Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Produced or cultivated in a test tube.
- adjective Produced, developed, or tested in a laboratory.
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Examples
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Stanley Miller, of the Scripps Research Institute, outside San Diego—the deceased godfather of origins of life experimentation—famously found some precursors to the building blocks of life in 1954, opening the door to what was assumed to be a fairly imminent test-tube creation of life from nonlife.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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Researchers at International Business Machines Corp. said they developed a tiny drug, called a nanoparticle, that in test-tube experiments showed promise as a weapon against dangerous superbugs that have become resistant to antibiotics.
Big Blue's Tiny Bug Zapper Ron Winslow 2011
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Oh, I mean the real interpretative biology, from the ground up, from the laboratory and the test-tube and the vitalized inorganic right on up to the widest aesthetic and sociological generalizations.
Chapter 27 2010
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Similarly, decorator Tom Delavan mixes in balloon-shaped test-tube vases with his super straight drinking glasses.
Poshing Up Kitchen Shelves Sara Ruffin Costello 2011
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He emptied the contents of another test-tube into it, and almost instantly it became clear and sparkling.
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The narrow scientist with his nose in a test-tube cannot understand philosophy. '
Chapter 1: My Eagle 2010
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Adopt 'em, test-tube 'em, hell ... kidnap 'em or however you wind up with 'em, if you love your children — really love them — when you are gone, the wound to them is a deep and punishing one, and we saw that in Paris 'tear-wracked attempt to convey her thoughts about her late father.
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Adopt 'em, test-tube 'em, hell ... kidnap 'em or however you wind up with 'em, if you love your children — really love them — when you are gone, the wound to them is a deep and punishing one, and we saw that in Paris 'tear-wracked attempt to convey her thoughts about her late father.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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He held a test-tube between me and the light, and I noted the cloudy or muddy liquid it contained.
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While a college economics major living on a kibbutz, Mr. Hurvitz worked part-time as a test-tube washer for Assia Chemical Laboratories, where his wife's father was managing partner.
Former Test-Tube Washer Built Generic-Drug Maker Teva Stephen Miller 2011
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