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  • He tried to poke it out with his fingers, but his shivering frame made him poke too far, and he disrupted the nucleus of the little fire, the burning grasses and tiny twigs separating and scattering.   (source)
    nucleus = the center (or most important part) of something
  • Might it not, in the tedious lapse of official life that lay before me, finally be with me as it was with this venerable friend—to make the dinner-hour the nucleus of the day, and to spend the rest of it, as an old dog spends it, asleep in the sunshine or in the shade?   (source)
    nucleus = the most important part
  • There are desks set up for each delegate, and onstage there is a podium where a girl in a black suit is making a speech about nuclear nonproliferation.†   (source)
  • For example, suppose a nucleus has two protons.†   (source)
  • —the Yom Kippur War of '73 when Syria and Egypt launched a surprise attack on Israel, nearly triggering another nuclear war—†   (source)
  • In recent months, Malenkov had made no secret of his disagreement with Khrushchev regarding nuclear armament.†   (source)
  • We didn't live a peaceful life in a small nuclear family.†   (source)
  • "No nuclear weapons for our babies!" they chanted through megaphones.†   (source)
  • It was what I'd always pictured being fried in a nuclear blast would be like.†   (source)
  • Looks like a nuclear holocaust out here.†   (source)
  • It's like a strange, nuclear landscape.†   (source)
  • And they are nuclear explosions billions of miles away.†   (source)
  • What do you do when the world has declared nuclear war on you?†   (source)
  • Where his eyes should've been, there was only fire, empty sockets glowing with miniature nuclear explosions.†   (source)
  • The reason is that mammalian red cells have no nuclei, and thus no DNA in their red cells.†   (source)
  • "There was a nuclear test yesterday—the first U.S. explosion of eighty-seven," I said.†   (source)
  • The first thing I saw were the two cones of a nuclear plant, and smoke spreading from them in complicated but seemingly purposeful patterns, edges lit by the rising sun, like a gray, intricate map of an unexplored island continent, against the pale unscratched blue of the sky.†   (source)
  • Our interests lie with an atom's nucleus-a mere ten-thousandth the size of the whole.†   (source)
  • You want me to help you build a nuclear steam cannon?†   (source)
  • MASTER NUCLEAR WEAPONS, SCARE THE AMERICAN BARBARIANS, the slogan said.†   (source)
  • Crake couldn't go in to see her, of course — nobody could, everything in there was done with robotic arms, as in nuclear-materials procedures — but he could watch her through the observation window.†   (source)
  • But not the kind used in nuclear bombs.†   (source)
  • But what actually happened at that nuclear reactor began as something far from dramatic.†   (source)
  • Maisie would go nuclear.†   (source)
  • But we're small, we're weak, and we don't develop nuclear weapons," says Haymitch with a touch of sarcasm.†   (source)
  • It was like having a pet nuclear device.†   (source)
  • Not to mention the countless natural resources that had been destroyed through nuclear and chemical warfare.†   (source)
  • "There's forty-six of those pieces of DNA in every human nucleus.†   (source)
  • This should be emphasized because, as has already been revealed, they escape otherwise completely unharmed and the deadly nuclear missiles do not eventually hit the ship.†   (source)
  • The shields make it so nobody bothers with nuclear weapons anymore.†   (source)
  • Woodall had recruited three of South Africa's strongest climbers Andy de Klerk, Andy Hackland, and to form the nucleus of his team: Although Neby's expedition was bi Bedasa's olo" endeavor he had employed eighteen Sherpas to carry his loads, fix ropes for him, establish his camps, and guide him up the mountain.†   (source)
  • Nuclear battery.†   (source)
  • Q: How is it possible that humans invented something as amazing as an airplane and something as awful as a nuclear bomb?†   (source)
  • Then Michael started saying all this totally unfair stuff about Josh Richter, like how in the face of nuclear armageddon he'd probably show cowardice, but Lilly said fear of new things is not an accurate measure of one's potential for growth, with which I agreed.†   (source)
  • The group had an atomic structure: a nucleus of nuts surrounded by darting, nervous nurse-electrons charged with our protection.†   (source)
  • When the milk in Oregon is tainted by the radiation eruption of a Soviet nuclear reactor, we are forced to see our interdependence.†   (source)
  • The gym was located on the other side of the nuclear reactor from our quarters, and we weren't authorized to pass through the reactor area to get there.†   (source)
  • Excess ganglia radiate from a thick nucleus above my sternum to filaments everywhere-a nightmare of nematodes.†   (source)
