(n.) A round mass of snow pressed or roller together, or anything resembling such a mass.
(n.) The Guelder-rose.
(v. t.) To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.
(v. i.) To throw snowballs.
Example Sentences:
(1) For accurate diagnosis of INCL a biopsy with characteristic EM findings of "snowball" aggregates is a necessity.
(2) Edinburgh students called on outside supporters to stage snowball fights in solidarity, while Oxford's Facebook page features support from sympathisers, but also anger from English and theology students unable to get hold of books and data for this week's essays.
(3) The number of complaints is expected to snowball with further press coverage of the fallout from the stunt.
(4) The too-liberal availability of payday loans has created an easy way for people in desperate need to defer their shortfall temporarily but cause it to snowball in the long run.
(5) 'The positive critical reception, word of mouth and the rise of Nordic noir fiction has seen a snowball effect on the popularity of subtitled drama' The Returned Were it not for the success of The Killing et al, The Returned might have found itself quietly picking up a small but loyal audience in a graveyard slot on E4, or the network might have preferred to wait for the forthcoming US remake.
(6) I really hope there's a snowball effect from that," said Glover, who was signed up to the Sporting Giants programme trawling for talent in rowing, handball and volleyball in 2008.
(7) Snowballing and personal contacts were the most successful means of recruiting those not in treatment, while advertising was comparatively unsuccessful with this group because of the importance of establishing the credibility of the study and the interviewer among injecting drug users before they will volunteer to be involved.
(8) There is a real prospect of deficits snowballing and, unless the government finds extra money, an accelerating decline in NHS performance and a deterioration in patient care”, said Richard Murray, director of policy at the King’s Fund.
(9) I think it is a question of as and when policy, albeit coordinated or on a region basis, if policy starts to have an impact on demand, then we could potentially see thekind of scenario evolve where demand is weaker, supply starts to moderate and then these higher cost producers would be some of the first affected... It’s not that they are going to fall of a cliff that quickly, but they would not continue to reinvest [in developing those reserves].” Wilkins said the divestment movement was being closely watched and appeared to be snowballing.
(10) Some people in Washington helpfully used a snowball to illustrate that fact.
(11) When the shit started hitting the fan Stateside, the original plan to open Brian on 200 screens nationwide snowballed to nearer 600.
(12) Respondents were contacted by "snowballing", mainly with the assistance of sex workers.
(13) Lebedev, who co-owns the opposition Novaya Gazeta newspaper, said his platform would include protecting the city's rapidly disappearing cultural heritage; improving its 'impossible' traffic; scrapping its airline business; and reducing corruption.Writing on his blog last Thursday (June 18), he observed: 'The city's problems are getting bigger, like a snowball.
(14) It is a year since speculation over Jobs' health started to snowball, following an appearance at the same event that saw him looking drastically thin and frail.
(15) Interview subjects were selected by "strategic informant snowball sampling," a type of purpose sampling used in anthropological studies, best for collecting descriptive data.
(16) In a foreword to the report, Carne said: “In very complex projects sometimes simple things go wrong and these can snowball in short periods of time to become major issues.
(17) Over the last few years, her suggestion that local organisations stop trying to reform existing NGO networks and instead form their own has snowballed.
(18) A senior Sinn Féin spokesman later told the Guardian there “wasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell” of the party ditching its abstentionism regarding Westminster.
(19) "Kids are having a snowball fight on the side of the road, making snow angels, people are walking their dogs."
(20) At the moment, we’re a snowball that’s turning over fairly slowly,” says the Greens’ leader, Natalie Bennett.
Snowdrop
Definition:
(n.) A bulbous plant (Galanthus nivalis) bearing white flowers, which often appear while the snow is on the ground. It is cultivated in gardens for its beauty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Carbohydrate binding properties of a new plant lectin (GNA) isolated from snowdrop bulbs were studied using the technique of quantitative precipitation, hapten inhibition, and affinity chromatography on immobilized lectin.
