Look up: hairpin

1. hairpin
   [n] - a double pronged pin used to hold women`s hair in place
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2. Hairpin
   Chain reversal between two adjacent beta strands
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3. hairpin
   a slalom figure made up of two successive closed gates. Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure
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4. hairpin
   (= alpha hairpin; a hairpin; beta hairpin; b hairpin) Protein motif formed by two adjacent regions of a polypeptide chain that lie antiparallel and alongside each other. Depending on whether the polypeptide is in alpha-helix or beta strand configuration, can be described as alpha hairpin or beta hairpin, respectively.
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5. Hairpin
   Hair'pin` (-pĭn`) noun A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women.
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6. hairpin
   The structure formed by a polynucleic acid by base-pairing between neighboring complementary sequences of a single strand of either DNA or RNA. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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7. hairpin
   noun a double pronged pin used to hold women`s hair in place
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8. Hairpin
   • (n.) A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women.
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9. hairpin
   (from the article `jewelry`) In the time of the Shang dynasty, in the last centuries of the 2nd millennium , bone and ivory hairpins with ends carved in the form of birds or ...
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10. Hairpin
    Hairpin is British slang for a male homosexual.
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11. Hairpin
    Hairpin is British slang for a male homosexual.
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12. hairpin
    Type: Term Pronunciation: hār′pin Definitions: 1. The structure formed by a polynucleic acid by base-pairing between neighboring complementary sequences of a single strand of either DNA or RNA. 2. The structure seen in a prostaglandin where two segments of the molecule fold back on one another.
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13. Hairpin
    (fashion) A `hair pin` or `hairpin` is a long device used to hold a person`s hair in place. Hairpins made of metal, ivory, bronze, carved wood, etc. were used in ancient Assyria and Egypt for securing decorated hairstyles. Such hairpins suggest, as graves show, that many were luxury objects a...
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