  • The Briarcrest Christian School was about to go nuclear.†   (source)
  • The one that counts is, Did he have a nuclear program?†   (source)
  • Others stayed with us a day or a week, but these seven remained, the nucleus of our happy household.†   (source)
  • To provide a dramatic frame, I collapsed events into a single time and place, a car circling a lake on a quiet afternoon in midsummer, using the lake as a nucleus around which the story would orbit.†   (source)
  • The nucleus around which it formed.†   (source)
  • It protested against nuclear power and the Falklands War.†   (source)
  • Barbecues, shopping carts; maybe tomorrow a parking meter or a nuclear warhead.†   (source)
  • Trotting out her views on nuclear disaster and overpopulation and pollution.†   (source)
  • Save your tender loving care for the nuclear fireball in June.†   (source)
  • What do you want, a nuclear—†   (source)
  • He was turning pink, flushed, a nuclear sunburn.†   (source)
  • As nuclear and biological war threatened to destroy Earth, space had been the only option for those lucky enough to survive the first stages of the Cataclysm.†   (source)
  • He got into a special program, and the Navy trained him to be a nuclear submarine operator.†   (source)
  • It is the nucleus of it all.†   (source)
  • Will all the galaxies be drawn together in a tight nucleus again?†   (source)
  • Democracy was going to be introduced, the threat of nuclear war was over, and the Bolsheviks would turn into regular little capitalists overnight.†   (source)
  • Cross a million, and you'd find yourself straddling a nuclear missile.†   (source)
  • It was in our view essential to build up a nucleus of trained men who would be able to provide the leadership which would be required if guerrilla warfare started.†   (source)
  • There were a lot of ornery vatos around, but they just hung around and smoked and ditched class and acted like the school was some kind of contaminated nuclear zone.†   (source)
  • Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of dueling emotions.†   (source)
  • The egg yolk would be the cell's nucleus.†   (source)
  • When he investigated, he found that the singles and nuclear families that had inhabited the town's apartment complexes were being displaced by families of refugees living eight or ten to an apartment—and producing a proportionate amount of garbage, which the town had to haul away.†   (source)
  • If you were honest and your heart was pure, then this blessing may cause less evil than I fear, though it will still be the nucleus of more pain than either of us could wish.†   (source)
  • I heard new vocabulary: nuclear bomb, radioactive fallout, bomb shelter.†   (source)
  • Otherwise they'll overrun the universe like cockroaches, protected from nuclear attack by an armor of Tiffany jewelry and shiny lip-gloss shells.†   (source)
  • —though confirmation has been slow to come out of the city, we believe these explosions were not nuclear or biological in nature, and were concentrated around midtown, where President Gray was rumored to be in hiding after the most recent attempt on his life.†   (source)
  • I was blind, nuclear mad.†   (source)
  • "We've lost a pair of nuclear boats, I believe.†   (source)
  • We assumed that the foreign policy issues that properly furrowed the brow were lofty and complex, like nuclear nonproliferation.†   (source)
  • On October 6, 1986, a Russian Yankee-class nuclear submarine (K-219) sailing off the coast of Bermuda experienced a failed seal on the missile hatch.†   (source)
  • SUPER NUCLEAR FUEL?†   (source)
  • But the plot, he thought, wasn't quite exciting enough, so he'd tried to jazz it up using every idea he'd ever had, including a nuclear warhead hidden in San Francisco, a crooked cop who was witness to the JFK assassination, an Irish terrorist, the Mafia, a boy and his dog, an evil venture capitalist, and a time-traveling scientist who'd escaped the persecution of the Holy Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • A year earlier, Pakistan had stunned the world by conducting five successful tests of nuclear weapons.†   (source)
  • Not like plastic picnic ware, which would probably be around to greet the roaches after the final nuclear holocaust.†   (source)
  • It looked like it could survive a nuclear attack.†   (source)
  • One part is all about what to do if there is a nuclear bomb.†   (source)
  • State possession of nuclear weapons.†   (source)
  • I fidgeted while we watched the shots of downtown and the expressways, eerily empty and looking post-meteor-hit-or-nuclear-war-like.†   (source)
  • "I don't care if you're doing nuclear physics, you're not doing it in my yard.†   (source)
  • With effervescent agility the chaplain ran through the whole gamut of orthodox immoralities, while Nately sat up in bed with flushed elation, astounded by the mad gang of companions of which he found himself the nucleus.†   (source)
  • For one thing, they have their own dorm, Harambee House, which offers a nucleus for activities.†   (source)
