What's the difference between active and galliard?
Active
Definition:
(a.) Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain active principles; the powers of the mind.
(a.) Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble; as, an active child or animal.
(a.) In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano.
(a.) Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy; -- opposed to dull, sluggish, indolent, or inert; as, an active man of business; active mind; active zeal.
(a.) Requiring or implying action or exertion; -- opposed to sedentary or to tranquil; as, active employment or service; active scenes.
(a.) Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; -- opposed to speculative or theoretical; as, an active rather than a speculative statesman.
(a.) Brisk; lively; as, an active demand for corn.
(a.) Implying or producing rapid action; as, an active disease; an active remedy.
(a.) Applied to a form of the verb; -- opposed to passive. See Active voice, under Voice.
(a.) Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.
(a.) Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tryptic digestion of the membranes caused complete disappearance of the binding activity, but heat-treatment for 5 min at 70 degrees C caused only 40% loss of activity.
(2) A study revealed that the percentage of active sperm in semen 30 seconds after ejaculation was 10.3% when a nonoxynol 9 latex condom was used as opposed to 55.9% in a nonspermicidal condom.
(3) The most actively proliferating region of the excurrent duct system is zone 3 of the epididymis, whereas the least active region is the ductuli efferentes.
(4) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(5) Activity of Na,K-ATPase activity was measured as a functional marker for synaptosomal membranes.
(6) The antiarrhythmic activity similar to that of quinidine (with ca.
(7) The microsomal preparations from untreated Syrian golden hamster livers exhibited higher activities of N-demethylation towards the macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin and troleandomycin, than those from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
(8) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
(9) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
(10) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
(11) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
(12) Arachidic acid was without effect, while linoleic acid and linolenic acid were (on a concentration basis) at least 5-times less active than arachidonic acid.
(13) Following in vitro C activation in NHS by delta IgG, the 40 KD C4d component increased markedly.
(14) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(15) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(16) This difference was not due to ATPase activity in the assay.
(17) In the surface epithelial cells, the basolateral cell surface showed moderate enzymatic activity.
(18) Both the vitellogenesis and the GtH cell activity are restored in the fish exposed to short photoperiod if it is followed by a long photoperiod.
(19) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(20) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
Galliard
Definition:
(a.) Gay; brisk; active.
(n.) A brisk, gay man.
(a.) A gay, lively dance. Cf. Gailliarde.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its buildings, arranged around a sociable courtyard and a slice of towpath, also nourish a community of businesses that sustain between 250 and 300 jobs, all of which could go if the site’s new owner, Galliard Homes, has its way.
(2) He said: “I want [homes] marketed first and sold first to the people of this country, not to oligarchs from the Planet Zog.” When we showed the mayor’s office Galliard’s plans to sell to Hong Kongers first, a spokesman called the adverts “shameful”.
(3) The concordat is a voluntary agreement based on goodwill, and the mayor expects every company signed up to honour their pledge.” Galliard confirmed it is launching the development in Hong Kong this weekend and then in the UK next weekend.
(4) Because Galliard sold to these buyers first – many of whom are in the UK – it argues that Hong Kong was not given priority.
(5) In December 2013 Galliard, along with other major developers such as Barratt and Taylor Wimpey, signed a pledge that they would give UK purchasers an equal chance to buy, amid widespread concern about the number of developments pre-sold to investors abroad.
(6) Dinesh Kumar was queueing outside a Galliard development for the second time this year, after buying another property in Canary Wharf.
(7) Only this week at the Conservative party conference, Johnson – whose Uxbridge constituency is just minutes away from the Galliard development – demanded that new homes in the capital be sold first to Londoners.
(8) Priced from £180,000, Galliard Homes is building studio and one-bed apartments minutes from local shops and only a half-hour tube journey from central London.
(9) As the rain started pouring, Galliard staff brought out umbrellas to the waiting crowd and reminded them that they had to hand them back before they went home, before letting them shelter inside the complex.
(10) The tool used to collect the data was a precoded questionnaire developed by Jones & Galliard.
(11) We will discuss with Galliard the specifics of this particular development of which we understand the majority is available – and has been sold – exclusively in the UK.
(12) Guardian Money was alerted to Galliard’s decision to sell to Chinese investors ahead of the British by a recent emigrant to the city, who spotted its promotion.
(13) The developer, Galliard, is selling 228 flats, starting at £199,000 for a 28 sq metre (301 sq ft) “studio suite” up to £355,000 for a one-bedroom apartment, on a first-come, first-served basis.
(14) It emerges that Galliard has a database of private buyers who purchase multiple properties (in other words, major buy-to-let landlords) and who are given first opportunity to buy.
(15) For UK buyers, the doors remain closed until next weekend, when Galliard launches what is left of the development to the public here.
(16) Because they are being built under government rules allowing a change of use from offices to residential , Galliard has not had to provide any social housing on the site.
(17) But if you are British, you may find yourself at the back of the queue: Galliard is putting the flats on sale to investors in Hong Kong this weekend, one week before they go on sale in the UK – despite a written promise by the developer to give British buyers at least an equal chance.
(18) But this week, in material sent to potential buyers in Hong Kong, Galliard told investors they could snap up apartments “releasing one week ahead of UK” in what it dubbed a “world exclusive”.
(19) I got one this morning and it clearly shows that one of the companies – Galliard Homes – who signed the pledge is still selling overseas ahead of buyers in the UK.” Darren Johnson, a Green Party member of the GLA who campaigns on housing issues, said: “The wider issue is that developers in the London market are simply not meeting the housing needs of ordinary Londoners.
(20) Four months later Galliard – the second biggest housebuilder in London – stood shoulder-to-shoulder with mayor Boris Johnson (right), with a separate undertaking.