(v. t.) To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.
(v. t.) To receive with favor; to approve.
(v. t.) To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
(v. t.) To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?
(v. t.) To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange.
(v. t.) In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.]
(a.) Accepted.
Example Sentences:
(1) The generally accepted hypothesis is a coronary spasm but a direct cardiotoxicity of 5-FU cannot be.
(2) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(3) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more Faull’s fix, largely accepted by Britain, also ties the hands of national governments.
(4) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
(5) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(6) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
(7) The aim of the present study was to bring forward data of acceptance of dental treatment for 3-16-yr-old children in a population with good dental health and annual dental care, and to evaluate the influence on acceptance of age, sex, residential area, and previous experience and present need of dental treatment.
(8) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.
(9) Such a science puts men in a couple of scientific laws and suppresses the moment of active doing (accepting or refusing) as a sufficient preassumption of reality.
(10) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
(11) This study suggests that the BD VACUTAINER agar slant is an acceptable alternative to the Septi-Chek system for routine blood cultures.
(12) The results indicate that the legislated increase in the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits beginning in the 21st century will have relatively small effects on the ages of retirement and benefit acceptance.
(13) Urologic evaluation of all patients with congenital scoliosis is recommended; however, diagnostic ultrasonographic evaluations of the urinary tract have proven to be an acceptable alternative as an initial screening modality.
(14) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
(15) The correlations between the objective risk estimates and the subjective risk estimates were low overall (r = 0.089, p = 0.08); for women rejecting (r = 0.024, p = 0.44) or accepting (r = 0.082, p = 0.12) amniocentesis.
(16) But employers who have followed a fair procedure may have the right to discipline or finally dismiss any smoker who refuses to accept the new rules.
(17) The continence achieved in this case seems to be in contradiction to some of the accepted concepts of the mechanisms of continence.
(18) The feedback I have had reveals how accepting people are of different cultures and religions.
(19) If no other indication to operate occurs, we accept a conservative treatment of the humeral fracture with radial palsy.
(20) Statistical diagnostic tests are used for the final evaluation of the method acceptability, specifically in deciding whether or not the systematic error indicated requires a root source search for its removal or is simply a calibration constant of the method.
Acceptor
Definition:
(n.) One who accepts
(n.) one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results, together with the known geometry of the enzyme, indicate that active site probes in the dodecamer are widely separated and that energy transfer occurs from a single donor to two or three acceptors on adjacent subunits.
(2) Thus acidic amino acids strongly inhibit acceptor activity as do glycine and proline residues as amino-terminal and carboxy-terminal neighbours, respectively.
(3) Striking and consistent differences were found in the levels of acceptor activity in different tissues from both groups; these levels corresponded to their sensitivity to tumorigenesis by alkylating agents.
(4) Both enzymes showed different acceptor specificities.
(5) Protein is a strong competitive acceptor of active products of radiolysis of water and free radicals of DNA.
(6) 1017 acceptors of all fertile age groups accumulated 10,576 woman-months of use.
(7) The rates of oxidation of various substrates and the acceptor control ratios did not differ appreciably between the two types of mitochondria.
(8) In each of the four study sites, focus group discussions or in-depth interviews were held with potential acceptors, current NORPLANT users, discontinuers, husbands of women in these three groups, and service providers.
(9) In the presence of alpha-lactalbumin, glucose became a good acceptor for the enzyme and had a Km value of 2.9 mM.
(10) Donor and acceptor molecules were wybutine and proflavin, respectively, both located 3' to the anticodon of tRNAPhe.
(11) It is suggested that an enzyme-inhibitor complex of an acyl-enzyme type is formed that is slowly hydrolysed, with water as the final acceptor, leaving an intact enzyme and an inactive form of the inhibitor.
(12) This paper also examines the effect of pH and ionic strength on the activity and specificity of the enzyme with respect to substrates and natural, as well as artificial, electron acceptors.
(13) Interaction between these acceptor sites and crude or partially purified estradiol receptor shows a high association constant (over 10(9) M).
(14) The reduction of cytochrome c was found to be sensitive to both anaerobiosis and superoxide dismutase, suggesting the involvement of superoxide anions with this electron acceptor.
(15) Additional studies with the monkey liver enzymes revealed that acyl-CoA substrates for one transferase inhibit the other, that the apparent Km value is low (10(-6) to 10(-5) M range) for the preferred acyl-CoA substrate as compared to the amino acid acceptor (greater than 10(-2) M) and that both transferases have a molecular weight of approximately 24,000.
(16) The enantiomer of 1-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethanol produced by 4EPMH was R(+) when horse heart cytochrome c or azurin was used as electron acceptor for the enzyme.
(17) C component C3 bound covalently to parasite acceptor molecules via an ester linkage.
(18) We have developed a sensitive radiochemical assay of glycine N-acyltransferase activity, using phenylacetyl-CoA as the acyl donor and glycine as the acceptor.
(19) This study demonstrates that extracts of 15B cells, in contrast to the parent cell line, do not transfer N-acetylglucosamine residues from UDP-GlcNAc to certain glycopeptide and glycoprotein acceptors containing terminal nonreducing alpha-linked mannose residues.
(20) The purified plasma membranes were found to contain galactosyltransferase which transferred galactose from UDP-galactose onto endogenous acceptors.