(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.
Malagasy
Definition:
(n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Madagascar; also (sing.), the language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whereas all extant vertical clingers and leapers share certain femoral traits (i.e., long femur, proximally restricted trochanters, ventrally raised patellar articular surface), Galagidae and Tarsiidae share features of the proximal femur (i.e., cylindrical head, large posterior expansion of articular surface onto the neck) that clearly distinguish them from the specialized leapers of the Malagasy Republic (Indriidae and Lepilemur).
(2) From November 1988 to March 1989, 804 Malagasy children stools were studied and 37 Shigella strains isolated.
(3) Fourteen of 1,864 specimens obtained from Sainte Marie island on the Malagasy east coast were found by ELISA to be positive for the CS protein of P. falciparum.
(4) The antibacterial activity of 13 malagasy medicinal plants has been tested versus Helicobacter pylori using disc method on agar culture.
(5) Regular chewing was studied in the specialized Malagasy insectivore Tenrec ecaudatus with the aid of precisely correlated electromyography of the main adductors, digastrics, and two hyoid muscles and cineradiography for which metallic markers were placed in the mandibles, tongue, and hyoid bone.
(6) It is a sporadic case developing a serious clinic picture with an accidentally fatal end in a 7 years old Malagasy girl.
(7) mascarensis, a malagasy endemic region anopheline is a newly discovered vector.
(8) The successive use of several banding methods permitted us to compare the karyotypes of six Malagasy lemurs: Microcebus murinus, Lemur fulvus fulvus, L. f. collaris, L. f. albocollaris, L. macaco, and L. mongoz.
(9) Other folivorous Malagasy strepsirhines also tend to have long shearing crests than frugivorous forms.
(10) The results obtained, and the comparison with other groups, strongly suggest a monophyletic origin for all Malagasy lemurs.
(11) One case of clinical AIDS was diagnosed in 1988 in a Franco-Malagasy subject living in NOSY BE.
(12) Malagasy were natives of Indonesia, Africa, Arabia and Europe.
(13) The karyotypes of five Malagasy lemurs are described and compared after the successive use of various banding methods.
(14) funestus in malaria transmission, in MAHISTY, a village near the malagasy capital city.
(15) Gujarati and Malagasy had been acquired in infancy.
(16) This was also true for a small group of HLA class II identical Malagasy donors including three pairs of twins.
(17) The elaboration of an original system of codification and the utilization of the correspondance analysis method makes it possible to draw up an identity card, based on promotal pigmentation, for a natural solitary population of the malagasy migratory Locust.
(18) Study of 579 skulls, representing all 33 extant prosimian species and several anthropoids, shows that an orbital exposure of the ethmoid occurs in most Malagasy genera.
(19) The behavior of a nocturnal malagasy Prosimian (Phaner furcifer) in its natural environment has been studied in relation to its visual abilities and to the light cycle of the biotope.
(20) Both strains of Biomphalaria are equally susceptible to infections with the malagasy strain of S. mansoni (up to 100 p. 100).