(v. t.) To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
(v. t.) To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial.
(v. t.) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
(v.) A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
(n.) A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
Example Sentences:
(1) Structure assignment of the isomeric immonium ions 5 and 6, generated via FAB from N-isobutyl glycine and N-methyl valine, can be achieved by their collision induced dissociation characteristics.
(2) A statement from the company said it had assigned all its assets for the benefit of creditors, in accordance with Massachusetts' law.
(3) Five days later, the animals were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups: Group 1 received intracranial implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 2 received intraperitoneal implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 3 received serial intraperitoneal injections of dexamethasone; and Group 4 received sham treatment.
(4) Students are assigned to tutorial groups, and much of the educational thrust of the program is built upon interactions within these groups.
(5) The second triplet, which was stable in the dark at 4.2 K following illumination, was assigned to the radical pair Donor+I-.
(6) After the first stage of analysis the spin systems of 60 of the 77 residues were assigned to the appropriate residue type, providing an ample basis for subsequent sequence-specific assignments.
(7) In an effort to identify the optimal dose and strain of measles vaccination for early immunization, Peruvian infants were randomly assigned to receive one of three measles vaccines in varying doses at 5 to 6 or 8 to 9 months of age.
(8) Independent t test results indicated nurses assigned more importance to psychosocial support and skills training than did patients; patients assigned more importance to sensation--discomfort than did nurses.
(9) Families were randomly assigned to one of two forms of conjoint therapy: an Insight-oriented treatment (N = 10) or a Problem-Solving intervention (N = 10).
(10) Patients were randomly assigned to receive 10 minutes before surgery either I.V.
(11) Some additional amino proton resonances have also been assigned.
(12) These chemical shift assignments have been achieved using 1H-detected two-dimensional heteronuclear 1H-13C correlation techniques.
(13) 7 male and 39 female undergraduates were alternately assigned to rooms painted red or Baker-Miller Pink.
(14) These data agree with the recent assignment of DIA1 to chromosome G22 by Fisher et al.
(15) The sequential resonance assignment of the 1H NMR spectrum of the antihypertensive and antiviral protein BDS-I from the sea anemone Anemonia sulcata is presented.
(16) Following a baseline examination, the furcation-involved molars were randomly assigned in each patient to either a test or a control treatment procedure.
(17) The letter to Florence Nightingale was written by Bernita Decker as part of a nursing course assignment for our Nurse Educator advisor, Betty Pugh.
(18) This initial observation of release of eosinophil chemotactic factor of anaphylaxis in vivo along with histamine assigns the mast cell a central role in cold urticaria.
(19) This assignment was supported by peptide mapping with a tryptophan-specific reagent.
(20) Both amino acids were found to have the L-configuration by GC analysis on a chiral column and alanine was assigned to be the N-terminal amino acid by Edman degradation.
Property
Definition:
(a.) That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as, sweetness is a property of sugar.
(a.) An acquired or artificial quality; that which is given by art, or bestowed by man; as, the poem has the properties which constitute excellence.
(a.) The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying, and disposing of a thing; ownership; title.
(a.) That to which a person has a legal title, whether in his possession or not; thing owned; an estate, whether in lands, goods, or money; as, a man of large property, or small property.
(a.) All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites.
(a.) Propriety; correctness.
(v. t.) To invest which properties, or qualities.
(v. t.) To make a property of; to appropriate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The binding properties of formalin-fixed amelanotic melanoma cells were not identical to those of endothelial or unfixed target cells.
(2) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(3) Compound Z has the properties expected of an oxidized MPT precursor.
(4) This study examined the [3H]5-HT-releasing properties of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and related agents, all of which cause significant release of [3H]5-HT from rat brain synaptosomes.
(5) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
(6) The anticonvulsant properties of the endogenous excitatory amino acid antagonist, kynurenic acid (KYA), were studied in prepubescent and adult rats using the amygdaloid kindling model of epilepsy.
(7) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.
(8) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
(9) Plasma membranes were isolated from rat kidney and their transport properties for sodium, calcium, protons, phosphate, glucose, lactate, and phenylalanine were investigated.
(10) In these liposomes, the amounts and molecular states of SL-MDP were determined from ESR spectra and are discussed in connection with its immunopotentiating property.
(11) Over the past decade the use of monoclonal antibodies has greatly advanced our knowledge of the biological properties and heterogeneity that exist within human tumours, and in particular in lung cancer.
(12) To investigate the immunomodulating properties of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II) (CDDP), we studied the drug's effects on natural killer (NK) lymphocyte cytotoxicity.
(13) These results indicate that both the renal brush-border and basolateral membranes possess the Na(+)-dependent dicarboxylate transport system with very similar properties but with different substrate affinity and transport capacity.
(14) The influence of calcium ions on the electrophoretic properties of phospholipid stabilized emulsions containing various quantities of the sodium salts of oleic acid (SO), phosphatidic acid (SPA), phosphatidylinositol (SPI), and phosphatidylserine (SPS) was examined.
(15) The flow properties of white cells were tested after myocardial infarction, by measuring the filtration rates of cell suspensions through 8 microns pore filters.
(16) • This article was amended on 1 September 2014 because an earlier version described Platinum Property Partners as a buy-to-let mortgage lender.
(17) The seve polypeptide chains investigated had generalyy similar properties; all contained two residues per molecule of tryptophan and N-acetylserine was the common N-terminal amino acid residue.
(18) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
(19) In contrast sham-hemodialysis in group CA and group PS, respectively, did not result in significant increases in amino acid efflux from the leg implying that the protein catabolic effect of blood membrane contact depends on the chemical properties of dialysis membranes.
(20) The favourable properties of one of these agents - n-butyl 2-cyanoacrylate are presented by authors.