(n.) A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
(n.) A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.
(n.) A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
(v. t.) To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.
(v. t.) To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.
(v. t.) To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
(v. t.) To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
(v. t.) To make a cross cut or cuts on the under side of (the tail of a horse, in order to make him carry ir higher).
(v. t.) To nickname; to style.
Example Sentences:
(1) When irradiated circular DNA, previously nicked by T4 endonuclease V, is briefly exposed to elevated temperature, the DAN becomes susceptible to the action of exonuclease V, and pyrimidine dimers are selectively released.
(2) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(3) Nick Robins, head of the Climate Change Centre at HSBC, said: "If you think about low-carbon energy only in terms of carbon, then things look tough [in terms of not using coal].
(4) "For a few it will feel like having your wallet nicked with the mugger then handing you a few bob back to buy a pint.
(5) Moreover, nick-translated [32-P]-pCS75, which is a pUC9 derivative containing a PstI insert with L and S subunit genes (for RuBisCO) from A. nidulans, hybridizes at very high stringency with restriction fragments from chromosomal DNA of untransformed and transformed cells as does the 32P-labeled PstI fragment itself.
(6) Nick Mabey, head of the E3G climate thinktank in London, said without US action there were risks talks would stall.
(7) One enzyme (called all-type) can nick all eight base mismatches with different efficiencies.
(8) Edman degradation of the intact A subunit of Shiga toxin indicated that the A subunit was nicked between Ala253 and Ser254 to form A1 and A2 fragments linked by a disulfide bond.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats have suffered a dramatic slump in support as a result of their role in the coalition and are now barely ahead of the Greens with an average rating of about 8% in the polls.
(10) Nick Nuttall, a spokesman for UNEP, said the latest findings should encourage more governments to follow moves by some politicians to invest billions of dollars in clean energy and efficiency as a way of curbing greenhouse gases.
(11) After Paris, Europe may never feel as free again | Nick Cohen Read more On Friday evening six separate attacks took place across Paris in what the French president, François Hollande, described as an “act of war”.
(12) A Tory planning minister has admitted that the coalition's new wave of garden cities would not have to contain a single affordable home, despite Nick Clegg's claims that they would offer low-cost accommodation and help solve the UK's housing crisis.
(13) Nick Clegg, who chairs the cabinet's home affairs committee, is said to have backed May's proposed package.
(14) Nick Clegg sounded exasperated, but it is Lib Dem convention to let members make the party’s policies by democratic vote.
(15) Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband accepted the Tory idea of a royal charter to establish a new press regulatory body but insisted it be underpinned in statute and said there should be guarantees of the body's independence.
(16) These bands were radiolabelled by subjecting the DNA--protein complexes to nick--translation in the presence of [32P]--dCTP, followed by prolonged digestion with excess bovine DNase I. Amino acid sequence analysis shows that these bands contain DNase I.
(17) We had a brief conversation and I said to him he was acting from high honour here, and I said how sorry I was this wasn’t happening in three or four years time..because Barry is a man of honour..and I think he is a very capable premier and I think he has been missed.” Asked whether he had ever met Nick di Girolamo , the prime minister said both he and Mr di Girolamo attended a lot of functions, and “I don’t for a moment say I have never met him but I don’t recall it.” But former federal Liberal MP Ross Cameron sounded much more sceptical about O’Farrell’s memory lapse when speaking to Sky News.
(18) The Km values of the substrates for both native and nicked enzyme were identical, as was the state of aggregation (dimeric) of the two enzyme species.
(19) Repair not only implies the closing of DNA nicks, but very likely the degradation of the BLM molecules intercalated in the DNA interrupting the reactions responsible for the generation of free radicals.
(20) Replays cast doubt on the penalty decision, the ball having been touched by the Australian replacement scrum-half, Nick Phipps, before the referee, Craig Joubert, adjudged the Scottish prop Jon Welsh caught it while standing in an offside position.
Station
Definition:
(n.) The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture.
(n.) A state of standing or rest; equilibrium.
(n.) The spot or place where anything stands, especially where a person or thing habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time; as, the station of a sentinel.
(n.) A regular stopping place in a stage road or route; a place where railroad trains regularly come to a stand, for the convenience of passengers, taking in fuel, moving freight, etc.
(n.) The headquarters of the police force of any precinct.
(n.) The place at which an instrument is planted, or observations are made, as in surveying.
(n.) The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
(n.) A place to which ships may resort, and where they may anchor safely.
(n.) A place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty.
(n.) A place calculated for the rendezvous of troops, or for the distribution of them; also, a spot well adapted for offensive measures. Wilhelm (Mil. Dict.).
(n.) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accomodation of a pump, tank, etc.
(n.) Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
(n.) Situation; position; location.
(n.) State; rank; condition of life; social status.
(n.) The fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
(n.) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
(n.) One of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our Lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station of the cross.
(v. t.) To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of Africa.
Example Sentences:
(1) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
(2) The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, provides $2.3tn of the annual subsidies.
(3) There's a massive police station there, and they couldn't do anything.
(4) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(5) Numerous voters reported problems at polling stations on Tuesday.
(6) Stations such as al-Jazeera English have been welcomed as a counterbalance to Western media parochialism.
(7) In late 1983 the Hagahai sought medical aid at a mission station, an event which accelerated their contact with the common epidemic diseases of the highlands.
(8) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
(9) The BBC has reversed its decision to close the Asian Network digital radio station – but will look to cut its budget in half.
(10) Service station attendants' exposure to benzene, based on 85 TWA results at 7 stations, were well below 1 ppm except one exposure of 2.08 ppm.
(11) Paddy Crerand was interviewed on Irish radio station Newstalk this morning and was in complete denial that Ferguson was about to retire.
(12) Russia's most widely watched television station, state-controlled Channel One, followed a bulletin about his death with a summary of the crimes he is accused of committing, including the siphoning of millions of dollars from national airline Aeroflot.
(13) It also cancelled the results from 21 polling stations in Libreville.
(14) And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but … fuck it, I quit.” A stunned colleague then told viewers: “All right we apologise for that … we’ll, we’ll be right back.” The station later apologised to viewers on Twitter: KTVA 11 News (@ktva) Viewers, we sincerely apologize for the inappropriate language used by a KTVA reporter on the air tonight.
(15) Australia’s greatest contribution to global warming is through our coal, exported and burned in foreign power stations.
(16) In this vision, people will go to polling stations on 18 September with a mindset somewhere between that of a lobby correspondent and a desiccated calculating machine.
(17) Eleven months later and staff are still waiting to find out when – or if – the station will close and what exactly will replace it.
(18) Where the taxpayer will pay now have to pay replace all the ageing power stations the privates sector has profited from for the last 30 years.
(19) Stationed in Sarajevo, he became fascinated by special forces methods there and insisted on going on a night raid with them.
(20) Conservative MP George Christensen has been forced to back down after suggesting an incident at a Sydney police station was a “failed terrorism attack” and linking it to radical Islamism.