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prop

To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state. Till the bright mountains prop the incumbent sky. (pope) For being not propp'd by ancestry. (Shak) I prop myself upon those few supports that are left me. (Pope)

Origin: Akin to LG. & D. Proppen to cram, stuff, thrust into, stop, G. Pfropfen, Dan. Proppe, Sw. Proppa; of uncertain origin, cf. G. Pfropfen to graft, fr. L. Propago set, layer of a plant, slip, shoot. Cf. 3d. Prop, Propagate.


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accelerating evolution

Damn, it's been removed. I reckon God's finally gettin pissed of that we aren't giving him the props he deserves for sitting around for seven whole days and working out how many limbs, lungs, eyes etc. that every species on this planet should have, and he's taking steps ...

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by woolleyy
Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:52 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: accelerating evolution
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The Fiber Disease

yo barz , ppy1818 thanx for the props .... hang in SKy your eye sight is great.. as evil as it may seem the US textile industry has had the lead in the delivery of the contaminant ... as for the agro bacteria i m begining to postulate that ...

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by Nadas Moksha
Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:54 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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The Fiber Disease

... uniflagellate or posteriorly multi-flagellate. A second centriole has not been found associated with the kintetosome; the latter also lacks props. Source: http://www.botany.uga.edu/zoosporicfungi/neocalli.htm More on algae: Interestingly, many of these same mycocystins are being found in ...

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by Skytroll
Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:18 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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battlefield uses of Biotech proposed in report to Army

... a professor of internal medicine and biomedical engineering at Ohio State University. The list of possibilities reads like an inventory of props for a spy thriller set sometime around 2025, which also happened to be the "planning horizon" for the National Research Council's 16-member ...

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by befour
Sun Jan 08, 2006 2:15 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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antimicrobial activity

Yeah, i know where it is. It's close by Onley and Accomac. I actually was there when I was smaller I just forgot about it. :shock: Props for you! NO one knows where it is 8)

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by biostudent84
Mon Jun 13, 2005 10:15 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: antimicrobial activity
Replies: 15
Views: 7396
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