Meaning

Wearing hairpins..

Definitions by Sense

1. Wearing hairpins.
2. Containing hairpin turns.
3. (genetics) Consisting of or containing a hairpin ribozyme
4. (genetics) Produced by a hairpin transfer.

Example Sentences

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.

Here was a young woman dressed in drab and severely hairpinned.

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.

In the early days, there was often a decrease in the number of cars as we climbed the dramatically hairpinned road to Bikfaya, the large town just below Dhour that I knew for its famous peaches and a fantastic red-and-tinsel-colored toy shop, "Kaiser Amer."

Cross the bridge over the lake and climb a hairpinned road to the village.

The resulting DNA ends consist of blunt phosphorylated recombination signal end, and coding ends with hairpinned termini.

The hairpinned substrate was incubated with extracts from cells infected by both AAV and adenovirus.

Word Forms

• more hairpinned
• most hairpinned

Related Words

When Should You Use Hairpinned?

Use hairpinned when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

Practice This Word

Frequently Asked Questions