(n.) A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid.
(n.) A kind of waterproof cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of common repellents on the membrane fluidity of Escherichia coli were measured by the fluorescence polarization of the probe 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene in liposomes made of lipids extracted from the bacteria and in membrane vesicles.
(2) It is suggested that the capacity of large doses of L3T4+ cells to protect mice against lethal GVHD is a reflection of T helper function: the cellular immunity provided by the donor L3T4+ cells enables the host to repel pathogens entering through damaged mucosal surfaces, with the result that GVHD becomes sublethal.
(3) Repellent effect of the Mannich bases (methoxyphenol derivatives) on Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and Xenopsylla cheopis fleas was revealed under laboratory and field conditions.
(4) We have recently prepared a carbon fibre micro-electrode (mCFE) which specifically pretreated and coated with Nafion (a negatively charged polymer which repels acids such as 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC)) allows the direct selective detection of the oxidation of DA and 5-HT in nanomolar concentration in vitro and that of extracellular basal levels of cerebral 5-HT in vivo (peak B at +240 mV).
(5) A couple of years later, he patented a method of producing a water-repellent textile.
(6) These compounds possess insecticidal and repellent properties.
(7) Tory toffs repelling undesirable immigrants, providing better schools, using welfare reform as a pathway to work, clearing vandals, yobs and drunks from the streets and standing up to our masters in Brussels would be very popular, and the word would soon be forgotten.
(8) Repellent addition has previously been shown to stimulate MCP demethylation.
(9) Of 33 compounds tested, 8 were repellents for B. bacteriovorus strain UKi2: n-caproate, alanine, isoleucine, leucine, phenylalanine, tyrosine, cobaltous chloride, and hydronium ion.
(10) The CDC and other health agencies have been operating for months on the assumption that Zika causes brain defects, and they have been warning pregnant women to use mosquito repellent, avoid travel to Zika-stricken regions and either abstain from sex or rely on condoms.
(11) But maybe, just maybe, they won’t, for they represent real forces and articulate real passions that Labour and the Conservatives, and now the Lib Dems, have so far utterly failed to repel.
(12) The treatment involved the use of repelling magnets for the distalization of the upper right molar which was in a class II relationship.
(13) The most important stabilizing factor for the intramolecular proton transfer is the zinc ion, which lowers the pKa of zinc-bound water and electrostatically repels the proton.
(14) Both sexes were attracted to the odor of R-(-)-carvone and repelled by the odor of (+)-citronellol.
(15) The paint whooshed down through the freshwater, but as soon as it hit the saltwater it was repelled, spreading out laterally as if the pigment had hit an invisible horizon.
(16) In bacterial chemotaxis, transmembrane receptor proteins detect attractants and repellents in the medium and send intracellular signals that control motility.
(17) Iain Lobban, the director of GCHQ, the government's eavesdropping and encrypting agency, last week used his first public speech to call for an aggressive approach to cyber attacks, and warned of the dangers of adopting the sort of defensive strategy famously symbolised by France's Maginot line, which was meant to repel the Germans and failed.
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(19) Current control measures, stressing the use of mosquito nets, insect repellent, and residual insecticides designed primarily for the less mobile population of rice-farming communities are less effective among more mobile people.
(20) Soldiers damaged three of the vessels before clashes in which the militants were eventually repelled.
Sandalwood
Definition:
(n.) The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and S. pyrularium, the Australian S. latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood.
(n.) Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields sandalwood.
(n.) The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus).
Example Sentences:
(1) A fast method for such comparisons, based on volume matching followed by the estimation of comparable surface dots, is presented and applied on a few selected sandalwood odour molecules.
(2) The Roldugin-Sandalwood schemes were organised by the Swiss lawyers Dietrich, Baumgartner & Partner , whose offices are in the heart of Zurich’s banking district.
(3) Further loans made to media production and TV companies were reassigned to Sandalwood.
(4) Between 2009 and 2011 it extended $800m in credit lines to Sandalwood Continental.
(5) But the Panama Papers showed $2bn flowing from Russian state banks to offshore companies linked to Roldugin, including a firm in the British Virgin Islands called Sandalwood Continental Ltd.
(6) In December 2010, the RCB lent 5bn roubles (then about £100m) offshore to Sandalwood at 4% interest.
(7) They have largely meaningless names – Sonnette Overseas, International Media Overseas, Sunbarn, Raytar, Sandalwood Continental Ltd .
(8) Sandalwood promptly passed it on to another offshore entity with obscure ownership, Eurofert Trading Ltd, as a loan at 5%.
(9) Goldblatt said that the author's satirical novel Jiuguo (The Republic of Wine) "may be the most technically innovative and sophisticated novel from China I've read", while his Shengsi pilao (Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out) is "a brilliant extended fable", and Tanxiangxing (Sandalwood Death) "is, as the author contends, musical in its beauty".
(10) As soon as the cash came in from RCB, Sandalwood lent it on to a Cyprus-registered entity, Horwich Trading, at a hefty 7.8% interest.
(11) In one example from July 2010, Sandalwood agreed to buy shares through Starcourt Worldwide Ltd, an offshore company based in Belize.
(12) The cash came from Sandalwood, the offshore company linked to Putin’s other close friend, Roldugin.
(13) He had practiced the incense ceremony for about 15 years, and had burnt several incenses and sandalwood.
(14) The files show how the simple movement of the money made Sandalwood a profit of $4m.
(15) It then paid Sandalwood nearly $800,000 in “compensation”.
(16) The GC-fingerprint spectra of essential oils in imported sandalwood are established by the new technique of GC-relative retention value fingerprint spectrum (GC-FPS).
(17) The vast trade in shark fins and turtles will also come under attack, as will the large-scale felling of tropical rosewood and sandalwood, as well as less well-known issues such as Indonesia's huge exports of frogs' legs, and the trade in cheetahs and python skins.