permeable membranes. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
However, the seized products were in permeable packages and held under conditions that could affect the food's integrity and quality. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. Marshals Raid Rat-Infested PETCO Distribution Center - The Consumerist] Reference
This includes a stout casing and what is known as a permeable polymer separator, which stops the electrodes in the cell touching each other and causing a short circuit. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
The term '"permeable" simply means that water may pass through it. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
They simply don't see the avatar as any kind of permeable, interactive vehicle that will then be inhabited by real people to use, with their rights. From Wordnik.com. [MacArthur Series on Philanthropy and Virtual Worlds] Reference
Only when she turned a certain way did it become clear that what rested atop her muscle and bone was not skin, but a kind of permeable membrane that anything could pass through. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman with No Skin] Reference
Its skin a mess of permeable surfaces and peculiar coloration. From Wordnik.com. [Everyday Zoology] Reference
The mass was drained, and permeable to a fresh supply of water. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
One theory is that some people have unusually permeable intestines. From Wordnik.com. [Giving Up Gluten to Lose Weight? Not So Fast] Reference
This is a layer, a permeable layer in the rock, in the crust of Mars. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: NASA Announces Discovery of Water on Mars - June 22, 2000] Reference
The membrane has always been extremely permeable, and hooray for that. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Lasarow: Art Versus Entertainment: The Gap is Essential] Reference
Long Island, was far more compact and less permeable to air than on the. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Tunnels. Paper No. 1159] Reference
All of her body was exactly as solid or permeable as she chose it to be. From Wordnik.com. [Yon Ill Wind]
MIDLER: You know, but I think that it's very permeable that boundary now. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Darrell Waltrip Remembers Dale Earnhardt; Bette Midler Discusses Her Career - February 19, 2001] Reference
The most permeable of the normal tissues are cartilage or gristle, and fat. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
The skin between fiction and reality is thin here, and altogether permeable. From Wordnik.com. [Pullman's Progress] Reference
When the surface is made permeable to moisture, drying may take place rapidly. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
Dr. DANA WETZEL (Chemist): Well, virtual shellfish is a semi-permeable membrane device. From Wordnik.com. [Scientists Try To Determine Oil's Impact On Sea Life] Reference
As canvas is more permeable than paper, these two last processes are quickly got through. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882] Reference
January, 1885, and it at once began to make its way through permeable ground at one end of the dam. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887] Reference
BURNS: Well, the first thing that comes to my mind, Wolf, is how permeable the Iraq/Iran border is. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2007] Reference
Any type of food stored in permeable packaging — cardboard, plastic wrap, etc. — should be thrown away. From Wordnik.com. [Food safety: When smoke gets in your fries (or fridge)] Reference
A soil thus puddled, requires careful treatment to again render it permeable to water, and fit for cultivation. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
We leave the barge and head to an area where crews have just installed a new kind of very expensive permeable boom. From Wordnik.com. [Skimming The Surface For New Tar In Louisiana] Reference
Some question whether paint can trap moisture in the masonry wall, especially in softer, more permeable old bricks. From Wordnik.com. [Leave that brush alone! Experts say masonry facades are 'happier unpainted.'] Reference
In Bosnia, of course, some portions of the arms embargo were deliberately allowed to be permeable and the U.S. turned. From Wordnik.com. [Shock and Awe — Achieving Rapid Dominance] Reference
Dr. Fasano and his colleagues also have identified a protein called zonulin that makes intestines unusually permeable. From Wordnik.com. [Giving Up Gluten to Lose Weight? Not So Fast] Reference
Mr. Feret also found that permeability decreased with time and that wet mixtures were less permeable than dry mixtures. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Beans, peas, wooden toys, and similar foreign bodies, being easily permeable to the rays, will not probably be discovered. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
It's a place that is where the border between the real and the inchoate, between the living and the dead, is very permeable. From Wordnik.com. [Carry-On Books To Take You Up, Up And Away] Reference
It takes many years of aeration every spring and fall for compost to enrich a clay-based soil so that it is permeable to water. From Wordnik.com. [As season changes, gardeners get ready] Reference
The greater part of the superior lobe was permeable to air, and the interlobular tissue contained carbon, in small, hard granules. From Wordnik.com. [An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners] Reference
Identity, including our religious identity, is becoming fluid, permeable, and an ongoing construction -- a verb rather than a noun. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Irwin Kula: From the Cathedral to the Bazaar: What Chelsea Clinton's Wedding Says About Religious Syncretism] Reference
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