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Aye


Definition:

  • (adv.) Alt. of Ay
  • (n.) An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, "To call for the ayes and noes;" "The ayes have it."
  • (a.) Alt. of Ay

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Digestion of aye-aye fixed metaphase chromosomes with the restriction endonuclease HaeIII produced G-banding.
  • (2) Jasmin Lorch, from the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies in Hamburg, said: “If the military gets the feeling that its vested interests are threatened, it can always act as a veto player and block further reforms.” The New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch said the elections were fundamentally flawed, citing a lack of an independent election commission with its leader, chairman U Tin Aye, both a former army general and former member of the ruling party.
  • (3) 'Aye,' Moyes says, eyes fixed firmly on the road, 'it'll be hard.'
  • (4) While the government has seemingly taken steps to address the issue, a Rakhine inquiry commission set up in August raised eyebrows after it emerged there was not a single Rohingya representative on the commission, yet its chairman, Aye Maung, heads the RNDP, and another of its representatives, Ko Ko Gyi, has previously stated that Rohingya are "invading" Burma.
  • (5) In the "Aye, naw, mibbe" discussion, I was a definite "mibbe".
  • (6) These teeth are not much wider or thicker than those of the extant aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis), but their arc of curvature is noticeably greater.
  • (7) I'd reply "aye right" using respectful Japanese logographs, but this computer doesn't have the character set.
  • (8) Updated at 3.31pm BST 1.54pm BST 49th over: England 91-5 (Root 11, Ali 26) I wonder if Sri Lanka are beginning to wonder - Mathews getting stuck into Root suggests mebbes aye, and according to Bumble, the middle is nurturing a pleasing and increasing heat.
  • (9) The quote "To be or not to be, aye there's the point" originally said "I there's the point."
  • (10) However, we would feel a betrayal very deeply when we were promised time after time by Nicola, by John Swinney, by all her MSPs, MPs, MEPs and councillors that this was ‘once in a generation’ and we were told by the end of the campaign it was ‘once in a lifetime’.” Jim Murphy joked that Sturgeon had gone from leader of the yes campaign to head of the “maybes ayes, maybes naws” campaign.
  • (11) Part of NLD’s policy is to defend human rights and democracy,” said Mya Aye, a rejected Muslim candidate from NLD, “but rejecting Muslim candidates from their party is rejecting the rights of five million Muslim minorities.” In her first trip ever to Rakhine, Suu Kyi will campaign for three days in Taungup, Thandwe and Gwa towns in southern part of the state, where the NLD support is the strongest.
  • (12) No player or players have been involved in any mutiny" 11.20am BST Luis, Luis, aye-yi-yi-yi ...
  • (13) The history of the aye-aye in captivity outside Madagascar is briefly reviewed.
  • (14) Two of the three drilled aye-aye incisors collected in 1901 by Grandidier at the subfossil site of Lamboharana were recently rediscovered in uncatalogued collections of the Institut de Paléontologie in Paris.
  • (15) These observations of the aye-aye in a forest of higher altitude suggest a still much wider distribution of this species than previously thought.
  • (16) One of the letters was start-to-finish in Scots, and made me grin: “Aye, ah wis fair taen wi this mairvellous ‘word hoard’ ye hae dug up!!
  • (17) "Aye, but he has," said a growly Labour voice, referring to Cameron's jolly social sessions with the News Corp bosses.
  • (18) AYED's external consultation at the National Institute of Ophthalmology.
  • (19) The karyotype of a prosimian primate, the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis), is described.
  • (20) Her approval has seemed likely since at least two weeks ago, when her nomination was passed out of the judiciary committee with 12 “aye” votes, including three from Republicans.

Pye


Definition:

  • (n.) See 2d Pie (b).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Closed circular pYe(ARG4)411 DNA was detected in transformant DNA preparations by hybridization to pBR322 DNA and by transformation of E. coli to ampicillin resistance.
  • (2) The substrates have been used in a spectrophotometric assay of PyEs and in a staining method to locate PyEs on polyacrylamide electrophoresis.
  • (3) "The bass really vibrates along the floorboards at Pye and one night we were in the middle of a take and it was really moving, going home.
  • (4) Deputy clerk of the Senate, Richard Pye, has kindly given a translation.
  • (5) Poets laureate were given sherry until Henry Pye, in 1790, relinquished his butt in exchange for a £27 yearly fee.
  • (6) Senior G4S personnel, including McCaffrey and centre manager Kevin Pye, who were present on both nights of violence, repeatedly denied that G4S had handed over management of the centre on the evening of 17 February, an allegation reported by ABC TV , based on a guard’s accounts.
  • (7) A hybrid ColE1 plasmid [pYe(trp5)1], containing a yeast DNA segment that complements auxotrophic point mutations and deletions in the Escherichia coli tryptophan synthetase gene (trpAB), has been isolated.
  • (8) Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Candida maltosa and Pichia guilliermondii have been transformed by the plasmid pYe(ARG4)411, which contains the S. cerevisiae ARG4 gene inserted into pBR322.
  • (9) Southern blotting assay of transformant chromosomal DNA indicates that reconstitution of ade2 defective gene is related with its "correction", owing to integration of pYE(ADE2)2 sequence in the vicinity of the mutant locus.
  • (10) A PYE UNICAM spectrophotometer was used, with KBr pellet technique.
  • (11) Extracts were evaporated to dryness, whereupon the residues were dissolved in 5 ml of acetone or petroleum ether, and were analysed by gas chromotography (series 104 Pye Unicam gas chromotograph fitted with ECD and TID detectors).
  • (12) MB • Aberdeen move to within a point of Celtic after comeback at Partick Thistle • Steven Pye: when Aberdeen ruled Scottish football Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mathias Pogba moved from Crawley Town to Partick Thistle last summer but has found goals hard to come by north of the border.
  • (13) In 1954 he married a teacher, Margaret Pye, from Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and moved with her to London.
  • (14) In particular the experimental work which has been modelled is that of Lanyon, Goodship, Pye and McFie.
  • (15) The red adenine-dependent mutants ade1 of the yeast Pichia pinus blocked in the VI step of adenine biosynthesis (lack of AIR-carboxylase) and ade2 mutants blocked in the VII step of adenine biosynthesis (lack of SAIKAR-synthase) were transformed with the plasmid pYE(ADE2)2 containing ADE2 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae encoding AIR-carboxylase.
  • (16) Red adenine-dependent mutants of Hansenula polymorpha, Pichia guilliermondii, Williopsis saturnus yeasts have been transformed by the plasmid pYE (ADE2) 2 DNA containing ADE2 gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
  • (17) But the commission was careful to include a wide range of views, including Pye Jakobsson , who has worked in the Swedish sex industry for several years and has actively campaigned against the criminalisation of punters, and other pro-prostitution activists.
  • (18) The ionic concentrations were determined using a Pye Unicam SP atomic absorption spectrophotometer.
  • (19) Since yeast cells transformed by this plasmid poorly secreted RNase into the medium, the plasmid pYE RNAP-Rh was constructed, in which the signal sequence of RNase Rh was replaced by the prepro-sequence of aspartic proteinase-I, one of the extracellular enzymes secreted by R. niveus.
  • (20) Prepared standards of halothane in oxygen were analysed using a Pye Series 104 gas chromatograph equipped with a heated head flame ionization detector and gas sampling valve.

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