(n.) An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it; as, chicken pie; venison pie; mince pie; apple pie; pumpkin pie.
(n.) See Camp, n., 5.
(n.) A magpie.
(n.) Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera.
(n.) The service book.
(n.) Type confusedly mixed. See Pi.
(v. t.) See Pi.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other Christmas favourites, including stollen, organic mince pies and Schweppes tonic will also be included among 100 seasonal products on the list of 1,000 items which shoppers can choose from over the next few months.
(2) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(3) This technique is compared with calculated outline and ring source attenuation correction techniques in a pie phantom.
(4) We describe a premature infant with progressive worsening of unilateral PIE, which was successfully treated by selective bronchial balloon catheterization after failure of conservative management.
(5) Studied were the composition and the technologic properties of the milk of Dutch Black pied cattle under this country's conditions.
(6) Superfusion with 10(-6) to 10(-4) M arachidonic acid resulted in a slow developing positive inotropic effect (PIE) in a concentration-dependent manner.
(7) The 2 Fat Butchers in Walmer offers high-quality free-range meat and excellent pork pies and scotch eggs.
(8) A Staphylococcus strain was inoculated on the top and cut surfaces of freshly baked Southern custard pies which were then packaged in a pasteboard carton and held at 30 C. Daily plate counts of surface sections 0.3 inch (0.76 cm) in thickness were made.
(9) She almost wills her biscuits to dry out and her pies to sink.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The big difference is that I’ve got my finger in all the pies, whereas Lord Farquaad only thought he did.
(11) A total of 33 strains of staphylococci, isolated from Black Pied cows with subclinical mastitis (conformed by the brom-thymol test), were studied to establish their biochemical properties and resistance to antibiotics as well as the occasional correlation between enzyme activity and resistance.
(12) An increase in eosinophils carrying surface IgE was demonstrated in alveolar cells from PIE Syndrome particularly with hypodense eosinophils from CEP patients.
(13) The appearance of PIE and its complications, i.e., pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum, occurred over a wide range of mean airway pressures and positive end-expiratory pressures; there was no direct relationship between barotrauma and mean airway pressure or positive end-expiratory pressure.
(14) MCI-154 (10(-7) to 10(-4) M) produced a concentration-dependent PIE amounting to 75% of the maximal effect of isoproterenol.
(15) The killer's taste in movies stretches from westerns to gangster thrillers to Elvis Presley musicals: apple-pie imports that were boycotted by socialist president Sukarno's coalition before the coup.
(16) A case of PIE syndrome induced by Saiboku-To (TJ96) is reported.
(17) She had a history of PIE syndrome induced by disodium cromoglycate 4 years previously (Jpn.
(18) It will be streamed live here: Monetary Policy Committee August 2013 Inflation Report My colleague Andrew Sparrow will be live-blogging the whole session here: Mark Carney gives evidence to the Commons Treasury committee: Politics live blog 9.52am BST This graphic shows how most of the Royal Mail's revenues come from its parcels and letters divisions, although its European parcels business, GLS, makes a decent contribution (with revenue of £1.5m, out of a total pie of over £9bn.
(19) Safdie himself still maintains a pied-à-terre in the 13-storey building, which stands on a narrow, man-made peninsula just south of the Old Port section of Montreal.
(20) I got it wrong on PIE and I apologise for having done so.
Piebald
Definition:
(a.) Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied.
(a.) Fig.: Mixed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Male and female rats of the inbred Piebald Virol Glaxo ( PVG) and Sprague Dawley (SD) strains were infected with 20 metacercariae of Fasciola hepatica.
(2) Using DNA of a patient with piebaldism, mental retardation, and multiple congenital anomalies associated with a 46,XY,del(4) (q12q21.1) karyotype, we carried out quantitative Southern blot hybridization analyses of the KIT gene and the adjacent PDGFRA (platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha subunit) genes.
(3) Seven piebald lethal (PLM) mice with histologically verified aganglionosis and seven normal littermates (NLM) were sacrificed.
(4) Effects of hypoxia and hypothermia on the poststimulus rebound contractile response (PSRR) were studied in the circular muscle coat of the large intestine of the piebald mouse model for Hirschsprung's disease.
(5) The authors describe peculiar tumors with brown-white piebald anterior surface, which had grown bilaterally from the corpora nigra (C.N.)
(6) Controls of Piebald Virol Glaxo, Wistar and DA rats were also employed.
(7) Two other frequent colours are white spotting, due to the piebald allele (sp), and the chinchilla allele (ch).
(8) The results indicate that the distended portion of the colon of piebald mice is capable of coordinated peristalsis and that accumulation of feces and megacolon are secondary to the terminal obstruction that results from absence of coordinated propulsive activity in the hypoganglionic terminal segment.
(9) It is concluded that cholinergic innervation is congenitally absent in the aganglionic rectum in piebald lethal mice.
(10) Significant histological and immunocytochemical differences were seen in the ganglionic segment of colon between piebald mice with early clinical onset of acute illness and piebald mice with late onset enterocolitis.
(11) Human piebaldism is an expression of neural crest component abnormality that is classically inherited dominantly and is probably heterogeneous genetically.
(12) Here, pigmented skin around the axilla was transplanted to hypomelanotic areas in two patients with piebaldism.
(13) Vitreous fluorophotometry was performed on pigmented male rats (Piebald strain) 2 weeks after induction of diabetes by streptozotocin.
(14) The experiments were conducted on bulls-analogs of the black-piebald and Simmental breed which differ from each other in the intensity of live weight gain (18-31%) as well as on lactating cows-analogs of the black-piebald breed which differ in the level of milk productivity (41-80%).
(15) In the muscles of bulls the activity of phosphoglucomutase, phosphohexoisomerase, aldolase and fructose-1,6-diphosphatase is considerably higher (except of the activity of phosphoglucomutase and phosphohexoisomerase in the muscles of pure-bred black-piebald animals for which difference is not statistically reliable) and the content of glycogen, glucose, fructose, lactic acid, free and phosphorylated pentoses of nonadenylic compounds is essentially lower than in the muscle tissue of heifers of analogous breed groups.
(16) Comparative study of achromic and normally pigmented skin of three piebald patients from two families is reported here.
(17) This same region also contains genes for two of the structurally related factors, for c-kit, a receptor for an as yet unidentified ligand, and for 'piebald trait', an inherited skin pigmentation disorder.
(18) The latency and duration of the PSRR were increased during hypothermia while the amplitude decreased in all ganglionated regions of large intestinal preparations from both piebald mice and their normal siblings.
(19) In the course of the investigation of piebald (black-white) cattle it is found that 17,62% animals produce the AA type beta-lactoglobulin, 49,52%--the AB type and 32,86%--the BB type.
(20) The similarities between piebaldism and the Waardenburg syndromes are discussed.