(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.
Veg
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I choose the halibut fillet with scallops, dauphinoise potatoes, veg melange and pesto tapenade.
(2) Let’s begin just after the second world war, when Liverpool took a pre-season trip to the good ol’ US of A to gorge on meat, veg, malted milks and ice creams, working on the theory that by fattening themselves up, they’d have a season’s worth of energy stored when they got back to ration-book Britain.
(3) Groceries were delivered and a horse-drawn fruit and veg cart called along the road weekly.
(4) Use local, seasonal food The best restaurants observe the British seasons with their ingredients, so go to a farmers' market to buy your veg, and get the best you can afford.
(5) Anyway, swap fruit’n’veg, collect magic beans and compare your scores with Facebook friends.
(6) Then there are the "ethylene absorbing" discs you can place in a bowl to keep your fruit fresh for longer; the polyurethane foam cushions designed to prevent fruit and veg from becoming bruised; and the silicone "food huggers" into which you pop your leftover half a lemon or tomato.
(7) If you have a veg patch, you could be enjoying homegrown lettuce for most of the year.
(8) Saturday is a great day to sample its wines from France, Portugal, Spain and Italy as there is a weekly organic fruit and veg market outside.
(9) I'll do anything: peel spuds, look after the veg, make an impromptu pud.
(10) "I aim to do my seven a day without eating these processed things you are describing," says Oyinlola Oyebode, lead investigator of UCL's report , which argued the enhanced benefits of eating seven-plus portions of fruit and veg a day.
(11) You can buy some veg cheaper than supermarkets in some shops in my area.
(12) Vegetations were classified according to its size (longest axis) into small (veg less than 5 mm), medium (5 mm less than veg less than 10 mm) and large (veg less than 10 mm); according to its kind into "sessible" or "mobile" and according to its appearence into "cotton like" or "calcified".
(13) The privately owned chain is still a relative minnow, controlling just 5.8% of all grocery sales in the UK, but only Pampers nappies are bigger sellers than its Mamia brand, and 8% of our fresh fruit and veg, and over a fifth of all premium steaks, are bought in Aldi stores.
(14) Paris Cheapest for wine, onions Pricey for milk, lamb, bananas paris Freelance journalist Judith Prescott (above), who has lived in the French capital for two decades, shops at supermarket chain Auchan for her husband and two daughters, and reckons her bill is around €100 a week (£79), although that doesn't include the fruit and veg she tends to buy in local markets.
(15) A head of National Vegetarian Week we asked some of Britain's best veg-loving chefs for tips on how to jazz up meat-free cooking.
(16) • 2814 North 16 Street, barriocafe.com CULINARY HEROES FnB Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Jill Richards Photography Among the Native American souvenir stores of Scottsdale old town, is the excellent FnB, a truly forward-thinking, showcase for the state’s native produce in veg-centric dishes: salad of persimmons with hazelnut, kohlrabi, dill and goat’s cheese.
(17) Unlike Altmejd, she has always used materials that are resolutely downbeat: abandoned mattresses, old tights, fruit and veg, the toilet bowl.
(18) Aldi promises to be at least 15% cheaper than equivalent products at traditional supermarkets, and its weekly deals on fruit and veg, as well as fresh meat, from premium dry-cured steaks to basic mince, have fuelled a nationwide price war.
(19) The food, Korean, is cheap (starters less than a fiver; mains under £8) and very good: bibimbap, of course, also crisp fried mandu (dumplings) with homemade soy; tangy blanched and pickled veg; sizzling marinated beef; fat pork belly with garlic, kimchi and spicy doenjang sauce.
(20) Beetroot blueberry pancakes These bright pink pancakes liven up the breakfast table and are a great way to get some veg in the morning.