(n.) The fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of Bombyx mori.
(n.) Hence, thread spun, or cloth woven, from the above-named material.
(n.) That which resembles silk, as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize.
Example Sentences:
(1) To ascertain whether azo dyes are associated with risk of development of bladder tumors in workers who handpaint Yuzen-type silk kimonos in Kyoto, we investigated the disintegration of dyes to benzidine.
(2) Serial keratometry readings were obtained pre- and postoperative cataract extraction utilizing all silk closure.
(3) Here’s Marie-Josée Kravis, advisor to the New York Fed, accessorizing brilliantly with her snake-effect silk scarf off on a power walk with her billionaire financier husband Henry Kravis, head of predatory investment company KKR.
(4) The country’s other attractions include a burning pit at “the door to hell” in the Darvaza crater, and rarely seen stretches of the silk road, the region’s ancient trade route.
(5) The polylactic-polyglycolic acid suture is braided and dyed, and has handling characteristics similar to those of black silk.
(6) The radioallergosorbent inhibition test, however, suggested that there may be no cross-reactivity or, if any, only very low cross-reactivity between midge allergens and mite, house dust (HD), silk, shrimp, or mosquito allergens.
(7) But lest the duchess feel overlooked, the end section of the show featured long, pale-blue bias-cut crepe dresses with more of a charity gala feel; and knee-length silk crepe dresses with black grosgrain belts seemed princess friendly.
(8) A clinical survey in two silk filatures revealed that 36.2% of the persons engaged in the processing of natural silk were suffering from bronchial asthma, while 16.9% of the total subjects had asthma of occupational origin.
(9) It posted photos on its website of what it said was Thargyal's charred body covered in ceremonial yellow silk scarves and hundreds of people marching up a hill to a cremation site where his remains were burned.
(10) Silk Road is just one website; bitcoin is potentially the foundation for a whole new economic order.
(11) The presence of specific antibodies against extracts of silk has been shown by the direct RAST and confirmed by the indirect RAST.
(12) The skin stapler produced less inflammation and a better aesthetic result over time than the silk stitches.
(13) Transcription of the Bombyx mori fibroin gene in a posterior silk gland extract can be separated into three functional steps on the basis of sensitivity to Sarkosyl: 1) formation of an initiation complex, which is blocked by 0.025% Sarkosyl; 2) conversion of the initiation complex to an elongation complex, a step sensitive to 0.05% Sarkosyl; 3) the subsequent elongation of RNA chain which occurs in the presence of 0.05% Sarkosyl.
(14) High-waisted flared pleated silk trousers was the key shape, in colours Saint Laurent would have approved, such as like pumpkin orange, sea green and glowing fuchia.
(15) 37 Castle Street, Somerset, A5 1LN; 01278 732 266; janetphillips-weaving.co.uk East Assington Mill's rural skills courses range from cane-and-rush chair making to silk scarf dyeing– and some more unusual options, too.
(16) Thankfully, mazot guests can also use the lounge and dining room in the Chalet Les Mazots, a lovely wood-panelled home full of antique chairs, chests and cabinets, built by a family of silk manufacturers from Leon who chose the location for their farm for its south-facing views of Mont Blanc.
(17) The abdominal safety line, which is a size 1 silk passed through the eyes of the urethral splint (Foley catheter) and rolled up on gauze with some tension on the anterior abdominal wall has been used in three cases.
(18) Pretreatment which gave higher grafting onto silk did not always promote the bond strength to the dentin pretreated by the same pretreatments.
(19) Six monkeys had significant drops in alveolar bone mass 14 days after the the application of a silk ligature around the gingival margin of an adjacent tooth.
(20) Silk ligatures were tied around selected posterior teeth and replaced weekly for 4 weeks.
Wilk
Definition:
(n.) See Whelk.
Example Sentences:
(1) By a comparison with the published infrared spectra of the water in model systems [Mohr, S.C., Wilk, W.D., & Barrow, G.M.
(2) Campaign director Alex Wilks said: "This deal may sound great in London, but could be lethal in Kabul.
