(n.) To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes.
(n.) To detect or perceive, as if by the sense of smell; to scent out; -- often with out.
(n.) To give heed to.
(v. i.) To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; -- often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk.
(v. i.) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savor; as, a report smells of calumny.
(v. i.) To exercise the sense of smell.
(v. i.) To exercise sagacity.
(v. t.) The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense.
(v. t.) The quality of any thing or substance, or emanation therefrom, which affects the olfactory organs; odor; scent; fragrance; perfume; as, the smell of mint.
Example Sentences:
(1) • young clownfish will lose their ability to "smell" the anemone species that they shelter in.
(2) Earlier recognition of foul-smelling mucoid discharge on the IUD tail, or abnormal bleeding, or both, as a sign of early pelvic infection, followed by removal of the IUD and institution of appropriate antibiotic therapy, might prevent the more serious sequelae of pelvic inflammation.
(3) The lid is fiddly to fit on to the cup, and smells so strongly of silicone it almost entirely ruins the taste of the coffee if you don’t remove it.
(4) A history and physical examination focused on signs and symptoms of chemosensory disorders, in combination with screening tests for taste and smell function, can quickly and easily delineate the general type and cause of the dysfunction.
(5) The coke sailed up my nasal passage, leaving behind the delicious smell of a hot leather car seat on the way back from the beach.
(6) "When I burp and pass wind the smell is absolutely horrendous.
(7) Examination of illustrative case reports demonstrates that the qualitative features of the Odorant Confusion Matrix offer additional insights to support etiologic diagnoses of disturbances in sense of smell.
(8) Receptor cells with cilia were observed, and although the olfactory system undergoes further differentiation during pouch life and although the olfactory epithelium and bulb of the newborn differs from that of the adult, these facts do not preclude the ability of the newborn to detect smell.
(9) Donna Sinclair, head of Options 4 Change, a charity working with black youths "I went to Brixton the morning after and the smell of burning, and what you could see told a huge story.
(10) 'The smell had become unbelievably bad by then', she said.
(11) Anything that good for you might be expected to smell foul and come in a medicine bottle, but the Mediterranean diet is generally considered to be delicious, except by those who hate olive oil.
(12) The media, smelling blood, has fallen into pack formation.
(13) It might smell close to pot, he said, but would be “tainted” because of all the other items and plants like poison oak burning along with it.
(14) Data from each subject were fitted by a compartmental model for zinc metabolism that was developed previously for patients with taste and smell dysfunction.
(15) Learning of the motor to the mother smell seems to occur yet in prenatal period.
(16) Guardian US environment correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg looked at the role cities would have to play in reducing emissions: At-risk cities hold solutions to climate change: UN report It is already taking shape as the 21st century urban nightmare: a big storm hits a city like Shanghai, Mumbai, Miami or New York, knocking out power supply and waste treatment plants, washing out entire neighbourhoods and marooning the survivors in a toxic and foul-smelling swamp.
(17) A sensory world beyond the care setting can be evoked through recorded birdsong or the smell of flowers.
(18) Similar messages delivered by previous populist, independent candidates like Ralph Nader and Ross Perot didn’t catch on because there was always that whiff of ego that voters like me could smell, coupled with lack of experience in government.
(19) Of the group returning the tests, seven employees reported having smell problems due to allergies or sinus disease.
(20) This is payback, without a doubt.” The workers recently won the support of Will Self, who supported a boycott of the venue, writing : “If the punters wake up and smell the crap coffee of corporate greed, perhaps we won’t be so keen on contributing to those revenues.
Snell
Definition:
(a.) Active; brisk; nimble; quick; sharp.
(n.) A short line of horsehair, gut, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer line.
Example Sentences:
(1) The above results suggest that hormone deficiency in Snell dwarf mice is a result of a defect in the hormone-producing cells in the gland.
