(a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
(a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
(a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
(a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
(a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
(a.) The mob; the populace.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(2) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(3) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(4) Their particular electrophoretic mobility was retained.
(5) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
(6) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
(7) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(8) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
(9) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
(10) Furthermore, carcinoembryonic antigen from the carcinoma tissue was found to have the same electrophoretical mobility as the UEA-I binding glycoproteins.
(11) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(12) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(13) In order to obtain the most suitable mobile phase, we studied the influence of pH and acetonitrile content on the capacity factor (k').
(14) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
(15) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(16) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
(17) Heparitinase I (EC 4.2.2.8), an enzyme with specificity restricted to the heparan sulfate portion of the polysaccharide, releases fragments with the electrophoretic mobility and the structure of heparin.
(18) The transference by conjugation of protease genetic information between Proteus mirabilis strains only occurs upon mobilization by a conjugative plasmid such as RP4 (Inc P group).
(19) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(20) Moreover, it is the recombinant p70 polypeptides of slowest mobility that coelute with S6 kinase activity on anion-exchange chromatography.
Stucco
Definition:
(n.) Plaster of any kind used as a coating for walls, especially, a fine plaster, composed of lime or gypsum with sand and pounded marble, used for internal decorations and fine work.
(n.) Work made of stucco; stuccowork.
(v. t.) To overlay or decorate with stucco, or fine plaster.
Example Sentences:
(1) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(2) His art has authority, even though he seemed forever stuck in a postwar London of peeling stucco and disappointed lives.
(3) The buildings appear to be an ersatz nod to the old world by a designer with a stucco fetish, and are hard to ignore due to the blitzkrieg of colour unleashed on innocent passers-by.
(4) Nash was heavily criticised in his day and after for preferring grandiose scenic effects over actual build quality, with cheap brick houses under the painted cream stucco, but now his developments are kept up to a sparkle by their astonishingly wealthy occupiers.
(5) Property experts say homes similar to the 115-year-old stucco-fronted townhouse fetch rents of around £25,000 a week and could sell for as much as £12m.
(6) Lambeau Field has a heating system buried beneath the turf to keep the field from freezing, but it failed during the Ice Bowl, leaving the sod feeling as though "someone had taken a stucco wall and laid it on the ground", according to journalist David Maraniss.
(7) Once a sleepy mountain town of low-rise homes, Kabul's smartest areas are now a grid of multicoloured, multi-storey family palaces studded with mirrors and stucco, one even boasting a rooftop lion enclosure.
(8) In the white-stuccoed nave of St Martin-In-The-Fields, cloistered from the late afternoon traffic of Trafalgar Square, a choir is performing one of the canticles of Evensong.
(9) The seminar was held in what looked like the ballroom of a grand hotel, with stucco columns and mirrored ceilings.
(10) "We believe that we are in sector on our own," Bowman says, in a basement boardroom at the company's headquarters in a grand house on the edge of Regent's Park in central London, its white stucco gleaming in the spring sunshine.
(11) Cabo Polonio is a self-contained community of hippies and fishermen; with each dwelling an individual endeavour - scattered across grass and dune are wooden huts, one-room stucco houses and inventive shacks with roofs of thatch and multicoloured corrugated iron.
(12) Kensington Palace Gardens – where global plutocrats such as Roman Abramovich, Leonard Blavatnik and Lakshmi Mittal own stuccoed mansions, and where one house belonging to a Saudi prince is discreetly on sale (which I think means it isn't on any property websites) for around £100m – is regularly listed as the most expensive place to buy a house in London .
(13) Rewind an hour, before the dash to Palin, and here he is, the Great Linneck, downstairs in the stucco splendour of the Royal Institute of British Architects building in London, attentive, polite and always on the verge of that familiar gurgling laugh.
(14) The other is expressed in flurries of construction activity – dust, noise, machines, workers, trucks carting off piles of mud – as if mining companies were extracting something precious from beneath the well-tended stucco of the Victorian terraces.
(15) Photograph: BVG Archive Some of the signs and stations have a grandeur in keeping with the swagger of the Wilhelmine era: many of the stops on the U3 line, opened in 1913, are built in a neoclassical style with stuccoed walls, period columns and mosaic station signs that spell out the names in confident capitals.
(16) He was born Gideon Oliver Osborne in 1971, and grew up in Notting Hill in west London, as the famous stucco inner suburb steadily metamorphosed from rundown immigrant quarter and squatters' paradise into a sloane heartland.
(17) Most of the intricate stucco has been lost, but the small areas that remain give an idea of how beautiful the building must once have been.
(18) It's a vastly different experience, still offering terrific shopping and most of the city's excessive architecture; the mad mock-chteaux, mullioned 1920s Tudor mansions, 50s-o-rama "dingbat" stucco apartment blocks: a fantastical, variegated stew characterised by architectural critic Charles Jencks as Heteropolis.
(19) The morphological picture was the same whether it occurred around an acquired naevus cell naevus, a congenital naevus cell naevus, a seborrheic keratosis, a stucco-keratosis, a keloid, a benign lentigo, an insect bite, a basal cell carcinoma, or a squamous cell carcinoma.
(20) Some of the houses verge on hideous, iced with yellow-cream stucco, shiny, bright and reminiscent of custard or, at the Kensington end of the road, like dreary, red-brick school buildings.