(superl.) Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano.
(superl.) Specially: Having intellectual qualifications, or strong mental powers; showing ability or skill; talented; clever; powerful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech.
(superl.) Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property.
(a.) To make able; to enable; to strengthen.
(a.) To vouch for.
Example Sentences:
(1) We were able to detect genetic recombination between vaccine strains of PRV following in vitro or in vivo coinoculation of 2 strains of PRV.
(2) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(3) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(4) Ursodeoxycholate was the only dihydroxy bile salt which was able to solubilize phospholipid (although not cholesterol) below the critical micellar concentration.
(5) Some of those drugs are able to stimulate the macrophages, even in an aspecific way, via the gut associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), that is in connection with the bronchial associated lymphatic tissue (BALT).
(6) It was also able to inhibit the binding both of alpha-bungarotoxin and rabies virus glycoprotein to the acetylcholine receptor.
(7) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(8) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
(9) The procedure used in our laboratory was not able to provide accurate determination of the concentrations of these binding forms.
(10) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
(11) It was also shown that after a shock at 44 degrees C teratocarcinoma cells were able to accumulate anomalous amounts of hsp 70 despite hsp 70 synthesis inhibition.
(12) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(13) Many thoracic motoneurons were able to survive up to posthatching stages following transplantation.
(14) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
(15) Confidence is the major prerequisite for a doctor to be able to help his seriously ill patient.
(16) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
(17) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
(18) By growing purified human cytotrophoblasts under serum-free conditions and manipulating the culture surface, we were able to disassociate morphologic from biochemical differentiation.
(19) By means of two monoclonal antibodies, which were directed against external and internal acetylcholine (ACh) receptor epitopes, we were able to visualize ACh-receptors on OHCs.
(20) Our findings demonstrate that interleukin-2 (IL-2), but not interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) or interleukin-1 (IL-1), is able to inhibit the induction of T-cell unresponsiveness in a dose-dependent fashion.
Ayle
Definition:
(n.) A grandfather.
Example Sentences:
(1) Batten wrote: “It is a death cult, born and steeped in fourteen hundred years of violence and bloodshed, that propagates itself by intimidation, violence and conquest.” At the same time, Victoria Ayling, who finished second for Ukip in last year’s Sleaford and North Hykeham byelection and is believed to be seeking selection for the Boston seat, retweeted a false claim that Muslims had been seen celebrating in Birmingham, Bradford, London and other cities after the attack.
(2) This is in good accordance with the results of AYLING et al.
(3) Dean Hambleton-Ayling is head of employer relations at a top London teaching hospital.
(4) And then there is the case of Victoria Ayling, 54, another Lincolnshire Ukip councillor who has recently found herself in trouble.
(5) These include Victoria Ayling, a former Tory contesting the Labour-held marginal of Great Grimsby, who was caught on camera talking about wanting to “send the lot back” – although she claimed to have been talking about immigrants who were in the country illegally.
(6) The defenders Kirk Broadfoot and Gary MacKenzie picked up second yellow cards either side of a red shown to Ricardo Fuller for an attempted headbutt on Luke Ayling.
(7) For some reason, in the 2008 video – made when the NF had long been superseded as the face of British fascism by the BNP – there are two mentions of the NF: one by her former husband in an exchange about whether or not to "soften" her script, and another when Ayling uses the line "Multiculturalism doesn't work – Britishness does", and then wonders whether the word Britishness "is waving the National Front flag a bit".
(8) Thirty-nine year old Hambleton-Ayling already knew that networking was important if he wanted to get on but had not applied it to his own professional development.
(9) Shane Duffy rose highest to get on the end of a Luke Ayling cross from the right and send a looping header into the back of the net.
(10) I meet Ayling – a "trusted ally" of Farage, according to some reports – at her sumptuous country house, a stone's throw from Boston.
(11) Caroline Johnson, a paediatrician, held the Lincolnshire seat for the Conservatives with 17,570 votes, ahead of Victoria Ayling of Ukip, whose share of the vote fell by two percentage points from 2015.
(12) Ayling thinks that, overall, Ukip could win as many as 20 seats in the House of Commons: "Enough to have a seriously strong influence in a hung parliament.
(13) Sylvia Ayling Woodford Green, Essex • If Brooks Newmark were to read about Madame Defarge and the tricoteuses in A Tale of Two Cities, he might wish to rephrase his advice to charities.
(14) By microsequencing we determined its 13 N-terminal sequence, AYL*PIDLNQLAK, with the asterisk representing an ambiguous signal.
(15) Active-site peptides of malonyl and palmitoyl transferase from yeast fatty acid synthetase were isolated and sequenced to try to prove the hypothesis [J. Ayling, R. Pirson & F. Lynen (1979) Biochemistry 11, 526--533] that both enzymes are identical.
(16) Ayling says she is interested in being Ukip's parliamentary candidate in either Great Grimsby or Boston and Skegness.
(17) A backlash started immediately as three members of the national executive committee (NEC) resigned – Victoria Ayling, Mick McGough and Ray Finch.
(18) Ukip councillor Victoria Ayling: a 'trusted ally' of Nigel Farage who fancies her chances as an MP.
(19) Hambleton-Ayling, who is head of employer relations at University College London Hospitals NHS Trust says: "The assessment looks at where your behaviour and activity rests in terms of the expectation of leaders in the NHS.
(20) I think we’re already putting Grimsby back on the map,” declared prospective candidate Victoria Ayling, looking reverentially at Nigel, as though the mere fact of his visit constituted a significant revival in the town’s fortunes.