(n.) A pool or collection of water, particularly one above or below a fall of water.
(n.) A waterfall, or cataract; as, a roaring lin.
(n.) A steep ravine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
(2) Previous FTIR measurements have identified several tyrosine residues that change their absorption characteristics between light-adapted BR and dark-adapted BR, or between intermediates K and M [Dollinger, G., Eisenstein, L., Lin, S.-L., Nakanishi, K., Odashima, K., & Termini, J.
(3) If the eye shielding block cannot be placed at the optimal shielding point, a simple coin placed on the eye lid surface will also reduce the lens dose substantially when a regular eye shielding block is placed on the blocking tray (Lin's coin effect).
(4) I didn't realise it would cover the country for the next 10 years," Lin says.
(5) Several N-nitrosamines (NDMA, NDEA, NMBzA, NPyr, NPip, and NSAR) in gastric juice collected from Lin-Xian inhabitants have been detected.
(6) lin-17 mutant animals also show defects in the position of the PVM cell and the PLM axons.
(7) The agency’s current chief executive, Lin Homer, is due to face the Commons public accounts committee, chaired by the Labour MP Margaret Hodge.
(8) Lin Hatfield Dodds from Uniting Care said the heavy lifting in the budget was being done by families.
(9) Perry Link of Princeton University compared the case to the mysterious 1971 death of the senior communist leader Lin Biao in a plane crash.
(10) One of them has the properties of a plasma membrane Ca2+-pump (Lin, S.-H. (1985) J. Biol.
(11) By correlating the fates of Z1.ppp and Z4.aaa with the lin-12 genotype of nearly every cell in these mosaics, we conclude that lin-12 function is VU cell autonomous.
(12) Native human Glu-plasminogen (Glu1-Asn791) was previously shown to have a radius of gyration of 39 A and a shape best described by a prolate ellipsoid [Mangel, W. F., Lin, B., & Ramakrishnan, V. (1990) Science 248, 69-73].
(13) CB-a encompasses the COOH-terminal segment of residues 659-756, according to the sequence of adult chicken gizzard caldesmon (Bryan, J., Imai, M., Lee, R., Moore, P., Cook, R.G., and Lin, W.G.
(14) The absolute means of the differences between models from disinfected or nondisinfected impressions reached from 0.05%lin to 0.19%lin.
(15) When a 7.9-magnitude earthquake ripped through Sichuan province in May 2008, Lin Tianhong, a 29-year-old reporter at China Youth Daily , was one of the first to volunteer to head into the disaster zone.
(16) In the present study, employing over 100 DNA samples obtained from Lin-xian patients who underwent surgery for esophageal cancer, we have found a significant frequency of amplification of either the human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER-I) gene or the c-myc oncogene.
(17) Keith Vaz , the chairman of the Commons home affairs select committee, which accused the former UKBA head, Lin Homer, of "catastrophic leadership failure" while she was in charge, congratulated May for "delivering the lethal injection" to the organisation.
(18) A modification of Lin's systematic DNA sequencing strategy is described.
(19) Lin Homer has been announced as the next chief executive of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
(20) We have previously defined a subset of High Proliferative Potential Colony Forming Cells (HPP-CFC), derived from murine marrow purified for early progenitors expressing the Stem Cell Antigen (SCA+) and lacking terminal lineage markers (Lin-), which are responsive to multiple cytokines in combination.
Lint
Definition:
(n.) Flax.
(n.) Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics.
Example Sentences:
(1) Modifications of the O'Brien, Atkinson and Lint block techniques were applied in twelve, ten, and ten patients, respectively.
(2) The potential for production of fine particulate from botanical trash materials plus lint and linters was determined in the laboratory by an abrasive milling test.
(3) The % by weight content of leaf-like, stem, boll, seed, and weed materials sifted (3360 mum greater than particle size greater than or equal to 595 mum) from visible wastes of the Shirley Analyzer was determined for a lint sample taken after ginning but before cleaning and for a second lint sample taken after one stage of saw-type cleaning.
(4) He says it the same way that someone brushes lint off their jacket shoulder: "Nah.
(5) The dust passing 38 micron stationary or rotary screens contained particles of 15 micron maximum diameter whereas dust from the 710-gmm rotary screen and tandem cyclone exhibited particles of 10 micron maximum diameter and lint fragments.
(6) This was not a sudden urge, a lightning reflex to pick lint off a loved one's coat.
(7) Critical properties and experimental methods used to measure these properties are: (a) ease of steam penetration determined by time-temperature measurements in large, double-wrapped packs subjected to steam sterilization, (b) bacterial barrierness measured by microbiological assay of initially sterile double- and single-wrapped packs contents after pack storage in hospitals, (c) compatibility with ethylene oxide sterilization measured by inactivation of spore strips and by quantities of ethylene oxide residuals after aeration of packs and (d) generation of lint by counting particles generated by flexing wrap materials.
(8) Fragments of lint from a disposable paper head drape were implanted into the anterior chamber of 9 rabbit eyes.
(9) That’s why I now work with people who know you don’t have to remove lint from the extras’ attire before we shoot.
(10) Dust fractions with particles less than 10 micron diameter and free of lint were obtained with a 38-micron rotary screen and tandem cyclone.
(11) The area of this peak increases with increasing amounts of endotoxin and may serve as a measure of endotoxin concentration in cotton lint and dust, at least when fairly high levels of endotoxin (0.50 micrograms or greater) are present.
(12) Significantly more GNB and endotoxin were found in botanical trash components as well as lint of raw cotton derived from the southwest and southeast growing regions as compared to similar botanical components from far west cottons.
(13) It seems probable that lint from contaminated fabric was the vehicle of transmission of the organism during extended surgery.
(14) The number of viable cells was determined at various time intervals, after inoculation onto cotton lint and a glass plate.
(15) Average stored gin residues in the lint and non-lint components were 13 and 60, 11 and 58, and 5 and 10 ppm for toxaphene, DEF, and paraquat, respectively, during the open storage period.
(16) For representative raw cottons from the 1980 USA crop we determined that 67% of the GNB and 89% of the endotoxin resided on white lint itself, from which all particulate larger than 50 micron in size had been removed manually.
(17) The name of Auguste Van Lint is linked with the development of facial nerve akinesia for ophthalmic surgery.
(18) Care should be taken in handling implants to avoid scratches, notches, and exposure to lint from towels or drapes.
(19) Whereas the modified O'Brien block nearly abolished voluntary muscle activity, force of lid closure and lid movement, there was only a minor decrease in the area under the EMG curve and in the force of lid closure after the modified van Lint and Atkinson blocks (about 20%).
(20) Whole seed passage averaged .74% in all cows fed whole linted seed during the standardization period and .45% in 6 cows fed whole linted seed during a comparison period, contrasted to 11.3% in 6 cows fed acid-delinted seed.