(n.) The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns.
(n.) A pole, or long, strong, round piece of timber, or spar, set upright in a boat or vessel, to sustain the sails, yards, rigging, etc. A mast may also consist of several pieces of timber united by iron bands, or of a hollow pillar of iron or steel.
(n.) The vertical post of a derrick or crane.
(v. t.) To furnish with a mast or masts; to put the masts of in position; as, to mast a ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) of PLA2 caused marked degranulation of mast cells in the rat mesentery which was facilitated by addition of calcium ion (10 mM) but antagonized by pretreating with three antiinflammatory agents.
(2) In later phases, mast cells appeared in the newly formed marrow in the external callus.
(3) Our prospective study has defined a number of important variables in patients with clinical evidence of mast cell proliferation that can predict both the presence of SMCD and the likelihood of fatal disease.
(4) In the dark cortical zone of the nodes (III group) there occur tissue basophils (mast cells), that, together with increasing number of acidophilic granulocytes and appearance of neutrophilic cells, demonstrates that there is an inflammatory reaction in the organ studied as a response to the lymphocytic suspension injected.
(5) Type I and Type II mast-cell degranulation was noted but was not universal.
(6) They clearly demonstrate the phenomenon of mast cells degranulation.
(7) The early absolute but transient dependence of these A-MuLV mast cell transformants on a fibroblast feeder suggests a multistep process in their evolution, in which the acquisition of autonomy from factors of mesenchymal cell origin may play an important role.
(8) The findings suggest that mast cell prostaglandins are an important factor in the pathogenesis of pruritus and that local vascular responses may trigger mast cell degranulation.
(9) 18 patients with typical sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) were investigated by the Motor Accuracy and Speed Test (MAST) and 18 healthy age- and-sex-matched volunteers, acted as controls.
(10) When PMC purified to greater than 99% purity were cultured in methylcellulose with IL-3 and IL-4, approximately 25% of the PMC formed colonies, all of which contained both berberine sulfate-positive and berberine sulfate-negative mast cells.
(11) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(12) Mice homozygous for mutations at either locus exhibit several phenotypic abnormalities including a virtual absence of mast cells.
(13) This initial observation of release of eosinophil chemotactic factor of anaphylaxis in vivo along with histamine assigns the mast cell a central role in cold urticaria.
(14) Their presence was established both by staining for mast cells at light microscopic level and by electron microscopy.
(15) Pretreatment of rat peritoneal mast cells with either Staurosporine or an analog K-252a, lead to a dose-related inhibition of histamine release when stimulated with Anti-IgE (IC50: Staurosporine = 110 nM; K-252a = 100 nM).
(16) The ammoniacal silver method, which identifies basic proteins, gives a positive reaction in cytoplasmic granules of rat peritoneal mast cells.
(17) Cytokine secretion by activated lymphocytes or mast cells is preceded by dramatic stabilization of the normally labile GM-CSF mRNA.
(18) Forty-seven patients were brought to the Emergency Department with a good blood pressure which probably would not have existed without the use of MAST Trousers.
(19) Furthermore, using rat mast cells, the binding assay in conjunction with histamine releasing assay may be utilized to predict the in vivo histamine releasing potential of new LHRH peptides which are of clinical importance.
(20) Six dogs had increased numbers of mast cells in peripheral blood or buffy coat smears.
Remast
Definition:
(v. t.) To furnish with a new mast or set of masts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Breakdown of LP by rumination was calculated from the weight of total particles regurgitated and the proportion of LP in the regurgitated and swallowed remasticated material.
(2) The man who found the deleted scenes is movie sleuth and champion of lost causes, Darren Gross, who works in MGM's technical services department (which archives, preserves, restores and remasters the studio's movies).
(3) The first, on a “remastered” version from 1999, sounded underwhelming: compressed, light on bass, palpably small.
(4) In 1999 the remasters of Pokémon Gold and Silver came with pedometers to train your Pokémon on the go.
(5) We are also very excited about the release of new and remastered music from one of his greatest masterpieces."
(6) In return, we're sending the Russians drama from Shakespeare's Globe, dance from the Royal Ballet and nine remastered Hitchcock silent films.
(7) So didn't it take him back, remastering all these classics?
(8) When Marr remastered the Smiths' back catalogue two years ago, he emailed Morrissey (along with all his ex-bandmates) saying he could hear the love in the music, but didn't hear back.
(9) As part of the new deal, a digitally remastered deluxe edition of Prince’s classic album Purple Rain will be released to mark its 30th anniversary.
(10) It sounded good, but I'm sure a remastered download would sound better.
(11) By coincidence, I had just bought one of their supposedly remastered vinyl albums and been so repelled by the sound – thin, full of pops and crackles and excessive sibilance – that I had taken apart my turntable, in search of a fault that was actually in the grooves.
(12) Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection is an anthology of remastered PlayStation 3 games (optimised for 1080p resolution and an improved frame-rate), the oldest of which is less than seven years old.
(13) Wags immediately reimagined the teaser with incongruous CGI aliens, in a reference to the remastered Special Edition versions of the original Star Wars trilogy.
(14) Each has found a way to be part of musical history without being trapped by it and to be as much themselves as those eccentric individuals from the 60s whose recordings are constantly being remastered and boxed up and celebrated.
(15) His remastered Godzilla finds the behemoth battling man-made goliaths while Aaron Taylor-Johnson strives (one assumes in vain) to maintain order.
(16) Such a flurry of excitement forgets the fact that existing fans will no doubt have bought the remastered CDs, and ripped them to their computers; the question is whether there is a new group of music-lovers so used to buying digitally that this move will introduce them to the band for the first time.
(17) HOW CAN YOU REMASTER SOMETHING THATS ALREADY [BEEN] MASTERED,” he tweeted late on Friday night .
(18) News on that category and more of the pre-ceremony award winners below: • Neil Tesser won best album notes for his work on Afro Blue Impressions (Remastered and Expanded).
(19) Ablation of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex resulted in postoperative deficits in all subjects, although 6 of 8 eventually remastered the task.
(20) The DVD sides provide the same albums remastered in multi-channel Dolby 5.1 and DTS (Digital Theater System) surround sound.