(v. t.) To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk.
(v. t.) To take in a net; to capture by stratagem or wile.
(v. t.) To inclose or cover with a net; as, to net a tree.
(v. i.) To form network or netting; to knit.
(a.) Without spot; pure; shining.
(a.) Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat; as, net wine, etc.
(a.) Not including superfluous, incidental, or foreign matter, as boxes, coverings, wraps, etc.; free from charges, deductions, etc; as, net profit; net income; net weight, etc.
(v. t.) To produce or gain as clear profit; as, he netted a thousand dollars by the operation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Manometric studies with resting cells obtained by growth on each of these sulfur sources yielded net oxygen uptake for all substrates except sulfite and dithionate.
(2) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
(3) External exposures to a contaminated fishing net and fishing boat are considered pathways for fishermen.
(4) If tracer is introduced into the carotid artery after osmotic treatment, brain uptake is increased by a net factor of 50 (a factor of 70 due to elevation of PA, multiplied by 7 due to infusion by the carotid route) as compared to uptake by normal, untreated brain with infusion into a peripheral vein.
(5) Short incubations with heparin (5 min) caused a release of the enzyme into the media, while longer incubations caused a 2-8-fold increase in net lipoprotein lipase secretion which was maximal after 2-16 h depending on cell type, and persisted for 24 h. The effect of heparin was dose-dependent and specific (it was not duplicated by other glycosaminoglycans).
(6) Only those derivatives with a free amino group and net positive charge in the side chain were effective.
(7) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
(8) PYY inhibited the reduction in net absorption of sodium chloride and water evoked by vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), but did not affect the VIP-evoked increase in net potassium secretion.
(9) A relative net reduction of 47% in lactose malabsorption was produced by adding food, and the peak-rise in breath H2 was delayed by 2 hours.
(10) In assessing damaged nets and curtains it must be recognised that anything less than the best vector control may have no appreciable impact on holoendemic malaria.
(11) No net hepatic uptake of glucose was observed before or after feeding.
(12) This force will be numerically similar to the net driving Starling force in small pores, but distinctly different in large pores.
(13) Increased amino acid incorporation into hepatic proteins in tumor-bearing animals and also probably in cancer patients is due to a net increased hepatic protein synthesis, probably not confined to acute-phase reactants only.
(14) In this study, protein efficiency ratio and net protein utilization together with the kinetic estimates of protein turnover were used to compare the effect of different protein and fat sources in healthy rats.
(15) Meanwhile the Brooklyn Nets, who have been dealing with nothing but bad news since the start of the regular season, will be without Paul Pierce for 2-4 weeks, also due to a right hand fracture.
(16) In the postprandial state net acid (4.9%) and sulfate (2.2%) had much less importance as determinants of calciuria.
(17) Proper maintenance of body orientation was defined to be achieved if the net angular displacement of the head-and-trunk segment was zero during the flight phase of the long jump.
(18) The authors tested their own technique, using transplants or implants of corium, fascia, dura mater and polyester net, internally in the tendons, fastening them with an external cross suture.
(19) These studies indicate that, in three models of acute liver injury, the net influx of calcium across the plasma membrane is increased early in the evolution of the injury before irreversible damage occurs.
(20) A state of net secretory fluid flux was induced in isolated jejunal loops in weanling pigs by adding theophylline or cholera toxin to the lumen of the isolated loops.
Newt
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of small aquatic salamanders. The common British species are the crested newt (Triton cristatus) and the smooth newt (Lophinus punctatus). In America, Diemictylus viridescens is one of the most abundant species.
Example Sentences:
(1) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
(2) Cells falling off from ectoderm were observed in normally developing gastrulae of the newt, Cynops pyrrhogaster, in light microscopic examination.
(3) In newts collected in April, moreover, a PGF2 alpha-dependent 17 beta-estradiol synthesis could occur, since PGF2 alpha injection induced a significant 17 beta-estradiol plasma increase.
(4) A search for specific proteins involved in newt limb regeneration, using monoclonal antibodies against forelimb blastemas, led to the detection of an antigen in the regenerate epithelium.
(5) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
(6) The process of lens regeneration in newts involves the dedifferentiation of pigmented iris epithelial cells and their subsequent conversion into lens fibers.
(7) Furthermore, carnosine is absent from the primary olfactory pathway in newts.
(8) A similar self-cleavage reaction has also been reported to occur in an RNA transcript containing a dimeric copy of a tandemly repeated, 330-base-pair sequence of the newt genome.
(9) Further experiments on this mixture with Italian Great Newts and on the carbon tetrafluoride mixtures CF4-Ar and CF4-SF6 with mice suggested that the anomalous potencies may arise from specific pulmonary effects associated with the breathing of SF6 accompanied by a high pressure of some other gas.
(10) This work, based on Golgi impregnations, transmission electron microscopy and immunocytochemistry, demonstrates that the intermediate filaments found in the radial gliocytes of the adult newt spinal cord are both vimentin and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) structures.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘I’m president, they’re not’: Donald Trump at rally in Washington Trump is “much more resilient” than his opponents allow, said Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, before pivoting to a plug for his new book, Understanding Trump .
(12) Light microscopical histochemistry and transmission electron microscopy have been used to identify large amounts of glycogen stored in the cytoplasm of specialized astroglial cells in the spinal cord of ribbed newts.
(13) Male eastern red-spotted newts (Notophthalmus viridescens) under controlled laboratory conditions exhibit unimodal magnetic compass orientation either in a trained compass direction or in the direction of their home pond.
(14) The use of these two immunologic probes has provided supportive evidence on the heterogeneity of the lymphoid population of the newt, Triturus viridescens.
(15) The interaction of migrating newt epidermal cells with the extracellular matrix protein, fibronectin, was studied.
(16) When inseminated with sperm of the newt, Cynops pyrrhogaster, mature Bufo oocytes exhibited polyspermy accompanied by a gradual hyperpolarization and a slowly developing positive plateau, without the fast spike that occurs in self-species fertilization.
(17) When viewed by light microscopy the mitotic spindle in newt pneumocytes assembles in an optically clear area of cytoplasm, virtually devoid of mitochondria and other organelles, which can be much larger than the forming spindle.
(18) The relation between p-aminohippurate uptake and the electrochemical potential gradient of Na+ (delta muNa+) across the peritubular membrane was examined in newt (Triturus pyrrhogaster) kidney.
(19) Not all cells of the adult newt blastema are randomly distributed and actively progressing through the cell cycle.
(20) Many HBox genes sustain their expression in the appendages of the adult newt.