Sentence examples for locked open from inspiring English sources

The adjoining bathroom has its door locked open and set flush into the wall, so it offers no ligature points from which an inmate might hang himself.

But the courts have held that this exclusion does not extend to a knife whose blade can be locked open (a lock knife); it would be an offence to carry one of these, however long the blade.

"When did you get fined for not turning up for training," it read, followed by that iPhone emoji that resembles the troubled subject of Edvard Munch's The Scream: eyes locked open, mouth agape, hands clasped to cheeks.

The rat's jaws are temporarily locked open.

As previous studies reported an inhibitory effect of protamine [19], [24], we conducted most of our experiments using fully activated RyR2 (locked open by the combined effect of high cytosolic Ca2+ and caffeine) in order to minimize the interference of RyR2 intrinsic gating events (closures) with the expected effect of protamine (full or partial block).

In contrast, the basal activity of the mutant with the clamp locked open was unchanged; its activation by SecYEG was reduced and the binding affinity was unaffected.

Pliers, a knife blade that locks open, bottle opener, and two sizes of standard and Philips screwdrivers.

This review aims to highlight the progress in NA inhibitors (NAIs) that have emerged in the last 6 years including the exciting discovery of sialic acid analogues that lock open the 150-loop of group 1 NAs.

Increasing the sodium conductance by locking open voltage-activated sodium channels, for example with veratridine [ 55], or activating ionotropic glutamate receptors [ 57] can dramatically increase extramitochondrial ATP utilization and hence respiration.

This increase in activity may be attributed to hyper-activation of the enzyme, probably due to the locking open of the lipase active site lid or other modification of conformation during the immobilisation process.

Linked-up entrances, such as the Kwikset locks opened by cell phone, have a more obvious application than the appliance geegaws.