(n.) One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards.
(n.) A counter used in card playing and other games.
(n.) The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment.
(n.) An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by creasing it.
Example Sentences:
(1) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
(2) Activity of Na,K-ATPase activity was measured as a functional marker for synaptosomal membranes.
(3) Anti-Leu 7 could not be considered as a specific marker for oligodendroglioma.
(4) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
(5) On removal of selective pressure, the His+ phenotype was lost more readily than the Ura+ Trp+ markers, with a corresponding decrease in plasmid copy number.
(6) In spite of dense lymphocytic infiltration only 3% of the tumor infiltrating lymphocytes exhibit the activation marker CD 25.
(7) Twelve families with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) were studied by linkage analysis using 10 polymorphic marker loci from the X-chromosome pericentromeric region.
(8) These results indicate that HBV markers in cord blood are either false-positive or due to contamination by maternal blood rather than an indication of in utero infection.
(9) From the biochemical markers in follicular fluid, cyclic adenosine monophosphate has a distinct predictive value in regard to pregnancy in in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer cycles.
(10) We therefore enumerated the percentage of Leu2a+ cells as well as the occurrence of HLA-DR activation markers within this population.
(11) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
(12) Thus, our results indicate that calbindin-D28k is a useful marker for the projection system from the matrix compartment and that its expression is modified in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and striatal degeneration.
(13) The telencephalon of teleost fish shows high affinity uptake for D-[3H]aspartate, intermediate levels of GABAergic markers and low levels of cholinergic enzymes.
(14) The presence of these markers has facilitated the identification and characterization of the mononuclear cells in a number of animal and human lymphoid malignancies.
(15) The independent but combined use of both antigens, appreciably raises the diagnostic success percentage with regard to that obtained when only one tumour marker was used.
(16) Maternal plasma levels of cortiocotrophin-releasing factor (CRF) have been measured in abnormal pregnancy states to assess their potential as biochemical markers for at-risk pregnancies.
(17) Improvement of its particularly poor prognosis requires therefore early screening based on reliable biological markers.
(18) The summary statistics examined are (a) the slope of the least-squares regression of the marker, (b) the average of the last r measurements, and (c) the difference between the averages of the last r and the first s measurements.
(19) A 6.4 kilobase C4B-5'-specific Taq I fragment usually provided a reliable guide to the presence of a C4A deletion but unusually in one instance this fragment was found to be a marker of a functioning C4A gene.
(20) The availability of locus-specific probes should significantly expand the role of minisatellite markers in population biology.
Parker
Definition:
(n.) The keeper of a park.
Example Sentences:
(1) When foods such as dairy products contain large numbers of egg yolk-negative strains of S. aureus, the PPSA agar has the advantage over egg yolk containing media such as Baird-Parker agar that fewer suspect colonies have to be confirmed.
(2) Farage previously appeared in an alcohol-fuelled Gogglebox special on Channel 4, with “posh couple” Steph and Dom Parker.
(3) I'm sure Evan wouldn't mind me saying that he makes no secret of an occasional discomfort about conventional chord-change playing in jazz, and tends to sit out occasions where it's required, as he did last year in London on a gig in which the pianist Django Bates was reworking Charlie Parker tunes.
(4) In 8 patients with gout and 11 patients with pseudogout synovial fluid and small tissue specimens could be obtained with the aid of the Parker-Pearson needle.
(5) Parker 6 And now he's Jennifer Lopez's boyfriend, too.
(6) Amy Parker is programme manager for the DRC and Burundi at Children in Crisis .
(7) Simon Parker, a senior lecturer at the University of York, told the New Statesman that, during the recent dispute over lecturers' pay, his mobile phone number was posted on Facebook, with the instruction to students to give him a call if they felt they had been "fucked over" by the "lazy bastards in the AUT".
(8) Spotify has been courting established artists for some time, with Metallica’s Lars Ulrich famously buddying up with Spotify investor Sean Parker on-stage at the announcement of his band’s exclusive deal in December 2012.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest WDBJ7’s station manager pays tribute to Adam Ward and Alison Parker WDBJ itself is an oasis in a down economy.
(10) But the matriarch of women who toke is Nancy Botwin ( Mary-Louise Parker ) in the long-running TV series Weeds .
(11) Parker questioned why setting targets was seen as a legitimate tool in closing gaps in many areas of Indigenous disadvantage, but not in the justice sector.
(12) "Consumers of the powdered horn in Asia risk becoming seriously ill from ingesting a so-called medicinal product, which is now contaminated with a non-lethal chemical package," said Andrew Parker, chief executive of the Sabi Sand Wildtuin Association, a group of private landowners in Mpumalanga province.
(13) 3.11am BST Heat 58-77 Spurs, end of the 3rd quarter LeBron James makes a three-pointer, which is good for Miami, but Tony Parker ends his game-long scoreless streak with a 17-foot basket.
(14) It was “inaccurate” for the government to continue to say there was no impact on frontline services, and “to say it would only impact on advocacy as though there’s nothing wrong with that”, Parker said.
(15) It was like a superhero's origin story: Peter Parker's bedroom before he became Spider-Man.
(16) The supplementation of serum-free Parker's medium 199 with Dextran T-500 and antioxidants (taurine or catalase) significantly improved spraeding and survival of chick embryo hepatocytes in primary culture.
(17) S. epidermidis biotype 1 (according to Baird-Parker) accounted for c. 60% of the isolates and for c. 85% of the isolates considered to be of clinical importance.
(18) Pending Petraeus's confirmation by Congress, the British deputy commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan, Lt Gen Nick Parker, will assume command.
(19) The industrialist Sir John Parker will address this state of affairs when he publishes his report on Wednesday into representation of ethnic minorities in business.
(20) 1.28am BST Heat 15-20 Spurs, 3:53 remaining in 1st quarter Tony Parker sneaks through two defenders to untie it.