pipette
noun
a slender graduated tube used in a laboratory for measuring and transferring quantities of liquids from one container to another.
pipetted
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past participleof pipette.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof pipette.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
pipettenouna slender graduated tube used in a laboratory for measuring and transferring quantities of liquids from one container to another.
Example Sentences
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Samples of a solution are pipetted into the wells of a gel.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
After the bottles rolled for three days, he pipetted out the snow and analyzed the number of microplastics in each flake.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2022
The researchers took nematodes from diseased trees, pipetted them onto the buds of young, healthy trees in a greenhouse, then waited for symptoms to appear and reisolated the nematode from the affected leaves.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 14, 2019
Thomas pipetted a few drops of each compound into Petri dishes filled with bacteria that had been genetically engineered to manufacture the human enzyme suppressed by lithium — and eventually got a hit.
From Nature ● Jun. 13, 2016
Next he pipetted it into a centrifuge tube and centrifuged it at high speed, some sixteen thousand revolutions, until the serum was perfectly clear, with no trace of a reddish tint, nor even cloudy.
From The Social Gangster by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
