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Sheen


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Bright; glittering; radiant; fair; showy; sheeny.
  • (v. i.) To shine; to glisten.
  • (n.) Brightness; splendor; glitter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His body was found on the pavement of Portman Avenue, in East Sheen, an affluent west London suburb, shortly before 7.45am on 9 September last year, just after flight BA76 from Luanda, the Angolan capital, passed overhead.
  • (2) In vitro pure-culture studies were conducted to assess growth and sheen formation of groundwater bacteria on M-Endo medium incubated under reduced oxygen concentrations (0, 4, 8, 12, and 16%).
  • (3) Sheen accused the Danish authorities of being complicit in the “brutal slaughter”.
  • (4) The colour to channel for next season is, in fact, not matt buttercup yellow but the gold-foil sheen best explained as the colour of the toffee penny in a box of Quality Street.
  • (5) The engines, gearboxes and even the doors now have a complexity that sees them constructed elsewhere, but the transformation on this line of the dull sheen of aluminium parts into a moving vehicle at the other end is still something to behold.
  • (6) The absence of China and India at the highest level will take some of the sheen off, but they can possibly come back on board if leaders of industrialised countries make serious commitments about what they are going to do to mitigate emissions and help developing nations.
  • (7) The president, played by Martin Sheen, had to hustle to find new neckwear from someone on his staff with less than a minute to air.
  • (8) Suspect sheen-forming colonies were analyzed to determine purity and identity of cultures.
  • (9) Vinterberg's version stars Carey Mulligan as headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, while Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge and Matthias Schoenarts play the contrasting suitors who jockey for her attention.
  • (10) In pride of place above the fireplace sits a shot of his sons, alongside one of him interviewing Mandela and a US magazine cover which followed the marathon 1977 confrontation with Richard Nixon that earned him a place in history - and provided the subject matter for an award-winning play that will this year become a film starring Michael Sheen as Frost and Frank Langella as Nixon.
  • (11) A ctor Michael Sheen looks a bit like a lot of people and sooner or later usually ends up playing them.
  • (12) Writer Feargus O’Sullivan thinks of the presence of artists and creative workers as adding a “cursory sheen to a place’s transformation”, describing the process as “ artwashing ”.
  • (13) If you fly over the Gulf today, you will see the sheen of oil everywhere .
  • (14) Dilute suspensions of normal erythrocytes exhibit a pearl-like sheen (nacre) when subjected to flow.
  • (15) Having had to give up Twitter (she's an avid user), her replacement social exchange will now be with the likes of Jedward and Kerry Katona, the most recognisable of the celebrities, or bare-knuckle fighter Paddy Doherty from My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, a paparazzo, a male model and a couple of actors (American superstars Charlie Sheen, Pamela Anderson and Mike Tyson were conspicuous by their absence).
  • (16) The ophthalmoscopic appearance showed a segmental, grayish metallic sheen in association with bone spicule pigmentation, which radiated from the disk along the temporal vessel arcades and joined temporal to the macula.
  • (17) Stephen Sheen, Cardiff • Post your answers – and new questions – below or email them to nq@theguardian.com .
  • (18) The actor Michael Sheen, best known for playing Tony Blair in a series of TV dramas and the award-winning film The Queen, has delivered a passionate defence of the NHS against “bland” politicians in thrall to the market from both Conservative and Labour parties.
  • (19) As a teenager, he was as much of a presence in American magazines for teenage girls as Corey Haim and Charlie Sheen.
  • (20) These were quite dark, with or without a metallic sheen, and closely resembled the colonies of lactose fermenting Escherichia coli on EMB agar.

Sheet


Definition:

  • (v. t.) In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.
  • (v. t.) A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body.
  • (v. t.) A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.
  • (v. t.) A single signature of a book or a pamphlet;
  • (v. t.) the book itself.
  • (v. t.) A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.
  • (v. t.) A broad expanse of water, or the like.
  • (v. t.) A sail.
  • (v. t.) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
  • (v. t.) A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom.
  • (v. t.) The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.
  • (v. t.) To expand, as a sheet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The popularly used procedure in Great Britain is that in which a sheet of Ivalon sponge is sutured to the sacrum and wrapped around the rectum thus anchoring it in place.
  • (2) Some dental applications of the pressure measuring sheet, such as the measurement of biting pressure and balance during normal and unilateral biting, were examined.
  • (3) An accurate and reproducible method is described for generating a map of the cobalt sheet source from images of it made in multiple positions with the scintillation camera.
  • (4) Dose distributions were evaluated under thin sheet lead used as surface bolus for 4- and 10-MV photons and 6- and 9-MeV electrons using a parallel-plate ion chamber and film.
  • (5) The compromised ice sheet tilts and he sinks into the Arctic Sea on the back of his faltering white Icelandic pony.
  • (6) Expansion of the cell sheet following attachment, and the fusion of epiblasts advancing toward each other, does not require the presence of mineralocorticoid.
  • (7) The type I cells are squamous and give off attenuated sheets of cytoplasm which spread widely over the septal surface; these sheets contain few organelles.
  • (8) The frequency spectra of transmission coefficients for ultrasound passing through a sheet of gas-filled micropores have been measured using incident waves with amplitudes up to 2.4 x 10(4) Pa.
  • (9) Both types of molecules are compact and globular in shape and apparently contain beta-pleated sheet conformation.
  • (10) In the high-grade component, the blasts occurred in clusters or sheets, and often possessed plasmacytoid cytoplasm; glandular invasion was a rare event.
  • (11) A template showing typical histograms from commonly occurring CLPD was also produced on an acetate sheet.
  • (12) These findings suggest that the presence of features such as large prominent nucleoli, tumor growth in sheets, individual-cell necrosis, and nuclear pleomorphism may be used to predict recurrence of subtotally resected meningiomas that would not be classified as malignant by traditional criteria.
  • (13) The conformational similarity between tubules, sheets, and the dry powder is corroborated by calorimetry, which reveals a cooling exotherm at the same temperature where tubules form upon cooling hydrated sheets.
  • (14) The cortical vitreous of the normal (control) eye appeared to be a lamellar structure composed of sheets of collagen mesh.
  • (15) A central eight-stranded beta-pleated sheet is the main feature of the polypeptide backbone folding in dihydrofolate reductase.
  • (16) In order to clarify the role of dialyzer geometry, the effect of hollow-fiber versus flat-sheet dialyzers and of different surface areas on C3a generation and leukocyte degranulation was investigated.
  • (17) The simultaneous binding of the polypeptidic molecules to two opposing bilayers appears to be required in order to preserve the beta-sheet structure at pressures over approximately 9 kbar: a small proportion of the polypeptide, most likely the molecules at the surface of the aggregated bilayers, was found to convert to unordered and eventually to alpha-helical conformations in the pressure range 9-19 kbar.
  • (18) Pterygia, triangular sheets of fibrovascular tissue that invade the cornea, have recurrence rates of 30% to 50% with currently available surgical procedures.
  • (19) Cells containing A-layer and isolated A-layer sheets specifically bound laminin and fibronectin with high affinity.
  • (20) Under fluoroscopic control a lower polar calix was punctured with 18 G sheathed needle; a guide wire was introduced through the sheet.