(n.) A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills.
(n.) A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.
(n.) An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.
(n.) Hence: The record of the rate of ship's speed or of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book.
(n.) A record and tabulated statement of the work done by an engine, as of a steamship, of the coal consumed, and of other items relating to the performance of machinery during a given time.
(n.) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
(v. t.) To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run.
(v. i.) To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs.
(v. i.) To move to and fro; to rock.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(2) The ED50 and ED95 of mivacurium in each group were estimated from linear regression plots of log dose vs probit of maximum percentage depression of neuromuscular function.
(3) Probability distributions are fitted to these data and it is shown that the log-series distribution best fits the data for two subgroups.
(4) Each line exhibited 1-4 log differences in sensitivities to the two toxins.
(5) At a concentration of 10 microM, tetraamine 4 did not affect histamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors of guinea pig ileum or alpha-adrenoreceptors of guinea pig atria whereas it inhibited postsynaptic alpha-adrenoreceptors of rat vas deferens with a -log K value of 5.23 and nicotinic receptors of frog rectus abdominis with an IC50 value of 0.23 microM.
(6) The best compound was trans-alpha-[[(4-bromotetrahydro-2H-pyran-3-yl) amino]methyl]-2-nitro-1H-imidazole-1-ethanol (18), which, due to its activity and log P value, is a candidate for additional in vivo studies.
(7) The final approved log contained 72 problems, 64 of which received importance ratings greater than or equal to 2 on the three-point scale.
(8) All are satisfied by [Formula: see text], where N is the size of rod signal, constant for threshold; theta, theta(D) are steady backgrounds of light and receptor noise; varphi is the threshold flash with sigma a constant of about 2.5 log td sec; B the fraction of pigment in the bleached state.
(9) The results clearly demonstrate local separability in this log frequency and orientation discrimination domain.
(10) Positive correlations were observed between mean log fasting insulin concentration and all parameters of obesity except log triceps skinfold thickness in men.
(11) Cocaine, 3 microM, shifted the noradrenaline concentration response curve to the left about 0.4 log units in all renal vessel groups, thus renal vascular smooth muscle sensitivity to noradrenaline was significantly greater in vessels from rats receiving CyA than in vessels from control rats.
(12) Details of sexual activity and experience were followed by the use of daily logs.
(13) The results should be analysed by the Kaplan-Meier estimator, and patency rates should be compared by the log-rank test or Gehan's test.
(14) There was a significant negative correlation between propranolol level (log-transformed) and glycemic responses, suggesting that propranolol has direct effect on the latter.
(15) Evaluation of lymphocyte phenotype frequencies, functional responses, serum immunoglobulin levels, and autoantibodies was completed for 38 individuals (i.e., 10 families) who were exposed to pentachlorophenol (PCP) in manufacturer-treated log houses.
(16) Spatial summation was found to decrease by 30-50% as the cell was light-adapted to a threshold some 4 log units above the dark-adapted one.
(17) The difference in binding capacity was of the same order of magnitude as the difference in sodium content, indicating that the excess sodium in the thoracic aortas from the hypertensive rats was osmotically inactive and thus unable to cause water logging.
(18) The equations of best fit of log(wax esters) vs age suggested that sebum secretion declines about 23% per decade in men and 32% per decade in women.
(19) Challenge studies using the standard National Veterinary Services Laboratory laryngotracheitis (LT) challenge virus (Log 10(6.7) EID50 per ml) were conducted to assess the presence of maternal protection in chicks of various ages (1, 7, 14, 21, and 28 days).
(20) In lymph node-positive patients a trend between high TA1 reactivity and a worse overall survival was also noted (log rank P = 0.128; Wilcoxon P = 0.054), with a 6-year survival of 42% in the strongly reactive tumors (n = 16) and 65% in the negative to weakly reactive carcinomas (n = 105).
Tare
Definition:
(imp.) Tore.
(n.) A weed that grows among wheat and other grain; -- alleged by modern naturalists to be the Lolium temulentum, or darnel.
(n.) A name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous herbs of the genus Vicia; especially, the V. sativa, sometimes grown for fodder.
(n.) Deficientcy in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, bag, etc.
(v. t.) To ascertain or mark the tare of (goods).
() of Tear
Example Sentences:
(1) If you’re growing them in the vegetable garden, it’s worth remembering this, and following with something replenishing – field beans or winter tares – to put nitrogen and organic matter back into the soil.
(2) To obtain a preselected tension, a limit value switch and a tare unit is used.
(3) In this study, it is shown how to transfer tared aliquots of (HCO3 + CO2)-containing luminal fluids directly into the mercury-sealed chamber of a modified Van Slyke apparatus and how to obtain direct as well as indirect manometric determinations of dissolved CO2 ([CO2]f) in each aliquot of such fluids.
(4) One TIGF sample, which was collected on a previously tared filter, was subjected to controlled environment equilibration (40 percent relative humidity, 22 degrees C) for 8 to 24 h and weighed prior to cryogenic storage.
(5) The effusate was collected in a tared beaker and serial weights were measured every ten seconds using a computerized, gravimetric technique.
(6) When an E. coli chemotransducer gene (tarE), the product of which is required for both aspartate and maltose chemotaxis, was introduced by using a plasmid vector into S. typhimurium cells with a defect in the corresponding gene (tarS), the transformant cells acquired the ability for both aspartate and maltose chemotaxis.
(7) Tare Dadiowei from Gbarain community in Bayelsa State, said: "While Shell makes cheap excuses for the continuing flaring of gas in our communities, we bear the huge costs with our contaminated air and soil, diseases and death."
(8) Each strip was placed into a tared tube containing fluid appropriate for the optimal preservation of the mediator to be measured.
(9) The story charts the relationship between a reclusive fashion designer, Celestine, an apprentice, Jonni Tare, and their favourite model, Doll.
(10) The tared filter paper and charcoal was dried for 24 h and weighed.
(11) Boukari Tare, a Unicef sanitation specialist in the DRC, said the $100m that could be awarded to the fund would save the lives of 200,000 children.
(12) In contrast, when the tars gene was introduced into tarE-deficient E. coli cells, the transformant cells acquired aspartate chemotaxis but not maltose chemotaxis.
(13) Reference sample was obtained by carotid artery blood "free flowing" into a tared microfuge tube for 1 min.
(14) In 3828 subjects (1489 males and 2339 females) apparently healthy was investigated the presence in the serum of Australia antigen and of corrispondent antibody with electrosyneresis, the activity of the G6PD eritrocytic and the eventual condition of carrier of microcytemic tare.
(15) These cells were compared with each other and with wild-type E. coli (containing the wild-type E. coli aspartate receptor gene, wt-tare).
(16) Tare and zero-adjustment were frequently checked in many facilities, but horizontal-adjustment was not checked in about a half of the facilities.
(17) Upon return, the computer compares the difference in initial and return tare weights to the stated amount of drug used to assure accuracy of the written inventory record.