(a.) Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal.
(a.) Used in producing motion; as, the locomotive organs of an animal.
(n.) A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage, especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines which communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
Example Sentences:
(1) Platelet-activating factor (PAF-acether), an inflammatory mediator with a wide range of biological activities including neutrophil aggregation and chemotaxis, was studied for its effect on human eosinophil locomotion (chemotaxis and chemokinesis).
(2) The model can account for speed changes in locomotion with a relatively smooth change of system parameters.
(3) When the organisms are free-swimming this is seen as the reversed locomotion of Jennings' "avoiding reaction."
(4) In naïve mice, i.e., mice with intact stores of DA, both the selective D1 antagonist SCH23390 and the selective D2 antagonist spiperone blocked the locomoter stimulation produced by (+)-amphetamine.
(5) With respect to the mechanism of the delayed invasion, it was suggested that the IFN-gamma might inhibit the adhesion of the cells to extracellular matrices (ECM) and the subsequent locomotion.
(6) During normal locomotion, SA-m exhibited a single burst of EMG activity per step cycle, during the swing phase.
(7) a 45-mg pellet every 45 s) induces considerable locomotion, rearing and other motor activities in food-deprived rats.
(8) One hypothesis to account for intercellular invasion proposes that a necessary condition for a cell type to be invasive to a given host tissue is that it lack contact paralysis of locomotion during collision with cells of that host tissue.
(9) The failure of agents which inhibit motility to inhibit capping of the normal lymphocytes suggests that active locomotion is not a direct prerequisite for capping.
(10) The average speed of the cells, as well as the proportion of neutrophils showing locomotion, is increased.
(11) In the rotatory and transverse gallop (examples of the in-phase form of locomotion) the coupling is asymmetrical: on one side it is comparable to pacing (forelimb flexion precedes hindlimb extension), and on the other side to trotting (forelimb flexion follows extension).
(12) Wandering is movement changing over time and, thus, is a nonlinear ultradian rhythm, with locomoting and nonlocomoting phases.
(13) Locomotion and general activities were typically unchanged over days.
(14) While executing the latter movements no forward locomotion occurred at all; the cats solely executed lateral fore- and hindlimb movements opposite to the direction in which the cylinder rotated.
(15) In addition, this drug slightly reduced locomotion and more markedly rearing in a free exploration procedure.
(16) Animals injected with DZP, NPC 12626, CPP or buspirone spent at least 1.4 of the 4 post shock minutes locomoting.
(17) injection of bremazocine, an opiate kappa-receptor agonist, suppressed spontaneous locomotion but not CRF-induced locomotion.
(18) Without shocks, apomorphine-treated rats displayed stereotypy with locomotion and biting of various objects.
(19) Absence of a functioning velocity storage network in bottom-dwelling teleosts (as in Amphibia) may be related to the sporadic, slow locomotion of these species and the resulting small requirements for continuous gaze stabilization during self-motion at higher velocities.
(20) reversed the increase in locomotion and elevation of multiple squeak thresholds in the bilaterally kindled rats.
Roundhouse
Definition:
(n.) A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house.
(n.) A cabin or apartament on the after part of the quarter-deck, having the poop for its roof; -- sometimes called the coach.
(n.) A privy near the bow of the vessel.
(n.) A house for locomotive engines, built circularly around a turntable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tickets for the Roundhouse shows are on sale from 12pm on Tuesday 3 June from ticketmaster.co.uk , with a maximum of four tickets per person allowed.
(2) It was left to Americans Michael Moore (at the Roundhouse in London in 2002) and Doug Stanhope to remind us that speaking truth to power can equal electrifying standup.
(3) There were other disappointments, such as the failure in the 1960s of his arts organisation Centre 42, planned to have a home in the Roundhouse, in north London.
(4) There was a moment of panic, a short-breathed time when I wondered what I had done with the previous 10 years, but then I went to see Jarvis Cocker at the Roundhouse.
(5) I do everything live myself so maybe if I win it would be a consideration to get more artists onstage but I quite like pushing the concept of a one man band as far as I can.” The overall winner of the 2014 Prize will be announced at the Barclaycard Mercury prize awards show at the Roundhouse in London on Wednesday 29 October 2014.
(6) That went to the RSC for its ensemble cycle of Shakespeare's Histories directed by Michael Boyd and staged at the Roundhouse in north London.
(7) In his first five minutes he name-checked Picasso, quoted a poem by the Russian dissident Osip Mandelstam – not, he hoped, any relation of Lord Mandelson – and raved about both the play Jerusalem, and the anarchic cabaret La Clique, a show he saw at the Roundhouse.
(8) At least he is if by "heart of the action" what you actually mean is "sat underneath the Roundhouse in Camden watching the action unfold on a 46-inch Panasonic flatscreen TV".
(9) • Review: Lady Gaga at London's Roundhouse • More about Lady Gaga
(10) Flowers transferred to London, then New York, Australia, and back to London for a six-month run at the Roundhouse in repertory with Kemp's new work, a full-scale Salome.
(11) "I hid in my house," she explains matter-of-factly when I meet her before the opening night of the iTunes festival at the Roundhouse in north London.
(12) JW3 Jewish centre Hampstead "We would like to be mentioned in the same sentence as the Barbican," confirms Viner, "along with the Southbank Centre, or the Roundhouse or Rich Mix."
(13) How they compare Eton Pupils 1,300 Motto Floreat Etona Location It graciously allows a Berkshire riverside town to share its premises Former students William Gladstone, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harold Macmillan, David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Princes William and Harry And the ones who turned bad Guy Burgess, Darius Guppy, Lord Lucan Haverstock Pupils 1,250 Motto None Location Prime spot near Camden Market, the Roundhouse, and Hampstead Former students David and Ed Miliband, Oona King , Tom Bentley, Zoe Heller, Steve McFadden, John Barnes, Joe Cole, Tulisa and Dino Contostavlos from N-Dubz And the ones who turned bad John Duffy and David Mulcahy (the Railways Rapists)
(14) Best production: Michael Boyd's RSC eight-play Shakespeare History Cycle at Stratford's Courtyard and London's Roundhouse.
(15) Norman, a last-minute entrant in the five-man ballot to succeed John Whittingdale, is a director of the Hay Festival and a trustee of London performing arts space the Roundhouse, which was founded by his father.
(16) Even now, his schedule remains punishing: his production of Berlioz's Damnation Of Faust has just premiered in Paris, a work centring on Frida Kahlo should surface in Canada later this year, and a collaboration with Peter Gabriel called Zulu Time will arrive at the Roundhouse early next year.
(17) With Camden Market, the Roundhouse and Hampstead on its doorstep, Haverstock's catchment area ticks many north London stereotypes: trendy, arty and liberal.
(18) Despite Lauren Laverne mistakenly introducing him on stage as James Blunt during a televised ceremony at the Roundhouse in Camden, north London, Blake beat stars including David Bowie to win the £20,000 prize for Overgrown, his second album.
(19) An equally monumental second album, Commune, is just out, plus they headline the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia tonight and play London’s 1,700-capacity Roundhouse on Friday.
(20) Bookies will be hoping for another surprise result following James Blake’s win last year.” The winner of the £20,000 prize, which in recent times has gone to Alt-j, PJ Harvey and the xx, will be announced live tonight (29 October 2014) at the Roundhouse in London.