always followed by an adverb or preposition, [+ object] : to bend (a part of your body, such as an arm) and place it around something. 1  He hooked his arm around my neck. 2  She hooked her fingers around the doorknob. 3  He hooked his thumb through a loop of his pants.
Split and merge into it. Answer by Tantkowiak. Confidence votes 58. Pour plating is a method of separating one species of bacteria from another by diluting one loopful of organism into three liquefied nutrient agar plates, with the hopes that one of the plates poured will provide an ideal sample for isolation.
Word origin of 'tray'. tray in Chemical Engineering (treÉª) A tray is a plate-shaped device which is used in a distillation vessel to bring together a vapor and liquid. Continuous contacting between vapor and liquid occurs on each tray in the column and causes the separation between low boiling point components and those with higher boiling points.