(n.) A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, ampicillin was dissolved in milk and pail fed 20 to 30 minutes following intramuscular atropine.
(2) Ampicillin was only detected in the plasma of calves which had received the drug, pail fed in milk.
(3) Sewage collected in these pails was often dumped overboard into the harvesting area.
(4) One of the panners, Martine Wandango, 25, bends over her pail of water as she filters out rocks and searches for ore. “You can only survive with money, and you can only find money from gold,” says Martine, who followed her husband to the delta 15 years ago by walking 60 miles over the mountains from their remote highland village.
(5) The presence of the 73,000 species previously assessed to be bound to poly(A) is discussed in view of the fact that histone mRNA does not contain a pail.
(6) Secondly, there were changes to the system of disposal of excrement from cesspits to poorly organized pail and single-pan schemes which led to the causal disposal of sewage in the street gutters.
(7) As the blood pressure was increased, pail arterioles constricted and cerebral blood flow remained relatively constant, showing that autoregulation of cerebral blood flow was intact.
(8) At the weekend the chair of the Harlow Conservative Association, Linda Pailing, summed up that attitude: "The voters are disillusioned with Cameron himself.
(9) Dangers such as bed- and tub-sharing, diaper and cleaning pails, plastic wrappers, balloons, small beds, toys on strings, broken or poorly designed cribs, and poorly positioned adult beds must be brought to the attention of the parent as consumer.
(10) Using a multiple baseline design with reversal conditions, social play was measured on four activities: pegs and pegboard, athletic ball, blocks, and water pail.
(11) Chickens were subjected to the sound produced by banging on a metal pail (104 decibels) for 30 seconds.
(12) A 41-year-old man noticed motor disturbances when he tried to lift a bath pail and to write on July, 1978.
(13) The first colostrum is best ingested when it is offered in a pail or bottle provided with a nipple.
(14) A shirtless addict who had just pissed into a pail in the corner helped me.
(15) Pregastric esterase activity was detected in reconstituted nonfat milk sham fed from a nipple pail to two 4-yr-old rumen-fistualted steers.
(16) Ampicillin was given orally to five Holstein calves using the following four different methods of administration: via stomach tube, mixed and fed in the calf starter ration, dissolved in milk and pail fed and administered orally as 400 mg commercial calf tablets.
(17) Highly reactive, vertically oriented, large diameter fibers were seen as groups between the outer portion of layer 5 and the pail surface.
(18) In three experiments, we examined why some idioms can be lexically altered and still retain their figurative meanings (e.g., John buttoned his lips about Mary can be changed into John fastened his lips about Mary and still mean "John didn't say anything about Mary"), whereas other idioms cannot be lexically altered without losing their figurative meanings (e.g., John kicked the bucket, meaning "John died," loses its idiomatic meaning when changed into John kicked the pail).
(19) At both ages the desipramine-treated and zimeldine-treated rats expressed lengthened immobility times in the water pail.
(20) The 'liquid-fed' group (LFG) was given from a pail a liquid suspension of the equivalent amount of the same concentrates as those fed to DFG calves, for the same periods.
Pair
Definition:
(n.) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.]
(n.) Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes.
(n.) Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of oxen.
(n.) A married couple; a man and wife.
(n.) A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows.
(n.) Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote.
(n.) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion.
(v. i.) To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding.
(v. i.) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
(v. i.) Same as To pair off. See phrase below.
(v. t.) To unite in couples; to form a pair of; to bring together, as things which belong together, or which complement, or are adapted to one another.
(v. t.) To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
(v. t.) To impair.
Example Sentences:
(1) The distance between the end of fic and the start of pabA was 31 base pairs.
(2) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
(3) Mapping of the cross-link position between U2 and U6 RNAs is consistent with base-pairing between the 5' domain of U2 and the 3' end of U6 RNA.
(4) This value is about 30 times higher than the association constant for guanine-cytosine base pair formation under the same experimental conditions.
(5) For related pairs, both the primes (first pictures) and targets (second pictures) varied in rated "typicality" (Rosch, 1975), being either typical or relatively atypical members of their primary superordinate category.
(6) Plasma renin activity (PRA) and aldosterone concentration were measured before and during submaximal exercise in 10 male monozygotic twin pairs who were discordant for smoking.
(7) Fifty-two pairs of canine femora were tested to failure in four-point bending.
(8) Other DNase I hypersensitive sites located adjacent to the S14 cap site at -65 to -265 base pairs (Hss-1) or upstream at -1.3 kb (Hss-2), -2.1 kb (Hss-3'), -5.3 kb (Hss-4), and -6.2 kb (Hss-5) remained unaffected by changes in S14 gene transcription.
(9) Delta roc, which extends from base pairs 41883 to 43825, overlaps the nin5 deletion, which extend from base pairs 40501 to 43306.
(10) In all cases, endocrine cells immunoreactive to only one of the paired antisera were detected except for anti-glucagon and anti-glucagon-like peptide 1, which always immunostained the same cells.
(11) Arterial-type flows produced a pair of vortex sinks downstream of the branching port.
(12) Benzaldehyde's in cherries and cherrystones and amaretto, so it's immediately a base to pair things with."
(13) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
(14) Paired tolbutamide and glucose infusions using a square wave technique demonstrated that although early phase insulin secretion is dimished in the fetus, this is not due to an absolute deficiency of stored insulin.
(15) The distribution of the amino acid pairs, i, i + 1 in alpha-helical configurations does not differ from the random pairing.
(16) Male Sprague Dawley rats either trained (T, N = 9) for 11 wk on a rodent treadmill, remained sedentary, and were fed ad libitum (S, N = 8) or remained sedentary and were food restricted (pair fed, PF, N = 8) so that final body weights were similar to T. After training, T had significantly higher red gastrocnemius muscle citrate synthase activity compared with S and PF.
(17) We propose that, for a GC base pair in B conformation, there are two amino proton exchangeable states--a cytosine amino proton exchangeable state and a guanine amino proton exchangeable state; both require the disruption of only the corresponding interbase H bond.
(18) Whole gastrocnemius muscles were incubated in Ringer's solution enriched with H2-17O; the paired contralateral gastrocnemius muscles were incubated in a similar solution enriched with deuterons, as well.
(19) The building block of cytokeratin IFs is a heterotypic tetramer, consisting of two type I and two type II polypeptides arranged in pairs of laterally aligned coiled coils.
(20) For example, stem pairing with a sequence other than wild-type resulted in normal protein binding in vitro but derepression of protein synthesis in vivo.