(v.) A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley.
(v. t.) To gather and bind into a sheaf or sheaves; hence, to collect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ultrastructurally, clusters of intermediate filaments, twisted sheaves of filaments resembling tonofilaments, intermediate junctions, and intracellular canaliculi were found in these cells.
(2) Nineteen years ago I’d collected sheaves of estate agents’ details and piled them into Yes, No, Maybe.
(3) The art critic John Ruskin claimed to have burned sheaves of them in 1858, but 10 years ago an expert at the Tate Gallery came to the conclusion that this never happened.
(4) From the end of the first month to the sixth month small sheaves of smooth-muscle cells were observed in the cicatricial tissue.
(5) When you rush big projects in sensitive places, you increase the potential for a disaster – it regularly leads to massive environmental damage and an expensive clean-up that could have been prevented if there had been detailed scientific consideration and community engagement,” Sheaves said.
(6) Most days at midday, Uber’s nondescript office in London’s King’s Cross opens its doors and dozens of men clutching sheaves of driving licences and insurance documents pour in.
(7) Almost all asbestos fibers detected in the tap water possessed the form of thick or sheaved fibers with lengths ranging from ca.
(8) Still employed in the early 1990s, the classic label sported a blue-and-white striped milk jug beside two cherry-red mugs, resting on sheaves of wheat, against an luminous yellow arc of - well, obviously, an incandescent light bulb.
(9) "If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaught of the cavalry are translated upon the canvas in sheaves of lines corresponding to the conflicting forces, following the general law of violence of the picture.
(10) Prof Marcus Sheaves, head of marine biology at James Cook University, said the lack of a considered process around the wetlands plan was “a serious concern”.
(11) Sheaves questioned the lack of a plan for “detailed integrated assessment of all components of the proposal and their implications, despite the sensitive nature of location of the proposed dredge-spoil dumping, and the public concern over the proposal”.
(12) Benign prostatic epithelium showed vimentin intermediate filaments distinctively distributed in the basal regions and as paranuclear sheaves along the long axis of the cell.
(13) Sheaves of complexly organized fibrillar components appear in the neuronal perikaryon; and ribosomes, Golgi elements, and microtubules are conspicuously numerous.
(14) Sheaves said coastal wetlands were crucial to the health of the Great Barrier Reef , as they prevented certain sediments and pollutants from flowing onto the coral.
(15) The differentiation of their processes was observed to involve a series of complex events related to retraction of the thick apical processes from the tips of which sheaves of filiform processes emerged, growth in the number and the thickness of the filiform processes, resorption of some of these filiform processes, cyclic changes in the appearance, resorption and reappearance of excrescences on the filiform processes, and changes in size and shape of the growth cones.
(16) Most myofibroblasts contained only sheaves of myofilaments along the margins of the cells, but some cells contained larger bundles of myofilaments and very closely resembled smooth muscle cells.
(17) Crystals may be arranged in sheaves or bundles and pass from one cell to another disrupting the continuity of membranes of both cells and nuclei.
(18) The public probably don’t see it but she has sheaves of handwritten notes.” The historical role of the PAC has been to dig into misspending by Whitehall, such as the tagging scandal that saw G4S and Serco charging for dead offenders (“Shocking complacency”, said Hodge).
(19) Many differentiated tumor cells contained organelles, such as vesicle-crowned lamellae (synaptic ribbons) and microtubular sheaves, as consistent with adult hamster pineocytes.
(20) One of the most famous bonfires in British art history, the destruction in 1858 of sheaves of erotic paintings by JMW Turner, by the horrified critic John Ruskin, never happened.
Shive
Definition:
(n.) A slice; as, a shive of bread.
(n.) A thin piece or fragment; specifically, one of the scales or pieces of the woody part of flax removed by the operation of breaking.
(n.) A thin, flat cork used for stopping a wide-mouthed bottle; also, a thin wooden bung for casks.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have isolated cDNA clones for two forms of P-450s, P-450ka-1 and P-450ka-2, from a rabbit kidney cDNA library, using the cDNA for rabbit pulmonary cytochrome P-450p-2, a prostaglandin omega-hydroxylase (Matsubara, S., Yamamoto, S., Sogawa, K., Yokotani, N., Fujii-Kuriyama, Y., Haniu, M., Shively, J.E., Gotoh, O., Kusunose, E., and Kusunose, M. (1987) J. Biol.
