(n.) One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
(n.) Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer.
(n.) A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant.
(n.) A tree or plant yielding fruit; as, a good bearer.
(n.) One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer.
(n.) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, MPA did not enhance survival when given concurrently with radiotherapy; indeed, at the higher of these two doses, median survival of tumor-bearers was slightly less than with radiotherapy alone.
(2) The next implanted device will have: a. constant current; b. programming of a particular current value for each electrode; and c. stimulation of the cochlear nerve through an extra cochlear electrode bearer, allowing deep implantation without deafness.
(3) The company was “owned” by four bearer shareholders, which gave it an extra degree of secrecy.
(4) The mitogenic response of some but not all hyporesponsive spleens from autochthonous tumor bearers was restored after removal of phagocytic macrophages.
(5) The PHA response remained greatly depressed in CY-treated MOPC-315 tumor bearers, even 14 days after the chemotherapy.
(6) The Lyt-2+ T-cells, and not the L3T4+ T-cells, were also found to be important for the ability of the intact L-PAM-cured MOPC-315 tumor bearers to reject a challenge with MOPC-315 tumor cells.
(7) Conor, an academic at La Trobe University in Melbourne , later told Guardian Australia that the language from Leyonhjelm was “not what you would expect from the bearer of public office”, but noted that the Liberal Democrat has a history of colourful language.
(8) Tumor bearers were depleted in vivo of selective T-cell subsets by the systemic administration of specific monoclonal antibodies before rHTNF therapy.
(9) The same treatment only marginally affected cytotoxic levels of nylon adherent cells from tumor bearers, indicating that these effectors are primarily of non-NK lineage.
(10) The organs of the reticuloendothelial system of normal mice accumulated more labeled antibody than did those of tumor bearers, and conversely, tumor bearers had higher levels of circulating labeled antibody in the blood than normals.
(11) Regional lymph node cells were significantly cytolytic for the immunizing tumors, specifically so for three of the four tumors, and tumor-bearer sera could significantly block cytolysis.
(12) Or as a “senior source close to Abbott’ told the Daily Telegraph , “his intention is to be a standard-bearer for the conservatives” with “the problem for the Liberal party” being “if it is seen as a centre-left party rather than a centre-right party”.
(13) So will our only flag-bearer for high-speed rail cope?
(14) Eleven or more days after tumour inoculation the proportions of tumour-bearer splenic leucocytes expressing Ly 1.2 (CD5), Ly 2.2 (CD8a) or L3T4 (CD4) surface antigens were significantly less than similar preparations from normal animals.
(15) In addition, immunization cultures containing normal spleen cells and thymocytes from L-PAM-treated MOPC-315 tumor bearers exhibit enhanced antitumor cytotoxicity by Day 4 after culture initiation that persists for at least 3 additional days.
(16) Adenosine deaminase activity was within the control limits in tumor-bearing Swiss mice and significantly increased for the tumor-bearers of the NMRI strain.
(17) injection of 10 micrograms of rMuTNF in non-tumor bearers was lethal in 3 to 5 hr, whereas 2 micrograms was not.
(18) Heat-stressed twin-bearers were 0.15 degrees hotter than single-bearers and bore lighter kids (1.70 kg), than unstressed does (2.24 kg) while singles were less affected (2.22 kg versus 2.28 kg).
(19) Using the T cell fractions, only those derived from tumor bearer spleens were active.
(20) When compared with pair-fed nontumor bearers, the differences in rates of total hepatocyte protein synthesis reached statistical significance only when the tumor burden exceeded 5% of total body weight.
Bringer
Definition:
(n.) One who brings.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
(2) The service is divided into two, for those that want to send an item and “bringers” who can transport it.
(3) But Holst's approach was astrological, not astronomical, reflecting not scientific knowledge but the alleged effects of the planets on the human psyche: Jupiter the bringer of joy, Neptune the mystic and Mars the bringer of war.
(4) In a similar vein to other businesses that operate in the informal sharing economy, the personal contact between sender and bringer is key, said Kestin.
(5) But although that past may be a public relations problem for Jimmy Wales as he tries to present himself as a benevolent bringer of knowledge (not "altruistic", given his large speaking fees and venture-capital-funded startup), rather than a businessman wanting to run digital sharecropping sites, it also means he's thoroughly familiar with social and legal issues applicable to sexual material while having little patience with activists or shock jocks.
(6) You do a handshake with the person, you don’t do a handshake with the company.” Although email, mobile phone and credit card details are taken off the bringers and they can be rated from one to five on their accounts, the system is not completely secure, he said.
(7) Photograph: Graeme Robertson Bringers have their regular journeys logged into the site, which then notifies them when a suitable candidate for a delivery comes up.
(8) Isis establishes the dominant image of women in the art of the region: bringer of life, defier of death, healer, benign magician, loyal and nurturing in her roles of sister, wife, lover and mother.
(9) I will make a bet that 90% of the places that you go to are your office, your home, your family.” In Norway, the company sees up to 80 requests for delivery go through the site every day – of which about 68 are met by bringers.
(10) They were once the star royal family of Europe , seen as hard-working, frugal, modern and genuinely popular among ordinary Spaniards who adored King Juan Carlos as the great bringer of democracy.