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Nap


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze.
  • (v. i.) To be in a careless, secure state.
  • (n.) A short sleep; a doze; a siesta.
  • (n.) Woolly or villous surface of felt, cloth, plants, etc.; an external covering of down, of short fine hairs or fibers forming part of the substance of anything, and lying smoothly in one direction; the pile; -- as, the nap of cotton flannel or of broadcloth.
  • (n.) The loops which are cut to make the pile, in velvet.
  • (v. t.) To raise, or put, a nap on.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
  • (2) Of these 30-45% were of high affinity with a mean Kd value of 0.3 and 0.7 nM for GRO alpha and NAP-2, respectively, and 55-70% of low affinity (Kd = 30 nM).
  • (3) Stage REM frequently appeared within 10 min of stage 1 onset and the normal sequence of stages REM and 4 were altered, demonstrating that the organization of sleep within a nap is quite different from that in monophasic nocturnal sleep.
  • (4) During subsequent time off, napping and night sleep increased total sleep length above baseline levels.
  • (5) It is suggested that the modifier site is accessible to NAP-taurine only from the outside whereas the transport site may be accessible from either side.
  • (6) One service NAPS provides is a clip sheet of publication-ready newspaper columns complete with artwork which an editor can "clip" and use directly in a newspaper.
  • (7) Screening studies, from the most simple (night-time Holter monitor or ear oximetry) to either a carefully performed nap study or a home recording may aid in deciding which patients require a formal polysomnogram.
  • (8) Thus a large portion of Rp binding to NAP may represent nonspecific binding rather than binding to a finite number of Rp acceptor sites.
  • (9) By contrast, NAP did not affect these chondroformative processes.
  • (10) US supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg admitted that her traditional State of the Union nap may have been induced by a glass or two of wine.
  • (11) Some new data are presented about the clinical pathology of glossitis on the base of clinical, paraclinical, microbiological and virological studies and reliable possibilities of affecting by nistatin-prednisolone emulsion (NAP).
  • (12) Napping did not affect subsequent nocturnal sleep in either group.
  • (13) These observations suggest that our method can represent high NAP activity more exactly than NAP score and may be a potential tool in differentiating polycythemia vera from essential thrombocythemia.
  • (14) The late nap was more efficient in reducing sleepiness during the last 5 h of the experiments (23.00-04.00).
  • (15) The probable structures of the inclusion compounds of NAP with natural cyclodextrins were constructed using a molecular graphics program.
  • (16) This paper describes the 200-fold enrichment of the native RBF-2 class of PR acceptor sites beginning with the DNase I digestion of NAP to obtain DNase-resistant fragment (NAPf) containing approximately 150 bp of DNA.
  • (17) In contrast to G-CSF, GM-CSF did not affect the NAP activity in PMN in spite of the enhanced incorporation of amino acids into PMN by GM-CSF.
  • (18) Although anti-NH2SPD and anti-NAPS antibodies were identified that appeared to bind 3H-SPD, 3H-DOMP or 125I-IBZM with high affinity, none of the populations of polyclonal antibodies or monoclonal antibodies bound all three ligands with high affinity.
  • (19) In the dark, this compound, 8-methoxy-2-(N-n-propyl,N-3-(2-nitro-4-azidophenyl)aminopropyl) aminotetralin or 8-methoxy-3'-NAP-amino-PAT, displaced [3H]8-OH-DPAT and [3H]5-HT bound to 5-HT1A and 5-HT1 sites in hippocampal membranes with IC50 values of 6.6 and 18.1 nM respectively.
  • (20) Using highly purified CTAP-III as the substrate we studied the generation of NAP-2 by several neutral tissue proteinases.

Snap


Definition:

