(adv.) In an active manner; nimbly; briskly; energetically; also, by one's own action; voluntarily, not passively.
(adv.) In an active signification; as, a word used actively.
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.
Busily
Definition:
(adv.) In a busy manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) When I walk in, he is busily supervising the soundtrack that will play at the following night's red-carpet event.
(2) On the diplomatic front, Abe is busily wooing his Asian neighbours.
(3) This time, the war going on is among the gGrocers are busily slashing prices to try to compete with the growing threat of the low-cost operators Aldi and Lidl.
(4) The O’Reilly cases, meticulously reported by The New York Times , were known to management while the Murdochs were busily drawing up a new contract for the blustery, harassing host.
(5) Katrantzou herself dresses uniformly in black – in her serene London studios, where quiet seamstresses in neon and pastels snip busily at tables, hers seems to be the only shadow.
(6) It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre …” I don’t think this Ukip poster creators would be insulted by the Enoch Powell comparison Powell foresaw an unchecked inflow of black immigrants creating civil war; this poster tells us absolutely the same thing about the people headed our way, it claims, across borderless Europe.
(7) Even McDonald's in the UK has busily revamped its offer – its eggs are free-range, it uses organic milk and its adverts constantly remind you that carrot sticks are on offer (one of your five-a-day, kids!).
(8) And it may not be the hope-filled optimists who right now are busily talking about a better future here in the Science Centre.
(9) While we were busily getting dressed up, playing lots of characters and arguing about the content of the show, Felix just played one character per episode.
(10) Statisticians busily scanning the permutations reckoned defeat by three or four goals would be enough to bring other third-placed rivals back into contention, so considering Northern Ireland could have easily been looking at such a scoreline at half-time they must have been pleased to turn round only a goal down.
(11) The career courier may be a thing of the past – nowadays it’s increasingly common for couriers to earn their money from two or three jobs, enjoying the freedom of the road three or four days a week, supplementing this with the odd evening of bar work, and otherwise busily building up their portfolio as a photographer, or frame-builder, or sommelier, or writer.
(12) He writes: The FTSE is busily confounding bulls and bears alike, swinging higher one week and then sharply lower the next, as the post-2009 trend fizzles out.
(13) But 2,400 miles to the west, in Las Vegas, Sanetti's staff at the NSSF was busily putting the finishing touches to preparations for the largest trade show of new guns and ammunition in the land.
(14) And the crime is still very much in progress, with our respective governments busily clearing the way for new coalmines and new oil pipelines.
(15) For its part, Tokyo says it wants to talk, but is busily boosting its military and security capabilities and alliances.
(16) I know this much: while making the documentary, as I busily rewrote bits of script, suggested locations, worried about plane noise and changing light, advised the cameraman on angles and sternly told the director what I thought the ending should be, I prayed they would be thinking: "It's nice that she cares", rather than: "Christ, it's no wonder she sympathises with the old battleaxe she's talking about."
(17) With Sheen such a shoo-in for the lead, producers will now be busily searching for an actor who looks like 2,500 square miles of spilt crude oil.
(18) Users have been busily posting examples on Twitter and other social media.
(19) The court case is still pending; she and Manit are busily considering alternative ways to screen their work in Bangkok.
(20) 10.10am: Barry Glendenning's paper view has arrived to round up the Fourth Estate's perspective this morning: In the Mirror, Oliver Holt is busily fighting John Terry's corner, claiming that the former skipper deserves credit, not opprobium, for being the only England player prepared to speak out about the "spartan regime they have been living under for the last five weeks".