(2) We have isolated and sequenced a cDNA, designated 4-NP UDPGT, which encodes an MC-inducible UDPGT from normal Wistar rat livers (Iyanagi, T., Haniu, M., Sogawa, F., Fujii-Kuriyama, Y., Watanabe, S., Shively, J.E., and Anan, K.F.
(3) Asparagine-N-linked polylactosaminyl glycosylation of the chymotryptic 44-kDa gelatin-binding domain from human placental fibronectin confers protease resistance [Zhu, B. C. R., Fisher, S. F., Panda, H., Calaycay, J., Shively, J. E. & Laine, R. A.
(4) Thompson, T. L. (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), and J. M. Shively.
(5) A., Pande, H., Paxton, R. J., Shively, L., Padma, A., Simmer, R. L., Todd, Ch.
(6) Previous studies in our laboratory have focused on the automation of the thiocyanate chemistry using acetic anhydride and trimethylsilylisothiocyanate (TMS-ITC) to derivatize the C-terminal amino acid to a thiohydantoin and sodium trimethylsilanolate for specific hydrolysis of the derivatized C-terminal amino acid (Bailey, J.M., Shenoy, N.R., Ronk, M., & Shively, J.E., 1992, Protein Sci.
(7) The C21 side-chain cleavage enzymes from porcine adrenal and testicular microsomes have been purified and shown to resemble each other very closely (Nakajin, S., Shinoda, M., Hanui, M., Shively, J.E., and Hall, P.F.
(8) The peptide containing the sulfhydryl protected by ATP has, as its amino terminus, the lysine that reacts exclusively with fluoresceinyl 5'-isothiocyanate [Farley, R. A., Tran, C. M., Carilli, C. T., Hawke, D., & Shively, J. E. (1984) J. Biol.
(9) The PVDF membranes were cut into approximately 1-mm-wide strips and inserted into a continuous flow reactor (J. E. Shively, P. Miller, and M. Ronk, Anal.
(10) Previous studies (Squire, C. R., Talebian, M., Menon, J. G., Dekruyff, S. D., Lee, T. D., Shively, J. E., and Rothman, B. S. (1991) J. Biol.
(11) Gelatin-binding chymotryptic fragments from placental fibronectin contain polylactosamine carbohydrates (Zhu, B.C.R., Fisher, S.R., Pande, H., Calaycay, J. Shively, J.E., and Laine, R.A. (1984) J. Biol.
(12) It’s unusual to have cases with so little factual basis or evidence,” said Erica Shively, a local attorney representing four protesters whose charges were recently dropped.
(13) Previous studies in our laboratory have focused on solution phase conditions for formation of the peptidylthiohydantoins with trimethylsilylisothiocyanate (TMS-ITC) and for hydrolysis of these peptidylthiohydantoins into an amino acid thiohydantoin derivative and a new shortened peptide capable of continued degradation (Bailey, J. M. & Shively, J. E., 1990, Biochemistry 29, 3145-3156).
(14) N-sulfated glucosamine residues are cleaved selectively by treatment with nitrous acid at pH approximately 1.5 (J. E. Shively, and H.E.
(15) Automated C-terminal sequencing on these supports is described in the companion paper (Bailey, J.M., Shenoy, N.R., Ronk, M., & Shively, J.E., 1992, Protein Sci.
(16) This peptide has been previously isolated from such digests [Farley, R. A., Tran, C. M., Carilli, C. T., Hawke, D., & Shively, J. E. (1984) J. Biol.
(17) As previously reported by us (L. H. Botelho, D. E. Ryan, P.-M. Yuan, R. Kutney, J. E. Shively, and W. Levin (1982, Biochemistry 21, 1152-1155) the NH2-terminal sequence of the mature protein lacks the NH2-terminal Met residue.
(18) The current study is a continuation of this work and describes the construction of an instrument for automated C-terminal sequencing, the application of the thiocyanate chemistry to peptides covalently coupled to a novel polyethylene solid support (Shenoy, N. R., Bailey, J. M., & Shively, J. E., 1992, Protein Sci.
(19) The peptide hormone recently isolated from anglerfish endocrine pancreas (aPY) (Andrews, P. C., Hawke, D., Shively, J.E., and Dixon, J.E.
(20) The protein sequence data have been used to identify a genomic DNA clone for one of the NCA antigens [Thompson, J., Pande, H., Paxton, R. J., Shively, L., Padma, A., Simmer, R. L., Todd, C. W., Riggs, A. D. & Shively, J. E. (1987) Proc.