(v. i.) To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.
(v. i.) To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church.
(v. i.) To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
(2) Preincubation of the bacteria at 56 degrees C for 30 minutes and ultraviolet irradiation resulted in a noticeable decrease in adherence.
(3) The adherence of 51Cr-labeled platelets to rabbit aortae everted on probes rotated in platelet-red cell suspensions has been measured.
(4) In this study, tritiated leucine placed on the isolated maternal side of amniochorion with adherent decidua was incorporated into newly synthesized tritiated human decidual prolactin.
(5) In normal lymphoreticular tissue, IgGEA selectively bound to areas colonized by macrophages, IgMEAC to B-dependent areas, whereas E showed no adherence.
(6) Results of this study provide preliminary evidence that tracheal adherence and HA of B avium are closely related.
(7) Bacterial adherence to vascular sutures was evaluated in vitro using radioactively labeled Staphylococcus aureus.
(8) In contrast, newly formed secondary myotubes are short cells which insert solely into the primary myotubes by a series of complex interdigitating folds along which adhering junctions occur.
(9) Alveolar macrophages (greater than 97% esterase positive) were isolated form bronchoalveolar lavage fluids by adherence onto plastic.
(10) IgG-gold also adhered to M cells and excess unlabeled IgG inhibited IgA-gold binding; thus binding was not isotype-specific.
(11) Newborn suppressor T cells were characterized as being non-adherent to Ig-anti-Ig affinity columns, soybean agglutinin receptor negative (SBA-), and susceptible to lysis by anti-T-cell specific antiserum plus complement.
(12) Approximately 70% of DN thymocytes became bound to FN-precoated culture plates, whereas 30 to 40% of DP and only 10 to 20% of SP cells adhered to FN.
(13) Seventeen different bacteria were used in the adherence tests; ten strains of alpha-hemolytic streptococci, five from children with infective endocarditis (IE) and five from healthy carriers, two S. aureus, two N. meningitidis, two N. gonorrhoeae and one E. coli.
(14) E. coli strain S22-1, serotype O103:H2, isolated from a child with diarrhoea, contained two plasmids; one of these (pDEP12) hybridized with the CVD419 DNA probe derived from a plasmid found in E. coli O157:H7 and associated with expression of fimbriae and ability to adhere to Intestine 407 cells.
(15) The interaction between PE and E-IgG involved the extension of micropseudopods toward adherent E-IgG, the formation of a linear uniform cap of roughly 200 A between opposing cell membranes, the ingestion of E-IgG by PE into a membrane-lined compartment, and the disintegration of the ingested ligand into membranous debris.
(16) At present significant effects have been documented only for the stage of bacterial adherence to the damaged valve.
(17) Binding of fibronectin, an extracellular matrix (ECM) protein, to Candida albicans was measured, and adherence of the fungus to immobilized ECM proteins, fibronectin, laminin, types I and IV collagen, and subendothelial ECM was studied.
(18) Thrombospondin (TSP), a 450-kDa trimeric glycoprotein secreted by platelets and endothelial cells at sites of tissue injury or inflammation, may play an important role in polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) adherence to blood vessel walls before diapedesis.
(19) [3H]-leu leukocyte adherence inhibition assay ([3H]-leu-LAI) was modified to identify activity of Sp-TFM.
(20) is related to the presence of adherent clots along cerebral arteries and when severe may lead to cerebral infarction.
Creed
Definition:
(v. t.) A definite summary of what is believed; esp., a summary of the articles of Christian faith; a confession of faith for public use; esp., one which is brief and comprehensive.
(v. t.) Any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.
(v. t.) To believe; to credit.
Example Sentences:
(1) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
(2) Several former hostages, now safely in Europe, say he had spent the past year true to the creed of his new faith.
(3) Cynics will tell you Camra’s membership know all about identity crises – once the rebels of the 1970s, they’re now mostly older dads and grandads – purists upholding Camra’s “cask only” creed as sacred.
(4) "The first slogan was 'a place for all people, all ages and all creeds.
(5) Theatre is a place where every race, creed, sexuality and gender is equal, is embraced and is loved.
(6) After showings of familiar and already much-anticipated stuff such as Watch Dogs , Assassin's Creed IV , South Park: the Stick of Truth and Mighty Quest for Epic Loot , we got The Crew , a cross-America racing title with seamless player collaboration and competition and lots of levelling up ( read our preview here ).
(7) Under the creed, mourning ceremonies are held for the dead on the third, seventh and 40th days after their passing.
(8) And in the second chapter is a statement on the administration of the muhajir (foreign) mujahid in particular and developing the creed of the Islamic State among the ansar in Syria.
(9) "His commitment to Egypt's national unity is also a testament to what can be accomplished when people of all religions and creeds work together."
(10) After a runner has made the 86-metre sprint (which will take about 12 seconds) there will be a 15-second pause - like a rest in a piece of music, according to Creed.
(11) And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice – not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes: tolerance and opportunity; human dignity and justice.
(12) Or the noughties, when the creed of food fetishism hit Borough , bringing with it pork pies that cost as much as a pig, fruits we couldn’t name, herbs bearing the names of the people who found them?
(13) After the creed and some Benjamin Britten, and a blessing and a long round of applause, the man charged with holding together the fractious global Anglican communion as it struggles with the vexed issues of women bishops and same-sex marriage processed out of the cathedral and into the bitterly cold spring afternoon.
(14) Beyond all differences of race or creed, we are one country, mourning together and facing danger together.
(15) And yet, 40-plus years ago, when the idea of a Channel tunnel railway was little more than a half-forgotten Victorian fantasy, St Pancras station was very nearly a martyr to the fundamentalist creeds of "rationalisation" (for which read cost-cutting), "change" (for change's sake) and "modernisation".
(16) And after a lingering look at the graphically stunning Assassin's Creed IV , it was left to Tretton and House to deliver those killer blows to the Xbox One infrastructure.
(17) Go there today and you will walk from a room of 18th-century pastels to an empty gallery with Martin Creed's Turner prize-winning light being turned on and off.
(18) "The more salient issue for the voters was his undermining his own conservative creed by making $1.6m off Freddie Mac, just as he was taking funds from drug companies while advancing a specific health policy," he said.
(19) For the first time since the return of democracy with the collapse of the colonels' regime in 1974, Greeks say that they are determined to take fate into their own hands beyond party or political creed.
(20) He also had a role in Creed, the critically acclaimed boxing movie, for which he was recruited directly by the director, fellow Oakland native Ryan Coogler.