(n.) Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail.
(n.) Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks.
(n.) Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant.
(n.) Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow.
(n.) Rough; shaggy; rugged.
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).
Tatty
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Some of it has become a bit tatty over the years, but that's all part of the eccentricity and charm of the place.
(2) I'd like to say I tasted them first on some misty Irish moorland, or was fed them by grizzled crofters in the Scottish highlands (where they are known as tattie scones).
(3) Adopted as a political prisoner by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, he received thousands of cards and letters of support – a tiny sample jammed into a tatty brown envelope bearing the address of Russia's federal prisons service.
(4) He turned out instead in the same tatty old jackets and pale yellow shirts without a tie that he had had in his wardrobe for decades.
(5) Carlisle's fiancé, Trevor Harris, pulls out a tatty fiver from his pocket to draw his own comparisons.
(6) Burns is, according to the poet Edwin Muir, "to the respectable, a decent man; to the Rabelaisian, bawdy; to the sentimentalist, sentimental; to the socialist, a revolutionary; to the nationalist, a patriot; to the religious, pious …" So no doubt, this January at the start of referendum year , even diehard unionists will be searching around for words of his that seem to support their position and, where they can extrapolate them, sprinkling them around with abandon to salt their haggis, neeps and tatties at Burns suppers the length and breadth of the land.
(7) "Cataclysmic money" was spent razing extant if tatty inner city zones, with their diverse uses, their self-generated social and economic energy vibrating on crowded sidewalks.
(8) It is 10am and the tatty apartment blocks of southern Moscow are still shrouded in winter darkness as a slender young woman hurries towards the metro.
(9) The 12 panel members, all undecided voters, flagged up a wide range of issues, from affordable housing to cycling safety, from the tattiness of some parts of Taunton to the lack of a decent music venue that might tempt big bands further west than Bristol.
(10) Discussions at the central bank over whether to replace the tatty paper fiver with a tougher polymer version started in 2010.
(11) Travel talismans in the shape of little monsters are a collaboration with jewellers Tatty Devine.
(12) the more tatty the present licence-fee system looks.
(13) Nothing beats a whisky hangover like the uber-Scottish Tattie Stack – a pile of double potato scone and smoked bacon topped with Stornoway black pudding and a fried egg.
(14) You can see what Man City has done for the programme and the staff and the participants,” said Kelly, who had gone from taking sessions for six kids on tatty, ripped astroturf eight years ago to having use of City’s money-no-object Etihad Campus.
(15) Rosie Wolfenden, co-founder and managing director of jewellery brand Tatty Devine Rosie Wolfenden started the East London-based business alongside Harriet Vine in 1999.
(16) "My leg was fractured by a bullet," he said, lifting a tatty sheet to reveal a thick white plaster cast.
(17) In the tatty corridors of the school, Abdullah's bodyguard was showing off his hand to journalists – just half an hour earlier his right index finger had been dipped in supposedly indelible ink after he cast his vote.
(18) That it took two years for the first Observer Magazine to appear says much about the debate that went on in the paper's cramped and tatty offices in Tudor Street, just off Fleet Street.
(19) A recent front-page report in the Sun pictured tatty furniture and dodgy light fittings.
(20) But sometimes they are small, dark, have no cupboards, tatty sheets, and an unpleasant shared bathroom.