(3) Crowley, the chief political correspondent at CNN, was variously accused of having "committed an act of journalistic terror" (Rush Limbaugh) to having committed an act similar to John Wilkes Booth assassinating Abraham Lincoln (the Daily Caller's Tucker Carlson) when she fact-checked Romney in Tuesday's debate.
(4) Multivariate ANOVA (3 Conditions x 5 Trials) with repeated measures revealed a significant main effect for trials (Wilks' Lambda = .80; F = 2.5; df = 4.42; p = .05) for eyeblink rate.
(5) "The benefits of an offshore supergrid are not simply to allow offshore wind farms to connect; if you have additional capacity, which you will do within these lines, it will allow power trading between countries and that improves EU competitiveness," said Wilkes.
(6) This would allow Europe to replace fossil fuel imports with a thriving European wind energy industry generating large amounts of zero-emissions renewable power and technology exports," said Justin Wilkes, director of policy at the trade body.
(7) After Wilkes's battle, wrote the historian Robert Hargreaves, "it gradually became accepted that the public had a constitutional right to know what their elected representatives were up to".
(8) Rupert and I will have an ongoing dialogue in the weeks to come See the email 10 Nov 2010 James Murdoch has a telephone conversation with Hunt 15 Nov 2010 James and Michel arrange to meet Hunt, while Michel tries again to arrange a meeting with Vince Cable's adviser Giles Wilkes 11.23am Frederic Michel to Matthew Anderson: Hunt is calling JRM [James] re tonight – problem 11.32am Michel to James: Hunt meeting –urgent.
(9) The breakdown of beta-casein (caseinolytic activity) by the bovine pituitary multicatalytic proteinase complex (MPC) is initiated by a fourth active site different from the previously described chymotrypsin-like activity (cleavage of Cbz-Gly-Gly-Leu-p-nitroanilide, where Cbz is benzyloxycarbonyl), trypsin-like activity (cleavage of Cbz-D-Ala-Leu-Arg-2-naphthylamide), and peptidylglutamyl peptide bond-hydrolyzing (PGP) activity (cleavage of Cbz-Leu-Leu-Glu-2-naphthylamide) (Yu, B., Pereira, M. E., and Wilk, S. (1991) J. Biol.
(10) Out of the many regional data only the values of the mean amplitude and the standard deviation of the mean phase shift showed high discriminative power for separating the three groups, with an average squared canonic correlation of 0.5 and a Wilks lambda of 0.22, respectively.
(11) Statistically significant independent predictors of mortality included leukocytosis, concurrent major diseases, intravenous drug abuse, transfusion of 5 or more units of packed erythrocytes, and the presence of a bloody nasogastric aspirate or hematemesis (Wilk's lambda statistic = 0.369, p less than 0.0001).
(12) A modification of Wilke boot casting was utilized for four patients following reduction of a dislocated hip prosthesis.
(13) Wilkes McDermid, another blogger , said that he first noticed the trend a few years ago.
(14) Among the changes that could stem or reverse the democratic drift would be stronger powers for MPs to hold ministers to account, and a written constitution to ensure institutions such as the Electoral Commission were not vulnerable to being abolished by future governments, said Wilks-Heeg.
(15) Photograph: Ania Wilk-Lawton for the Observer John Adams is a stay-at-home dad and blogs at dadbloguk.com .
(16) There's an exhibition at Tate Liverpool by someone called Piet Mondrian, who we're pretty sure sat on the bench for Holland at Uruguay '30 (Mondrian and his Studios, 6 June-5 October), and also some concerts by Robbie Williams (various UK locations, 13 June to 12 July; football fan Robbie will be free for the final on 13 July) who in the early 2000s formed a useful partnership down the left side with Jonathan Wilkes.
(17) However, Barnes-Dacey was sceptical about whether Wilks would be able to find anyone in Istanbul who could be accurately be described as the political arm of the FSA.
(18) The basis of the method was to describe the EEG signals by autoregressive models and to test the normality of the regression residuals with the Shapiro-Wilk statistic.
(19) The results were compared with an earlier analysis by Johnston, Johnston, Wilkes, Burns & Thorpe (1984) of ratings of the same situations and with the Fear Questionnaire of Marks & Mathews (1979).
(20) In this short essay on the LSE website , Stuary Wilks-Heeg says the term "hung parliament" only came in in the 1970s.