(v. i.) To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles.
(n.) A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.
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Wobble
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(v. i.) See Wabble.
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(1) The data presented indicate that 6-TG-induced differentiation of HL-60 cells is a tRNA-facilitated event and that the tRNA wobble base queuine is capable of maintaining both the proliferative and pluripotent potential of the cells.
(2) The new base-pairings involved G.C and A.U, and the A.C wobble pair at certain positions in the tRNA.
(3) These tRNA species are synthesized with guanine in the wobble position (tRNAG); this guanine can then be replaced with queuine by the action of the enzyme tRNA-guanine ribosyltransferase.
(4) A few emerging-market economies have similar wobbles to Iceland but get assistance from the International Monetary Fund.
(5) Van Gaal is conscious the deficit to Manchester City can be made up but also that a defeat could precipitate a wobble as serious as December’s.
(6) Tory MPs, whose loyalty to the current leader is a jelly that never properly set, are wobbling all over the place.
(7) Data are acquired in the stationary mode only (no wobble motion), resulting in a transaxial spatial resolution of better than 6 mm full width at half-maximum (FWHM) at the center, which degrades to 7.5 mm tangentially and 9.6 mm radially at a radius of 20 cm.
(8) In her first straight dramatic role, albeit one with comedy elements, Hart has proved a hit: Chummy's awkward flirting with Constable Noakes, wobbly cycling and surprise medical ability delighting the show's more than 10 million viewers.
(9) ), is also shifted by GpUpA and was previously assigned to FUra 34 at the wobble position of the anticodon.
(10) A former Socialist party leader, he is a jovial, wise-cracking believer in consensus politics, who aides say never loses his rag and who so hates fights that he was once nicknamed "the marshmallow" within his own party, or "Flanby", after a wobbly caramel pudding.
(11) Even the nickname given to him of Monsieur Flanby, after a caramel pudding, over his perceived wobbly political views, lost its relevance as he elaborated his programme.
(12) We see people who are grossly fat, their wobbling, sad bodies being winched out of windows, and class that as "obesity", distancing ourselves from the term.
(13) As the temperature increases, the wobble amplitude increases and the spectra narrow.
(14) So Nottinghamshire were wobbling on 90 for four when their two old lags combined to calm the favourites' nerves.
(15) In order to examine the effects of this mutation on translation of the complementary and wobble codons in vivo, we constructed the gene for an amber (UAG) suppressing variant of Su9, trpT179, by making the additional nucleotide change required for an amber suppressor anticodon.
(16) The economic credibility of the country that holds the global reserve currency has wobbled.
(17) Until I can strap myself to a big drone like some sort of hipster Icarus, the disappointed futurist thinks, I will wobble about on a two-wheeled board and pretend it is not in contact with the ground.
(18) Incorporation of structure 1 into a 3'-stacked tRNA anticodon appears to place 08 within hydrogen bonding distance of the 02' hydroxyl of ribose 33, which may limit the ability of such a molecule of tRNA to "wobble".
(19) Each movie group – Gone Girl, The Imitation Game, Selma, etc – sits defensively together, sort of like high-school cliques in the canteen of an 80s teen movie, and those proud, defiant smiles they managed to maintain for TV have long since wobbled away a bit.
(20) The complete nucleotide sequences of both rat liver and Walker 256 mammary carcinosarcoma tRNAAsn reveal that they are identical except for the nucleotide present in the wobble position of the anticodon loop.