(n.) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
(n.) A leaf of gold or silver.
(v. t. & i.) To join or fit together; to unite.
(n.) The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See /etel.
(n.) The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented.
(n.) A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing.
(n.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.
(n.) The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
(n.) The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.
(n.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
(n.) The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.
(n.) A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.
(v. t.) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.
(v. i.) To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.
(v. i.) To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
(2) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
(3) But I feel I'm being true to myself in the way my career has panned out and I'm making the correct decision here.
(4) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
(5) Effects of anti-human pan-T-specific monoclonal antibodies of the Second International Workshop on Human Leucocyte Differentiation Antigens were investigated in a number of lymphocyte functional tests.
(6) Heat vegetable oil and a little bit of butter in a clean pan and fry the egg to your taste.
(7) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.
(8) After Tuesday’s launch Pan told Xinhua the mission marked “a transition in China’s role ... from a follower in classic information technology (IT) development to one of the leaders guiding future IT achievements”.
(9) On days 70 and 94, both blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and serum creatinine (sCR) values in the vehicle-treated rats were significantly higher than those in normal rats (without treatment with PAN and PS).
(10) The buccal mucosa was the most common site of occurrence; 98.3% of these individuals had oral habits, with smoking alone or smoking in combination with "pan" or "supari" chewing accounting for 74.9% of the habit forms.
(11) Pour into a pan and reheat, diluting slightly if you prefer a thinner soup.
(12) 3 For the dough: melt the lard with 100ml water in a small pan and leave to cool slightly.
(13) These are pan-European issues requiring pan-European responses.
(14) These data were the empirical basis for a clinical definition of AIDS in adults drafted in a Caracas, Venezuela, workshop sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization.
(15) Lipoproteins isolated by 'Pan B' antibody were comparable in size and shape to the lipoproteins in native plasma and to the lipoproteins isolated by polyclonal antibodies or ultracentrifugation.
(16) Concentrate on the way he constructs the space of an interior or orchestrates a sensual camera movement that he invented himself - the camera gliding on unseen tracks in one direction while uncannily panning in another direction - and you perceive how each Dreyer film almost brutally reconstructs the universe rather than accepting it as a familiar given.
(17) To find out if any stone tips were being used on spears any earlier than that, Wilkins examined sharp stones found at a site called Kathu Pan, in the Northern Cape region of South Africa.
(18) A patient at the Wallington Family Practice in Surrey wrote: "Getting an appointment is like trying to pan for gold.
(19) In the normal bone marrow enriched by panning for CFU-E (8%) and depleted in progenitors of other lineages, blast cells showing characteristics similar to leukemic erythroid blasts were seen.
(20) Many other autoimmune diseases and autoantibodies were found in other family members not corresponding to HLA phenotypes, suggesting other non-HLA-linked genetic influences may be operative in predisposition to PAN.
Sluice
Definition:
(n.) An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.
(n.) Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
(n.) The stream flowing through a flood gate.
(n.) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
(v. t.) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
(v. t.) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
(v. t.) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
Example Sentences:
(1) 20 July 2006: The Tamil Tigers close the sluice gates of an eastern reservoir, cutting water to more than 60,000 people, prompting the government to launch its first major offensive on Tiger territory since the 2002 ceasefire.
(2) The pulmonary vascular resistance increase evoked by nerve stimulation (a) occurred in the absence of tidal air changes; (b) did not consistently differ during predominantly ;sluice' and ;non-sluice' conditions of pulmonary circulation perfusion; (c) was approximately one and a half times greater during constant pressure than during constant volume inflow perfusion of the pulmonary circulation; and (d) was greater during reverse than during forward perfusion.3.
(3) Once neither painfully elitist nor patronisingly populist, Edinburgh in August now threatens to become an oligarchy, a Chipping Norton of the arts, its sluices greased by Foster's lager, rather than by country suppers and police horses.
(4) These data do not support the presence of a "sluice" or "waterfall" effect in the umbilical-placental circulation of the sheep fetus in utero.
(5) So while Sir Gideon was – we are told – browsing and sluicing at a Downing Street dinner, poor Ms Smith was put up against Paxman for some political cage wrestling.
(6) The pulmonary arteries accounted for approximately 50% of vascular resistance upstream from the sluice point when alveolar pressure exceeded venous pressure.
(7) Photos of the boiler room, operating theatre and sluice room spoke of my great-grandfather's practicality and attention to detail; the beautiful Indian flowered bedspreads and carved wooden furniture spoke of my great-grandmother's flamboyant taste.
(8) In the original theory of sheet flow the effect of the tension in the interalveolar septa on the flow through the sluicing gate was ignored.
(9) The Ouse Washes reserve, part of the flood relief system for the Great Ouse river, was hit by flooding after the Environment Agency was forced to open sluices on to the washes to prevent floods elsewhere on the 150-mile river catchment.
(10) Another option being considered was a sluice near Bridgwater to keep the sea tides out of the river network on the Levels.
(11) Meanwhile, back at the car lot, both teams were getting it in the neck for their sloppy sluicing.
(12) The gleaming taps in the sluice rooms, wash rooms and scrubbing-up room are dry and always have been.
(13) It is inferred that these muscle activities and sluice channels facilitate the erection of the penis.
(14) The miners were unable to source the power needed to sluice and dredge or crush the ore.
(15) Richard Davenport-Hines in his recently published An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo writes that 1963 was the year when "the soapy scum flowed after the sluices of self-righteous scurrility were opened".
(16) Out of the stadium's sluices flowed hordes of the new classes created by the industrial revolution: workers in overalls, bosses in top hats, arriving to dismantle the rural scene piece by piece, the meadows and the tilled fields making way for an array of vast chimneys emerging from the once fertile earth to reach the height of the stadium rim, their infernal belching smoke replacing the homely cottage hearth and ushering in a world of steam engines and spinning jennys.
(17) But they show as well that a satisfying hygienic standard cannot be arrived without sluice-systems and appropriate air conditioning.
(18) First on its list was dredging the rivers Parrett and Tone, but it also included a tidal sluice barrier on the Parrett.
(19) We assessed the strength of attachment of cultured human vascular endothelial cells to tissue culture plastic by controlled sluicing of cells, grown on multiwell plates, with isotonic saline using a specially designed nozzle attached to a reciprocating pump.
(20) The British had seen no economic value in them and proposed on the 1950s a series of sluices, embankments and canals.