单词 | subpassage |
释义 | subpassagen. 1. A passage beneath something; an underground passage, a subway. In later use also: a smaller or subsidiary branch of a passage or network of passages. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > underground passage or tunnel crypt1583 burrow1615 gallery1630 syrinx1678 rock hole1738 cellarwaya1762 tunnel1765 heading1811 subpassage1822 subway1822 subway1831 underpass1904 1822 Morning Chron. 5 Nov. He assumed it as incontrovertible that no sub-passage could be made below the common sewers in any part of the City. 1898 Fourth Ann. Rep. Boston Transit Comm. 38 There is a subpassage 6 feet wide and about 7 feet high, with a stairway at each end connecting the north-bound and south-bound platforms. 1908 Times 26 Aug. 14/6 There will be several sub-passages between the east and west sides of the station. 1928 Waterloo (Iowa) Evening Courier 18 Feb. 6/4 Who would care to sit in a gloomy sub-passage tranquilly sipping his aperitif while motors breathing carbon-monoxide rushed by him? 1997 B. Subrahmanyam Pre, Proto & Early Hist. Cultures Krishna Tungabhadra Valley iii. 52 In one such sub-passage, at about 100 mts. away from the entrance, a lump of pot sherds and intact pots were [sic] noticed. 2008 W. C. Bong God's Machines 208 Further inside is a sub-passage running from the west of the cairn to a setting of four standing stones at the southernmost end. 2. Chiefly Microbiology. The process of transferring microorganisms cultivated in one animal to another, typically in order to alter their virulence; an instance of this. Later also (more generally): = subculture n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [noun] > others inoculation1802 plethysmography1890 auxanography1905 subpassage1907 ultrafiltration1908 enucleation1909 turbidimetry1920 microinjection1921 post-treatment1923 microincineration1924 plasmal reaction1925 bursectomy1928 priming1943 superinfection1947 bioengineering1950 superfusion1953 hybridization1961 sham operation1963 transfection1964 transdetermination1965 perifusion1969 zeugmatography1973 1907 W. F. Harvey & A. McKendrick Theory & Pract. Anti-rabic Immunisation 29 We have a certain analogy too in the case of the small-pox virus which by continued subpassage through the calf is rendered more and more virulent for this animal but much less so for man. 1947 Ann. Rev. Microbiol. 1 19 Pneumococci..maintained by rapid subpassage through mice. 1970 B. G. F. Weitz in H. W. Mulligan Afr. Trypanosomiases vi. 114 Variants sometimes reverted to a ‘parent’ antigenic strain type when rodent subpassage was prolonged. 2010 Ticks & Tick-borne Dis. 1 46/2 From cultures with no visible CPE [= cytopathic effect], 2 subpassages were carried out. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). subpassagev. Chiefly Microbiology. transitive. To perform subpassage upon (microorganisms); (more generally): to subculture. Also: to inoculate (an experimental animal) with infectious material in the process of subpassage. Usually in passive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [verb (transitive)] > passage subpassage1926 passage1927 syringe passage1946 1926 Indian Jrnl. Med. Res. 13 475 If this virus be subpassaged in rabbits, each subpassage animal being killed on the 3rd day, the series cannot be continued beyond the 2nd subpassage. 1931 Jrnl. Hygiene 31 418 In every case where the incubation period was unduly prolonged.., two rabbits were subpassaged with the brain in question to prove that death had been due to rabies. 1969 Parasitology 59 352 Parasites isolated from the parasitaemia..were subpassaged at 4-day intervals. 2003 Internat. Jrnl. Parasitol. 33 1030/1 The pattern of development described above was not reproduced when subpassaging cultured promastigotes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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