(a.) Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.
(a.) Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; -- used of things.
(a.) Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of persons.
(a.) Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar.
(v. t.) To fit; to suit; to adapt.
Example Sentences:
(1) They have already missed the critical periods in language learning and thus are apt to remain severely depressed in language skills at best.
(2) The ApU analogues ApT, Apcl5U, Apbr5U, Apa5U and Apno5(2)U were synthesized with the aid of ribonuclease U2 starting from 2',3'-cyclic Ap and the respective uridine derivatives.
(3) The current CEO, the aptly named John Boss, took home $5.4m in salary and other compensation in 2015.
(4) We describe immunofluorescence microscopic studies of the amebal-plasmodial transition (APT) in Physarum polycephalum.
(5) The most promising clinical application of APT so far has been the monitoring of gastric emptying.
(6) Damage which is apt to be most cytotoxic is probably less effective as an inducer of skin cancer than is more subtle damage, which is tolerated but can initiate malignant transformation.
(7) Fornalini in 1984 independently revived the concept of APT using the closed method of needle induction, as later accepted.
(8) So really, it could be anyone.” US intelligence believes the Democratic party’s servers were hacked by a group known alternatively as Fancy Bear, APT 29 or Sofacy, which they say was working for the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence .
(9) A patient with an anal lesion, however, was more apt to develop small bowel disease simply because the small bowel was a far commoner site of Crohn disease in this series.
(10) Although most vitreous seeds were necrotic tumor cells, some were almost intact tumor cells which were apt to be situated along blood vessels.
(11) Recurrences, which are apt to be more common after PTA versus carotid subclavian bypass, are easily managed with repeat dilatation.
(12) The busy atmosphere and routine of a hospital is apt to induce apprehension in a patient about to have a surgical operation.
(13) Expression of the APT gene is under the control of lambda bacteriophage PL promoter.
(14) We are apt to know what the current situation is after ten years have passed.
(15) The author considers the loss of opportunities in life as an apt criterium of the vital impact of different permanent health impairments.
(16) Applied potential tomography (APT) or electrical impedance imaging has received considerable attention during the past few years and some in vivo images have been produced.
(17) The stronger the smoking habit, the less apt the smoker is to quit or maintain a nonsmoking status.
(18) Members of the medical profession were considered particularly apt to accurately and reliably report their personal experience with lower back pain and were therefore selected for this survey.
(19) The groups with low right-left ear ratios were less likely to have a somatosensory disorder than the other two groups, but they were more apt to have a language problem.
(20) As our understanding of the biochemical and cellular mechanisms of APT improve, a number of key clinical issues may be clarified: (1) risk factor assessment for APT, (2) criteria for early diagnosis of APT, and (3) improved therapeutic approach to patients with APT.
(1) (1991) Invest Opthalmol Vis Sci 32: 1619-1629; Fain GL, Farahbakhsh (1989) J Physiol (Lond) 417: 83-103] and human lens epithelium [Cooper K et al.
(2) The new species is most similar to Tinaminyssus melloi (Castro) 1948 and T. turturi (Fain) 1962, but differs in (1) possessing only 5 pairs of ventral opisthosomal setae, (2) presence of 3 pairs of enlarged setae on the dorsal opisthosoma at the posterolateral margin of the podosomal plate (1 pair) and at the lateral margins of the opisthosomal plate (2 pairs), (3) elongate shape and larger size of the poststigmatic plates, and (4) chaetotaxy and solenidiotaxy of the legs, especially tarsus I with a cluster of 4 solenida and 1 club-shaped solenidion on the apex of the dorsum.
(3) The species is a Palearctic representative of the evolutive line nanula Fain and digitata Fain.
(4) and Nycteriglyphites pennsylvanicus Fain, Lukoschus & Whitaker were the only additional mites collected from E. fuscus; both of these mites have previously been collected from bats or their guano but are recorded here from Alabama for the first time.
(5) He instead turns up halfway through hungover, and finds himself delighting in the spectacle: “He would fain have fled, but a horrible fascination held him back.” The tragedy of Operation Sovereign Borders is that it descends even further from this awful scene.
(6) The fainly well-defined clinico-pathological features of these tumors allow them to be classed as a specific clinico-pathological variety of ductal breast carcinoma.
(7) The most commonly collected arthropods from M. pennsylvanicus were the fur mite, Listrophorus mexicanus Fain (approximately 2,720 specimens); the tropical rat mite, Ornithonyssus bacoti (Hirst) (987); the laelapid mites, Laelaps kochi Oudemans (733) and Androlaelaps fahrenholzi (Berlese (322); the sucking louse, Hoplopleura acanthopus (Burmeister) (121); the tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Say) (47); and the chigger mite, Neotrombicula whartoni (Ewing) (45).
(8) 260, 7850-7856); the other one, which we have purified (Lin, S.-H., and Fain, J.N.
(9) Redescription of the genus Grandiellina Fain is given.
(10) The host-parasite relationships and affinities of the species of Sternostoma from the host family Tyrannidae are briefly discussed and Sternostoma callithrix Fain and Aitken is reduced as a synonym of Sternostoma longisetosa Hyland on the basis of their existing descriptions.
(11) Poikilorchis Fain and Vandepitte, 1957) have been reported in retroauricular cysts or abscesses in residents of West Africa and Southeast Asia.
(12) Previous genetic analyses of chromosome 17 markers and NF1 (Fain et al.
(13) A retrospective analysis was carried out of 142 cases of craniofacial traumas divided into 5 types according to the Fain classification.
(14) The interviewer, Jon Faine, pressed Abbott on the fact that students would soon be enrolling in university under one system and would then face higher fees in future years of the same course.
(15) The new species is most similar to Sternostoma hedonophilum Fain but differs in the absence of enlarged punctate areas around the stigmata, 5 additional pairs of seta on dorsal opisthosoma (Z and R series), absence of gnathosomal and capitular setae, and slight differences in the leg chaetotaxy with al1 and pl1 on tarsi II, III, and IV very long and whip-like and slight differences in the solenidia on and adjacent to the sensorial area of tarsus I.
(16) New host records include Ophthalmophagus striatus (Crossley) 1952 from Columbigallina passerina, Boydaia clarki Fain 1963 from Callipepla squamata, Boydaia falconis Fain 1956 from Falco sparverius, and Boydaia tyrannus Ford 1959 from Myiarchus cinerascens.
(17) The high affinity (Ca2+-Mg2+)-ATPase purified from rat liver plasma membrane (Lin, S.-H., and Fain, J. N. (1984) J. Biol.
(18) In birds of the order Ralliformes inhabiting the southwestern part of the Caspian Sea there were found four species of mites of the family Rhinonyssidae, parasites of the nasal cavity: Sternostoma fulicae Fain et Bafort and Rallinyssus caudistigmus Strandtmann in Fulica atra L., R. caspicus sp.
(19) In the introduction to Curiosa Mathematica, Part II, he wrote that fixing one's mind on mathematics as one lay in bed could ward off "unholy thoughts, which torture with their hateful presence, the fancy that would fain be pure".
(20) Approval to operate an e-money service in Ireland would allow Facebook to operate across Europe using “passporting” rules, which allow digital payments to be used across EU member states without having to fain regulatory approval from each country.