(n.) A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc.
(n.) A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells.
(v. i.) To utter or give out loud sounds.
(v. t.) To utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds; to noise abroad.
(v. t.) To assail with noise or loud sounds.
(v. t.) To pour out.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the promise of a new set starting at midnight, his third of the night, I arrive around 11pm to hear him still in full flow, vein-popping saxophone pealing out into Mornington Crescent.
(2) Black smoke rising from the chapel's chimney signifies an inconclusive vote (traditionally damp straw was added to make the smoke black but a chemical compound is now used instead); white smoke – and the pealing of the basilica's bell to avoid any confusion about the colour of the smoke – means that a new pope has been elected.
(3) Of a sudden from the belfry in the square there broke out again a wild midnight peal of bells.
(4) Unique aspects of the prehistory and current distribution of the Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans Peale) have been applied to the problem of determining the biogeographical origin of its parasites as found on 'exulans only' islands of New Zealand.
(5) The peals of laughter that greeted this piece of deadpannery were perhaps indicative of the committee's eagerness to put its guest at his ease.
(6) In patients with myocardial infarction there was good correlation between the minimum plasma zinc level and the peal value of plasma enzymes, and also with some clinical estimators of prognosis.
(7) Furthermore, both the size and number of cells recovered in fractions 7 to 11 (which include the modal peal volume of unseparated hepatocytes) were increased.
(8) I ask you – would the Germans discriminate against our bicycles, if they thought we would discriminate against their BMWs?” he asked, to peals of laughter.
(9) The clang of an approaching train's warning to pedestrians to get off the open tracks has become part of the city's soundtrack, along with the constant honking of car horns, the five-times-a-day Muslim call to prayer, the occasional peal of church bells and the Friday afternoon siren that marks the start of the Jewish sabbath.
(10) Websites have been constructed; commemorative gold coins and stamps are to be issued; a peal of bells will ring from churches; a series of lectures around the world, starting with one by Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, will emphasise the document’s enduring importance; the British Library will host the largest exhibition in its history; special songs and poems will be performed; Magna Carta will even get its own display at the Notting Hill carnival.
(11) Ectoparasite records are presented for four species of commensal murid rodents (Rattus rattus palelae Miller & Hollister, R. argentiventer (Robinson & Kloss), R. exulans (Peale) and Mus musculus castaneus Waterhouse) in Sulawesi Utara, with particular reference to the potential for these arthropods to bite and transmit pathogens to humans.
(12) 2.57pm BST Bells have started pealing as the planes slowly come to a halt near assembled mourners.
(13) A little light relief amid the gravitas of an occasion which amounted to the most important ruling in the court's 61-year history was offered by a slip of the tongue by Vosskuhle who called the petitions to block the ESM "justified" before changing it to "unjustified" after being corrected by a colleague, as peals of laughter filled the courtroom.
(14) He is more obviously shy than Koenig – they met during a production of Romeo and Juliet at Columbia – but he has a ready grin and emits little peals of laughter at unexpected moments during our conversation.
(15) One man, carrying a large German flag which flaps in the wind, is heard greeting his friends with “Heil Deutschland” to be met by peals of laughter.
(16) Its peal will be answered by the bells of churches all along the river and theirs, in turn, echoed by others up and down the land.
(17) Her laughter is the only kind I've ever heard that actually deserves the word "peals": she reels in her seat with it.
(18) Band-pass was set up between 1 and 125 Hz and latencies and amplitudes were studied for both types of evoked responses, PEATs and PEALs.
(19) Linearity in the intrinsic and radiation sensitized response of the 280 degree C TL peal for both pellet and powder forms has been studied with regard to ultraviolet dosimetry over the range 10(-2) to 5 x 10(4) mJ cm-2.
(20) A little light relief amidst the gravitas of an occasion which amounted to the most important ruling in the court's 61 year history was offered by a slip of the tongue by Vosskuhle who called the petitions to block the ESM “justified” before changing it to “unjustified” after being corrected by a colleague, as peals of laughter filled the courtroom.
Pela
Definition:
(n.) See Wax insect, under Wax.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two of the genes, pelA and pelE, encoded proteins that differed greatly in their isoelectric points and ability to macerate plant tissue.
(2) The in vivo studies compared the tissue reaction elicited by various PELA copolymers to that evoked by PLA.
(3) Plasma endorphinlike activity (PELA) rose with hypovolemia and then returned toward control levels in all NAL treated animals before reinfusion of shed blood while it remained elevated in S-treated animals until after reinfusion.
(4) When both carbon sources were present, the pelA gene was transcribed only after glucose was completely depleted, indicating carbon catabolite repression.
(5) Nucleotide sequence of pelA and the deduced polypeptide sequence of PLa were compared with the pelB gene of E. carotovora and the deduced amino acid sequence of PLb.
(6) The mass loss was faster, the more basic the media, while, expectedly, PELA copolymers degraded faster with the higher temperature.
(7) The pelA and pelC genes from Erwinia chrysanthemi EC16 were sequenced and overexpressed in Escherichia coli cells.
(8) pelA encodes a 1,300-nucleotide mRNA that was present in cells grown with polygalacturonic acid as carbon source but absent from cells grown with glucose or acetate as carbon source.
(9) Genes pelA, pelD and pelE were subcloned separately into pBR322 derivatives, to test their individuality.
(10) Evaluation of tissue reaction observed with a PELA sample after sterilization with gamma radiation showed acute inflammation with considerable dispersion of the material, 12 days after implantation.
(11) NAL and MP each significantly lowered PELA levels and both NAL and NAL plus MP significantly improved survival.
(12) The pelA, pelD and pelE genes encode three of the five major pectate lyase (PL) isoenzymes (PLa, PLd and PLe) in Erwinia chrysanthemi strains B374 and 3937.
(13) In this study, both drugs were given concurrently during shock to evaluate hemodynamic changes, plasma endorphin-like activity (PELA), and survival.
(14) The PLa was purified from Escherichia coli containing the pelA gene on a recombinant plasmid.
(15) The pelA gene from Erwinia chrysanthemi strain 3937, which encodes the acidic pectate lyase, PLa, has been sequenced and characterized.
(16) The regulation of pelA, pelD, and pelE genes encoding three of the five major pectate lyase isoenzymes (PLa, PLd, and PLe) in Erwinia chrysanthemi B374 was analyzed by using genetic fusions to lacZ.
(17) Cloning of the pelA gene behind the lacZ promoter of the vector pTZ19R allowed overexpression of PLa into a derivative of strain 3937 deleted of the other pel genes.
(18) The pelA gene mRNA was detected only when F. solani f. sp.
(19) We studied the effects of each mutation on pelE, pelD, and pelA expression independently.
(20) Genes pelD and pelE are transcribed in the same direction, while the transcription of pelA seems to be divergent.