(2) The distribution of N-linked glycans in rat testis has been probed using a panel of lectins derived from Galanthus nivalis (snowdrop, GNA), Canavalia ensiformis (jack bean, Con A), Lens culinaris (lentil, LCA), Pisum sativum (garden pea, PSA) and Phaseolus vulgaris, erythro- and leucoagglutinins (kidney bean, ePHA and lPHA).
(3) Tony Leonard, co-owner of the award-winning Snowdrop Inn in Lewes, Sussex, is not so sure this separation is healthy.
(4) It incorporates the snowdrop lectin GNA to capture the glycoprotein antigens and combines the high selectivity of GNA binding with its broad reactivity with the glycoproteins of HIV-1, HIV-2 and SIV.
(5) AD Miller in Snowdrops (Atlantic) declares his theme at once: "In Russia," he writes, "there are only crime stories."
(6) These two new lectins which differ in their fine sugar binding specificity from each other, and also from the snowdrop lectin, should prove to be useful probes for the detection and preliminary characterization of glycoconjugates on cell surfaces and in solution.
(7) Well-ordered single crystals have been grown for a mannose-specific lectin from snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis) bulbs in the presence of methyl-alpha-D-mannoside.
(8) We investigated the inhibition of human cholinesterases by galanthamine, an alkaloid of the common snowdrop (galanthus nivalis).
(9) Poly(A)-rich RNA isolated from ripening ovaries of snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis L.) yielded a single 17-kDa lectin polypeptide upon translation in a wheat-germ cell-free system.
(10) We call them snowdrops,” said activist Lena Remnyova, who was giving out flyers inviting people to a drive to clean up the used needles.
(11) In the lanes around my Somerset home, snowdrops have been in full bloom since the middle of January, while a chorus of birds continues to sing in my garden.
(12) But even without having read, for example, Snowdrops , a thriller that is also up for a Gold Dagger award, it is curious, with readers already mocking its prose on online comment boards, that this first novel should have been promoted over, say, At Last , Edward St Aubyn's merciless – sorry, I mean enjoyable and readable – conclusion to his Melrose sequence, a decision that is the public's loss.
(13) The others on the shortlist were Carol Birch for her much-admired Jamrach's Menagerie , a historical high seas adventure; two Canadian writers - Patrick deWitt for The Sisters Brothers , a picaresque western, and Esi Edugyan for Half Blood Blues , which mixes the raw beauty of jazz and the terror of Nazism; and two debut novels – Stephen Kelman for Pigeon English , which tells the story of a Ghanaian boy who turns detective on a south London housing estate; and AD Miller for Snowdrops , a Moscow-set tale of corruption and moral decline.
(14) Edman degradation and carboxypeptidase Y digestion of the mature protein, and structural analysis of the peptides obtained after chemical cleavage and modification, allowed determination of the complete 105 amino acid sequence of the snowdrop lectin polypeptide.
(15) In clinical anaesthesia, galanthamine hydrobromide (Nivalin), an alkaloid of galanthus nivalis (common snowdrop) is used to reverse the neuromuscular blocking effect of curare-type muscle relaxants.
(16) The N-terminal amino acid sequence of ASA exhibits 79% homology with that of AUA, and moderately high homology (53%) with that of snowdrop bulb lectin, also an alpha-D-mannosyl-binding lectin.
(17) SW: Black lambs are the new grey squirrels, snowdrops the new daffodils.
(18) Headed by AD Miller's Moscow-set thriller Snowdrops , this year's Booker shortlist has sold more than double the number of copies of the shortlist last year, when Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question beat novels including Emma Donoghue's Room and titles by Peter Carey and Andrea Levy to win the prize.
(19) alpha 2-Macroglobulin was the sole glycoprotein present in human serum which was bound by the immobilized snowdrop lectin column.
(20) Snowdrops is the most popular novel on the shortlist, with 11,800 copies sold, followed by the 19th century-set Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch (9,000), Julian Barnes's novella The Sense of an Ending (6,400), Stephen Kelman's debut Pigeon English (3,900), Patrick deWitt's western The Sisters Brothers (3,500) and Esi Edugyan's Half Blood Blues (2,800), about the disappearance of a black trumpeter during the second world war.