  • And for sure if Bryn caught me with an article about Mia there'd be explosions of the nuclear variety.†   (source)
  • And if I came back as a roach in the next life, well, at least I'd survive the nuclear holocaust.†   (source)
  • A nuclear bomb.†   (source)
  • The Cold War was on and today's edition of TASS, the Soviet Union's sanctioned newspaper, announced, "Successful tests of an intercontinental ballistic rocket and explosions of nuclear and thermonuclear weapons have been carried out in conformity with the plan of scientific research work in the USSR."†   (source)
  • They walked along the moonlit beach, alternately touching and not touching, the embarrassment of intimacy intermittently intruding as if a world that had separated them had not let them escape its terrible orbit, constantly pulling them into its fiery nucleus.†   (source)
  • I was now part of the EC-135 Looking Glass, whose mission had been to serve as an alternative airborne communication command post in the event of a nuclear war.†   (source)
  • You wouldn't dream there's enough nuclear weapons buried out there to blow up the entire planet would you?†   (source)
  • The yanquis, rumors go, have ringed the island with nuclear poison, hoping to starve the people and incite a counterrevolution.†   (source)
  • What could he accomplish if provided with photographs and the geographical coordinates of not merely a missile-tracking facility but a complex of nuclear-missile launch silos?†   (source)
  • He is a physicist down at the nuclear plant.†   (source)
  • Would you prefer a nuclear holocaust, laboratory plague, or technological singularity to my ascendancy?†   (source)
  • The advocates of nuclear disarmament seem to believe that, if they could achieve their aim.†   (source)
  • The prospect of nuclear war has never been greater.†   (source)
  • This was a knee-melting, gut-twisting, vein-tingling, nuclear meltdown compared to other kisses I'd had.†   (source)
  • It was not that I lacked the desire, the necessary heat: There was something almost nuclear about the lust.†   (source)
  • It was like the Milago skipped over gunpowder and jumped right into the nuclear age…and Armageddon.†   (source)
  • Helen Caldicott naming the consequences of an escalating nuclear arms race gave rise to an antinuclear movement.†   (source)
  • "Nuclear bomb, nice thought," you said.†   (source)
  • A nuclear explosion?†   (source)
  • Or simply consider this story: locked inside the nucleus of each little invisible atom is a force so vast it can destroy an entire city!†   (source)
  • But nuclear?†   (source)
  • "Too bad you weren't the one to negotiate the Iran nuclear deal."†   (source)
  • "Something like a nuclear power plant," Tyler said, nodding.†   (source)
  • All we've got left, really, are nuclear submarines.†   (source)
  • All we have discovered is that it starts with a single individual— always a child-and then spreads explosively, like the formation of crystals round the first nucleus in a saturated solution.†   (source)
  • San Narciso lay further south, near L. A. Like many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts—census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.†   (source)
  • It was a Polish structure: the barracks and buildings of Auschwitz made up the homely nucleus of a former cavalry installation when it was appropriated by the Germans.†   (source)
  • Beginning 10 years ago, the Soviets challenged the Western alliance with a grave new threat, hundreds of new and more deadly SS-20 nuclear missiles, capable of striking every capital in Europe.†   (source)
  • The new agenda, that which is developed by you and by us, must place a high priority on the need to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and to work for the mutual reduction in strategic arms and control of other weapons.†   (source)
  • They want to know what might influence its thinking, how it might be likely to behave, if it has indeed come back … I've been doing a lot of homework, and I gathered there is a likelihood that its nuclear personality was a composite of the minds of its four operators.†   (source)
  • Still there was no hint in either my mother's correspondence or mine that the arrival of the nuclear age interested us much.†   (source)
  • He left suddenly by the steamer one day; and it was discovered afterwards that the bulk of the collection in the gun room had been crated and shipped back with his belongings to the United States, no doubt to be the nucleus of the gallery of primitive art he often spoke of starting.†   (source)
  • Every ten miles along the traveled routes a general store and blacksmith shop happened, and these became the nuclei of little towns, Bradley, King City, Greenfield.†   (source)
  • Nuclear bombs, I mean.†   (source)
  • At the time of the Cuban missile crisis last year, we discussed the possibility of war, a nuclear exchange, and talked about being killed—the latter at that time seemed so unimportant, almost frivolous.†   (source)
