(v. t.) To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait.
(n.) Work done by platting or braiding; a plait.
(n.) A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground.
(v. t.) To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.
(n.) Plain; flat; level.
(adv.) Plainly; flatly; downright.
(adv.) Flatly; smoothly; evenly.
(n.) The flat or broad side of a sword.
(n.) A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart.
Example Sentences:
(1) To understand the mechanism of hemorrhage, coagulation and fibrinolysis in epidemic hemorrhagic fever (EHF), thrombin time (TT), prothrombin time (PT), fibrinogen (FIG), the platelet count (PLAT), plasminogen (PLG), antithrombin-III (AT-III), fibrin-fibrinogen degraded products (FDP) and platelet functions of aggregation and release were studied dynamically with advanced methods in 134 EHF patients.
(2) Another new spot, Victor (11 rue Victor Massé), offers a good deal for lunch, with a tasty €12 plat du jour that includes dishes such as tender veal sautéed with baby leeks and hazelnuts, and crisp rocket salad and roasted new potatoes.
(3) Four other loci mapping to the human chromosome 8 short arm have been mapped to mouse chromosome 8; two of these (PLAT, GSR) lie proximal to LHRH, and two (LPL, DEF1) lie distal to LHRH.
(4) Here we describe promoter ligation and transcript sequencing (PLATS), a direct method for rapidly obtaining novel sequences that utilizes generic primers and only requires knowledge of the sequence on one side of a region.
(5) I'm talking with a local called Brigitte in Le Plat à Oreilles, a popular husband-and-wife-run restaurant in the city centre that serves traditional country food.
(6) These cells have a number of altered phenotypic characteristics: a) morphology; b) growth behavior and adherence to culture substrate (they required 3 h for 90% attachment and only presented a flattened morphology 40 h after platting); and c) collagen metabolism.
(7) The markers, their maximum lod scores, and recombination distances were ANK1 (ankyrin)--2.0 at 16%; D8S5 (TL11)--5.3 at 17%; D8S87 [a(CA)n repeat]--7.2 at 14%; LPL (lipoprotein lipase)--1.5 at 26%; and PLAT (plasminigen activator, tissue)--10.6 at 7%.
(8) A total of 215 subjects comprising 95 Chinese, 66 Malays and 54 Indians were investigated for restriction fragment length polymorphisms of the tissue-type plasminogen activator (PLAT) gene at an EcoRI site using the probe ptPA-4352.
(9) Double reciprocal plats indicate a competitive inhibition for alpha-ketoglutarate-glutamate by folic acid and methotrexate and a complex or mixed type for NAD-NADH site.
(10) Cyproheptadine-HCl raised the pain thresholds during hot plat test and writhing test in mice and tail flick test in rats, strengthened the hypnotic action by subthreshold dosage of sodium pentobarbital and chloral hydrate.
(11) Café Branly, plat du jour €17, +33 01 47 53 68 01, quaibranly.fr , open Tues, Wed, Sun 9.30am-6pm, Thurs, Fri, Sat 9.30am-8pm.
(12) Total calories and amino acid nitrogen (N) administered were not different in the two groups (t-test) and q 8 h (347 study periods) amino acid clearances, urinary urea nitrogen excretion, muscle proteolysis from 3-methyl-histidine (3-MH) excretion, and standard indices of sepsis severity and hepatic function were measured, as well as platelets (PLAT), leucocytes (WBC), albumin (ALB), and six acute-phase proteins: C-reactive protein (CRP), alpha-1-antitrypsin (A1TRIP), fibrinogen (FIBRIN), alpha-2-macroglobulin (AMACRO), ceruloplasmin (CERUL), and transferrin (TRANS).
(13) The possible amplifications of five sequences, MOS (8q1), LHRH (8p21.1), POLB (8p11.2), PLAT (8p12), and D8Z2 (8c) were investigated in three tumors with HSR on the short arm of chromosome 8.
(14) Inside there is the health food self-service Le Smack, where soups and salads cost €4-€6, while the funky Tokyo Eat (plat du jour €13) is a striking industrial-style diner with psychedelic orange lamps, bar, and open kitchen.
(15) The examination showed that such special treatment would be required only for the target (main material: platinum) and the Platness-filter (chief constituent: lead) of the decommissioned electron accelerator.
(16) Based on linkage data from the CEPH (Paris) reference families and physical mapping information from a somatic cell hybrid panel of chromosome 8 fragments, the most likely order for four of these five loci and the diseases locus is 8pter-LPL-D8S5-D8S87-PLAT-RP1.
