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mutch

[ muhch ]

noun

British Dialect.
  1. a close-fitting linen or muslin cap, as worn by elderly women or babies.


mutch

1

/ ʌʃ /

noun

  1. a close-fitting linen cap formerly worn by women and children in Scotland
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

mutch

2

/ ʌʃ /

verb

  1. tr to cadge; beg
  2. intr another word for mitch
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of mutch1

1425–75; late Middle English (dial.) much < Middle Dutch mutse; cognate with German üٳ cap. See amice 2
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of mutch1

C15: from Middle Dutch mutse cap, from Medieval Latin almucia almuce
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Greater Manchester South senior coroner Alison Mutch noted that James Boland, 38, started taking the drug as he believed it to be "less harmful" than Class A drugs.

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Fergus Mutch, former SNP head of communications, said the “tactical genius” of Salmond lay in his ability to get the most of the people around him.

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Co-lead author, and fellow doctoral student, Morgan Mutch used a drug to block the proteasome from degrading misfolded rhodopsin and observed that this negated the beneficial effect of ZIP7.

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"I was very surprised, and then excited, when I saw that increasing ZIP7 expression almost completely prevented the buildup of those ubiquitin-tagged proteins," Mutch said.

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Mutch determined that ZIP7 was critical in supplying zinc to Rpn11, enabling it to trim the tags that label defective proteins so that they fit into the structure that actually breaks them down.

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