(n.) A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment.
(n.) A collection of inanimate objects.
(n.) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
Example Sentences:
(1) The assembly reaction is accompanied by characteristic changes in fluorescence emission and dichroic absorption.
(2) Despite their absence, photoreceptors maintained a normal rate of OS assembly.
(3) 2009 Visits the US for first time to address the UN general assembly.
(4) A sperm whale myoglobin gene containing multiple unique restriction sites has been constructed in pUC 18 by sequential assembly of chemically synthesized oligonucleotide fragments.
(5) We have examined the in vitro membrane assembly characteristics of a variety of leader peptidase mutants and found that domains required for insertion in vivo are also necessary for insertion in vitro.
(6) The functions of O-GlcNAc remain largely unknown, but it may be important in blocking phosphorylation sites, it may be required for the assembly of specific multiprotein complexes, it might serve as a nuclear transport signal, or it may be directly involved in the active transport of macromolecules across nuclear pores.
(7) The effects of the steroid hormones 17 beta-estradiol (E2) and progesterone on N-linked glycoprotein assembly in ovariectomized mice have been examined.
(8) We therefore conclude that widely spaced (and unknown) parts of the protein chain are required for the intersubunit interactions that eventually lead to functional assembly of the receptor.
(9) Testis MAPs promoted microtubule assembly, but to a lesser degree than brain MAPs.
(10) Ultrastructual analysis indicated that the majority of the microtubules assembled predominantly from the pericentriolar material but also onto the centrioles.
(11) Although lipopolysaccharides seem to play a significant role in the final assembly of the trimeric porins, the details of the targeting process still remain to be elucidated.
(12) Surrounding intact ipsilateral structures are more important for the recovery of some of the language functions, such as motor output and phonemic assembly, than homologous contralateral structures.
(13) We assume that the fragments have been assembled and address the problem of determining the degree to which the reconstructed sequence is free from errors, i.e., its accuracy.
(14) The increase in human leukocyte adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate (cyclic AMP) levels seen in response to various substances was markedly potentiated by colchicine and other agents that affect microtubule assembly.
(15) It is likely the signal for the inhibition of cell proliferation is regulated by the same cell surface modulating assembly that controls the mobility of cell surface receptors.
(16) Fifty-one severely retarded adults were taught a difficult visual discrimination in an assembly task by one of three training techniques: (a) adding and reducing large cue differences on the relevant-shape dimension; (b) adding and fading a redundant-color dimension; or (c) a combination of the two techniques.
(17) The secrecy worries me if those decisions are being made without giving us the ability to hold them to account,” says Conservative London Assembly member Andrew Boff.
(18) As a member of the state Assembly, Walker voted for a bill known as the Woman’s Right to Know Act, which required physicians to provide women with full information prior to an abortion and established a 24-hour waiting period in the hope that some women might change their mind about undergoing the procedure.
(19) The antibody reacted specifically with two high molecular weight polypeptides of the MAP 1 class, designated MAP 1.1 and MAP 1.2, and also with the surfaces of MAP 1-containing microtubules that had been assembled in vitro.
(20) Parameters affecting assembly of these complexes were sequences in circular DNA templates, sizes and sequences of linear DNA templates, temperature and incubation time.
Conclave
Definition:
(n.) The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.
(n.) The body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope; hence, the body of cardinals.
(n.) A private meeting; a close or secret assembly.
Example Sentences:
(1) A month later, the papal conclave chose as his successor 76-year-old Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, elevating the son of Italian immigrants to the highest office in the church.
(2) The second is that almost eight years after voting in the conclave that chose Benedict XVI, Cardinal Keith O'Brien seems too irredeemably tainted by scandal and allegations of hypocrisy to find himself electing any future popes.
(3) Only three of the nine previous conclaves since 1900 have ended sooner.
(4) He told her: This is my first time here [in the Vatican during a conclave] and I feel so happy and privileged to be here at this particular time so I can see the smoke with my naked eye instead of on television.
(5) Meanwhile,it is expected that the conclave of Cardinals due to select a new leader of the world's 1.2bn Catholics could start as soon as next week.
(6) #Conclave March 13, 2013 1.20pm GMT The final word on the composition of the holy smoke goes to the New York Times .
(7) Letters inviting cardinals to join the conclave will be sent out on Friday, but the first meetings to discuss a new pope are unlikely to take place before next Monday, with the conclave itself following a few days later.
(8) Michael Kelly (@MichaelKellyIC) It used to be a theology qualification was useful to cover the Vatican, now I'm wishing I did chemistry #Conclave March 13, 2013 12.19pm GMT The Vatican spokespeople seem to be getting a bit bogged down in descriptions of the smoke-making process.
(9) If pressed, they go into conclave and agree to forgive the foreigners; the lack of manners is doubtless the result of an Eton education.
(10) More than 2,500 of globalisation's movers and shakers gather for their annual four-day mountaintop conclave this week, aware that the world is still being shaken by the events of half a decade ago.
(11) Asked about speculation that he could himself emerge from the conclave as Benedict's successor, he said: "I've always answered, 'If it's the will of God.'"
(12) In 2003 Pope John Paul II made him only the third Scottish cardinal since the Reformation, and in 2005 O'Brien was part of the conclave that appointed Pope Benedict.
(13) The conclave In one of his last acts as pope, Benedict issued a decree on Monday to allow the cardinals to bring forward the start of the conclave – which takes its name from the Latin phrase cum clave ("with key") and refers to the fact the cardinals used to be locked in until they made their choice – meaning the gathering could begin as soon as next week.
(14) He added that interpretations of the report were creating "a tension that is the opposite of what the pope and the church want" in the approach to the conclave of cardinals that will elect Benedict's successor.
(15) 7.54pm GMT New York magazine's Kevin Roose breaks down the Roman Catholic Church's financial empire: The new pope, who is being elected at a conclave that began today, will not only take control of one of the world's major religions; he will also oversee a massive religious business whose holdings are worth billions of dollars, but whose finances on a yearly basis are often rocky.[...]
(16) Despite papal fiction being such a crowded church, Harris, in Conclave , contrives a twist involving the number of cardinal-electors that seems to me completely new, showing that the genre still has possibilities.
(17) During 1958's conclave BarÇa beat Real Madrid 4-0 , and in 1978 they put four past Las Palmas.
(18) Now we’re down to 250,000, living in a state of siege.” Conclave , Harris’s 11th novel, wasn’t an easy book to write, but it was a fairly fast one.
(19) On 22 February, the cardinal gave an interview to the BBC about going to the conclave.
(20) The playlist is intended to give the listener a disposition of wonder, of contemplation, of prayer to the God who first loved us.” So, starting with some Palestrina and taking in some Holst, Vaughan Williams and John Rutter, here is the official Songs for the Conclave playlist .