(n.) The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
(n.) Acknowledgment.
(n.) License; indulgence.
(n.) That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
(n.) Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
(n.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
(n.) To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced.
Example Sentences:
(1) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
(2) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(3) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
(4) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(5) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
(6) In the measurement, enzyme-labeled and unlabeled antigens (Ag* and Ag) were allowed to compete in binding to the antibody (Ab) under conditions where Ag* much less than Ab much less than Ag.
(7) "At the same time, however, we cannot allow one man's untrue version of what happened to stand unchallenged," he said.
(8) The hprt T-cell cloning assay allows the detection of mutations occurring in vivo in the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (hprt) gene of T-lymphocytes.
(9) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
(10) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(11) Sewel is also recorded complaining about the level of appearance allowances at the House of Lords .
(12) Human gingival fibroblasts were allowed to attach and spread on bio-glasses for 1-72 h. Unreactive silica glass and cell culture polystyrene served as controls.
(13) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
(14) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(15) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
(16) As increases to the Isa allowance are based on the CPI inflation figure for the year to the previous September, the new data suggests the current Isa limit of £15,240 will remain unchanged next year.
(17) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
(18) There is precedent in Islamic law for saving the life of the mother where there is a clear choice of allowing either the fetus or the mother to survive.
(19) Subthreshold concentrations of the drug to induce complete blockade (5 x 10(-8)M) allowed to observe a greater depression of bioelectric cell characteristics in primary than in transitional fibres.
(20) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
Tret
Definition:
() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Tread, for treadeth.
(n.) An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare deducted.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors suggest a highly sensitive rapid and simple method for measuring esterase activities of bovine pancreatic chymotrypsin, human neutrophilic cathepsin D, and elastase, and of human blood serum chymotrypsin-like esterase and elastase-like esterase activities, with fluorogenic synthetic ethers, amino acid derivatives, employed as substrates: N-benzoxycarbonylphenylalanine 4-methylumbelliferyl ester (Z-Phe-OMC) and tret-butyloxycarbonyl-1-alanine 4-methylumbelliferyl ester (BOC-Ala-OMC).
(2) Effect of three inhibitors of free radical processes (IFRP) differing in antiradical activity (2-tret.
(3) A deuterated internal standard, capillary gas-liquid chromatography and 3-enol-3-tret-BDMS and 3.20-bis-enol-bis-BDMS progesterone ethers as chromatographied derivatives were employed.
(4) The electronic device allowed one to accurately determine the time to peak effect (Tmax), duration of effect (Emax, time to return to baseline threshold (Tret) and the area under the time-effect curve (AUC) as a measure of the total local anaesthetic effect.
(5) A deuterated internal standard, capillary gas-liquid chromatography and chromatographed derivates: 3-enol-3-tret-butyldimethylsilyl-17-tri-methysilyl and 3-enol-3,17-bis-tret-butyldimethylsilyl NET esters were used.
(6) Kinetics of demethylation of a number of amines involving hepatic microsomal cytochrome P-450 and organic hydroperoxides (tret-butyl- and cumylhydroperoxide) have been investigated.
(7) The urban group consisted of 4,008 adults, randomly selected from the 16 districts of the city of Marseille; the rural group consisted of 1,789 adults, representing 85% of the target population living in a small residential town, Trets.
(8) Thus ethylated trypsin (Tret) resembles chymotrypsin in its behavior.