(a.) Having (such or so many) toes; -- chiefly used in composition; as, narrow-toed, four-toed.
(a.) Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely, said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Scottish defence did well not to panic, there, as Walcott's twinkle-toed run had penalty written all over it.
(2) The repair tissue then grows along and over the "toed-in" catilage.
(3) Although the retinal organization differs from that of the closely related three-toed sloth, the presumed function of retinal specializations in both species is to guide limb movements by permitting visualization of the branch along which the animal is climbing.
(4) Fiona, by email Well, Fiona, I could, I guess, regale you with the usual guff about pointy-toed flats and midi-length skirts, and all that would be true, to a certain point.
(5) Streatfeild has said he now feels "ashamed" at the way he had previously toed the line for the MoD, defending kit that he knew was inadequate for the task at hand.
(6) It was with the Emilia-Romagna outfit that Berardi first broke through as a twinkle-toed teenager and it is with them that he remains, in spite of a goalscoring record that even the greats would envy.
(7) The cellular composition and relative frequency of the occurrence of pancreatic endocrine cells were studied immunohistochemically in a primitive eutherian and arboreal folivore, the three-toed sloth, since previous histochemical and ultrastructural studies on the endocrine pancreas of the sloth have detected only a single islet cell type, the A cell.
(8) The intestinal of the 3-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, was studied macroscopically, with light microscope and with histochemical methods for mucosubstances.
(9) Media meddling Since Sisi’s overthrow of Morsi, most of Egypt’s media has largely toed the government line.
(10) Congenital metatarsus adductus, a deformity at the tarsometatarsal joints in which the metatarsals are deviated internally in relation to transverse plane, predisposes to "pigeon-toed" gait.
(11) The United team was strong on paper, with Rooney and Van Persie supported by the twinkle-toed Juan Mata and Adnan Januzaj.
(12) "She strapped up, toed the line and broke the junior record.
(13) It has recently been the source of three new kinds of plant, a trapdoor spider , another snail and new kind of Bent-toed Gecko .
(14) Physical measures to prevent tick bites include avoiding tick-infested areas, wearing light-colored clothing for easy identification of crawling ticks, regularly checking the body and pets for ticks, wearing protective garments and closed-toed shoes, and removing attached ticks promptly by using tweezers or forceps to apply a steady upward pull.
(15) Antibodies were detected in eight species of birds (Aves, Passeriformes) and in 22 mammalian species: one species of marsupiales (Marsupialia), 3 species of carnivores (Carnivora), seven species of rodents (Rodentia), two species of rabbits and hares (Lagomorpha), in 8 species of even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla) and one species of odd-toed ungulates (Perissodactyla).
(16) The known Amazonian mammalian species with natural histoplasmosis now total five, the previously reported species being the spiny rat Proechimys guyannensis, the two-toed sloth Choloepus didactylus and the nine-banded armadillo Dasypus novemcinctus.
(17) The ladies did not mind, even though their shoes were all open-toed.
(18) Cold bites my double-socked feet within steel-toed wellies.
(19) Dirofilaria panamensis, parasite of the two-toed sloth, Cholopeus hoffmanni, in Panama, was previously described as Dirofilaria incrassata by Caballero (1947), but can be distinguished from both D. macrodemos and D. incrassata on the basis of body size (female 66 mm long by 360 micron wide, male 34 mm long by 250 micron wide), tail length (female 80 micron, male 80 micron), and number (6 pairs) of caudal papillae in the male.
(20) Four artiodactyl (even-toed hoofed mammal) papillomaviruses, the cottontail rabbit papillomavirus, and avian (chaffinch) papillomavirus type 1 formed a third major branch.
Toned
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Tone
(a.) Having (such) a tone; -- chiefly used in composition; as, high-toned; sweet-toned.
Example Sentences:
(1) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
(2) In summary, GABAergic tone did not effect basal acid secretion in anesthetized rats.
(3) After midazolam infusion, there was a 50% decrease in amplitude of P3 in response to target tones (P less than 0.006), whereas N3 latency increased by 40 ms (P less than 0.05).
(4) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
(5) More disturbing than his ideas was Malema's style and tone.
(6) Noradrenaline decreased the phasic contraction amplitude of the circular muscle and exerted a stimulant effect on the tone which suggested an existence of two alpha 1-adrenoceptor subtypes.
(7) Histamine (10(-6)-10(-4) M) induced concentration-dependent increases in tone and Ca2+i, but these responses were not sustained.
(8) Masking experiments are demonstrated for electrical frequency-modulated tone bursts from 1,000 to 10,000 cps and from 10,000 to 1,000 cps with superimposed clicks.
(9) The stimuli were two simple tones in experiment 1 and two tonal complexes in both experiments 2 and 3.
(10) Isolated outer hair cells from the organ of Corti of the guinea pig have been shown to change length in response to a mechanical stimulus in the form of a tone burst at a fixed frequency of 200 Hz (Canlon et al., 1988).
(11) Complex tones containing the first 20 harmonics of 50, 100, or 200 Hz, all at equal amplitude, were used.
(12) An attempt to eliminate the age effect by adjusting for age differences in monaural shadowing errors, fluid intelligence, and pure-tone hearing loss did not succeed.
(13) Inhibition of the production or action of these substances will allow for vasodilatation, and it is probable that perinatal pulmonary vascular tone reflects a balance between local prostaglandin and leukotriene production.
(14) Subject evaluations in accordance with the intensity levels of tones, i.e.
(15) Maximum expiratory flow on partial flow-volume curve at 25% forced vital capacity (PEF25) was measured as an index showing basal bronchomotor tone.
(16) Twenty-four hours later, a stimulus generalization test was conducted in the absence of drug; during this session, tones that varied in frequency around 4.5 KHz were presented while the animals were responding under the VI schedule.
(17) Auditory sensory perception was operationalized as number of tones heard on audiometric examination.
(18) Later, Lucas, also a former party leader, strongly defended Bennett, saying it was a “bad day for Natalie” but there was also “kind of a gloating tone that strikes one as having something to do with her being a woman in there too”.
(19) From a set of tones that varied only in intensity, it was possible to calculate the growth of loudness with intensity for the budgerigar.
(20) Two hundred forty-six fetuses had at least one abnormal biophysical profile variable with the risk of bad outcome, for a single abnormal variable, ranging from 8% (body movements) to 100% (tone) and increasing from 14% (any variable abnormal) to 63% (all variables abnormal).