(n.) The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.
(n.) The simplest rudiments; elements.
(v. t.) To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.
Example Sentences:
(1) A combined plot of all results from the four separate papers, which is ordered alphabetically by chemical, is available from L. S. Gold, in printed form or on computer tape or diskette.
(2) In Experiment 3, four strategies, alphabetic, size, serial order, and free recall, gave similar levels of recall after 6 min, though the growth rate of the cumulative output functions differed among the strategies.
(3) The controls for phonologically ambiguous words were the same words in their alternative, nonambiguous alphabetic transcription.
(4) MDD results were improved by using longer mutliplets and, if the sequences were coding, by using the larger amino acid and codon alphabets rather than the nucleotide alphabet.
(5) My surname, though, is so late in the alphabet that I'm normally one of the "62 others".
(6) Hanging on the walls are faded posters, a world map and the alphabet in Bengali and English.
(7) We present a polynomial algorithm (O(n X L4), where n is the number of sequences) for generating strings related to the LCS and constructed with the sequence alphabet and an indetermination symbol.
(8) A dramatic improvement in the S's ability to reproduce the alphabet was observed.
(9) Responses from all four mechanoreceptor classes (FA I, FA II, SA I and SA II) have been reconstructed to form two-dimensional Spatial Event Plots (raster plots) of the Braille alphabet.
(10) The chemical identity of the particular choice in our genetic alphabet can also be rationalized.
(11) "Satire is not a very familiar alphabet in Africa ," he said.
(12) Our Scrabble board had Velcro on the back, as did each alphabet piece.
(13) 10 Change your name Local parties, believe it or not, obsess over the alphabetical placement of candidates.
(14) However, the picture is rather complex in that we find significant correlations for some context-free word discrimination and sign-alphabet testing conditions.
(15) The lists were made up from the upper case letters of the alphabet, and during the recognition test each S was required to indicate how many times each of the irrelevant letters had appeared on the final list searched.
(16) Ministers have taken too long to consolidate the “alphabet soup” of agencies tasked with safeguarding the UK from cyber-attacks and there appears to be no coordination across the public sector, the public accounts committee (PAC) said.
(17) Biggs communicated using a pointer and alphabet, he said.
(18) They practiced spelling out the alphabet on a coloring book in a room next door.
(19) Failure rates of men, but not women students in genetics showed a significant positive correlation with alphabetical listing and ranged from 14% in the A-C region to 33% in the region T-Z.
(20) No attenuation of the alpha activity in the both hemispheres was seen during either the alphabet or kana syllabary imagery.
Fula
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Bed nets were allocated at random among a group of 16 Fula hamlets, where they were previously rarely used.
(2) This finding, together with the results of a previous study in Nigeria, suggest that Fulas have a predisposition to this condition.
(3) In order to question this opposition, a study was carried out among 100 Haalpulaaren mothers (Tukulors and Fulas), 50 from a village in the Sahelian area along the Senegal River and 50 from an underprivileged suburb of Dakar.
(4) They are thought to be the work of the Macina Liberation Movement (FLM), an Islamist group rooted in the Fula ethnic group.
(5) Among young children splenomegaly and malaria were less prevalent in Mandinkas than in Wollofs or Fulas, suggesting that some genetic or environmental factors protect Mandinka children from this infection.
(6) One class II DQA-DQB combination (serological specificity DQw2) was particularly common among members of the Fula ethnic group.
(7) Comparing Mandinka with Wolof and Fula, there were ethnic differences in net owning and the proportion of children sleeping in beds with a mattress.
(8) A study in the Gambia revealed that, among 3 ethnic groups, Mandinkas children had the lowest prevalence rate because almost everyone used bed nets while 1-6% of people in Fula and Wolof villages did.
(9) Among older children and adults splenomegaly was found most frequently in Fulas.
(10) Mutations in fulA probably confer resistance by lowering ornithine transcarbamoylase, thereby making the normally arginine-specific carbamoyl phosphate pool available for increased uracil synthesis.
(11) In a survey of the Fula Bande, a rural population of Senegal, deaths and causes of death have been registered during an 8-year period.
(12) Both fulA and fulD mutants suppress pyrA mutants which lack the uracil-specific carbamoyl phosphate synthetase.