  • Packed in the changing interstices were broken images, half-symbols, partial references… The ionized nuclei of thought.†   (source)
  • There it sat, perfect as a fresh-laid egg on the dead sea bottom, the only nucleus of light and warmth in hundreds of miles of lonely wasteland.†   (source)
  • In accordance with this rule it may safely be assumed that the forefathers of Boston had built the first prison-house somewhere in the Vicinity of Cornhill, almost as seasonably as they marked out the first burial-ground, on Isaac Johnson's lot, and round about his grave, which subsequently became the nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old churchyard of King's Chapel.   (source)
    nucleus = the center (or most important part)
  • "See how it has a big nucleus that looks like it's almost pinched in half in the middle?†   (source)
  • They can go deep inside the cell, into the nucleus, and actually change the way the cell functions.†   (source)
  • Inside each nucleus, if we could zoom in closer, you'd see a piece of DNA that looked like this."†   (source)
  • And then it does something to the nucleus of the cell.†   (source)
  • Snow Crash penetrates the walls of brain cells and goes to the nucleus where the DNA is stored.†   (source)
  • The diagram of the atom has a nucleus, with electrons circling it.†   (source)
  • They were tiny bags, each containing a nucleus, which was a darker blob near the center.†   (source)
  • Cordelia sticks her tongue in the side of her mouth and frowns at the nucleus.†   (source)
  • The nucleus looks like a raspberry, the electrons and their rings look like the planet Saturn.†   (source)
  • When these two protons are taken out of the nucleus, no matter how far apart they are, this pattern will remain in effect.†   (source)
  • If I loosen a skin cell from my finger, the nucleus will contain not only the characteristics of my skin: the same cell will also reveal what kind of eyes I have, the color of my hair, the number and type of my fingers, and so on.†   (source)
  • Suppose an atom is the size of a theater; the nucleus is like a walnut hovering in the center of the theater.†   (source)
  • The nucleus is the brains of the operation; inside every nucleus within each cell in your body, there's an identical copy of your entire genome.†   (source)
  • All the while, little cytoplasmic factories work 24/7, cranking out sugars, fats, proteins, and energy to keep the whole thing running and feed the nucleus.†   (source)
  • The Asherah virus, which may be related to herpes, or they may be one and the same, passes through the cell walls and goes to the nucleus and messes with the cell's DNA in the same way that steroids do.†   (source)
  • Under the microscope, a cell looks a lot like a fried egg: It has a white (the cytoplasm) that's full of water and proteins to keep it fed, and a yolk (the nucleus) that holds all the genetic information that makes you you.†   (source)
  • …Formation and Characteristics of Hybrid Cells," in Cell Fusion: The Dunham Lectures (1970); The Cells of the Body: A History of Somatic Cell Genetics; "Behaviour of Differentiated Nuclei in Heterokaryons of Animal Cells from Different Species," Nature 206 (1965); "The Reactivation of the Red Cell Nucleus," Journal of Cell Science 2 (1967); and H. Harris and P. R. Harris, "Synthesis of an Enzyme Determined by an Erythrocyte Nucleus in a Hybrid Cell," Journal of Cell Science 5 (1966).†   (source)
  • On the other hand, the chance to observe a nucleus belonging to Carlos-or Carlos himself-was an opportunity that might never come again.†   (source)
  • Using microsurgical techniques, it was possible to remove the nucleus from a cell, or part of the cytoplasm, as neatly and cleanly as a surgeon performed an amputation.†   (source)
  • Willis X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY ANALYSIS SHOWED that the Andromeda organism was not composed of component parts, as a normal cell was composed of nucleus, mitochondria, and ribosomes.†   (source)
  • He claimed that, while they were essentially similar to earthly bacteria in structure, being based upon proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids, they had no cell nucleus and therefore their manner of propagation was a mystery.†   (source)
  • It was in our view essential to build up a nucleus of trained men who would be able to provide the leadership which would be required if guerrilla warfare started.†   (source)
  • It was also necessary to build up a nucleus of men trained in civil administration and other professions, so that Africans would be equipped to participate in the government of this country as soon as they were allowed to do so.†   (source)
  • After a full discussion, however, it was decided to go ahead with the plans for military training because of the fact that it would take many years to build up a sufficient nucleus of trained soldiers to start a guerrilla campaign, and whatever happened, the training would be of value.†   (source)
