(n.) A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander.
(n.) A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See Maypole. (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers. (e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained.
(n.) A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5/ yards, or a square measure equal to 30/ square yards; a rod; a perch.
(v. t.) To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops.
(v. t.) To convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn.
(v. t.) To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat.
(v. t.) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
(n.) Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole.
(n.) A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian.
(n.) One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle.
(n.) The firmament; the sky.
(n.) See Polarity, and Polar, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two small populations of GLY + neurons were observed outside of the named nuclei of the SOC; one was located dorsal to the LSO, near its dorsal hilus, and the other was identified near the medial pole of the LSO.
(2) In 22 cases (63%), retinal detachment was at least partially flattened in the area of the posterior pole of the eye.
(3) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
(4) David Blunkett, not Straw, was the home secretary at the time the decision was taken to allow Poles and others immediate access to the British labour market.
(5) PYY-containing secretory granules were primarily found in the basal pole of open-type endocrine cells.
(6) Were he from Iceland, or from the north pole, then I would say he still had his ski boots on.
(7) A 40 year old female presented with secondary glaucoma and loss of vision due to anterior pole metastasis of breast carcinoma.
(8) A modification of a previously described curved ruler, the current model has a hinge for greater ease of maneuverability and a "T" piece on one end to facilitate measurement and marking of both poles of the muscle without repositioning the ruler.
(9) Two of them, the radiocapitate and deep radioscapholunate, insert on the scaphoid, whereas the collateral ligament courses to the distal pole of the scaphoid.
(10) Thus, the present observations provide histochemical evidence indicating an exclusive localization of calcium in mitochondria and tubulovesicular structures of the secretory ameloblast, and support their contributions to the translocation of calcium from the proximal to the distal pole of the cytoplasm.
(11) His balancing pole swayed uncontrollably, nearly tapping the sides of his feet.
(12) The retinal findings are quite similar to those found in diabetic retinopathy, except for unilaterality corresponding to the more obstructed artery and early onset in the retinal midzone rather than the posterior pole.
(13) Less marked lesions were however observed in distal tubules, particularly large vacuoles were present at the apical poles of the tubule cells, the sites of kallikrein secretion.
(14) The testicular vein--midway between the internal inguinal ring and the lower pole of the kidney--divides into the medial and lateral branch to form a delta.
(15) Probably there is a continuity of this system throughout the entire vascular pole including (1) all granulated cells, (2) all lacis cells, (3) the mesangium cells and (4) the adjacent smooth muscle cells of the vas afferens and vas efferens.
(16) In all of the old rats, but not in any of the young ones, symmetric high voltage activity was observed in the frontal pole of the cortex.
(17) Later, these vacuoles were divided into numerous vesicular spiral formation-centers, producing micronemes at the apical pole of young merozoites.
(18) Therefore, this nonrandom segregation to opposite poles can occur by mechanisms that do not involve DNA sequence homology.
(19) The intranuclear spindle of yeast has an electron-opaque body at each pole.
(20) All of these AChE positive fibers appeared to be related to the medial portions of the dorsal hippocampus from its septal pole to the dorsal psalterium.
Polewards
Definition:
(adv.) Toward a pole of the earth.
Example Sentences:
(1) After ATP addition the arrays of interdigitating microtubules in the zone of overlap become disordered and selectively depolymerize from the overlap zone polewards.
(2) Observations on living mitotic cells have suggested that material in the spindle moves poleward during mitosis.
(3) Areas of reduced birefringence (ARBs) produced on chromosomal fibres of crane-fly spermatocyte spindles by ultraviolet microbeam irradiation move poleward.
(4) The metaphase chromatin splits at anaphase into two sister chromatin plates, each of which exhibits holokinetic poleward movement, i.e., all parts of each plate move as a single unit with the same velocity.
(5) On the other hand, if the exchange is at the ARB edges, then, from data from microtubules in vitro, the poleward edge should move much faster than the kinetochoreward edge.
(6) The data provide evidence that tubulin subunits dissociate from kinetochore microtubules at a site near the kinetochore during poleward chromosome movement.
(7) Arid subtropical climate zones are expanding poleward.
(8) This fact indicates that chromosomes move poleward in anaphase by forces generated near the kinetochores in the half-spindle.
(9) The specific example of the anaphase movement of chromosomes poleward is detailed.
(10) Besides incorporation as a result of chromosome movement, two other mechanisms might explain the length of the DTAF-containing segments: 1) a poleward flux of tubulin subunits (Mitchison, 1989) or 2) capture of DTAF-containing nonkinetochore microtubules.
(11) It is thought to be responsible for retrograde axonal transport and other aspects of organelle motility and may have a role in the poleward movement of mitotic chromosomes.
(12) Poleward force production for chromosome movements is thus likely to be generated by at least two distinct molecular mechanisms.
(13) 111:1039-1045), and that once this association is established the chromosome can be transported poleward along the surface of the microtubule (Rieder, C. L., and S. P. Alexander.
(14) The sex chromosomes start their anaphase poleward movement after that of the autosomes, and move more slowly (by a factor of about 4), but their velocities appear to be affected by temperature in the same fashion as those of the autosomes.
(15) Depolymerization, though not polymerization, also occurs at the pole during metaphase and anaphase, so that flux contributes to polewards chromosome movements throughout mitosis.
(16) If ARB motion is due solely to subunit addition at the kinetochore and loss at the pole, then the two ARBs must move poleward together.
(17) There has been a "poleward shift" in the pattern of the storms, which will mean severe storms are more likely to strike areas such as New York and the Atlantic coast of Europe.
(18) At a slower rate, kinetochore MTs incorporate subunits at the kinetochore progressively during metaphase, suggesting a slow poleward flux of subunits in the kinetochore fiber.
(19) During this attachment, the kinetochore region of the chromosome undergoes a variable number of transient poleward tugs that are followed, shortly thereafter, by rapid movement of the chromosome towards the pole.
(20) These results are consistent with models of poleward force generation for chromosome movement in which prometaphase-metaphase poleward force is generated in association with the kinetochore.