polony

/pəˈloʊni/

polony noun: a kind of sausage made of meat that has been only partly cooked. Also the alternative form of palone.

Noun (1)

polony (plural polonies)

A kind of sausage made of meat that has been only partly cooked.
- A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, having run into the town upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor's door, discharging a cargo of the wares in...1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 4, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
- There was a touch of quiet humour in Rachel, and with a demure smile, she internally wondered why it was precisely her polony that had been selected by puss, but aloud she merely declared that she could make an excellent supper on bread and beer.1873, Julia Kavanagh, Rachel Gray: A Tale Founded on Fact, page 42

polony

A cluster of polymers produced by clonal amplification of DNA.
- Fluorescent in situ sequencing (FISSEQ) or beadbased polony sequencing FISSEQ involves localized amplification of single DNA molecules, using an acrylarnide gel, thus creating colonies of PCR product that are called polonies.2008, Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences, India, page 97
- The development of polony technology is an extreme example of spatial compression; a polony array essentially consists of millions of distinguishable, immobilized, and femtoliter-scale "test tubes" filled with clonal DNA arising from individual DNA or RNA molecules via a single polymerase chain...2008, Michal Janitz, Next-Generation Genome Sequencing: Towards Personalized Medicine, page 58

Polony (not comparable)

(historical, obsolete) Polish (especially of shoes).
- In Costume in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, M. Channing Linthicum cites two allusions to Polonian, Polonia, or Polony shoes, or to their high heels, in 1611, and two more in 1617 and 1618.2001, John Pitcher, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, volume 14, page 37
- Obviously Polony heels were made in Western Europe, though at present it is not clear why this name was given to the stacked heels.2005, Beata Biedrońska-Słota, Crossroads of Costume and Textiles in Poland, page 40

polony is also the alternative form of palone.

A survey of 25 polony samples of different brands available to the consumer in Bloemfontein showed that significant numbers of various micro-organisms were present.1978, Journal of the South African Veterinary Association, page 115:
Shlomo threw the polony and bread ceremoniously into the lorry and heaved himself up to see who it was who recognised him.1984, Jewish Affairs, volume 39, number 4, page 35:
This cycle is repeated several dozen times to generate DNA sequence information for each polony.2008, John Mendelsohn, The Molecular Basis of Cancer:

plural	polonies

A corruption of bologna.

Variant form of Polari palone.

Blend of polymerase + colony.

What does polony mean?: Polony means a kind of sausage made of meat that has been only partly cooked.
How do you use polony in a sentence?: A survey of 25 polony samples of different brands available to the consumer in Bloemfontein showed that significant numbers of various micro-organisms were present.
What part of speech is polony?: Polony can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce polony?: Polony is pronounced /pəˈloʊni/.
What is the plural of polony?: The plural of polony is polonies.

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