(n.) The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper.
(n.) Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp, v. t.
(v. t.) To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to patch; -- often followed by up.
Example Sentences:
(1) The main suppliers were VAMP (78 practices), AAH Meditel (46), and AMC (23).
(2) A study of 32 patients receiving cyclophosphamide (CY) and verapamil (VER) in addition to the drug combination vincristine, adriamycin and methyl prednisolone (VAMP) was made in which the clinical response and growth of clonogenic myeloma cells (MY-CFUc) from bone marrow aspirates were compared.
(3) Chaplin himself wrote about this process: "Sometimes a musician would get pompous with me, and I would cut him short: 'Whatever the melody is, the rest is just a vamp.'
(4) Median duration of aplasia following hyper-VAMP was 13 days with CM-CSF and 29 days without GM-CSF.
(5) The brand’s most famous material is black lace, inspired by Sicilian widow’s weeds, but the Dolce & Gabbana woman is both a mamma and a vamp.
(6) Collection was started 8-10 days after the end of L-VAMP therapy (3 cycles).
(7) RIP November 14, 2015 It was later confirmed that Marie Mosser, a 24-year-old who worked with band The Vamps, had been killed alongside Thomas Ayad.
(8) These studies suggest that intensive chemoradiotherapy (eg., VAMP-TBI), if given relatively soon after diagnosis and before development of progressive disease, improves long-term survival for patients with advanced neuroblastoma.
(9) VAMPs are synaptic vesicle-specific proteins composed of a carboxy-terminal hydrophobic membrane anchor and an approximately 100 amino acid domain oriented towards the cytoplasm.
(10) HDMP produced short responses in 25% of patients with less toxicity than VAMP.
(11) To determine whether GluT4 vesicles are related to synaptic vesicles, rat adipocyte low density microsomes (LDM), which are rich in GluT4 vesicles, were screened for the synaptic vesicle proteins synaptotagmin, synaptophysin, SV2, p29, rab3, and VAMP (synaptobrevin) by immunoblotting.
(12) A total of 110 patients with high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) not previously treated by chemotherapy or by radiotherapy at more than one site of disease underwent a regimen comprising an intensive 6-week initial, induction phase using vincristine, adriamycin, methotrexate, and prednisolone (VAMP) followed by the non-cross-resistant combination cyclophosphamide, etoposide, and vindesine (EEE).
(13) Comparison of these data with our previous study of patients receiving VAMP alone, suggests that the addition of CY to the regimen may increase the tumour cell kill.
(14) A 41-year-old male was diagnosed as acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) in November, 1982 and partial remission was obtained by a combination chemotherapy of LVP, DVP ABOP and VAMP.
(15) The amino-terminal 24-28 amino acid residues which comprise the proline-rich head are only about 50% homologous between the different VAMPs, yet the proline-rich character is maintained.
(16) Vesicle-associated membrane protein (VAMP) 1 is a 120-amino acid protein which co-purifies with cholinergic synaptic vesicles from the marine ray Torpedo californica.
(17) It is concluded that verapamil may be a useful adjuvant to VAMP chemotherapy and that busulphan may provide an alternative to melphalan in patients whose myeloma cells are melphalan resistant.
(18) Nucleotide sequence analysis of the cDNAs predicts proteins which are 84 and 75% homologous to Torpedo VAMP-1.
(19) This from the suburbs of Bristol, and another trade long steeped in such sharp practice: "Self-employed hairdressers are required for a busy, newly opened and re-vamped Beauty Salon."
(20) Its message in bovine brain encodes a 116 amino acid protein whose sequence reveals it to be the mammalian homolog of Torpedo VAMP-1.
Vampire
Definition:
(n.) A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730.
(n.) Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.
(n.) Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.
(n.) Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially V. spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinically the word vampirism should be used to name all sexual or agressive acts, whether blood-sucking happens or not, committed on a dead or dying person.
(2) Leather, who celebrated his seventh consecutive week at the top of the Amazon chart with his novella The Basement , about a serial killer in New York, also occupies fourth place with Hard Landing , another thriller, and 11th place with Once Bitten , a vampire novel.
(3) The Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator's bosses at Marvel are also bringing sequels to Thor and Captain America to the big screen over the next year, a fact which would also appear to clash with Whedon's clarion call for originality.
(4) Like it or not, he went on to direct another vampire movie, Scars of Dracula (1970), with Christopher Lee in the title role and bad special effects such as rubber bats on strings.
(5) Her most memorable film role to date has been dancing with a python in a state of undress in the vampire movie From Dusk Till Dawn.
(6) He developed a parallel career as a rock video director after mentioning in a meeting with record label and film company Warp that he loved the Arctic Monkeys, and ended up directing a string of videos for them (given the band's legendary reticence, the mind boggles at what the initial meeting was like) as well as Vampire Weekend , Kasabian and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs .
(7) It takes place over roughly two days and two nights, as Ben and his new friends – or what's left of them – try to end the rapidly spreading vampire menace and take Salem's Lot back.For better or worse, the book ends pretty much where it began: with the tall man and the boy in Mexico, trying to work out their next move.
(8) Vampire bat salivary plasminogen activator (BatPA), human tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) or streptokinase (SK) were incubated in human citrated plasma containing a plasma clot that was radiolabelled with iodine-125 fibrin(ogen).
(9) For us, it’s a human question,” he said, insisting that Qataris were not “vicious people who are like vampires.
(10) He found Madonna's interest in him almost vampiric.
(11) We didn’t tell him how central his role was, we didn’t want to make him nervous.” It’s notable that after gallivanting around the globe for centuries, Clement and Waititi’s vampires have settled in Wellington, New Zealand.
(12) Blackout will be organising grassroots events, nationwide, for people to come out and show their solidarity in the fight for equal human rights.” Backers include Fruitvale Station actor Michael B Jordan, Vampire Diaries star Kat Graham, hiphop mogul Russell Simmons and erstwhile Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello.
(13) The idea of the vampire as a silver-tongued aristocrat, like Count Dracula, is mirrored in Irving's thespian mannerisms, and his fascination with theatrical villains.
(14) But vampires and zombies are old news, according to Quirk.
(15) A comparison to the development and function of night-mares is drawn.--The vampire motif in Europe originally developed at the end of the Middle Ages.
(16) Beyond the strangers in internet chatrooms, where I discussed the subtextual relationship between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and evil slayer Faith, no one said I was allowed to feel like this.
(17) Some were dismissive: "Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon have as much impact as a vampire with no teeth," wrote Welshracer.
(18) Lessons learned ... Feminism is dead Over the 476 minutes of vampires, wolves and long, lingering looks, Bella's life (much like life after 30) is a depressing trudge towards marriage and babies.
(19) "I wanted to make Vampire's Kiss, because I was still trying to live my punk rock dreams.
(20) The one place Vampire Weekend really let loose, it seems, is in the studio.