Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
urotropin .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biochemistry Any of a group of proteins involved in the
polymerization of actin which associate with the fast-growing barbed end of anactin filament
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Examples
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I niver thinks o 'formin' an opinion o 'any one till I've seen them called to sudden action.
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It's well ye know the same, with a fringe to the river an 'the ice formin' thick in the eddies -- an 'a snap an' sparkle to the air, an 'ye a - feelin' it through all yer blood, atakin 'new lease of life with ivery suck of it.
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It's well ye know the same, with a fringe to the river an 'the ice formin' thick in the eddies -- an 'a snap an' sparkle to the air, an 'ye a - feelin' it through all yer blood, atakin 'new lease of life with ivery suck of it.
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There are those among us who aren't, but they're not as important as they were when Boomer memories were a-formin '
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Ai dunno…::hedcawk::…Wii taik duh grown kidlets tu awr speshul vantage point in teh desert tu watch weneber der iz boomer clowdz formin.
Y dis ladder scream? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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If the Universe is a kind of alphabet soup anyway energized by csmic and electrical currents, i see know reason why organic complexes cannot formin in the "void of space" .
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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Speaking of the current powers that be, its disturbing just how difficult if not impossibe it is for anyone to get to talk with this guy when sabre's are a rattlin 'and agendas are a formin'.
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Speaking of the current powers that be, it's disturbing just how difficult if not impossibe it is for anyone to get to talk with this guy when sabre's are a rattlin 'and agendas are a formin'.
Vengeance, Revenge and Retaliation--Anyone Got Any Better Ideas? 2007
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Lizzie had noted all this in Juliet's case, but had taken for granted that her own was different; that she formed, for Deering, the exception which every woman secretly supposes herself to formin the experience of the man she loves.
The Letters 1910
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And maybe if I can get you to give up this treasure huntin ', which ain't much after all, you'll want to join the gang I'm formin' -- that is if I really see that you and Skeet are the right kind.
Mitch Miller Edgar Lee Masters 1909
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