(n.) A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.
(v. t.) To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
(v. t.) To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange.
(v. t.) To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
(v. i.) To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily.
(n.) The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
Example Sentences:
(1) A "peeling" technique was used to estimate the time constants (tau 0 and tau 1) and coefficients (a0 and a1) of the first two exponential terms of the series of exponential terms whose sum represented the slope of the voltage response.
(2) Turn the sponge out onto the paper, then carefully peel off the lining paper.
(3) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
(4) Certain advantages over chemical peeling and dermabrasion used singly or together in different areas of the face are pointed out.
(5) The main lesions of the tegument included indistinct of the matrix, vacuolization and peeling, while vacuolization of perinuclear cytoplasma in tegumental cells, focus lysis in muscle bundles, and destruction in collection ducts and flame cells were also seen.
(6) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(7) The technique requires only three major steps: (1) decortication limited to the parietal sides of the peel's sac, (2) cleansing the empyemic cavity, and (3) drainage.
(8) Such prosecretory granules, large and irregular in shape, "peeled off" from the stacks of saccules with residual saccular or tubular structures still attached to them, some of the latter forming trans-tubular networks.
(9) Despite huge uncertainties over their ability to pay for carbon capture and storage technology, [Peel subsidiary] Ayrshire Power has decided to go ahead with these plans and call Labour's bluff.
(10) Soft organic material (meat, cucumber peels) was found in four patients, chicken bones in six, pins and needles in six, other nonorganic materials (toys, stone, broken thermometer) in six.
(11) 3 For the smoked mackerel pate, peel the sweet potato and chop into cubes.
(12) The major benefit of the peeling technique is the preservation of an intact posterior capsule.
(13) However, even if you prefer Marmite to marmalade on your toast, citrus peel is a powerful tool in the kitchen, especially at this time of year, when bright, fresh flavours are at a premium.
(14) In addition, patterns which have been considered more characteristic of in vivo demyelinative lesions have been found, susch as vesicular disruption of myelin lamellae and peeling off and phagocytosis of myelin by phagocytic mononuclear cells with electron dense cytoplasm.
(15) In addition to the increased calcium leachability, the dentin bonding agent peeled off with time from the dentin discs.
(16) PriyaKannath via GuardianWitness Makes 2-3 glasses ½ medium beetroot 1 medium carrot 1 celery stalk 1 apple 125g cooked brown rice 1 Peel and roughly chop the beetroot, carrot, celery and apple, and put in a smoothie maker or blender along with the rice and about 300ml water.
(17) Songwriter Dan Bull urged BBC bosses in Dear Auntie (An Open Letter to the BBC) : "You need to appeal to the people that feel John Peel, and want to keep it real.
(18) 2 Puree together the pomegranate jewels and the peeled satsumas.
(19) Incorporation of the stock diet to the peel diet resulted in a slight increase which amounted to 6% in both male and female rat groups.
(20) There were no signs of valvular stenosis, exuberant peel formation, or calcification of the conduit in any of the patients.
Weel
Definition:
(a. & adv.) Well.
(n.) A whirlpool.
() Alt. of Weely
Example Sentences:
(1) In human fetal lung, there was an increase in specific activity of methionine adenosyltransferase with increasing gestational age (r = 0.87; P less than 0.01) up to 25 weels of gestation, after which time no fetal specimens were obtained.
(2) This paper reviews the most important issues discussed in a 2-day symposium on corporate exposure limits which was sponsored by the AIHA Workplace Environment Exposure Limits Committee (WEEL).
(3) Determination of hydroxyproline concentration showed that significant differences in the content of the collagen tissue in relation to control animals of the same age occurred only in Goldblatt rats 24 weels after operation.
(4) A prototype rate pressure product module has been constructed for use with Simonsen and Weel Series 8000 monitors.
(5) The human weel protein, a homologue of the yeast weel protein, was expressed in E. coli and purified to homogeneity.
(6) These results confirmed earlier reports by Yonge (1924) and van Weel (1955) on the decapods, Nephrops norvegicus and Atya spinides, respectively.
(7) Two or three days after plating, the cells were attached to the surface of tissue culture weel, and began dividing.
(8) The growth-stimulating effect depended on the animal species and strain and on the carcinogen, as weel as on the route of administration.
(9) Measurements with Criticare CSI 501 (Simonsen & Weel), Criticare CSI 502 (Simonsen & Weel), Nellcor N 100 (Dräeger), Satlite (Datex) and Novametrix 500 (Vickers) were compared with arterial blood gas analyses with Radiometer ABL 3 (Radiometer, Copenhagen).
(10) These are the Cardiac Recorders CR26, the Hewlett-Packard HP43120A, the Physico-Control Lifepak 8, the PPG Hellige SCP 852 and the Simonsen & Weel Defi 2.
(11) Intra-atrial, atrio-ventricular and intraventricular conduction disorders, as weel as primary ventricular repolarization changes, were also observed.
(12) These signals may be monitored through the weel pathway leading to tyrosyl phosphorylation of p34cdc2.
(13) In cells in which the weel+ gene is overexpressed fivefold and that have an average length at mitosis of 28 microns, the rate of nuclear separation was only slightly reduced but, as spindles in these cells measure 20-22 microns, the duration of anaphase B was extended by approximately 40%.
(14) The history and function of Threshold Limit Values (TLVs) Maximum Allowable Concentrations (MACs), Permissible Exposure Limits (PELs) and Workplace Environment Exposure Limits (WEELs) also were reviewed.
(15) The authors analyse the importance in recognizing the minimal signals and symptoms, as weel as the clinical patterns of the manifested disease; Some considerations are draw about the values of the early diagnostic before the high incidence of mortality and the gravity of sequaele that occur besides the high doses and long term antimicrobial therapy.
(16) A cdc2-3w weel-50 double mutant of fission yeast displays a temperature-sensitive lethal phenotype that is associated with gross abnormalities of chromosome segregation and has been termed mitotic catastrophe.
(17) The pattern of p34 phosphorylation is unaltered at the nonpermissive temperature in strains carrying temperature sensitive alleles of weel-50 and ran1-114 or in a strain overproducing the ran1+ gene product.
(18) Furthermore, serine and tyrosine residues of the yeast weel protein are reportedly autophosphorylated in vitro, however the tyrosine residue of the human weel protein was autophosphorylated whereas the serine and threonine residues were not.
(19) They had weel pronounced sinuosity and clearly protruding valves.
(20) In 11 patients the GGTP activity as weel as that of the other enzymes was normal despite heavy chronic herioin abuse.