(n.) A composition, vocal or instrumental, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.
(n.) See Rondeau, 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are also personal revolutions: the idea of the equal, committed, but "open" relationship, as practised by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir , for whom "the game of love" – the rondo of seduction, rejection and change – never had to end.
(2) In the Eastern Conference, the Bulls played without Derrick Rose, the Celtics didn't have Rajon Rondo and the Pacers were without Danny Granger.
(3) "Djindjic understood at a very early age that revolution and money-making were not mutually exclusive activities," as the Greek diplomat Alexander Rondos noted in October 2000.
(4) Rose, Wade, Pierce, Duncan, Howard to start, with Rondo, Ellis, J Johnson, Garnett, Bynum, Irving and Bosh off the bench?
(5) Two nitrate reductase (NaR)-deficient mutants of pea (Pisum sativum L.), E1 and A300, both disturbed in the molybdenum cofactor function and isolated, respectively, from cv Rondo and cv Juneau, were tested for allelism and were compared in biochemical and growth characteristics.
(6) Kobe Bryant and Rajon Rondo, both still recovering from surgery, haven't suited up all season, and Dwyane Wade has been held out of three games as part of Miami's plan for handling his history of knee issues.
(7) If you wanted to see the emptiest triple double of Rajon Rondo's career, go and dig up Philadelphia's 111-102 victory over Boston .
(8) The first gig we ever did, before Andy joined, was supporting Blue Rondo à la Turk , with palm trees behind them.
(9) From that to Beverly he had another son, Yves, an artist and writer, who collaborated with him on the book Rondo: Une Élégie pour Beverly (2015).
(10) Stephenson also attempted to sneak into the Miami huddle , although he may have to pay royalties to the Boston Celtics' Rajon Rondo , who pulled off the same routine a few years back.
(11) • Despite the return of Rajon Rondo, the Boston Celtics have won exactly one game in 2014.
(12) Knowing they were in a rebuilding stage, the Celtics traded Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett to the Brooklyn Nets, sent head coach Doc Rivers to the Los Angeles Clippers and kept sole remaining All-Star Rajon Rondo off court as much as possible.
(13) Each of Kevin Garnett, Rajon Rondo, Ray Allen and Paul Pierce wear championship rings.
(14) 'Rondo') by the standard procedure of differential centrifugation contained considerable contamination of mitochondrial material.
(15) It certainly would, I think the team with Paul Pierce and Rajon Rondo would have a definite chance, but I may possibly* have a pro-Boston athlete bias.
(16) And hey, Rajon Rondo and Greg Oden actually even played a little bit this week, that may mean that it was a net positive for the NBA .
(17) Rajon Rondo is officially back and trying to get Boston sports fans a reason to click away from Red Sox spring training games.
(18) Instead, Bryant now joins a long list of star players who are either questionable or out for the playoffs with injury: Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls, Rajon Rondo of the Boston Celtics, Amar'e Stoudemire of the New York Knicks, Danilo Gallinari of the Denver Nuggets and Danny Granger of the Indiana Pacers.
(19) The Celtics selecting Smart has only increased speculation that Boston may soon be trading All-Star point guard Rajon Rondo, especially since a franchise-rejuvenating trade for the Minnesota Timberwolves' Kevin Love seems less likely now they have cashed in the lottery picks that were their biggest trade assets.
(20) Love replaced Yao in 2011 and Brook Lopez replaced Rajon Rondo last year.
Strain
Definition:
(n.) Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
(n.) Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
(n.) Rank; a sort.
(a.) To draw with force; to extend with great effort; to stretch; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to strain the cords of a musical instrument.
(a.) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it.
(a.) To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously.
(a.) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person.
(a.) To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship.
(a.) To injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle.
(a.) To squeeze; to press closely.
(a.) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
(a.) To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation.
(a.) To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth.
(v. i.) To make violent efforts.
(v. i.) To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil.
(n.) The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
(n.) A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain.
(n.) A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress.
(n.) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
(n.) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career.
(1) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
(2) None of the strains was found to be positive for cytotoxic enterotoxin in the GM1-ELISA.
(3) They are going to all destinations.” Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in the city.
(4) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(5) We were able to detect genetic recombination between vaccine strains of PRV following in vitro or in vivo coinoculation of 2 strains of PRV.
(6) All of the strains examined were motile and hemolytic and produced lipase and liquid gelatin.
(7) The taxonomic relationship of strains H4-14 and 25a with previously described Xanthobacter strains was studied by numerical classification.
(8) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
(9) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(10) We also show that the gene of the main capsid protein is expressed from its own promoter in an Escherichia coli strain.
(11) Sequence variation in the gp116 component of cytomegalovirus envelope glycoprotein B was examined in 11 clinical strains and compared with variation in gp55.
(12) By hybridization studies, three plasmids in two forms (open circular and supercoiled) were detected in the strain A24.
(13) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
(14) Strains isolated from the environment and staff were not implicated.
(15) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
(16) Escherichia enterotoxigenic strains, Yersinia enterocolitica and Salmonella typhimurium virulent strains, Campylobacter jejuni clinical isolates possess more pronounced capacity for adhesion to enteric cells of Peyer's plaques than to other types of epithelial cells, which may be of importance in the pathogenesis of these infections.
(17) These sequences are also conserved in the same arrangement in minor sequence classes of minicircles from this strain.
(18) The isoelectric points (pI) of E1 and E2 for all VEE strains studied were approx.
(19) One rat strain (TAS) is susceptible to the anticoagulant and lethal effects of warfarin and the other two strains are homozygous for warfarin resistance genes from either wild Welsh (HW) or Scottish (HS) rats.
(20) In these bitches, a strain of E coli identical to the strain in the infected uterus was isolated.