(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.
Abound
Definition:
(v. i.) To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful.
(v. i.) To be copiously supplied; -- followed by in or with.
Example Sentences:
(1) Short-forms of Wechsler intelligence tests have abounded in the literature and have been recommended for use as screening instruments in clinical and research settings.
(2) Whilst there were some encouraging signs of behaviour change, opportunities for the spread of HIV continued to abound in this important group.
(3) Lewis adds: Dark rumours of personal frictions during the Clinton Administration abound but, politically, a Yellen appointment would probably be the easiest course for the President to pursue.
(4) Clinical medicine abounds in uncertainties arising from the very nature of clinical data and physicians' judgments.
(5) Although psychiatric literature abounds in allusions to the phenomenon of "déjà vu", few communications were devoted to an analysis of this interesting psychological state.
(6) While breads might abound in the world's cuisine, whether they are employed as a means of making a reasonably tidy portable meal limns the sandwich classification.
(7) Evidence of the existence of these two separate functions abounds in animals and in humans, but a clinical advantage has not evolved.
(8) Although invasive as well as noninvasive tools have been developed to determine the existence of this disorder, none is perfect and false negative as well as false positive diagnoses abound.
(9) While it is true that a descending chromatic four-chord progression is a common convention that abounds in the music industry, the similarities here transcend this core structure,” Klausner wrote.
(10) However, the skills required for such a task are often not acquired in academic training, nor do scientific journals abound with information on the practical aspects of running a large study.
(11) Tensions, suspicions and misunderstandings between Germany and its eurozone partners abound.
(12) Krebs and Meyer's (162) "marked differences in findings between one investigator and another," and Senay's (245) comment 77 years later that "disagreements abound" can now be seen as an inevitable consequence of the widely differing experimental protocols and procedures that have been adopted.
(13) Ultrastructural studies revealed that with estrogens, the cultures had the appearance of rapidly dividing cells having large euchromatic nuclei and prominent nucleoli, with aboundant free ribosomes in the cytoplasm.
(14) The deaths or disappearance of more than 40 journalists, probably because of their work in this period, together with the direct and indirect threats that abound in all the main hotspots, mean most regional media limit their coverage to superficial reporting of violent events and arrests.
(15) Pence met repeatedly with House Republicans but rebels still abounded.
(16) Tales of tips to hostesses and waitresses of £50,000 also abounded.
(17) Although the literature abounds with strategies to prevent unionization, little had been presented on establishing and maintaining effective relations with bargaining units.
(18) Rumours abound that Trump has had some link to Putin’s sinister finances.
(19) In the basal telencephalon NPY-immunoreactive cells abound mostly in striatum, but some are also found in the amygdala (particularly basal, central, and lateral amygdaloid nuclei), the claustrum, and in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.
(20) With its troops heavily involved in southern Somalia, suggestions abound that Nairobi may seek to create a permanent buffer zone in the three Somali regions – Gedo, Lower Juba and Middle Juba – abutting Kenya's North Eastern province.