(n.) A small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stiles-Davis proposes that the infants in our experiments (Hofsten & Spelke, 1985) did not reach for perceived objects in order to manipulate them, but rather touched perceived surfaces in order to explore their boundaries.
(2) The present paper reports a replication of work by Hirst, Neisser, and Spelke, which requires extensive practice on two coupled tasks (reading and writing) at once.
(3) Hofsten and Spelke (1985) reported a series of studies that quite clearly demonstrated infant sensitivity to depth and relative motion cues.
Spelt
Definition:
() of Spell
() imp. & p. p. of Spell. Spelled.
(n.) A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; -- called also German wheat.
(n.) Spelter.
(v. t. & i.) To split; to break; to spalt.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the few regulations that has been spelt out in black and white is the maximum height limit – so planes don’t have to weave between spires on their way to and from City Airport, five miles to the east.
(2) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
(3) While Chinese media have not spelt out Zhou's woes explicitly, the hints have grown more blatant by the month, with some identifying him via his family relationships.
(4) • He said Labour under Ed Miliband had not spelt out what it really believed.
(5) We're against going to Syria for the armed struggle and have spelt this out on many occasions.
(6) Two years ago, that same person would probably have asked how baobab was spelt.” Despite the optimism, Dohse knows that baobab will never be a cash crop to rival the tobacco on which one of Africa’s poorest countries depends .
(7) M∆tilda – spelt with an Alt-J – references Luc Besson's film Léon and is "fuelled by the shared demise of both the protagonist and antagonist".
(8) Afterwards, Josiah Heyman, a professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso, who studies the border, spelt out what he regards as the lunacy of Sensenbrenner's approach.
(9) Activities of xylanase up to 27 U ml-1 (1 U represents 1 micromol of xylose equivalents released min-1) were obtained for cultures grown on xylan (from oat spelt) at 2.5 mg ml-1 in shaken cultures.
(10) Cocozza was never a threat to the favourites – only managing between 5.2% and 8.7% of the public vote in the weeks he was in the contest – while the re-introduction of a female artist in his place in Lily seems to have spelt the end of Devlin's chances.
(11) For a start, comments from US Federal Reserve officials late on the same day spelt out the merits of its bond-buying programme, prompting hopes of continuing stimulus for the world's largest economy.
(12) Authorities have refused to register the baby because Rincón’s Christian name is not spelt correctly on Ramírez’s American birth certificate.
(13) Chemical modification of arginine or lysine of AT-III significantly lowered its potentiation of thrombin or Xa inhibition by oat spelts xylan sulfate.
(14) A team from Dexetra.com has written "Iris" – Siri, spelt backwards – which uses Google's speech-to-text system to provide Siri-like functionality for Android phones by querying Wikipedia or other reference sites for topics such as art, literature, history and biology.
(15) On a molar basis oat spelts xylan sulfate was the most effective compound in accelerating the rate of thrombin-AT-III interaction followed by commercial heparin while the latter was most effective in accelerating the rate of thrombin-HC-II interaction.
(16) Therefore, all of the complicated foreign delicacies will be spelt phonetically here so you know what I'm talking about.
(17) The products of the two genes showed similar pH optima for hydrolysis of oat spelt xylan (around 5.5) and had little or no activity against carboxymethylcellulose.
(18) The strategic case also spelt out how the new line's additional capacity would more than triple the number of seats running into London Euston station, where peak hour demand already outstrips available seats on the West Coast mainline services.
(19) These start with PageRank, the breakthrough bearing the surname of Google's co-founder Larry Page that measures a website's relevance by the number of other sites linked to it, and extend to measures of the unique content on the site itself and whether the text on the page is replicated – either on other parts of the site or elsewhere on the web – and even whether it is spelt correctly.
(20) Kim Yo-jong, whose name is also spelt Kim Yeo-jung, is believed to act as an adviser for her brother, as other members of the Kim family have done relatives did previously for both him and his father, the late leader Kim Jong-il , before him.