Sentence examples for empty receptacle from inspiring English sources

Russell's Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919) uses it casually to describe propositional functions: "A propositional function … may be taken to be a mere schema, a mere shell, an empty receptacle for meaning, not something already significant" (157).

Because when you take that condom off, you don't want her to get an accidental glimpse of the empty receptacle.

Within the limits of 16S-TRFLP profiling, this study suggests that young Z. mays plants are not primarily empty receptacles waiting to be colonized by soil microbes, but rather they appear to transmit a majority of their bacterial endophytes from generation to generation through their seed, and further regulate the entry and/or establishment of select and widespread soil bacteria.

If he had had a notion of paradigmatic (perpetual) motion, it would have been something like wave motions in the sea or the cyclical pumping action of the traditional Chinese waterwheel used for irrigation with rising full troughs of water complemented by the falling empty troughs (receptacles), which he had used to depict the yin-yang operation of taiji.

It stores the bins in a cabinet, closes the door, and then empties trash receptacles.

Purse your lips and spit the juice out into the empty water bottle, other receptacle or on the ground outdoors.

The Test phase was similar to that of Experiment 1. Again the empty dippers inside the receptacles were accessible to all rats following each test trial.

Afterwards, EasyFlow drainage was placed close to the tumour, collected wound secretion was taken from the drainage at the indicated time points and receptacle was emptied.

Turn over and empty any container or other receptacle holding water, including buckets, tires or cans.

In Paris between the world wars Vallejo and his girlfriend would pick out the empty wine bottles in trash receptacles to earn their keep.

Other devices used for subsampling whole grain are rotary sample dividers, which contain hoppers with feeder chutes that empty grain into rotating collection receptacles.