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Apace


Definition:

  • (adv.) With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, the advent of the polymerase chain reaction, coupled with a boom in funding for human immunodeficiency virus research have moved retroviral research apace, raising questions as to whether novel contributions would be realized.
  • (2) Amino acid composition analysis of APAC revealed the presence of glutamic acid:glycine:cysteine residues at 2:1:1 ratio.
  • (3) Shipping off undesirable immigrants proved enormously popular among Democrats and Republicans alike, and mass deportations continued apace under Presidents Bush and Obama – overwhelmingly to Mexico and Central America.
  • (4) The decline of two-party dominance has been gradual but continues apace, as insurgent forces enter the field and confuse the picture.
  • (5) The trend has grown apace since Tarantino's double Bill proved a financial godsend for Miramax, while audience resistance has dwindled to nothing.
  • (6) And then, there's the granddaddy of the whole thing, globalisation, which has proceeded apace without adequate international controls.
  • (7) Medical demand for such bone is expanding rapidly and the nation's bone-banking system is struggling to grow apace.
  • (8) Sir John ushered George inside to continue their meeting, while out on the patio other Bilderberg briefings carried on apace.
  • (9) The difference in Manchester is that Richard [Manchester council leader Sir Richard Leese] and Howard [Bernstein] and all the other council leaders have identified rightly that transport is an integral part of creating economic growth.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Work on Crossrail in London is proceeding apace.
  • (10) Meanwhile in Britain, the game of Russian roulette played out by young drug users every night continues apace, with the risks continually heightened by the introduction of ever more dangerous drugs, such as PMA, which killed 23 people last year .
  • (11) Brown was right about that, but de-industrialisation continued apace during his time as chancellor and prime minister.
  • (12) Tesco's Korean and Chinese businesses are growing apace, but its European stores had a difficult year as consumers were battered by the recession.
  • (13) APAC was isolated from freshly harvested cells, by ion exchange chromatography on DEAE cellulose, ultrafiltration through a 3000 dalton cut off filter and high pressure liquid chromatography through a reversed phase C-18 column.
  • (14) We always said the best time for that was the two years after the Games and then they need to start on the road to Rio.” The changes have come apace.
  • (15) The clinical use of inert materials for internal fixation and joint replacement devices is increasing rapidly; studies on the effect of these materials on bacteria and host resistance to infection have not kept apace.
  • (16) The process of democratisation surrounding books has increased apace; more is written about books, by more people, in more places.
  • (17) As such, it was an indication of mounting global concern about the technology, as its adoption by military forces gathers apace.
  • (18) said some schmuck called Tim Jonze (stupid surname btw) David Bowie – The Next Day An album that's thought-provoking, strange and filled with great songs - listening to The Next Day makes you hope it's not a one-off, that his return continues apace.
  • (19) Expansion will continue apace in the current financial year, with plans for just under 1m sq ft of new space including new stores in Milton Keynes, York and Carlisle as well as across Europe.
  • (20) Ascorbate peroxidase active component (APAC) was purified and characterized in Synechococcus PCC 9742 (R2) cells.

Precipitate


Definition:

  • (a.) Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war.
  • (a.) Lacking due deliberation or care; hurried; said or done before the time; as, a precipitate measure.
  • (a.) Falling, flowing, or rushing, with steep descent; headlong.
  • (a.) Ending quickly in death; brief and fatal; as, a precipitate case of disease.
  • (n.) An insoluble substance separated from a solution in a concrete state by the action of some reagent added to the solution, or of some force, such as heat or cold. The precipitate may fall to the bottom (whence the name), may be diffused through the solution, or may float at or near the surface.
  • (v. t.) To throw headlong; to cast down from a precipice or height.
  • (v. t.) To urge or press on with eager haste or violence; to cause to happen, or come to a crisis, suddenly or too soon; as, precipitate a journey, or a conflict.
  • (v. t.) To separate from a solution, or other medium, in the form of a precipitate; as, water precipitates camphor when in solution with alcohol.
  • (v. i.) To dash or fall headlong.
  • (v. i.) To hasten without preparation.
  • (v. i.) To separate from a solution as a precipitate. See Precipitate, n.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The nuclear origin of the Ha antigen was confirmed by the speckled nuclear immunofluorescence staining pattern given by purified antibody to Ha obtained from a specific immune precipitate.
  • (2) The Fc fragment of this protein reacted with and was solubilized by the staphylococcal A protein which also precipitated the intact immunoglobulin.
  • (3) It could be demonstrated by radioimmune precipitation of virus labeled with[35S]methionine that all three polypeptides are specific for hog cholera virions.
  • (4) Nine of the in vivo synthesized early polypeptides can be precipitated specifically from infected cell extracts by antisera with specificity against early adenovirus proteins.
  • (5) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
  • (6) The usefulness of the proposed method is obvious in cases where the composition of a precipitate on LM scale is to be compared with the LM appearance of the surrounding tissue.
  • (7) After precipitation of plasma proteins by addition of methanol the samples are injected directly into the liquid chromatographic system.
  • (8) Thus Sephadex chromatography of the solution obtained by dissolving the antigen-antibody precipitate in these media repeatedly gave two peaks corresponding to anti-ovalbumin and ovalbumin.
  • (9) When AMT administration was discontinued 40 hrs before precipitation of withdrawal the withdrawal pattern occurred with unchanged intensity.
  • (10) Using a simple precipitation technique we observed that the serum concentrations of low density lipoproteins in healthy Africans were less than half the serum concentrations in healthy Europeans.
  • (11) There was no correlation between anti-TNP-precipitating antibody titer after sensitization and the ability to respond to challenge by hapten-heterologous carrier.
  • (12) Precipitating antibodies were found in both lines; they first appeared 7 days after inoculation in P-line birds and 14 days after inoculation in N-line birds, but thereafter there was no difference between the two genetic lines.
  • (13) The new technique, Surface Immune Precipitation (SIP), entails the application of an antigen sample droplet directly onto the surface of a gel containing antibody, the gel being supported by a reflecting substrate.
  • (14) In this study we have compared purified C4A and C4B with regard to their ability to prevent immune complex precipitation and to enhance the binding of both preformed and nascent immune complexes to the receptor CR1 on red cells.
  • (15) A lesser inhibitory effect (a decrease in the rate of precipitation) was observed when gallbladder bile was diluted but was lost after 10-fold dilution.
  • (16) The first step is the preparation of a globulin-enriched fraction by precipitation with ammonium sulfate at 50% saturation, or of an immune-complex-enriched fraction by precipitation with 5% polyethylene glycol 6000.
  • (17) DNase I microspheres were then introduced into the extracorporeal circuit which resulted in an acceleration of degradation of acid precipitable 125I-nDNA.
  • (18) The dramatic nationwide increase of primary and secondary syphilis in women has precipitated a dramatic rise in congenital syphilis.
  • (19) The translation of mRNA for S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase was studied using a polyamine-depleted reticulocyte lysate supplemented with mRNA from rat prostate and the antiserum to precipitate the proteins corresponding to S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase.
  • (20) Only heart rate correlated closely with the precipitation of angina.

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