(n.) A large net, one edge of which is provided with sinkers, and the other with floats. It hangs vertically in the water, and when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore incloses the fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the wake of her win, Aung San Suu Kyi has written to Min Aung Hlaing, the president, Thein Sein, and the parliamentary Speaker, Shwe Mann, requesting a meeting to discuss the election and “national reconciliation”, according to the National League for Democracy Facebook page.
(2) A prospective study of notified cases of tuberculosis started on treatment during 1984 in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis situated in the northern suburb of Paris was undertaken with the help of the Ministry of Health, and the National Committee for the Prevention of Tuberculosis.
(3) Paris city council has approved the banning of all vehicles from the major road running along the right bank of the river Seine in a bitterly contested vote.
(4) Burmese president Thein Sein wants to "harmonise" the country and make it pure.
(5) One of the more challenging aspects of the show was how to represent the Holocaust and the answer came in a loan from Buchenwald concentration camp – a replica iron gate which carried above it the words Jedem das Seine (To Each His Due).
(6) The LA river will never compete with the Danube or Seine or Thames as an attraction for stressed city-dwellers.
(7) The mayor said from September 2018, an electric tram-bus – nicknamed the “Olympic tramway” in honour of Paris’s bid for the 2024 Games – would run next to part of the upper highways along the Seine in both directions.
(8) In a televised addressed, Thein Sein said the violence had been fanned by hatred and the desire for revenge.
(9) In the months since the violence, Thein Sein's government has done little or nothing to investigate the killings and abuses and to hold people accountable for these crimes.
(10) The Guardian view on the ousting of Aung San Suu Kyi’s political ally | Editorial Read more In 2011 a nominally civilian government took over in Burma led by Thein Sein, who initiated political and economic reforms but has stopped short of challenging the military’s constitutionally protected role in politics.
(11) Both those stores, the group said, offered pole-and-line caught tinned fish and had said they were committed to improving the sustainability of their fish, but the majority of their tuna was caught using the purse seine method.
(12) Thein Sein has conceded his country faced “trying times” in recent months, but claims to be doing his best to find “common solutions” in an ethnically diverse nation and construct a free society in league with democratic ideals.
(13) The November crackdown was the biggest use of force against protesters in Burma since Thein Sein's reformist government took office in March 2011.
(14) The purpose of this study was to observe routine practice in the care of tuberculosis cases treated in the Seine Saint-Denis department in 1984, with reference to the recent recommendations of the French Pneumology Society.
(15) President Thein Sein said on Friday “the government and the military will respect and accept the results”.
(16) For the Oysters, the highest silver and lead levels were detected in the Marennes Oléron samples; for the Mussels, the highest silver levels were detected in the Seine Bay samples and the lead ones in the Boulogne samples.
(17) There are weak points that are not acceptable,” Philippe Galli, prefect for the Seine-Saint-Denis region that is in part responsible for security at the stadium, told Le Parisien newspaper .
(18) In her top floor flat on Paris's Left Bank, overlooking the raging high tides of the Seine, she strides purposefully through the sparse living room.
(19) President Thein Sein introduced a series of measures reflecting his determination to turn over a new leaf and move towards democracy.
(20) Two days of violence in the city of Lashio have cast fresh doubt over whether President Thein Sein's government can or will act to contain the racial and religious intolerance plaguing a nation still struggling to emerge from half a century of military rule.
Skeine
Definition:
(n.) See Skean.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stromal underlayer has the typical morphological structure: its cells are compactly packed in the form of a skein with stromal mechanocytes among them.
(2) Until now it is well known that throughout life the endochondral layer of human labyrinthine bone consists of a "woven, alamellar, fine-fibred type of bone" which is called "embryonic skein bone" (embryonaler Strähnenknochen) (MEYER 1927).
(3) Patterns of immunoreactivity (linear, flame-shaped, or skein-like within perikarya) greatly resembled the appearance of silver-stained NFT.
(4) These axonal swellings are filled with maloriented skeins of neurofilaments.
(5) Convolution of microvessels, formation of loops, skeins, torsions along the longitudinal axis, deformation of walls (folds and angularity of the contours, multiple unilateral and bilateral protrusions and invaginations, sacciform and cylindrical microaneurisms, multiplication of venules) are observed.
(6) Ultrastructurally, the inclusions consisted of straight or interwoven skeins of 10 nm filaments.
(7) The first signs of regression appear before the climax stages, when aggregates of cytokeratin material are found among the filaments of the skeins.
(8) Swellings filled with skeins of maloriented neurofilaments were observed in the initial (non-myelinated) segment of intraparenchymal spinal axons in addition to the swellings consistently located in the first internodes.
(9) The present report describes nine cases of small intestinal stromal tumors with eosinophilic stromal globules composed of tangles of curved fibers with crossbands simulating an appearance of skeins, designated as skeinoid fibers.
(10) Studies with the electron microscope reveal that as the proliferation proceeds during metamorphosis, the skein cells, at stage 20, differentiate to form the apical border of the skin.
(11) Reticulin staining of the fibrous trabeculae in the posterior (scleral) part of the lamina revealed a structure composed of interweaving skeins of collagen fibres frequently arranged tangentially around the canals, 40-220 microns in diameter, through which optic nerve axons pass.
(12) Their three dimensional structure is interpreted as a skein of contorted tubules of endoplasmic reticulum.
(13) In the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of the rat proximal tubule nephron epithelial cells three morphologically different components can be distinguished: 1) tubes and cisternae distributed relatively diffusely in the cytoplasm; 2) cisternae of paramembranous ER located along the lateral boundaries of the cell (components 1 and 2 might be either smooth or granular); 3) constantly smooth ER consisting of narrow tubules accumulated in the shape of skeins or islets.
(14) Fifty percent of body cells and more than 95% of tail cells were skein cells.
(15) In tadpoles of Rana temporaria, Bufo bufo and Xenopus laevis the development of the massive skeins of tonofilaments (cytokeratin intermediate filaments) that form the figures of Eberth follows a similar sequence in all species studied.
(16) Skein-like inclusions (SLIs) in the anterior horn cells of patients with motor neuron diseases, including familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with posterior column degeneration, sporadic lower motor neuron disease and classical amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, were investigated morphologically with hematoxylin and eosin preparations, immunostaining for ubiquitin and immunoelectron microscopy.
(17) Another piece is made of twisted skeins of steel, reinforcing rods that failed to support schools in the 2008 earthquake in China, displayed beside the names of more than 5,000 school children who died.
(18) Skein bone which is typical in enchondral layer of human bony otic capsule also is found in pig, rabbit, guinea pig, rat, mouse and golden hamster.
(19) The overall ultrastructural appearance simulated skeins of yarn, hence they are designated skeinoid fibers.
(20) Additional temporal bone reports of three cases of osteogenesis imperfecta congenita show lack of deposition of the skein-like bone in the endochondral layer, sparse bony septae in marrow spaces and deficiency of the perosteal layer.