(v. t.) To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog.
(n.) A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap.
(n.) A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats.
(a.) Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely.
(adv.) In a pat manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) The causes of death were interstitial pneumonitis (CMV-associated, 2 pats.
(2) Eager to show I was a good student, the next time we had sex, I noticed that one of my hands was, indeed, lying idle – and started to pat him on the back, absently, as if trying to wind a baby.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Daniel Radcliffe, centre, with Sarah Greene and Pat Shortt in The Cripple Of Inishmaan at the Cort Theatre in New York.
(4) They ended up exceeding that margin comfortably, surging to a 14-0 lead inside the first 19 minutes and then withstanding the inevitable Samoan fightback, with the Wigan wing Pat Richards kicking four penalties to punish their growing indiscipline.
(5) Both paroxysmal atrial tachycardia (PAT) and left ventricular dysfunction were reversed with administration of digoxin and propranolol hydrochloride.
(6) "It's ludicrous that Caroline should be Pat's boss", a rival agent tells me.
(7) Recently the company had to agree to a sales target with banks as part of a refinancing of its debt burden, which had come down to less than £1bn after the sale of Branston Pickle to Japanese Mizkan Group and the sale of Hartley's jams and Sun-Pat peanut butter to US company Hain Celestial.
(8) ), Botryodiplodia theobromae, Pat., Rhizopus arrhizus Fischer., Phomopsis psidii Nag Raj and Ponnappa apud Ponnappa and Nag Raj, and Pestalotiopsis versicolor (Speg.)
(9) In this photometric platelet aggregation test (PAT III) a small amount (0.6 ml) of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is being rotated in a disc-shaped cuvette at 20 rpm, at 37% C. Changes in optical density of PRP which are induced by the formation of platelet aggregates are continuously registered using a chart recorder.
(10) At that time the herbage larval infectivity around inoculated cow pats deposited in May, June and July was subject to a reduction of 48%, 89% and 46%, respectively, compared with fungus-free control cow pats.
(11) The efficiency of NEA (norethisteronacetate) as an adjuvant hormone therapy in 196 pat.
(12) Anyone who can make one of these games deserves a pat on the back – or to be locked up.
(13) The Pat smear was introduced to clinical medicine 35 years ago.
(14) Crucially, the commonest wild bees are the most important, which gives us the ‘win-win’ situation where relatively cheap and easy conservation measures can support these and give maximum benefit for the crops,” said Pat Willmer, a professor of biology at Scotland’s University of St Andrews.
(15) Pat McSweeney – content manager, Movember UK @PatMcSw3ney @MovemberUK Pat curates content for Movember.com, specifically the news section and homepage.
(16) It’s just tokenistic crap so they can get more back pats from the broader community,” he said.
(17) A slightly lower but statistically significant rate of repeated tests was found among patients who performed PAT by AMHTS compared with those who performed the tests via the conventional ambulatory system.
(18) Development in faeces and transmission to grass of C. oncophora larvae were disturbed by the disintegration of cow pats.
(19) The direction group also includes the heads of the BBC in the nations as well as BBC North director Peter Salmon, creative director Alan Yentob, chief creative officer Pat Younge and director of communications Paul Mylrea.
(20) We conclude that extrathoracic tracheal external pressure is not Pat because this pressure is probably affected by transmission of pleural pressure to the cervical interstitial tissue as well as by the contraction of cervical accessory inspiratory muscles.
Pau
Definition:
(n.) See Pah.
Example Sentences:
(1) Restriction enzyme cleavage and Southern hybridization analysis revealed that the pAU-SB1 plasmid has a 250 bp soybean DNA insert fused with the Tcr gene.
(2) PAU-PAGE, which solubilized aqueous insoluble proteins and rapidly inactivated proteases, was useful for assessing the polypeptide composition of plasma membrane preparations.
(3) Most notably, Spain will basically be fielding an NBA team, as Chicago’s Pau Gasol leads his brother Marc (Memphis), Ibaka (Oklahoma City), Jose Calderon (New York), Ricky Rubio (Minnesota) and the international-competition legend Juan-Carlos Navarro .
(4) Summarizing the number of retinal detachments operated in the University clinic of Münster during 1955--1957 (Pau), 1958--1961 (Böke) as well as ours (1966--1977), 4,030 retinal surgeries (minus 10% encircling procedures) underwent within 18 years a Custodis procedure.
(5) The results of the June election show that Podemos’s pull has weakened significantly and subsequent polls have generally pointed to a slow erosion of its support base,” said Pau Marí-Klose, a professor of sociology at the University of Zaragoza.
(6) Chicago freed Pau Gasol from a clearly uncomfortable situation with the Los Angeles Lakers, in a deal that reportedly works out to three years and $22m, and then brought aboard a highly touted international player, Nikola Mirotic, for three years at $17m .
(7) It has been made a review of 238 myringoplasties done in the last three years (1988-90) at the Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital.
(8) A recombinant clone, KC13(pAU-SB1)+, was obtained by selecting for resistance to tetracycline in the presence of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA).
(9) No wonder the front office has been exploring trading big man Pau Gasol to the Eric Bledsoe-less Phoenix Suns .
(10) We haven’t been granted the power to seize their files,” said Petra Pau, a parliamentarian for the Left party and a member of the federal commission looking into the case.
(11) The group comprised 11% of all inpatients with cerebrovascular pathology and 16% of all consecutive inpatients with brain infarcts studied at the Department of Neurology of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.
(12) One of the favelas (shanty towns) in Pau da Lima is a base for epidemiologists like Ribeiro who go there to conduct field studies on infectious diseases.
(13) Unless activist bond investors ease the pressure on Spanish debt, the auction tomorrow "takes Spain one step closer to the precipice of needing external help," said Pau Morilla-Giner, senior portfolio manager at London & Capital.
(14) Livers from rats fed a normal diet and the mammary glands of lactating rats do not contain detectable amounts of the pAU type mRNA.
(15) Honduras – Carol Decker Facebook Twitter Pinterest Carol Decker is the lead singer in T’Pau , whose hits included the 1987 No1 China in Your Hand.
(16) A phenol-acetic acid-urea polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic system (PAU-PAGE) was simplified by adaptation to a slab gel format, allowing the simultaneous comparison of up to 12 samples.
(17) The CAS verdict brings to an end one of cycling's most protracted doping sagas: Contador's positive test dated back to 21 July 2010, when he was tested during the Tour's rest day in Pau, four days before the Paris finish.
(18) The case of a 30-year-old wood-worker, with rhinitis and asthma induced by exposure to the dust of Pau Marfim wood (Balfourodendron riedelianum) is reported.
(19) In the presence of a selected group of auxins, induction of the Tcr phenotype and mRNA synthesis of the Tcr gene are observed only in KC13(pAU-SB1)+ cultures.
(20) There could be an entirely new basketball Hall of Fame dedicated solely to the stars that the Lakers had on their roster during Buss's reign: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, James Worthy, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, Robert Horry, Pau Gasol and many others.