(n.) Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.
(a.) Subject to sudden alarm.
(a.) Causing fright; alarming.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
(2) For a few fevered weeks it was "who is the least scary?"
(3) I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m scary, I’ll fuckin’ scare you then.
(4) Albeit an unloveable, slightly scary Ron Burgundy in a 'I may now be a low level Tesco manager in a cheap suit but I still remember how to handle a stanley knife' kind of way," reckons Robert Lowery, who is forgetting that Jim White has a phone.
(5) Think the build-up to Brexit was polarising and scary?
(6) We usually only hear scary stories about invaders such as the Asian hornet , a lethal predator of honeybees.
(7) And even more scary, I have a drillion moles all over my body, some of which have now started itching, on my back.
(8) Asked about such mis-steps, Frieden said: “Ebola is scary.
(9) The trail north from the scary little airstrip at Lukla is chocker with trekkers – at times it's more like a queue than a walk.
(10) Onward to dystopia then: Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) The front page attacks on the 3 judges for basically just doing their job is scary.
(11) Honestly, it's not scary for me to die for freedom."
(12) I've never done it before; it's exciting and a little bit scary ... Adam Lloyd 05 November 2013 5:49pm Hi David, Big fan of your work!
(13) And to make your conscience even clearer, a percentage of every purchase goes back to local independent bookshops, helping them to survive in the scary era of all-online shopping.
(14) The white paper proposals were “scary” and threatened multiple areas of conservation, not just crocodile management, he said.
(15) There is a real risk of hunger growing in our city and across the nation and of people going without and that's a scary, scary thing.” Grimaldi says he doesn’t plan to introduce rationing yet.
(16) They told us that they think feminism is angry and scary and difficult and "not for them", and that feminists aren't feminine or sexy and that they hate men.
(17) But I was wrong to peg Let’s Be Cops down in the mire with the Scary Movie franchise.
(18) Cancer is scary, but it should not be forgotten that treatment options and outcomes have never been better and continue to improve.
(19) It is our job to help them through a distressing and scary time.
(20) As one scientist told me, and as a YouTube video of a Samsung S5 exploding after being hit with a hammer confirms: “Lithium-ion batteries are quite scary.” This is partly why they have improved by only a factor of two or three in 25 years.
Scry
Definition:
(v. t.) To descry.
(v.) A flock of wild fowl.
(n.) A cry or shout.
Example Sentences:
(1) The amino acid sequence deduced from the DNA sequence was determined for the plasmid-coded and the ScrY porin coded in the chromosome of Klebsiella pneumoniae.
(2) Primer extension analysis and site-directed mutagenesis were used to identify the precise location of the promoter of scrY, scrA, and scrB.
(3) This increase in sucrose permeability provided strong evidence that the ScrY protein functions as a sucrose porin.
(4) A putative cyclic AMP receptor protein binding site centered 72.5 bp upstream of the start point of transcription of scrY appeared to be essential for full activity of the scrY promoter.
(5) Furthermore, the presence of ScrY restored growth on maltodextrins in cells devoid of LamB, thus complementing the lack of this maltoporin.
(6) Reconstitution experiments with lipid bilayer membrane demonstrated that ScrY formed ion-permeable channels with properties very similar to those of general diffusion pores of enteric bacteria.
(7) This sounds shocking, but dig a little deeper and some of this soul-scrying voodoo becomes slightly less terrifying.
(8) The binding of different sugars to ScrY and LamB of E. coli is discussed with respect to the kinetics of sugar movement through the channel.
(9) A frameshift mutation in the scrY gene resulted in a dramatic decrease in sucrose transport with no effect on in vitro phosphorylation activity associated with enzyme IISer.
(10) There was 23% amino acid sequence identity between the ScrY protein and LamB, a maltose porin from Escherichia coli.
(11) One of the different gene products of the plasmid is the outer membrane protein, ScrY.
(12) During the molecular analysis of a plasmid-coded sucrose metabolic pathway of enteric bacteria, a gene, scrY, was found whose product, ScrY, had all the properties of a bacterial porin (Schmid et al., 1988).
(13) In ScrR+ cells, readthrough transcription from the putative scrK promoter into scrY accounted for less than 10% of scrY expression.
(14) The scrY gene, part of the pUR400-borne sucrose regulon, appeared to be transcribed from its own promoter, with the transcriptional start site located 58 bp upstream from the initiation codon.
(15) The four genes form an scr operon (gene order, scrK scrY scrA scrB, transcription from K to B), regulated by a repressor (gene scrR, 37 kD) and inducible by sucrose, fructose and fructose-containing oligosaccharides.
(16) Gene scrK apparently codes for an intracellular and ATP-dependent fructokinase (39 kD), while scrY seems to code for a sucrose porin (58 kD) in the outer cell membrane.
(17) The rate of diffusion of sucrose was 96 times greater than the rate of diffusion of lactose or maltose in liposomes containing the ScrY protein.