The leakiness of the roof. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The heart valve's leakiness. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The leakiness of the boat made it dangerous to use. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The story of her several sailings, her "leakiness," her final return, and her abandonment as unseaworthy, is familiar. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete] Reference
To this straining, Arber wholly ascribes the "leakiness" of the SPEEDWELL and the delay in the final departure of the MAYFLOWER, to which last he attributes the disastrous results he specifies. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete] Reference
"leakiness" with respect to the cycling of nutrients held in the soil-vegetation complex, although systems such as irrigated rice paddies, permanent tree crops and forests are inherently more sustainable than others. From Wordnik.com. [1. Tree products in agroecosystems: economic and policy issues.] Reference
The context of this post was very clearly all the press chatter we're hearing about the Obama operation's new leakiness. From Wordnik.com. [Strategic Leaks Versus Unplanned Leaks] Reference
Human actions at all scales required to feed the current world population have increased the “leakiness” of ecosystems with respect to nutrients. From Wordnik.com. [Ecosystems and Human Well-being Synthesis~ Appendix A. Ecosystem Service Reports] Reference
This predisposing leakiness can be found in close relatives of patients with Crohn's diseases, suggesting that it precedes the development of inflammation. From Wordnik.com. [Leo Galland, M.D.: Do You Have Leaky Gut Syndrome?] Reference
Sure, the water heater closet is outside the house and its leakiness makes no never mind to me—unless it would cause his closet floor my closet ceiling to collapse. From Wordnik.com. [oh, and my kitchen is flooded] Reference
It's clear- based on the jailing of Miller, and the pit-bull discipline that Fitzgerald's been exercising unlike Ken Starr, not even a trace of leakiness, that there is some serious karmic consequences headed Karl Rove's way. From Wordnik.com. [Hoist by their own petard?] Reference
SPEEDWELL retrimmed a second time to overcome leakiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete] Reference
A Glu54 to Asp54 change increased proton leakiness and reduced malate growth 79-90\%. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue] Reference
And the good news: The worries over such things 'leakiness may have been overwrought. From Wordnik.com. [Knight Science Journalism Tracker] Reference
New technique images tumor vessel leakiness to predict breast cancer chemotherapy outcome. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
They explained it was a fairly big dhow, and might be laid up there on account of leakiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Ivory Trail] Reference
"By pulling them together and approximating them, it reduces the leakiness," Dr. Hanzel said. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"Though tumor sizes might be the same, the leakiness is all over the place," says Bellamkonda. From Wordnik.com. [Technology Review RSS Feeds] Reference
Passage to Coepang Bay, in Timor; and to Mauritius, where the leakiness of the Cumberland makes it necessary to stop. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2] Reference
The ship ready for sea this day, but obliged to lie here on account of leakiness of consort, which is forced to retrim. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete] Reference
Bellamkonda's research group describes using this contrast agent to quantify breast-cancer blood-vessel leakiness in mice. From Wordnik.com. [Technology Review RSS Feeds] Reference
Gantry did not know, but he knew something else -- a thing which proved the leakiness of the railroad telegraph department. From Wordnik.com. [The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush] Reference
Of the inconveniencies attending the house, the great - est was the leakiness of the roof, which had indeed never been tight. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital: Containing Notes and Correspondence exchanged between Jefferson, Washington, L'Enfant, Ellicott, Hallett, Thornton, Latrobe, the Commissioners, and others] Reference
The severe weather we had met with and the leakiness of the ship made it necessary to examine into the state of all the stores and provisions. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship] Reference
We find, too, that Bradford also states in his "Historie," that "the leakiness of this ship was partly by her being overmasted and too much pressed with sails.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete] Reference
I am uncomfortable even applying the "container" metaphor of "community" to the Millenial architectures - they have a leakiness and porosity that only works with the label "network.". From Wordnik.com. [Enterprise 2.0 Blog] Reference
The first imaging agent can be used in combination with mammography to show doctors how well a commonly used breast-cancer drug will work, by quantifying the leakiness of a tumor's blood supply. From Wordnik.com. [Technology Review RSS Feeds] Reference
Another reason for his making the best of his way to Batavia, was the leakiness of the vessel, which rendered it doubtful, whether it would not be necessary to heave her down when she arrived at that port. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods] Reference
A leaky boat had not been in our plans, but if we could change that first wild row across the big bay, if we could cut out that leakiness, that puddling bottom, the difficult shifts of baling and rowing, would we?. From Wordnik.com. [More Jonathan Papers] Reference
The airing of sails and other stores, which, from the leakiness of the decks and sides of the ships, were perpetually subject to be wet, had now become a frequent as well as a laborious and troublesome part of our duty. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference
The researchers found that opiates also promote angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels, and decrease barrier function -- effects that may exacerbate diseases involving vascular leakiness including acute lung injury in experimental models. From Wordnik.com. [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference
"The leakiness of the ship increased with the continuance of the southwest winds, and at the end of a week amounted to five inches of water an hour. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders] Reference
(in the same paragraph as that upon which Professor Arber must wholly base his sweeping assertions) that the "overmasting" was but "partly" responsible for the SPEEDWELL'S leakiness, and directly shows that the. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete] Reference
Writing of the leaks experienced on the run down to the Cape, Flinders said: ” “The leakiness of the ship increased with the continuance of the southwest winds, and at the end of a week amounted to five inches of water an hour. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders]
What does one do with the leakiness of the world?. From Wordnik.com. ['Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth] Reference
Instead, it binds to membranes and stabilizes them against rupture and leakiness. ". From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
"Well, I was glad of the leakiness then. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
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