(v. t.) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out.
(n.) Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent.
(v. t.) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
(v. i.) To crawl like a snake.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysis of the product by equilibrium density centrifugation and processive hydrolysis with snake venom phosphodiesterase suggested that the noncomplementary nucleotides were present in phosphodiester linkage.
(2) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
(3) Snakes did not only exhibit the major cell- and humoral-mediated immune functions, but these functions appeared to be linked with the degree of MLR disparity.
(4) Weighed amounts of lyophilized venom from each snake were compared chronologically for variation in isoelectric focusing patterns, using natural and immobilized gradients.
(5) In the last 5 years, 29 children have been treated in our institution for snake bites, all with signs of envenomation.
(6) Forty patients with Crotalidae snake bites were evaluated and treated over a 7-year period.
(7) The presence of proteins antigenically related to Bothrops asper myotoxins in various snake venoms, mainly from South America, was investigated by using polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies.
(8) PCB residues occurred only in snakes collected near a heavily-traveled highway.
(9) Snake curaremimetic toxins are known to bind to the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AcChoR) [Changeux et al.
(10) "Ministers must urgently get behind a different approach to food and farming that delivers real sustainable solutions rather than peddling the snake oil that is GM ."
(11) The prevention of sea-snake bite and poisoning is considered.
(12) The prothrombin activator from the venom of Oxyuranus scutellatus (Taipan snake) was purified by gel filtration on Sephadex G-200 and ion-exchange chromatography on QAE-Sephadex.
(13) In the anterior section of the snake, the vagal trunks contained many cell bodies with colocalized vasoactive intestinal polypeptide and substance P-like immunoreactivity.
(14) While the hemagglutination activity of each of the previously described lactose-binding snake venom lectins is inhibited by reducing agent, the activities of BML and JML are not affected by reducing agent.
(15) 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.
(16) A platelet-aggregating activity was found in many snake venoms, predominantly those of the genus Bothrops, that is apparent only in the presence of the platelet-aggregating von Willebrand factor of plasma.
(17) Water snakes (Natrix natrix), rat snakes (Ptyas korros), cobras (Naja naja), pythons (Python molurus), tortoises (Kachuga sp.
(18) By using snake-venom diesterase over short periods of incubation, it was confirmed that the ATP had been incorporated terminally as AMP into the placental tRNA.
(19) Pro-Morsi marches regularly snake from the sites, disrupting traffic across much of Cairo and causing further government frustration.
(20) The snake with the longest journey took nine months to reach its destination.
Zombie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
(2) The business described it in a since-deleted Facebook post as a “Zombie Apocalypse Assault Vehicle and Troop Transport”.
(3) The Cave is a mining scene complete with treasure chest, giant spider, zombie and a “Steve” minifigure.
(4) Understandably so, since we’re talking about ice demons who can command zombie hordes.
(5) Up against the continuing might of animated sequel Kung Fu Panda 3 , as well as fellow debutants including romantic drama The Choice and horror-comedy Pride and Prejudice and Zombies , the 50s-set tale of a major film star gone missing scored just $11.4m (£7.9m) to open in second place.
(6) But I am trying to claw the innocent joy of Halloween out of the cold, deadened clutches of the Zombie of Forced Sexiness.
(7) Nor are Hay Day, Plants vs. Zombies 2, The Simpsons: Tapped Out, The Sims FreePlay, Angry Birds Go, or anything with “Saga” on the end.
(8) • Internet fridges: the zombie idea that just won't die
(9) ), there are practical concerns about functionally turning one's phone into a zombie in the undead Zuckerberg army: Leviathan212 04 April 2013 6:48pm Sounds like an absolute horror.
(10) The organisations that find and train men like Atta have since been responsible for unutterable crimes in many countries and societies, from England to Iraq, in their attempt to create a system where the cold and loveless zombie would be the norm, and culture would be dead.
(11) However, what Warner has helped create is a "zombie policy" – currently politically dormant but waiting to be given the kiss of life in the future.
(12) Also prompting hyperventilating zombie headlines was a leaked “secret” Labor options paper on climate policy – which basically said only what we already knew – that Labor would have an emissions trading scheme of some sort in combination with other policies (the same ones that could help meet the renewable energy goal) as well as things like vehicle emission standards.
(13) It’s a trope that often plays an important part in the narrative of zombie stories.
(14) Microsoft statisticians estimate that owners of the new console have already dispatched more than 60m zombies, driven 3.6m miles and earned 43m fit points as they explore some of the 22 titles available at launch.
(15) Presumably, becoming a zombie involves some sort of widespread, systematic brain damage in which baser survival instincts take over, and motor and language areas are damaged, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the zombie doesn’t remember .
(16) But vampires and zombies are old news, according to Quirk.
(17) But, unlike most of the bizarre things said about this place, the zombies at least make sense.
(18) Back when it suited Green, he emphasized that Assange has not been charged with any crime, that there is far from any certainty that he would be, and that extradition to Sweden is merely for him "to be questioned" on these allegations: exactly the "myths" and "zombie facts" which he now purports to bust.
(19) For years the so-called White Walkers, a zombie race of wispy-haired, dead-horse-riding weirdos (think: Vince Cable 50 years dead and taller) were presumed mythological or extinct.
(20) The TV series was part of a “zombie-like revival of the defunct empire”.