(n.) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column.
(n.) A casting secured to the frame of a truck and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
(n.) A pillow block; a low housing.
(n.) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
Example Sentences:
(1) The visibility of a 1 degree, 200-msec flash on a large yellow field was measured as a function of the intensity of a coincident pedestal flash (a flash that was the same in both temporal intervals of a two-alternative forced-choice trial).
(2) The jnd's obtained with the continuous-pedestal method were smaller than those obtained with the gated-pedestal method for both groups of subjects.
(3) The stress effects of the cuff pedestal treatment were assessed in terms of adrenal weights in 12 rats.
(4) Effects of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep deprivation on meal size and feeding speed were investigated by means of the cuff pedestal technique in 9 male rats exposed to partial food restriction.
(5) Early on Sunday morning, Malcolm Turnbull looked out to the Australian electorate and expressed his own profound alienation from the lived experiences of the losers of globalisation – the people who had flocked to Nick Xenophon and Pauline Hanson and to Labor on the basis that the ALP had climbed down partially from the neoliberal pedestal constructed by Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.
(6) We used forced-choice procedures to measure contrast-increment thresholds as a function of pedestal contrast.
(7) We wished to determine whether a similar analysis could be applied to contrast discrimination and whether variation of the increment threshold with pedestal contrast is due to changes in internal noise or sampling efficiency.
(8) No such deterioration occurred in the continuous-pedestal condition.
(9) Reproducible ramp-and-hold stretches and releases of the ankle extensor muscles were produced by a servo-controlled motor that rotated the left rear pedestal about the ankle joint.
(10) Eight male rats were deprived of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep for 6 days by means of a cuff pedestal which makes it possible to use the animal as its own control.
(11) Both the falloff of sensitivity with disparity pedestal and the disparity range of quantitative stereo depth lead to the conclusion that different size-tuned channels process disparity differently.
(12) The adenohypophyseal levels of these hormones were decreased in the REMs-deprived rats and in the control rats kept on pedestals with the supporting cuff in the elevated position as compared with the home-cage control rats.
(13) That’s because he never did.” The statue reaches at least 15ft off the ground on a pedestal that comes with a good story, told by Harvey Marsolan, the owner of the hardware store across the street.
(14) Discrimination thresholds were also measured with a pedestal stimulus, of phase complementary to that of the test gratings.
(15) Eventually, large areas of brush border effacement occurred with close apposition between bacterial and enterocyte membranes, leading to cup and pedestal formation.
(16) Intimate associations between the bacterial and mucosal cell membranes, including cuplike invaginations and adherence pedestals, were present and were accompanied by alterations to microvilli and cell membrane morphology.
(17) Rapid eye movement sleep deprivation for 3 to 4 days by the platform pedestal procedure produced an increase in sexual behaviour of male rats.
(18) In both masking conditions, presenting a notched noise simultaneously with the pedestal reduced the magnitude of the midlevel elevation.
(19) The system has manual controls for gain and pedestal (black level) which permit expansion of low contrast images to the full white-to-black video range.
(20) Research suggests that the US has been knocked off its pedestal as having the world’s richest middle class.
Vase
Definition:
(n.) A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase. See Illust. of Portland vase, under Portland.
(n.) A vessel similar to that described in the first definition above, or the representation of one in a solid block of stone, or the like, used for an ornament, as on a terrace or in a garden. See Illust. of Niche.
(n.) The body, or naked ground, of the Corinthian and Composite capital; -- called also tambour, and drum.
(n.) The calyx of a plant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Digitized images of objects (a face and a vase) were submitted to two-dimensional Fourier analysis.
(2) "They've got 22 games left (18 league games, the two-leg Vase semi, the Durham Challenge Cup final, and a League Cup quarter-final), all to be played by 4 May – 22 games in 45 days.
(3) Leave voters, including a soldier, a mother expecting a “Brexit baby” due nine months after the vote, a rare chicken breeder, a witch, and a hammer-wielding Nigel Farage fan, have all been chosen to represent the various faces of Brexit on a new vase by the artist Grayson Perry .
(4) Neovascularization of malignant tumour tissue was successfully displayed by colour Doppler in the vases of endometrial and ovarian cancers but no abnormal blood supply was observed in the cases of early cervical cancers.
(5) Overall, immature mosquitoes were found in more than 60% of the vases lacking liners and in more than 50% of the vases with aluminum liners.
(6) "Let us sit here," she suggests, ushering me to a window seat beside a vase of flowers.
(7) Water-holding stone vases were sampled in 4 central Florida cemeteries to compare the prevalence of mosquitoes in containers with and without metallic liners.
(8) (3) Correct item recognition decreased after 1 week for those items (faces and vases) seen in the inspection series only and not in the first test after 1 h.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
(9) As we talk at the Posk centre, which has been cleaned of the graffiti daubed on it last week, journalists from around the world inspect the vases of flowers from local well-wishers and the memorials in the lobby to fallen Polish heroes from the second world war, during which 2,408 Polish airmen alone were killed.
(10) VASe correlated linearly with VI and VO2 in all subjects in all trials.
(11) Given a choice of six colours, both sides chose blue for their respective vases.
(12) Other nervous system regions express significant quantities of NCAM both with and without VASE.
(13) Nick Flynn was visiting the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge last month when a loose shoelace, a lack of handrails and a bit of bad luck brought about the destruction of the Qing dynasty vases, thought to be worth £100,000 in total.
(14) High mortality and a lack of development were observed in a field test involving the introduction of Aedes aegypti larvae into stone vases with copper liners.
(15) I went into a marble windowsill and collided with a vase which shattered into thousands of razor-sharp shards and I was unhurt.
(16) As he itemises the contents of the pawnbroker's shop ("a few old China cups; some modern vases, adorned with paltry paintings of three Spanish cavaliers playing three Spanish guitars; or a party of boors carousing: each boor with one leg painfully elevated in the air by way of expressing his perfect freedom and gaiety …") you sense that Dickens barely knows how to stop.
(17) Eye movements and perspective reversals were continuously recorded on film for 9 subjects who fixated a central point on black line drawings of the Necker cube and Rubin vase figure.
(18) She also came bearing a limited edition Tiffany sterling silver honeycomb and bee bud vase.
(19) Within the limits of the PCR methodology, no evidence for any alternative exon other than the previously identified VASE was obtained.
(20) During development of the rat central nervous system, neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) mRNAs containing in the extracellular domain a 30-bp alternative exon, here named VASE, replace RNAs that lack this exon.