(n.) A ring for fastening a hawk's leash to the jesses; also, a ring affixed to the collar of a dog, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Robert Gilhooly Within weeks of the tsunami, Yagi had started turning the frame of a convenience store in the town's Okirai district into the new headquarters of Sanriku Toretate (fresh from the sea) Market, his ruined online seafood business.
Tret
Definition:
() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Tread, for treadeth.
(n.) An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare deducted.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors suggest a highly sensitive rapid and simple method for measuring esterase activities of bovine pancreatic chymotrypsin, human neutrophilic cathepsin D, and elastase, and of human blood serum chymotrypsin-like esterase and elastase-like esterase activities, with fluorogenic synthetic ethers, amino acid derivatives, employed as substrates: N-benzoxycarbonylphenylalanine 4-methylumbelliferyl ester (Z-Phe-OMC) and tret-butyloxycarbonyl-1-alanine 4-methylumbelliferyl ester (BOC-Ala-OMC).
(2) Effect of three inhibitors of free radical processes (IFRP) differing in antiradical activity (2-tret.
(3) A deuterated internal standard, capillary gas-liquid chromatography and 3-enol-3-tret-BDMS and 3.20-bis-enol-bis-BDMS progesterone ethers as chromatographied derivatives were employed.
(4) The electronic device allowed one to accurately determine the time to peak effect (Tmax), duration of effect (Emax, time to return to baseline threshold (Tret) and the area under the time-effect curve (AUC) as a measure of the total local anaesthetic effect.
(5) A deuterated internal standard, capillary gas-liquid chromatography and chromatographed derivates: 3-enol-3-tret-butyldimethylsilyl-17-tri-methysilyl and 3-enol-3,17-bis-tret-butyldimethylsilyl NET esters were used.
(6) Kinetics of demethylation of a number of amines involving hepatic microsomal cytochrome P-450 and organic hydroperoxides (tret-butyl- and cumylhydroperoxide) have been investigated.
(7) The urban group consisted of 4,008 adults, randomly selected from the 16 districts of the city of Marseille; the rural group consisted of 1,789 adults, representing 85% of the target population living in a small residential town, Trets.
(8) Thus ethylated trypsin (Tret) resembles chymotrypsin in its behavior.