(n.) A collective body of small branches; as, the tree has a beautiful spray.
(n.) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold.
(n.) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
(v. t.) Water flying in small drops or particles, as by the force of wind, or the dashing of waves, or from a waterfall, and the like.
(v. t.) A jet of fine medicated vapor, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer.
(v. t.) An instrument for applying such a spray; an atomizer.
(v. t.) To let fall in the form of spray.
(v. t.) To throw spray upon; to treat with a liquid in the form of spray; as, to spray a wound, or a surgical instrument, with carbolic acid.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(2) Total body dose of 2,4-D was determined in 10 volunteers following exposure to sprayed turf 1 hour following application and in 10 volunteers exposed 24 hours following application.
(3) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(4) Thus, enhancers are required to obtain significant nasal absorption of glucagon and calcitonin and powders and spray solutions did not differ in terms of systemic availability.
(5) True Love Impulse Body Spray, Simple Kind to Skin Hydrating Light Moisturiser and VO5 Styling Mousse Extra Body marked double-digit price rises on average across the four chains.
(6) BP sprayed almost 2m gallons of Corexit on the slick and at the leak site on the seabed.
(7) An infection rate of 0.46% was comparable to the incidence previously observed for conventional methods using an iodine spray as a skin preparation.
(8) The effect of spraying plants with rain-water was to enhance slightly the total content of all trace metals analysed.
(9) In pest control operations, organophosphorus compounds (OP) have been sprayed as insecticides, blood cholinesterase (ChE) activities and urinary alkylphosphate levels were measured for both OP-sprayers (n = 102) and non-sprayers (n = 35) in pest control companies, and the relationship between the analytical results and spraying conditions was investigated.
(10) Liquid nitrogen spray followed by light electrodesiccation treatment is helpful in the management of flat warts, small skin tags, seborrheic keratoses, and cherry angiomas.
(11) In global evaluations some 60% of patients had good to excellent results with the nasal spray and some 75% with the eye drops.
(12) Enrichment cultures were established with the aromatic fraction of a crude oil and screened for aromatic-degrading pseudomonads, using a sprayed plate technique.
(13) Heart rate increased significantly by 2.0 min in the tablet group but did not change in the spray group.
(14) Water from the reactors that were the source of Sonoda's drink is being used to spray trees to limit the buildup of dust and prevent fires.
(15) A rowdy fringe took to raiding liquor stores, spraying graffiti and flaunting marijuana.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An activist sprays T-shirts during a training protest organised by NoG20 Rhein-Main.
(17) We may be able to control as die back with fungicides but we would need to spray every few weeks over the whole country.
(18) The hydrolysate obtained was then subjected to two different dehydration techniques: drum drying at 121 degrees C and 18 seconds retention, and spray drying at 101 degrees C and 40 psi pressure.
(19) Large-scale residual spraying was not totally effective and was very costly, and mass chemoprophylaxis was not feasible.
(20) 46 boys were sent for operation and have been treated primary with LH-RH nasal spray.
Spurt
Definition:
(v. i.) To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt.
(v. t.) To throw out, as a liquid, in a stream or jet; to drive or force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth.
(n.) A sudden and energetic effort, as in an emergency; an increased exertion for a brief space.
(v. i.) To make a sudden and violent exertion, as in an emergency.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the second month, a variable spurt of growth occurs in the genu, followed by a similar period of rapid growth in the splenium between 4-6 months of age.
(2) [2-3H]Mannose incorporation into cerebellar glycoproteins was greater in malnourished rats during the period of brain growth spurt than in normally fed rats at all ages studied.
(3) The development of signs of puberty and a growth spurt appearing at this late age clearly show the potential for maturation and growth once malnutrition is corrected.
(4) Of 193 patients suffering from peptic ulcer bleeding identified by emergency gastrointestinoscopy, 52 patients were found to have bleeding gastric ulcer (spurt 5, active oozing 9, fresh clot 11, black clot 17, protruding vessel 4, and clear base without stigmata 6); the other 141 had bleeding duodenal ulcer (spurt 5, active oozing 26, fresh clot 43, black clot 23, protruding vessel 15, and clear base without stigmata 31).
(5) In addition, 5 children had GH deficiency so that their growth spurt was blunted and 3 of them were left with an extremely short stature.
(6) Once the growth spurt is over the condition subsides but the results of impaired growth or permanent pelvic deformity will not necessarily be eradicated.
(7) There was blood everywhere … blood was spurting out.
(8) Those children who were in early puberty when GH treatment started went into a rapid growth spurt and have now stopped growing.
(9) The gradual increase in blood pressure for large groups of adolescents would appear to be the result of the aggregate increase in size (weight) resulting from the asynchronous growth spurts of individuals studied.
(10) Whether Philip Hammond is soft snow or a spurting cuttlefish is difficult to say.
(11) Parameters characterizing the growth process, such as peak height velocity (PHV), age at PHV, and age at onset of the pubertal growth spurt (PGS), were calculated directly from the estimated curves.
(12) The patients showed a normal pubertal growth spurt which was, in general, insufficient to restore the growth retardation already established before adolescence.
(13) The results indicate that: (1) The so called adolescent spurt is not well defined among Bod highlanders.
(14) A spurt of corticosteroids was necessary to obtain apyrexia for the patients who had presented multiple auto-immune disorders and a resistance to the classical therapy.
(15) But like them it is at a peak during the prepubertal spurt of growth.
(16) Kyphotic curves tend to progress after the adolescent growth spurt while scoliotic curves do not.
(17) Women who reported sensitive area orgasms were also more likely to report a spurt of fluid at moment of orgasm.
(18) In his dreamlike view of the world, bits of buildings are liberated to take on their own lives and attempt unexpected feats: floors can shift and windows can hover – and now, it seems, planes can spurt out shimmering aluminium vapour trails.
(19) Gonadal steroids influence the skeletal growth and metabolism both during the pubertal growth spurt and in adulthood with aging.
(20) The growth curves for the testes, epididymides and body weight were similar and exhibited a spurt between the ages of 150 and 180 days.