(v. i.) To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.
(v. i.) To move by leaps, or as by leaps; hence, to move swiftly or with violence.
(v. i.) To climb, as a plant; to creep up.
(n.) A leap; a spring; a hostile advance.
(n.) A highwayman; a robber.
(n.) A romping woman; a prostitute.
(n.) Any sloping member, other than a purely constructional one, such as a continuous parapet to a staircase.
(n.) A short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction.
(n.) An inclined plane serving as a communication between different interior levels.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pressure is ramping up on Asda boss Andy Clarke, who next week will reveal the chain’s sales performance for the quarter covering Christmas.
(2) Stiffness was reduced in approximate proportion to the ramp stretch rate, and the reduction was confined largely to the elastic component.
(3) Twenty-six rapidly adapting units (RA), eighteen slowly adapting units (SA) and ten Pacinian corpuscle units (PC) were differentiated from each other mainly on the presence of the off response in RA and PC units to a ramp stimulation, the persistence of discharges of the SA units during steady pressure on the receptive field and the classical tuning curve seen in the PC units.
(4) Modulation in relation to tremor was superimposed on the bidirectional pattern related to ramps.
(5) Fiber activity was assessed by applying to the Achilles tendon a 5-mm ramp stretch at 5 or 25-30 mm X s-1.
(6) Phasic-tonic MUs exhibited a phasic burst of activity during the torque ramp which exceeded the firing rate during the static hold period.
(7) Three-dimensional wavelength-absorbance-furnace temperature spectra can be obtained by using ramped heating steps to provide a rough separation of elements in a mixture.
(8) This report considers the accuracy of the measurement method as a function of ramp width.
(9) Slow-adapting free nerve endings were also observed through response to square wave pressure stimuli and ramp shaped pressure stimuli.
(10) The ventilatory sensitivity to CO2 obtained from a non-steady-state step-ramp CO2 challenge (analogous to the Read rebreathing method) was compared with the one of the steady-state method.
(11) These findings indicate that muscle length does influence the discharge pattern of motor unit spike trains during isometric ramp contractions.
(12) For years a small army of therapists has worked in the shadows to help older people stay in their own homes – fitting stair rails, ordering hoists, measuring ramps and offering support vital to rehabilitation.
(13) This report describes an inexpensive ramp generator which produces multiple ramp-and-hold stimuli ("staircase-type" wave forms).
(14) Wheelchair ramps Raul Krauthausen is the man behind Wheelmap, a crowdsourced map of wheelchair-friendly places around the world.
(15) An IBM PC-compatible computer program, RAMP, for evaluation of single-channel recordings acquired using voltage ramp protocols is presented.
(16) When step-ramp stimuli were presented in the normal field, the monkeys delayed the initiation of saccades to targets moving towards the central fixation point, and hastened the initiation of saccades to targets moving away from the central fixation point.
(17) The aim of this work was to provide well defined criteria for ramp construction for wheelchair dependent individuals (WDI).
(18) The council apparently told Lally that the giant ramp was the only option because of building regulations.
(19) The findings suggest that with the stimulator used in this study, ramp time has no effect on the three basic excitatory responses, i.e., thresholds of sensory, motor and painful stimulation.
(20) The responses of slowly-adapting neurons were separated into two components, a "dynamic" response corresponding to activity elicited by the initial indenting ramp and a "static" response produced by the sustained indentation.
Samp
Definition:
(n.) An article of food consisting of maize broken or bruised, which is cooked by boiling, and usually eaten with milk; coarse hominy.
Example Sentences:
(1) SAMP lyase activity showed an early increase in all regimens containing hepatocarcinogens.
(2) The mature SAMP synthetase subunit, as deduced from the DNA sequence, contains 427 amino acid residues and has a calculated Mr of 47,277.
(3) In all cases, histologic, bacteriologic, virologic and parasitologic samps are warranted to discover current associated diseases.
(4) Increase in SAMP lyase activity was noted as early as 48 to 72 hr following i.p.
(5) The high activity of adenylosuccinate (SAMP) lyase found in rat breast tumor, and its relative absence from normal rat breast tissue, suggests that it may serve as an indicator for human breast malignancy.
(6) Sam-samping had 4.79% total oligosaccharides and hyacinth bean or batao, 3.66%.
(7) Adenylosuccinate synthetase (EC 6.3.4.4), encoded by the purA gene of Escherichia coli K12, catalyzes the synthesis of adenylosuccinate (SAMP) from IMP, the first committed step in AMP biosynthesis.
(8) I’ve tried to tell him to come to Samp because he’s a great talent.
(9) Adenylate cyclase activity as well as intracellular content of sAMP were decreased 2.5-4-fold, as compared with normal state, in plasmatic membranes (PM) of hepatoma 22 and of Ehrlich ascites carcinoma--the tumors characterized by high level- of malignancy.
(10) The enantiomers of EHXA were prepared via asymmetric synthesis with the aid of the chiral auxiliaries (R)- and (S)-1-amino-2-(methoxymethyl)pyrrolidine (RAMP, SAMP).
(11) SAMP synthetase either was nonresponsive or else showed inhibition to the carcinogens.
(12) Authors give rational rules for therapy of these anomalies, based on their samp physiopathology.
(13) These results indicate that further work is warranted to determine the effectiveness of SAMP lyase as an indicator of breast and prostatic cancers.
(14) Neither colon SAMP lyase nor LSA increased in rats bearing colon tumors induced by dimethylhydrazine.
(15) Moreover, a peculiar impairment of the coordination was noted between the state of fat-carbohydrate metabolism and the character of SAMP excretion in breast and lung cancer.
(16) The response of SAMP lyase was not duplicated by analogs of carcinogens such as 4'-methyl-4-dimethylaminoazobenzene or methionine.
(17) Biosynthesis of inosine and Ade- phenotype of the cpm mutant are not mediated by the change in activity of sAMP synthetase.
(18) Both SAMP lyase and LSA are very good early indicators of hepatic tumor with SAMP lyase an earlier indicator of breast tumor than LSA.
(19) Both enantiomers were prepared via asymmetric synthesis using (R)- and (S)-1-amino-2-(methoxymethyl)pyrrolidine (RAMP: SAMP).
(20) Elevation of breast SAMP lyase concurred with macroscopic presence of dimethylbenzanthracene involved breast tumors with elevation of LSA occurring 12 weeks later.