(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.
Yin
Definition:
(n.) A Chinese weight of 2/ pounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) This conception of the city as an expression of both regal power and social order, guided by cosmological principles and the pursuit of yin-yang equilibrium, was unlike anything in the western tradition.
(2) Hemolysin formation in the blood of these animals was inhibited or tended to be inhibited with Wen-Qing-Yin.
(3) The first classification of epilepsy, probably by Cao Yuan Fang in A.D. 610, listed five types of epilepsy: "Yang Dian," "Yin Dian," "Feng (Wind) Dian," "Shih (Wet) Dian," and "Lao (Labor) Dian."
(4) This is in accordance with the TCM theory that denuded tongue coating is due to exhaustion of Yin fluid.
(5) The difference between the two types was significant (P less than 0.01, P less than 0.05) whereas the positive rates of the CIC, TMCA, TGA also were higher in the deficiency of Yin leads to hyperactivity of Fire than those in the depression of Liver-energy and asthenia of Spleen.
(6) Hemorrheologic tests were studied in 68 cases of diabetes with symptoms of deficiency of both Qi and Yin and blood stasis.
(7) Only the Th of the group of asthenia of both Spleen and Kidney among 5 syndrome groups was decreased significantly and contrary to the group of deficiency of Liver-Yin and Kidney-Yin.
(8) Six hundred cases of febrile disease with damage to Yin and reddened tongue syndrome and hypokalemia.
(9) The effect of Xintongkang capsule on simple stagnation of Qi and stasis of blood, or combined with deficiency of Qi, or combined with deficiency of Yin was better than other symptoms.
(10) The results indicated that patients of chronic renal failure of the type of deficiency of Kidney-yang differed in syndrome as well as in levels of the sexual hormones from the type of deficiency of Kidney-yin; however, the sexual hormones were not correlated with the renal functions in the two types of patients.
(11) Dutch-born Yun Yin Lee, visiting Prato as a tourist, says: "The police here look at me in a way I've never been looked at in Holland."
(12) This phenomenon conforms to the theory in traditional Chinese medicine that the Du channel is the "sea of Yang channels", while the Ren channel is the "sea of Yin channels".
(13) The OKT8 in the Kidney-Yin Deficiency group among three groups increased higher than that of other two groups.
(14) I. the response rate of yang-deficiency type was 97.9%, the excellent response rate 75%, while the response rate of yin-deficiency type was 90.8% and its excellent response rate 45.4%.
(15) This effect appears to be linked, in a Yin-Yang mechanism, to the observed suppression of cyclic AMP induced by lithium through activation of cyclic AMP-phosphodiesterase.
(16) 44 Wistar female rats were divided randomly into 4 groups--normal control(I), case control (II), reinforcing Qi and promoting blood circulation(III) and nourishing Yin and promoting blood circulation(IV).
(17) This revealed the connotation of Kidney-Yin and Kidney-Yang on the immuno-regulating cells (T lymphocyte subsets) level.
(18) Although these and other foods recommended were primarily yang, only 8.1% of respondents considered weak blood a "yin" condition.
(19) "I think she likes the yin and yang comparatively."
(20) These results indicated that the T lymphocyte subsets and symptom complex group of patients with CAA were closely related and when deficient Yang affects Yin the immunologic function of body has a more obvious change.