(n.) The oblong chest of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, which supported the mercy seat with its golden cherubs, and occupied the most sacred place in the sanctuary. In it Moses placed the two tables of stone containing the ten commandments. Called also the Ark of the Covenant.
(n.) The large, chestlike vessel in which Noah and his family were preserved during the Deluge. Gen. vi. Hence: Any place of refuge.
(n.) A large flatboat used on Western American rivers to transport produce to market.
Example Sentences:
(1) From the moment God speaks to him until he leaves the ark and steps on to dry land, he never says a word.
(2) Specific-pathogen-free leghorn sentinel chickens were vaccinated with Massachusetts (Mass) alone, Mass and JMK, or Mass and Arkansas (Ark) combination live vaccines, or they remained unvaccinated.
(3) The manifesto sets out how every hospital can be given the autonomy of a foundation hospital and 1,000 coasting or failing schools could join federations, including state school chains or non-state providers such as Ark.
(4) As with beta ARK, phosphorylation of the receptor substrates by beta ARK2 was completely stimulus dependent.
(5) Relying on Hitler for an analogy makes people sound as if their history lessons were limited to Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark.
(6) The beta-adrenergic receptor kinase (beta ARK) mediates agonist-dependent phosphorylation of the beta 2-adrenergic and related G protein-coupled receptors.
(7) Using chimaeric beta ARKs that undergo isoprenylation in vitro, we demonstrate that membrane association and activation of these kinases can occur in the absence of beta gamma.
(8) Purified hamster beta 2AR was phosphorylated by cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA), protein kinase C (PKC), or beta AR kinase (beta ARK), and receptor function was determined by measuring the beta 2AR-agonist-promoted Gs-associated GTPase activity.
(9) Although maximal stimulation of beta-subunit phosphorylation was reduced to 30% in proband Ark-1 fibroblasts, this reduction was quantitatively related to reduced insulin binding.
(10) He could flog his fish to the secondhand shop, or maybe sell them on the street, the way his neighbour does stolen trainers, maybe diversifying into Noah’s Arks.
(11) Sir Mark Stanhope, the head of the navy, told the committee that the aircraft carrier Ark Royal and its jumpjet Harriers would have been used to bomb Libya had they not been axed.
(12) Not present at their own trial, or to bear witness to all the controversy generated by their actions, are two key figures in Zoe's Ark: chairman Éric Breteau and his partner Émilie Lelouche.
(13) But my grandfather saw it as the citadel, the Ark; it preserved history, which was his mission.
(14) He receives his orders to build the ark and sets about it.
(15) The Ark by Ralph Erskine, next to the Hammersmith flyover in London, is a large steel-and-glass building, an insect with its wings cut off.
(16) With Ark in place, offering staff better terms of pay and stability that comes with a track record of steering outstanding and good schools, the best teachers were willing to join Conway primary school's little revolution.
(17) This protein tyrosine kinase called ark (adhesion-related kinase) is likely to represent a new class of receptor tyrosine kinase.
(18) The sequence was very similar to that of the bovine beta ARK (the overall amino acid homology was 98%).
(19) G protein beta gamma subunits were shown to interact directly with the COOH-terminal region of beta ARK, and formation of this beta ARK-beta gamma complex resulted in receptor-facilitated membrane localization of the enzyme.
(20) The beta-adrenergic receptor kinase (beta-ARK), which specifically phosphorylates only the agonist-occupied form of the beta-adrenergic and closely related receptors, appears to be important in mediating rapid agonist-specific (homologous) desensitization.
Arr
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Open Tues-Sat noon-3pm and 7pm-11pm Blind Pig, 4th arr Facebook Twitter Pinterest “Take a large former garage, add a bar, invite different food trucks every week, et voilà !
(2) The postnatal development of the air-righting-reaction (ARR) of the rats was tested for 4 different falling heights (30, 40, 50 and 60 cm) with 3 different loading conditions: artificial alteration of the head, thorax and pelvis mass, respectively.
