(n.) A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Following exposure, samples of flea eggs were processed for microscopic examination and seeded onto carpet swatches containing flea-rearing medium in order to assess egg hatch, and larval, pupal, and adult development.
(2) Swatch A third of the Swiss watchmaker’s sales are in mainland China.
(3) The posterior wall is reinforced with a second swatch of Prolene mesh to prevent herniation, which often results from future degenerative changes.
(4) I was lucky enough to find a pile of swatches of material in the office and have turned them into a mobile and three soft bricks – the only cost has been for some cotton and toy stuffing (£3.50 for a huge bag).
(5) As huge swatches of the community have lost the opportunity to work and earn an income, just over 4 in 5 Syrians now live in poverty,” the report said.
(6) She denies enjoying a jet-set lifestyle; he has described it as being more of a Swatch than Rolex lifestyle.
(7) By swatch-matching your urine colour to the Cleveland Clinic's diagram, you can see whether or not you are healthy.
(8) Both swatches of mesh are held in place in separate tissue planes by the body's internal hydrostatic forces.
(9) Viable bacterial populations persisted for 24 weeks at relatively high population densities on swatches of wool gabardine, cotton sheeting, cotton knit jersey, and cotton terry cloth exposed by direct contact and held in a humidity of 35%.
(10) Aged five, he joined Barnard Castle rugby club , his local team, and started playing tag rugby, where opponents try to swipe a swatch of cloth from their waistband instead of tackling.
(11) Cotton and woolen fabrics and fabrics of synthetic fibers were exposed by direct contact (pipette) and by aerosolization to poliovirus and to vaccinia virus in separate experiments, allowed to dry for 16 hr at 25 C in 35% relative humidity, and randomly tumbled with sterile swatches of the same fabrics for 30 min.
(12) Following treatment with trypsin, sheets of epithelium were removed from swatches of abdominal skin.
(13) This organism retained its virulence for Swiss mice after being recovered from wool gabardine swatches held 8 weeks in humidities of 35 or 78% and from cotton terry cloth swatches held 6 weeks in the same humidities.
(14) To quantitate leaching from treated clothing, studies were performed in which swatches of fabric impregnated with 14C-labeled permethrin were applied to the backs of rabbits for 1 wk.
(15) They then spontaneously transferred the matching concept to novel items, including three-dimensional objects and fabric swatches, without any experimenter-provided differential feedback.
(16) I thought it was a kind of Swatch.” The 68-year-old Belgian, a member of Fifa’s executive committee since 1988, did not appreciate the gift, insisted there was nothing untoward in its intentions, but was happy to return it.
(17) This organism retained its virulence for Swiss mice after being recovered from wool gabardine swatches held 4 weeks in 35% relative humidity and 6 weeks in 78% relative humidity.
(18) Additional swatches were agitated to resuspend Be particles inside a closed steel glove box.
(19) No difference was evident in fungus growth points on fabric swatches washed in tap water with and without Impregon.
(20) One hundred thirty-nine adults viewed 18 reproductions of faces, color swatches, and abstract designs and rated the emotional content of these visual stimuli.
Switch
Definition:
(n.) A small, flexible twig or rod.
(n.) A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.
(n.) A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.
(n.) A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.
(v. t.) To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.
(v. t.) To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.
(v. t.) To trim, as, a hedge.
(v. t.) To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; -- generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.
(v. t.) To shift to another circuit.
(v. i.) To walk with a jerk.
Example Sentences:
(1) We also demonstrated a significant difference in the Hb switching process between male and female newborns.
(2) Accumulating evidence indicates that for most tumors, the switch to the angiogenic phenotype depends upon the outcome of a balance between angiogenic stimulators and angiogenic inhibitors, both of which may be produced by tumor cells and perhaps by certain host cells.
(3) Nine years of clinical experience of the application of the Q-switched ruby laser to the removal of tattoos is presented.
(4) Males exploit this behavioural switch by increasing their sneaky mating attempts.
(5) It is hypothesized, furthermore, that the kinetics of emergence and loss of these various populations may reflect switching in the mode of immunity being expressed, particularly during the chronic phase of the infection, from that of a state of active immunity to one of immunologic memory.
(6) Police in Rockhampton have ordered residents to leave their homes as electricity is switched off in low-lying areas.
(7) The drug I started taking caused an irritating, chronic cough, which disappeared when I switched to an inexpensive diuretic.
(8) Our aim is to obtain evidence for trans-acting factors that regulate developmental hemoglobin (Hb) switching.
(9) Should such symptoms occur, the doctor has the choice of either switching to another first-step compound or reducing the dose of the first agent and combining it with one of other available drugs.
(10) I’ve warned Dave before to mind his ps and qs when the cameras are rolling, but the problem is you can never tell when the microphones are switched on.
(11) This modification improves the convergence properties of the network and is used to control a switch which activates the learning or template formation process when the input is "unknown".
(12) Usage of analyzing cardiac monitors with a signalling system switched on by the preset values of ST-segment depression prevented the evolution of myocardial ischemia and the development of exercise-induced anginal episodes.
(13) "It's very clear now that the administration agrees with us," said Wyden, hailing a switch from both the Bush and Obama administration stance that "collecting these records is vital to western civilisation".
(14) A programmable controller manages the olfactometer dilution stage selection, the odor stimulus switch and starts the peripheral devices required by the experiment.
(15) In hybrids before the switch, the gamma-genes are unmethylated.
(16) "The default switch should be set to release information unless there is an extremely good reason for withholding it.".
(17) A transistor radio activated by a mercury switch was used to reinforce head posture in two retarded children with severe cerebral palsy.
(18) The swi1+ gene is necessary for effective mating-type (MT) switching in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
(19) Consequently mother cells can switch their mating type whereas bud cells cannot.
(20) Even if nobody switched party, the general election result would look very different to what’s predicted if millennials could be persuaded to vote at the same rate as pensioners, as polls factor in turnout differences and oversample the elderly accordingly.