(conj.) A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that; as, I would rather suffer than that you should want.
(adv.) Then. See Then.
Example Sentences:
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.