(n.) The stalk or petiole of a frond, as of a fern.
(n.) The stalk of a pistil.
(n.) The trunk of a tree.
(n.) The stem of a fungus or mushroom.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cadmium and copper content was determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometry from four tissue types; young blade, old blade, young stipe and old stipe.
(2) The ratio of xylitol DH to sorbitol DH was greater than unity in both monokaryotic mycelium and dikaryotic fruit body caps, whereas this ratio decreased in the stipe (stalk) tissue.
(3) Coming across like a journey into a desperate mind, Stipe's vocals sound more naked than they've ever been before.
(4) The peculiar percussion in the song's middle-eight – helicopter blade whirrs, and a distant shouting army – sound especially fierce against Michael Stipe's distant, spoken-word testimony.
(5) Neymar wriggled past Sime Vrsaljko by the goal-line, crossed low and from the clearance Oscar’s booming left-footed shot was saved by Stipe Pletikosa.
(6) In a series of tweets posted on the account of bandmate Mike Mills, Stipe said: “Go fuck yourselves, the lot of you – you sad, attention-grabbing, power-hungry little men.
(7) 12.42am BST 83 min: Croatia goalkeeper Stipe Pletikosa is forced to gallop off his line and make a rare save, diving at the feet of Salli to block a shot.
(8) Mexico were in the ascendancy by the mid-point of the second half, with Vedran Corluka clearing off his line following a corner and Stipe Pletikosa saving from Paul Aguilar with his foot.
(9) Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian Ins Juan Cuadrado (Fiorentina, £26.8m) Outs André Schürrle (Wolfsburg, £24m), Mohamed Salah (Fiorentina, loan), Mark Schwarzer (Leicester, free), Fernando Torres (Milan, free), Todd Kane (Nottm Forest, loan), Tomas Kalas (Middlesbrough, loan), Lewis Baker (Sheffield Wednesday, loan), Marko Marin (Anderlecht, loan), Nathaniel Chalobah (Reading, loan), John Swift (Swindon, loan); Stipe Perica (Udinese, loan), Ryan Bertrand (Southampton, undisc) José Mourinho had hoped for a quiet window, the usual flurry of out-going loans aside, but the dissatisfaction of Schürrle and Salah at bit-part roles forced his hand .
(10) A few of them – Michael Stipe of REM was one – even said they would invest.
(11) Michael Stipe saw Electrolite as a farewell song for the 20th century, with LA being the perfect location for such a subject.
(12) 6 Country Feedback Recorded in one take for Out of Time , released in 1991, the words allegedly off a piece of paper that never had a complete lyric on it, Michael Stipe has claimed this to be his favourite REM song (at other points, he's also given this honour to Perfect Circle , and 1986's Fall on Me) .
(13) The main accumulation of mannitol was in the pileus and stipe of the sporophore and was accompanied by a decrease in the soluble protein content of these tissues.
(14) Do not use our music or my voice for your moronic charade of a campaign.” Though the statement spoke broadly about “the lot” of politicians, Mills prefaced it with the stipulation that it reflected Stipe’s opinion on Trump.
(15) At the site of crucifixion, his wrists were nailed to the patibulum and, after the patibulum was lifted onto the upright post (stipes), his feet were nailed to the stipes.
(16) Different levels of a given inhibitor were needed to prevent stipe formation, apothecial formation or mycelial germination.
(17) Trehalase activity in dialyzed enzyme extracts showed pH optima at acid and alkaline pH levels in monokaryotic mycelium, dikaryotic stipes, and cap tissues.
(18) We examined 300 stipes of leavens coming from various material.
(19) Michael Stipe, meanwhile, asks: “Who better than Naomi to make sense of this madness, and help us find a way out?” Does she recognise the danger that she is preaching only to the converted, and further entrenching our polarised politics?
(20) Indeed, had Mbia shown more composure when winding up from 20 yards, Stipe Pletikosa may have been called into action.
Trunk
Definition:
(n.) The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.
(n.) The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.
(n.) The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.
(n.) That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
(n.) That segment of the body of an insect which is between the head and abdomen, and bears the wings and legs; the thorax; the truncus.
(n.) The proboscis of an elephant.
(n.) The proboscis of an insect.
(n.) A long tube through which pellets of clay, p/as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.
(n.) A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for containing clothes or other goods; especially, one used to convey the effects of a traveler.
(n.) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
(n.) A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
(n.) A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.
(v. t.) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.
(v. t.) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(2) When subjects centered themselves actively, or additionally, contracted trunk flexor or extensor muscles to predetermined levels of activity, no increase in trunk positioning accuracy was found.
(3) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(4) The same dose of clonidine evoked a much larger drop in blood pressure in another group of rats in which an equialent increase in blood pressure was produced by bilateral section of the vagosympathetic trunks and occlusion of both carotid arteries.
(5) Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the main pulmonary trunk results in myocardial ischemia or infarction, and may be a cause of death in the first months of life.
(6) Proper maintenance of body orientation was defined to be achieved if the net angular displacement of the head-and-trunk segment was zero during the flight phase of the long jump.
(7) In 1 patient there was concomitant aneurysmal dilatation of the brachiocephalic trunk.
(8) In anesthetized cats, the enhancement of sympathetic activity and increase of the blood pressure in exclusion of afferents (section of vagosympathetic trunks and clamping of common carotid arteries) as well as the disappearance of the activity in enhanced afferentation, were shown to be transient and to disappear within a few minutes-scores of minutes in spite of the going on deafferentation or enhancement of afferentation.
(9) Contact guidance has been suggested to direct NC cells ventrally in the trunk, but this has been subject to doubt (see Newgreen and Erickson, 1986, Int.
(10) This compared favorably with similar patients with melanoma arising either in the trunk or the extremity.
(11) This was true even when the locations of low resistance areas along the dorsal trunk were compared to only those vertebral palpatory findings rated as "severe."
(12) With the use of the method Chick Embryotoxicity Screening Test II (CHEST II), the potential neuropeptides L-prolyl-L-leucyl-glycinamide (MIF), cyclo(1-aminocyclo-pentanecarbonyl-L-alanyl)[cyclo(Acp-Ala)] and cyclo(glycyl-L-leucyl)[Cyclo(Gly-Leu)] were tested in the critical developmental periods of d 1.5 to 4 of chick embryogenesis in order to objectively examine their undesirable interactions with the developing morphogenetic systems of the brain, eye, face, body wall, limbs, trunk and heart.
(13) It occurred chiefly in the upper and lower extremities (40 cases) and less frequently in the trunk (11 cases) and the head and neck region (eight cases).
(14) In males, the predominant site was in the head, neck and trunk while in females it was in the lower limbs Clark level V was found in 35.6% of the cases.
(15) One patient harbored a basilar trunk aneurysm, 1 an aneurysm of the proximal posterior cerebral artery, 3 an aneurysm of the superior cerebellar artery, and 10 an aneurysm at the basilar tip.
(16) Microautoradiography showed that melanin-containing cells in the trunk and head kidney and in the olfactory rosettes also accumulated high amounts of radioactivity.
(17) The cervical sympathetic trunk (CST) was split into two bundles.
(18) The affected twin had classical loss of sc fat from her face, upper arms, and trunk as well as associated hypocomplementemia, microscopic hematuria, and a borderline oral glucose tolerance test without hyperinsulinism.
(19) Secretory function of the operated stomach was studied in 188 patients after trunk and selective vagotomy with distal resection and pyloroplasty of various extent.
(20) The relatively small reservoir and the maintenance of a minimum flow of water on the trunk river means the plant will work on average at barely 40% of its 11,200MW capacity.