hairpinned

comparative more hairpinned · superlative most hairpinned

1. Wearing hairpins.

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

   2006, Karen Ann McNeill, Building the California Women's Movement, page 128

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   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.

   1914, Elizabeth Von Arnim, The Pastor's Wife, page 235

2. Containing hairpin turns.

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

   2019, Stuart Haines, Walking in Abruzzo, page 245

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   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.

   2000, Todd Balf, The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la, page 14

   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."

   2013, Edward W. Said, Out Of Place: A Memoir

3. biologyConsisting of or containing a hairpin ribozyme

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

   1997, Maurizio Zanetti, Donald J. Capra, Antibodies, page 87

4. biologyProduced by a hairpin transfer.

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

   2005, Jonathan Kerr, Susan Cotmore, Marshall E. Bloom, Parvoviruses, page 194