(n.) Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.
(v. t. & i.) To put up (an ante).
Example Sentences:
(1) The rate of acquisition in POST-lesioned mice was observed to be facilitated at the 2 first time intervals (between days 19-22 and 32-35), but this effect was reversed (impairment) when the test was carried out between 45-48 days postsurgery; no significant effects were observed in ANT-lesioned mice.
(2) Of 72 sera from patients with MC or DCM 45 (62.5%) bound to the peptides derived from ANT, 32 (44.4%) reacted with the sequences from myosin, in contrast to healthy controls.
(3) Three trials on the tilting plane significantly elevated the corticosterone concentration in saline-treated ANT rats, but produced no additional increase in drug-treated ANT rats.
(4) The Royal College of Midwives said its members would still help women giving birth, but that ante- and postnatal appointments would be affected by the walkout.
(5) The Extractor-Centri-dot system demonstrated 61.9% sensitivity and 95.8% specificity in detecting the ANT(2") gene in stool samples containing colonies demonstrating the ANT(2") phenotype.
(6) The concentrations of several post mortem aqueous humour chemical constituents were compared with ante mortem serum chemical values in the horse.
(7) The interaction between the genes of the Antennapedia complex (ANT-C) and the Ubx+ and bxd+ functions in pT2 is dosage sensitive only when the animals carry one copy of Pc.
(8) The weak correlation obtained with the probe for ANT(6) was due to the fact that gram-positive cocci can also be streptomycin resistant by synthesis of APH(3") or ANT(3")(9) and by ribosomal mutation.
(9) The concomitance of five previously reported trans-2,5-dialkyl-pyrrolidines along with small amounts of the cis isomers and N-methyl analogues makes the venom of M. indicum the most qualitatively diverse blend of alkaloids reported from an ant to date.
(10) A survey of 5300 allergists was conducted to determine the number and geographic distribution of patients receiving immunotherapy for imported fire ant (IFA) allergy in the United States and Canada.
(11) Dealing with the special problem of pregnancy in women with the biological disorder, one ought to consider the literature on the subject, showing the large occurrence of ante- and post-natal accidents.
(12) Ante-thoracal lateral jejunostomy is thought to be indicated to patients with massive injuries of the stomach or complications of gastrostomy.
(13) The cerebellar membrane GABA receptor complex was also studied with binding experiments using naive AT and ANT rats.
(14) In a controlled series of 167 circumcised patients, receiving optimal ante-natal and intra-partum care in hospital, we observed only short-term complications at delivery, with no long-term effects on the mother or the baby.
(15) However, direct continuous infusion of ANT into one testis produced greater than 90% occupancy of GnRH receptors while reducing GnRH receptors by only 50% in the contralateral testis.
(16) Ant and Dec were also double winners, repeating their feat of last year, winning best entertainment programme and best entertainment performance for their ITV show, Saturday Night Takeaway.
(17) The assay involves the fluorophore 1-aminonaphthalene-3,6,8-trisulfonic acid (ANTS) and its quencher N,N'-p-xylylenebis(pyridinium bromide) (DPX).
(18) Any future movie will have to fit into a schedule that includes future Star Trek instalments for Pegg and Wright's long-gestating Ant Man movie for Marvel.
(19) In the ant-eggs, as well as in some areas separate from these, membrane limited cytoplasmic bodies could be seen in many cases, the membranes of which were partly joint and partly separated by an electron dense material.
(20) ITV stars Ant and Dec also won their first ever Bafta, beating Harry Hill, Stephen Fry and the comedian Michael McIntyre to the entertainment performance gong for I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!.
Ate
Definition:
() the preterit of Eat.
(n.) The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.
(imp.) of Eat
Example Sentences:
(1) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
(2) In a second set of test sessions, volunteers chewed sugarless gum for 10 minutes, starting 15 minutes after they ate the snack food.
(3) The test subjects ate up their food appraising the gustatory qualities of the diet constituents.
(4) Complete esophageal impaction developed when the colt ate solid material.
(5) Donors ate a typical Israeli breakfast of salad, cheese, yoghurt and pastries.
(6) In 2011, a study of people with irritable bowel syndrome found that subjects felt better when they ate a gluten-free diet .
(7) No relationship was observed between abdominal fat weight and yellow follicle number, though birds which ate more had more yellow follicles.
(8) The patient ate normally after the operation, and radiological, manometric, and esophageal pH monitoring studies indicated satisfactory esophageal function.
(9) Subjects reported in a diary everything they either ate or drank for seven consecutive days.
(10) The CBV seemed to vary in function with time according to the equation: CBV in ML%: ate-bt + Vo (t = time in minutes: a = integration constant, a = 1.94; b = time constant, b = 0.089; Vo = real CBV).
(11) We found that diabetic animals on a 20% or 50% protein diet ate approximately 50% more protein and excreted about 50% more urinary urea nitrogen than did their respective similarly-fed nondiabetic controls.
(12) A case is here reported of a 35 year old woman with a history of urticaria following anti-tetanus serum and penicillin injections, who frequently ate exotic fruit, and who was intolerant to alcohol.
(13) Seven obese and seven nonobese male undergraduates were videotaped as they ate four dinner meals, two low and two high in preference, under low and high hunger conditions.
(14) Our results indicate that all forms of ICP4 observed in one-dimensional gel electrophoresis are poly(ADP-ribosyl)ated.
(15) Before eating diet L, subjects ate 50 g lactitol daily for 10 d. 3.
(16) Pigeons ate food ad lib, then fasted for several days, and finally ate a controlled amount of food once a day for several months to maintain body weight at 80% of the ad lib value.
(17) Diets were variable among groups; group A primarily ate fruit (81.2% of feeding time) and spent little time eating insects (16.9%), while group C was more heavily reliant on insects (44.3%) and ate less fruit (53.0%).
(18) It was found that (1) F-fed mice ate more and gained more BWt than C- and D-fed mice, and (2) the average GTG lesion volume of F-fed mice was twice as large as those of C- and D-fed mice.
(19) Obese subjects frequently eat irregularly, and ate between meals, especially sweets.
(20) Both species ate the same amount per unit body weight but buffaloes spent 53% more time ruminating than cattle.