(n.) A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
(n.) A woody valley; also, a deep pool.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spindles of the slow SOL and fast EDL muscles had similar features, whereas differences were observed in the organization of the proximal (SOL and EDL) and distal (LUM) muscles.
(2) 2 In all the species studied, enkephalins appeared to be highly concentrated in the striatum and hypothalamus while very low amounts were found in the cerebe-lum and hippocampus.
(3) The Barkandji elders before us fought against the removal of people from our country Glyniss Church Dr Ken Lum, an anthropologist and research manager with NTSCORP, told Guardian Australia he had conducted hundreds of interviews with Barkandji people, tracing their genealogies back to 1850.
(4) With uncrossed conditions (Lum tests on Lum pedestals or Chr tests on Chr pedestals), we obtained the conventional dipper function, that is, the function of threshold test intensity was highly asymmetric about zero pedestal intensity, and strong pedestals induced strong masking.
(5) A corresponding CCAAT-binding factor (CBF) of 999 amino acids has recently been cloned and shown to stimulate transcription selectively from the hsp70 promoter in a CCAAT element-dependent manner (L. Lum, L. Sultzman, R. Kaufman, D. Linzer, and B. Wu, Mol.
(6) Indications are given that LUM inhibits the oxidative metabolism of both cell types.
(7) Spindles in LUM muscles had fewer static intrafusal fibers, a higher ratio of dynamic to static gamma axons, and a higher incidence of skeletofusimotor (beta) innervation to intrafusal fibers than spindles in the SOL or EDL muscles.
(8) Comparative studies on the effects of the luminescence indicators 5-Amino-2,3-dihydro-1,4-phthalazinedione (Luminol, LUM) and 7-Dimethylamino-naphthalene-1,2-dicarbonic-acidhydracide (DMNH) in measuring the chemiluminescence of ingesting and non-ingesting polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) and monocytes (MOC) are described.
(9) The nucleotide sequence was found to differ in several aspects from the previously published sequence (B. Wallace, Y. Yang, J. Hong, and D. Lum, J. Bacteriol.
(10) No statistically significant differences were seen between superficial and deep thirds (UI: 45% vs. 43%; DI: 33% vs. 32%; LUM: 22% vs. 24%; IC: 3% vs. 3% of points counted, p greater than .1, paired t-test).
(11) During this hyperactivation stage, spleen and peritoneal cells from infected mice showed a "spontaneous" CL-Lum response (without any stimulus added in vitro) absent in noninfected mice.
(12) The inhibitory effect of LPS on the LUM-CL of phagocytosing cord blood PMN has been much more pronounced than on the LUM-CL of adult PMN.
(13) Of 2,786 sera screened, 262 (9.5%) had antibody to one or more viruses Twenty-two sera, selected to represent different species of origin and reaction profiles, were titrated against nine CAL viruses: LUM, SSH, TVT, Tahyna (TAH), California encephalitis (CE), La Crosse (LAC), Inkoo (INK), Melao (MEL), and Guaroa (GRO).
(14) When used with high-dose CsA, etoposide doses should be reduced by approximately 50% to compensate for the pharmacokinetic effects of CsA on etoposide (Lum et al, J Clin Oncol, 10:1635-1642, 1992).
(15) The various flashes were incremental (+Lum) or decremental (-Lum) yellow luminance flashes or green (+Chr) or red (-Chr) isoluminant chromatic flashes.
(16) One group of monoclonal antibodies, designated LUM, reacts with the luminal surface of the epithelium.
(17) In previous studies (Yang, F., Naylor, S., Lum, J., Cutshaw, S., McCombs, J., Naberhaus, K., McGill, J., Adrian, G., Moore, C., Barnett, D., and Bowman, B.
(18) Moreover, spleen cells from acutely infected mice displayed a hyperactivity in the CL-Lum response when recombinant interferon-gamma was added in vitro.
(19) L-3s maintained in water or in Lum's solution for 3 hours retained infectivity when tested in orally or subcutaneously exposed jirds; furthermore, L-3s recovered from mosquitoes dead for 24 to 48 hours were also infective by either portal of entry in jirds.
(20) Both, "spontaneous" and zymosan stimulated CL-Lum responses were inhibited by 100 microM azide and by 0.8 microM superoxide dismutase, suggesting the involvement of hemoproteins and superoxide anion in the measured responses.
Woody
Definition:
(a.) Abounding with wood or woods; as, woody land.
(a.) Consisting of, or containing, wood or woody fiber; ligneous; as, the woody parts of plants.
(a.) Of or pertaining to woods; sylvan.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I want to talk about Curb Your Enthusiasm instead, and the paintings of Chagall, the music of Amy Winehouse and Woody Allen films."
(2) In the 1990s Woody's daughter, Nora Guthrie, began a labour of love, gathering up all her father's papers and creating the Woody Guthrie Archive in New York City.
(3) Along with Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, he brought the music of the dirt farms, the sweat shops and the lonesome highways into America's – and later the world's – living room.
(4) AP Magic in the Moonlight Colin Firth in Magic in the Moonlight Woody Allen remains a hero at Cannes, an arena largely untroubled by accusation and counter-accusation surrounding his private life.
(5) Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway, based on his 1994 film, gets six nominations.
(6) He raised $3.1m , and then explained the Kickstarter crowdfunding concept to Woody Allen, who apparently "won't stop talking" about it .
(7) Here, fruit and vegetables left unsold each day in Budgens are mulched, along with woody branches and soil, by the 20 local people who volunteer in the garden.
(8) There are the usual reasons: Woody Allen is famous and at the top of his professional craft, and this is basically a he said-she said situation without the proof we've come to expect in the 21st century: DNA results, salacious texts and emails, that sort of thing.
(9) In what was a golden night for the veterans, Martin Scorsese won best director for his 3D fantasy Hugo and Woody Allen took the screenplay prize for Midnight in Paris.
(10) In the autumn large amounts of a major storage protein accumulate in the woody stem of poplar trees.
(11) During the interview, I will see a flash of another mode from Keaton, on the subject of Woody Allen .
(12) The disorder appeared after an acute episode of tonsillitis, followed by non-pitting, woody hardness of the skin of the face, neck, shoulders and upper part of the trunk.
(13) To investigate an apparent decline of the onchocerciasis vector Simulium woodi, in the Simulium neavei group, weekly 12-hour biting catches on man were carried out for 13 months near Amani and compared with those obtained 22 years earlier.
(14) Alas, as I don’t have a copy of The Alchemist to hand – and with it a pencil to write, in the words of Woody Allen , “Yes, very true!” in every margin – I’ll just have to get on with it.
(15) Woody Allen's nakedly autobiographical film is the Oscar-winning sensation which put him on the map – and it's probably his best film, too.
(16) The second technique is an adaptive filter method of averaged cross-correlations, developed by Woody (1967), which deals with the variable latency problem.
(17) In May, more than 120 prominent international writers and artists, including Philip Roth, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Patti Smith, Woody Allen and Stephen Sondheim, called on Sisi to release Naji in a letter sent by free speech organisation PEN America.
(18) For Beale – known as “Woody” to his friends – the barbershop trip is not just a quick in-and-out appointment.
(19) The restoration of This Land Is Your Land demonstrates the dichotomies of Woody Guthrie and the American patriotic left, which loves the land (the dream, even) but fights the system – only to be embraced by that system.
(20) A surprisingly persistent misconception, to this day, is that the real Woody Allen must be broadly the same as his movie persona: the fretful nebbish , plagued by hypochondria, beset by existential terrors, anxious to the point of paralysis.