(n.) A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors.
(n.) A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk, slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in a small wooden rod intended to be pointed, or in a case, which forms a handle, -- used for drawing or writing. See Graphite.
(n.) Hence, figuratively, an artist's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc.
(n.) An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
(n.) A number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of intersection being called the pencil point.
(n.) A small medicated bougie.
(v. t.) To write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysts have trimmed their profit forecasts for this year with trading profits of £3.3bn pencilled in compared with £3.5bn in 2012-13.
(2) There is a developmental sequence of pencil grasp, and useful development scales in copying cube models, drawing geometric shapes, and the draw-a-man test.
(3) Comparing results of different stereotests, e.g., random-dot stereograms and the two-pencil test, provides some insight into different levels of cortical binocular interaction.
(4) We took all the feedback from users and put pencil to paper to create our consumer 3D printer built for speed and ease of use,” said Pettis.
(5) The influence of the parameters' inclination and curving of condylar guidance, intercondylar distance, Bennett angle, distance of the plate, and position of the recording pencil are studied.
(6) A numerical example reveals some lesser known properties of the circle of least confusion of astigmatic pencils.
(7) A 5-year-old boy had an excisional biopsy of a pigmented scleral lesion thought clinically to be a foreign body, probably graphite from a pencil.
(8) said: “The Bank of England seems all but certain to ease policy, with only the scale and form of easing in question.” Monks is predicting a bigger cut than many of his peers in the City, pencilling in a drop in official interest rates to zero.
(9) An illusion is something done one way that looks the other, like if you put a mirror in front of a pencil so the pencil looks like it's somewhere else.
(10) Twenty-nine women were obtained from two community-based facilities and administered the 10-item Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EDPS) in a computerised and 'pencil and paper' form.
(11) Differential pencil beam (DPB) is defined as the dose distribution relative to the position of the first collision, per unit collision density, for a monoenergetic pencil beam of photons in an infinite homogeneous medium of unit density.
(12) While that is higher than the 1.6% decline that statisticians had previously pencilled in, it will have no impact on an initial estimate for first quarter GDP growth of 0.3% – half the pace in the previous three months .
(13) Some can't afford their own uniforms or pencil tins and we have to teach them the most basic things, like how to queue up for dinner,” said Cater-Whitham.
(14) The drugmaker has also pencilled in mid- to high-single digit growth from emerging markets, building on growth in China, where it saw revenues leap by 22% in the first quarter of this year.
(15) In recent years there has been growing conceptual interest in narcissism, coupled with the rapid development of several paper and pencil measures.
(16) A case of mediastinitis occurred following perforation of the pharynx by a pencil.
(17) His pencil or pastel notes, readjusts, notes again with more emphasis the advancing or receding edge of a continually moving body.
(18) The first scratch of an HB pencil across the fresh page of a new notebook.
(19) Sources say the Sun has pencilled in September for the erection of its paywall.
(20) Psychological instruments are usually developed to subjectively measure specific variables; however, there may not be a fit if the researcher used a paper-and-pencil instrument developed to measure anxiety in psychiatric patients to measure anxiety in the sedated, postanesthesia patient.
Penicil
Definition:
(n.) A tent or pledget for wounds or ulcers.
Example Sentences:
(1) veratridine, sanguinarine nitrate, penicillic acid, vanadium pentoxide, harmaline-HCI,5,5'-diphenyl hydantoin, quindonium bromide, and methyl quinolizinum bromide) provides strong evidence that the observed species-related differences are highly specific for cardiotonic steroids.
(2) Twenty known penicillic acid (PA)-producing Aspergillus and Penicillium cultures were grown under various conditions in shaken flasks to determine the highest yielding strains and their requirements for maximum toxin production.
(3) Among the investigated mycotoxins, penicillic acid with its two concentrations (5 and 10 nmol) was the most negative, affecting digestibilities of both feed materials.
(4) Penicillic acid has been found to inhibit the entry of these ions into cardiac tissue thereby arresting the action of the heart.
(5) An additive effect due to the combined administration of penicillic acid and rubratoxin B was observed only by an elevation in serum sodium and chlorine levels.
(6) Simultaneous production of penicillic acid and patulin by an atypical strain of Penicillium roqueforti isolated from cheddar cheese is reported.
(7) Uniformly labeled L[14C]glutamic acid was incorporated into both the phenylalanine and isocoumarin moieties of ochratoxin A. Penicillic acid was also labeled.
(8) Under appropriate fermentation conditions, good yields of ochratoxin-A and moderate amounts of patulin were obtained, but only small amounts of penicillic acid, vomitoxin, and zearalenone were elaborated.
(9) A strain of Aspergillus ochraceus Wilhelm, isolated from poultry feed, produced both penicillic acid and ochratoxin A.
(10) A combination of low temperature, 15 or 22 C, and low moisture favored the production of penicillic acid, whereas high temperature, 30 C, and high moisture favored the production of ochratoxin A.
(11) Quantitative and concurrent determinations of penicillic acid and patulin have been achieved after separation of these compounds, as their trimethylsilyl derivatives, by gas-liquid chromatography with electron-capture detection and a column of 10% of DC-200 plus 15% of QF-1 on Gas-Chrom Q; the minimum determinable amounts of penicillic acid and patulin were 0.05 and 0.1 ng, respectively.
(12) Free nerve endings which were found in the joint capsules of the frog belong among so called "free penicillate nerve endings".
(13) One may think that only a quarter of the strains might be considered as actual potential penicillic acid producers in agricultural conditions.
(14) aflatoxins, ochratoxin, patulin, penicillic acid and T-2.
(15) Combination studies employing penicillic acid and a second mycotoxin, rubratoxin B, also were undertaken.
(16) The production of penicillic acid is followed during a growth period of 44 days at two different temperatures.
(17) The level of 14C-penicillic acid reached a maximum in the blood and tissues 2-4 hours after administration.
(18) The observed ability to induce SSB indicates that penicillic acid is potentially carcinogenic.
(19) Thus, a new portion of the penicillic acid biosynthetic pathway is proposed.
(20) Several amino acids normally occurring in meat (cysteine, glutathione, arginine, histidine, and lysine) were found capable of readily reacting with penicillic acid.