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Ax


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Axe
  • (v. t. & i.) To ask; to inquire or inquire of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With an additional procedure of adrenalectomy (BN + Ax), the enzyme activity failed to show any increase in ARF rats produced by BN.
  • (2) 3H-Ax was found in the liver of all trout indicating that 3H-Cx and 3H-Zx were Ax precursors, and that salmonids probably possess carotenoid oxidative pathways unknown until now.
  • (3) MBC increased significantly in Ax animals treated with dexamethasone (Ax + D) and in Tx + Ax + D compared with the Tx and control groups.
  • (4) All samples are well detected by anti-B from AW, Aend, Ax, Am but none is detected by anti-B from ABx, Cis AB, or by an auto-anti-B.
  • (5) Subunit X, which is also a component of the anthranilate synthase complex, has no PABA synthase activity itself but complexes with subunit A to give an AX aggregate that can use glutamine as a substrate.
  • (6) The AX actin was incorporated into the cytoskeletal fraction with the same efficiency as beta- and gamma-actin.
  • (7) Three patients are reported on who suffered anaphylactic reactions after amoxycillin (AX) treatment and challenge but tolerated benzylpenicillin (BP) parenterally and orally.
  • (8) Reagent prepared from BIRMA-1 detected most examples of Ax and all other A subgroups and A variants tested.
  • (9) The mixture of oligosaccharides was converted to the reduced p-aminobenzoic ethyl ester (ABEE) derivative and the components separated by HPLC on an ion-exchange (AX-10) column.
  • (10) Temporal differentiation by man was studied for intervals from 50 to 700 msec my means of the traditional method of constant stimulus differences (AX) and combinations of AX with methods of multiplication by two and three (AB-2 and AB-3).
  • (11) In cell homogenates of Dictyostelium discoideum, strain AX-2, four major soluble protein kinases (ATP:protein phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.37) and one membrane-associated protein kinase activity were identified.
  • (12) The AX labeling reponses showed large contrast effects (both proactive and retroactive) that were greatly reduced when auditory memory was interfered with.
  • (13) We have isolated cDNA clones-coding for rat intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (RICAM-1) from a cDNA library constructed from rat Ax cells stimulated with IL-1 beta using the mouse ICAM-1 cDNA as a hybridization probe.
  • (14) Patients were treated with either tangential fields alone (n = 508) or tangents with a third field to the supraclavicular (SC) or SC-axillary (AX) region (n = 1116).
  • (15) From the above results, CXM-AX is considered to be a useful drug like CCL in the treatment of acute dental infections.
  • (16) The ionic species of cytosol estrogen receptors from mature rat uteri have been compared by HPIEC on a SynChrom AX-1000 column when complexed with either [125I]iodoestradiol, [3H]estradiol or [3H]4-hydroxy tamoxifen.
  • (17) Acetylcholine (ACh) almost completely abolished the Iso-induced increase in m,,ax observed from postgestation day 18 to neonatal day 20; this developmental time course for the ACh effect is consistent with the finding that the number of muscarinic cholinoceptors started to increase on post-gestation day 16 and reached a peak on the day of birth.
  • (18) First, we developed a method to purify swine (Po), rabbit (Rb), mouse (Mo), cobra (Co), Xenopus (Xe), axolotl (Ax), and trout (Tr) C3 from plasma.
  • (19) Isolated total viral RNA is end-labeled in vitro, and tRNA subgroups are fractionated using commercial Nucleobond AX-20 mini columns.
  • (20) Two-hundred and fifty micrograms of aldosterone, mixed with sesame oil, was given subcutaneously in the NX-AX-A rats.

Blackguard


Definition:

  • (n.) The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army.
  • (n.) The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.
  • (n.) A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.
  • (n.) A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.
  • (v. t.) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
  • (a.) Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here he is on the Nasty Party in 1835, in a letter to Catherine Hogarth (soon to take the name Dickens, as his wife): "... a ruthless set of bloody-minded villains... perfect savage... superlative blackguards..." Two days later he ended another letter: "P.S.