(n.) A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures.
(n.) A spot, mark, or small permanent protuberance on the human body; esp., a spot which is dark-colored, from which commonly issue one or more hairs.
(n.) A mass of fleshy or other more or less solid matter generated in the uterus.
(n.) A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself.
(n.) Any insectivore of the family Talpidae. They have minute eyes and ears, soft fur, and very large and strong fore feet.
(n.) A plow of peculiar construction, for forming underground drains.
(v. t.) To form holes in, as a mole; to burrow; to excavate; as, to mole the earth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(2) The sigmoidal shape of the curve of rate constant vs mole percent anionic lipid is consistent with a positively cooperative effect of the negative surface charge.
(3) In the partial moles there is a slow hydatidiform change that affects only some of the villi, but which seems to follow along the same lines as in complete moles.
(4) Metabolism of DEHT by the rat appears to occur via rapid hydrolysis of both ester linkages to give two moles of 2-ethylhexanol and one mole of terephthalic acid.
(5) A complete hydatidiform mole (CM) had a 92,XXXX karyotype.
(6) The clinical and histological features of these moles have been designated the "B-K mole syndrome."
(7) The enzyme catalyzing d-amino acid oxidation was present in extracts of cells grown on valine, but not on glucose, had a pH optimum of approximately 9.0, consumed 1 atom of oxygen per mole of keto acid produced, and was not stimulated by any of the usual electron transport cofactors.
(8) A peroxidase conjugated-antibody (1.5 mole of enzyme per mole of antibody) was obtained and used for microwell enzyme immunoassay and Immun-Blot assay.
(9) The intrinsic inhibitory potency of this polymer increased with increasing degree of substitution with A35, approaching that of free A35 with substitution of approximately 3 mol of A35 per mole of dextran.
(10) Compared to women of group O or B, women of group A and AB had an elevated relative risk (RR) of benign mole (RR = 1.4 and 2.3, respectively).
(11) Five moles of ATP was consumed for each mole of phosphodiester bonds cleaved.
(12) The maximum effect was obtained with 10(-7) molar gibberellic acid, whereas concentrations greater than 5 x 10(-7) mole per liter were inhibitory.
(13) Yeast tRNAPhe containing a phosphorothioate modified -CS-CS-A terminus binds two moles of chloroterpyridineplatinum(II).
(14) Extracellular polysaccharides contain glucose, mannose, galactose, and xylose; G+C in DNA is 62 mole percent.
(15) The extent of sialylation of oligosaccharides in the three hCG samples used in this study were 88% in normal hCG, 82% in invasive mole hCG and 63% in choriocarcinoma hCG.
(16) A review of the literature revealed that this patient appears to be the first case of nephrotic syndrome associated with a total mole, although there have been two cases of nephrotic syndrome due to preeclamptic nephropathy associated with a partial or transitional mole.
(17) The adaptive value of sound signal characteristics for transmission in the underground tunnel ecotope was tested using tunnels of the solitary territorial subterranean mole rats.
(18) Our estimated rate of 7.5 hydatidiform moles per 10,000 pregnancies was similar to most reported rates for the United States.
(19) The current study was undertaken in an effort to identify the clinical characteristics and natural history of partial moles.
(20) The presence of millimolar concentrations of ATP, phenylalanine and pyrophosphate triggers negative cooperativity and under these conditions only one mole of Phe-tRNAphe is bound per mole of enzyme with a Kd value of 0.15 muM.
Moyle
Definition:
(n. & v.) See Moil, and Moile.
Example Sentences:
(1) Asked if Moyles would be on Radio 1 in two years' time, Davie said: "I hope he will be working with the BBC."
(2) Moyles said Parfitt had sent him a text saying the payments had been "sorted".
(3) However, it is not clear whether this is the case with Moyles's new contract.
(4) The head of BBC network radio has stoked speculation that Chris Moyles will leave his BBC Radio 1 breakfast show next year after refusing to tie the DJ's future to the station.
(5) Last year it performed only a little better, winning a single gold award for breakfast DJ Chris Moyles.
(6) BBC Radio 1 has grown to its biggest audience for more than a decade despite the station's breakfast presenter Chris Moyles falling further behind his BBC Radio 2 rival, Chris Evans.
(7) However Moyles, who had been hoping to overtake the Radio 2 breakfast in the Rajar figures following Wogan's handover to Evans, instead saw the gap between the two shows' audiences increase.
(8) Moyles lost 679,000 listeners over the same period.
(9) However, Ofcom, in its ruling published today, said Moyles's language "could have reasonably been interpreted by listeners as promoting and condoning certain negative stereotypes based on sexual orientation".
(10) Radio 1 confirmed that Moyles had 9.1 million weekly listeners in the first quarter of the year if under-15s are included, according to the paper.
(11) The BBC is understood to be technically in breach of its contract with Moyles by not paying him while he is still working.
(12) To compound matters, Moyles has lost a million listeners since then and too many of the ones that hung around are over 30, much to the chagrin of the BBC Trust , which wants Radio 1 to concentrate on 15-29-year-olds.
(13) Weeks later, Radio 2 breakfast DJ Chris Evans said Moyles should hang up his headphones as he was too old for his audience.
(14) If there is anyone who doesn't know when Wogan or Moyles is on, I haven't met them."
(15) The podcast market remains dominated by the BBC, with Radio 1's Chris Moyles, Radio 2's Russell Brand, and 5 Live's Colin Murray panel show Fighting Talk in the top 20 most popular downloads on iTunes.
(16) Perhaps they have been discouraged by the dawning realisation that Moyles is Live Earth's compere and will thus be with us for quite some time.
(17) Moyles also appeared to threaten to reveal a private conversation between the pair if Smart continued to write similar stories about him.
(18) However, Ofcom which had received eight complaints from listeners said Moyles's language "had the potential to cause considerable offence" and risked "being imitated by children, for instance in the playground, causing unnecessary distress".
(19) Moyles was also criticised by Ofcom in 2006 after he told a caller to his breakfast show "You've got some kids from some fucking...", before tailing off.
(20) Moyles opened the show after the 6.30am news bulletin sounding downcast and launched into a long diatribe: "Do you know what, I wasn't going to come in today.