(n.) Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (F. canaliculata, and F. carica).
Example Sentences:
(1) Issues raised include the problem of labelling and the Rip Van Winkle situation of unanticipated recovery 14 years after this diagnosis was made.
(2) A Rip Van Winkle from 1979 would be astonished that earnings have all but evaporated from British politics, as if pay were as ineluctable as the weather.
(3) Tate, C. A., Bick, R. J., Chu, A., Van Winkle, W. B., and Entman, M. L. (1985) J. Biol.
(4) Revisiting some of the seats of power after 40 years, I have felt like a Rip Van Winkle waking up after a revolution.
(5) We investigated the reaction mechanism for GTP-dependent Ca2+ uptake by canine cardiac microsomes enriched in fragmented sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), because previous studies reported that GTP utilization in cardiac SR occurs via a pathway very different from that for ATP utilization (for a review, see "Entman, M.L., Bick, R., Chu, A., Van Winkle, W.B., & Tate, C.A.
(6) Previous equilibrium binding experiments (S.A. Winkle and T.R.
(7) "There's a story doing the rounds at my local that Blackpool once resorted to using a flamethrower to thaw out their frozen pitch," writes Bill Winkles.
(8) It has previously been reported that the presence of multiple B-Z conformational junctions in constructed DNA oligomers results in unusually enhanced electrophoretic gel mobilities of these oligomers [Winkle, S. A., & Sheardy, R. D. (1990) Biochemistry 29, 6514-6521].
(9) The changes would see "attrition through enforcement" – the state-level clampdown pioneered by Kobach in Arizona, Alabama and several other states – extended across the entire US in an attempt to winkle undocumented workers out of the country.
(10) Writers such as Washington Irving (in his short stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) and James Fenimore Cooper (in The Last of the Mohicans ) had begun to pioneer American subjects in a distinctive American voice.
(11) Having failed to winkle Berezovsky out of London, the Kremlin pursued his money – going after his assets in Brazil, France (a stunning seaside villa in Cap D'Antibes), and other jurisdictions.
(12) And naturally the idea that a claimant could use closed material procedure to winkle out information from the intelligence services horrified the spies' lawyers.
(13) Strict guidelines indeed, but Olly Winkles is one of several readers to remember at least one hairy-faced winner.
(14) Rozanne Colchester is 89 and lives in a Mrs Tiggy-Winkle-style cottage in deepest Gloucestershire next to her grandchildren.
(15) Reed and S.A. Winkle, J. Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, in press (1992)) have indicated that a small number of locations on the plasmid pBR322 may be high affinity binding sites for the carcinogen N-acetoxy-N-acetyl-2-aminofluorene (acetoxyAAF).
(16) Such a situation arises near the Sellafield nuclear-reprocessing plant where a high proportion of the radiocaesium (and plutonium) in the winkles collected locally and subsequently cooked is associated with inorganic particulate matter.
(17) Winkles (Littorina littorea) and mussels (Mytilus edulis) collected on the Cumbrian coast contain americium-241 and isotopes of plutonium discharged from the nuclear-fuel reprocessing plant at Sellafield.
(18) A reduction in number and size of digestive lysosomes in winkles acclimated to 75% of Sea Water evidences the functioning of regulatory mechanism of digestive cell volume.
(19) The restaurant's long beer list – and much-heralded barbecue – cannot be ignored, but the pride is the long list of bourbons, including Colorado brands and the sought-after Pappy Van Winkle, a Kentucky variety so rare a Wall Street Journal article referred to it as "unobtanium" .
(20) Far harder to winkle out illegal entrants and overstayers.