(n.) An appendage at the base of petioles or leaves, usually somewhat resembling a small leaf in texture and appearance.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the controlled wound care group, only three ulcers in three patients achieved complete healing; the remaining 24 ulcers in 20 patients failed to achieve even 50% healing in the stipulated 3-month period.
(2) Under the stipulation, cultivators must grow the drug indoors in a secure facility.
(3) An increase amount of proinsulin-like component in the blood serum stipulates possibly a more prolonged period of starvation before the occurrence of hypoglycemia, and a less pronounced picture of hypoglycemia in such patients in comparison with the patients whose tumours were capable of splitting HA similarly to the normal islands of Langerhans.
(4) Despite the stipulation, though, only 55% of trust-funded research papers are open access.
(5) Significantly, the one thing that is making him worry is the Globe's stipulation that no English should be used – something that takes little account of how in India language itself has become globalised, along with so much else.
(6) The attendant reflux gastritis is stipulated by reflux of the intestinal contents into the gastric lumen.
(7) Comparisons with the previous results of the author obtained in other mammal orders, demonstrated quantative changebility--plasticity of corresponding truncal auditory, optical and vesitbular formations in response to ecologically stipulated changes of leading afferentation in different mammals.
(8) The main one being that governments actually stick to their targets which they stipulated in terms of implementing policy to move towards a two degree limit in global warming by 2050,” said Wilkins.
(9) (2) The tendency to seclude on admission suggests failure to follow the legal stipulation that less restrictive measures be employed first.
(10) The procedure to be adopted by the second veterinary-surgeon inspector, however, has not been stipulated.
(11) This phenomenon is probably stipulated by the increase of the transcription activity and formation of 45-pre rRNA, life of RNA.
(12) We have earlier proposed a molecular mechanism for the translocation of hydrophilic proteins across membranes that accounts for the experimental facts and meets the restrictions that we stipulate for such a mechanism.
(13) In the theory of psychopathology (e.g., implicit in DSM-III), general descriptors of the person (i.e., demographic and cultural) play a comparatively minor role in the stipulation of the manifestations of psychiatric illness.
(14) The current rules governing eurozone bailouts stipulate that a government has to request help and that the money may only be channelled via governments – increasing the national debt burden.
(15) The Law stipulates that each manager of an establishment with 50 or more workers is requested to appoint an OHP from among qualified physicians.
(16) In the UK, the law stipulates that people should use only "reasonable force" as appropriate to the situation, and to prevent a dangerous situation from escalating.
(17) A rental contract can stipulate that tenants ask a landlord before switching energy supplier, but it can't refuse permission to switch.
(18) The curative effects were up to the standards stipulated by the National Federation of Disabled Persons.
(19) Let us stipulate at the start that whether or not to build the pipeline is a decision with profound physical consequences.
(20) Buchanan said reserve margins for generation capacity were set to fall from 14% to just 5% within three years, though he played down the threat of power cuts to consumers: households are less likely to be affected by capacity shortages than energy-intensive businesses, many of which have contracts that stipulate their supply can be cut at times of peak demand to free up generating capacity elsewhere.
Straw
Definition:
(v. t.) To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.
(n.) A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.
(n.) The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.
(n.) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.
(2) The lambs of the second group were given 1200-1500 g of concentrate pellets and 300 g chopped wheat straw, and those of the third group were given 800 and 1050 g each of concentrate pellets, and 540 g and 720 g of pellets of whole maize plant containing 40 per cent.
(3) Jack Straw, foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq war, took a less dramatic view.
(4) David Blunkett, not Straw, was the home secretary at the time the decision was taken to allow Poles and others immediate access to the British labour market.
(5) Pictures of the Social Network star emerged on Twitter and Instagram on Wednesday, showing Garfield in full costume for Punchdrunk's current show, The Drowned Man , chewing seductively on a stick of straw .
(6) 9.31am BST Jack Straw , the Labour former home secretary, was on the Today programme earlier talking about the "plebgate" affair.
(7) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(8) This paper investigates the effect of straw handling on the viability of 2-cell mouse embryos rapidly frozen in dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO) solutions.
(9) "I have just seen a piece of straw flying over, which the hon lady is attempting to clutch at!"
(10) Jack Straw's detailed blueprint for a 300- strong, wholly elected upper chamber to replace the Lords appears to have been blocked at the last minute following resistance in cabinet.
(11) That was the straw that broke the camel's back and we thought it better to stop it dead in it tracks now.
(12) Straw meal integration had a gravidity-conditioned influence on the daily N balance.
(13) The highest level of contamination with fungi was observed in the concentrate feed mixture followed by clover hay and rice straw.
(14) Insemination with semen stored in 0.5-ml French straws was performed daily during the periovulatory period while the modified Insler score was 10 or greater out of 15.
(15) It’s still unclear which candidates will choose to compete in the straw poll and mount actual efforts to attract Iowans.
(16) Shortly after Blair and Straw issued their denials, Sir Richard Dearlove, who was head of MI6 at the time, said: "It was a political decision, having very significantly disarmed Libya, for the government to co-operate with Libya on Islamist terrorism.
(17) Hundred twenty three samples of bull semen fluid frozen at 196 degrees C including 83 plastic ampules, 20 granules and 20 plastic straws obtained from the containers of the insemination stations of 10 farms from the Sofia district were investigated.
(18) Mariah Carey 's need for a staff member to carry her drink and prop up the bendy bit of her straw is what makes me love her so much.
(19) Despite the freezing curve assayed, both the mini-straws and the bags depicted much shorter freezing point plateaus as compared to the maxi-straws.
(20) Even Jack Straw is trying to close down some of its overripe practices.