(n.) To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.
(n.) To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.
(v. t.) To signify; to amount to.
(n.) The sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue.
(n.) The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this.
Example Sentences:
(1) Combinations of maximum amounts of glucagon and the cyclic nucleotide did not produce a greater effect than either agent alone.
(2) IT can, therefore, be excluded almost with certainty that the meat would contain such large amounts of hormone residues.
(3) Quantitative determinations indicate that the amount of PBG-D mRNA is modulated both by the erythroid nature of the tissue and by cell proliferation, probably at the transcriptional level.
(4) The amount of stearic acid liberated was much larger than that of arachidonic acid between 30 s and 1 min of ischemia.
(5) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(6) By 24 hr, rough endoplasmic reticulum in thecal cells increased from 4.2 to 7% of cell volume, while the amount in granulosa cells increased from less than 3.5% to more than 10%; the quantity remained relatively constant in the theca but declined to prestimulation values in the granulosa layer.
(7) It has also been used to measure the amount of excision repair performed by non-replicating cells damaged by carcinogens.
(8) In addition, KM231 could detect a small amount of the antigen ganglioside in human gastric normal and cancerous mucosa and in gastric cancer cell lines by HPTLC-immunostaining.
(9) Significant amounts of 35S-labeled material were lost during the alkali treatment.
(10) Only small amounts of 3H oleic acid were converted.
(11) It was also shown that after a shock at 44 degrees C teratocarcinoma cells were able to accumulate anomalous amounts of hsp 70 despite hsp 70 synthesis inhibition.
(12) In these liposomes, the amounts and molecular states of SL-MDP were determined from ESR spectra and are discussed in connection with its immunopotentiating property.
(13) We analyzed the amounts and types of glycosphingolipids (GSLs) from peripheral blood lymphocytes, monocytes, and granulocytes isolated by counter-current elutriation.
(14) Lysis of EAC4b,3b cellular intermediates formed to contain a low surface amount of C3b was more inhibited than was lysis of cells formed with a standard amount of C3b on the surface.
(15) The level of significance of the statistical estimate of the change in the number of phonoreactive units (its increase due to deprivation) amounts to 92%.
(16) At low concentrations of TFIC there is a more or less direct relationship between the amount of the factor and the number of initiated complexes formed.
(17) Investigations on the influence of the diuresis effect on the results of quantitative estrogen and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) determination revealed that the estrogen values increase with the 24-hour amount of urine.
(18) In both experiments, Gallus males were placed on a commercial feed restriction program in which measured amounts of feed are delivered on alternate days beginning at 4 weeks of age.
(19) Project grants to selected State and local agencies amounted to about $.8 billion.
(20) Malondialdehyde was undetectable in cerebrospinal fluid after subarachnoid placement of agarose alone, although it was present in similar amounts in all groups that received subarachnoid placement of OxyHb.
Surfeit
Definition:
(n.) Excess in eating and drinking.
(n.) Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.
(n.) Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
(v. i.) To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
(v. i.) To indulge to satiety in any gratification.
(v. t.) To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; -- often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets.
(v. t.) To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm reminded of something Cooper said earlier, when talking about the pressures of this time of year for working parents, with its surfeit of plays and, "Oh God, not another school fair".
(2) This very tight clustering suggests a cis interaction between adjacent Surfeit genes.
(3) The clustered arrangement (no two adjacent genes are separated by more than 73 base pairs [bp] and two genes overlap by 133 bp at their 3' ends) of the four genes (Surf-1 to -4) identified so far in the mouse surfeit locus (T. Williams, J. Yon, C. Huxley, and M. Fried, Proc.
(4) The organization of the mouse surfeit locus is unusual in that it contains six housekeeping genes (Surf-1-Surf-6), which are unrelated by sequence homology, in the tightest mammalian gene cluster thus far described.
(5) When the faculty status of women and men academic anesthesiologists was examined a significant difference was found in rank distribution in age groups 40 to 44 (P less than 0.005) and 45 to 49 (P less than 0.001), where there was a deficit of professors and a surfeit of instructors among women.
(6) Here's Niall Mullen: "As a Liverpool fan who can barely buy his own groceries I am going to be outraged, outraged I tell you, if we fail to procure a player I've never heard of, who plays in a position in which we have a surfeit of players, for a club I've never seen play."
(7) We found no evidence of an initial surfeit of processing units, dendritic branches, or synapses.
(8) In this endocrine control, the renin axis provides the primary defence against sodium volume depletion and hypotension while atrial hormone plays an increasingly active counter-role for coping with situations that involve a sodium-volume surfeit or rising blood volume or blood pressure levels.
(9) Profound changes are occurring in the health care system, including a surfeit of physicians, cost containment, and competition.
(10) Using an interspecies backcross, we have mapped the HOX-5 and surfeit (surf) gene clusters within the proximal portion of mouse chromosome 2.
(11) In the adult, sodium surfeit is associated with an increase in urinary dopamine; the opposite occurs in the young.
(12) But we've had a surfeit of "behind the scenes" pictures of both coalition leaders; too many pictures of Cameron gurning at his new baby have led to this sort of material becoming a devalued currency.
(13) Responses to the energy surfeit led to intakes 104% and 116% of baseline, respectively.
(14) Since a repository would be expected to accumulate surplus material, one would predict that phosphorylase, which contains stoichio-metric amounts or pyridoxal phosphate, would increase in muscle of animals surfeited with the vitamin.
(15) What is called progress seems often to bring a surfeit of new experiences, facts, machines, noises, producing a feeling of helplessness, almost of despair.
(16) These data support the hypothesis that a surfeit of opioidergic ligand may potentiate drinking of alcoholic beverages.
(17) The concept of a basal level of body sodium (Strauss' state 'between surfeit and deficit') was studied by means of body sodium measurements in rats on different sodium intakes, in some cases after diuretic pretreatment.
(18) The invading fibers appear to encounter resistance at the basal lamina, but, once within the epithelium, at embryonic days 8-9, they form a surfeit of branches in columnar zones oriented radially toward the surface.
(19) Relative to their energy consumption on the medium-fat diet, the subjects spontaneously consumed an 11.3% deficit on the low-fat diet and a 15.4% surfeit on the high-fat diet (p less than 0.0001), resulting in significant changes in body weight (p less than 0.001).
(20) The mouse surfeit locus is unusual in that it contains a number of closely clustered genes (Surf-1, -2, and -4) that alternate in their direction of transcription (T. Williams, J. Yon, C. Huxley, and M. Fried, Proc.