(n.) An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall.
(n.) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; -- usually in the plural.
(v. t.) To let fail; to allow or cause to sink.
(v. t.) To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence, submission, or the like.
(v. i.) To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like.
(n.) Submission; decline; descent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recently, La Vail (1976) demonstrated that the shedding of disks from the tips of rod outer segments followed a circadian rhythm in rats.
(2) With the telephone it was Theodore Vail of AT&T, offering a unified nationwide network and a guarantee that when you picked up the phone you always got a dial tone.
(3) In a previous study (M. S. Lantz, R. D. Allen, T. A. Vail, L. M. Switalski, and M. Hook, J. Bacteriol.
(4) The vice-chair of the Australian Privacy Foundation, David Vaile, has called into question the effectiveness of these safeguards because the authorisations are issued by the defence minister and not a judge.
(5) A week’s ski pass in the Rocky Mountains resort of Vail now costs British visitors £609, with ski hire another £200.
(6) Pollen patterns were compared between Vail, CO (8,200 feet elevation), Aspen, CO (7,900 feet) and Denver, CO (5,280 feet) from 1984 through 1988.
(7) These observations allow the following conclusions: (1) All genetic mutants which cause a reduction in ocular melanin, regardless of the molecular or cell-biological mechanism underlying the pigment reduction, result in decreased uncrossed projections; this confirms previous reports (La Vail et al., 1978, Sanderson et al., 1974).
(8) Perched on a hillside six miles west of Vail Pass, at 3,500m, the 16-person cabin is available on a per-person basis with shared accommodation, or as a full booking.
(9) Calcitonin, another potentially phosphaturic hormone, also vailed to increase phosphate excretion but markedly elevated urinary excretion of cyclic AMP.
(10) "With the vast amount of information that's exposed online there is a greater need for more protection," Vaile says.
(11) This study examined the preferences of Division 12 members (N=442) for doctoral training models (Boulder,Vail, equally Boulder and Vail) as a function of the respondent's own training program and current professional activities.
(12) However, as expected, preferences varied reliably according to one's doctoral training: Only 7% of the psychologists trained in a strong Boulder tradition preferred the Vail model, while only 10% of those trained in a strong Vail tradition favored the Boulder model.
(13) Aspen and Denver were compared in 1984, and Vail and Denver from 1985 through 1988.
(14) Between 1975 and 1982 a total of 47 cases of high-altitude pulmonary edema occurred in Vail, Colorado, elevation 2,500 m (8,200 ft).
(15) In albinos, the retinofugal projections to the ipsilateral side of the brain are reduced (e.g., see Guillery, 1969; La Vail et al., 1978; Lund, 1965).
(16) Tang, Chan and the former deputy prime minister and Nationals MP Mark Vaile are the three directors of 123 AustChina Education Consultancy, which according to its website is operating and setting up childcare centres across China.
(17) Ski towns in the area, including world famous resorts like Vail and Aspen, have tried to minimise marijuana suppliers to control any influx of stoned tourists.
(18) The concept of a ministerial warrant poses a number of problems because it does not provide any form of judicial oversight,” Vaile said.
(19) Ragweed was essentially absent from Aspen and Vail, and chenopod-amaranth counts were very low.
(20) +41 81 911 5848, startgels.ch , open when the Weisse Arena ski lifts and cable cars are in operation harryandsally US Game Creek restaurant, Vail, Colorado It's not cheap but then Vail isn't, really, and we had saved for 18 months so decided to just enjoy ourselves.
Vial
Definition:
(n.) A small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine.
(v. t.) To put in a vial or vials.
Example Sentences:
(1) We recommend the shell vial technique for isolation of C. burnetii.
(2) The particular advantage of the method described here is the ease with which the supernatants can be collected and transferred to counting vials with minimal handling of radioactive samples.
(3) By means of a two-vial transport media system the samples were sent to a university laboratory and examined for viral, bacterial, and parasitic organisms.
(4) We developed a shell vial cell culture assay (SVA) using a cross-reactive monoclonal antibody to the T antigen of simian virus 40 to detect BKV rapidly by indirect immunofluorescence.
(5) With special care, plastic vials charged with albumin may also be used.
(6) The sensitivity of the shell vial assay was 78% for RSV, 94% for influenza B virus, 83% for adenovirus, and 80% for parainfluenza viruses.
(7) Only cells cultured with Opti-MEM I and Omni Serum grew consistently in tubes and vials and these reagents were compared to FBS for viral isolation and detection.
(8) The performance of MRC-5 shell vial centrifugation-enhancement and direct immunoperoxidase staining was compared to the traditional WI38 tube cell culture for the detection of Herpes simplex virus on 123 clinical samples.
(9) Traditionally, when preparing 99mTc-labeled radiopharmaceuticals, [99mTc]pertechnetate is added to the entire contents of a vial of reagent kit, and patient doses are subsequently withdrawn from the vial.
(10) As regards method of administration, CMNX from a vial was dissolved in physiological saline or distilled water for injection, and the solution was administered by 3 to 5 minutes one shot intravenous injection (15 cases), or CMNX was diluted with large volume parenteral product and administered by 30 to 60 minutes drip infusion (10 cases).
(11) Instead of the usual 1.0 to 1.5 mL of liquid sample, the vials contained 200 microL of liquid; the vapor above the liquid was injected into the gas chromatograph.
(12) T. vaginalis in TYI in 1-ml vials with or without McCoy cells demonstrated poor growth.
(13) The same brush was then agitated in a SBW vial, which was centrifuged, the cell pellet being smeared over a predetermined area of a slide.
(14) The use of insert vial provides several advantages over other methods for the count correction of these suspensions.
(15) Cold-chain capacity of 30,000-40,000 vials was required for a district as well as about 500 reusable syringes and needles a year along with vaccination cards exceeding the number of women and children by 10% for recordkeeping at the PHC center.
(16) Samples are prepared in small vials containing a solution of DNPH and acetonitrile.
(17) The relative humidity of the headspace gas of the vials, which contained only 5 microgram of active ingredient, was monitored by a GC method and was then correlated with product stability.
(18) In contrast, when NPH-insulin (Protaphane HM) was mixed with regular insulin and injected in 4 out of the 7 diabetic patients, the storage temperature of insulin vials had no effect on the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of the mixture.
(19) The quantity of Glucantime supplied to the patients varied from 10 vials to more than 200, with or without intervals during the treatment.
(20) Parameters of electroporation were established for transfection of the shuttle vector pRSV cat into H9 cells, and a rapid single-vial assay was used for measurement of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) activity in extracts of transfected cells.