(v. t.) To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
(n.) A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment.
(n.) Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress.
(n.) A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
(n.) A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.
(n.) A ragged edge.
(n.) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
(v. i.) To become tattered.
(v. t.) To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
(v. t.) To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over the past 20 years the rag-and-bone trade has had a makeover.
(2) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
(3) Confluent monolayers of capillary endothelial cells derived from Mongolian gerbil brain were irradiated with a single exposure of x-rays, and their radiosensitivity and sequential changes in morphology, staining intensity for factor VIII-related antigen (F VIII RAg), and capacity to produce prostacyclin (PGI2) were examined.
(4) Skeletal muscle mtDNA of three patients with mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, characterized clinically by myoclonic epilepsy and ragged-red fiber (MERRF) syndrome, has been sequenced to determine the underlying molecular defect(s).
(5) A distinctive pattern of subsarcolemmal mitochondrial aggregates, referred to as "ragged red fibers" in human mitochondrial myopathies, was observed in muscle biopsy samples from 1 dog.
(6) Endothelial cells of capillary vessels showed positive binding by UEA-1 lectin and the presence of factor VIII RAG.
(7) Four of the mutants had no effect on chylous ascites, but two mutants linked with ragged, and one unlinked, showed a complex situation involving enhancement, inhibition, epistacy and other interactions.
(8) There was a slight shortening in the thrombin time and a smaller increase in post-operative FVIII RAg and FVIII RCof levels in the HES group.
(9) There was no correlation between FVIII:RAg levels and radiation pneumonitis, radiation dose, volume of irradiated lung, tumor burden, or time-interval between exposure and sampling.
(10) In one of these, a probe designed specifically to detect deleted mtDNA identified abundant deleted mtDNA and its fusion transcript in RRF and lesser accumulations in non-ragged red cytochrome oxidase (COX) deficient fibres.
(11) Only in fragments of the biceps brachii muscle histological and histochemical investigations showed mitochondrial changes of the type of "ragged-red fibres".
(12) In situ hybridization to intact thymus and RNA blot analysis of isolated thymic subpopulations separated on the basis of T cell receptor (TCR) expression demonstrated that both TCR- and TCR+ cortical thymocytes express RAG-1 and RAG-2 messenger RNA's.
(13) Nuclear run-on assays showed that TPA completely repressed the transcription of RAG-1 within 30 min.
(14) A former Socialist party leader, he is a jovial, wise-cracking believer in consensus politics, who aides say never loses his rag and who so hates fights that he was once nicknamed "the marshmallow" within his own party, or "Flanby", after a wobbly caramel pudding.
(15) The Farage adviser said he looked back on many people within Ukip as “a bunch of rag-tag, unprofessional, embarrassing people who let Nigel down at every juncture.” He told the Guardian: “Someone needs to go in there with a big stick.
(16) Furthermore, we show that RAG can be expressed not only by CD3-TCR negative but also by CD3-TCRab or gd positive T-ALL cells.
(17) After fusion of HPRT- RAG cells with E. lutescens fibroblasts we demonstrated that the enzymes HPRT and G6PD are localized on the presumptive X chromosome.
(18) We analyzed the mitochondrial DNA of blood cells of 5 patients from a Chinese family with myoclonic epilepsy and ragged-red fiber disease.
(19) A small percentage of peripheral B cells also contained RAG-1 mRNA, raising the possibility that this protein may also be involved in immunoglobulin class switching.
(20) Exposure of isolated thymocytes to 12-O-tetra-decanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA)+ionomycin rapidly abolishes the expression of recombination-activating gene-1 (RAG-1) mRNA (3 h), down-regulates CD4 surface antigen expression (3 h), and enhances apoptosis (24 h).
Raggy
Definition:
(a.) Ragged; rough.
Example Sentences:
(1) While the Sala news was significant, it was overshadowed by the implosion of Raggi’s administration, in part because she holds the office with the highest profile in her party.
(2) The arrest on Friday of Raffaele Marra, who has been nicknamed Raggi’s “Rasputin” and is reportedly under investigation in connection to real-estate deals dating back to 2013, comes just days after the resignation of another city councillor under scrutiny for corruption, and the revelation that police have seized documents from city hall as part of their investigation into the mayor’s hiring practices.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Virginia Raggi, Five Star’s mayor in Rome.
(4) At a glitzy opening for the biggest building to be built in Rome in decades – a €363m (£307m) colossus in the EUR neighbourhood that took almost 20 years to build – Raggi took to the stage to express her disapproval for the work as a symbol of waste and extravagance.
(5) Shortly after her mayoral election in Rome in June , M5S’s Virginia Raggi effectively killed the city’s bid, saying it would be too costly.
(6) Raggi had defended her controversial appointment of Muraro for months, saying questions about Muraro’s previous work were merely political smears intended to weaken her.
(7) The momentum M5S gained from that win could be diminished by the chaos that has engulfed Raggi’s administration in Rome, prompting questions about the party’s ability to govern even as it is pushing for Italy’s president to call early elections.
(8) Raggi’s decision to bring Marra into her administration has been a source of controversy for months.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Beppe Grillo with Rome’s mayor Virginia Raggi during a ‘No’ march.
(10) The highest glycemic index values were shown by starchy tubers, Raggi and fleshy fruits, while relatively lower values were obtained for pulses and rice; whole wheat showed the smallest glycemic index.
(11) With her reddish hair in a raggy bob, her Clara Bow lips and saucer-sized green-grey eyes, she has the look of a silent movie star.
(12) While she promised to – literally and figuratively – clean up the city, Raggi’s tenure so far has prompted complaints that Rome is just as dirty as ever, and with even less reliable public transportation.
(13) Italy’s Five Star Movement (M5S) has been dealt a significant blow following the arrest of a top aide to the mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi, an anti-corruption crusader who was swept into power this year on the promise that she would clean up the city.
(14) The impact of Marra’s arrest was made worse by the fact that Raggi suffered another defeat just days ago, when Paola Muraro, who was supposed to head the city’s rubbish collection, resigned after she was notified that she was under investigation for earlier work she did as a consultant for Rome’s rubbish collection company.
(15) Since June, its newest star, Virginia Raggi, has endured a rocky few months after being elected mayor of Rome .