(v. t.) To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge.
(v. t.) To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
(n.) A large marble to be played with; also, a game at marbles.
(n.) A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Drawbacks of traction-absorbing wiring (TAW) in displaced fractures of the olecranon were observed in 29 out of 55 consecutive patients.
(2) A hybridoma secreting human monoclonal antibody (MAB) against Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A (PEA) was constructed by fusing Epstein-Barr virus-transformed peripheral blood lymphocytes with human B lymphoblastoid cell line TAW-925.
(3) We studied airway wall temperature (Taw) during dry air challenge of the canine lung periphery.
(4) Intravenous salbutamol (2.5 micrograms.kg-1) significantly attenuated the peak fall in Taw during airflow challenge and the peak rise in Rcs following challenge.
(5) Using a wedged bronchoscope technique, collateral resistance (Rcs) and airway wall temperature (Taw) were measured before and after a 2-min exposure to dry air.
(6) The dissociation between Taw and physiological response after indomethacin likely reflects a decrease in mediators released during challenge.
(7) In contrast, aerosolized salbutamol (50 micrograms) minimally decreased the fall in Taw during airflow challenge, while virtually eliminating AIB.
(8) Buddha fatigue can set in for travel-weary tourists, but I rallied myself to visit Sein Taw Ya, about 14 miles south of Mawlamyine, which is claimed to be the largest reclining Buddha in the world.
(9) The woman was then reunited with a man and a child who had been trapped in the car when the River Taw broke its banks and had been rescued by firefighters.
(10) After lowering Taw with cooled blood for 2 min, Rcs did not rise.
(11) The HAT (hypoxanthine, aminopterin, thymidine) sensitive and ouabain resistant human B lymphoblastoid cell line TAW-925 was obtained from 6-thioguanine resistant B lymphoblastoid cell line WI-L2.
(12) A significant negative correlation was found between Taw recorded during challenge and Rcs observed 5 min after challenge.
(13) By changing the temperature of blood perfusing the lobe it was possible to lower Taw without affecting either EHL or osmolarity.
(14) Soe Win’s uncle, Taw Phaya, a 93-year-old potential heir, and aunt, Hteik Su Phaya Gyi, 94, are the only surviving grandchildren.
(15) Contrast study of the wound canal, thoracoscopy, and diagnostic pneumoperitoneum make it possible to establish or reject the diagnosis of TAW in all patients examined.
(16) Day and night he walked the nearby cliffs and beaches or the high moors drained by the rivers Taw and Torridge.
(17) The TAW scenario proved more efficacious in determining affective components of attitudes than behavioral aspects.
(18) Two questionnaires were administered: MacDonald's Attitude toward Homosexuality Scale--Female (ATHS--F) and the TAW Attitude toward Lesbianism Scenario.
(19) Minor operative modifications in the TAW technique are suggested in order to avoid these drawbacks.
(20) As flow rate increased, Taw dropped and postchallenge Rcs rose.
Thaw
Definition:
(v. i.) To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; -- said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws.
(v. i.) To become so warm as to melt ice and snow; -- said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally.
(v. i.) Fig.: To grow gentle or genial.
(v. t.) To cause (frozen things, as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.
(n.) The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost; also, a warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is congealed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
(2) Following thawing, the initial motility index (MI) scores of mf cryopreserved by either method were not significantly different from untreated controls; however, over a period of 15 days in culture the MI scores of both cryopreserved groups showed a small but significant overall decline, with the methanol technique producing the lowest scores.
(3) In order to maintain its activity, the enzyme was always stored in 1.0-ml aliquots at temperatures below -20 degrees C and each aliquot when thawed was used immediately; any left over enzyme was never reused.
(4) Cryotherapy with high-flow nitrous oxide was applied to the lid margin for 45 seconds in a freeze-thaw-freeze cycle.
(5) Three freeze-thaw cycles released a large proportion (50% to 60%) of the TCA-precipitable radioactivity from the worms.
(6) The effects of intravenous administration of DDAVP to blood donors and the use of DDAVP plasma for the production of cryoprecipitate in the closed thaw-siphon system were evaluated.
(7) Binding of [125I]-labelled ifenprodil, a non-competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) antagonist acting at the polyamine domain, was studied in washed, frozen-thawed synaptic membranes.
(8) These observations may be important in the development of laboratory protocols for freezing and clinical protocols for using frozen-thawed sperm.
(9) After being thawed at room temperature, the two CM samples were compared as to their pH, spinnbarkeit and ferning patterns, and it was found that they are quite similar.
(10) Freeze-thawed epimastigotes were used as a control antigen.
(11) To gain some understanding of the mechanism of cell fusion, cell ghosts prepared by freeze-thawing intact cells were incubated with intact cells.
(12) Particularly, the losses during blanching and thawing (drip) are discussed.
(13) However, mitochondrial susceptibility to rupture by freezing and thawing was not affected.
(14) Jackets were frozen for storage and were later thawed and placed on experimental alien lambs.
(15) This case illustrates: (1) acid medium, chymotrypsin, or sucrose are not needed for the procedure of zona cutting; (2) the zygotes resulting from zona cutting survive through freezing and thawing; and (3) oocyte retrieval can be done concomitant with conservative surgery for endometriosis.
(16) Ten eyes were treated with a single freeze-thaw cycle and were observed for 3 to 18 months.
(17) The choice of optimal freezing and thawing parameters is discussed.
(18) Although freezing and thawing produced additional decrements in all the assays, the hypotonic stress response was better by a factor of 3.5 than that previously obtained in a cryopreservation method using 0.5 molar glycerol.
(19) Lamb leg and rib roasts were more tender when cooked from the thawed state.
(20) Four- and eight-cell embryos from 3 mouse genotypes were cryopreserved to study the relationship of genetics and freezing variables on post-thaw survival.