(n.) The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.
(n.) A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit.
(n.) A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.
(n.) A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmaea) common in the Eastern United States.
(v. t.) To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture.
Example Sentences:
(1) Given how Bank forecasts have been all over the shop, it is possible that the Old Lady's spreadsheet wizards could scupper Mr Carney's plans by spying a speck of price pressure and panicking about it turning into a giant inflationary boulder.
(2) 11.21pm GMT Tweets Jeremiah Tittle (@WWWJT) @LengelDavid @Paolo_Bandini @HunterFelt @GdnUSsports remove the wooden beam from your own eye before you remove the speck from the umpires'.
(3) Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) died young, had a public career for only 10 years, had no workshop, bequeathed no drawings and left no pupils, and the only places he travelled to outside mainland Italy were the Mediterranean speck of Malta and, briefly, Sicily.
(4) Andreas Speck London • David Miranda's detention was an extreme case of a large-scale harassment, especially of Muslims and political activists monitored by MI5.
(5) The darting speck of fiery orange had gone, perhaps already on his way to another continent.
(6) The smallest speck, fibre and mass sizes visible in the radiographs were 0.24, 0.75 and 0.5 mm, respectively.
(7) A qualitative description of electrostatic interactions between the two cytochromes based on limited electrostatic interaction domains on the cytochrome c oxidase surface was found to be in good agreement with all our data and supports the model of Speck et al.
(8) The best machines could resolve 0.2 mm aluminium oxide specks with the contact technique.
(9) Ulrich Speck is senior fellow at the Transatlantic Academy, Washington DC
(10) Speck visibility was as dependent on the composition of the specks and of the surrounding material as on the size of the specks.
(11) The Cocos Islands is a tiny green speck in the Indian ocean nearer to Penang than Perth, settled in 1826 as a resupply base for Indian ocean traders.
(12) Fairly easy Salads Tabbouleh Most of us visualise tabbouleh as bulgur with specks of herbs, but in the Lebanon it is very green with specks of bulgur.
(13) This was the scene in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) in which Lawrence ( Peter O’Toole ) first makes contact with the Arab chieftain Sherif Ali (Sharif), who will become his key ally in the desert fighting, and the latter, in a daringly protracted sequence, develops from a speck on the horizon into a towering, huge horseman, rifle at the ready.
(14) (Speck, S.H., Dye, D. and Margoliash, E. (1984) Proc.
(15) The area is a busy shipping route connecting to the Strait of Malacca and the Pacific and is believed to have rich oil and gas deposits, meaning that the tiny specks of land that dot it have been contested by many neighbouring powers for decades.
(16) Photograph: Penny Bradfield Julia Gillard leaves the press conference Photograph: Penny Bradfield Updated at 10.01am GMT 9.09am GMT Lenore Taylor on a "speck of silver lining for Labor" Guardian Australia’s incoming political editor Lenore Taylor writes for Fairfax media that Labor’s political dysfunction has reached levels unprecedented “even for a party that has spent much of the last three years tearing itself asunder”.
(17) We obtained 2-8 fold variations for the smallest sizes of the three objects (specks, fibres and masses) visible in the X-ray images and 3.0-3.7 fold variations for an "image score".
(18) Climbing over rough ground, the route follows the rim of a dramatic escarpment above the sea, with wonderful views down to the water, often specked with passing porpoises and dolphins.
(19) This consists of multiple echogenic specks in an otherwise normal testicular parenchyma.
(20) Interphase nuclei are characterized by the distribution of chromatin; aside from the cortical chromatin spread along nuclear envelope and nucleolus, there are chromatin accumulations that belong mainly in two different classes: 1) numerous chromatin "specks" ranging in size from about 5 to 70 nm and averaging 47 nm; 2) a few roughly circular or elongated chromatin "packets" measuring from 70 to 230 nm.
Static
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Statical
Example Sentences:
(1) The significance of the differences in these two patterns of actin is discussed in terms of differences in the accommodative ability and static lens shape in these two animals.
(2) Eddy current transducers measured relative displacements under application of static loads, serially applied in the axial, mediolateral, and craniocaudal directions.
(3) The influence of vestibular dysfunction upon the vestibulospinal reflex (VSR) in two common peripheral syndromes was investigated by two types of posturographic examination: "static" posturography, recording and analyzing the postural sway in stance, and "kinetic" posturography, recording the stepping in place test.
(4) The most important causal factor, well illustrated by pressure studies, was the presence of a dynamic or static deformity leading to local areas of peak pressure on insensitive skin.
(5) Tendon (T) and Hoffmann (H) reflexes were analyzed during static stretching (SS).
(6) We conclude that exposure for 20 min to a 1.5-T static magnetic field does not alter body and skin temperatures in man.
(7) These results were compared with perceptual judgments of "passability" under static and moving viewing conditions.
(8) These studies have revealed striking increases in arm and leg MSNA during static handgrip (SHG) and postexercise circulatory arrest (PECA).
(9) In addition to rapid motions, slow motions were detected by 1H spin-lattice relaxation time in the rotating frame (TH1 rho) and cross-polarization time (TCH), together with data from static spectra, indicating that the aliphatic portion of the detergent interacts more strongly with hydrophobic protein surfaces than do the polar heads.
(10) The static high count blood pool images of the deep venous system of the leg are readily interpretable and show good correlation with contrast venography.
(11) We used an endobronchial dividing tube to ventilate one lung with HFV and to keep the contralateral lung of the same dog static with an identical airway pressure, allowing each animal to serve as its own control.
(12) An alternative model suggests a sequential, rather than a static, decision-making process to relate the decision to have an additional child to the reproductive experience to date.
(13) The spin-spin relaxation time T2 may be estimated using multiecho pulse sequences, but the accuracy of the estimate is dependent on the fidelity of the spin-echo amplitudes, which may be severely compromised by rf pulse and static field imperfections.
(14) This is also the case with the static relaxation curve and the force recovery curve (inverse relaxation).
(15) From this special coding of the intended movement static and dynamic control signals can be derived.
(16) Skin displacement increased approximately linearly with increasing forces at the beginning of static stimulation, but over time (at least up to 20 sec), the relationship became negatively accelerated.
(17) The method involves a procedure in which the static pressure of the sample is altered in a short period of time, to approximate an adiabatic process, during which the ultrasonic velocity is measured.
(18) We did not observe any delay in bone-healing when the static method was used.
(19) Acuity for the direction of drift for these stimuli is of the same order of precision as orientation acuity for static or drifting gratings, and exhibits a meridional anisotropy that favours the principal meridians.
(20) As predicted by their static response, the activity of these receptors decreases during inspiration and increases during expiration and therefore it is out of phase with the discharge of the other airway stretch receptors.