What's the difference between abase and abate?

Abase


Definition:

  • (a.) To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.
  • (a.) To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And then, proving that in the celebrity world of self-abasement there really is no such thing as "bottoming out", Shane started tweeting Ping Pong, otherwise known as Elizabeth Hurley's parrot Why has Australia not staged an intervention?
  • (2) These studies establish that the exocyclic ring of the 1,N2-propanodeoxyguanosine adduct fits into the cavity generated by the abasic site.
  • (3) Covalently closed circular DNA containing a synthetic analog of an abasic site at a unique position was used as a substrate to study DNA repair.
  • (4) In this study, we present structural and dynamic properties of duplex oligodeoxynucleotides containing G, C and T opposite a model abasic site studied by one and two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
  • (5) By this assay, we first identified the formation of C-4'-hydroxy abasic sites in calf thymus DNA by neocarzinostatin.
  • (6) Abasic lesions in the template had relatively little effect on the polymerase incorporation reaction at sites proximal to the lesion.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A composite handout of CCTV pictures from the Metropolitan police showing British teenagers (L-R) Kadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum passing through security barriers at Gatwick Airport en route to Syria.
  • (8) Proton and phosphorus NMR studies are reported for two complementary nonanucleotide duplexes containing acyclic abasic sites.
  • (9) Shamima Begum, 15, Amira Abase, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, left their homes in east London last month to join the extremist group.
  • (10) However, incorporation opposite an abasic site was undetectable relative to that which occurred opposite a normal template nucleotide.
  • (11) But with the People's Daily writing that progress had only been possible because of David Cameron's admission that he had mishandled Tibet (where, since 2009, 100 monks and nuns have set fire to themselves in protest against Chinese rule), Britain's abasement was complete.
  • (12) Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, fled in February from Britain after deceiving their parents and siblings.
  • (13) The long pilgrimage of pregnancy with its wonders and abasements, the apotheosis of childbirth, the sacking and slow rebuilding of every last corner of my private world that motherhood has entailed – all unmentioned, wilfully or casually forgotten as time has passed.
  • (14) Before and after training they were low in need for order, endurance, abasement, and deference and high in need for autonomy and aggression.
  • (15) All the sequenced mutants correspond to single base-pair substitutions targeted at the abasic site.
  • (16) These results indicate that dTMP, and not dAMP, was mainly incorporated into the sites opposite to the abasic site analogue, and that incorrect deoxynucleotides were incorporated in the position adjacent to the abasic site analogue.
  • (17) Our results in human cells contrast markedly with those published previously for the mutational specificity of AP sites in Escherichia coli, in which a large majority of the mutants resulted from insertion of an A opposite the abasic site.
  • (18) The repair-related DNA synthesis was localized within 3 or 4 nucleotides surrounding the abasic site.
  • (19) The enzyme is able to incorporate nucleotides efficiently opposite the abasic template lesion and to continue DNA synthesis.
  • (20) The Met statement did appear to show some contrition stating: “With the benefit of hindsight, we acknowledge that the letters could have been delivered direct to the parents.” The disappearance of the 15-year-old girl in December led to a counter-terrorism investigation that saw Begum, Sultana and Abase identified as friends of the missing girl and being spoken to by detectives.

Abate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To beat down; to overthrow.
  • (v. t.) To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope.
  • (v. t.) To deduct; to omit; as, to abate something from a price.
  • (v. t.) To blunt.
  • (v. t.) To reduce in estimation; to deprive.
  • (v. t.) To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ.
  • (v. t.) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.
  • (v. t.) To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates.
  • (v. t.) To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates.
  • (n.) Abatement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Accordingly, the present studies were conducted to determine whether acute OVX-induced FSH hypersecretion can be elicited in an animal model in which the anterior pituitary gland is isolated from diencephalic chemical signals, and if so, whether the hypersecretion could be abated by the FSH-suppressing protein, follistatin.
  • (2) The histologically demonstrated degree of activity had regressed significantly after the three-week treatment; in 90% of patients the inflammatory process had completely abated.
  • (3) Adverse effects included nausea, light-headedness, dyskinesias, and hallucinations, all of which abated after the Sinemet dose was reduced.
  • (4) A 51-year-old manic woman who developed acute severe lithium intoxication with neurotoxicity and nephrotoxicity during rapid abatement of manic episode was reported.
  • (5) The report of the PSAC Environmental Pollution Panel recommended "demonstration of the feasibility and economy of new developments for abating or controlling pollution through their use at Federal installations" and suggested the coalburning TVA power plants as a likely place for such demonstration.
  • (6) A few days after hospital admission the symptoms abated.
  • (7) "The greater the range of emission reduction opportunities that can be tapped into by countries, the more low cost abatement options there are likely to be," the report said.
  • (8) An accompanying thrombocytopenia was not abated by SQ 30,741.
  • (9) Even as the sounds of missiles around Şemdinli abate, news of bloody clashes elsewhere in the region keeps locals on their toes.
  • (10) In vitro, zinc supplement could abate the death of GalN-intoxicated hepatocytes, decrease malonaldehyde (MDA) content, and maintain reduced glutathione (GSH).
  • (11) Espírito Santo Financial markets regained some poise on Friday as fears abated about the potential spread of problems at one of Portugal's biggest banks.
  • (12) It's not hard to see why inflationary pressure is abating: the eurozone economy has been flat on its back for the past 18 months.
  • (13) Walls of the invaginated stump of the cystic duct are swiftly abated as a result of hydrostatic pressure and cover its gap.
  • (14) Once that abated, the solution for me was to stay and fight the Trump agenda with everything I have.
  • (15) • Rules requiring local authorities to investigate and abate noise, dust and odour nuisances will be liberalised or improved.
  • (16) Under treatment with erythromycin the clinical picture of intense swelling of the lid and the copious purulent discharge abated during the following 2 days.
  • (17) With antiinflammatory treatment the diarrhea abated, the surface epithelial injury decreased, and the subepithelial collagen resolved (two patients), but lamina propria inflammation persisted.
  • (18) Her symptoms abated when treated with prednisone, but she developed diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis, and compression fracture of lumbar vertebrae while being treated.
  • (19) In cases observed following the time course, the occasionally increased IR-LHRH in plasma and CSF tended to decrease following the abatement of the diseases.
  • (20) These actions were fully abated by the pADPRP inhibitor 3-MBA.