(n.) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
(v. i.) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
(n.) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease.
(n.) Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.
(n.) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
(2) He was never an intellectual; at Oxford, he did no work, and was proudest of playing squash and cricket for the university, though against Cambridge at Lord's he failed to take a wicket and made a duck.
(3) The long-term culture corresponded to mouse MXT and MCF-7 cell lines whereas the primary culture corresponded to primitive breast cancers squashed onto histologic slides and maintained in cultures for between 12 and 48 h. Cell proliferation was evaluated by means of digital cell image analysis of Feulgen-stained nuclei.
(4) Alignment of these sequences with that of squash defines domains of nitrate reductase that appear to bind its 3 prosthetic groups (molybdopterin, heme-iron, and FAD).
(5) In four of the above cases, Ki-67 staining was performed on air-dried squash preparations with excellent visualization of immunoreactive nuclei.
(6) There's squash and cake, and the atmosphere is a bit like a staff meeting, something the teenagers don't have much experience of.
(7) We compared cytomorphonuclear parameters--related to DNA histogram and chromatin distribution--on MXT mouse mammary tumor and murine normal cells from fresh squash smears or from deparaffinized tissue smears fixed in several fluids.
(8) Six amino acid sequences for trypsin inhibitors isolated from squash, summer squash, zucchini, and cucumber seeds were determined.
(9) Squash was associated with significant changes in heart rate and circulating concentrations of catecholamines, lactate, free fatty acids, and potassium.
(10) I don't know about you, but when I was growing up, the festive sideboard always featured one of those long, oval boxes packed with slightly squashed dates held together with a plastic stem.
(11) A statistical collection of squash injuries in 8000 players from 30 squash centers in the Federal Republic of Germany over a 12 months period is presented and evaluated.
(12) Many inhibitors of trypsin and human beta-factor XIIa have been isolated from squash and related seeds and sequenced (Wieczorek et al., Biochem.
(13) Large numbers of whole (infected) sandflies can be quickly squashed on to nylon hybridization filters and (following standard procedures) the filter-bound DNA can be hybridized sequentially to cloned, multicopy genomic sequences that are specific for species of Leishmania (kinetoplast DNA) or for the sandfly (ribosomal (r) DNA).
(14) Racquets were more common as the source of injury (61%) than squash balls.
(15) The renowned US architect Frank Gehry recently completed the Dr Chau Chak Wing building for the University of Technology in Sydney, described by the Australian governor general, Sir Peter Cosgrove, as “the most beautiful squashed brown paper bag I’ve ever seen”.
(16) Marrow sections and squash preparations were made at intervals during 120 hr.
(17) Static tests indicated that standards published by the Canadian Squash Racquets Association are inappropriate.
(18) It’s run like a squash club committee and that needs to stop.
(19) Sex chromatin studies on squash preparations of a well differentiated transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder without evidence of invasion from a female aged 63 revealed a single body in some regions, but two to four bodies in others.
(20) In the UK, the first plant to store electricity by squashing air into a liquid is due to open in March, while the first steps have been taken towards a virtual power station comprised of a network of home batteries.
Syrup
Definition:
(n.) A thick and viscid liquid made from the juice of fruits, herbs, etc., boiled with sugar.
(n.) A thick and viscid saccharine solution of superior quality (as sugarhouse sirup or molasses, maple sirup); specifically, in pharmacy and often in cookery, a saturated solution of sugar and water (simple sirup), or such a solution flavored or medicated.
(a.) Alt. of Syrupy
Example Sentences:
(1) Branched-chain keto acid decarboxylase activity in skin fibroblasts from control subjects and from patients with classical and variant forms of maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) was measured with leucine and alpha-ketoisocaproic acid.
(2) The efficacy of ipecac syrup in the induction of emesis and safety of its administration was studied in 105 poison-exposed infants 6 through 11 months of age (study subjects) and compared prospectively with 302 poison-exposed infants and children 12 through 35 months of age who served as age controls.
(3) A standard dose (1 g, 25.4 mmol) of calcium was administered both as calcium chloride in syrup and as Calcium-Sandoz Syrup (calcium glubionate and calcium galactogluconate) to 10 volunteers.
(4) The aftereffects of home-induced emesis with ipecac syrup were determined by telephone interviews of callers to a poison center.
(5) During dietary treatment of a case of maple syrup urine disease, it was found that abnormal EEGs were observed when serum levels of leucine were abnormally high while those of valine and isoleucine were normal, and also when serum levels of valine and isoleucine were abnormally high while serum leucine levels were normal.
(6) Intermittend maple-syrup-urine disease was excluded by oral loading tests with the branched-chain amino acids and with an isocaloric, high-protein diet.
(7) Screening for tyrosinaemia, alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, maple syrup urine disease and histidinaemia has been discontinued.
(8) Place on a tray lined with parchment and bake for 10–12 minutes, then drizzle with syrup.
(9) The drug was given in the dosage forms of slow release capsules, syrup, drops, intramuscular injections and inhalations for about 14 days.
(10) The method was used to determine the plasma triprolidine levels in 16 normal human volunteers following oral administration of 3.75 mg of triprolidine hydrochloride in 15 ml of a syrup.
(11) The antinausea and antivomiting effects of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in children receiving cancer chemotherapy were compared with those of metoclopramide syrup and prochlorperazine tablets in two double-blind studies.
(12) The absorption rates following oral administrations of syrups were much greater than those following administration of commercial tablets.
(13) Increase the heat under the syrup and cook, without stirring, until it turns a rich, nutty brown.
(14) Pharmacokinetic, bacteriological and clinical studies on a new macrolide antibiotic, rokitamycin (RKM) dry syrup for pediatric use, were done, and results as summarized below were observed: 1.
(15) The progress of nine maple syrup urine disease patients (eight classical, one possible variant) was reviewed to look for similarities in developmental patterns.
(16) A double-blind comparative study was performed to investigate the usefulness of ketotifen syrup as compared with clemastine syrup in 284 patients with atopic dermatitis.
(17) administration of cefetamet and oral administration of cefetamet pivoxil syrup to patients between the ages of 3 and 12 years.
(18) Bacillus subtilis 430A, isolated from the Vernonia herbacea (Vell Rusby) rhizosphere, produced an exocellular inulinase that fits the requirements for the production of syrups on an industrial scale.
(19) Rokitamycin (RKM) dry syrup, a newly developed macrolide antibiotic, was administered to children with ages between 6 months and 15 years and 10 months suffering from skin and soft tissue infections including 41 cases of impetigo, one case of staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (SSSS) and 2 cases of subcutaneous abscess totalling 44 cases.
(20) Callus and cell suspensions of Pseudotsuga menziesii and Pinus taeda fixed in glutaraldehyde:acrolein and then OsO4, followed by epoxy embedding, were sectioned 0.5 mum thick, stained on a glass slide with ethanolic Sudan black B at 60 C as described by Bronner, and then mounted in Karo syrup.