(a.) Liable to break or split; brittle; as, spalt timber.
(a.) Heedless; clumsy; pert; saucy.
(a.) To split off; to cleave off, as chips from a piece of timber, with an ax.
Example Sentences:
(1) The region-specific homeotic gene spalt (sal) acts in two separate domains in the head and tail region of the Drosophila melanogaster embryo.
(2) The expression of this newly discovered gene, spalt major (salm) is strongly repressed in gain-of-function mutants that express Antp in the antennal disc.
(3) Rhabdomyolysis without renal failure was noted after suicidal ingestion of 29 tablets of Spalt N containing 7.25 g of acetaminophen, 7.25 g of phenazone and 1.45 g of caffeine by a 29 year-old weighing 73 kg.
(4) The differences in the SPALT method can be ascribed to the possibility that this assay measures not only "intact" caeruloplasmin but also paraneoplastic substances with "caeruloplasmin-like immunoactivity".
(5) The enhancer detector in this strain is located near a similarly regulated gene at the spalt (sal) locus, which encodes a homeotic function involved in embryonic head and tail development.
Spat
Definition:
() imp. of Spit.
(n.) A young oyster or other bivalve mollusk, both before and after it first becomes adherent, or such young, collectively.
(v. i. & t.) To emit spawn; to emit, as spawn.
(n.) A light blow with something flat.
(n.) Hence, a petty combat, esp. a verbal one; a little quarrel, dispute, or dissension.
(v. i.) To dispute.
(v. t.) To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together; as the hands.
() of Spit
Example Sentences:
(1) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(2) If wide notice is taken of a current spat over what we can read about Shakespeare’s sexuality into the sonnets in the correspondence columns of the Times Literary Supplement, Sonnet 20 may be a future favourite at civil unions.
(3) He wanted to stay on longer than the traditional retirement age but became involved in a nasty spat with the then-chairman, Peter Sutherland.
(4) He’s spat on and has wee thrown at him.” Rutherford is also concerned about the governance of the sport.
(5) Venom entered the eyes of 9 patients spat at by the spitting cobra, Naja nigricollis.
(6) The British parliament’s vote against airstrikes has long been cited by Obama and others as a causal factor but Kerry made the link explicit just a week after a diplomatic spat with the UK’s prime minister, Theresa May, over a United Nations resolution that condemned Israel.
(7) The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has attempted to seize the initiative in the bitter spat on energy prices by pledging a 20-month freeze .
(8) She had been sworn at and spat on – anything to force the expression they wanted on to her face.
(9) Some said they saw stones; others said they had been spat at.
(10) The England winger has been training with the under-21s for the past two and a half months after being frozen out by Mauricio Pochettino in the wake of his public spat with Nathan Gardiner, Tottenham’s fitness coach, following a win against Aston Villa in November.
(11) By the time the latest spat came before the FCC, Karr argues, net activists had sharpened their tactics and raised their game.
(12) Still alive, he was then surrounded by people who cursed and spat at him, kicked him in the head and tried to hit him with a chair.
(13) The Greece midfielder Giannis Maniatis was so enraged after a training ground spat that he booked a himself on a flight back to Athens before being persuaded not to walk out on Fernando Santos’s squad.
(14) Mariano Rajoy said he did not want the dispute to "go further", after a spat about fishing escalated into a full-blown diplomatic row with Britain.
(15) They are saying she needs to realise that she needs to build allies.” The Tory source spoke out after Kenneth Clarke blew into the open a spat between the Conservative leadership and the home secretary’s team after two of May’s special advisers declined to take part in telephone canvassing in the recent Rochester and Strood byelection.
(16) It is understood Cameron and the Lib Dem leader have agreed to cool the coalition tensions that have boiled over into public spats – and there were signs yesterday that was having some effect after it was clear that Labour was making capital from the dispute.
(17) Padoan said the US's budget spat posed significant threats to the US and the global economy but said that Europe presented a larger challenge.
(18) However, after several years of improving relations and increasing trade, China and Japan have much to lose from a prolonged deterioration in ties, and will be wary of letting the spat get out of hand.
(19) Ahmadinejad has been drawn into a bruising power struggle with the conservatives, many of them his former supporters, and has mounted serious challenges to Khamenei, such as engaging in public spats with top-level officials.
(20) Former Netanyahu aide lambasts US ambassador in heated spat Read more “These provocative acts are bound to increase the growth of settler populations, further heighten tensions and undermine any prospects for a political road ahead,” Ban told a United Nations security council meeting on the Middle East.