(n.) A thin piece of anything, especially of marble or other stone, having plane surfaces.
(n.) An outside piece taken from a log or timber in sawing it into boards, planks, etc.
(n.) The wryneck.
(n.) The slack part of a sail.
(a.) Thick; viscous.
(n.) That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(2) This study investigates the photoneutron field found in medical accelerator rooms with primary barriers constructed of metal slabs plus concrete.
(3) In order to study the effects of different glass ionomers on the metabolism of Streptococcus mutans, test slabs of freshly mixed conventional glass ionomer (Fuji), silver glass ionomer (Ketac-Silver), composite (Silux), and 2-week-old Fuji were fitted into the bottom of a test tube.
(4) The native phosphoprotein has an approximate sedimentation coefficient of 14.8 S. On sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide slab gel electrophoresis, the protein dissociated into identical subunits of Mr = 128,000.
(5) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(6) Stains-All treatment of slab gels showed that the cross-reactive peptide stained metachromatically blue, similarly to SR CS.
(7) The serum material extracted from the slab gel was purified from SDS and further fractionated by reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).
(8) It is suggested that (1) in the chronically neuronally isolated cortical slab there is normally no spontaneous adrenergic activity, (2) a cortical, cholinergic inhibitory mechanism, previously described, is modulated by ascending adrenergic influences, (3) adrenergic cholinergic linkages might be arranged in the cortex in an alternating network, as proposed by Feldberg.
(9) These proteins were further separated on slab SDS gels and protein bands were excised after Coomassie Brilliant Blue R-250 staining and used to inject three rabbits.
(10) A system for analyzing covalent modifications of elongation factor-2 (eEF-2) by one-dimensional isoelectric focusing in slab polyacrylamide gels is described.
(11) Slabs were re-embedded in resin and 5 microns sections cut for routine undecalcified histological staining.
(12) A new prealbumin plasma esterase was demonstrated by the use of miniaturized polyacrylamide slab gel electrophoresis.
(13) Many neurons of this longitudinal slab which we have named the basal forebrain cell column, originate from an ependymal matrix closely associated with the ventral diencephalic sulcus and later become associated with the basal forebrain bundle.
(14) The water inside the channel was considered through a continuum medium using the dielectric constant of the bulk, and the membrane contribution was included using the virtual images of the pore in a dielectric slab of epsilon = 3.
(15) Protein band positions on a slab polyacrylamide gel were determined without staining, by blotting the bands onto a nitrocellulose membrane which was then stained to visualize the electrophoretic pattern.
(16) The front surface slab-off and bicentric produce base-up prism in the lower section of the lens.
(17) A small air cavity to measure ionization is embedded in the polystyrene slab at the boundary facing the backscatterer.
(18) Resembling a billhook, with Foule Crag its wickedly curved tip, this final flourish looks daunting but can be skirted to one side, up awkward slabs.
(19) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
(20) The occurrence of molecular forms in protease-solubilized AChE was investigated by means of centrifugation analysis and slab gel electrophoresis.
Stab
Definition:
(v. t.) To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.
(v. t.) Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.
(v. i.) To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon.
(v. i.) To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon.
(n.) The thrust of a pointed weapon.
(n.) A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an assassin.
(n.) Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.
Example Sentences:
(1) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
(2) Dermot Kelly said: "The England Supporters Band is right up there with the vuvuzela for wanting to stab myself in the head with a fork."
(3) You could understand why the Met was frantic to find who had stabbed Rachel Nickell 49 times on Wimbledon Common while her screaming child looked on, but the case against Stagg was preposterous.
(4) Results indicate that 75% of the participating boys and 10% of participating girls had witnessed the shooting, stabbing, robbing, or killing of another person in their own lives.
(5) Stab wounds to the temporal fossa appear as a characteristic clinical entity.
(6) Many of the patients with stab wounds of the precordial chest (danger zone) had cardiac or major vascular injuries, and the mortality rate of them was high.
(7) Sigurdsson’s deep corner kick was headed back across goal by Borja and Fer, via a slight touch from Van der Hoorn, stabbed over the line.
(8) The multi-agency review of the circumstances leading up to the killing of the 16-year-old, who was fatally stabbed at Cults Academy, one of Scotland’s highest performing state schools, on 28 October 2015, also concluded that his death could have been avoided had those who knew that his killer carried weapons in school reported this to staff.
(9) Later, it proved that he was stabbed with a foreign body penetrating into the contralateral frontal lobe through the left nasal cavity.
(10) Violence had subsided by Sunday evening – but not before dozens had been shot or stabbed, leaving 25 dead and 56 injured.
(11) It consists of the comprehensive extraction of the varices through extremely small stab incisions, followed immediately by vigorous marching.
(12) It is possible that Clegg could yet get to 30 seats or so at the next election, and in Britain's fluid politics that may give him a stab at forming another coalition.
(13) Another Palestinian man, suspected of having stabbed and wounded an Israeli teenager, was shot dead by police in Jerusalem.
(14) Based on one-to-one interviews with more than 40 people, the inquiry said the immediate aftermath of the stabbing “was well managed by all agencies”.
(15) Overall mortality was 130, 8.7%; 9.5% for gunshot wounds, 3.4% for stab wounds, and 2.5% for blunt trauma.
(16) I got to HaHagana bridge with a friend and we saw a big man in a red sweatshirt stabbing a soldier twice, apparently someone from the air force,” he said.
(17) On the other hand, both blunt trauma and posterior stab wounds frequently caused isolated retroperitoneal duodenal lesions where the diagnosis was not evident on admission, but in which the insidious and progressive development of symptoms and signs drew attention to the need for laparotomy.
(18) A patient who sustained an acute carotid-cavernous fistula due to a stab wound is presented.
(19) The use of the Columbia agar stab culture is recommended as a rapid and simple test for recognition of group B streptococci.
(20) If so, ministers may need to be prepared for a new breed of civil servants, who will no longer fall on their swords if they believe they have been stabbed in the back.