(a.) Being in such a state that the component parts move freely among themselves, but do not tend to separate from each other as the particles of gases and vapors do; neither solid nor aeriform; as, liquid mercury, in distinction from mercury solidified or in a state of vapor.
(a.) Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
(a.) Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth; as, l and r are liquid letters.
(a.) Fluid and transparent; as, the liquid air.
(a.) Clear; definite in terms or amount.
(n.) A substance whose parts change their relative position on the slightest pressure, and therefore retain no definite form; any substance in the state of liquidity; a fluid that is not aeriform.
(n.) A letter which has a smooth, flowing sound, or which flows smoothly after a mute; as, l and r, in bla, bra. M and n also are called liquids.
Example Sentences:
(1) All of the strains examined were motile and hemolytic and produced lipase and liquid gelatin.
(2) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
(3) We have investigated a physiological role of endogenous insulin on exocrine pancreatic secretion stimulated by a liquid meal as well as exogenous secretin and cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK-8) in conscious rats.
(4) Glycosyl ceramide concentration was determined by gas-liquid chromatography of the trimethylsilyl ethers of the methyl glycosides.
(5) A sensitive, selective and easy to use high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of cicletanide, a new diuretic, in plasma, red blood cells, urine and saliva is described.
(6) A conventional liquid chromatograph with a low capacity column and a conductimetric detector is used to analyze aerosols of Cl-, Br-, NO-3 and SO=4 with good results.
(7) To further characterize the molecular forms of GnRH in each species, the extracts were injected into a high pressure liquid chromatograph (HPLC).
(8) Proliferation of quiescent hematopoietic stem cells, purified by cell sorting and evaluated by spleen colony assay (CFU-S), was investigated by measuring the total cell number and CFU-S content and the DNA histogram at 20 and 48 hours of liquid culture.
(9) High pressure liquid chromatography combined with radioimmunoassay showed marked heterogeneity of SPLI and SLI.
(10) After precipitation of plasma proteins by addition of methanol the samples are injected directly into the liquid chromatographic system.
(11) (2) The treated animals ingested less liquid and solid food than controls.
(12) A rapid method is described for the purification and analysis of synthetic oligonucleotides, based on reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography.
(13) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
(14) These analyses were carried out on unfractionated culture fluids and on fractions obtained by fast protein liquid chromatography separation using Superose 6 gels.
(15) The penetration coefficient, determined by the surface tension, contact angle and viscosity, is a measure of the ability of a liquid to penetrate into a capillary space, such as interproximal regions, gingival pockets and pores.
(16) Between-lot variation exceeded that of within-lot variation in 10 of the 14 liquid antacids for which this variation could be tested.
(17) The principle of the liquid and solid two-phase radioimmunoassay and its application to measuring the concentrations of triiodothyronine and thyroxine of human serum in a single sample at the same time are described in this paper.
(18) The rats were then sacrificed at either one or four hours after the injections and their brains analyzed for monoamine and metabolite content using High Performance Liquid Chromatography with Electrochemical Detection.
(19) It was like watching somebody pouring a blue liquid into a glass, it just began filling up.
(20) [8(-14)C]Inosine monophosphate formed was separated by high-voltage electrophoresis and radioactivity was measured by liquid-scintillation counting.
Swill
Definition:
(v. t.) To wash; to drench.
(n.) To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily.
(n.) To inebriate; to fill with drink.
(v. i.) To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess.
(n.) The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; -- called also swillings.
(n.) Large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's a small sample, consisting of the folk on the train to Kings Cross this lunchtime, but your MBM correspondent saw: several gentlemen swilling from cans of San Miguel and talking excitedly about the World Cup; two blonde women in frankly disorienting 1980s style football shorts waving flags; and a bloke sitting on his own necking a tin of pre-mixed gin and tonic.
(2) Then go beg the lady with the clipboard, while others swan past to join the cocktail-swilling vacationers swathed in white linen on the porch.
(3) Alastair Butler, a free-range pig farmer, said most pig farmers were against the reintroduction of swill feeding because of the "real risk" to their animals and livelihood.
(4) The Bank of England, the big energy companies and media groups such as Rupert Murdoch’swill all be watching particularly closely, having heard Corbyn warn he wants either to reduce their independence, bring them under more “social” control or break them up.
(5) It described the Pig Idea as a "superficially attractive concept, promoted by well-meaning people, but it is destined to fail because it is fundamentally unsafe, and the European Union will not be persuaded to lift its zero-tolerance ban on feeding swill to pigs."
(6) "Transplanting the Pirates Of The Caribbean aesthetic to the Wild Wild West proves disastrous in The Lone Ranger, an indigestible swill of forced humour and oversized, overbearing action sequences," he writes.
(7) It's what we expect of the modern detective: a solitary, whisky-swilling wolf, with a chip on the shoulder as big as a .38 and nights spent alone on a sofa that one suspects is covered in stains.
(8) Ten months since it finally receded, the foul brown floodwater that swilled knee-deep through Steve and Kay Wilton’s home for much of February has, it seems, left its mark on more than just their once-pristine 19th-century farmhouse.
(9) Further down Seoul Street, the huge Grandkhaan Irish Pub has been entertaining beer-swilling ex-pats and travellers since 2005.
(10) "There is a lot of [advertising] money swilling about the pot now Lite and the London Paper are going," says a senior Associated source.
(11) This neutralises and dilutes the acid that swills around after the breakdown of food by bacteria that normally live around your teeth and gums.
(12) "For these reasons, we believe the risk of swill feeding is just too great."
(13) The source of zinc was flaking galvanising from the inside of bins used to store swill before processing.
(14) Click here to view On his Acid Rap mixtape, which was downloaded 50,000 times the day it was released, Chance reveals himself to be more interested in the mind-expanding qualities of LSD than poppin' molly or swilling Grey Goose.
(15) Dr Gillian Lockwood, from the Midland Fertility Centre, suggested recently that as women are having babies later and later, young women should seriously consider freezing their ova in their early 20s for use in their late 30s – after their clichéd life of high-flying career, martini-swilling, cigarette-wafting and spanx-filling.
(16) The revelation is an insight into some of the tricks employed by clubs, agents and other middle men when such vast sums of money are swilling around before the transfer deadline.
(17) Under its proposals, it could be mandatory for food waste to be treated in centralised processing plants to ensure all swill was safe to be used as feed.
(18) The warm bath of mutualised treacle that swilled around Westminster at the beginning of the week has turned toxic.
(19) He was the absolute opposite of the chain-smoking, whiskey-swilling, bar-brawling father whom I had loved so dearly as a child and who was the reason that our lives had always been such utter mayhem.
(20) Yet, the band called Queen, the lead singer a tights-wearing Mercury, were going down a storm with the beer-swilling rockers who just didn't seem to be consciously aware of what was strutting before their eyes.