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Wore


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Wear
  • () imp. of Wear.
  • () imp. of Ware.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Hence, Ruud Geels, a striker, had a squad number of one while the goalkeeper Jan Jongbloed wore No8.
  • (2) Six individuals wore the appliances while rinsing daily with a neutral 0.2% NaF solution for 4 wk.
  • (3) His consecration took place at an ice hockey stadium in Durham, New Hampshire, and he wore a bulletproof vest under his gold vestments because he had received death threats.
  • (4) The uteri of ten patients who wore a copper-T for several months up to two years were examined immediately following hysterectomy by conventional microscopic techniques, fluorescent optical techniques after Acridin-Orange-Fluorochromization and by histo-chemical techniques for copper.
  • (5) So Mick Jagger still wears clothes that he wore when he was 20 – quite possibly the exact same clothes – and the man looks great, because that's who he is.
  • (6) None of the patients experienced skin irritation under the prosthesis and 94% of them wore their prosthesis daily.
  • (7) One couple made the point graphically: she wore a red-stained wedding dress and her partner wore a sign that read, “I am the rapist”.
  • (8) Interinstrument variation during treadmill experiments while subjects wore two accelerometers at the same time was on average 22% and was not improved after adjustment for differences found in the bench test.
  • (9) May, who once wore a T-shirt bearing the slogan "This is what a feminist looks like" has campaigned against sexual violence and worked hard on getting more Tory women MPs, is far more likely to ask questions about how a policy will impact on women than her male colleagues.
  • (10) History will judge you and you must at last answer your own conscience.” About 40 of the demonstrators wore orange jumpsuits, more than half of whom also donned black hoods over their faces, and one held up his wrists in handcuffs.
  • (11) The Jazz played defense, but Bryant’s persistence wore them down.
  • (12) I like American names and I always wanted to live in the US.” David Miliband: Trump refugee ban threatens west's global reputation Read more On their necks, Nimr and his wife wore necklaces with little metal crosses.
  • (13) Mandela then returned to Liliesleaf farm, the secret base of the ANC's military wing in Rivonia, Johannesburg, where he wore blue overalls to pose as a caretaker under the alias David Motsamayi.
  • (14) Defensive players who wore prophylactic knee braces had statistically fewer knee injuries than players who served as controls.
  • (15) Children and the elderly were urged to stay indoors and some residents who ventured out wore face masks as the acrid murk entered its third day.
  • (16) The patients, who ranged in age from 9 to 14 years, accepted the appliance readily and wore it 24 hours each day, even while eating.
  • (17) All subjects wore markers over their mandibles, hips, and knees and were filmed three times with the weighted belt worn on a randomly selected trial.
  • (18) Topographical corneal thickness changes were monitored in 10 subjects who each wore a hydrogel contact lens with a large central aperture ("donut" lens) for 6 hours.
  • (19) Fifty-nine patients wore extended-wear contact lenses for cosmetic purposes.
  • (20) The refractive error was not stable in some eyes; between 6 months and 4 years after surgery, 23% of eyes had a continued effect of the surgery of more than 1.00 D. For 323 patients with both eyes operated on, 64% stated they wore no optical correction.

Worm


Definition:

  • (n.) A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.
  • (n.) Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm.
  • (n.) Any helminth; an entozoon.
  • (n.) Any annelid.
  • (n.) An insect larva.
  • (n.) Same as Vermes.
  • (n.) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.
  • (n.) A being debased and despised.
  • (n.) Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm
  • (n.) The thread of a screw.
  • (n.) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
  • (n.) A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See Lytta.
  • (n.) The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still.
  • (n.) A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below.
  • (v. i.) To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.
  • (v. t.) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out.
  • (v. t.) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b).
  • (n.) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
  • (n.) To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Other filarial worms which are known to occur in the RSA are discussed.
  • (2) The drugs were moderately potent inhibitors of both E. electricus and C. elegans acetylcholinesterase but at concentrations too high to account for their abilities to contract cut worms.
  • (3) The sectioned worm tissues from each developmental stage were embedded in Lowicryl HM 20 medium, stained with infected serum IgG and protein A gold complex (particle size: 12 nm) and observed by electron microscopy.
  • (4) glp-4(bn2ts) mutant worms raised at the restrictive temperature contain approximately 12 germ nuclei, in contrast to the 700-1000 present in wild-type adults.
  • (5) Fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-ricin exhibited binding to schistosomula and adult worms, but not to cercariae or to freshly transformed schistosomula.
  • (6) Sera from S. mansoni-infected patients with a high specificity for the diagnostic S. mansoni-antigen cross-reacted with a corresponding component also in S. japonicum worms.
  • (7) To understand mechanisms involved in sex-specific gene expression in Schistosoma mansoni, a cDNA (fs800) was isolated that hybridized to an 800 nucleotide mRNA present in high levels only in mature female worms.
  • (8) Three freeze-thaw cycles released a large proportion (50% to 60%) of the TCA-precipitable radioactivity from the worms.
  • (9) Antigen inhibition studies showed low and high levels of cross-reactivity with anti-worm and anti-egg antibodies, respectively, derived from both Chinese and Philippine patients.
  • (10) Only eosinophils adhered to 2 h newborn worms and only macrophages to 20 h ones.
  • (11) Worms had invaded the bile duct in 51 patients, the pancreatic duct in four and both ducts in four.
  • (12) The number of ovarian balls rises to about 6300 per worm, with the maximum being attained more rapidly in unfertilized than in fertilized females.
  • (13) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
  • (14) Three bulls selected for high faecal worm egg counts and three bulls selected for low faecal worm egg counts were mated to Africander-Hereford cross cows.
  • (15) Among 30 villagers who were treated, 4 (13.3%) passed this species with an average of 2.5 worms per infection.
  • (16) Successful tests were carried out on 84 farms and 68% of these had resistant worms present.
  • (17) A higher retention rate of intestinal adult worms was observed in hydrocortisone-treated mice.
  • (18) No evidence was obtained for the involvement of monoamine oxidases in the metabolism of 5-HT in these filarial worms.
  • (19) Radiocarbons from glucosamine and leucine were incorporated into tissue glycogen of female worms much less than glucose.
  • (20) The heads were examined for adult and larval meningeal worms (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis) by physical examination of the brain surfaces, and the Baermann technique, respectively, and for ear mites by examination of ear scrapings.

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