(v. t.) To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author.
(v. t.) To attribute, as a quality, or an appurtenance; to consider or allege to belong.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high transition enthalpy for kerasin is ascribed to a lesser accommodation of gauche conformers in the hydrocarbon chains just below the transition temperature.
(2) The high ED50 immediately after vagotomy is ascribed to the sudden fall in the subthreshold release of acetylcholine previously supplied by the intact vagus.
(3) The phenomenon can be ascribed to the decrease in charge density due to the incorporation of dodecyl alcohol into SDS micelles.
(4) The larger accumulation of Mn2+ than of Sr2+ in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is ascribed to the operation of a specific extrusion pump, presumably a Ca2+ pump, which has a higher affinity for Sr2+ than for Mn2+.
(5) The results suggest that in sodium-depleted rats denervation natriuresis can be ascribed neither to strain differences nor to the high sucrose content of the low-sodium diet.
(6) The toxicity at this dose included pericarditis and dyspnoea ascribed to a 'capillary-leak' syndrome.
(7) It is suggested that reduced immunocompetence is the likely mechanism in this case and may also be a contributory factor in those cases which have been ascribed to the use of alkylating agents or radiation.
(8) Based on these characteristics, we tentatively ascribe this activity to hepatic very low density lipoprotein, the serum counterpart of which is known to express many immunoregulatory properties.
(9) The disappearance of this band on heating and at high pH was ascribed to the adoption by the telopeptide of a specific tertiary structure.
(10) The clinical findings ascribed to trisomy 1q and partial monosomy 9p are summarized and compared to this case.
(11) The latter practice has previously been ascribed to imprinting and the soothing sound of the mother's heartbeat on the infant.
(12) Although there was no significant difference in overall mortality between the groups, fewer deaths were ascribed to acute systemic fungal infections in the group receiving fluconazole than in the group receiving placebo (1 of 179 vs. 10 of 177, P less than 0.001).
(13) It is concluded that most, if not all, of these marker enzymes in the Golgi fraction cannot be ascribed to contamination by the non-Golgi organelles.
(14) The finding is at variance with others that ascribe haemostatic changes observed to increased oestrogen content in a given pill formulation and so merits confirmation in a larger study.
(15) In the cases of carminomycin and 6-deoxycarminomycin, which both have another phenolic group at C4, two phenolic ionization processes can be detected in the experimentally accessible pH range (5-12): these are ascribed to C4-OH and C11-OH.
(16) This antigen thus seems to play a role in the intercellular contacts; this is the first function ascribed to this FDC specific antigen.
(17) The pathogenetic investigation suggested that cystic endometriosis in the ovary might mainly be ascribed to the endometrioid metaplasia of the celomic epithelium and that non-cystic endometriosis might occasionally originate from metastasis or implantation of endometrial tissues.
(18) There is a real danger in ascribing New Orleans’ situation over the last decade to the storm.
(19) Since muscle contraction ceases immediately following nerve transection, regardless of nerve stump length, the results can be ascribed to the lack of some neural influence other than nerve-evoked muscle activity.
(20) We conclude that the increase in blood-brain barrier permeability due to amitriptyline may be ascribed at least in part to an increase of pinocytotic activity in brain capillary endothelial cells.
Inscribe
Definition:
(v. t.) To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint.
(v. t.) To mark with letters, charakters, or words.
(v. t.) To assign or address to; to commend to by a shot address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend.
(v. t.) To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp; as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory.
(v. t.) To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the absence of motion, this point source inscribes a straight line on planar summation of the 32 projections over 180 degrees.
(2) As the silt cleared, we found ourselves on a flat plain of yellow-tinged mud, inscribed with pits, burrows and tracks by species that eke out their existence on the detritus that settles from above.
(3) Propagated PVB's were inscribed by the model when criteria for excitation, dispersion, and conduction were met based on known electrophysiological characteristics of heart muscle.
(4) Henry, the victor of Bosworth Field in 1485, when he took the crown from the dead head of the last Plantagenet, Richard III, will be represented by a book of hours that he inscribed as a gift to his daughter.
(5) The anisotropic period, 7 days long, is inscribed within the ferning period.
(6) The Tower’s steps are covered in golden slime, and on its walls crawls a “rich greenlike moss” that inscribes letters and words on the masonry – before entering and authoring the bodies of the explorers themselves.
(7) Finally, the theory of the madness of the masses (Massenwahntheorie) stated by Broch--a double madness, of fragmentation, on the one hand, and of aberration and paranoia of power, on the other--shows a universally valid analysis in which the particular, recurrent tragic model of our culture inscribes itself.
(8) Concerned about the busy three-lane road we were standing next to, we quickly picked her up, checked her collar and rang the phone number inscribed on it.
(9) Today there is only the headstone, inscribed with an Islamic star and crescent, standing among dozens of Christian crosses of other veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan in the cemetery’s section 60, the plot called “the saddest acre in America”.
(10) The violent images from that period 10 years ago – of Israeli security forces expelling Jews from their houses – remain indelibly inscribed in the settler community’s consciousness, and are viewed like kryptonite by Israel’s most rightwing government ever.
(11) The tablet, inscribed with an exhortation to honor King Tukulti-Ninurta I, was excavated a century ago by German archaeologists from the Ishtar Temple in what's now northern Iraq.
(12) The difficult question now is how to sort out these remaining issues without the crushing time pressure that leads to botched drafting which, in a royal charter world, become inscribed on vellum and extremely difficult to modify.
(13) The mid-temporal vectors were located in the left postero-superior octant, and the late portion of the loop was inscribed anteriorly to the right with conspicuous conduction delay.
(14) The impact reaches far beyond the figures inscribed on a Test-match scorebook and debases the credibility of the entire sport.
(15) Cementum was removed from the exposed root surfaces, and reference notches were inscribed into the roots at the alveolar bone margin.
(16) In the two C-141 transport planes that carried them, they had packed: 23 wooden crates; 12 suitcases and bags, and various boxes, whose contents included enough clothes to fill 67 racks; 413 pieces of jewellery, including 70 pairs of jewel-studded cufflinks; an ivory statue of the infant Jesus with a silver mantle and a diamond necklace; 24 gold bricks, inscribed “To my husband on our 24th anniversary”; and more than 27m Philippine pesos in freshly-printed notes.
(17) Chisel in hand, he walked slowly around the base of his giant sculpture, carefully inspecting the detail on the eagle crest in front, and the name inscribed on the back – John Garang de Mabior.
(18) Categories of unipolar electrograms were defined with reference to the QRS complex during sinus rhythm as follows: Class A included electrograms with an intrinsic deflection inscribed within the QRS complex, class B included those which did not exhibit any intrinsic rs deflection, and class C included those with an intrinsic deflection inscribed later than QRS.
(19) The A-wave reappeared clearly in 30% of the operated patients, and the outline of the posterior leaflet was no longer inscribed in the anterior leaflet diastolic curve in all cases; the amplitude CE was unchanged.
(20) At any equivalent diastolic filling time, the percent of the integrated area beneath the curve inscribed by the diastolic anterior mirtal leaflet echoes closely approximated the percent of stroke volume which had entered the left ventricle.