(v. t.) To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
(v. t.) To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three types of survey procedure were adopted and blood samples were taken for examination.
(2) The spatial spread or blur parameter of the blobs was adopted as a scale parameter.
(3) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
(4) It is the route the authorities are now adopting, after the wave of taxpayer bailouts in2008-09.
(5) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
(6) Mixing experiments were performed to test the putative inhibitory effects of allotype-suppressed spleen cells from the first adoptive transfer (stage I) on the antibody response of normal spleen cells in a second adoptive transfer (stage II).
(7) Gordon Brown believes that the fact of the G20 summit has persuaded many tax havens, such as Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to indicate that they will adopt a more open approach.
(8) Second, this report can be adopted and adapted by the entire health service, from dental practices to ambulances, from GP surgeries to acute hospitals.
(9) Legislation governing adoption has attempted to make the adoptive family the equivalent of a consanguinal one, with varying degrees of success.
(10) A detailed stereochemical analysis of known protein structures has been made which shows that: (1) irregular regions of proteins consist of a limited number of standard structures formed by three, four of more residues; (2) an amino acid residue of a protein can adopt one of the six sterically allowed conformations designated here as alpha, alpha L, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon.
(11) Different approaches can be adopted in preventing virus infections.
(12) For the 20 patients who received treatment in the latter period (1987-1990), we gave priority to conservative treatment for type T cases that were free from complications, and adopted a treatment method attaching greater importance to the resection of intimal tears.
(13) On the basis of weekly ultrasound scans, a conservative approach was adopted.
(14) The analytical model was the same as that adopted in our previous study on colorectal cancer screening (Tsuji et al.
(15) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(16) Children and adopters are encouraged to meet with foster carers after placement to show the child they are well.
(17) A facility for keeping chickens free of Marek's disease (MD) was obtained by adopting a system of filtered air under positive pressure (FAPP) for ventilation, and by imposing restrictions on entrance of articles, materials and personnel.
(18) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
(19) EAAU could adoptively be transferred by sensitized and in vitro stimulated CD4 T-lymphocytes.
(20) The results showed that patients with and without GOR disease cannot be separated solely on the basis of the standard manometric test, even adopting more parameters besides the traditional DOS pressure measurement.
Cop
Definition:
(n.) The top of a thing; the head; a crest.
(n.) A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.
(n.) A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
(n.) Same as Merlon.
(n.) A policeman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cop rats, however, possess a single 'suppressor' gene which confers complete resistance to mammary cancer.
(2) Copolymer 1 (Cop 1) is a synthetic basic random copolymer of amino acids that has been shown to be effective in suppression of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis and has been proposed as a candidate drug for multiple sclerosis.
(3) What the hell is the point of cops looking like this?
(4) Instead of inevitable defeat there is uncertain cop-out.
(5) COP-BLAM III therapy was given to 18 patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and the therapeutic effects as well as adverse effects of the treatment were examined.
(6) A new electrophoretic variant of the lactate dehydrogenase B subunit was found in the erythrocytes of the COP strain of the rat.
(7) Three independent BFA-resistant cell lines (BER-40 from Vero cells, PtK1, and MDCK) showed cross-resistance to EDIN regarding the release of the beta-COP from the Golgi membrane by EDIN or BFA.
(8) I'd like to say it's all a biting satire of American military practices (I know Busty Cops Go Hawaiian certainly was) but chances are it's just about a bunch of big meanie spiders.
(9) He shouted “Cops Lives Matter” before being drowned out with the “Bernie” chant.
(10) I will ask that by [next] Saturday midday the text will be transmitted to me, the president of the COP, and at that moment everyone will know where we are and the procedure to follow.
(11) That’s when the police riot squad arrived, because of course you cannot set fire to a bar with cops in it.” He recalled injured protestors being treated in nearby Washington Square Park and Quakers from the local church coming to help.
(12) Cops were smashing people with bicycles and nightsticks."
(13) "We're talking about payments for news tips from cops: that's been going on a hundred years, absolutely," said Murdoch.
(14) We sampled a sawn-off shotgun and an assault rifle, but cops do get tasers and tear gas to add some urban flavour.
(15) The COP regime was the most frequently used therapeutic regimen.
(16) "But I can assure you, if I had known that cops were sitting in car parks, they would have been deployed pretty quickly," he said.
(17) "There will be a meeting of the 22 countries of the COPS [the EU's political and security committee] ... if not today then tomorrow," Kouchner told reporters in Paris.
(18) The FBI’s “justifiable homicides” database is considered the best measure of cop killings in the US, but even the attorney general, Eric Holder, called the lack of comprehensive numbers “unacceptable” last month .
(19) More than 60 officers, who might be investigating a burglary in your street, are zealously pursuing other cops and public officials who may, or may not, have taken bungs from Sun journalists in return for information.
(20) I heard him say to another cop: “I don’t even know why they told me to lock this guy up.