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Lisle


Definition:

  • (n.) A city of France celebrated for certain manufactures.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For the laser-induced shockwave lithotripsy (LISL) the laser-pulses of a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser produce an optical breakdown in the irrigation liquid surrounding the urinary stone.
  • (2) Using an order usually reserved to force owners to clean up derelict or shabby properties, Kensington and Chelsea council has told owner Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring that she must repaint the garish design back to its original white.
  • (3) Meanwhile, Lisle Austin, the Barbados official who was banned for one year after he went to court in the Bahamas to try to force through his claim to succeed Warner as president of Concacaf has branded Fifa as "corrupt".
  • (4) If Cool succeeds in climbing the world's highest mountain again, he will have honoured a pledge by Lieutenant Colonel Edward Lisle Strutt, deputy leader of the pioneering 1922 expedition, made to Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who awarded the climbers medals at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix.
  • (5) In a work, the results of studying the properties of 17 types of the surgical knots of polyamide threads (braided, lisle, monothreads) are presented.
  • (6) But as Ms Lisle-Mainwaring demonstrated by painting her £15m terrace house like an ice-cream stall from Margate, we are free in the UK to be creative.
  • (7) Defying Kensington and Chelsea council’s ruling that the beach hut-style design should be removed, Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring said she was “entitled to do what I wish with it, and there are a lot of people who agree with me.
  • (8) It’s more Camden or something like that.” “My neighbours say they want the building kept in commercial use,” Lisle-Mainwairing said.
  • (9) Significant differences were found in the subclass results obtained by the ICN ImmunoBiologicals assay (Lisle, Ill.), compared to the two reference laboratories.
  • (10) So my first reaction when I read about the red and white stripes that Lisle-Mainwaring had painted on her townhouse in South End, in London’s Kensington, was pride that we live in a nation where such bursts of cultural creativity are possible – even if it was motivated by revenge and a bit of mild vandalism.
  • (11) Laser-induced shockwave lithotripsy (LISL) appears to be a very promising solution to this problem.
  • (12) Candy-stripe house redesign makes Kensington neighbours see red Read more If Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring lived in Celebration, Disney’s model town in Florida, painting the outside of her house with red stripes might not have sent her to the electric chair, but there would have been consequences.
  • (13) 10.40am: An email arrives from our Fans' Network member Rod de Lisle on how New Zealand's progress is being experienced over there: "Unusually, the round ball code has kicked rugby off the front page in NZ sports papers this week.
  • (14) Laser-induced shock wave lithotripsy (LISL) with a Q-switched neodymium-YAG laser depends on the generation of a laser-induced breakdown in the fluid surrounding the stone.
  • (15) Kensington and Chelsea council says house stripes must go Read more Lisle-Mainwaring, who lives in Switzerland, was said to have ordered the stripes be painted in order to provoke her neighbours.
  • (16) Laser induced shockwave lithotripsy (LISL) on artificially inserted human renal calculi was realized in explanted pig ureters.
  • (17) Her solicitors said they had no comment to make on any further legal action that would be taken by Lisle-Mainwaring.
  • (18) Yet this is how Kensington resident Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring has chosen to express her annoyance with the local council and neighbours, who objected to her basement development but are now “horrendously unhappy”.
  • (19) Since the LISL is an endoscopic technique, problems arise from the transmission of the laser pulses through optical fibers.
  • (20) She may tell the press that everyone around her loves the stripes, and there are always a few eccentric people who like odd things just because they are odd, but I can tell you that most people absolutely do not think that way.” Lisle-Mainwaring has the right to appeal by 5 June in the magistrates court but otherwise must repaint the front elevation white and carry out repairs to the windows by 3 July.

Thread


Definition:

  • (n.) A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.
  • (n.) A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.
  • (n.) The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.
  • (n.) Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse.
  • (n.) Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness.
  • (v. t.) To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.
  • (v. t.) To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.
  • (v. t.) To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Use 3-ml Luer-Lok syringes and 30-gauge needles and thread the needle carefully into the vessel while using slow and steady injection with light pressure.
  • (2) No infection threads were found to penetrate either root hairs or the nodule cells.
  • (3) When using a nylon thread for the attachment of a pseudophakos to the iris, it may happen that the suture is slung tightly around the implant-lens.
  • (4) This thread ran through his later writings, which focused particularly on questions of the transformation of work and working time, envisaging the possibility that the productivity gains made possible by capitalism could be used to enhance individual and social life, rather than intensifying ruthless economic competition and social division.
  • (5) Santi Cazorla, Sánchez and Mesut Özil were all involved, and when the ball came back to Cazorla he made a fine threaded pass to Walcott.
  • (6) We've brought on two experts to answer your questions from 1-2pm BST in the comment thread on this article.
  • (7) The astrocytes had generally two types of processes: (1) thread-like processes of relatively constant width with few ramifications and few lamellar appendages and (2) the sinuous processes with clusters of lamellar appendages.
  • (8) Electron microscopy showed the presence of bacterial ghosts and protein threads.
  • (9) George RR Martin , whose series of novels inspired the HBO drama , has woven a tapestry of extraordinary size and richness; and most of the threads he has used derive from the history of our own world.
  • (10) The left anterior descending coronary artery of dogs and the right common carotid artery of rabbits were subjected to partial constriction with suture thread (40-60% reduction in transluminal diameter).
  • (11) Neuronal thread protein is a recently characterized, approximately 20-kd protein that accumulates in brains with Alzheimer's disease (AD) lesions.
  • (12) Small threaded pins do not cause femoral head rotation.
  • (13) Nematocyst capsules and everted threads from both species contained levels of glycine and proline-hydroxyproline characteristic of vertebrate collagens.
  • (14) Load transfer from ring to bone is concentrated at the first and last threads where the subchondral bone layer is penetrated.
  • (15) Furthermore, large numbers of neuropil threads are scattered throughout the nuclear gray.
  • (16) The histological findings of actinomyces spores, thread-like foreign material and detritus drew out attention to the rare manifestation of abdominal actinomycosis.
  • (17) Monofilament nylon threads are used as drains in free skin grafting; 2-0 or 3-0 nylon threads are usually applied.
  • (18) Monoclonal antibodies, raised independently in two laboratories against either pancreatic stone protein (PSP) or pancreatic thread protein (PTP), reacted with the Mr 14,000 protein(s).
  • (19) With the initial technique, the gastrostomy tube was pulled in by a thread introduced percutaneously into the stomach.
  • (20) P19 gave by proteolysis a protein of 14 KD (P14), at first named protein X and also called pancreatic thread protein or pancreatic stone protein.

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