(v. t.) To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand.
(v. t.) To lap; to take in with the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks milk.
(v.) A stroke of the tongue in licking.
(v.) A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue; as, to put on colors with a lick of the brush. Also, a small quantity of any substance so applied.
(v.) A place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to which wild animals resort to lick it up; -- often, but not always, near salt springs.
(v. t.) To strike with repeated blows for punishment; to flog; to whip or conquer, as in a pugilistic encounter.
(n.) A slap; a quick stroke.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's finding solace, fleeting and fragmentary, and every springy guitar lick is its own benediction," Chinen wrote.
(2) the does had been grazing on lucerne from the time of mating and received a free-choice lick, which included iodine.
(3) Southampton, with injuries and defeats to consider, were left licking their wounds.
(4) Combined treatment with quinpirole and a D-1 agonist was followed by dose-dependent licking and occasional biting behaviour.
(5) injection of phenylbenzoquinone, (6) forepaw licking and jump latencies on a hot plate.
(6) The spindle units were classified into 4 types: 5 units showed rhythmical activity related only to the jaw opening phase during both licking and chewing, 8 units discharged at jaw opening phase during licking, but both at jaw opening and jaw closing phases during eating, 2 units increased phasic activity at jaw opening phase during licking, but increased tonically independent of jaw movements during eating, and the remaining 3 units responded only at jaw closing phase both in licking and eating behavior.
(7) Electrical stimulation of the hypothalamic centres through implanted electrodes has shown that the amplitude of evoked responses and the impairment of licking increases, in proportion to the delay between lick onset and stimulus application.
(8) It has been shown that under all types of stimulation the latent periods (LP) of nociceptive reactions of paw licking and tail flick were significantly increased, as compared to baseline level, thus suggesting suppression of the pain sensitivity.
(9) The time to hand over the reins came and went, Keating challenged and lost, before heading to the backbench to lick his wounds and shore up the factional numbers needed for a successful spill.
(10) A video from the zoo showed Juxiao sitting in the corner of a room as she delivered her cubs for four hours and licking them after they were born.
(11) Of course, a finer measurement of movements, such as lick rate, may reveal a significant difference that would correlate with the metabolic change.
(12) They were trained to respond on a tongue-operated solenoid-driven drinking device that delivered 0.005 ml of a glucose and saccharin solution (G + S) per lick.
(13) licking, scratching, grooming, head and limb movements), a reaction termed immobility.
(14) In contrast, after weaning they showed a significant increment in the duration of face-washing, head-washing, fur licking and body-scratching.
(15) In high doses all compounds reduced the licking activity, but a low dose of APEC (1 microM) injected together with the formalin solution had an algesic effect.
(16) The selection for licking in males had no discernible effect on female sexual activity.
(17) Apomorphine-induced gnawing and licking but not sniffing were attenuated in rats with GP lesions.
(18) In control rats, SKF 38393 enhanced the stereotyped responses induced by quinpirole, converting lower-level stereotypies (sniffing and rearing) to more intense oral behaviors (licking and gnawing).
(19) And where, as a general rule, do we stand on licking sticks?
(20) The time spent licking the bottles during water omission and the time spent drinking during a subsequent 5-min drinking session (water available) were recorded.
Motif
Definition:
(n.) Motive.
Example Sentences:
(1) This receptor and a growing family of related cytokine receptors share homologous extracellular features, including a well-conserved WSXWS motif.
(2) We have generated a series of mutants in the two copies of this motif present in human immunodeficiency virus type 1.
(3) An additional 14 leader peptides in this collection (all of those that contain an arginine at -10) conform to this motif.
(4) In addition, region III has some structural features similar to a conserved motif found in complement receptor 1, the human C3b receptor.
(5) A new alternative splice site was incidently found 81 nucleotide downstream of motif II in both normal and truncated 4.1 mRNA.
(6) The same RNA-protein motif is used, through iron-dependent degradation of transferrin receptor mRNA, to decrease synthesis of the receptor and cellular iron uptake.
(7) Comparison of the human and mouse repeats revealed a highly conserved Glu-Asp core in each unit, implicating the functional significance of this motif.
(8) The three-dimensional solution structure of a zinc finger nucleic acid binding motif has been determined by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
(9) Sequence comparison programs suggested the presence of domains related to the RNA recognition motif found in other RNA-binding proteins, and deletion analysis revealed that the carboxyl-terminal 195 amino acids of the recombinant PTB was sufficient for specific binding to pre-mRNAs.
(10) Since similar loop conformations form similar "words", the structural sequence facilitates the search for common structural motifs in a family of loops.
(11) A new repetitive DNA region was identified in the non-transcribed spacer of human rDNA, namely a long (4.6 kb) sequence motif (Xbal element) was present in two copies.
(12) X-ray analysis of these crystals will permit direct visualization of the specific structural motifs and chemical features that underlie phospholipase neurotoxicity.
(13) Information about the three-dimensional structure or function of a newly determined protein sequence can be obtained if the protein is found to contain a characterized motif or pattern of residues.
(14) For PPD-specific TCCs, a possible biased usage of V beta 8, as well as possible preferential usage of a CDR3 motif, were found.
(15) This phenomenon was observed by using wheat-germ RNA polymerase II and a series of double-stranded template polymers containing palindromic repeating motifs of 6-16 bp, with regulatory alternating purine and pyrimidine bases such as d[ATA(CG)nC].d[TAT(GC)nG], with n = 1, 3 or 6 referred to as d(GC), d(GC)3 or d(GC)6, respectively.
(16) A sequence between residues 302 and 320 homologous to a metal-binding "finger" motif is therefore not required for origin-specific binding.
(17) In this report, we examined the functional significance of these six motifs for the UL9 protein through the introduction of site-specific mutations resulting in single amino acid substitutions of the most highly conserved residues within each motif.
(18) These sequences have a number of similar motifs at, or immediately following, the end of the coding regions, motifs that may be involved in their S mRNA transcription termination processes.
(19) The TV campaign, created by ad agency Leo Burnett, uses imagery and motifs more closely associated with Christmas than summer.
(20) Interestingly, the helical motif prefers to assemble parallel to the wall, whereas the beta-barrel, predominantly assembles with its principal axis perpendicular to the wall.