  • The atoms themselves are composed of nuclei and revolving protons and electrons.†   (source)
  • These two hydrogen nuclei, or protons, arrived at the solar system two years ago, then reached the Earth.†   (source)
  • Six years ago, in the distant Trisolaran stellar system, Trisolaris accelerated two hydrogen nuclei to near the speed of light and shot them toward the solar system.†   (source)
  • Scientists cut HeLa cells in half to show that cells could live on after their nuclei had been removed, and used them to develop methods for injecting substances into cells without destroying them.†   (source)
  • …information on Harris's hybrid research, see his "The Formation and Characteristics of Hybrid Cells," in Cell Fusion: The Dunham Lectures (1970); The Cells of the Body: A History of Somatic Cell Genetics; "Behaviour of Differentiated Nuclei in Heterokaryons of Animal Cells from Different Species," Nature 206 (1965); "The Reactivation of the Red Cell Nucleus," Journal of Cell Science 2 (1967); and H. Harris and P. R. Harris, "Synthesis of an Enzyme Determined by an Erythrocyte…†   (source)
  • Our red blood cells have nuclei.†   (source)
  • In microscopic terms this means only a large object, with large edges and gentle curves: cells, and nuclei.†   (source)
  • He seemed so frail and warm, and yet … it was like sitting next to a nuclear reactor.†   (source)
  • This Art, like nuclear physics, had the potential to unleash enormous power.†   (source)
  • Piper hadn't seen the goddess go nuclear.†   (source)
  • Nuclear weapons, after all, were weak enough to be used on Earth at one time.†   (source)
  • THIS IS NO BIG DEAL, THIS IS JUST A BIT OF NUCLEAR BLUFFING—NOTHING HAPPENS AS A RESULT OF THIS.†   (source)
  • Nuclear had proliferated before it was safe, and there were accidents.†   (source)
  • The nearest of the tactical nuclear strikes was forty-five kilometers away.†   (source)
  • 'Nuclear power source, if I'm not mistaken.†   (source)
  • The air hummed with power, molecules splitting apart like a nuclear explosion.†   (source)
  • You are literally going to be a nuclear family, you do know that?†   (source)
  • The BLU-82B is the largest conventional bomb ever built and, of course, leaves no nuclear fallout.†   (source)
  • It was the nuclear-powered ion engine that took me to Mars " "Oh, much better!"†   (source)
  • Science can make a nuclear reactor, but it cannot tell us not to build it.†   (source)
  • "Our Friend the Atom" was sponsored by General Dynamics, a manufacturer of nuclear reactors.†   (source)
  • "I'm building a nuclear device to take out the mothership."†   (source)
  • "I'd have a nuclear-powered interstellar spacecraft constructed in Earth's orbit," I said.†   (source)
  • Afraid of its magnetic fields, its computerized nuclear pulse.†   (source)
  • Is he describing the capstone and pyramid …. or a detonator and nuclear bomb?†   (source)
  • Sensors indicate the first missile was not nuclear, but very powerful.†   (source)
  • I've seen a nuclear explosion firsthand.†   (source)
  • His eyes were hollow, shell-shocked, like someone who'd just walked through a nuclear wasteland.†   (source)
  • Would they be any protection against a nuclear attack?†   (source)
  • Well, that pile of bombs, grenades, and other explosives went up like a nuclear bomb.†   (source)
  • We are on the eve of becoming the world's best, brightest nuclear family.†   (source)
  • Then we aren't using the nuclear missiles from the First and Second Invasions?†   (source)
  • Are you hydraulic or nuclear-powered or what?†   (source)
  • It carried no nuclear weapons that could be used within an atmosphere.†   (source)
  • "You'll notice neither side has launched nuclear weapons.†   (source)
  • If it was that, surrender, or start a nuclear war," says Gale.†   (source)
  • She looked around furtively like she was delivering nuclear materials.†   (source)
  • These were the exploding nuclear warheads launched by the Trisolaran space defense corps.†   (source)
  • Thrashers and nuclear fuzz-grunge collectives thrive in the same environment.†   (source)
  • It's not a good idea to declare war on a nuclear power.†   (source)
  • As an astrophysicist, Ye was strongly against nuclear weapons.†   (source)
  • Da Shi stared at the nuclear woman, saying nothing.†   (source)
  • There was a Soviet nuclear-missile submarine.†   (source)
  • Translator's Note: The Second Artillery Corps controls China's nuclear missiles.†   (source)
  • But every nuclear power has one aboriginal group whose territory they nuked to test their weapons.†   (source)
  • The flashlights attached to the soldiers' guns focused on the young woman holding the nuclear bomb.†   (source)
  • You know they shot my mother cells into space and blew her up with nuclear bombs?†   (source)
  • But Raven's nuclear umbrella kind of puts the world title out of reach.†   (source)
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