Capillary in a sentence as a noun

I guess it's a capillary-cup half empty / half full kind of thing.

Due to capillary action, the seam around the base of the machine sucked up all the water.

They work via capillary action, which means that they write on contact -- no pressure needed.

Turning it upside down revealed that capillary action around the base plate had sucked up the water.

The capillary blood vessels are much smaller and wouldn't dissipate the heat as readily as the body.

I wonder how far you need to go before a brain transplant is cheaper / safer than replacing it. I can see replacing major veins as being doable but capillary's are far less so.

Venter's public threat forced the HGP to wrap up and abandon capillary & tiling approaches.

Simple ball-point pens work fine in microgravity because they rely on the capillary effect, not gravity, to work.

Capillary in a sentence as an adjective

Possible issues to consider: capillary and tendons getting behind the muscle tissue growth.

A bit further down they mention poor circulation also impeding wrinkling, so it may have something to do with control of capillary blood vessels.

The solder won't wet to the body of the package, only to the pads, so any bridges between the pads will naturally be drawn away by capillary action.

"The genetic code does not, and cannot, specify the nature and position of every capillary in the body or every neuron in the brain.

No, they do PCR amplification of highly variable STR sites and then measure the PCR products by capillary electrophoresis.

Such as extremely intricate plastic tools capable of advanced capillary action for a laboratory.

This structure is very delicate, and if you attempt to evaporate the water out near room temperature/pressure, the capillary action of water will collapse the structure like a dried out jellyfish.

Totally off topic but there is a new scientist article On the HN front page the your Ranger should read - no tree can grow leaves higher than 100 m up as the cost / benefit for capillary action failsI suspect that for each species there is a maximum economic height and that give the uniform heights to a foresst

Capillary definitions

noun

a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action

noun

any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules

adjective

of or relating to hair

adjective

long and slender with a very small internal diameter; "a capillary tube"

See also: hairlike