(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.
Skive
Definition:
(n.) The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.
(v. t.) To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of (hides or leather).
Example Sentences:
(1) In so far as can be gleaned , the 120,000 families whose feral ways Mr Pickles and the prime minister like pointing to were totted up using outdated surveys concerned not with the school skiving, crime and loutishness that dominated yesterday's spin.
(2) The play opens with a scene where nosey neighbours spot someone on sickness benefit in the street and assume they must be skiving instead of working.
(3) Perhaps the culprit was skiving off the wedding of a despised but vengeful cousin when he posted.
(4) Are we salt of the earth yeomen, or skiving thickos milking the system, or drains on the already stretched infrastructure?
(5) Are workers seen as a burden, a cost, people who would rather skive and shirk responsibilities, and who have to be supervised rigorously at all times?
(6) The medial heel skive technique involves selectively removing small amounts of the medial portion of the plantar heel of the positive cast of the foot to create a unique varus wedging effect within the heel cup of the foot orthosis.
(7) I was doing a lot of skiving and was put on report for a while.
(8) From the start of his tenure, Wilshaw had a habit of making comments that shocked people: accusing teachers of skiving off at 3pm , saying “bad parents” should be fined.
(9) When my mother dropped by her boss's flat to persuade her to come to a rally that had been organised in downtown Reykjavik, she was assuaging her guilt from skiving off work by baking furiously.
(10) The leading edge of the bar must be properly skived and tapered to provide an even surface with the forward part of the soles of the shoes.
(11) There was anger at Duncan Smith’s mantra that he was ending the “something for nothing culture”, and the subtext that people who tried to claim sickness benefits were skiving.
(12) The Kaastrup Plant near Skive was opened in spring 1986.
(13) Sure, it was holiday-time: daily matches, skiving from work, the cities aglitter with flags and foreigners.
(14) Christopher Millross says: "I'll be skiving but only whilst still in the office as our boss is a power-crazed inadequacy-riddled fool who can't bare to think he's not in control for ninety minutes."
(15) 10.45am: So, two questions: 1) Are any office-based readers either a) being allowed to getting out of work to watch the England (or indeed USA) match, or b) planning to skive off this afternoon?
(16) Amino acid analysis of the alpha-globins of "Skive" Danish Mus musculus musculus (Hbaw3) establishes that its hemoglobin is comprised of about one-third alpha chain 2 as expected plus a greater amount of a unique alpha chain that has not been described previously.
(17) A monologue lets us in on his thoughts – about the joy of skiving school and chasing the sun round the sky.
(18) They skive off to the loo for a sneaky fag, and return grinning.