(n.) A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur.
(n.) The fur of the sable.
(n.) A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural.
(n.) The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other.
(a.) Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry.
(v. t.) To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black.
Example Sentences:
(1) The spontaneous v alleles that are suppressed by the suppressor of sable [su(s)] are apparently identical insertions of 412, a copia-like transposable element.
(2) Unlike the cat, there is no difference in retinal decussation patterns in wild-type sable ferrets and heterozygous ferrets carrying one albino gene.
(3) The course of experimental infection of a type SAT 1 FMDV strain was studied in buffalo, sable antelope and eland following tongue inoculation and contact and has been compared with that in cattle.
(4) Six years after the GER, the only event I still consider to be bonkers beyond belief is the Marathon des Sables .
(5) Six-day-old rats received 20 forward pairings of an odor-conditioned stimulus (CS) with one of two unconditioned stimuli (UCS); 1) intra-oral milk infusions or 2) stroking with a sable-hair brush.
(6) Her two major accomplishments in this province include laying the groundwork for its first psychiatric hospital and the outfitting of treacherous Sable Island with rescue equipment to aid ships stranded off its shore.
(7) Positive reactions were also recorded in lechwe (Kobus leche), tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus), red hartebeeste (Alcelaphus buselaphus), gemsbok (Oryx gazella), sable (Hippotragus niger) and impala (Aepyceros melampus).
(8) This effect on Q biosynthesis was found in both the wild-type and the suppressor of sable [su(s)2] mutant.
(9) The parasite was recovered from the subdural space of one reindeer and was seen histologically within the neuropil of another reindeer and a sable antelope.
(10) Sables with a normal course of pregnancy displayed a regular increase in the progestin level already at the period of diapause, although relatively small in value.
(11) Parelaphostrongylus tenuis caused neurologic disease in 6 reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) and 2 sable antelope (Hippotragus niger) that were housed at the National Zoological Park Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Va. Progressive hindlimb ataxia and weakness were seen in all affected animals.
(12) We have examined the retinal decussation patterns in pigmented ferrets that were either wild-type sable or heterozygous with one albino gene.
(13) Examination of the estrogen and progestin levels in sables can aid in the establishment of pregnancy and differentiation of its normal course from the pathological one.
(14) It was identified as Babesia irvinesmithi Martinaglia, 1936, which is unique to sable.
(15) To date, spontaneous infection of T. spiralis in wildlife in Japan has been reported in sables (in Hokkaido, 1963), Japanese black bear (in Aomori, 1974, 1975), brown bear (in Hokkaido, 1980) and raccoon dog (in Yamagata, 1984).
(16) Cryptosporidium was found in the intestinal tract of 10 blackbuck, 2 scimitar-horned oryx, 2 fringe-eared oryx, 2 addax, and 1 sable antelope that had diarrhea.
(17) Mutations at suppressor of sable [su(s)], which increase the accumulation of v1 transcripts, slightly elevate the level of v+37 RNA.
(18) The cute little face, the Calvin Klein underpants, the soft sable hair (I was the target audience.
(19) The significance of the change from sable to hogs' hair brush and flake white to Kremnitz white in the late 1950s was exaggerated.
(20) We have studied the effect of mutations in the suppressor of sable [su(s)] gene on P element-induced yellow alleles.
Usable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being used.
Example Sentences:
(1) We set a new basic plane on an orthopantomogram in order to measure the gonial angle and obtained the following: 1) Usable error difference in ordinary clinical setting ranged from 0.5 degrees-1.0 degree.
(2) The teflon dish is re-usable, resistant to sterilization procedures, and easy to assemble.
(3) P a hardly changed with the volume of the gas injections (20--60 ml injected within 1 s); Q was not measured after gas injection (the direct Fick method is not usable in this situation).
(4) A proposal for attention to professional influences usable in a computer program of obstetric clinics is offered.
(5) In 1987-88, 190 second-year medical students at the University of Minnesota Medical School--Minneapolis spent one fourth of a second-year clinical skills course on neurology randomly assigned to one of four teaching sites--hospitals A, B, C, and D. Following their rotations, 180 of the students completed usable feedback forms.
(6) Identification of attribute sets for the nature-of-injury (body region:detailed part:type of injury) and for the mode-of-injury (mechanism:agent:activity:intent:setting) allows the assembly of a clear, concise, easily usable, nad extensible format for representing the appropriate level of detail for nomenclature or classification.
(7) Problems encountered in the European development of laparoscopy included need to modify the optical instruments of the gastroenterologists, inadequacy of illumination, and selection of a usable gas for the pneumoperitoneum.
(8) It will be the first time that governments have clearly laid out a vision of accessible usable data across the entire chain of public contracting.
(9) In connection with this investigation pathobiochemical considerations of late diabetic injuries are carried out, which are the consequence of inconveniences in the usability of glucose of diabetics and the connected with this non-enzymatic glycosylation of various proteins.
(10) "A good game will have the expected progression at the end of each level, but it will also provide surprise rewards halfway through," says Ben Weedon, a consultant at PlayableGames, a company that carries out usability testing on new titles before they're released.
(11) The preventive-surface care operatory is the most basic yet most widely usable operatory.
(12) These events suggest that the depletion of cholesterol results in the inability of the cell to produce usable membrane.
(13) No boy showed any practically usable increase of muscle strength during the year of treatment.
(14) Data were collected from active members of the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians; usable returns were secured from 76 percent of the members.
(15) The method requires little or no sample preparation and utilises UV peak detection at 215 nm with a serial signal amplification system to achieve a usable maximum sensitivity of less than 200 fmol of peptide.
(16) We also propose a possible new approach in which people from the age of 18 years would voluntarily enrol in an organ donation program, agreeing to permit all usable organs to be taken for transplantation at the time of death.
(17) Sceptor from Becton Dickinson is usable because of a good accordance with conventional methods and the good quality of the associated computer program (different types of statistical evaluation).
(18) During growth a part of the substrate is destroyed into scarcely usable benzylpenicilloic acid; hereby the antibiotic is detoxified.
(19) By radiation with ultraviolet light (405 nm) HPD will emit a strong red fluorescence (600 to 700 nm) which is usable for early detection of cancers under the conditions of fluorescence endoscopy.
(20) The scarcity of donor lungs for transplantation has been caused, in part, by the belief that a single donor cannot provide usable lungs if it serves as a heart donor.