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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Receptacle | Beaker, flask, Erlenmeyer flask, Florence flask, round-bottom flask, graduated cylinder, test tube, culture tube, pipette, Pasteur pipette, disposable pipette, syringe, vial, carboy, vacuum flask, Petri dish, microtiter tray, centrifuge tube. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Usually, the dish is partially filled with hot liquid agar along with a particular mix of nutrients, salts and amino acids that match the metabolic needs of the microbe being studied (technically referred to as a "selective medium"). After the agar solidifies, the dish is ready to receive a microbe-laden sample (although to grow some microbes it is often necessary to apply the sample with the hot agar). Modern Petri dishes often have rings on the lids and bases which allow them to be stacked so that they do not slide off of one another.
As well as making agar plates, empty Petri dishes may be used to observe plant germination, or small animal behaviour.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Petri dish."
Crosswords: Petri Dish |
| Specialty definitions using "Petri dish": PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD COMPONENT TESTER, CHEMICAL. (references) |
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Screenplays | My maker was some geek in a lab coat with an eyedropper and a petri dish. What do I need to make peace with him for? (Space: Above and Beyond; writing credit: Mark Shirrefs; John J. Thomson) | |
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 | This technologist is working with Pasteurella pestis cultures using a pipet and Petri dish from which he's retrieving a sample.Credit: CDC. |  | A black and white photograph of a female lab technician seated at a lab bench observing a Petri dish culture.Credit: CDC. |
 | Culture of Naegleria gruberi in Petri dish. Parasite, ameba.Credit: CDC. |  | Wheat seeds treated with bacteria like those colonized in this petri dish are nearly immune to wheat take-all, a root-destroying fungal disease. The sequencing gel in the background bears the genetic code for bacterial enzymes that synthesize natural antibiotics. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga.. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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petri dish | 109 |
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| Language | Translations for "Petri dish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | Petri-skaal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | petrischaaltje, schaal van Petri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | plaque de Petri, boîte de Petri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Petri Schale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | τρυβλίο Petri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | scatola di Petri, capsula di Petri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ペトリ皿 (pedometer, penalty, penalty area, penalty box, penalty goal, penalty kick, penicillin, penicillin anaphylaxy, penicillin shock, penis, pennant, pennant race, pepper, peppermint, pepsin, peptide, petrofood, petroleum, PG). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ペトリざら, ペトリさら. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etripay ishday placa de Petri (petrifaction), caixa de Petri, alma-de-mestre (Thunderbird). (various references) placa de Petri, caja de Petri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-i-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: disherit, riptides, spirited, tiderips. | |
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| Words containing the letters "d-e-h-i-i-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: editorship. | |
+2 letters: diphtherias, editorships, nephritides. | |
+3 letters: diaphoretics, diphtheroids, directorship. | |
+4 letters: cardiopathies, directorships, pharyngitides, presidentship. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 74 72 69 44 69 73 68 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01110100 01110010 01101001 00100000 01000100 01101001 01110011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e t r i   D i s h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0074 0072 0069 0044 0069 0073 0068 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5071868475238758574 |
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