| unearth | To drive or draw from the earth; hence, to uncover; to bring out from concealment; to bring to light; to disclose; as, to unearth a secret. "To unearth the roof of an old tree." (Wordsworth) Origin: 1st pref. Un- + earth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| unedited footage | Untitled raw motion picture and video footage which has not been edited or assembled into a finished work. (moving image materials: genre terms, 1988) (12 Dec 1998) |
| unemployment | The state of not being engaged in a gainful occupation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| unequal | 1. Not equal; not matched; not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, strength, talents, acquirements, age, station, or the like; as, the fingers are of unequal length; peers and commoners are unequal in rank. 2. Ill balanced or matched; disproportioned; hence, not equitable; partial; unjust; unfair. "Against unequal arms to fight in pain." (Milton) "Jerome, a very unequal relator of the opinion of his adversaries." (John Worthington) "To punish me for what you make me do Seems much unequal." (Shak) 3. Not uniform; not equable; irregular; uneven; as, unequal pulsations; an unequal poem. 4. Not adequate or sufficient; inferior; as, the man was unequal to the emergency; the timber was unequal to the sudden strain. 5. <botany> Not having the two sides or the parts symmetrical. Origin: Cf. Inequal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| unequal cleavage | Cleavage producing blastomeres of different sizes at the two poles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| unequal crossing over | <cell biology> Crossing over between homologous chromosomes that are not precisely paired, resulting in nonreciprocal exchange of material and chromosomes of unequal length. Favoured in regions containing tandemly repeated sequences. (18 Nov 1997) |
| unequal pulse | Differing strength of pulse in the same artery between the right and left of the circulation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| unequal retinal image | A condition in which the ocular image of an object as seen by one eye differs in size and shape from that seen by the other. (12 Dec 1998) |
| unequally | In an unequal manner. <botany> Unequally pinnate, pinnate, but with an odd number of leaflets. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| unequivocal | Not equivocal; not doubtful; not ambiguous; evident; sincere; plain; as, unequivocal evidence; unequivocal words. Unequiv"ocally, Unequiv"ocalness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| unerupted tooth | A tooth prior to emergence; a tooth unable to break out or emerge from the dental alveolar tissues into the oral cavity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| unesterified free fatty acid | Free fatty acids which occur in plasma as a result of lipolysis in adipose tissue or when plasma triacylglycerols are taken into tissues. (05 Mar 2000) |
| uneven crossing-over | Unequal crossing-over, crossing-over that happens when the breaks do not occur at precisely homologous points in two chromatid strands, and hence results in localised duplication of genetic material in one chromatid and complementary deletion in the other. (05 Mar 2000) |
| unexpressive | 1. Not expressive; not having the power of utterance; inexpressive. 2. Incapable of being expressed; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable. "Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree The fair, the chaste and unexpressive she." (Shak) Unexpress"ively. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |