(n.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.
Example Sentences:
(1) At sufficiently high laser intensities, a photostationary mixture of bacteriorhodopsin (BR) and its red-shifted (batho) photoproduct (K) is obtained.
(2) The Batho power-law formula is in common use in many treatment planning systems to correct for the presence of lungs and other inhomogeneities.
(3) Reirradiation of the batho product with light at wavelengths longer than 520 nm yielded a mixture composed of presumably 9- or 11-cis forms of retro-gamma-rhodopsin.
(4) It was converted to the lumi intermediate through a metastable species, the BL intermediate, which has never been detected in Rh(9) at low temperature and whose absorption maximum was at shorter wavelengths than that of the batho intermediate.
(5) The lung dose correction was calculated using the methods of Batho or ratio of TMR.
(6) On irradiation with blue light at -191 degrees C, 9-cis-10-F-rhodopsin was converted to another bathochromic intermediate that was different in absorption spectrum from batho-10-F-rhodopsin.
(7) For high energies, however, it is more accurate in the build-up region than other commonly used correction techniques such as the ratio-of-TMR or Batho methods.
(8) It is suggested that in 5,6-diH-ISORHO, a primary bathorhodopsin intermediate analogous to the bathorhodopsin intermediate (BATHO) of the native pigment, rapidly converts to a blue-shifted intermediate (BSI, lambda max 430 nm) which is not observed after photolysis of native rhodopsin.
(9) Based on these results, it was infered that the formation of batho-rhodopsin is due to photoisomerization of the chromophoric retinal of rhodopsin and is not due to translocation of a proton on the ring or on the side chain from C-6 to C-8 of the chromophoric retinal to the Schiff-base nitrogen.
(10) It is shown that when BATHO is formed its transition dipole moves away from the original cis band transition dipole direction.
(11) Upon irradiation with red light at -191 degrees C, batho-12-F-rhodopsin was converted to a mixture of 12-F-rhodopsin and 9-cis-12-F-rhodopsin like that of the natural bathorhodopsin, whereas batho-10-F-rhodopsin was not converted to 9-cis-10-F-rhodopsin but only to 10-F-rhodopsin.
(12) The angles between both these transition dipoles and those of the long-wave-length bands of BATHO, BSI, and LUMI are also determined.
(13) "Track was originally offered to Christina Aguilera ," continued the subheading, with a detectable note of bathos.
(14) It is proposed that the rate of the BATHO to BSI transition is limited by the relaxation of the strained all-trans-retinal chromophore within a tight protein environment.
(15) It is concluded that in all of the pigments the results are consistent with the formation of an equilibrium between BATHO and BSI, which subsequently decays on a nanosecond time scale at room temperature to a lumirhodopsin intermediate.
(16) It is easy to understand Alastair Campbell's verdict on the unmanly spectacle of the governor's departure on the lease-expired colony of Hong Kong, an event which matches the taking leave of Granada by Boabdil, the last Moorish king of Spain, for dramatic bathos.
(17) These results suggest that the batho-lumi transition of iodopsin at low temperature is likely to be inhibited by the Cl- bound to the protein moiety of iodopsin, while at room temperature the Cl- bound to iodopsin could be released on the conversion process of batho- to lumiiodopsin.
(18) Inactivation by chelating agents such as o-phenanthroline or batho-phenanthroline sulfonic acid occurs only in the presence of reducing agents (mercaptoethanol and ascorbic acid).
(19) The photoproduct produced by the irradiation of AcRh(9) had an absorption spectrum red shifted from the original AcRh(9) and was identified as the batho intermediate of AcRh(9).
(20) Yesterday's push by Barclays into South Africa - by spending rand 33bn (£2.9bn) to buy a 60% stake in local banking group Absa - has the enthusiastic endorsement of the local black economic empowerment group Batho Bonke and the approval of the government.
Exaggerate
Definition:
(v. t.) To heap up; to accumulate.
(v. t.) To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to overstate the truth concerning.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was concluded that B. pertussis infection-induced hypoglycaemia was secondary to hyperinsulinaemia, possibly caused by an exaggerated insulin secretory response to food intake.
(2) Conclusion 1 says that "deliberate attempts were made to frustrate these interviews" – which appears to be an exaggeration.
(3) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
(4) In short, it says the IPCC exaggerates the warming effect of CO2.
(5) The government argued these reports were exaggerated.
(6) The exaggerated buckles used do not allow these monkeys to serve as a clinical model and great caution is stressed in making clinical extrapolations.
(7) These initial reflex responses were exaggerated in the spastics as compared with the normals.
(8) We interpret this exaggerated positive attitude as an attempt to overcome inner fears, doubts and ambivalences.
(9) Historically, what made SNL’s campaign coverage so necessary was its ability to highlight the subtle absurdities of the election and exaggerate the ridiculous.
(10) Most patients with abnormal OGTT's fell into the latter group, but some had glucose intolerance without either an exaggerated insulin response or insulin resistance.
(11) Exaggerations of this presumed daily incremental rhythm lead to the formation of the more major incremental lines which can also be visualized by scanning electron microscopy.
(12) An exaggerated insulin response to oral glucose was associated with reactive hypoglycemia in the post-gastrectomy syndrome, in normal-weight patients with chemical diabetes and 44% of the patients with the isolated syndrome.
(13) Both the absence of exaggerated splay in patients with reduction of glomerular filtration rate by as much as 85%, and the emergence of exaggerated splay in patients with more marked reduction of GFR, require explanation.
(14) In the case of PCP, however exaggerated the story, a real danger does exist.
(15) R6-PKC3 cells also show an exaggerated response to very low concentrations of serum, when compared to R6-C1 control cells.
(16) It was abnormal in its resistance to habituation and in its exaggerated motor response.
(17) This increase is exaggerated when hematocrit levels are increased and the cells are hypochromic and microcytic.
(18) These changes were of equal magnitude and in some cases tended to be exaggerated during the second and third matches.
(19) A more objective consideration relates to the observed late, progressive deleterious influences of hyperfiltration imposed upon the reduced population of surviving nephrons (3); would this process been exaggerated by improved perfusion?
(20) The prose rhythm and colloquial diction here work against exaggeration, but allow for humour.