(n.) Any one of numerous species of arachnids comprising the order Araneina. Spiders have the mandibles converted into poison fangs, or falcers. The abdomen is large and not segmented, with two or three pairs of spinnerets near the end, by means of which they spin threads of silk to form cocoons, or nests, to protect their eggs and young. Many species spin also complex webs to entrap the insects upon which they prey. The eyes are usually eight in number (rarely six), and are situated on the back of the cephalothorax. See Illust. under Araneina.
(n.) Any one of various other arachnids resembling the true spiders, especially certain mites, as the red spider (see under Red).
(n.) An iron pan with a long handle, used as a kitchen utensil in frying food. Originally, it had long legs, and was used over coals on the hearth.
(n.) A trevet to support pans or pots over a fire.
(n.) A skeleton, or frame, having radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces; as, a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; a frame for strengthening a core or mold for a casting, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) You’d be staggered by the number of dimwitted debutantes who stand for photos next to cakes iced with the famous double-C. You know how you wanted a Spider-Man cake when you were little, and your mum made you Spider-Man cake, and it was the happiest birthday of your life?
(2) Britain is still sending regular reinforcements across the Atlantic, from the new Spider-Man signing ( Tom Holland from Surrey ), to the actors who have recently snatched real-life national archetypes like Abraham Lincoln ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo ) from the grasp of American stars.
(3) I'd like to say it's all a biting satire of American military practices (I know Busty Cops Go Hawaiian certainly was) but chances are it's just about a bunch of big meanie spiders.
(4) Venom is attractive because the character can exist without Spider-Man and has embarked on its own adventures when in sync with Brock.
(5) Giant spiders from Mars This is particularly handy later, when we encounter the mid-level boss, a giant spider-like vehicle known as a Fallen Walker.
(6) A 4-year-old girl was admitted 30 hours after being bitten by a black widow spider.
(7) But it also succeeded by elevating the likes of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo to the kind of status usually reserved for totemic superheroes such as Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, characters destined to be wheeled out time and time again in different big screen iterations.
(8) "I was in a squatted house that was falling down, with spiders everywhere.
(9) Electron micrographs of protein 4.1-labelled colloidal gold particles incubated at 4 degrees C with spectrin dimers reveal that 1-5 spectrin dimers attach to each protein 4.1-labelled colloidal gold particle yielding a spider-like appearance of these complexes.
(10) Necrotic arachnidism was seen only in areas where populations of Tegenaria agrestis spiders were well established and did not occur where Tegenaria agrestis was absent.
(11) Thirty-eight spider phobics completed the Questionnaire on Mental Imagery (QMI) and the Spider Questionnaire (SPQ).
(12) The Cave is a mining scene complete with treasure chest, giant spider, zombie and a “Steve” minifigure.
(13) The availability of selective drugs (such as dihydropyridines) and natural toxins (such as omega-Conotoxin, omega-agatoxin, and funnel-web spider toxins), which bind to specific channel subtypes, has greatly helped in channel classification.
(14) A high number of spiders in the pastures (3-4 specimens per sq.
(15) • The Wall Street Journal uncovers communications between Sony and Marvel discussing a Spider-Man crossover and speaking disparagingly about Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield.
(16) It was like a superhero's origin story: Peter Parker's bedroom before he became Spider-Man.
(17) The replication becomes impossible to hold back because any time a web server gains a new file and is queried by the search engines' "spiders" – which go out looking to see what has changed on the web – the cache of the web is updated, with the location of the new file.
(18) What made this so troubling he said, is that digital spiders could then crawl the web and find every picture in the public domain and match it with an identity.
(19) Last Saturday a man dressed as Spider-Man was arrested and charged with hitting a police officer who tried to intervene during a dispute with a woman who offered him $1 (59p).
(20) Bowie’s first US tour saw him play as Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
Varicose
Definition:
(a.) Irregularly swollen or enlarged; affected with, or containing, varices, or varicosities; of or pertaining to varices, or varicosities; as, a varicose nerve fiber; a varicose vein; varicose ulcers.
(a.) Intended for the treatment of varicose veins; -- said of elastic stockings, bandages. and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Electron microscopic immunohistochemistry revealed histamine-immunostaining in granules in a small number of nerve fibers and varicosities.
(2) Venous valves do not play a role in pathogenesis of primary varicose veins.
(3) Fluorescent nerve fibers with axonal varicosities were distributed on the wall of the preretinal blood vessels in the fluorescence histochemical study.
(4) Varicose fibres were found in the myenteric plexuses of the duodenum, jejunum, ileum and colon.
(5) Results of the complex clinical and phlebographic examination of 106 patients with the varicose disease were studied.
(6) In one patient the organism was repeatedly isolated from a phlegmone developing in the depth of a varicose leg ulcer.
(7) The prevalence of varicose veins of the lower limbs and their risk factors were investigated in the group of 696 women working at a large department store.
(8) A low waist-thigh ratio was associated with a high prevalence of varicose veins in women.
(9) After a phlebitic occlusion of the right superficial femoral and external iliac veins he had been operated on twice for varicose veins.
(10) 96 patients were treated in two years by Ambulatory and Hemodynamic Treatment of Varicose Veins (CHIVA cure), representing 131 legs that underwent surgery.
(11) Axons of these small neurons probably have varicosities located on the CDC axons in the neuropil of the cerebral ganglion, indicating synaptic contacts.
(12) The diffuse junctions, spreading out extensively over the muscle fiber surface, were characterized by two types of varicose swellings (or terminal varicosities) of nerve endings.
(13) After standardizing for the other variables there was a statistically significant excess of varicose veins in women wearing corsets and roll-ons compared with those wearing less-constrictive garments.
(14) Random analysis of 5,000 additional epithelial cells in these sections showed no close associations to nerve elements with significant accumulations of neurosecretory vesicles (varicosities).
(15) Simultaneous measurements were made on 47 legs after phlebography (normal: 8; side-arm varicosities: 17; long-saphenous insufficiency: 15; postthrombotic syndrome: 7).
(16) Sites of chemical synaptic interaction between the sensory cells and L7 are located at varicosities along sensory cell processes that overlie the main axons of L7, since these structures have been shown ultrastructurally to contain active zones.
(17) The varicosities contain two types of vesicle: electron-lucent vesicles (mean diameter 50 nm) which are immunopositive for GABA and larger (80 nm) electron-dense vesicles which are immunopositive for neuropeptide Y.
(18) Varicography in patients with recurrent varicose veins frequently demonstrates an intact LSV.
(19) A longitudinal study was carried out at 11 secondary schools (Gymnasium) of the city of Bochum to investigate the early and preclinical stages of developing varicose veins.
(20) After differentiation, both Ewing's and neural lines developed neuritic processes with varicosities and little arborization, except for the initially undifferentiated Ewing's line (A4573) which displayed extensive lateral sprouting from neuritic processes after differentiation.