(a.) capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees.
Example Sentences:
(1) The formation of ropy slime also occurred on sausages without added sugars.
(2) Scanning electron micrographs of milk gel prepared by the ropy strain showed that slime was in the form of a network attaching the bacterial cells to the protein matrix.
(3) Examination of the group with myocardial infarction disclosed a significantly higher incidence of soft tissue changes (increased firmness, warmth, ropiness, oedematous changes, heavy musculature), confined almost entirely to the upper four thoracic levels.
(4) The classification of lactic acid bacteria able to cause ropy slime on vacuum-packed cooked meat products was carried out based on DNA-DNA homology.
(5) cremoris strain LAPT 3001 isolated from Swedish ropy sour milk 'långfil' was investigated for the chemical nature of its capsule.
(6) The ropy slime-producing lactobacilli were identified as strains of Lactobacillus sake and the ropy slime-producing leuconostocs, such as Leuconostoc amelibiosum and Leuconostoc mesenteroides.
(7) At three Finnish meat processing plants the processing rooms, meat trimmings and carcasses were examined for the presence of ropy slime-producing lactic acid bacteria.
(8) The ability to produce ropy slime would appear to be a common characteristic of lactobacilli, since altogether 10 different ropy lactobacilli groups were isolated in this study.
(9) Subjects were then examined and the four quadrants of each breast were rated on a scale of 0 to 3 (0 = normal, fatty tissue, 1 = little seedy bumps or fine nodularity, 2 = discrete nodules or ropy tissue, 3 = confluent areas, hard or soft masses).
(10) Two different homofermentative lactobacilli and a Leuconostoc strain were isolated from different ropy vacuum-packed meat products.
(11) Meanwhile, Lynn comes back strong after the ropy second inning, taming LA 1-2-3.
(12) Milk gel prepared by the ropy strain also exhibited decreased syneresis (wheying-off) as compared to that by the non-ropy variant.
(13) Hyperplastic areas had ropy microridges and uniform short microvilli.
(14) Thick, ropy lattice lines were seen to traverse the corneas almost from limbus to limbus and were easily detected with direct illumination.
(15) Ropy Streptococcus (Lactococcus) cremoris strains isolated from a ropy Swedish sour milk ("longfil") and a ropy Finnish milk product ("Viili") were screened for their plasmid-encoded functions.
(16) Measurements of texture showed that milk gel prepared by the ropy strain exhibited remarkably increased adhesiveness as compared to that by the non-ropy variant.
(17) Only 3.7% of acinetobacters from dairy sources was able to produce ropy milk.
(18) For testing purposes, use of the method producing the highest proportion of ropy colonies for each bacterial strain is recommended.
(19) This paper deals with the cause of the formation of ropy slime on the surface of vacuum-packed cooked meat products.
(20) Scanning electron microscopy showed that most surface cells of papillomas had numerous short uniform microvilli and ropy rounded microridges.
Rosy
Definition:
(superl.) Resembling a rose in color, form, or qualities; blooming; red; blushing; also, adorned with roses.
Example Sentences:
(1) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(2) But last year Rosi Santoni, one of the relatives who helped look after her, said she had plenty of family to care for her and had many friends in the town.
(3) People need to be seen by a doctor if cancer is to be caught early”, said Dr Rosie Loftus, joint chief medical officer at Macmillan Cancer Support.
(4) Violent relationships aren’t limited to black eyes so it’s vital women are empowered to deal with psychological abuse as well, Australian of the Year Rosie Batty says.
(5) Rosie Woodroffe, a professor and a key member of an earlier landmark 10-year study of badger culling , said: "It would be extraordinarily unusual for natural causes to change badger populations so rapidly, and indeed no such changes have been seen [elsewhere].
(6) It must be admitted: 2014 is looking voluminously rosy for those of us who love our lady gardens.
(7) In Frankston magistrates court last April, Goldsbrough heard an application by Rosie Batty to have the conditions on an intervention order further tightened to prevent Anderson, her ex-partner, from seeing Luke.
(8) Yet life in reality looks less rosy than these cliches suggest.
(9) Mandaric told the court he had met Rosie several times and saw nothing unusual in naming a bank account after a dog.
(10) He described Anderson as “highly intelligent,” “irrational,” and “calculated” in the violence he carried out against his former partner, Rosie Batty and their son.
(11) A variety of sources, some of whom have been attributed as being ‘aides’ to Jeremy or those ‘close’ to the leader, have apparently stood up speculation that Hilary Benn, Rosie Winterton, Maria Eagle and me (amongst others) are all for the chop for not voting against extending military action from Iraq into Syria during the recent free vote in the Commons.
(12) Twenty-three of the 43 sequenced mutations change the predicted rosy gene polypeptide sequence; the remainder would interrupt protein translation (17), or disrupt mRNA processing (3).
(13) However, Prof Rosie Woodroffe, the UK's leading badger expert, told the Guardian such a drastic change in the badger population would be "very, very unusual".
(14) Jeremy Corbyn was challenged about his position on Brexit and questioned over his sacking of Rosie Winterton as chief whip , as he faced his party’s MPs for the first time since his re-election as leader.
(15) When Anderson killed Luke, there were four warrants out for his arrest and he was facing 11 criminal charges, mostly related to family violence against his ex-partner and Luke’s mother, Rosie Batty .
(16) Intragenic recombination events were monitored between two physically separated rosy mutant alleles ry301 and ry2 utilizing DNA restriction site polymorphisms as genetic markers.
(17) The meeting was called by Iain McNicol, the party secretary, and attended by chief whip Rosie Winterton.
(18) Corbyn has been testing the water among colleagues about their willingness to serve under him over the past few days, and made his first appointment: Rosie Winterton is staying on as chief whip.
(19) These two parameters were equally affected in two cases with myelofi-rosis, 3 patients with acquired refractory anaemia, one with chronic lymphoid leukaemia, one with erythroleukaemia, one with hairy cell leukaemia, one with systemic mastocytosis and almost complete myeloperoxidase dificiency, one with sickle cell disease, two with liver diseases and two with chronic myeloid leukaemia.
(20) • £350, breakfast extra, +30 22970 91610, rosyslittlevillage.com Where to eat Parnassos Rosy’s does pretty good food, but visitors should also head up to Metochi, the village in the hills just above it.