Hairpinned
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Wearing hairpins.
"Well, if the Frau Pastor preferred behaving like a log instead of a proud mother — Frau Dosch shrugged her shoulder, put on a coloured dimity jacket over her petticoat, kicked off her slippers, and went, stockinged and hairpinned, to bed and to instant sleep."
- 2 Containing hairpin turns.
"That said, what they show is still numbing: “Look at that crease,” says Wick, pointing out a cumulus-shaped gash of white in the steepest, most hairpinned part of the river course."
- 3 Consisting of or containing a hairpin ribozyme
"The resulting DNA ends consist of blunt phosphorylated recombination signal end, and coding ends with hairpinned termini."
- 4 Produced by a hairpin transfer.
"The hairpinned substrate was incubated with extracts from cells infected by both AAV and adenovirus."
Example
More examples"Well, if the Frau Pastor preferred behaving like a log instead of a proud mother — Frau Dosch shrugged her shoulder, put on a coloured dimity jacket over her petticoat, kicked off her slippers, and went, stockinged and hairpinned, to bed and to instant sleep."
Etymology
From hairpin + -ed.
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