(n.) The prominent part of the face or anterior extremity of the head containing the nostrils and olfactory cavities; the olfactory organ. See Nostril, and Olfactory organ under Olfactory.
(n.) The power of smelling; hence, scent.
(n.) A projecting end or beak at the front of an object; a snout; a nozzle; a spout; as, the nose of a bellows; the nose of a teakettle.
(v. t.) To smell; to scent; hence, to track, or trace out.
(v. t.) To touch with the nose; to push the nose into or against; hence, to interfere with; to treat insolently.
(v. t.) To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang; as, to nose a prayer.
(v. i.) To smell; to sniff; to scent.
(v. i.) To pry officiously into what does not concern one.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jonker kept sticking his nose in the corner and not really cooperating, but then came a moment of stillness.
(2) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
(3) These data suggest that basophilic cell function in the superficial mucous layer in the nose is of greater significance in the development of nasal symptoms in response to nasal allergy than either mucociliary activity or nasal mucosal hypersensitivity to histamine.
(4) Body weight (BW) and nose-tail length were less in the hypoxic exposed (H) rats than in control (C) animals growing in air.
(5) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
(6) Segmental function was diminished an average of 67.8% in "noses" and 46.6% in "bridges".
(7) Most symptoms come from the ciliated airways (nose, paranasal sinuses, and bronchs) and from the middle ear.
(8) Although they were born at different periods of the year, the calves in all three groups had similar bacterial loads in their noses and tracheas when they were 1 day old (P greater than 0.05).
(9) Generated droplets were dried in line and led to an inhalation chamber from which the dry aerosol was inhaled using a nose or mouth inhalation unit.
(10) A review of the literature reveals that the numerous procedures now available to repair the nose had already been devised by the middle of the nineteenth century in Germany and France as well as in England.
(11) An initial nasal allergen challenge was followed by a rechallenge of the nose with allergen 24 h later using a lavage technique.
(12) Sometimes the way the MP [military policeman] holds the head chokes me, and with all the nerves in the nose the tube passing the nose is like torture,” Dhiab said in a legal filing.
(13) Transposition of prolabium not required in the definitive lip repair into the floor of the nose permits subsequent columellar construction.
(14) The symptoms might be due to increased parasympathetic activity to the nose with the release of vaso-secretory active substances.
(15) Most infections have flu-like symptoms including fever, coughing, sore throat, runny nose, and aches and pains.
(16) The observation of high levels of xenobiotic metabolizing enzyme activity in the olfactory mucosa has produced speculation on the functional significance of these enzymes in the nose.
(17) The results of numerous microbiological investigations of sputa, nose and throat swabs before and during the long-term study are interpreted under certain aspects and questioning.
(18) But a eurosnob is generally someone who only watches European soccer and looks down his or her nose at MLS.
(19) Pretreatment of the lower airways with inhaled atropine did not affect the magnitude of the changes in Ru after inhalation of OA through the nose but significantly attenuated the response of the lower airways.
(20) A significant decrease was shown for the difference in upper and lower lip pressures between nose breathing and mouth breathing, whereas there was a significant increase in pressure when the subject extended the head 5 degrees during mouth breathing.
Nost
Definition:
() Wottest not; knowest not.
Example Sentences:
(1) NOSTE in this pilot study showed a high response rate, good tolerance and mild toxicity.
(2) For high grade, aggressive NHL, chemotherapy with short, non-Methotrexate-containing programs like POCE, NOSTE, P-VABEC, or other variations of MACOP-B are acceptable.
(3) Quantitative regularities are revealed in the distribution of apiosomae which are associated with differences in the inhabitation conditions on various parts of the nost's body and the character or morphological variability resulting from these differences.
(4) F3dThd was nost inhibitory when added between 1 and 2 h post-infection; however, it was also somewhat inhibitory when added at later times.
(5) A key finding is that the MDG approach, focusing on universal access to services such as health and education, rarely benefits the poorest and nost marginalised.
(6) Such antisera could be used as reagents for detection of NOST BE antigens in pathological human sera.
(7) Mössbauer spectra suggested that yeast aconitase nostly contained two high-spin Fe(III) ions in an antiferromagnetically coupled binuclear complex that resembled oxidized 2 Fe ferredoxins, together with a small amount of high-spin Fe(II).
(8) Bronchial reactions to top concentrations of the extracts were considered immunologically non-specific and probably due to contents of irritants in nost instances.
(9) Non Hodgkin Lymphomas are in children nostly diffuse and non or poorly differentiated.
(10) The efficacy and toxicity of the combination of these agents (NOSTE) was evaluated in 28 patients with advanced histopathologically proven UNHL who were not eligible for aggressive conventional chemotherapy.
(11) These dual-opponent cells were nost sensitive to the simultaneous presentation of two different colors, one covering the field center and the other illuminating the surround.
(12) Of these, tritiated nicotine appears to be the nost satisfactory indicator of tissue pH and values for the pH of the pulmonary extravascular space (pH(e)) have been calculated from the nicotine data.
(13) In contradistinction to previously described organ-specific BE antigens, these antigens were referred to as non-organ-specific tissue antigens (NOST).