(n.) The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tilt was reproduced with a typical spread of about 10 degrees.
(2) The compromised ice sheet tilts and he sinks into the Arctic Sea on the back of his faltering white Icelandic pony.
(3) Moreover, the majority of the 'out of phase' units showed an increased discharge during side-up animal tilt and side-down neck rotation.
(4) It appears impossible to define a "positive" tilt test that would adequately identify patients with clinically significant dehydration or blood loss; this is due to the large variance in patients' orthostatic measurements both in a healthy and in an ill state and the lack of a significant correlation of orthostatic measurements to a level of dehydration.
(5) The most frequently occurring signs were: tilting of the disc (89%), oblique direction of the vessels (89%) and myopic astigmatism (96%).
(6) Patellar subluxation may improve substantially following either lateral release or anteromedial tibial tubercle transfer, but this study suggests that correction of subluxation is less consistent than reduction of abnormal tilt with tibial tubercle transfer or lateral release alone.
(7) The calculated separation between the centers of these two pigments (using an extended version of the exciton theory) is about 10 A, the pigments' molecular planes are tilted by about 20 degrees, and their N1-N3 axes are rotated by 150 degrees relative to each other.
(8) The diagnostic criterion was a difference in talar tilt of 6 or more degrees between the injured and uninjured foot on inversion stress radiographs.
(9) Failure was more likely with a subluxated, tilted, or excessively thick patella or flexed femoral component.
(10) Past measurements have shown that the intensity range is reduced at the extremes of the F0 range, that there is a gradual upward tilt of the high- and low-intensity boundaries with increasing F0, and that a ripple exists at the boundaries.
(11) Pulmonary ventilation parameters (breathing depth, frequency and minute volume, and alveolar ventilation) of 5 healthy male test subjects who performed a 20-minute tilt test were analyzed.
(12) Nonspecific baroreflex loading maneuvers such as head-down tilt readily suppress stimulated arginine vasopressin levels in normal humans.
(13) Meanwhile, among hepatic and systemic hemodynamics, wedged hepatic venous pressure, hepatic venous pressure gradient, free hepatic venous pressure, cardiac index, systolic blood pressure, systemic vascular resistance, and stroke volume were found to have changed significantly after tilting.
(14) Among the implications of the less-than-impressive substantive results of the MWTA is the lesson that while a crisis can tilt the political balance in favor of regulatory legislation, it cannot as readily produce the consensus required to sustain that regulation at the levels promised in the legislation.
(15) Whole body tilt from supine to 45 degrees head-up was associated with increased heart rate and an insignificant rise in MABP in both groups, although a rise in plasma AVP occurred in control subjects only.
(16) During tilt, both systolic (S) blood pressure (BP) (p less than 0.01) and diastolic (D) BP (p less than 0.05) increased in HT, but not in NT.
(17) Three trials on the tilting plane significantly elevated the corticosterone concentration in saline-treated ANT rats, but produced no additional increase in drug-treated ANT rats.
(18) The transition moment either tilts further into the membrane or loses some of its axial orientation, or both.
(19) All initially positive patients were rendered tilt negative by therapy.
(20) Midodrine significantly increased the basal rate of cardiac output and attenuated the decrease in cardiac output induced by the tilt.
Wilting
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Wilt
Example Sentences:
(1) Alfalfa plants of a resistant, a susceptible and a highly susceptible strains were grown in unlimed soil at pH 5.8 and in limed one at pH 6.9 and inoculated by the pathogens of vascular wilt, Corynebacterium insidiosum and Verticillium albo-atrum.
(2) Dwight Gayle converted with ease though, even then, Town refused to wilt.
(3) The balloons may have wilted and Nicholas Witchell's episiotomy stitches begun to heal, but the circus shows few signs of moving on.
(4) The stadium was duly dotted with forlorn patches of brightly colored camp t-shirts whose inhabitants spent the game wilting off their seats in temperatures which stood at 101 degrees before kick off.
(5) Here they led within 90 seconds against a team whose fragility has been all too clear this term, and still contrived to wilt almost apologetically.
(6) Samples of fresh grass, wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in a stack silo and cut with either a cylinder-type forage harvester (11.3 mm of length cut) or a self-loading wagon (42.4 mm of length cut), wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in large round bales, and grass hay were obtained from the same field and used for determination of DM and CP degradability.
(7) Alfalfa, red clover, orchardgrass and timothy were harvested in the vegetative stage, wilted and stored as hay, or ensiled in small batch silos (20 kg) at 60, 40 or 20% (direct cut) dry matter and were analyzed for compositional differences.
(8) In the cells of wilted plants only 60% of the mRNA nucleotide sequences present in the controls are synthesized.
(9) Effects of wilting of grass prior to ensiling on OM intake, ruminal digestibility, efficiency of bacterial protein synthesis, and amount and composition of duodenal N fraction were examined using four lactating Holstein cows.
(10) Silage had a lower disappearance rate of CP than wilted grass.
(11) Most of the test fields had cultivated conventional brinjals previously and so they contained pathogens of bacterial wilt and fungus left over from those conventional crops, he said.
(12) Chelsea must rise to that challenge, and their refusal to wilt was heartening, prompting comparisons with Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United, whose constant probing would often draw late rewards from apparent lost causes.
(13) The complete nucleotide sequence of the S RNA of tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) was determined.
(14) Some of our favourite things to stir in include: chickpeas and fried chorizo pieces; crisply fried smoked streaky bacon and frozen peas; chunks of aubergine fried in a pan, crumbled ricotta or cream cheese on top; capers and basil; chopped anchovies, a little cream and chopped rosemary; wilted rocket with crumbled feta on top; or chopped basil, a knob of butter, and a little balsamic.
(15) #USAvGER June 2, 2013 Germany have looked rather "wilted" in this last ten minutes.
(16) The synthesis of viral RNA species in tomato spotted wilt virus-infected Nicotiana rustica plants was followed in terms of time and relative abundance.
(17) Fiber-associated protein increased markedly with increases in DM during wilting, and these differences were present in the mature silage of both ryegrass and alfalfa.
(18) Complementary DNA to the genomic RNA of tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) was synthesized and cloned in either pUC19 or lambda gt10.
(19) While a less crushing defeat is expected this time, analysts are not predicting significant gains for fragmented, uninspired opponents that have wilted under the EPRDF’s glare.
(20) Bolton’s Shola Ameobi ends drought as Steve Evans’ Leeds earn a point Read more Elsewhere in west London, another dark, gloomy cloud was lifted from over another wilting manager.