  • (n.) To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
  • (n.) To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.
  • (n.) To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth.
  • (n.) To break upon suddenly with sharp, angry words; to treat snappishly; -- usually with up.
  • (n.) To crack; to cause to make a sharp, cracking noise; as, to snap a whip.
  • (n.) To project with a snap.
  • (v. i.) To break short, or at once; to part asunder suddenly; as, a mast snaps; a needle snaps.
  • (v. i.) To give forth, or produce, a sharp, cracking noise; to crack; as, blazing firewood snaps.
  • (v. i.) To make an effort to bite; to aim to seize with the teeth; to catch eagerly (at anything); -- often with at; as, a dog snapsat a passenger; a fish snaps at the bait.
  • (v. i.) To utter sharp, harsh, angry words; -- often with at; as, to snap at a child.
  • (v. i.) To miss fire; as, the gun snapped.
  • (v. t.) A sudden breaking or rupture of any substance.
  • (v. t.) A sudden, eager bite; a sudden seizing, or effort to seize, as with the teeth.
  • (v. t.) A sudden, sharp motion or blow, as with the finger sprung from the thumb, or the thumb from the finger.
  • (v. t.) A sharp, abrupt sound, as that made by the crack of a whip; as, the snap of the trigger of a gun.
  • (v. t.) A greedy fellow.
  • (v. t.) That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
  • (v. t.) A sudden severe interval or spell; -- applied to the weather; as, a cold snap.
  • (v. t.) A small catch or fastening held or closed by means of a spring, or one which closes with a snapping sound, as the catch of a bracelet, necklace, clasp of a book, etc.
  • (v. t.) A snap beetle.
  • (v. t.) A thin, crisp cake, usually small, and flavored with ginger; -- used chiefly in the plural.
  • (v. t.) Briskness; vigor; energy; decision.
  • (v. t.) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To evaluate the relationship between the motion pattern and degree of organic change of the anterior mitral leaflet (AML) and the features of the mitral component of the first heart sound (M1) or the opening snap (OS), 37 patients with mitral stenosis (MS) were studied by auscultation, phonocardiography and echocardiography.
  • (2) A letter Acosta received warned her of a Snap cut of $11 for each family member in November.
  • (3) The San Antonio Food Bank says donations are up 16% But because of the cuts to Snap the supplies disappear faster.
  • (4) Acquaintance with a teenaged girl of roughly qualifying age is not essential, but probably helpful, when it comes to appreciating the degree to which Uncle Rupert's views on women, as still reflected in Page 3 , have not progressed since his executives started perving over snaps of their favourite teens.
  • (5) It's easy to express rage over the Newtown shooting because so few of us bear any responsibility for it and - although we can take steps to minimize the impact and make similar attacks less likely - there is ultimately little we can do to stop psychotic individuals from snapping.
  • (6) The sensitivity and overall agreement of both the SNAP and Campyslide tests were 100% in comparison with standard culture and identification tests.
  • (7) Hours after the attack ended, US troops with sniffer dogs checked the building for undetonated explosives, as security officials snapped pictures of the bodies and discussed the support the fighters must have received.
  • (8) We replicated DNA fingerprints of snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina) and hypervariable restriction fragments of red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) to estimate the between-blot and between-lane components of variance in molecular weights of restriction fragments.
  • (9) Prime minister Lee Hsien Loong called the snap election more than a year early in the hope of riding a wave of national pride following the country’s recent 50th anniversary.
  • (10) In superfused precontracted strips of rabbit aorta, methylene blue (MeB) or pyocyanin (Pyo, 1-hydroxy-5-methyl phenazinum betaine) at concentrations of 1-10 microM inhibited relaxations induced by endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF), glyceryl trinitrate (GTN), S-nitroso-N-acetyl-penicillamine (SNAP) or 3-morpholino-sydnonimine (SIN-1).
  • (11) You will have to offer leadership and a sense of belonging to the civil service's lowly clerks and frontline staff in the Department for Work and Pensions, struggling not just with Iain Duncan Smith's fantasies of benefit rationalisation, but sharp contractors snapping at their heels.
  • (12) Scotland’s politics must snap out of its tribalism and recover the conventional left-right dichotomy.
  • (13) 4 October 2009: George Papandreou becomes prime minister Papandreou's Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok) party wins power after New Democracy calls a snap general election, asking the Greek people for a new mandate to tackle the looming financial crisis.
  • (14) At this point, you are well within your rights to snap back: "It's all right for you.
  • (15) In addition, we examined 31 archival in situ carcinomas, 15 snap-frozen invasive ductal carcinomas, primary cell cultures from three benign breast tissue samples, and breast carcinoma cell lines MDA-MB-231 and MDA-MB-468.
  • (16) Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive, said buyers were snapping up "enticing deals on a wealth of advanced new products".
  • (17) There they discovered a little-known club called Amnesia and a DJ called Alfredo and instead of coming back with a few out-of-focus snaps, Paul Oakenfold, Johnny Walker, Danny Rampling and Nicky Holloway returned home exhausted but burning with a missionary zeal.
  • (18) Imperial Tobacco has become a major player in the US market after snapping up a raft of brands in a £4.2bn ($7bn) deal.
  • (19) The launch of Sky Atlantic follows the broadcaster's audacious £150m, five-year deal to snap up the exclusive UK TV rights to US cable channel HBO's entire archive, new HBO programming and a first-look deal on all co-productions.
  • (20) The SNAP was able to detect either 5 ng of C. jejuni DNA or 10(5) CFU of bacteria.

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