What's the difference between abase and avile?

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.

Avile


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These were focal avillous hyperplasia, focal atypical hyperplasia, and junctional polyp.
  • (2) The avilable data indicate that melatonin, a methoxyindole synthesized in and secreted from the pineal gland, is responsible for many of the biological functions attributed to the pineal.
  • (3) A case of unintentional fatal intoxication of a 10 month-old baby with the anti-histamine Pheniramine (Avil) is reported.
  • (4) Knowledge of the contributions which given combinations of inputs make toward output thus defined allow, in principle, calculation of the particular deployment of the avilable inputs which will maximize output.
  • (5) The constant exposure to urine led to significant alterations of the ileal mucosa resulting in avillous areas mixed with villous remnants in which many of the intestinal characteristics both structurally and functionally disappear.
  • (6) The physiological properties of these and other clinically useful bone-seeking radiopharmaceuticals are compared, and their physical properties assessed in relation to the characteristics and limitations of avilable detector systems.
  • (7) This result suggests that 21-deoxycortisol could be an intermediate in the biosynthesis of cortisol provided it is avilable in vivo.
  • (8) Within a year Sinaloa kingpin, Pedro Aviles, was killed in a shootout with the federal police.
  • (9) The amino acid sequence of the heavy chain of an IgA2, AIm(1) polymeric myeloma protein (Avil) was studied.
  • (10) Peak leakage occurred at 30 min and the vascular integrity was restored by 1-2 h. The increase in capillary permeability was abrogated by pretreatment of mice with avil (H1 receptor blocker) but not by ranitidine (H2 receptor blocker).
  • (11) The consequences have been substantial cost overruns and serious unanswered questions about the quality and avilability of care.
  • (12) In the group 3 convoluted mucosae the cytokinetic profile of the crypts resembled that of some of the flat avillous coeliac mucosae previously studied although the rates of cell production did not reach the levels attained by the most productive of the flat coeliac mucosae.
  • (13) Avillous curettage specimens prior to chemotherapy were morphologically suspicious for gestational choriocarcinoma.
  • (14) Exuberant and atypical avillous trophoblast characterizes choriocarcinoma (CCA) and placental site trophoblastic tumor (PSTT).
  • (15) Titanium strips have been used to repair skull defects when preformed metal plates are not avilable and simple wiring would not be enough.
  • (16) The increase in capillary permeability was abrogated by pretreatment of mice with anti-CF antibodies, avil (H1 receptor blocker) or ranitidine (H2 receptor blocker).
  • (17) A significant increase in the mitotic index was also confirmed in the avillous mucosae.
  • (18) In the classical flat avillous mucosae the increase in crypt size was found to be three-dimensional.
  • (19) After 2 to 3 years of observation, avillous areas were noted in the reservoir mucosa, mixed with islets of villous mucosa.
  • (20) As the process continued the villi gradually became lower eventually forming an avillous surface.

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