(n.) The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.
(n.) The human skin.
(n.) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.
(v. t.) To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.
(v. t.) To throw; to use as a missile.
(v. i.) To throw missiles.
(v. i.) To throw out words.
(n.) A blow or stroke from something thrown.
Example Sentences:
(1) After euthanasia and removal of the pelts, liver and kidney samples were collected from 174 mink and analyzed for 22 elements using inductively coupled argon plasma emission spectroscopy.
(2) Roddy was told he wouldn't live beyond 30 and used to drive everywhere at full pelt while smoking exploding cigarettes.
(3) Rodgers' team took the lead from their first corner when Suárez – pelted with coins from the away section that he handed to referee Martin Atkinson – swept to the near post.
(4) After rising employment has failed to lift output as far as hoped, this reflects waning hopes about the potential of the UK economy once restored to full pelt.
(5) A minibus, a taxi and other vehicles that tried to travel up the street were pelted with stones.
(6) Social status within a cage explained only 3.6% of the pelt quality variation while it could explain 52% of the BW variation.
(7) Allergenic components of cat pelt extract fractionated by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and transferred to nitrocellulose membranes were identified using sera from 15 allergic patients who showed positive skin test and RAST to cat extract.
(8) All mink on the ranches were tested during the pelting season and before the breeding season for 4 consecutive years.
(9) Officers were pelted with missiles, including shards of glass from shattered shopfronts, as stewards from the demonstration called for calm and tried to separate police from protesters.
(10) In one incident in Jerusalem last month, an Israeli motorist was killed after his car was pelted with stones.
(11) United bite back and Rafael skitters down the right wing at full pelt, before sending a cross into the Stretford End.
(12) Also mass very positively (p less than 0.001) correlated with pelt quality (r = 0.82), indicating that the subjectively estimated pelt quality, in fact, can be derived directly from its weight.
(13) Pro-Kiev activists later pelted the former banking tycoon with eggs, calling him "Putin's whore".
(14) Enthusiasts could ski to St Anton for a few runs and a Jägerbomb in the Krazy Kanguruh before pelting back for tea.
(15) Sixty-four white-faced rams and wethers were dressed with the aid of a commercial pelt puller.
(16) A. C. Jacobs, J. Venema, R. Leeven, H. van Pelt-Heerschap, and F. K. de Graaf, J. Bacteriol.
(17) According to local reports in Florida, two Muslim women in the Tampa Bay area were attacked after leaving prayer meetings – one was shot at and the other almost driven off the road and her car pelted with stones.
(18) This week he took great delight in cross-examining Robert Jan van Pelt, a Dutch architectural historian who is an authority on the gas chambers.
(19) The democracy march finished at the Field of Mars, where a sanctioned gay pride rally last summer ended with participants being beaten and pelted with eggs by anti-gay activists, and dozens of were detained by police.
(20) A commercial belt-type pelt puller and a scale that recorded force required to remove the pelt from the thickest part of the legs was used as lambs hung suspended from their front legs.
Tomato
Definition:
(n.) The fruit of a plant of the Nightshade family (Lycopersicum esculentun); also, the plant itself. The fruit, which is called also love apple, is usually of a rounded, flattened form, but often irregular in shape. It is of a bright red or yellow color, and is eaten either cooked or uncooked.
Example Sentences:
(1) Differential screening of a tomato cDNA library produced from pre-anthesis stamens resulted in the isolation of 25 cDNA clones that hybridized to probes made from stamen RNA and showed no hybridization to probes made from RNA of vegetative organs.
(2) Primer extension experiments show that in fission yeast transcripts are initiated at the same starting point as in tomato, indicating for the first time that a plant promoter can be correctly recognized in fission yeast.
(3) Spoon over the dressing and eat immediately, while the tomatoes are still hot and the bread is crisp.
(4) During development of tomato fruit, most DNA-protein interactions in the rbcS promoter regions disappear, coincident with the transcriptional inactivation of the rbcS genes.
(5) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(6) Isolated nuclei from green leaf tissue of tomato plants infected with potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) were bound to microscope slides, fixed with formaldehyde and hybridized with biotinylated transcripts of cloned PSTVd cDNA.
(7) Tomato lectin-bound material was enriched in a glycoprotein identical with T200, which, when incorporated into liposomes, was a potent inhibitor of effector-target binding.
(8) Lectin binding to LGLs prior to activation was more heterogeneous, however, the tomato lectin uniquely revealed a bimodal distribution of receptors.
(9) Sequences from the 5' upstream regions (-400 to translational start) of some cab genes were determined in this study, and a total of 16 tomato cab gene promoters for which sequences are now available were analyzed.
(10) The smoky density of the mackerel was nicely offset by the pointed black olive tapenade and the fresh, zingy flavours present in little tangles of tomato, shallot, red pepper and spring onion, a layer of pea shoots and red chard, and the generous dressing of grassy olive oil.
(11) Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the Observer Nigel Slater's cold noodle and tomato salad makes a nice grownup supper with leftovers for the packed lunch.
(12) 3) In all age groups the foods most ingested were: steamed rice, wakame, tofu, bread, scallions, Japanese omelette, and tomatoes.
(13) Increases were observed in the binding of four lectins to LGLs after IL-2 activation; Triticum vulgaris (wheat germ agglutinin), Phytolacca americana (pokeweed mitogen), Lycopersicon esculentum (tomato lectin), and Griffonia simplicifolia I-B4 (GSI-B4).
(14) Nuts, tomatoes, milk, eggs and cereals were most frequently involved.
(15) The portion of my sample prawn orzo was a modest but polished plate of food, the dense bisque and silky grains of pasta elegantly punctuated by small bursts of tart, sweet semi-dried tomato.
(16) Detectives say when Yeates was in the Tesco Express she had bought a Tesco Finest tomato, mozzarella and basil pesto pizza.
(17) Heartburn was induced by a meal consisting of chili, black coffee, and a spicy tomato drink mix.
(18) A gradual decrease in the number of viable L. monocytogenes cells was observed in juice and sauce held at 21 degrees C. In contrast, the organism died rapidly when suspended in commercial tomato ketchup at 5 and 21 degrees C. Unlike low-acid raw salad vegetables such as lettuce, broccoli, asparagus, and cauliflower on which we have observed L. monocytogenes grow at refrigeration temperatures, tomatoes are not a good growth substrate for the organism.
(19) Six of these mutants no longer produced disease lesions on primary leaves of the susceptible bean cultivar Red Kidney and failed to elicit a hypersensitive response on the resistant bean cultivar Red Mexican and on the nonhost plants tomato, cowpea, and soybean.
(20) By linkage to nine RFLP markers the resistance locus Gro1 was assigned to the potato linkage group IX which is homologous to the tomato linkage group 7.