(2) Expressions for the parameters are from by the application of Markov's theory of chains which was developed by Kemeny & Snell (1960, Finite Markov Chains, Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand) and Bosso et al.
(3) On addition of monovalent cation to the holoenzyme-ethionine complex, a marked increase occurs in absorption of 508 nm resulting from labilization of the alpha proton with formation of the quinoid form of the pyridoxal phosphate moiety of the enzyme-substrate complex at the catalytic center (Morino, Y., and Snell, E.E.
(4) The chromosomes involved in the T(2;4)Sn (formerly designated T(5;8) Sn) or Snell translocation in the mouse have been identified as numbers 2 and 4 by analysis of the fluorescent banding patterns of quinacrine mustard-stained chromosomes in primary cultures from heterozygous and homozygous embryos.
(5) The concentration of gangliosides in the Snell dwarf mouse cerebrum was monitored from postnatal day 5 to day 40.
(6) Pituitary dwarf mutants of the Snell-Bagg and Ames mouse strains develop severe immunodeficiency of the thymus-dependent system which frequently leads to a fatal wasting syndrome.
(7) If the four known pyruvoyl-dependent HisDCases arise from inactive proenzymes by the mechanism previously demonstrated for the HisDCase of Lactobacillus 30a (Recsei, P. A., Huynh, Q. K. and Snell, E. E. (1983) Proc.
(8) Snell called upon testimony from Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley, which he gave in absentia but in unambiguous terms, describing GM as having, through its subsidiaries, “scrapped the Pacific Electric and Los Angeles streetcar systems, leaving the electric train system totally destroyed.” GM, in the face of such harsh accusations, made no recorded public response except to admit to its investment in American City Lines, a company with which National City Lines merged in 1946.
(9) Thus bacterially synthesized hGH behaves identically to pituitary-derived hGH with respect to body length, sulfate incorporation into costal and epiphyseal cartilage, body weight and organ growth of Snell dwarf mice, with one exception: increase of weight of the kidneys, as a function of body weight, was more pronounced after treatment with hGH than with bhGH.
(10) It’s a brilliant mix of backpacking, volunteering and surfing – and what’s even better is you might get a qualification at the end of it,” says Jennifer Snell, 20, from Wiltshire, who combined an office job with working as a fishmonger in Tesco to raise the money.
(11) Refraction effects from planar tissue layer interfaces are analyzed using Snell's law and measured using phantoms.
(12) Congenital deficiency of growth hormone, prolactin, and TSH was first described in Snell dwarf mice.
(13) These diseases are highly infectious, very difficult to treat and can have severe complications, particularly in children, but they are vaccine-preventable,” the South Australian health minister, Jack Snelling, told reporters on Friday.
(14) In the last decade this work culminated in the close study of the Little Mouse with isolated growth hormone deficiency--thus exposing the panhypopituitary model (the human pituitary dwarf, Snell Smith mouse or hypophysectomised rat) as non-optimal models.
(15) Adrenocorticotrophin (ACTH) produced an insignificant stimulation of pregnenolone biosynthesis from endogenous precursors in isolated cells prepared from the rat Snell adrenal carcinoma 494.
(16) Formation of these two products supports a previously proposed mechanism of inactivation (Hayashi, H., Tanase, S., and Snell, E. E. (1986) J. Biol.
(17) The results indicate that dopaminergic A12 neurons in Snell dwarf mice are present and viable.
(18) No differences in metabolism of [7alpha-(3)H]dehydroepiandrosterone or [4-(14)C]pregnenolone were detected between adrenal tissue from Sprague-Dawley, Wistar and Osborne-Mendel rats, but experiments with the Snell rat adrenocortical tumour 494 showed that this tissue had low 5alpha-reductase activity.
(19) While at the museum I spent some time talking to geologist Andrew Snelling.
(20) originally designated (H. Kagamiyama, H. Wada, H. Matsubara, and E. E. Snell, 1972, J. Biol.