(3) The lung retention ratio (LRR) and the alveolar deposition ratio (ALDR) are mandatory to calculate the other three indices for quantitatively evaluating mucociliary clearance function of the ciliated airways; the airway deposition ratio (ADR), the airway retention ratio (ARR) and the airway clearance efficiency (ACE).
(4) The doses of bupivacaine producing ARR and SZ were not significantly different (p greater than 0.05).
(5) ARR is believed efficient in the outpatient treatment of broncho-obstructive syndrome.
(6) The observations supported our hypothesis that germinal center development, at least in part, depends on a normal antigen transport by showing that in aged mice with defective antigen transport-related ARR and iccosome deficits there is an impaired development of germinal centers.
(7) KL Arr right, well you might be [Jewish], but actually you are just like a concentration camp guard, you are just doing it because you are paid to, aren't you?
(8) Bacterial strains were characterized by means of water contact angle, microbial adhesion to hydrocarbon (MATH), anion exchange resin retention (ARR) and zeta potential measurements.
(9) ARR was more prevalent as overjet increased, independent of trauma, and oral habits (P = .03).
(10) The present objective was to observe the kinetics of lymph node germinal center development in old mice having antigen transport and ARR deficits.
(11) The catheter-associated strains had significantly higher water contact angles, zeta potentials and ARR values than the non catheter-associated strains.
(12) Except diseases related to atherosclerosis, the past histories accounted for 2.5% or greater were as follows: alcoholism (4.1%), psychiatric disorder (PSY, 2.9%) and valvular heart diseases (VD, 2.6%) in 15-54-year-old males; ischemic heart diseases (IHD, 9.4%), arrhythmia without organic heart diseases (ARR, 2.5%) and VD (2.5%) in 55-74-year-old male; IHD (11.4%), bronchial asthma (3.7%), common cold within one month (CC, 3.6%), cor pulmonale or its related diseases (3.0%) and ARR (2.6%) in male of 75 years old and over; PSY (8.7%), IHD (5.8%), VD (5.1%), pregnancy, delivery or related diseases (4.4%), chronic renal failure (3.6%) and CC (2.9%) in 15-54-year-old females; IHD (10.2%), VD (3.2%) and ARR (2.6%) in 55-74-year-old females; and IHD (11.8%) in females of 75 years old and over.
(13) The amounts of Gs alpha as measured by cholera toxin-dependent (32P)-ADP-ribosylation in the presence of ARR were similar in failing and nonfailing human hearts.
(14) Pyromellitic acid has been covalently coupled to Sepharose-4B with diaminopropanol as spacer arr.
(15) Bupivacaine doses producing the following endpoints were then determined: (1) first ventricular arrhythmia (ARR), (2) seizures (SZ), (3) isoelectric EEG (ISO EEG), and (4) asystole (ASYS).
(16) Open Tues-Sun noon-2am Bespoke, 11th arr Facebook Twitter Pinterest “Paris has plenty of classy, well-run cocktail bars,” says Merci Alfred’s Maxime.
(17) Accordingly, PNA positive germinal centers associated with HRP-retaining (peroxidase positive) ARR were identified as de novo germinal centers and germinal centers not associated with a peroxidase positive ARR were classified as preexisting germinal centers.
(18) Normal values for lung retention ratio (LRR), airway deposition ratio (ADR), airway retention ratio (ARR), airway clearance efficiency (ACE), alveolar deposition ratio (ALDR), and disappearance rate of radioactivity from the ciliated airways (DR) were presented.
(19) It was found that women who performed regular LTPA had a reduced risk of pre-eclampsia (adjusted RR 0.67, 95% CI 0.46-0.96) and gestational hypertension (aRR 0.75, 95% CI 0.54-1.05), and the relative risks decreased as the average time spent in LTPA increased (aRR for pre-eclampsia among women with low, moderate and high energy expenditure: 1.00, 0.77 and 0.57, p = 0.01).
(20) Pretreatment of mice with hot water and alkaline extracts of Catuaba casca (Erythroxylum catuaba Arr.