(n.) An herbaceous cruciferous plant (Isatis tinctoria). It was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves.
(n.) A blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the powdered and fermented leaves of the Isatis tinctoria. It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing.
Example Sentences:
(1) N.m.r.-, magnetic-c.d.- and e.p.r.-spectroscopic studies of oxidized and reduced cytochrome f from charlock, rape and woad are reported.
(2) Well, most people outside Ukip’s woad-wearing tendency and the wilder shores of Tory little Englanderism can probably say yes to that.
Wold
Definition:
(n.) A wood; a forest.
(n.) A plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly or not.
(n.) See Weld.
Example Sentences:
(1) Verity said: "I would imagine that it's not impossible that over time the Wolds will become as well known as the Dales and other parts of Yorkshire … because of the Hockney effect.
(2) And even for the non-specialist, certain lines, such as "Bot Arthure wolde not ete til al were served", present little problem, especially when placed within the context of the narrative.
(3) Now, after decades of remaining quietly out of the national spotlight, the gentle hillsides and country lanes of the Yorkshire Wolds are preparing for a deluge of attention brought on by interest in David Hockney's latest paintings.
(4) Expression of a 13.7-kDa protein encoded by a gene in the E3 transcription unit is necessary and sufficient for this effect (Carlin et al., Cell, 1989; B. L. Hoffman, A. Ullrich, W. S. M. Wold, and C. R. Carlin, Mol.
(5) The 31 human adenovirus (Ad) serotypes form five groups based upon DNA genome homologies: group A (Ad12, 18, 31), group B (Ad3, 7, 11, 14, 16, 21), group C (Ad1, 2, 5, 6), group D (Ad8, 9, 10, 13, 15, 17, 19, 20, 22-30), and group E (Ad4) (M. Green, J. Mackey, W. Wold, and P. Rigden, Virology, in press).
(6) Choosing to do a lot of things unilaterally on immigration wold be a big mistake.” he said.
(7) Looking at the many pictures in one room that Hockney has made using the Brush app on an iPad, King says "there's a sense of the wolds in all of them.
(8) The purpose of this study was to validate the results obtained by Watson, Gasser, Schaefer, Buranen, and Wold (1981) by utilizing the Smith Symbol-Digit Modalities Test (Form W) and the MMPI (Psychiatric-Organic) scale in combination.
(9) 10, 5521-5524; Tollefson, A. E., Krajcsi, P., Yei, S., Carlin, C. R., and Wold, W. S. M. (1990) J. Virol.
(10) What he said yesterday is what he said in June last year - a year ago now.During the Confederations Cup, similar concerns were raised and we did say that vuvuzelas characterise in 2010 the FIFA Wold Cup in South Africa.
(11) Now the spotlight will turn from being on the Dales and other places, to the Wolds."
(12) We have reported that the E3 14,700-dalton protein (E3 14.7K protein) protects adenovirus-infected mouse C3HA fibroblasts against lysis by tumor necrosis factor (TNF) (L. R. Gooding, L. W. Elmore, A. E. Tollefson, H. A. Brady, and W. S. M. Wold, Cell 53:341-346, 1988).
(13) The group agree that his swirling patterns capture the wolds's eroded landscapes – Farnsworth says some of the hills are so steep shepherds use quad bikes.
(14) U.S.A. 79, 7639-7643; Wold, M. S., Mallory, J.B., Roberts, J. D., LeBowitz, J. H., and McMacken, R. (1982) Proc.
(15) While a corollary to Wold's decomposition theorem implies that the discrete Fourier periodogram spectral estimate and the autoregressive spectral estimate converge asymptotically, there are practical differences between the two approaches when applied to short blocks of data.
(16) "He's an incredibly talented observer but when he introduces colour he's clearly capturing his feeling about a place – and I think that does relate to how we view the wolds," counters Bramley.
(17) A screening program for cervical infection which tested women with 1 or both risk markers wold have a sensitivity of 68% and a positive predictive value of 0.35.
(18) In adenovirus-infected cells, the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGF-R) is internalized from the cell surface via endosomes and is degraded, and the E3 10,400-dalton protein (10.4K protein) is required for this effect (C. R. Carlin, A. E. Tollefson, H. A. Brady, B. L. Hoffman, and W. S. M. Wold, Cell 57:135-144, 1989).
(19) We have characterized the biosynthesis and processing of a 91 amino acid hydrophobic integral membrane protein encoded by human group C adenoviruses which down-regulates the EGF receptor (Carlin, C. R., Tollefson, A. E., Brady, H. A., Hoffman, B. L., and Wold, W. S. M. (1989) Cell 57, 135-144).
(20) There are only 50 people in the wold today, maybe it gets up to 100 on a good day, who are actually doing light-curve analysis,” said Kessler, referring to the process by which someone tracks an asteroid over the course of an evening, to help get a sense of its “spin rate” – which helps Nasa develop a model to understand its shape.