(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.
Underwear
Definition:
(n.) That which is worn under the outside clothing; underclothes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Weiner resigned in 2011 after sending a picture of himself in his underwear to a 21-year-old woman in Seattle that subsequently ended up on the internet.
(2) If you are really unsure as to what’s acceptable, then just don’t do it, or go in wearing your underwear.
(3) A continuous flow of men goes past the block, while young women in black and red underwear pose on high stools behind windows with red awnings.
(4) Players were warned before this year's tournament that officials would be rigorously enforcing its rules on "almost entirely white" clothing – meaning that the bright underwear, coloured soles and conspicuously contrasting trim spotted in previous years would be outlawed.
(5) Yet its outrage dims when the models – the same models who appear in the usual shows, mind – are walking on the runway in underwear as opposed to haute couture.
(6) Behind the dancing girls and schmaltzy lyrics that usually characterise pop songs, these men act as the all-oppressing eye of the industry: telling female singers that weight loss and sexual objectification are the only feasible routes to stardom; stripping down women in music videos to their underwear while leaving their male counterparts untouched.
(7) For instance; hesitant to go to a hot spring, or on a trip with friends (76%), hesitant to go to a clinic or a hospital for physical check-ups and common illness (74%), troublesome to wear special underwear (69%), inconvenient because ordinary clothes cannot be worn (56%), distressed when viewing own body (52%), unable to dress in thin clothes in hot summer season (50%), imbalance of the breasts (49%), inconvenient to participate in sports (47%).
(8) Security sources have told news agencies that it was a step up in levels of sophistication from the original underwear bomb that was used in a failed attempt to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009.
(9) The chaddi [underwear] symbolises vulgarity, something Muthalik's men indulged in when they molested the girls in Mangalore, and pink adds shock value.
(10) The gendered nature of posts – from pictures of me in underwear to comments about how fertility affects my decision-making – also shows we’ve still a long way to go to be a movement that practises the equality it preaches.
(11) Harris played with the underwear of another witness, a well-known British celebrity, as she recorded a TV interview with him in the mid-1990s.
(12) I told them that the ladies prefer a man in a suit to one in baggy trousers, with visible underwear and garish "trainers".
(13) Two weeks after the video of Garner went viral, building residents filmed the NYPD dragging a Brooklyn grandmother out of her apartment in her underwear.
(14) Seeing him strut his stuff, actually quite human, you were conscious that here was a straight man of mixed heritage who wore women’s underwear while channelling Jimi Hendrix.
(15) Scientists have developed underwear with built-in electrodes that deliver small electric shocks to combat bed sores in patients who are in a coma or who have injuries that have immobilised them.
(16) Asiri is believed to have built the device his brother used in an abortive assassination attempt on Saudi Arabia's deputy interior minister and the underwear bomb a Nigerian man tried to detonate over the US in 2009.
(17) He was sitting in his underwear, of course, but he never let his focus shift to the absurdity of the situation.
(18) A former Fox News employee told the Daily Beast : “One time he asked me if I was wearing underwear, and was he going to see anything ‘good’.” Sherman published the accounts of six women who claimed harassment by Ailes.
(19) There is a lot of, 'You will be expected to be in your underwear', or, 'You will be naked.'"
(20) But what else could people do faced with someone who is known universally as the "underwear bomber"?