(n.) A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a "scale" on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them.
(n.) A seed, as of an apple or orange.
(n.) One of the conventional figures or "spots" on playing cards, dominoes, etc.
(v. i.) To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep.
Example Sentences:
(1) The D-Phe peptides, which are cleaved especially rapidly by thrombin in water, have structures (in deuterated DMSO) in which the aromatic ring of the D-Phe residue is folded back over the Val or Pip residue.
(2) Each tone pip was presented at four intensity levels (70, 50, 30, and 10 dB hearing threshold level), and graphic recordings were made for each frequency at the specific intensity levels.
(3) Low concentrations of each of the negatively charged phospholipids increased the Vmax., but high ratios of PIP, PIP2 or PA to PC decreased this parameter.
(4) We recorded auditory evoked magnetic fields in response to 128 15 msec duration 1 kHz tone pips from both hemispheres of 6 normal adult males.
(5) Following the complete GSH oxidation diamide impaired the turnover of PIP and PA dramatically.
(6) Each new PIP claim - worth between £21 and £134 a week to disabled claimants - costs an average £182 to administer, compared to £49 under the disability living allowance, said the report.
(7) She admits she "got it wrong" by voting in favour of the Iraq war, a stance exploited by Barack Obama when he pipped the former first lady for the Democratic nomination in 2008.
(8) The precision (coefficient of variation) of the calibration curves for underivatized drugs and their derivatized metabolites over the linear ranges was 2-20% and the reproducibility of the assay over a range of clinical concentrations of these drugs found in human plasma was 5-16% for PANC, 2-4% for VEC and 6-11% for PIP.
(9) A behavioral observation scale (Virginia Polydipsia Scale; VPS) for monitoring drinking patterns was developed and its reliability tested during 25 hours of tandem ratings among six patients with the syndrome of psychosis, intermittent hyponatremia, and polydipsia (PIPS).
(10) By 24 hours pulmonary edema resolved and the PIP and PaO2 returned to baseline.
(11) The thrombin-induced hydrolysis of inositol phospholipids by phospholipase C, which was measured as the formation of [32P]PA, was potentiated by adrenaline, as was the increase in the levels of [32P]PIP2 and [32P]PIP.
(12) Only PIP or TIC + SUL or TAZ were able to inhibit at least 90% of tested strains.
(13) Analysis of twenty-one MP and sixty-eight PIP endoprostheses placed in eighty-three patients until 1979 is given.
(14) A phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PIP) pool linked to muscarinic receptor-activation increased 160% after addition of atropine, the maximal response occurring at a time when relaxation was 80% complete.
(15) We demonstrate for the first time that a number of plasma membrane glycerophospholipids effectively stimulate the ATPase, including PIP, PIP2, and cardiolipin.
(16) Claimants of the benefit that PIP replaced, the very people whom Mr Duncan Smith resigns to defend, were previously at the sharp end of his maladministration.
(17) After two weeks ground squirrels were reanesthetized and tone pips and clicks were delivered through a TDH-49 headphone.
(18) The range of the mean uptake varied considerably between proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joints in normal subjects.
(19) He will himself have to repeatedly reapply for PIP, despite the fact that the severity of his condition meant he was granted a lifelong DLA award, after a paper-based assessment.
(20) The aim was to investigate whether these velocities altered in relation to the peak inflation pressure (PIP) used.
Quatre
Definition:
(n.) A card, die. or domino, having four spots, or pips
Example Sentences:
(1) A beat officer had worked out that a relative of Abdeslam was living at 79 Rue des Quatre Vents, and was thought to have been radicalised.
(2) All the film lacks, quartet-wise, is a sweaty ménage à quatre among the bow rosin and scoresheets.
(3) » Une résidente du village, Bella Kabatesi, 18 ans, dont les parents sont morts suite à une maladie lorsqu’elle avait quatre ans, a utilisé l’énergie solaire pour alimenter une veilleuse en mémoire du fondateur du village, désormais décédé.
(4) Salah Abdeslam faces questioning after being captured in Brussels police raid Read more As white smoke rose from the rooftop of a house in the rue des Quatre-Vents and masked police sealed off the area, the Belgian prosecutor’s office confirmed that Abdeslam, who appears to have escaped a shootout earlier this week , was under arrest and being treated for an injury to his leg.
(5) This is an argument made by the political scientist Gilles Kepel in his 2012 book Quatre-vingt-treize , a title that alludes to Victor Hugo's great novel of the Terror of 1793, and to the notorious Seine Saint-Denis district of Paris, which is known as "93" after its postcode.
(6) Les 17-OH plasmatiques se sont élevés à trois ou quatre fois la normale.De cette étude il ressort que noréthynodrel associée à mestranol peut produire une atténuation des signes inflammatoires de l'arthrite rhumatoïde.
(7) The focus of the manhunt switched back to Molenbeek, where Europe’s most wanted man was finally surrounded, caught and wounded in a shootout with special forces on the rue des Quatre-Vents.
(8) A case of folie à quatre is described affecting a proband and his wife, sister and brother.
(9) By the end of the week, a tapped telephone had tied him to the house in Rue des Quatre-Vents where he was finally run to ground, and when news leaked out that his fingerprints had been found in Forest, police moved fast to seize him before he could flee again.
(10) Une rémission apparente complète s'est manifestée chez sept patientes aux stades précoces de la maladie; chez 15, une amélioration objective des signes inflammatoires a été observée; chez quatre, une amélioration subjective seule a été notée; chez sept, il n'y a eu aucune amélioration.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Quatre Septembre metro station in Paris is renamed Premier Avril (1 April).
(12) The Belgian trio were last seen heading towards the Quatre Cantons metro station.