Sentence examples for dipstick from inspiring English sources

However, relying on quant surveys to understand the complexity of human behaviour is like relying on the dipstick to understand the complexity of the internal combustion engine.

If only we had a credibility dipstick to insert into the credibility reserve to check the credibility level, then we might be able to answer the question.

AMRAD ICT, an Australian diagnostics company, has discovered this to its cost.AMRAD ICT makes a number of dipstick tests for tropical ailments, including one for lymphatic filariasis, which afflicts 120m people around the world.

Those bacteria that are resistant to one drug, but not another, will thrive in the one culture but not the other, thereby providing a healthy home for the phages, which churn out luciferase and produce light that can be detected on X-ray film.Another approach to cheap diagnosis is "dipstick" testing for the presence of a disease-specific chemical (this is the method used in home-pregnancy kits).

"Tiger, you dipstick!" On the opening holes of his last eight majors, Tiger has tripped up with six bogeys and just two pars.

The result was a dipstick paper sensor that detects the level of a protein called mesothelin in the urine (or blood) which is a biomarker for pancreatic cancer.

Experts say the pancreatic dipstick stands a chance of becoming the world's best and cheapest test for the disease – but it will take many years of trials and further development before it can be made commercially available.

"There is a common problem with rickshaws," he reassured us, as he fashioned a small, pencil-sized reed from the roadside into a dipstick and jabbed it into our fuel tank.

"Mesothelin has been looked at before but the innovation was to develop the test as a dipstick for urine... "The excitement is in using new technology to bind an antibody to a dipstick and then use it like a pregnancy test".

And the wines on the restaurant's small list, from the Super Tuscans and Sangioveses to the vino da tavola served al consumo (a wooden dipstick tells you how much you owe), are well chosen and affordable.

Diesel, of course, slots into the "Fast and Furious" films as neatly as a dipstick.