(v. t.) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
Example Sentences:
(1) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
(2) Acquired drug resistance to INH, RMP, and EMB can be demonstrated in M. kansasii, and SMX in combination with other agents chosen on the basis of MIC determinations are effective in the treatment of disease caused by RMP-resistant M. kansasii.
(3) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(4) None of the children in the study showed clinical symptoms of acquired subglottic stenosis before discharge from hospital, and none has been readmitted for this condition subsequently.
(5) United believe it is more likely the right-back can be bought in the summer but are exploring what would represent the considerable coup of acquiring the 26-year-old immediately.
(6) In agreement with the data in the literature, melanocytes incubated with IFN-gamma acquire HLA-DR, -DQ, and -DP antigens.
(7) The functional capacity to present antigens to T cells was lacking in normal resting B cells, but was acquired following LK treatment.
(8) In the DAUDI cell system, the acquired capability of tumor cell variants to grow in the presence of a relatively high concentration of vinblastine (VBL) is associated with a marked increase to NK and LAK susceptibility.
(9) As a result, trnK is under the control of the psbA promoter in this species and has therefore acquired psbA-like expression characteristics.
(10) Clinicians should be aware of this new and unusual association of a cerebral glioma and acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
(11) The problem-based system provides a unique integration of acquiring theoretical knowledge in the basic sciences through clinical problem solving which was highly rated in all analysed phases.
(12) However, this inhibition was not found in rats treated with castor oil for 3 d. Moreover, 5-HT concentration in the midbrain significantly decreased in rats that acquired the adaptability for the occurrence of diarrhea.
(13) Neuromuscular disorders in small animals include a diverse group of congenital and acquired diseases.
(14) H. influenzae also may acquire heme from hemopexin and albumin, which have not been previously investigated.
(15) Recently, the use of pentamidine has risen because of its efficacy in managing patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and Pneumocystis carinii infection.
(16) The development of optical fibers capable of transmitting laser energy has encouraged the experimental use of laser irradiation for the treatment of acquired cardiovascular disorders.
(17) In a recent study, Orr and Lanzetta (1984) showed that the excitatory properties of fear facial expressions previously described (Lanzetta & Orr, 1981; Orr & Lanzetta, 1980) do not depend on associative mechanisms; even in the absence of reinforcement, fear faces intensify the emotional reaction to a previously conditioned stimulus and disrupt extinction of an acquired fear response.
(18) Both Shigella and Salmonella transferred multi-drug resistance to some enterobacteria--E. coli and Proteus as well as to Salmonella typhimurium when the latter was also present in the intestinal tract; of these some 10--40 per cent acquire the multi-drug resistance of Salmonella heidelberg and Shigella sonnei.
(19) This proved that all four fistulas were acquired and that they were probably caused by the catgut ligatures used for ampullary ligation.
(20) During the transformation of mammalian cells by SV40, the cells acquire new antigenicity at the cell surface that acts as a target for cytotoxic T lymphocytes.
Homestead
Definition:
(n.) The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it.
(n.) The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
(n.) The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was the tragedy that established Bridge Farm as the most woebegone of Archers homesteads.
(2) As well as sparking a novel, Merrill's caress further initiated Forster into the comradely haven of his and Carpenter's rural domesticity: a Derbyshire homestead, safe from public scrutiny.
(3) In the afternoons, tiny boys somehow ride adult bicycles, weaving along the tentacle paths that connect the homesteads.
(4) As our bus drives past, radiation levels inside surge to 61 microsieverts an hour (compared to the typical Japanese average of 0.34 microsieverts).Elsewhere inside the exclusion zone, at least 1,000 cattle are roaming wild after escaping from their farm homesteads, according to local authorities.
(5) She argued that the proposed laws had been "tabled within the context of a revived securocrat state", noting the secrecy around the Marikana mine massacre and use of public funds on Zuma's homestead.
(6) The EFF claims that the ANC has sold its revolutionary soul to "white monopoly capital" and that serial corruption scandals, notably the spending of £13.7m on president Jacob Zuma's homestead in Nkandla , show its contempt for the poor.
(7) The sprawling homestead is a jarring sight in one of the world's most unequal societies.
(8) He had been raised in a remote campesino homestead on the far side of the valley, and the trail we were on – a round trip of 40 miles, including a total ascent of 10,000ft – had been his weekly walk to primary school.
(9) Karen Nicoletto, 49, who was walking her dogs past Harris's former homestead, said the plaque outside his childhood home should stay.
(10) Zuma cast his vote in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal province, where a scandal over the spending of taxpayer millions on security upgrades at his homestead did not prevent crowds greeting him enthusiastically and ululating.
(11) "There were issues that had called for security, particularly in my homestead," he elaborated.
(12) In a measure of the importance of the event for the government, the opening ceremony at the tiny homestead museum was simultaneously translated into five languages and streamed to Polish embassies in 17 countries.
(13) A search for Glossina fuscipes fuscipes puparia near homesteads in the sleeping sickness focus of Busoga revealed puparia and puparial shells under Coffea canephora (coffee), Musa sp.
(14) Thirty-nine of the 77 Rett females were traced to 9 small and separate rural areas, and 17 pairs even came from the same farm or homestead.
(15) Yet 2bn rand will be spent on a multi-purpose centre a few kilometres away from President Zuma's homestead."
(16) A motorcyclist wearing a Scream mask pierced the deceptive calm outside the murdered Eugene Terre'Blanche 's homestead near Venterdsorp this afternoon.
(17) The row comes with the president, a Zulu traditionalist with four wives and 21 children, still trying to shrug off a scandal over the spending of taxpayer millions on upgrades at his family homestead.
(18) Speaking at the Humans to Mars conference in Washington last month, Nasa chief Charles Bolden laid out a vision for bringing the US space programme out of its first stage, exploration, and into pioneering, even homesteading.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Uptown, Jerry Seinfeld spent the year performing his monthly Homestead show, and reminding everyone why he became the most famous comedian in the world – absolutely nobody does observational comedy better .
(20) The xylem sap of nitrogen-fixing Pisum Sativum cv Homesteader has been examined by capillary gas chromatography and by gas chromatography mass spectrometry in both electron-impact and chemical ionization modes following the formation of N-heptafluorobutyryl isobutyl ester derivatives.