with N-nucleophiles such as those present in either affinity chromatography ligands or leashes, e.g.
(2) Two cases are presented in which radial forearm flaps with a proximal vascular leash are used to cover such defects without the need for microsurgical expertise.
(3) In February, President Barack Obama said drone strikes are "kept on a very tight leash" and "have not caused a huge number of civilian casualties".
(4) ethynyl estradiol), we investigated a series of 17 alpha-substituted estradiol compounds to determine the optimal properties of a leash at this position.
(5) He described them as five bundles of aberrant pyramidal fibres which separate out as leashes from the corticospinal fibres at different levels and each had its territory of bulbar nuclei (like the Reich which is the territory of the German empire of which there were only three).
(6) These findings suggest that the long 'leash' provided by PEO hydrogels may give the heparin more access to the thrombin-antithrombin pair than the tight bond to PVA, and that crowding of heparin units on a surface limits access of the thrombin-antithrombin pair.
(7) The walkers may be the ones with the pockets full of Pedigree Schmackos, barks the subtext, but ultimately it's the walkees who hold the leash.
(8) Thus Singapore’s indigenous capitalists were kept on a short leash.
(9) Two pole-leashes attached to 2 points on the harness gave the handler considerable control over the posture of the monkey, making it easier to teach the monkey to walk with a leash and to climb into its restraint chair or test apparatus.
(10) "And whenever he came out the dressing room he'd be pulling on the leash, tail wagging – let's go, let's get it done."
(11) The sketch show Rubbernecker featured four little-known talents: Robin Ince, Stephen Merchant, Jimmy Carr and Ricky Gervais – familiar, if at all, from Channel 4's 11 O'Clock Show, which also let Sacha Baron Cohen off his leash.
(12) The stationary phase consisted of iminodiacetic acid (IDA) chelate groups, bonded to small particle, wide pore silica gel by means of a polyether hydrophilic leash.
(13) Parliament needs to change the watchdog before it lets the rottweiler off the leash.
(14) Energy efficiency is a no-brainer, as is letting the GIB off the Treasury leash.
(15) A chest harness and pole-leash method to transfer rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) weighing up to 16 kg from home cage to primate restraint chair was designed.
(16) The hope, it seems, is that the outsourcing show will continue, but with better-managed firms on a tighter leash and smaller operators encouraged to enter the market.
(17) "It felt like it was on a leash for years and … we've come off the leash and just responded in that way basically," says one interviewee.
(18) Conditions for the coupling of a range of ligands and leashes have been evaluated.
(19) I think the difficult thing is just having to juggle your career and your spare time with a dog,” she tells me when we meet for our cutesily termed “welcome woof”, a brief rendezvous to check all three of us are happy at the prospect of handing over the leash.
(20) Mundine said the move would “let bigots off the leash”.
Triplet
Definition:
(n.) A collection or combination of three of a kind; three united.
(n.) Three verses rhyming together.
(n.) A group of three notes sung or played in the tree of two.
(n.) Three children or offspring born at one birth.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, since CR3 does not recognize a hexapeptide containing RGD, we presume that residues beyond the RGD triplet contribute to binding.
(2) The second triplet, which was stable in the dark at 4.2 K following illumination, was assigned to the radical pair Donor+I-.
(3) The cholecystogram was confirmed as the best overall discriminator, but right costal margin pain by itself was as efficient as any triplet.
(4) Presented is the case of a triplet pregnancy with conjoined twins diagnosed antenatally with sonography.
(5) This 3'-base effect appeared to be independent of the 5'-base of the 5'-NGN' triplet.
(6) Unambiguous mapping and rigorous determination of the nature of the initiation triplet for IF2 beta, the smaller form of IF2, is critical for future mutagenesis of this codon, required for investigating the biological importance of both IF2 alpha and IF2 beta.
(7) The mechanism suggested leads to photoemissive triplet excited acetone as expected from the cleavage of an intermediate dioxetane.
(8) Laser photolysis techniques have been used to characterize the reactivity of triplet state lipoidal benzophenone derivatives toward fatty acids and glycerides in benzene solution.
(9) We have isolated and characterized an effector-independent neurofilament-specific protein kinase from bovine spinal cord that is associated with the NF complex and exhibits a marked substrate specificity for NF-H, the largest subunit of the NF triplet.
(10) The management of 86 women who were delivered of triplets and 7 women who were delivered of quadruplets between 1985 and 1989 is reviewed.
(11) The present study details the obstetric management, neonatal outcome, and follow-up data of 24 triplet, five quadruplet, and one quintuplet pregnancies delivered in a perinatal center.
(12) The histocompability antigen studies have revealed HLA-A2, AW24, BW15, and BW40 phenotype in these monozygotic triplets.
(13) The distribution of neurofilament protein-triplet immunoreactivity also correlated with the distribution of staining observed with a silver impregnation method based on Bielschowsky.
(14) Rat vascular smooth muscle cells (SMC) in culture synthesize and secrete a approximately 38,000-Mr protein doublet or triplet that, as previously described (Majack and Bornstein.
(15) There are 24 Gly-Xaa-Yaa triplets, where Yaa is often hydroxyproline.
(16) The human normal cerebellar cortex has been investigated using paraffin-embedded sections and a panel of antibodies against GFAP, NSE, NF 70 Kd and 200 Kd triplet proteins.
(17) These changes are the result of a deletion of nine nucleotides, namely two base pairs (bp) of codon 141, all of codons 142 and 143, and one bp of codon 144; the remaining CAG triplet (C from codon 141 and AG from codon 144) codes for the inserted glutamine.
(18) Pronase first solubilized the linkers and C tubules of the triplets, then attacked the protein portion of the axosome, a localized portion of the ciliary axoneme adjacent to the distal end of the basal body, the rim fiber, and newly described lumen spiral complex.
(19) The amino acid triplet Trp18-Arg19-Tyr20 has an exceptional conformation and position in the molecule and is possibly involved in inhibitory activity.
(20) This compares favourably with the latest published data on perinatal mortality rates in triplets.