(n.) A seal; especially, in England, the seal used by the sovereign in sealing private letters and grants that pass by bill under the sign manual; -- called also privy signet.
Example Sentences:
(1) In order to study the progression of signet ring cell carcinomas in the human stomach, we compared cell proliferation and differentiation between small and large intramucosal cancers, and between intramucosal and advanced cancers.
(2) Microscopic examination showed that the tumor was an invasive papillary growth with numerous signet-ring cells and mucous production.
(3) Carcinoma exhibiting signet ring cell appearance in the prostatic gland is rare.
(4) The results show that signet-ring cell carcinoma has a poor prognosis.
(5) Most of the tumours were well or moderately differentiated adenocarcinomas, one was poorly differentiated, and one was a signet ring cell carcinoma.
(6) The signet-ring cell adenocarcinoma cell line (HSKT-C) and the fibroblast cell strain (HSKT-F) were established from a Krukenberg tumor.
(7) Signet ring cell carcinoma of the breast is a rare type of tumor characterized by the presence of numerous cells containing large intracellular and little extracellular amounts of mucin.
(8) At operation, ovarian involvement was found to be secondary to metastatic signet ring cell adenocarcinoma of the colon, an extremely rare malignancy in this age group.
(9) The histologic features that caused diagnostic difficulty were: a solid, sheet-like proliferation of cells (four cases), a pseudoinfiltrative pattern (one case), abundant stromal hyalinization (one case), signet ring cells (two cases), hobnail cells (two cases), and the presence of moderate degrees of nuclear atypicality (two cases) and occasional mitotic figures (two cases).
(10) A review of the literature revealed this case to be the first reported case of triple cancers including signet ring-cell carcinoma of the breast, proven by autopsy in Japan.
(11) An immunoperoxidase method was used to compare the distribution of fibronectin and laminin between superficially spreading and deeply infiltrating parts of signet-ring-cell carcinoma of the stomach.
(12) The subsequent maturation stages are the well-known globular multivacuolated adipocyte and finally the mature univacuolated, signet-ring, white adipocyte.
(13) Argyrophil cells were observed in six cases (14.3%) and argentaffin cells in one (2.3%); their histopathological pattern were well differentiated adenocarcinoma (5) and "signet ring cell carcinoma" (1).
(14) In part of the tumor the direct transition between well-differentiated adenocarcinoma and signet-ring cell carcinoma was seen.
(15) Superficial carcinoma arose multicentrically and showed figures of signet ring cell carcinoma.
(16) Vesical adenocarcinoma has several variants, including signet-ring cell and clear cell types.
(17) Conclusions from formal histogenesis suggest that the signet ring cell type and the anaplastic (solid) type of early gastric cancer might start in the lower part of tubule necks.
(18) Only 1 tumor (a signet ring carcinoma) metastasized to the peritoneal cavity.
(19) Postmortem examination of the patient's brain revealed diffuse leptomeningeal infiltration by a signet-ring adenocarcinoma.
(20) The intestinal properties of the tumor cells were noted not only in the well-differentiated but also in the poorly differentiated or signet ring cell carcinomas, not closely being related to the presence of background intestinal metaplasia.
Stamp
Definition:
(v. i.) To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.
(v. i.) To bring down (the foot) forcibly on the ground or floor; as, he stamped his foot with rage.
(v. i.) To crush; to pulverize; specifically (Metal.), to crush by the blow of a heavy stamp, as ore in a mill.
(v. i.) To impress with some mark or figure; as, to stamp a plate with arms or initials.
(v. i.) Fig.: To impress; to imprint; to fix deeply; as, to stamp virtuous principles on the heart.
(v. i.) To cut out, bend, or indent, as paper, sheet metal, etc., into various forms, by a blow or suddenly applied pressure with a stamp or die, etc.; to mint; to coin.
(v. i.) To put a stamp on, as for postage; as, to stamp a letter; to stamp a legal document.
(v. i.) To strike; to beat; to crush.
