(n.) The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl.
(v. i.) To shoot pouts.
(v. i.) To thrust out the lips, as in sullenness or displeasure; hence, to look sullen.
(v. i.) To protrude.
(n.) A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness.
(n.) The European whiting pout or bib.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood cells from Baltic salmon, Salmo salar, three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, eel pout, Zoarces viviparus, crucian carp, Carassius carassius, African catfish, Clarias gariepinus, and reedfish, Calamoichthys calabaricus, were incubated with tritiated 11 beta-hydroxyandrostenedione (OHA) or 11-ketoandrostenedione (OA).
(2) She were remorseful all right,” pouted Mercedes, a woman who only has to raise one on-fleek eyebrow to garner a full confession.
(3) The narrative drivers are pretty slack – improbable dialogue ("I'm a very wealthy man, Miss Steele, and I have expensive and absorbing hobbies"); lame characterisation; irritating tics (a constant war between Steele's "subconscious", which is always fainting or putting on half-moon glasses, and her "inner goddess", who is forever pouting and stamping); and an internal monologue that goes like this … "Holy hell, he's hot!
(4) To ascertain the relative contributions of vascular distensibility and nonhomogeneous behavior within the pulmonary circulation to the distinctive nonlinear relationship between inflow pressure (Pin) and flow [pressure-flow (P-F) relationship] and between Pin and outflow pressure (Pout) at constant flow (Pin-Pout relationship), we developed a multibranched model in which the elastic behavior of, and forces acting on, individual branches can be varied independently.
(5) In this investigation of BRB permeability, we employed four parameters for the eye model: the inward permeability (Pin) and outward permeability (Pout) of the BRB; the diffusion coefficient in the posterior vitreous gel (D-p); and the plasma fluorescein concentration.
(6) Priapic gadabouts in peephole codpieces hey-nonny-no-ing past plates of glazed pig as smouldering flibbertigibbets pout and motion to their jugs.
(7) Release phenomena such as the grasp and pouting reflexes, as well as the stereotyped activities, were encountered significantly more frequently in patients with an organic brain syndrome than in the two other groups of patients.
(8) A doltish young buck, hairless and pouting, will clatter through the doors of an annoying boutique.
(9) These experiments indicate that the ocean pout AFP are a multigene family with protein structure different from any other known polypeptide antifreezes.
(10) In the first condition, subjects were presented with a smiling, pouting and a frowning face on each of 18 trials.
(11) When Time magazine published an Angelina Jolie op-ed on Darfur in 2009 , it wasn't illustrated with an image of refugees or of Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, but with a close-up of cat eyes and Angelina's famous pout.
(12) At least, I hope it's just a trilogy and this is the last, and they're not going to continue trailing around Europe (Greece this time), emoting, pouting and glaring self-pityingly into their authentic espressos.
(13) (iii) Six mutations alter pOUT activity, and establish that pOUT is the only IS10 promoter specifying the anti-sense RNA-OUT.
(14) A more southerly population of ocean pout from New Brunswick in which the circulating antifreeze protein levels are considerably lower has approximately one-quater as many antifreeze protein genes.
(15) In other cases sea raven and ocean pout hearts were treated with hydroxylamine, which renders myoglobin incapable of binding O2, and subjected to changing PO2 and afterload.
(16) The use of a double stapling technique in anterior resection of the rectum eliminates the necessity for a rectal stump pursestring and removes the problem of tissue pouting on the spindle of the circular EEA stapler when a voluminous rectum is pulled onto it with the pursestring.
(17) Myoglobin-rich sea raven hearts and myoglobin-poor ocean pout hearts were isolated and perfused at varying flow rates and under conditions of low and high oxygen demand to assess the role of myoglobin in oxygen extraction.
(18) The tonical cholinergic and adrenergic influence on the heart rate was investigated in vivo in seven species of marine teleosts (pollack, Pollachius pollachius; cuckoo wrasse, Labrus mixtus; ballan wrasse, Labrus berggylta; five-bearded rockling, Ciliata mustela; tadpole fish, Raniceps raninus; eel-pout, Zoarces viviparus and short-spined sea scorpion, Myoxocephalus scor pius) during rest and, in two of the species (P. pollachius and L. mixtus), also during moderate swimming exercise in a Blazka-type swim tunnel.
(19) She will be our discount dictator, perhaps, when her permatanned, pouting overlord has annexed us as a puppet state.
(20) Substantial homologies in amino acid sequence exist between the AFPs of Austrolycicthys and those of other Southern and Northern eel pouts.
Pucker
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth.
(n.) A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.
(n.) A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) As in the protein sample, a tendency for the cis-proline residues to have the DOWN pucker was observed, but the effect was less pronounced.
(2) The ultrastructural findings of the macular pucker removed by vitreoretinal surgery are demonstrated.
(3) Sugar puckers and proton distances are very sensitive criteria to monitor molecular dynamics.
(4) Intranucleotide proton-proton distances combined with the knowledge of sugar puckers have been used to fix the glycosidic bond torsion angle (chi).
(5) High proliferative activities were found in 4 of 5 PVR membranes, in 9 of 14 PDR membranes, in 6 of 11 recurrent membranes after intraocular silicone oil tamponade, and in 2 of 6 macular pucker membranes.
(6) No "flips" to the opposite puckering for this ring were found in the simulations starting from the global minimum, although such a transition was observed for a trajectory initiated with one of the higher local minimum energy conformations.
(7) Thus, flexibility in psi as well as in omega and omega, and in the sugar pucker is indicated.
(8) These facts suggest that astrocytes play an important role in preretinal membrane formation in macular pucker.
(9) The free duplex adopts a regular right-handed B-type conformation in which all glycosidic bond angles are anti and all sugar puckers lie in the C2'-endo range.
(10) All cases occurred in eyes with existing retinal holes or tears, including eight cases of macular pucker after previous retinal detachment.
(11) The conformations of the terminal residues of helix I, which corresponds to bases (-1)-11 and 108-120 of native 5S RNA, are less well-determined, and their sugar puckers are intermediate between C2' and C3'-endo, on average.
(12) Different ester substituents affect 1,4-dihydropyridine ring puckering to a small extent in most cases.
(13) Scalar couplings from correlated experiments and interproton distances from NOESY experiments at short mixing times have been used to determine glycosidic angles, sugar puckers, and other conformational features.
(14) There appeared to be a possibility that this muscular thickening might give rise to the rectosigmoidal mucosal puckering often seen through a sigmoidoscope.
(15) Intranucleotide NOEs from the sugar protons H1', H2', and H3' to the base protons were used to determine the conformation of each nucleotide (puckers and glycosidic torsion angles).
(16) The most flexible conformational angles in the structure are the glycosidic angle and the sugar pucker.
(17) Of these, 89% of the cis-proline residues exhibit the DOWN pucker, while the trans-proline residues, on average, are about evenly distributed between the two forms.
(18) The folding of the polynucleotide chain is accomplished either solely by rotations around the P-O bonds or in concert with rotations around the nucleotide C4'-C5' bond with or without changes in the sugar ring pucker.
(19) Postoperative proliferative vitreoretinopathy occurred in six eyes (10%) and macular pucker in two (3%).
(20) The glycosidic torsional angle, chiCN = -28.4 degrees, is in the anti region; the sugar pucker is C(2')exo-C(3')endo in a nearly pure 32H twist; and the conformation of C(4')-C(5') is gauche-gauche.