(n.) The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament.
(n.) Figuratively, that which resembles such a pillar in appearance, character, or office; a supporter or mainstay; as, the Pillars of Hercules; a pillar of the state.
(n.) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
(n.) The center of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
(a.) Having a support in the form of a pillar, instead of legs; as, a pillar drill.
Example Sentences:
(1) The binding sites were mainly located on the stereocilia, the cuticular plate of hair cells, the head plates of Deiters' cells, fibrous structures in pillar cells, in the spiral limbus and tectorial membrane and basilar membrane, plasma membranes, mitochondria and the chromatin of various kinds of cells.
(2) Protesters set fire to rubbish bins and tyres, creating pillars of black smoke among the apartment blocks and office buildings in central Tehran.
(3) The west African nation, once seen as a pillar of democracy in the troubled region, has been split in two since a coup in March.
(4) Pores about 8 nm in diameter are again to be found where the pillars are anchored in the outer cell membrane.
(5) Investment spending fell by 4.4%, leaving government spending as the only pillar that was growing, by 1%.
(6) Job security is a key pillar of professional fulfilment and academic research has found that feeling settled in a job can increase motivation and productivity and reduces the likelihood of staff taking time off work due to illness.
(7) Thomas Mazetti and Hannah Frey, the two Swedes behind the stunt, said they wanted to show support for Belarussian human rights activists and to embarrass the country's military, a pillar of Lukashenko's power.
(8) Marine Rotational Force – Darwin” (MRF-D) is one of four American marine air ground task forces (MAGTFs) in the Asia-Pacific region, along with those in Guam, Hawaii and Okinawa, the sum of which make up a central strategic pillar of the pivot.
(9) The secondary lamellae of the gills were shortened and deformed and the epithelial cells were disoriented with regard to the pillar cell system.
(10) Risks include terrorist bombings, riots and stampedes in the tunnels and pedestrian walkways leading to the Jamarat stoning pillars (representing Satan) – as well as the routine hazards of heat and disease.
(11) The exhibition will include the earliest roadside pillar box erected on the mainland – in 1853, a year after the first went up in Jersey in the Channel Isles – and unique and priceless sheets of Penny Black stamps.
(12) A just-formed unity government in Baghdad which has yet to prove itself, and a non-jihadist rebel force in Syria which was judged until yesterday to have almost disappeared, are weak pillars for an ambitious policy.
(13) And together they met on a cold, grey Friday in Margate – two pillars of the establishment albeit of a very different kind.
(14) As it has elevated "hygge" (cosiness) into a way of life, Copenhagen has elevated the humble bicycle into a cultural icon, a pillar of its image.
(15) Considerable improvements could be made by providing impact attenuation in the head contact areas on the door, roof and B-pillar.
(16) The fracture lines through the articular pillar were difficult to detect in some cases or to distinguish from a facet joint in others.
(17) The sanctity of voting in private may be one of the pillars of democracy, but in an age of byzantine disenfranchisement rules and empowering social-media platforms, outlawing a picture of your candidate selection is a missed opportunity and a failure of imagination.
(18) I think this shake-up at Fifa is fantastic because the next Fifa president could have this wonderful platform — here’s one of his pillars for his legacy,” Foudy said.
(19) The principle of this technique is that the divergent laser beam enters a glass square pillar, propagates through the pillar repeating the total reflection and emerges with a uniform intensity distribution over the cross-section at the end of the pillar.
(20) Biopsies were obtained from their respiratory papillomas and nondiseased sites (NDS) of the respiratory tract: the nasopharynx, posterior tonsillar pillar, aryepiglottic fold, cervical trachea, intrathoracic trachea, and bronchi.
Volta
Definition:
(n.) A turning; a time; -- chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated one, two, or more times; as, una volta, once. Seconda volta, second time, points to certain modifications in the close of a repeated strain.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are several fish, including the acari, that are unique to the Volta Grande (Big Bend) where the hydropower plant is being constructed.
(2) Mutants of Methanococcus voltae were isolated that were resistant to the coenzyme M (CoM; 2-mercaptoethanesulfonic acid) analog 2-bromoethanesulfonic acid (BES).
(3) A DNA fragment from the methanogenic archaebacterium Methanococcus voltae, when cloned into the PstI site of the plasmid vector pBR322, complements the Escherichia coli argG mutation strongly or weakly depending on its orientation.
(4) The sequence of the gene cluster encoding the methyl coenzyme M reductase (MCR) in Methanococcus voltae was determined.
(5) Between April 1977 and June 1978, 214 babies born of 210 mothers infected with Onchocerciasis, were examined at the maternity of Po Hospital (Upper Volta).
(6) Occasional reports have been received from parts of West Africa, and the present investigation sought to clarify the situation in two areas, Ouagadougou, Upper Volta, and Kpain, Liberia, from which such reports had emanated.
(7) A methylviologen and 8-hydroxy-5-deazaflavin(F420)-reducing hydrogenase was purified over 800-fold to near homogeneity from the archaebacterium Methanococcus voltae with 10 U mg-1 F420-reducing activity.
(8) Urinary schistosomiasis is highly prevalent along the shores of the Volta Lake in Ghana, where transmission occurs focally in man-water contact sites.
(9) March 2011 Volta a Catalunya Later that month, Contador follows up his success in Murcia with victory in Catalunya.
(10) Two controlled experiments on the field of the group A polysaccharidic antimeningococcic vaccine in the Koudougou (Haute-Volta) and Koutiala (Mali) areas confirmed its efficiency and innocuity, the conferred immunity persisting two years at least.
(11) This yaws investigation has been realized in the South West of Upper-Volta, in 1981, in areas around Gaoua, Niangoloko, N'Dorola; this investigation concerns 15 villages, chosen at random, and a sample of 1540 persons older than 4 years.
(12) A simple force-of-infection model for onchocerciasis has been developed for a study of the age-specific epidemiological trends during a period of vector control in the Onchocerciasis Control Programme in the Volta River basin area (OCP).
(13) Human streptocerciasis has been found in the Accra district (Ghana), in southern Ivory Coast, and in Upper Volta in migrants.
(14) M. voltae contains a membrane component that is immunologically related to the H(+)-translocating ATP synthase of the archaeabacterium Sulfolobus acidocaldarius.
(15) Sequencing the DNA (2,155 base pairs) cloned from this thermophilic methanogen demonstrated that the M. thermolithotrophicus hisA gene is located within a cluster of open reading frames (ORFs) and is 68 and 69% homologous at the nucleotide level to the hisA genes of the mesophilic methanococci M. voltae and M. vannielii, respectively.
(16) The ultrastructure and chemical composition of the cell wall of the marine archaebacterium Methanococcus voltae were studied by negative-staining and freeze-etch electron microscopy and by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(17) Extracts of M. volta were found to readily cleave L-7,8-dihydroneopterin to 7,8-dihydro-6-(hydroxymethyl)pterin, which was confirmed to be a precursor of the pterin portion of the methanopterin.
(18) This in turn caused massive migrations from countries such as Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) to Ivory Coast.
(19) M. voltae ORFtrpA and ORFtrpB, which are transcribed in the same direction, are separated by a 37 bp AT-rich region.
(20) Based on the degree of hisA sequence homology, we conclude that M. voltae and M. vannielii are less closely related taxonomically than are members of the enteric group of eubacteria.