(n.) An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseine, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Rf values of the analogs were for pararosaniline, 0.54; rosaniline, 0.41; magenta II, 0.31; new fuchsin, 0.19.
(2) Red, magenta, green, cyan, yellow, and white were presented on the CRT.
(3) PAS adds to the cytoplasm a diffuse magenta coloration; and because it is diastase-resistant, less brilliant than that of mucus but more so than bronchiolar cell secretions, and finer textured than lysosomal staining of other cells present, the effect is to highlight small-granule cells whether solitary or in clusters.
(4) Monochromatic targets presented at 30 degrees excentricity on orange, magenta and blue backgrouds are used.
(5) Groups of Syrian golden hamsters were treated with magenta, paramagenta, or phenyl-beta-napthylamine intragastrically, twice weekly for life at maximum tolerated doses.
(6) A magenta-green nulling procedure was used to assess the aftereffect.
(7) Within half an hour there was a huge piece of artwork, in glowing cyan and magenta, on the wall of a former police station.
(8) Smoking habits of 882 employees of Magenta general hospital (province of Milan) (135 doctors, 594 nurses and 153 technicians and clerical staff) were investigated in May 1986, by means of a self-administered questionnaire (response rate 84%).
(9) We prise them away from painting their toes with Midnight Magenta.
(10) It is distinguished by small, sausage-shaped gametocytes (x 10.4 by 4.6 mu), growing schizonts that often contain a noticeable digestive vacuole with the contents partially visible, and striking spherical or bouquet-shaped segmenters whose precise merozoite numbers are difficult to discern (about 22-32) because of an intensely staining magenta or rose-colored substance in the matrix of the surrounding vacuole.
(11) Subgross stereomicroscopic examination of alcian blue and hematoxylin-stained gastric mucosae allowed clear distinction of complete and incomplete intestinal metaplasia types as white (with or without purple hue) and purple foci, respectively, against the background magenta areas of non-intestinalized mucosa.
(12) Magenta II and New Fuchsin) usually found in Basic Fuchsin have been applied as chemically pure dyes to the Feulgen-technique.
(13) In Liverpool, one housing provider, Magenta Living, has admitted that "with changes to welfare benefits there is very little prospect of letting upper three-bedroom maisonettes in the current climate".
(14) For large increments, thresholds on photopic yellow and magenta backgrounds indicated the additive influence of 'blue' and 'green' cones.
(15) However, in the presence of silver nitrate, only homocystine reacts to produce a magenta color.
(16) In evaluating LV ejection fraction, the correlation coefficients between B-color images and angiography (temperature r = 0.93, magenta r = 0.93, rainbow r = 0.92) were slightly higher than that between the gray-scale image and angiography (r = 0.85) (p less than 0.05).
(17) Deoxyribonucleic acid, ribonucleic acid, several synthetic polynucleotides and polyvinylsulfate all convert buffered solutions of basic fuchsin and formaldehyde from a magenta to a purple color at ambient temperature.
(18) It will attract attention and will be different from the normal thing of people shouting down the megaphone … Is it not magenta?
(19) A small monochromatic light, 476 nm on orange, 551 nm on magenta and 621 nm on blue, is flashed at 3 cps-1 on the centre of the targets.
(20) Cyanophils stain either magenta red (gonadotropes) or blue (thyrotropes).
Trucker
Definition:
(n.) One who trucks; a trafficker.
Example Sentences:
(1) The US has stopped shipping military equipment out of Afghanistan , citing the risk to truckers from protests along part of the route in neighbouring Pakistan.
(2) On Thursday afternoon, Trump, seemingly oblivious to the announcement of the vote delay, met with a delegation of truckers at the White House, jumping into the cab of an 18-wheeler to pose for photographs, and telling them the vote was pressing ahead that night.
(3) This summation begins with a string of keywords: "trucker hats; undershirts called 'wifebeaters' worn as outerwear; the aesthetic of basement rec-room pornography, flash-lit Polaroids, fake wood panelling; Pabst Blue Ribbon ; 'porno' or 'paedophile' moustaches; aviator glasses; Americana T-shirts for church socials, etc; tube socks; the late albums of Johnny Cash produced by Rick Rubin ; and tattoos."
(4) The hipster men of LA have a similarly fixed uniform: one afternoon I went to a museum and found myself watching a David Hockney installation with three thirtysomething guys all dressed in black, all wearing tedious trucker caps and all with ZZ Top beards.
(5) Built like a truck, and as dishevelled as a trucker, he used his frame and his unkemptness with immense dexterity.
(6) The call center staff, the taxi drivers and the truckers.
(7) That’s why it is so urgent that the countries of Europe adopt very strong policies that will end the people smuggling trade across the Mediterranean.” While Hopkins was more concerned to appeal to the readership of “brilliant British truckers” who get fined if they’re caught with “feral humans” clinging to the chassis all the way from Calais, it’s only a matter of time before Abbott’s advice is taken up, and cruelty is presented as the only way to prevent further loss of life in the Med.
(8) Meanwhile, it has emerged that thousands of truckers are preparing to go head-to-head with the army in support of striking tanker drivers if the industrial action goes ahead.
(9) The covert operation began with two months of on-the-ground surveillance to identify the routines of the truckers, from where they ate and refuelled their vehicles to the river ferries and bridges they had to cross.
(10) Britain ‘poised to open door to thousands of migrant children’ Read more Richard Burnett, the Road Haulage Association’s chief executive, said the problems facing British truckers in Calais had become routine as he called for urgent action.
(11) Unite sources dismissed claims by Andrew Spence, the haulier who led a crippling fuel blockade 12 years ago, that thousands of truckers were prepared to support a strike by tanker drivers.
(12) Five's Ice Road Truckers pulled in 1.4 million and an 8% share, also in the 8pm hour.
(13) It was as if a nationwide drug legalisation policy had been written by a teenager, a gangster, a redneck trucker and a Chinese chemist.
(14) An improvised cardboard sign, scrawled with "La Rochelle, SVP" worked its magic on a trucker named Olivier and I was soon rolling into this sophisticated old port, perched vertiginously in the cockpit of the 18-wheel juggernaut.
(15) Having established the forest trails used by the truckers, the activists then worked on the paper trail.
(16) US officials have responded by ordering truckers under US contract to park at holding areas inside Afghanistan.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Naomi Wolf, photographed last week at Stony Brook University, NY: ‘I was mad at my own leftwing tribe.’ Photograph: Christopher Lane for the Observer For eight years, under Obama, my audiences were libertarian cowboys and red-state truckers; members of the military and police forces, who were appalled by what they were witnessing; and even conservatives, worried about our legacy of freedom.
(18) We had to work opportunistically, waiting for the best moments when the truckers were [distracted], talking to someone.” Nine trackers were attached, generating thousands of GPS coordinates.
(19) It seems that Netflix appeals to a variety of demographics – parents with kids that need to be entertained, teens, couples, truckers who use it to pass the time while stuck at a truck stop.
(20) We have a great bill, and I think we have a very good chance,” he said, adding: “Obamacare has inflicted great pain on American truckers.