(n.) A piece of cane or red with a knot at each end, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end, used to wind thread or yarn upon.
(v. t.) To wind on a spool or spools.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three possible cases for the ejection process friction are considered: friction in the tail-part channel, that of DNA segments with each other in the whole globule volume (it is essential for the collective way of the globule decondensation with simultaneous movement of all the loops--the first type way), the globule friction with internal capsid surface (it is most essential for the decondensation by the way of the globule rotation as a whole "spool"--the second type way).
(2) Colonel Steve Warren, the spokesman for the command operating the war against Isis, said that Keating was part of a quick reaction force (QRF) spooled up in support of a US “advise and assist” mission that “just happened to be in that village” meeting with peshmerga leaders at Tel Osqof, less than four km behind the front.
(3) Subsequently, the acceptor region spools up single-stranded polypyrimidines as they are released by progressive denaturation of the donor region; both the spooling and the denaturation result in relaxation of negative supercoils in the rest of the DNA molecule.
(4) The patients were dialysed with a spool dialysator with cuprophan membrane of a surface of 1 m2.
(5) This graft is flexible during insertion but becomes rigid after proper intraaortic placement as the spool is dilated and the ratchest lock into position.
(6) Under Nény’s insistent questioning, the quietly spoken Benhaim repeats that “that version of events is wrong” Eventually, the spooling, repetitive question-and-answer becomes hard to follow.
(7) Spool forward through a most unusual period in BBC history when all three main output divisions – TV, Radio and News – were being run by candidates for Mark Thompson's job; and also a contender was No 2, Caroline Thomson.
(8) Recent events in Shanghai’s stock markets have been all too reminiscent of the tales that have entered American folk memory from the days of the Wall Street crash in 1929: of stock-tipping shoeshine boys, exhausted traders, and ticker-tape machines spooling late into the night.
(9) A device containing a spool of fine line was carried by released mammals so that the line unwound under minimum tension as the animal proceeded and could be followed the day after release.
(10) Tape spools from her ears as sparks fly from her open mouth.
(11) The results of both search routines are spooled and stored in a retrievable file.
(12) After covering the radioactive filter positions with an adhesive plastic foil from both sides, the film spool is directly inserted into a specially constructed gamma-counter.
(13) The third is the globule friction with the capsid inner surface, that is most important when decondensation proceeds via the globule rotation as a whole spool (mechanism 2).
(14) The core may be a protein spool about which the phage DNA is wound.
(15) We now are using this device whenever possible in all substitutions of the aorta, although in approximately 40% of patients, it is necessary to remove one of the spools and suture either the proximal or distal end of the graft owing to the close proximity of the aneurysm to the coronary ostia or the origin of the subclavian artery.
(16) Studies on negatively stained preparations of purified capsids suggest that the toroid consists of DNA arranged as if it were spooled around the cylindrical mass.
(17) From our results we have proposed a double-helix model for the gene 5 protein-DNA complex in which the protein forms a spindle or core around which the DNA is spooled.
(18) When metacarpal epiphyseal cartilage (growth plates) ossifies with age, break joints on the distal end of the metacarpals fuse and the end of the bone then appears as a spool joint rather than as a break joint.
(19) In the streets and lifts of nearby office blocks, everyone seems to be carrying reels of old-fashioned tape recorder spools.
(20) The initial rather trivial complaint spooled into a much more robust discussion in the comments and elsewhere online, about how much Facebook already influences how news is shaped and delivered.
Spoor
Definition:
(n.) The track or trail of any wild animal; as, the spoor of an elephant; -- used originally by travelers in South Africa.
(v. i.) To follow a spoor or trail.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spoors says a number of these countries—for instance Switzerland, Luxembourg and Ireland—are responsible for the loopholes in the system and have an interest in protecting the status quo.
(2) While most countries feel the impact of tax avoidance, Oxfam Australia G20 coordinator Claire Spoors says it takes an especially profound toll on low-income countries.
(3) The median hearing thresholds as well as the 25 and 75 percentiles are worse in the present study compared with a sex and age matched non-noise-exposed reference group (Spoor and Passchier-Vermeer, 1969 International Audiology, 8, 328 336) and a screened otologically normal reference group (ISO, 7029).
(4) The committee believes that intake of natural U in water should be limited by considerations of toxicity to the kidney, and we believe that the metabolic model of Spoor and Hursh with a modified gastrointestinal (GI) absorption (1.4%) should be used to infer kidney content.
(5) Oxfam has been concerned that this is an OECD-G20 initiative that clearly leaves out the world’s poorest countries,” Spoors says.
(6) Two amputated lower legs were analyzed kinematically, according to Van Langelaan and Spoor's photogrammetric method; dynamically, by measuring moments (M) and recording vertical tibial translations (S); and finally by comparing the stepwise and continuous supination and pronation of one specimen (female 29).
(7) Many developing countries are likely to be cut out of that exchange because they do not have the capacity to ensure the confidentiality that is being prescribed,” Spoors says.
(8) Allowance for age and sex was made by using the presbyacusis values of SPOOR as the reference.
(9) Spoors said the recent leaked tax documents showing how thousands of major companies were legally minimising tax through tax deals involving Luxembourg proved that public reporting of country by country profits would be a much more effective deterrent.
(10) Claire Spoors, the G20 coordinator for Oxfam, said the leaked tax documents proved why public reporting of country by country profits would be much a more effective deterrent.
(11) They followed the oil rig's mashed-up trail, the rainbow-filmed liquid spoor, the tripod crater prints.
(12) But Spoors says developing countries need more than words from the G20: “There are 15 proposals in the BEPS project, and seven of them have been decided on in Cairns.
(13) Financial institutions and many other G20 governments do recognise the issue as a threat to growth and among them is next year’s host, Turkey,” said Oxfam spokeswoman Claire Spoors.
(14) Claire Spoors, the G20 coordinator for Oxfam, said the recent leaked tax documents showing how thousands of major companies were legally minimising tax through tax deals involving Luxembourg proved that public reporting of country by country profits would be much a more effective deterrent.