(v. i.) To strike the foot forcibly downward.
(n.) The act of stamping, as with the foot.
(n.) The which stamps; any instrument for making impressions on other bodies, as a die.
(n.) The mark made by stamping; a mark imprinted; an impression.
(n.) that which is marked; a thing stamped.
(v. t.) A picture cut in wood or metal, or made by impression; a cut; a plate.
(v. t.) An offical mark set upon things chargeable with a duty or tax to government, as evidence that the duty or tax is paid; as, the stamp on a bill of exchange.
(v. t.) Hence, a stamped or printed device, issued by the government at a fixed price, and required by law to be affixed to, or stamped on, certain papers, as evidence that the government dues are paid; as, a postage stamp; a receipt stamp, etc.
(v. t.) An instrument for cutting out, or shaping, materials, as paper, leather, etc., by a downward pressure.
(v. t.) A character or reputation, good or bad, fixed on anything as if by an imprinted mark; current value; authority; as, these persons have the stamp of dishonesty; the Scriptures bear the stamp of a divine origin.
(v. t.) Make; cast; form; character; as, a man of the same stamp, or of a different stamp.
(v. t.) A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or bathing.
(v. t.) A half-penny.
(v. t.) Money, esp. paper money.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hopes of a breakthrough are slim, though, after WTO members failed to agree a draft deal to rubber-stamp this week.
(2) The BBA statistics director, David Dooks, said: "It was no surprise to see the January mortgage figures falling back from December, when transactions were being pushed through to beat the end of stamp duty relief.
(3) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
(4) The immigration minister, Mark Harper, said: in a statement: "Today's operations highlight the routine work we are carrying out every day to stamp out illegal working.
(5) On Friday, Sollecito had his passport taken away and his ID card stamped to show he must not leave Italy, according to police.
(6) Currently, anyone buying a property for £175,000 or less avoids paying 1% stamp duty.
(7) This means 9 in 10 first time buyers will pay no stamp duty at all.
(8) He has some suggestions for what might be done, including easing changing the planning laws to free up parts of the green belt, financial incentives to persuade local authorities to build, and the replacement of the council tax and stamp duty land tax with a new local property tax with automatic annual revaluations.
(9) The IFRC announced it was expanding its operations in the three countries in a bid to stamp out the virus now that the case numbers have been reduced to between 20 and 27 a week, compared to hundreds a week at the disease’s peak.
(10) The stamps, which were similar in paper and size to Japanese 10-yen postage stamps, were wrapped around the penis before sleep and the stamp ring was checked for breakage the next morning.
(11) That means that the money being spent on food stamps is money that the government is paying to subsidize company profits: as businesses pay a minimum or near-minimumwage, their workers are forced to turn to government programs to make ends meet.
(12) But to leave with the result 1-0, I don’t believe too much that he can play.” Mourinho had actually walked on to the turf while his players celebrated their opening goal to stamp in some of the divots.
(13) A brief orientation to postage stamps and philately is given, and a small collection of rheumatologically related stamps is illustrated.
(14) Labour’s promise of a stamp duty holiday for first-time buyers will lead to higher house prices.
(15) First class stamps prices are rising by 1p, while a second class stamp will rise by the same amount to 55p.
(16) Solicitors, conveyancers and mortgage lenders are reporting a rush to complete house purchases before the reintroduction of stamp duty on properties costing less than £175,000 on 1 January.
(17) Committees too often rubber stamp these ingenious schemes with little real scrutiny.
(18) The final bill will most likely crack down on states that give recipients $1 in heating assistance in order to trigger higher food stamp benefits, a change that wouldn't take people completely off the rolls.
(19) The exhibition will include the earliest roadside pillar box erected on the mainland – in 1853, a year after the first went up in Jersey in the Channel Isles – and unique and priceless sheets of Penny Black stamps.
(20) Buy-to-let investors rush to complete before stamp duty rise Read more Even Osborne’s form of penalising the market, through higher stamp duty, makes no sense.