(17) The plat castable ceramic crown was made with investment material prepared in our college with our own casting technique by a Chinese-made casting machine.
(18) However, in four patients who developed alveolitis sicca (dry socket), a significant rise of activity on all the fibrin plats was seen (P less than 0.01) when compared with the variations measured in patients with normal healing.
(19) Platelet (PLAT), and neutrophil (WBC) counts were also done and plasma elastase was measured.
(20) Using PLATS, sequence has been obtained from a 1.1-kb segment in Achlya ambisexualis, which cross-hybridizes to the DNA-binding region of the chicken and Xenopus estrogen receptors.
Prat
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It is shown that the PRAT is two to four times more sensitive than platelet complement fixation for the detection of HLA antibodies.
(2) "People will just turn away from [Labour] and think 'What are these prats playing at?
(3) Combination of PRAT and LCT afforded the best predictability and sensitivity was higher than for either PRAT or LCT alone (93 vs. 79 and 62%, respectively).
(4) In early July last year, thousands of customers endured four days of chaos at Barcelona-El Prat as Vueling cancelled scores of flights.
(5) The relative costs for a successful crossmatch were: PRAT less than LCT less than LCT + PRAT less than PSIFT less than ELISA.
(6) Three weeks before the coup, when the constitutionalist General Carlos Prats resigned as commander-in-chief amid growing political crisis, Allende appointed Pinochet to replace him in the belief that he was the only remaining loyal member of the army high command.
(7) The standard lymphocytotoxicity assay (LCT), a biotin-avidin enzyme immunoassay (ELISA), platelet suspension immunofluorescence test (PSIFT), and platelet radioactive antiglobulin test (PRAT) were examined in prospective crossmatching for selection of compatible random donor platelets for refractory patients.
(8) They did not persuade voters that he was a new kind of Tory; they made him look like a prat.
(9) This observation, along with the functionality of the cDNA in both yeast and CHO cells deficient in PRAT activity, suggests the isolated cDNA is full length.
(10) The crossmatch methods evaluated were a microlymphocytotoxicity test (LCT), an immunofluorescence technique (PSIFT), a radioactive antiglobulin test (PRAT), and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
(11) Luis Suárez is banned for the game at Cornellà-El Prat after he became involved in a fracas after the end of last week’s first leg at Camp Nou, during which Espanyol had two players sent off.
(12) I love his braininess – his real new career is as an academic economist at Harvard – and his willingness to be a prat in public and the way he and Cooper seem to have worked out how to be a political couple as well as parents.
(13) By this time, a small group of officers had been imprisoned in Chile for human rights abuses, notably Pinochet's first secret police chief, General Manuel Contreras, who was jailed for the murder of Allende's former foreign minister, Orlando Letelier, in Washington in 1976 (like Prats, Letelier was blown up by a bomb in his car).
(14) If it was a whole uprising or rebellion, of course we would worry more, but it’s just one prat.” But for some of those closest to the attack, the deaths had cast an unshakeable pall over their stay.
(15) As they powered down the aircraft on the tarmac of Barcelona's El Prat international airport, the personnel disembarking from a sleek Gulfstream jet would have looked little different from the other tired and hungry aircrew passing through.
(16) In 1974, General Prats became one of the victims, killed with his wife in exile in Buenos Aires by a bomb attached to their car - an attack later shown to have been carried out by Pinochet's agents.
(17) It's not when David Tennant's Benedick makes his entrance as a sun-bronzed prat in a golf buggy, nor his Cary Grant-style rat-a-tat-tat delivery of lines such as, "I would my horse had the speed of your tongue", not even when he finally gets to kiss Catherine Tate 's Beatrice.
(18) A radioimmunofiltration modification of the PRAT developed and used in selected cases was simple, fast, efficient, and inexpensive.
(19) Previous work from this laboratory has shown that preimmunization of syngeneic hosts with Rous sarcoma virus (RSV)-transformed cells elicits a strong immune response against the growth of transplantable RSV sarcomas, mediated by T lymphocytes expressing the surface phenotype of helper cell precursors (Prat, Di Renzo & Comoglio, 1983).
(20) A week ago Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was Cardiff's messiah and Sam Allardyce a prat after the novice Norwegian's first game in charge was a 2-1 "triumph" at Newcastle in the FA Cup, where "Big Sam" turned into "Effing Allardyce" with West Ham's 5-0 drubbing by Nottingham Forest.