(n.) A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.
(n.) A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon.
(n.) One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
(n.) One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.
(n.) A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down peg."
(v. t.) To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely.
(v. t.) To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points.
(v. i.) To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plasma renin activities (PRA) and aldosterone concentrations increased in parallel over a wide range of plasma volume deficits produced in unanesthetized rats by extravascular administration of polyethylene glycol (PEG) solution.
(2) To determine whether long-term enteral feedings can improve nutritional status and lung function parameters in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), 11 patients (8 female, 3 male, age 7 to 23 years) received a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) since February 1988.
(3) Advisable in a first time for the feeding of patients with palliative treatment, we propose PEG for patients in position to have a long and difficult rehabilitation of swallowing.
(4) Metoprolol was introduced into the stomach with a homogenized meal containing a nonabsorbable marker, [14C]-PEG 4000, and another marker, PEG 4000, was perfused continuously into the duodenum just below the pylorus.
(5) Decreased consistency of the stools was seen after PEG in both groups (p < 0.001).
(6) Since PEG-1000 treatment of HPRT- Chinese hamster cells in the absence of human cells yielded no HPRT+ cells, it is concluded that the element responsible for the restoration of rodent HPRT was contributed by the human cells and not by the agent employed to promote fusion.
(7) The CD spectra of these aggregates showed psi-type anomalies and intensities 10-100 times greater than those obtained with the dispersed DNA solutions in the absence of PEG.
(8) We next tried to prepare virus-free PEG-PLP-Hb from HBV or HTLV-I positive blood.
(9) The yes camp should have made no bones about a call to the nation to shake things up, by bringing him down a peg or two.
(10) The fast process in the presence of PEG was identified as due to rapid interbilayer monomer diffusion between closely apposed vesicles, and, in the absence of PEG, as due to monomer diffusion through the aqueous phase.
(11) Since it was first described Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) has rapidly become the preferred method for gastrostomy tube placement.
(12) Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) has become a commonly performed procedure to provide nutritional support to chronically ill patients.
(13) CIC-PEG and TRAb levels were similar in newly diagnosed and relapsed patients, being higher than in controls (p less than 0.01) and in remission patients (p less than 0.01).
(14) At a second operation, 10 days later, these adhesions were graded and lysed, after which the animals received one of the following solutions intraperitoneally: 5 per cent PEG 4000 (n = 21), 25 per cent PEG 4000 (n = 23), 32 per cent dextran 70 (n = 22) or isotonic saline (n = 25), or were left as an untreated control group (n = 20).
(15) The main histological features of the tumour were enormous, but relatively regular, acanthosis of rete pegs revealing no similarity to the squamous-cell carcinoma, and an exclusively parakeratottic eleidine-containing central plug.
(16) One hundred thirty-six percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomies (PEGs) were placed in 126 patients with head and neck malignancies.
(17) Sera from patients (n = 24) with hemolytic transfusion reactions and no detectable antibody by routine technics were tested; two sera had specific antibodies by the PEG technic.
(18) The PEG derivatization of enzymes with this procedure is less inactivating than those previously reported.
(19) Both liposome-mediated delivery and PEG conjugation offer an additional benefit over native superoxide dismutase and catalase because they can increase cellular antioxidant activities in a manner that can provide protection from both intracellular and extracellular superoxide and hydrogen peroxide.
(20) Both from diagnostic and prognostic points of view, PEG is of less value is communicating hydrocephalus on account of the many false findings.
Peng
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Example Sentences:
(1) Michael Rouse, 54, from Penge, south-east London, who was visiting his father at the Tower Bridge care centre in Bermondsey, said he had not been told anything about the company's difficulties.
(2) Skin tests including immediate patch test (IPT), skin prick test (SPT), or intradermal test (IT) with penicillin G(PenG) and SPT with benzylpenicilloyl human serum albumin (BPO) were done in 54 patients with history of anaphylactic reaction to penicillin or shock of unknown cause.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan arrive at London’s Heathrow airport.
(4) "We heard an explosion in the mountains first, like an eruption from a volcano," said 40-year-old Peng Guiwu, wearing a neighbour's clothes because she had not dressed when the shock hit.
(5) Like former premier Li Peng's 3m yuan (£300,000) donation to a scholarship fund, and the attendance of another elder, Li Ruihuan, at the tennis match, such forays into the public eye are intended to signal that retired leaders are still around and active, say analysts.
(6) However, a recent study by Peng et al.17 using conventionally stained material, revealed no decrease in overall SCN cell number of senescent rats.
(7) CTAB and L14 but not TCP or Tw80 potentiated the activity of PenG but not Met on strains of staphylococci.
(8) Xi’s wife, the People’s Liberation Army soprano Peng Liyuan, will reportedly serve as its artistic director.
(9) The monoclonal antibody 217c, raised by Peng et al.
(10) At examination of normal persons, the ENG registration method was compared with that of PENG.
(11) The human lipoprotein lipase gene has been recently reported to have an identical exon-intron organization containing the analogous structural domains [Deeb & Peng (1989) Biochemistry 28, 4131-4135].
(12) He boasts a ready smile and a glamorous second wife – the renowned People's Liberation Army singer Peng Liyuan.
(13) Xi, who some describe as China’s most authoritarian leader since Mao, will stay at Buckingham Palace with his wife, the singer Peng Liyuan.
(14) But Liu Peng, the president of the Chinese Olympic Committee, batted away Kazakhstan’s provocations.
(15) In this study, electro-oculographic (EOG) and photo-electronystagmographic (PENG) techniques showed that up-directed saccades were faster than down-directed ones.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge welcome the Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, at the creative collaborations event.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Michael Priddis, former founder and chief executive of strategic design firm S&C and partner and managing director of BCG Digital Ventures in Asia, at 2015 Singapore Business Design Summit Photograph: Wai Peng PK: What will the jobs of the future be?
(18) We also look forward to welcoming his excellency the president of the People’s Republic of China and Madame Peng on a state visit in October.” Xi is married to Peng Liyuan, a famous contemporary folk singer in China whose profile was higher than that of her husband’s for many years.
(19) Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), Tween 80 (Tw80), a mixture of n-alkyldimethyl betaines (L14), and alpha-(2,4,5-trichlorophenoxy) propionic acid (TCP) were tested in combination with pencillin G (PenG), methicillin (Met), streptomycin (Sm), polymyxin B (PmB), and chlortetracycline (CTC).
(20) Tim Hughes is chef director at Caprice Holdings; caprice-holdings.co.uk Yong Shuang Peng’s dry-fried prawns Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer Dry-fried prawns are highly addictive – these are hot, spicy, aromatic and crispy.