(n.) Barley or other grain, steeped in water and dried in a kiln, thus forcing germination until the saccharine principle has been evolved. It is used in brewing and in the distillation of whisky.
(a.) Relating to, containing, or made with, malt.
(v. t.) To make into malt; as, to malt barley.
(v. i.) To become malt; also, to make grain into malt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Translation of the tnsC ORF reveals strong homology to a consensus sequence for nucleotide binding sites as well as a region of similarity to a transcriptional activator (MalT).
(2) One class II mutant carried a Tn10 insertion in or close to malT whereas in the remaining class II mutants the insertions were located at least 4 kb upstream of pulA in a region which may define a new regulatory locus of the maltose operon.
(3) The nucleoside phosphotransferase from malt sprouts contains one Mg2 per dimeric enzyme molecule.
(4) The promoters of all of these operons are strictly controlled by the activator protein MalT.
(5) Investigations on 85Sr containing malt extract broth Aspergillus fumigatus cultures revealed that fungal hyphas did not contain the major proportion of radioactivity, but culture filtrates did, and suggested that a fungal metabolite may be responsible for radiostrontium binding.
(6) Absurdly, the shops lack local staples – sugar, milk, flour – but are well stocked with subsidised imports such as single-malt whisky and Italian panettone.
(7) The primary structure of malt carboxypeptidase III has been determined.
(8) The results are discussed in terms of the proposed immune surveillance functions attributed to immunocompetent cells in situ according to the mucosal associated lymphatic tissue (MALT) concept.
(9) Water solutions of Tris maltolate aluminium(III) (Al(malt)3) and aluminium lactate (Al(lac)3) are also effective but the dose-response behavior is less pronounced.
(10) Only lymphomas of the thyroid were of MALT-lymphoma type and contained tumor associated abortive follicles of follicular dendritic cells.
(11) Diagnoses were further compared with independently derived scores of the Munich Alcoholism Test (MALT), and the validity of DSM-III-R was found to be superior.
(12) Let’s begin just after the second world war, when Liverpool took a pre-season trip to the good ol’ US of A to gorge on meat, veg, malted milks and ice creams, working on the theory that by fattening themselves up, they’d have a season’s worth of energy stored when they got back to ration-book Britain.
(13) All cases also demonstrated features of MALT lymphoma, including CCL cells and lymphoepithelial lesions.
(14) coliforms, E. coli, Streptococci, Staphylococci, yeast, and mould were assayed in raw materials and in the weaning foods based on malting (MWF), popping (PWF), and roller drying (RDF) of wheat and chickpea.
(15) In 8 patients, B lymphocytes infiltrated epithelium, which is a feature characteristic of MALT.
(16) It encouraged hundreds of willing amateurs to transform their own combinations of water, hops, yeast and malted barley into money-making enterprises.
(17) This finding could be another feature reflecting the autonomy of the immune system of mucosae (MALT) in humans.
(18) The white rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium metabolized phenanthrene when it was grown for 7 days at 37 degrees C in a medium containing malt extract, D-glucose, D-maltose, yeast extract, and Tween 80.
(19) Because cases of intracistronic complementation have been found, the active lamB product may be an oligomeric protein.-Previously all lambda resistant mutations in the malA region have been shown to map in the malT cistron.
(20) Both the Arran Malt independent distillery and the Arran Brewery run tours.
Milt
Definition:
(n.) The spleen.
(n.) The spermatic fluid of fishes.
(n.) The testes, or spermaries, of fishes when filled with spermatozoa.
(v. t.) To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Holiday's regular label, Columbia, blanched at the prospect of recording it, so she turned to Commodore Records, a small, leftwing operation based at Milt Gabler's record shop on West 52nd Street.
(2) Although these findings strongly support the hypothesis that 17,20 beta-P is a preovulatory female sex pheromone in goldfish which stimulates male GtH levels and milt production prior to spawning, the milt increases occurred earlier than predicted, suggesting either that preovulatory 17,20 beta-P release begins earlier than the data indicate or that other steroids known to have pheromonal activity are released before 17,20 beta-P.
(3) This stimulatory effect lasted from 20 min to at least 2 hr for GtH (20 degrees) and from less than or equal to 1 hr to greater than or equal to 24 hr for milt (14 degrees).
(4) Testicular contractions may, however, serve to load the SD with milt.
(5) A large amount of milt was observed during spawning, and the amount was correlated with plasma levels of GtH.
(6) Twenty-five males survived the whole experimental period and were divided into four groups according to the amount of milt and endocrine profiles.
(7) Plasma levels of DHP were higher in males that were producing milt than in any other group of males.
(8) Time of ovulation, fecundity, and egg size were recorded in mature females, and sperm counts were carried out on the milt from the male fish, from both the stressed and control groups.
(9) The increase in milt may be due to both neurally and hormonally mediated events that ensure milt availability for imminent spawning activity.
(10) We can propose that the synchronous GtH surge in both sexes causes ovulation and milt production to occur at the same time, favoring a higher rate of fertilization of the eggs.
(11) An ATP-dependent purine deoxyribonucleoside kinase activity is known only in salmon milt extracts (H. L. A. Tarr, Can.
(12) Males held with these females, or exposed to their odors, had increased GtH levels and milt volumes at approximately the time when increased 17,20 beta-P release by ovulatory females commenced.
(13) The 17,20 alpha-[3H]P label was produced by incubating place milt with 17 alpha-hydroxy [3H]progesterone.
(14) In male salmon with expressible milt, 17 alpha,20 beta-dihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one was present with a gradual increase of both free and conjugated form at the advent of spawning, suggesting that this steroid may also play a role in reproduction in male fish.
(15) Milt was obtained only from fish held at 6 and 12 degrees.
(16) Disney animator Milt Neil said it took "20 Disney drawings to produce the movement Trevillion captures in one".
(17) Although males had increased GtH and milt levels after 1 hr of spawning, males allowed to interact with nonspawning females also had elevated GtH; thus, behavioral interactions appear capable of elevating GtH in the absence of either pheromone.
(18) After juvenile rats had been X-rayed, organ cultures of their milts and kidneys showed alterations analogous to those of "old" donor animals.
(19) In goldfish, the gonadal steroid, 17 alpha,20 beta-dihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one (17,20 beta-P), functions as a potent preovulatory female sex pheromone which stimulates rapid elevations in serum gonadotropin (GtH) levels and subsequent increases in milt production in males.
(20) Glycolipids were purified from the total lipid extract of the testis or milt of a kind of puffer (Fugu rubripes rubripes) by adsorption column chromatography using silicic acid and magnesium silicate and by preparative silica gel TLC.