(n.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.
(n.) The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.
(n.) The shaft of a column.
(n.) The apophyge of a shaft.
(v. t. & i.) To escape.
(n.) An escape.
(n.) Means of escape; evasion.
(n.) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
(n.) Loose act of vice or lewdness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pertinent themes in the history of responses to epidemic disease in the United States in the past two hundred years include an initial underestimation of the severity of the epidemic; the prevalence of fear and anxiety; flight, denial, and scape-goating as a result of fear; efforts to quarantine and isolate carriers and the sick; the assertion of rational policies by coalitions of business, government, and medical leaders; the recruitment of a special cadre of physicians to treat the sick; the similarity of responses to both epidemic and endemic infectious diseases; and the high cost of epidemics, which is shared by government, philanthropy, and private individuals.
(2) Mycobacterium paratuberculosis was cultured from 9 (8.7%) of the 103 bovine fecal samples and from 4 (3.9%) of the 103 bovine rectal mucosa scapings tested.
(3) Within the scape of a comparative long-term study between conservative and operative therapy of Perthes'-disease the effort was made to estimate the dimension of the psychic and social detraction in addiction to the method of treatment by a detailed inquiry of 116 patients as well as of their accompanying parents.
(4) The Böhm bristles of Lepidoptera occur in precise areas of the scape and pedicel of the antenna.
(5) Perú doesn't scape of that situation and for this reason, it is necessary that health professionals should have clinical therapeutical and epidemiological acknowledgements in order to be applied efficiently in benefit of the community.
(6) The most productive tissues for propagation were inverted scapes and peduncles, cultured in a modified Murashige and Skoog salt solution with added organic constituents and 1 mg per 1 (4.5 micron) 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and 1 mg per 1 (4.4 micrometer) 6-benzylaminopurine (BAP).
(7) Leaf bases, scapes, peduncles, inner bulb scales and ovaries were cultured successfully in vitro and plantlets were induced readily at various concentrations of growth regulators.
(8) Longitudinal peripheral meniscus tears were fixed by the scape in inside-out technique.
(9) If you can handle the monotony of the vast ice-scape that unfolds, it is possible to navigate a ship with a strong hull and a good lookout nearly to the north pole at this time of year.
(10) Your way of encouraging people to make their own music with your new app, Scape , is a good example of a different sort of approach to working.
(11) The results also suggest that segments of the typically three-segmented larval antenna of Holometabola are not scape, pedicel, and one-segmented flagellum; at least segments 2 and 3 are of flagellar origin.
(12) Best immediate results were obtained in vipomas and insulinomas but a scape phenomenon was frequently observed.
(13) Therefore, it seems that the delinquent adolescent is the scape-goat of the family.
(14) Within the scape of his life-history the attempt is made to portray a man in his time and to waken his importance as ophthalmologist a significant still in our days.
(15) Inevitably, the discussion, which takes place in Eno's office in Notting Hill, London, barely touches on the record, Lux ; instead, it ranges over another of his new creations (an app called Scape), the value of art, and why numbers are like sausages.
(16) An average of 10 rooted plantlets was obtained from each scape or peduncle explant on the shoot-propagating medium.
(17) But blaming the BBC is just scape-goating, since in every other country with no BBC, newspapers are in equally dire straights.
(18) Mechanosensory organs in the scape and pedicel, the Böhm bristles and Johnston's organ, are innervated by AChE-positive neurons.
(19) Ventricular scapes were not seen at the end of the sinus pauses.
Stalk
Definition:
(n.) The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.
(n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.
(n.) That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.
(n.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
(n.) One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
(n.) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.
(n.) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
(n.) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
(n.) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
(v. i.) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.
(v. i.) To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover.
(v. i.) To walk with high and proud steps; usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step.
(v. t.) To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.
(n.) A high, proud, stately step or walk.
Example Sentences:
(1) Regeneration and reorganization of the proximal cut end of the pituitary stalk is demonstrated in Ompok bimaculatus with the aid of in situ staining technique.
(2) Thus, the long stalks of Sk1 or phosphate-starved caulobacters are not merely a function of their longer doubling times.
(3) The mesenchyme surrounding the stalk stains positively for fibronectin.
(4) Do know how much stalking is too much stalking Seven pages into Google is too much.
(5) A rich network of fibers was observed in the median eminence coursing towards the pituitary stalk.
(6) ECF1 is separated from the membrane-embedded F0 by a narrow stalk approximately 40 A long and approximately 25-30 A thick.
(7) Hormone secretion was increased by electrical stimulation of the pituitary stalk at different frequencies.
(8) Furthermore, there were differences between anterior and posterior regions of both slime sheaths and stalk tubes.
(9) Five minutes from time a fat red shirt stalked past making the tosser sign and, for emphasis, yelling: "Fucking wankers!"
(10) Septal release slightly decreased during pituitary stalk stimulation, whereas it did increase during stimulation of the supraoptic region.
(11) It is hemispherical in shape and is located at the end of a 1.5 mm long eye stalk.
(12) Since such rats supposedly have a normal pigment distribution and a normal pattern of decussation at the optic chiasm, this finding appears to undermine the suggested role played by stalk melanin in establishing the laterality of retinal fibre projections in other mammalian species.
(13) As culmination proceeds, pstA cells transform into pstB cells by activating the ecmB gene as they enter the stalk tube.
(14) Other steps, such as the introduction of a national stalking helpline and national revenge pornography helpline have assisted victims.
(15) And we know once they leave, men will follow and stalk them.
(16) The ultrastructure of some aggregating microorganisms, including fungal hyphae and sheath-forming and stalked bacteria, was studied in detail, and several modes of aggregation were suggested.
(17) George, a loner who was said to have stalked and photographed hundreds of women, always maintained his innocence.
(18) • One in 10 women have been stalked by a previous partner.
(19) Police investigating the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University massacre, which left 33 dead, mainly students, blamed Cho, a fourth-year English student who lived on the campus, for earlier incidents ranging from stalking women to setting fire to a dormitory.
(20) The editor of the Spectator stalks the corridors reminding all and sundry that the national debt will have risen far faster and higher under Cameron than under Labour in 13 years.