(n.) Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
(n.) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
(n.) A high, tapering silk hat.
(n.) A worthless horse.
(n.) A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails.
(v. t.) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results obtained from cumulative labeling and pulse-labeling and chase experiments with cells from late gastrulae, yolk plug-stage embryos, and neurulae showed that the 30S RNA is an intermediate in rRNA processing and is derived from 40S pre-rRNA and processed to 28S rRNA.
(2) Six of the obstructed livers developed biliary cast formation so extensive that the smaller intrhepatic ducts became plugged to an extent that they could no longer have been treated by surgical mena.
(3) An in vitro, eccentric arterial stenosis model was created using 15 canine carotid arteries cannulated with silicone plugs containing special pressure-transducing catheters designed to measure pressure directly, within the stenosis.
(4) This report describes two patients with long-term catheter use who developed increasing respiratory failure and cor pulmonale, at least in part, due to a large tracheal mucus plug.
(5) Certain of the schistosomes were covered with a dense mass of interconnected blood platelets resembling a temporary haemostatic plug but not a blood clot.
(6) Monaural plugging was performed on different juvenile bats at 7, 14, and 35 days of age.
(7) The device was composed of a standard biopsy brush, protected by a single catheter and occluded with an agar plug.
(8) The main histological features of the tumour were enormous, but relatively regular, acanthosis of rete pegs revealing no similarity to the squamous-cell carcinoma, and an exclusively parakeratottic eleidine-containing central plug.
(9) Cement was pressurized into the cavity of the anatomic specimens, and the maximum interface shear strength between the cement plug and the bone was experimentally determined for each revision.
(10) Parties are a tedious chore, while sponsorships are pretty tiresome too: can you remember the key messaging about that motor oil you agreed to plug to the nearest reporter?
(11) Aqueous plugs are introduced on both sides of the plasma sample before it enters the precolumn.
(12) It’s as if they were a team away from the team, and they’re not shy of plugging into it.
(13) So the kids then went and pulled out the computer, plugged in the modem and they found it on YouTube.
(14) Three times a week, he rolled his wheelchair up to a computer monitor and allowed scientists from Battelle , a nonprofit research organisation that invented the technology they hoped would let him move his hand with his thoughts again, to plug into his brain.
(15) After standardized observation of mating behavior culminating in ejaculation and a sperm plug, females were allowed to produce litters in undisturbed conditions.
(16) Histological studies showed a prolonged healing process in both eyes, with a persistent epithelial plug.
(17) The consequence of these derangements is often widespread plugging of small bronchi and bronchioles.
(18) Posterior fossa decompression with obex plugging (the Gardner operation) was the procedure of choice for SM-ACM and for idiopathic holocord syringomyelia.
(19) Commerzbank, 25% owned by the German government, is trying to raise €5.3bn to plug a capital gap identified by the European Banking Authority.
(20) Tube dysfunction, defined as peritube leakage, plugging, fracture, or migration, occurred in 36% of patients over a mean follow-up period of 275 days and was significantly more common and likely to necessitate tube replacement in PEJ patients.
Switch
Definition:
(n.) A small, flexible twig or rod.
(n.) A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.
(n.) A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.
(n.) A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.
(v. t.) To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.
(v. t.) To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.
(v. t.) To trim, as, a hedge.
(v. t.) To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; -- generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.
(v. t.) To shift to another circuit.
(v. i.) To walk with a jerk.
Example Sentences:
(1) We also demonstrated a significant difference in the Hb switching process between male and female newborns.
(2) Accumulating evidence indicates that for most tumors, the switch to the angiogenic phenotype depends upon the outcome of a balance between angiogenic stimulators and angiogenic inhibitors, both of which may be produced by tumor cells and perhaps by certain host cells.
(3) Nine years of clinical experience of the application of the Q-switched ruby laser to the removal of tattoos is presented.
(4) Males exploit this behavioural switch by increasing their sneaky mating attempts.
(5) It is hypothesized, furthermore, that the kinetics of emergence and loss of these various populations may reflect switching in the mode of immunity being expressed, particularly during the chronic phase of the infection, from that of a state of active immunity to one of immunologic memory.
(6) Police in Rockhampton have ordered residents to leave their homes as electricity is switched off in low-lying areas.
(7) The drug I started taking caused an irritating, chronic cough, which disappeared when I switched to an inexpensive diuretic.
(8) Our aim is to obtain evidence for trans-acting factors that regulate developmental hemoglobin (Hb) switching.
(9) Should such symptoms occur, the doctor has the choice of either switching to another first-step compound or reducing the dose of the first agent and combining it with one of other available drugs.
(10) I’ve warned Dave before to mind his ps and qs when the cameras are rolling, but the problem is you can never tell when the microphones are switched on.
(11) This modification improves the convergence properties of the network and is used to control a switch which activates the learning or template formation process when the input is "unknown".
(12) Usage of analyzing cardiac monitors with a signalling system switched on by the preset values of ST-segment depression prevented the evolution of myocardial ischemia and the development of exercise-induced anginal episodes.
(13) "It's very clear now that the administration agrees with us," said Wyden, hailing a switch from both the Bush and Obama administration stance that "collecting these records is vital to western civilisation".
(14) A programmable controller manages the olfactometer dilution stage selection, the odor stimulus switch and starts the peripheral devices required by the experiment.
(15) In hybrids before the switch, the gamma-genes are unmethylated.
(16) "The default switch should be set to release information unless there is an extremely good reason for withholding it.".
(17) A transistor radio activated by a mercury switch was used to reinforce head posture in two retarded children with severe cerebral palsy.
(18) The swi1+ gene is necessary for effective mating-type (MT) switching in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
(19) Consequently mother cells can switch their mating type whereas bud cells cannot.
(20) Even if nobody switched party, the general election result would look very different to what’s predicted if millennials could be persuaded to vote at the same rate as pensioners, as polls factor in turnout differences and oversample the elderly accordingly.