(n.) A light open cotton fabric used for window curtains.
Example Sentences:
(1) Leverkusen had their goalkeeper Bernd Leno to thank for a fine late save from Léo Baptistão but their night ended on a sour note when Tin Jedvaj received a second booking in injury time.
(2) Leno's audience, admittedly, is never very hard to excite – you get whoops and cheers just for being Vin Diesel or Jessica Alba, never mind the president of the United States – but frequently they rose to their feet, applauding wildly.
(3) Asked about Mourdock's comment on The Tonight Show, Obama told host Jay Leno: "Rape is rape.
(4) On his first live TV appearance in the US (on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show) he played up the confused foreigner shtick, picking holes in the concept of “African-Americans”.
(5) As Jay Leno remarked about the Bill Cosby situation this week: “You go to Saudi Arabia and you need two women to testify against a man; here, you need 25.” Even so, you can’t be too careful.
(6) Jokes about him abounded on late night comedy shows well into the following decade – Letterman, Leno and even on Saturday Night Live.
(7) Asked about the issue by Jay Leno on his Tonight Show, Obama added: "I think they understand that for most of the countries that participate in the Olympics, we wouldn't tolerate gays and lesbians being treated differently."
(8) Obama's long-awaited visit to the Los Angeles studio of NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno was a highly non-traditional venture for a serving president.
(9) In February, longtime rival Jay Leno turned over the Tonight Show to current host Jimmy Fallon.
(10) ("We were going to have vice-president Biden come on and say a few words," Leno quipped, "but, you know, it's only an hour show.")
(11) Since Leno’s departure in February, which saw Jimmy Fallon take over at the Tonight Show, Letterman has been in second place in the ratings to Jimmy Kimmel’s LA-based late night show which airs in the same slot.
(12) Roma picked up where they left off after half time and a scintillating run by Gervinho required another good save from Leno, but the keeper was helpless when Pjanic curled his free kick over the wall.
(13) That snub saw Jay Leno take over from Carson and started a late night ratings war which raged throughout the 90s and saw Leno dominate for the most part.
(14) The irony is, for decades we’ve hankered after a Brit answer to Leno or David Letterman.
(15) The Leverkusen captain was shown a straight red card and Pjanic beat Leno from the spot.
(16) If either were to get the job, they would be up against Jimmy Fallon, newly installed in Jay Leno's The Tonight Show chair at NBC.
(17) Counterattacking at pace, Salah’s shot beat Bernd Leno after he was played in by a superb pass from Dzeko on two minutes.
(18) By then, Noah had become a frequent contributor and had also appeared as a guest on the Jay Leno and David Letterman shows.
(19) Asked about the announcement by Jay Leno, Obama looked unfazed and appeared unlikely to rise to the bait.
(20) Noah, who has appeared on Jay Leno and David Letterman, was the subject of a 2011 documentary film by David Paul Meyer, You Laugh But It’s True, which followed his career in post-apartheid South Africa.
Lens
Definition:
(n.) A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or otherwise modifying vision. In practice, the curved surfaces are usually spherical, though rarely cylindrical, or of some other figure.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results demonstrate that increased availability of galactose, a high-affinity substrate for the enzyme, leads to increased aldose reductase messenger RNA, which suggests a role for aldose reductase in sugar metabolism in the lens.
(2) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
(3) The significance of the differences in these two patterns of actin is discussed in terms of differences in the accommodative ability and static lens shape in these two animals.
(4) The epithelium of Brunner's gland stained intensely with Ricinus communis agglutinin-I (RCA-I), succinylated-WGA (S-WGA) and wheat-germ agglutinin (WGA), moderately with Bandeirea simplicifolia agglutinin-I (BS-I), Concanavalia ensiformis agglutinin (Con A) peanut agglutinin (PNA) and Ulex europaeus agglutinin-I (UEA-I) and occasionally with Dolichos biflorus agglutinin (DBA), Lens culinaris agglutinin (LCA) and soybean agglutinin (SBA).
(5) That is, he believes, to look at massively difficult, interlocking problems through too narrow a lens.
(6) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
(7) The third patient was using an extended-wear soft contact lens for correction of residual myopia.
(8) The cellularity depends on the type of the lens and the material of the lens and on the clinical picture of the disease.
(9) Although lens haemagglutinins were detected in 6 out of 7 rabbits, in only 3 of the 6 animals did the titre reach a maximum of 1:640.
(10) Dioptric aniseikonia was calculated between 1 month and 24 months after surgery (with Gruber's and Huber's computer program) on the basis of most recently obtained values (bulb axis length, depth of the anterior chamber, lens thickness, necessary refraction), and compared with subjective measurements taken with the phase difference haploscope.
(11) We propose that a channel with these properties could contribute to maintenance of lens transparency and fluid balance.
(12) Although the lens did not alter stereopsis, it did produce severe color discrimination losses for normal and dichromatic subjects.
(13) The general efficacy of this intraocular lens compared with other anterior chamber lenses was not addressed in this study.
(14) However, the monkey lens low molecular weight proteins differ from the human low molecular weight proteins in charge as well as molecular weight determined by SDS-PAGE.
(15) Fifty-five myopic naval personnel with no previous contact lens experience were put through a three-week study using these contact lenses.
(16) A Stryker turning frame was used during surgical removal of a posterior displaced lens.
(17) The biocompatibility and fixation of a new silicone intraocular lens was evaluated in the cat eye.
(18) Both organisms have previously been found to be sequestered in the posterior lens capsule by histological and microbiological examination of excised capsular specimens.
(19) Previous experiments had demonstrated that the receptors for the lectins soybean agglutinin (SBA), wheat germ agglutinin, concanavalin A and Lens culinaris agglutinin all were relatively uniformly distributed on both myoblasts and myotubes, and that SBA receptors were capable of rapid redistribution on myotubes but not myoblasts at 4 degrees C (Sawyer & Akeson, 1983).
(20) The relative permittivity and conductivity of rabbit eye lens were measured in the frequency domain between 2 and 18 GHz at temperatures of 37 and 20 degrees C. An analysis of the data suggested that a significant proportion of the bulk water in nuclear and cortical lens tissue may behave differently to pure water.