(n.) One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
(v. t.) A mark left by anything passing; a track; a path; a course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace.
(v. t.) A very small quantity of an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis; -- hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr.
(v. t.) A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.
(v. t.) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
(v. t.) The ground plan of a work or works.
(v. t.) To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing.
(v. t.) To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens.
(v. t.) Hence, to follow the trace or track of.
(v. t.) To copy; to imitate.
(v. t.) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
(v. i.) To walk; to go; to travel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Glyceryl p-aminobenzoate and amyl p-dimethyl-aminobenzoate were labeled on 1 and 3 sunscreens, respectively, but glyceryl p-aminobenzoate was not found in any of them and only traces of amyl p-dimethylaminobenzoate were found in 1 sunscreen.
(2) Throughout the entire cultivation cytidyl derivatives occurred in trace quantities.
(3) persisted and was more abnormal in 23% of the cases including specific tracings in 37%.
(4) Traces of the sulphoxide of butylmercapturic acid have been found in rat urine but not in rabbit urine.
(5) No 7 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity and only a trace of 7 alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity could be demonstrated when bile acid was deleted from the growth medium.
(6) Silicon, a relatively unknown trace element in nutritional research, has been uniquely localized in active calcification sites in young bone.
(7) Although various micronutrients (vitamins and trace elements) have also been found to have either a positive or negative association, findings were more clear-cut for the different food items contributing the micronutrients than for the specific micronutrients themselves.
(8) Methods used in tracing and improving cooperation of subjects are described.
(9) Her black persona unravelled this week when Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, a couple named on her Montana birth certificate as her biological parents, told Spokane’s KREM 2 News that her ancestry was German and Czech, with traces of Native American.
(10) they are shown to inhibit in vitro the release of iron from acidified host cell cytosol, consisting mostly of hemoglobin, a process that could provide this trace element to the parasite.
(11) Thus, the carotid pulse tracing provides an accurate reproduction of the morphology of the pressure tracing recorded from the ascending aorta, and when calibrated by peripheral blood pressure measurement, it can be used to calculate LV pressure throughout ejection.
(12) Mutant C grew anaerobically in the light, whereas mutant G1 was light sensitive and produced only trace amounts of bacteriochlorophyll a (0.6 mumole per ml of protein).
(13) The effect was shown to be due to caldesmon and not to a trace contaminant by its full reversibility after addition of a monospecific caldesmon antibody.
(14) Of 15 organochlorine compounds analyzed, trace amounts mainly of p,p-DDE and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were detected, but could not be quantitated.
(15) Fifty physiologically characterized units were injected with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) or Lucifer yellow CH (LY) and their processes were traced to the crista.
(16) Polysomnography has revealed that this drug has several interesting qualities that benzodiazepines do not possess: stages 3-4 increase, stage 2 is unchanged or slightly reduced and no abnormal changes are detected on the EEG tracing.
(17) We find that the labelled cell has a myelinated axon, but that the axon loses its myelin within 50 microns of the soma and has not yet been traced further.
(18) He is likely to propose increased funding of plant disease experts, the stepping up of surveillance at ports of entry and a Europe-wide "plant passport" system to trace the origins of all plants coming into Britain.
(19) In addition, the postulated personality for PD may predispose to hard work, perspiration, and increased exposure to putative trace elements in the water supply.
(20) The voltage trace is then analysed with a piece of transparent paper, on which lines corresponding to solutions of the diffusion equation convert the time axis of the voltage trace into a concentration axis.
Tug
Definition:
(v. t.) To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port.
(v. t.) To pull; to pluck.
(v. i.) To pull with great effort; to strain in labor; as, to tug at the oar; to tug against the stream.
(v. i.) To labor; to strive; to struggle.
(n.) A pull with the utmost effort, as in the athletic contest called tug of war; a supreme effort.
(n.) A sort of vehicle, used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
(n.) A small, powerful steamboat used to tow vessels; -- called also steam tug, tugboat, and towboat.
(n.) A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
(n.) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is patrolled for around six months of the year by a 35-year-old ocean-going tug which takes two days to cross the protected area.
(2) The broadcast featured panoramic shots of the hundreds of boats, tugs, cruisers and canoes sailing past the Houses of Parliament during the pageant staged as part of the national celebrations in June.
(3) The Guardian view on human rights in China: Liu Xiaobo is dying, free him | Editorial Read more Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer in May, the Nobel peace laureate is at the centre of a geopolitical tug-of-war with western governments urging China to show “humanity” by letting him travel overseas for treatment and Beijing accusing the world of meddling in its “domestic affairs”.
(4) With Robert Snodgrass having only 18 months remaining on his contract, the manager’s biggest battle looks certain to be a tug of war with the gifted Scotland winger’s assorted suitors.
(5) John Muir, a giant of the conservation movement, summed up the importance of bees to the human race when he said: “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” We harm them at our peril.
(6) We drive to the seafront, where two fishermen are toiling to the rear of the beach, turning cogs that wind a rope attached to their boat to tug it in from the sea over wooden planks.
(7) Three minutes later a dithering David Edgar allowed Callum Wilson to bully him out of possession before blatantly tugging his shirt.
(8) "The difference between me and the prime minister is …" – and here he went very strange, as if the tug of war in his synapses had caused permanent damage – "… when I lean across and say 'I love you, darling' I really mean it!"
(9) Under noncatalytic conditions, the fluorescence emission of TUG at 436 nm increased monotonically with Gal-Tase concentration, with a half-maximal response at approximately 4 microM.
(10) Whole nerve recordings from the posterior articular nerve revealed substantial activity from afferents in response to tugging on the ACL, although we could not differentiate receptors in the ACL from those in other periarticular tissues.
(11) Beneath this, there is the obnoxious notion that people owe their employer loyalty, gratitude and even love; tug your forelock and go "the extra mile" for an employer who may show you no loyalty and dump you as soon as you become old, pregnant or sick.
(12) The heartstrings were tugged still further before kick-off.
(13) It was a function of his immense enthusiasm and curiosity, but it was also, in its way, a literary playing out of the first principle of ecology: that everything is connected to everything else, or as John Muir put it, that "when one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world".
(14) He criticized the Obama administration, and said he would stay a staunch moderate despite the tug-of-war of Republican primaries.
(15) Howard could be a wild man – as we know from his later work – and you feel recklessness and revolution as a wind tugging at him.
(16) Ukraine's only safe solution is for the lethal tug of war between east and west to end.
(17) "It chugged down the middle of the river a couple of rod-lengths away from me like a tug boat.
(18) The former tug boat driver was working for a software firm in Houston when he was drafted into the operation.
(19) The capital exerts a huge cultural and political tug on Afghanistan .
(20) Writing last week in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the historian Andreas Wirsching likened Berlin's current dilemmas over Europe to those of Otto von Bismarck in the 19th century, suggesting the tug of war over the euro reflected a similar political dynamic that in the past had resulted in real wars.