(v. t.) To water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, etc.
(n.) A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.
(n.) A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.
(n.) A brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat.
(n.) An old maid or gossip.
(a.) Having a wavy or watered appearance; as, a tabby waistcoat.
(a.) Brindled; diversified in color; as, a tabby cat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Looking up we saw a large tabby on top of a wooden hoarding which was covering a building site in Vauxhall.
(2) I have suggested that the X-linked gene Tabby (Ta) and its autosomal mimics in the mouse may be homologous with the genes for sex-linked anhidrotic (hypohidrotic) ectodermal dysplasia (Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome, CST) and its apparent autosomal mimics in the human.
(3) Tabby (Ta), a murine X-linked mutant gene, produces a syndrome of ectodermal dysplasia including anhidrosis (absence of sweat glands).
(4) The findings have potential clinical significance; firstly, because the Tabby gene shows genetic homology to the human gene for hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, and disturbed eyelid opening is a trait of some forms of human ectodermal dysplasia, and secondly, because the gene for epidermal growth factor receptor is an oncogene.
(5) It is possible that deficiency of epidermal growth factor at the tissue level may be involved in the development of some of the traits seen in Tabby mutants.
(6) In addition to analysing the effects of the Tabby gene and of epidermal growth factor on eyelid opening in the mouse, this study appears to be the first detailed histological description of normal eyelid opening.
(7) These probes have been positioned with respect to existing DNA markers utilizing a new interspecific backcross segregating for the Tabby (Ta) locus.
(8) Because Tabby appears to be genetically homologous to the gene for human X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, these results may have potential clinical significance.
(9) We have also demonstrated that tabby has abnormally elevated epidermal sulphydryl (SH): disulphide (SS) ratios, in common with an autosomal form of ectodermal dysplasia.
(10) Three alleles of the tabby locus (T) have been identified, namely, Abyssinian (Ta), striped (T), and blotched (tb).
(11) Studies from our laboratory have previously shown that the syndrome produced in the mouse by the X-linked gene tabby (Ta) has many features in common with human X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia.
(12) The preputial gland can be excluded as the site of pheromone synthesis since males which are hemizygous for the Tabby-J gene and have no preputial glands blocked pregnancies as effectively as their normal littermates.
(13) Both sequences map to the region of 10 centimorgan lying between the Tabby (Ta) and St14-1 (DxPas8) loci, close to the phosphorylase b kinase locus (Phk).
(14) Nor is it easy to determine how much hybridisation has occurred between the Scottish wildcat, a close relative of the European wildcat, and the domestic tabby, a cousin of the near-eastern wildcat, a separate subspecies.
(15) The first is the apparent absence of blotched tabby and a relatively high frequency of Abyssinian tabby.
(16) We tried to measure the distances between arterioles in about 30 postmortem injected hearts using India ink to produce a kind of reflected imitated tabby (tiger) heart pattern.
(17) Thus epidermal growth factor appears to accelerate eyelid opening by stimulating these morphological processes and the Tabby gene appears to delay eyelid opening by impairing them.
(18) We performed histological studies to explore the mechanisms of action of the Tabby gene and of epidermal growth factor in these processes.
(19) Linkage data relative to the markers tabby and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase are presented to locate X-linked cataract (Xcat) in the distal portion of the mouse X-chromosome between jimpy and hypophosphatemia.
(20) Grafts of the combination tabby epidermis-normal dermis and tabby epidermis-tabby dermis produced hairs with a morphology similar to hairs found in tabby mice.
Tubby
Definition:
(a.) Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Duke’s ancestor Hugh Lupus – the king’s head huntsman or grand veneur , a tubby man nicknamed gros veneur , from which derived the family surname – came across with William the Conqueror and was granted a chunk of Cheshire to protect the region from the Welsh.
(2) But marketing material won’t be enough to give you a proper understanding, warns Eleanor Tubby, graduate recruitment officer at Bird and Bird.
(3) The predicted location for a human homolog of tubby is HSA 11p15.
(4) Tubby Reddy, chief executive of the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic committee, told the Associated Press: “As he stands right now, he’s free [to compete].” Pistorius potentially faces up to 15 years in prison after being convicted of the South African equivalent of manslaughter, but could receive a suspended sentence and avoid jail altogether when he returns to court on 13 October.
(5) Several recessively inherited forms of obesity exist including the obese mouse, the diabetes mouse, fatty rat, the fat mouse, tubby mouse and the corpulent rat.
(6) His campaign speeches are broadcast from chilly, overcast London to the Karachi faithful, many of them women who hold portraits of their tubby, moustachioed leader.
(7) During his years with Real Madrid, an increasingly tubby but still marvellously effective Puskas struck up a famous partnership with the Argentine centre-forward, the domineering Alfredo Di Stefano.
(8) Marcus Christenson 75: Ezequiel Lavezzi, Paris St-Germain, Argentina; age 27, forward Despite all scientific regimes available to the modern footballer, thank goodness there is still room in the game for a player nicknamed El Pocho, or Tubby.
(9) Best warning Brazil: "Out-sized" Goias striker "Tubby" Walter , warning Flamengo he would "lie down and roll over them" in the Brazilian Cup.
(10) Fly through the future North of the Gherkin, a tower nicknamed the Can of Ham for its odd tubby form is currently being built.
(11) Beyond that, no one outside of CBS Television City has a clue what to expect when the “tubby kid”, as David Letterman called him , starts beaming into US living rooms.
(12) It has been described as a "tubby spaniel" by its admirers and as a "destructive nocturnal rat" by its critics.
(13) A tubby, barefoot man with broken teeth and wild eyes opened the door.
(14) This report describes the development of obesity syndromes in mice caused by two autosomal recessive mutations, fat (fat), located on chromosome 8, and tubby (tub), located on chromosome 7.