(n.) A vessel belonging to a regular line of packets; also, a line-of-battle ship; a ship of the line.
(n.) A thin piece placed between two parts to hold or adjust them, fill a space, etc.; a shim.
(n.) A lining within the cylinder, in which the piston works and between which and the outer shell of the cylinder a space is left to form a steam jacket.
(n.) A slab on which small pieces of marble, tile, etc., are fastened for grinding.
(n.) A ball which, when struck, flies through the air in a nearly straight line not far from the ground.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
(2) On second impacts, the GSI rose considerably because the shell and liner of the DH-151 cracked and the suspension of the "141" stretched during the first blow.
(3) Neither pH nor composition of liner collection cone had an effect on postthaw acrosomal scores, but the time required for a 50% increase in severely damaged acrosomes was greater for spermatozoa collected in polyethylene than in rubber liner collection cones.
(4) The protective performance of the helmet shells, impact absorbing liners, and retention systems were evaluated, and the severity of the impacts sustained by the helmets was simulated in the test laboratory.
(5) A method has been described that will reduce the incidence of fungal growth and increase the period of resiliency for temporary soft liners.
(6) And while Altmejd presents sexual scenes of cartoonish horror and disgust, Lucas's art has embraced lavatorial humour, abjection, self-denigration, the pithy sculptural one-liner and the obscene gesture.
(7) When the PD reached 80-90% of the liner vacuum, the load was just sufficient to occlude the teat canal.
(8) That rock-star treatment then gets paid off with stale one-liners from the previous decade that sound like they were organized by shuffling notecards.
(9) Results from a field trial involving 23 Norwegian dairy herds support the theory that deflector shields inserted into the teatcup liner can reduce the risk of intramammary infection.
(10) The use of resilient denture liners in complete denture construction has become increasingly popular for providing comfort for denture wearers.
(11) New IMI of cows milked with high and low slip rate milking machine liners were compared.
(12) This study examined the physiological effects of performing moderate and high intensity work while wearing fire fighter's turnout gear with either a neoprene or GORE-TEX barrier liner.
(13) Teat cup liner slips, manual milking machine adjustments, milk yields, and milking times were recorded during both morning and evening milkings for 8 d on 97 Holstein cows in The Pennsylvania State University dairy herd.
(14) This study evaluated the effects of a dentin bonding system and glass ionomer liner on in vitro recurrent caries around resin composite restorations in dentin.
(15) It was time,” said Santiago Portal, 71, an engineer who came to Miami from Cuba 50 years ago and who previously considered himself a hard-liner.
(16) Updated at 3.33pm BST 2.34pm BST 58th over: England 124-6 (Ali 33, Prior 0) "From the middle of the bat to the edge is not a great distance", says Holding, who can make the Yellow Pages sound the Kama Sutra, only with one-liners.
(17) A polyurethane elastomer was microbiologically evaluated in vitro for its potential use in resilient denture liners.
(18) The bonding liner containing 2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate (DMAEMA) as a reducing agent decreased the rate of polymerization in the presence of 4-MET.
(19) However, when used in combination with the glass ionomer liner, the resin bonding system allowed very minimal microleakage.
(20) Entrusted to Moore, it would have been all over in a quick flurry of one-liners and raised eyebrows.
Slab
Definition:
(n.) A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces.
(n.) An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
(n.) The wryneck.
(n.) The slack part of a sail.
(a.) Thick; viscous.
(n.) That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(2) This study investigates the photoneutron field found in medical accelerator rooms with primary barriers constructed of metal slabs plus concrete.
(3) In order to study the effects of different glass ionomers on the metabolism of Streptococcus mutans, test slabs of freshly mixed conventional glass ionomer (Fuji), silver glass ionomer (Ketac-Silver), composite (Silux), and 2-week-old Fuji were fitted into the bottom of a test tube.
(4) The native phosphoprotein has an approximate sedimentation coefficient of 14.8 S. On sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide slab gel electrophoresis, the protein dissociated into identical subunits of Mr = 128,000.
(5) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(6) Stains-All treatment of slab gels showed that the cross-reactive peptide stained metachromatically blue, similarly to SR CS.
(7) The serum material extracted from the slab gel was purified from SDS and further fractionated by reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).
(8) It is suggested that (1) in the chronically neuronally isolated cortical slab there is normally no spontaneous adrenergic activity, (2) a cortical, cholinergic inhibitory mechanism, previously described, is modulated by ascending adrenergic influences, (3) adrenergic cholinergic linkages might be arranged in the cortex in an alternating network, as proposed by Feldberg.
(9) These proteins were further separated on slab SDS gels and protein bands were excised after Coomassie Brilliant Blue R-250 staining and used to inject three rabbits.
(10) A system for analyzing covalent modifications of elongation factor-2 (eEF-2) by one-dimensional isoelectric focusing in slab polyacrylamide gels is described.
(11) Slabs were re-embedded in resin and 5 microns sections cut for routine undecalcified histological staining.
(12) A new prealbumin plasma esterase was demonstrated by the use of miniaturized polyacrylamide slab gel electrophoresis.
(13) Many neurons of this longitudinal slab which we have named the basal forebrain cell column, originate from an ependymal matrix closely associated with the ventral diencephalic sulcus and later become associated with the basal forebrain bundle.
(14) The water inside the channel was considered through a continuum medium using the dielectric constant of the bulk, and the membrane contribution was included using the virtual images of the pore in a dielectric slab of epsilon = 3.
(15) Protein band positions on a slab polyacrylamide gel were determined without staining, by blotting the bands onto a nitrocellulose membrane which was then stained to visualize the electrophoretic pattern.
(16) The front surface slab-off and bicentric produce base-up prism in the lower section of the lens.
(17) A small air cavity to measure ionization is embedded in the polystyrene slab at the boundary facing the backscatterer.
(18) Resembling a billhook, with Foule Crag its wickedly curved tip, this final flourish looks daunting but can be skirted to one side, up awkward slabs.
(19) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
(20) The occurrence of molecular forms in protease-solubilized AChE was investigated by means of centrifugation analysis and slab gel electrophoresis.