(a.) Having always the same form, manner, or degree; not varying or variable; unchanging; consistent; equable; homogenous; as, the dress of the Asiatics has been uniform from early ages; the temperature is uniform; a stratum of uniform clay.
(a.) Of the same form with others; agreeing with each other; conforming to one rule or mode; consonant.
(a.) A dress of a particular style or fashion worn by persons in the same service or order by means of which they have a distinctive appearance; as, the uniform of the artillery, of the police, of the Freemasons, etc.
(v. t.) To clothe with a uniform; as, to uniform a company of soldiers.
(v. t.) To make conformable.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of obtained data on the uniformity of chemical compounds of the secretion of glands belonging to different groups their common origin has been suggested.
(2) In voltage-clamp experiments the ion current flowing through the channels was homogeneous indicating a defined conformation and a uniform size.
(3) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
(4) Another, discussing public attitudes towards the police, said: "I've lost count of [the number of] people who said: 'It's only cos you've got a uniform … if you didn't have the uniform on, I'd come and fuck you and this, that and the other … I hope your wife dies of cancer and your kids die of cancer.'"
(5) The cells were taken from cultures in low-density balanced exponential growth, and the experiments were performed quickly so that the bacteria were in a uniform physiological state at the time of measurement.
(6) The age distribution was not uniform as age group 0 to 4 included more children than age groups 5 to 9 and 10 to 14.
(7) Essential characteristics of the composite bone cement included a homogeneous and uniform fiber distribution, and a minimal increase in apparent viscosity of the polymerizing cement.
(8) Ejection fraction, %deltaD, and Vcf by LAO cineangiograms and echo were uniformly higher than corresponding measurements from RAO angio, and were often normal in the presence of other indicators of significant left ventricular dysfunction.
(9) The interaction between PE and E-IgG involved the extension of micropseudopods toward adherent E-IgG, the formation of a linear uniform cap of roughly 200 A between opposing cell membranes, the ingestion of E-IgG by PE into a membrane-lined compartment, and the disintegration of the ingested ligand into membranous debris.
(10) A study of cell proliferation in different regions of axolotl embryos has shown a rather uniform distribution of the S phase and mitotic indices in the animal half of the early and midgastrulae.
(11) The absence of uniform definitions prevents meaningful intersystem comparisons, prohibits explorations of hypotheses about effective interventions, and interferes with the efforts of quality assurance.
(12) The beads enable us to examine several aspects of the adhesion process with particles having uniform properties that can be varied systematically.
(13) said Wanis Kilani, a uniformed rebel driving a pickup truck with a machine-gun mounted on the back.
(14) In contrast, sporoblasts and budding and free sporozoites in mature oocysts were labeled uniformly on the outer surfaces of their plasma membranes, indicating a uniform distribution of CS protein on these membranes.
(15) His bracelets and his hair, neatly gathered in a colourful elasticated band, contrast with his unflashy day-to-day uniform of checked shirts, jeans or cheap chinos and trainers.
(16) RCA-1, which is specific for D-galactose, showed patchy fluorescence on the basal and distal portions of the outer segments of the cones and rods, whereas neuraminidase-treated sections had uniform fluorescence throughout the tissues.
(17) Previous experiments had demonstrated that the receptors for the lectins soybean agglutinin (SBA), wheat germ agglutinin, concanavalin A and Lens culinaris agglutinin all were relatively uniformly distributed on both myoblasts and myotubes, and that SBA receptors were capable of rapid redistribution on myotubes but not myoblasts at 4 degrees C (Sawyer & Akeson, 1983).
(18) Hence the aggregation inhibition produced by amphiphilic phenylalkylamines and phenylalkanoles is not due to a uniform metabolic effect of both classes of derivatives.
(19) The colors of mixtures of dental opaque porcelains and modifiers were measured with use of the CIE L*a*b* uniform color space.
(20) Although there is no reliable symptom or sign during the latent period, abdominal pain occurs almost uniformly and Kehr's sign is quite common.
Vestment
Definition:
(n.) A covering or garment; some part of clothing or dress
(n.) any priestly garment.
Example Sentences:
(1) His consecration took place at an ice hockey stadium in Durham, New Hampshire, and he wore a bulletproof vest under his gold vestments because he had received death threats.
(2) They adhered to and, when capacitated, penetrated the vestments of the oocyte of an ape--the gibbon, Hylobates lar--both in vivo and in vitro.
(3) This test does not evaluates the sperm transit from the vagina to the site of fertilization nor the sperm passage through the human egg vestments.
(4) Charles's sombre but still-beautiful features, the waterfall of black curls, the exquisite lace at his throat, the satin and velvet of the royal vestments inspired the artists of the day to some memorable work.
(5) Penetration of human sperm through the vestments of human oocytes during the first 3 h after insemination was investigated to determine the time taken for sperm capacitation, which precedes the acrosome reaction and fertilization.
(6) In conclusion, interference of ASA on spontaneous AR rate during "in vitro" capacitation can not be advocated as an explanation of the impairment of the interaction of human sperm with egg or its vestments, which have been reported in several studies.
(7) A photo released by the Castro family showed the 89-year-old former president and Francis looking into each other’s eye as they shook hands, the pope dressed in his white vestments and Castro in an Adidas track jacket.
(8) Wearing vestments of penitential purple, Francis said he had decided to come to the island after learning of a recent incident in which migrants had died while attempting the crossing from north Africa.
(9) Although the vestments and oolemma seem normally receptive to spermatozoa, fusion with the oolemma of the primary oocyte did not elicit exocytosis of cortical granules, and consequently multiple entry of spermatozoa into the ooplasm was common.
(10) The kinematics and consequences of hyperactivated sperm motion are presented, with emphasis on objective characterization of such motion (as a biomarker), along with analysis of the mechanical advantage that such motion may confer on spermatozoa during egg-vestment interaction.
(11) The innermost vestment, the zona pellucida, is a glycoprotein shell, which captures and tethers the sperm before they penetrate it.
(12) Mechanisms of mammalian sperm migration through the female reproductive tract and ovum vestments are described.
(13) However, the resumption of meiosis brings an increase in the penetrability of the granulosa cell vestment as well as the capacity for cortical granule exocytosis and the ability to decondense and transform the fertilizing sperm nucleus.
(14) In an instinctive impulse I parted from my guardian and walked toward a square tank filled with water, and quickly started to strip myself from my poor vestments.
(15) Micro-insemination is indicated in spermatozoa with no or very poor motility, very low density, multiple defects, or inability to penetrate oocyte vestments.
(16) Older people thought that younger people would find it off-putting – but in fact younger people thought it was mysterious and exciting.” Some of the loans come from the Vatican, where Pope Innocent IV commissioned pieces when he noticed what magnificent vestments English bishops were wearing.
(17) All these cytokines are present in significant quantities in the CM and were shown to be expressed in a sequential manner; thus, some are present in the oocyte and its vestment, the corona-cumulus complex (IL-1, IL-6, and CSF-1), whereas TNF appears only at the stage of six to eight-cell embryos.
(18) In the head, the equatorial segment of the acrosome is recessed within a waist in the sperm nucleus in a way that could afford some protection for this fusogenic region, perhaps during penetration of the egg vestments.
(19) Vestments from Reykjavík in Iceland were possibly commissioned as a gift to the church by some fabulously wealthy merchant with a guilty conscience – the thread, glittering as if new, proved to be almost pure gold.
(20) Julian's vile crime-lord mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) arrives seeking vengeance, arrayed in all the lurid vestments of the Real Housewives Of Miami Vice, and berates Julian endlessly on matters of cock size and spinelessness.