(v. i.) To make a hissing sound; as, a flatiron hot enough to siss when touched with a wet finger.
(n.) A hissing noise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite the negative correlation of SIS occurrence with the theta rhythm in normal rats, abolishing the theta rhythm by medial septal lesions did not affect the suppression of SISs during REMS as compared to SWS.
(2) To more adequately accomplish these functions, we suggest that five specific categories of information will be essential: (1) reports of recent advances in Science Information Management methods; (2) original reports of Science Information Syntheses (SISs) providing information immediately applicable for QA; (3) previously published reports of "classic" SISs relevant to QA; (4) reviews of new technologies and products immediately applicable to quality management; (5) cumulative indexing of the above methods and products.
(3) The persistence of SISs in terms of hours and days suggests the involvement of long-term potentiation.
(4) In conclusion, changes in hippocampal SISs were closely time-locked to an AD, and not to evoked behavioral seizures.
(5) Hippocampal SISs probably reflect an excitability change that is more local than that necessary for evoking behavioral convulsions.
(6) Hippocampal spontaneous interictal spikes (SISs) were recorded during the course of daily tetanization (kindling) of afferent fibers to the hippocampal CA1 region.
(7) Spontaneous interictal spikes (SISs) were recorded in the hippocampus in freely behaving rats following hippocampal stimulations that resulted in afterdischarges (ADs).
(8) Hippocampal SISs were detected after an average of 5 (range 2-10) daily ADs.
(9) The rate of SISs typically increased minutes after a tetanus, and then decayed with time constants of approximately 70 min and 1.5 days.
Spiss
Definition:
(a.) Thick; crowded; compact; dense.
Example Sentences:
(1) In May, Jäger confided, he was one of the five people in Spiss who cast their vote for Van der Bellen instead.
(2) Whereas hotels are already up and running in the valley down the road, the skiing season in Spiss has yet to start.
(3) Landeck, where both the villages of Kaunertal and Spiss are located, had the lowest turnout last time, at 62.1%.
(4) The divide between Kaunertal and Spiss reflects a wider split across a country in which one half is increasingly struggling to understand the other.
(5) And ideologically we are all Europeans here.” In Spiss, half an hour’s drive away, the same comments have won Hofer support.
(6) She acknowledged there were no refugees in Spiss, a community of no more than 133 inhabitants.
(7) While Kaunertal plans to join up skiing areas with South Tyrol in 2018, Spiss is burdened with the harder Swiss border, where customs officers go as far as controlling the piste between Samnauen and Ischgl on skis.
(8) Alois Jäger, the mayor of Spiss, rejected the idea that the local economy had driven support for Hofer, pointing to the refugee crisis and Van der Bellen’s age as key factors instead.
(9) One valley to the west, in Spiss, Van der Bellen’s opponent, the far-right populist Norbert Hofer, scored his best result.
(10) Isn’t it shocking that women can no longer walk home on their own at night unless they carry a can of pepper spray?” To describe Spiss as one of the losers of globalisation would be inaccurate.