(n.) A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).
(n.) An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement.
(n.) A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.
(n.) A support for a fishing line; a fish pole.
(n.) A member used in tension, as for sustaining a suspended weight, or in tension and compression, as for transmitting reciprocating motion, etc.; a connecting bar.
(n.) An instrument for measuring.
(n.) A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; -- called also perch, and pole.
Example Sentences:
(1) The NORPLANT-2 rod system on the other hand consists of only 2 rods.
(2) Since resistance is mainly mediated by R plasmids, we undertook to investigate the characteristics of R plasmid-determined beta-lactamase in 6 Gram-negative rods.
(3) Electroretinographic (ERG), morphometric and biochemical studies on retinas from monkeys or rats reveal that moderate level developmental lead (Pb) exposure produces long-term selective rod deficits and degeneration.
(4) Electron microscopy revealed the presence of a hitherto unreported peculiar "pilovacuolar" inclusion in numerous mitochondria, composed of an electron dense pile or rod within a vacuole, while globular or crystalline inclusions were absent.
(5) Changes in protein phosphorylation induced by phagocytic challenge were identified in cultured rat retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) following exposure to isolated rat rod outer segments (ROS) or to polystyrene latex microspheres (PSL).
(6) Thirty-six investigations were made using a number of lithium fluoride micro-rods for each investigation.
(7) After intravenous or dorsal lymph sac injections of 3H-22:6, most of the retinal label was seen in rod photoreceptor cells.
(8) The antigenic determinant defined by 5E9 was also shown to be present in a 87000 molecular weight polypeptide located in the proximal part of the flagellum of Crithidia oncopelti in which a paraflagellar rod is not detectable at the ultrastructural level.
(9) Chloride caused a significant concentration-dependent shortening of myosin rods due to destabilization of the alpha-helical double coiled rod structure.
(10) Rod adaptation was abnormal in both families, but the time course of adaptation differed between patients with the two mutations.
(11) Electron microscopy shows that at neutral pH, CEA particles consist of homogeneous, morphologically distinctive, twisted rod-shaped particles, about 9 X 40 nm.
(12) RCA-1, which is specific for D-galactose, showed patchy fluorescence on the basal and distal portions of the outer segments of the cones and rods, whereas neuraminidase-treated sections had uniform fluorescence throughout the tissues.
(13) All are satisfied by [Formula: see text], where N is the size of rod signal, constant for threshold; theta, theta(D) are steady backgrounds of light and receptor noise; varphi is the threshold flash with sigma a constant of about 2.5 log td sec; B the fraction of pigment in the bleached state.
(14) The territory’s chief executive Leung Chun-ying, has become a lightning rod for the protesters’ anger .
(15) Beyond intraoperative recognition and removal of the rods, effective strategies to prevent this neuronal loss have yet to be developed.
(16) Sensitivities to gentamicin, sissomicin, tobramycin, and amikacin were compared in 196 gentamicin-resistant Gram-negative rods and in 212 similar organisms sensitive to gentamicin, mainly isolated from clinical specimens.
(17) It should be considered as a causative agent in culture-negative cases of endocarditis and also when a gram-negative rod is isolated which is sensitive to all antibiotics.
(18) Rats permitted to recover for 13 weeks and then sacrificed had lost almost all their rods (p less than 0.001) while the cones were reduced by about 50% (p less than 0.01).
(19) The reports of rod-dominated psychophysical spectral sensitivity from the deprived eye of monocularly lid-sutured (MD) monkeys are intriguing but difficult to reconcile with the absence of any reported deprivation effects in retina.
(20) Rod adaptation had no reliable influence on response to rapid onset in cones or bipolar cells.
Verge
Definition:
(n.) A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
(n.) The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
(n.) The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore.
(n.) A virgate; a yardland.
(n.) A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or brink of something definite in extent.
(n.) A circumference; a circle; a ring.
(n.) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
(n.) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
(n.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.
(n.) The edge or outside of a bed or border.
(n.) A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.
(n.) The penis.
(n.) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
(v. i.) To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.
(v. i.) To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.
Example Sentences:
(1) On proctoscopic examination, an anal remnant, measuring approximately 3 cm from the anal verge, could be demonstrated.
(2) The 85-year-old ex-president, who has been on the verge of death according to his lawyer, sat in a wheelchair next to his two sons, who are being tried in a separate corruption-related case.
(3) He is the embodiment of the belief that money and power provide a licence to impose one’s will on others, whether that entitlement is expressed by grabbing women or grabbing the finite resources from a planet on the verge of catastrophic warming.
(4) We know that in England there are trusts that are on the verge of bankruptcy and 4,500 nurses have been made redundant .
(5) What publicity the chief minister of the western Indian state of Gujarat could attract outside his homeland was only ever condemnatory, and his political career, barely begun, appeared on the verge of oblivion.
(6) The national football team were on the verge of a 1974 World Cup place and controversially finished second to Haiti, after losing 2-1 despite scoring five goals – four of which were disallowed – against the hosts in a qualifying tournament staged by the Haitians.
(7) The White House is on the verge of a dramatic political victory in Congress after a flurry of last-minute endorsements for its Iran nuclear deal put Democrats within sight of enough votes to spare Barack Obama from needing to veto a motion of disapproval from Congress.
(8) In 36 of 41 patients (88%) undergoing a right hemicolectomy, the adenomatous polyp(s) was found within 65 cm from the anal verge.
(9) We hope he performs as well as he has always done.” Away from Suárez, Lionel Messi is on the verge of making La Liga history as he sits just one goal behind Telmo Zarra’s record of 251.
(10) In patients with Dukes' B tumours, an increased risk of loco-regional recurrence was associated with perineural invasion, tumour located less than 10 cm from the anal verge, patient aged above 70 years, and small tumour size.
(11) We report our experience of this technique in six elderly patients (mean age 74 years) with large villous adenomas, situated between 2 and 12 cm from the anal verge.
(12) I have played a season with Aston Villa which was a hard season but I think my style is good for the Premier League.” Koeman is looking to advance his transfer dealings before the start of the new campaign with the Wales captain, Ashley Williams, understood to be on the verge of a £10m move from Swansea .
(13) Others say the government is on the verge of a compromise with the Kurdish minority and to balance any negative reaction from their own constituency they are playing to the nationalist gallery.
(14) If he was on the verge of becoming a "national treasure" to the minuscule percentage of the nation who could identify him by name were they shown a picture of him, this latest episode will have reminded them that there really are bigger and better idiots in public life to get behind.
(15) The vote provided the climax to a year of debate in which the bill at times seemed on the verge of passage and at others about to be scrapped.
(16) They were also older (68 vs. 65, p = 0.13), had lesions closer to the anal verge (10.2 vs. 11.4 cm, p = 0.07), and had more infectious complications (13.6% vs. 2.6%, 0.05 less than p less than 0.1) than patients without colostomies.
(17) A sample of 805 (432 men and 373 women) Israeli "on-time" people on the verge of retirement were interviewed.
(18) Europe is on the verge of collapse, yet we can’t even see what’s happening.
(19) Flattening of the anal verge and rugae occurred during dilatation by the midpoint of the examination in 44% and 34%, respectively.
(20) The lesions were located within 8 cm from the anal verge and consisted of superficial ulcerations, fibrotic scar tissue and rectal stenosis.