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Ring


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.
  • (v. t.) To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.
  • (v. t.) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
  • (v. i.) To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one.
  • (v. i.) To practice making music with bells.
  • (v. i.) To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a ringing or reverberating sound.
  • (v. i.) To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound.
  • (v. i.) To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.
  • (n.) A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell.
  • (n.) Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
  • (n.) A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
  • (n.) A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop.
  • (n.) Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a wedding ring.
  • (n.) A circular area in which races are or run or other sports are performed; an arena.
  • (n.) An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence, figuratively, prize fighting.
  • (n.) A circular group of persons.
  • (n.) The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles.
  • (n.) The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure.
  • (n.) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
  • (n.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium.
  • (n.) A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc.
  • (v. t.) To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle.
  • (v. t.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.
  • (v. t.) To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.
  • (v. i.) To rise in the air spirally.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Tyr side chain had two conformations of comparable energy, one over the ring between the Gln and Asn side chains, and the other with the Tyr side chain away from the ring.
  • (2) Sterile, pruritic papules and papulopustules that formed annular rings developed on the back of a 58-year-old woman.
  • (3) The teeth were embedded in phenolic rings with acrylic resin.
  • (4) Surgical removal was avoided without complications by detaching it with a ring stripper.
  • (5) The Labour MP urged David Cameron to guarantee that officers who give evidence over the alleged paedophile ring in Westminster will not be prosecuted.
  • (6) These results coupled with previous studies support activation of benz[j]aceanthrylene via both 2 and cyclopenta ring epoxidation.
  • (7) TK1 showed the most restricted substrate specificity but tolerated 3'-modifications of the sugar ring and some 5-substitutions of the pyrimidine ring.
  • (8) Endothelium-dependent relaxations to acetylcholine and endothelium-independent relaxations to nitric oxide were observed in rings from both strains during contraction with endothelin.
  • (9) Aortic rings from the rabbit were similarly potently antagonized by the protein kinase C inhibitors, however, K(+)-induced contractions were also equally sensitive to these agents in both rat and rabbit tissues.
  • (10) The intracellular distribution and interaction of 19S ring-type particles from D. melanogaster have been analysed.
  • (11) Rings of isolated coronary and femoral arteries (without endothelium) were suspended for isometric tension recording in organ chambers filled with modified Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate solution.
  • (12) In all cases Richter's hernia was at the internal inguinal ring.
  • (13) Seventy-five hands showed normal distal latency, in which cases, however, the SNCV of the ring finger was always outside the normal range, while the SNCVs of the thumb, index and middle fingers were abnormal in 64%, 80% and 92% of cases respectively.
  • (14) The cells are predominantly monopolar, tightly packed, and are flattened at the outer border of the ring.
  • (15) Defects in the posterior one-half of the trachea, up to 5 rings long, were repaired, with minimal stenosis.
  • (16) A new analog of salmon calcitonin (N alpha-propionyl Di-Ala1,7,des-Leu19 sCT; RG-12851; here termed CTR), which lacks the ring structure of native calcitonin, was tested for biological activity in several in vitro and in vivo assay systems.
  • (17) The chemical shift changes observed on the binding of trimethoprim to dihydrofolate reductase are interpreted in terms of the ring-current shift contributions from the two aromatic rings of trimethoprim and from that of phenylalanine-30.
  • (18) Three strains of fluorescent pseudomonads (IS-1, IS-2, and IS-3) isolated from potato underground stems with roots showed in vitro antibiosis against 30 strains of the ring rot bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis subsp.
  • (19) Both adiphenine.HCl and proadifen.HCl form more stable complexes, suggesting that hydrogen bonding to the carbonyl oxygen by the hydroxyl-group on the rim of the CD ring could be an important contributor to the complexation.
  • (20) Serial sections from over a hundred such structures show that these are tubular structures and that the 'test-tube and ring-shaped' forms described in the literature are no more than profiles one expects to see when a tubular structure is sectioned.

Unit


Definition:

  • (n.) A single thing or person.
  • (n.) The least whole number; one.
  • (n.) A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings.
  • (n.) Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind.
  • (n.) A single thing, as a magnitude or number, regarded as an undivided whole.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
  • (2) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
  • (3) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
  • (4) The Frenchman’s 65th-minute goal was a fifth for United and redemptive after he conceded the penalty from which CSKA Moscow took a first-half lead.
  • (5) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
  • (6) The small units described here could be inhibitory interneurons which convert the excitatory response of large units into inhibition.
  • (7) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
  • (8) No significant change occurred in the bacterial population of our hospital unit during the period of the study (more than 3 years).
  • (9) Pokeweed mitogen-stimulated rat spleen cells were identified as a reliable source of rat burst-promoting activity (PBA), which permitted development of a reproducible assay for rat bone marrow erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E).
  • (10) Twitch-tetanus ratios were calculated and found not to be related to unit contraction time.6.
  • (11) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
  • (12) High-grade and low-grade candidemia were defined as 25 colony-forming units or more per 10 ml and 10 colony-forming units or fewer per 10 ml of blood, respectively.
  • (13) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
  • (14) The level of significance of the statistical estimate of the change in the number of phonoreactive units (its increase due to deprivation) amounts to 92%.
  • (15) the class- and specificity-restricted antigen-sensitive units.
  • (16) This article reviews the care of the chest-injured patient during the intensive care unit phase of his or her recovery.
  • (17) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
  • (18) Asthma is probably the commonest chronic disease in the United Kingdom, and its attendant morbidity extends outside the possible scope of the hospital sector.
  • (19) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
  • (20) The committee reviewed the history, original intent, current purpose, and effectiveness of meetings held on the unit; when problems were identified, suggestions for change were formulated.