(n.) A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations.
(n.) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. See Canting arms, under Canting.
(v. t.) To mark or indicate by a rebus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rebus, promised the Scottish author, will be "as stubborn and anarchic as ever", and will find himself in trouble with the author's latest creation, Malcolm Fox, of Edinburgh's internal affairs unit.
(2) The two great Edinburgh novels - pre-Rebus, of course - are James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner, whose diableries and doublings take place partly in the Old Town's back courts and, though it doesn't mention the place at all, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Neither has much in the way of urban geography or familiar landmarks.
(3) Open Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, plus Sun noon-6pm in July and August The Oxford Bar Photograph: Alamy When the Inspector Rebus ITV series was relaunched in 2006, with Ken Stott stepping into the scuffed brogues of John Hannah, there was a feeling they had finally got the right man to play Ian Rankin's bruised copper.
(4) To evaluate these hypotheses, sentences were presented in which a pictured object replaced a word (rebus sentences).
(5) Standing in Another Man's Grave, the first book to feature Rebus since he retired in 2007's Exit Music, will be out this November, Rankin said on Tuesday.
(6) The data showed that Group B (rebuses) required fewer trials than Group A (abstract symbols) to meet criterion for Phase II, matching symbols to stimulus pictures.
(7) These are the things we are throwing away.” One of the libraries due to close is Bowhill, a place that Rankin, creator of detective John Rebus, said had been his “refuge and a place of constant wonder” when he was growing up.
(8) In a scene that could have come from a crime novel (and Rankin has said Rebus might have acted in the same way), Fulcher questioned a suspect, Chris Halliwell, on a remote hillside without access to legal advice in a desperate attempt to crack the case.
(9) "There's also a lot of similarities between Taggart and Rebus – that's the nature of crime," he said.
(10) Some say the couple wrote the finest crime series ever; that without them we would not have Ian Rankin's John Rebus or Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander.
(11) Gargan says that he accepts Rebus creator Ian Rankin's view that a novel that actually followed police procedure would be exceedingly dull, but he worries about the impact that fictional coppers have on the real article and wishes they were depicted in a more realistic way.
(12) The symbol sets included: nonidentical objects, miniature objects, identical colored photographs, nonidentical colored photographs, black-and-white photographs, Picture Communication Symbols (PCS), Picsyms, Rebus, Self-Talk, Blissymbols, and written words.
(13) And it certainly isn't Philip Marlowe , or John Rebus , or VI Warshawski (who manages to be twice as hardboiled as her male counterparts).
(14) Group A (abstract symbols) required fewer trials than Group B (rebuse) to meet criterion for Phase 111, matching printed words to stimulus pictures.
(15) Results indicated that treatment, consisting of a sound-referenced rebus approach, affected change in production of trained words as well as generalization to untrained words for targeted behaviors.
(16) Crime writers should depict more detectives as clean-living and balanced rather than damaged and hard-drinking like the Inspector Rebus of Ian Rankin's novels, a chief constable has said.
(17) It is another mystery for inspector Rebus to solve.
(18) Which is why, largely to reassure fans who may or may not have read Joyce but read Rebus by the yard, poor Ian Rankin can be seen counting exactly how many steps there are on Edinburgh's Fleshmarket Close.
(19) The lexical hypothesis would therefore lead one to expect that rebus sentences will be relatively difficult, whereas the conceptual hypothesis would predict that rebus sentences would be rather easy.
(20) Ian Rankin has only yanked detective inspector John Rebus out of retirement, but fans will still be rejoicing at news that the dour investigator is set to return later this year with a new mystery to solve.
Rubus
Definition:
(n.) A genus of rosaceous plants, including the raspberry and blackberry.
Example Sentences:
(1) We observed a four-year-old girl with Stevens-Johnson syndrome attributed to ingestion of salmon berries (Rubus spectabilis).
(2) The present work is concerned with the aroma of hybrids between raspberry (Rubus idaeus, L.) and arctic bramble (Rubus arcticus, L.).
(3) The branched trisaccharide, 2-O-(beta-D-glucopyranosyl)-6-O-(alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)-D-glucopyranos e (2), is regarded as the sugar moiety of an anthocyanin pigment isolated from the fruits and flowers of certain Begonia, Clivia, Rubus, Prunus, and Ribis species.
(4) (PX) and ethanolic and acetone extracts of Rubus ellipiticus Smith (PX) inhibited pregnancy in 70-90% of rats.
(5) Aqueous extracts of Rubus parvifolius have been proved useful in shortening bleeding time and coagulation time in mice, shortening euglobulinlysis time in rabbits, inhibiting platelet thrombosis in rabbits in vivo, Rubus parvifolius increasing coronary flow in isolated rat heart, preventing rats from pituitrin induced changes of ECG and Rubus parvifolius increasing the tolerance of mice to hypoxia.
(6) Such particles were detected in the following SMYE sources: D-74 from Germany, two from the United Kingdom in Fragaria vesca 'Alpine' indicator plants and Oregon MY-18 in Rubus rosifolius.
(7) Rubusoside (the beta-D-glucosyl ester of 13-O-beta-D-glucosyl-steviol), which is the major sweet principle of leaves of Rubus suavissimus S. Lee, was subjected to 1,4-alpha-transglucosylation by the cyclodextringlucanotransferase-starch system (the CGTase system).
(8) Different xyloglucan (XG) fractions were isolated from Rubus fruticosus cells cultured in suspension.
(9) A monocyclic N-alkyl-hydroxypiperidine was shown to be the strongest inhibitor of the series upon cycloartenol-cyclase (I50 = 1 microM) from maize embryos but was much less effective on the beta(alpha)-amyrin-cyclases from Rubus fruticosus suspension cultures or pea cotyledons.
(10) Oemleria cerasiformis, Populus tremuloides, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Rhamnus purshianus and Rubus spectabilis; gynaecological problems with bark of Abies grandis, Arbutus menziesii, Populus tremuloides, Prunus emarginata, Pseudotsuga menziesii and Sambucus racemosa; and dermatological complaints with the bark of Mahonia spp., Rubus spectabilis, and Symphoricarpos albus.
(11) Dried leaves of agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria), alfalfa (Medicago sativa), blackberry (Rubus fructicosus), celandine (Chelidonium majus), eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus), lady's mantle (Alchemilla vulgaris), and lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis); seeds of coriander (Coriandrum sativum); dried berries of juniper (Juniperus communis); bulbs of garlic (Allium sativum) and roots of liquorice (Glycyrhizza glabra) were studied.
(12) In view of the pharmacological interest in phenolic substances, we have determined the total amount of anthocyanins and polyphenols present in the berries of several cultivars of Ribes, Rubus, and Vaccinium genera.
(13) The volatile components of cloudberries (Rubus chamaemorus L.) have been analysed by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, and about 80 components, comprising 93% of the aroma concentrate, have been identified.