(n.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
(n.) Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
(n.) Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
(n.) A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
(n.) The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression "heads or tails," employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall.
(n.) The distal tendon of a muscle.
(n.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
(n.) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; -- called also tailing.
(n.) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
(n.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
(n.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
(n.) Same as Tailing, 4.
(n.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
(n.) See Tailing, n., 5.
(v. t.) To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
(v. t.) To pull or draw by the tail.
(v. i.) To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.
(v. i.) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.
Example Sentences:
(1) The anatomic and functional development of the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) was studied in the gray short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica.
(2) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
(3) This behavior consists of a very rapid bend of the body and tail that is thought to arise from the monosynaptic excitation of large primary motoneurons by the Mauthner cell.
(4) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
(5) After isolation of the complex IV only gpFII and tails are required for mature phage formation in vitro.
(6) Earlier recognition of foul-smelling mucoid discharge on the IUD tail, or abnormal bleeding, or both, as a sign of early pelvic infection, followed by removal of the IUD and institution of appropriate antibiotic therapy, might prevent the more serious sequelae of pelvic inflammation.
(7) produced a strong analgesic effect in the formalin test and in the tail pinch test.
(8) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .
(9) Body weight (BW) and nose-tail length were less in the hypoxic exposed (H) rats than in control (C) animals growing in air.
(10) Nitrous oxide produced a dose-related analgesic response in rats (ED50, 67%) as measured by the tail-flick method.
(11) A total of 23 phage specific proteins (including four head and six tail proteins) could be identified after SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of extracts from phage SPP1 infected Bacillus subtilis cells.
(12) g (SD 0.15, N = 21), which was similar to tail skin.
(13) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
(14) The patients' preoperative clinical status affected the results of surgery (Breslow p less than 0.03, Mantel p less than 0.02; one-tailed tests).
(15) These apparent conflicting results between IK and the tail current could not be explained by extracellular K+ fluctuation, because 20 mM Cs+ alone depressed both factors, but an additional application of Ba2+ caused an increase in both components compared with those in the former condition.
(16) Some of them situated in a particular environment fused with the tail sequence to produce monomeric ubiquitin genes that were maintained across species.
(17) Deletion of a carboxyl-terminal sequence, comprising the transmembrane domain and short cytoplasmic tail of the alpha chain of the T cell antigen receptor (TCR-alpha), prevented the rapid degradation of this polypeptide.
(18) We have investigated enhancement of pigmentation in inbred C3H- mice using tail skin as a model for testing the effects of phosphorylated DOPA (DP) and ultraviolet radiation.
(19) Diltiazem also produced a slight decrease of both the steady-state current during depolarization and the tail current after repolarization in these concentration ranges, while the hyperpolarization activated current (Ih) was not affected significantly.
(20) A fluorescent fucose-specific lectin-stained bodies and not tails of the organism.
Thong
Definition:
(n.) A strap of leather; especially, one used for fastening anything.
Example Sentences:
(1) The guy walking [by me] had on nothing more than a thong and a pair of platform snakeskin boots.
(2) Fifty percent of Pong Nam Ron children had antiHAV antibodies at the age of 8-9 years and at the age of 12-13 years of Bo Thong children.
(3) Forty-two percent of the population at Pong Nam Ron and fifteen percent at Bo Thong went to drug-stores or groceries when they developed minor illness, while 85.2% of the subjects interviewed at Bo Thong went to the local health center.
(4) Certainly, Gagaʼs thong flash seemed mild in comparison to Cyrusʼ over the top follow up act, but it was still a totally gratuitous bit of self exploitation in an otherwise interesting and well put together number.
(5) As he ambles into the small interview room at Munich’s Säbener Strasse in a plain black T-shirt and trainers, Alaba is unassuming to the point of being shy, a little at odds with his reputation as a social-media prankster – his oeuvre contains a series of shots of the midfielder Franck Ribéry dozing and a nearly-nude double-selfie with his former team-mate Mitchell Weiser, in thongs – and as a typically Viennese lausbub (rascal) who once told the club’s former president Uli Hoeness that he had to “think about” an allegation by a concerned member of the public that he was painting the town red with Ribéry in Munich.
(6) The two layers of subunits are held together largely by the apolar COOH terminus, a helical thong, which inserts into a hydrophobic pocket formed by two neighboring subunits on the opposite ring.
(7) Rihanna has treated her fans to Instagrammed selfies of her enjoying the view at a strip club, of her buttocks barely concealed by a tiny denim thong and of her posing with two oversize cannabis joints while in Amsterdam.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest When Minaj released the artwork for her Anaconda single – a striking image of a squatting Minaj in a hot pink thong, squatting on the floor with her ample backside facing the camera – she did so with a message.
(9) The girls favour bikinis the size of Dairylea triangles with thongs that could cut their own slice of cheese, while boys see no shame in skimpy white briefs that look like they were bought from Versace Junior.
(10) splashed across the chest – and has outraged people for selling thongs for children with "wink wink" printed on the front, and last year for selling "push-up" (its description) bikini tops for girls as young as seven .
(11) One of the Sábado Gigante’s best-known segments, for instance, is Miss Colita (roughly translated, it means Miss Ass); a pageant in which women parade around the stage in thongs while Don Francisco comments and audience members vote for their favorite buttocks.
(12) While 10 years ago the stockings, the tincy thongs, the half-cup bras were only available here, in the past decade Agent Provocateur's kink has gone mainstream – this year high-street chain Peacocks reports sales of "sexy lingerie" increasing by 73% on last year.
(13) A cross-sectional descriptive survey was conducted among 253 local inhabitants during the beginning of the transmission season in July 1989 at Bo Thong District, Chonburi Province, Eastern Thailand where malaria transmission was likely to be moderately high.
(14) She shook everyone's hand ("That's new," remarked the lighting producer, sotto voce), gave me a selfie and then said to her people, "Do we have a thong?"
(15) Plus: moving on Argentina: Playboy model Cinthia Fernández – ex-partner of San Lorenzo's Jonathan Ferrari, Racing's Iván Pillud and self-styled "Queen of Thongs" – says having twins with Huracán's Matías Defederico will change her.
(16) Jackie St Clair was dressed in a tiny thong and high heels, Sinitta undid her top, and Cowell smoked and watched as the two women wrapped themselves around him and fondled his crotch.
(17) A high resonance frequence in thong-minded trained was not observed, only one time a normal, 63 times a reduced arterial resonance frequence.
(18) Ninety-four percent of the subjects interviewed at Bo Thong and eighty-seven percent at Pong Nam Ron gave a history of having used ya-chud in the past.
(19) Ryan Shapiro, CEO of JPay, drawn by prisoner Thong Vahn Louangrath.
(20) Like the original one-step Hypaque-Ficoll procedure (Ferrante and Thong, 1978), a single centrifugation at 500 X g for 30 min resulted in the formation of two distinct leukocyte fractions.