(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.
Cheque
Definition:
(n.) See Check.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is code for so-called "helicopter drops" of money, in which the Treasury would effectively write cheques to the public.
(2) You're staring at the five-figure pay cheque you'll get… if… If!
(3) The video ends with: "It begins with us" – a message that suggests Obama needs activists willing to knock on doors, rather than just write cheques to cover the estimated $1bn (£620m) cost of the campaign.
(4) It would also authorise the use of US forces in situations where ground combat operations are not expected or intended, such as intelligence collection and sharing, missions to enable kinetic strikes, or the provision of operational planning and other forms of advice and assistance to partner forces.” The White House insists the AUMF does not confer authority for “long-term, large-scale ground combat operations”, but the language has already raised concerns among Democrats that it gives the White House another “blank cheque” for open-ended war wherever it chooses.
(5) But Saeid Golkar, lecturer at Northwestern University in the United States and senior fellow at Chicago Council on Global Affairs, believes the ‘pay cheque scandal’ may have indirectly revealed another potential ‘principle-ist’ contender in Parviz Fattah, head of the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee.
(6) Talk rarely tends this way with an actor who’s found a good slot, more inclined as a result to play safe and spray out buttery praise in all directions, at co-stars, crew, studios, cheque-signers.
(7) Tory hedge fund and multimillionaire donors will face no similar restrictions, leaving boards free to write hefty cheques backing the Tory party.
(8) As good a way as any would have been to have followed the Twitter feed of one of his backbench MPs, Gloria De Piero, who was tweeting: “The government has a mandate to open Brexit negotiations but not a blank cheque that puts jobs, workers’ rights and our economy at risk.” Instead, he chose to go for a feeble joke.
(9) Second, although businesses will write the cheque for the employers' increased NI contributions, they might not actually pay.
(10) In Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg , Germany, Austria, France and Ireland the number of Britons banking unemployment cheques is almost three times as high as the nationals of those countries receiving parallel UK benefits – 23,011 Britons to 8,720 nationals of those nine countries in the UK.
(11) Mackay's team stand four points outside the relegation zone, and Mackay was hoping he would receive the board's cheque-book backing midway through the campaign.
(12) Although it will include some $150bn in tax relief for people on low and middle incomes, the Obama administration's emphasis on spending marks a shift from the approach of George Bush, who tried to stimulate the economy over the summer simply by sending out millions of tax rebate cheques.
(13) Various Voices: Prose, Poetry and Politics 1948-98 is published by Faber (£9.99).To order it at the special price of £7.99 plus 99p p&p, freephone 0500 600 102 or send a cheque payable to The Guardian CultureShop to 250 Western Avenue, London, W3 6EE.
(14) Other money was spent on political campaigns in unions and in the ALP.” Jackson withdrew a total $239,837 in cashed cheques, gave $100 each to branch committee of management members at meetings, and kept the balance in a “kitty”.
(15) But the UK will not be writing any blank cheques, as Cameron showed when he vetoed a proposed amendment to the Lisbon treaty last December that would have embedded the new eurozone fiscal compact within the architecture of the EU.
(16) "They are the ones who sign my cheque Mom, they are the ones who help me support my family."
(17) In response to his demand, anti-gay marriage organisers urged supporters to send cheques for between 10 centimes and €1 to the Paris city hall; about 9,000 people did so.
(18) No, my question is why, at the point when the Treasury wrote the banks those cheques, it didn't make the conditions binding.
(19) Last week, the poet laureate joined the three judges of the Ted Hughes award to hand this year’s winner a cheque for £5,000.
(20) As students across Britain began closing accounts at the bank, HSBC reacted by freezing interest on overdrafts Letter chain Millions of template letters downloaded from internet sites - including theguardian.com - forced the banks into this week's court case to clarify the legal basis of charges such as those for bounced cheques and direct debits.