(v. t.) To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.
(v. t.) To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume.
(v. i.) To have a smell.
(v. i.) To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
(n.) That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk.
(n.) Specifically, the odor left by an animal on the ground in passing over it; as, dogs find or lose the scent; hence, course of pursuit; track of discovery.
(n.) The power of smelling; the sense of smell; as, a hound of nice scent; to divert the scent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rupert Murdoch has a battle on his hands to win over leading shareholders in BSkyB, who scent the opportunity for a high-stakes game of brinkmanship and are pushing for a premium price of well over £10bn for full control of the pay-television company.
(2) It is commonly believed that the scent-marking activity of female mammals is elevated when they are sexually receptive, yet urine-marking by female mice does not vary in relation to their estrous cycles.
(3) Previous studies have demonstrated gonadal control of mammalian scent glands; castration leads to reduced scent-marking rates and smaller gland sizes.
(4) Cruden Farm, Victoria The 54-hectare Murdoch family estate in Langwarrin south of Melbourne, Australia, features magnificent gardens complete with ponds, lemon-scented gum trees and two walled gardens and perennial borders.
(5) Male and female scents did not elicit significantly different amounts of scent marking.
(6) "Greeks need to unburden their fears," says the comic, the scent of cologne permeating his dressing room after he has danced, sung and quipped his way through another rendition of "Sorry … I'm Greek".
(7) Early opportunities to indulge his skill for making unctuousness compelling came in the roles of a school snitch in the Al Pacino vehicle Scent of a Woman (1992), for which Hoffman auditioned five times.
(8) As I type I can smell the nauseating scent of death that clings to me still.
(9) Primary afferent electrical activity can be recorded from the chemoreceptors on the mantle margin that are responsive to starfish scent and also from other physiologically distinct receptors that are responsive to contact with starfish tube feet.
(10) We meet at the headquarters of the Independent and the Evening Standard in Kensington, in an office scented by a Jo Malone orange blossom candle, and groaning with contemporary art.
(11) The scent gland secretions of Dumeril's ground boa (Acrantophis dumerili), pooled from two adult males and a female, were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.
(12) Four B6 mice, two males and two females, were successfully trained, by water deprivation and reward, to enter the arm scented by B6 or B6-H-2k males.
(13) At 120 days of age, field-exposed male offspring exhibited significantly less scent marking behavior than controls.
(14) It is shown that the X and Y chromosomes each confer individually of scent related to genotype.
(15) Pasting, a stereotypic form of anal gland scent marking, was studied in 2 cohorts (N = 20) of captive spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta).
(16) Here lies Baby Addie,” he told us, gesturing to a lumpy patch of earth carpeted in the dry pine needles which scented the air.
(17) Deer models baited with CO2 and with CO2 plus 1-octen-3-ol and Deer Trail Scent attracted and induced female Cephenemyia apicata Bennett & Sabrosky and C. jellisoni Townsend to larviposit on them.
(18) The urine of these chimeras was tested by the Y maze method, and shown to have acquired a scent indicative of the reconstituting donors' H-2 type.
(19) The results suggest that the scents originating from the preputial gland of the juvenile serve as the recognition cue in the social memory paradigm of rats.
(20) The GM wheat at Rothamsted is modified to produce a scent undetectable to the human nose, which the main wheat pests, such as greenfly and blackfly aphids, release when under attack from predators.
Trace
Definition:
(n.) One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
(v. t.) A mark left by anything passing; a track; a path; a course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace.
(v. t.) A very small quantity of an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis; -- hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr.
(v. t.) A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.
(v. t.) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
(v. t.) The ground plan of a work or works.
(v. t.) To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing.
(v. t.) To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens.
(v. t.) Hence, to follow the trace or track of.
(v. t.) To copy; to imitate.
(v. t.) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
(v. i.) To walk; to go; to travel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Glyceryl p-aminobenzoate and amyl p-dimethyl-aminobenzoate were labeled on 1 and 3 sunscreens, respectively, but glyceryl p-aminobenzoate was not found in any of them and only traces of amyl p-dimethylaminobenzoate were found in 1 sunscreen.
(2) Throughout the entire cultivation cytidyl derivatives occurred in trace quantities.
(3) persisted and was more abnormal in 23% of the cases including specific tracings in 37%.
(4) Traces of the sulphoxide of butylmercapturic acid have been found in rat urine but not in rabbit urine.
(5) No 7 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity and only a trace of 7 alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity could be demonstrated when bile acid was deleted from the growth medium.
(6) Silicon, a relatively unknown trace element in nutritional research, has been uniquely localized in active calcification sites in young bone.
(7) Although various micronutrients (vitamins and trace elements) have also been found to have either a positive or negative association, findings were more clear-cut for the different food items contributing the micronutrients than for the specific micronutrients themselves.
(8) Methods used in tracing and improving cooperation of subjects are described.
(9) Her black persona unravelled this week when Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, a couple named on her Montana birth certificate as her biological parents, told Spokane’s KREM 2 News that her ancestry was German and Czech, with traces of Native American.
(10) they are shown to inhibit in vitro the release of iron from acidified host cell cytosol, consisting mostly of hemoglobin, a process that could provide this trace element to the parasite.
(11) Thus, the carotid pulse tracing provides an accurate reproduction of the morphology of the pressure tracing recorded from the ascending aorta, and when calibrated by peripheral blood pressure measurement, it can be used to calculate LV pressure throughout ejection.
(12) Mutant C grew anaerobically in the light, whereas mutant G1 was light sensitive and produced only trace amounts of bacteriochlorophyll a (0.6 mumole per ml of protein).
(13) The effect was shown to be due to caldesmon and not to a trace contaminant by its full reversibility after addition of a monospecific caldesmon antibody.
(14) Of 15 organochlorine compounds analyzed, trace amounts mainly of p,p-DDE and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were detected, but could not be quantitated.
(15) Fifty physiologically characterized units were injected with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) or Lucifer yellow CH (LY) and their processes were traced to the crista.
(16) Polysomnography has revealed that this drug has several interesting qualities that benzodiazepines do not possess: stages 3-4 increase, stage 2 is unchanged or slightly reduced and no abnormal changes are detected on the EEG tracing.
(17) We find that the labelled cell has a myelinated axon, but that the axon loses its myelin within 50 microns of the soma and has not yet been traced further.
(18) He is likely to propose increased funding of plant disease experts, the stepping up of surveillance at ports of entry and a Europe-wide "plant passport" system to trace the origins of all plants coming into Britain.
(19) In addition, the postulated personality for PD may predispose to hard work, perspiration, and increased exposure to putative trace elements in the water supply.
(20) The voltage trace is then analysed with a piece of transparent paper, on which lines corresponding to solutions of the diffusion equation convert the time axis of the voltage trace into a concentration axis.