(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.
Coffin
Definition:
(n.) The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.
(n.) A basket.
(n.) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
(n.) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
(n.) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
(v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those around him assumed he was dead and he was put in a coffin, only to regain consciousness at the last moment.
(2) His website sells direct to the public, with prices starting from £245 for a plain cardboard coffin, as well as offering a comparison service.
(3) Harry also spoke about walking behind his mother’s coffin as a 12-year-old and said no child “should be asked to do that under any circumstances”.
(4) At recent climate change conferences, a coffin has been paraded through the halls of delegates covered in a shroud and attended by mourners.
(5) Many families choose to decorate the coffin, either in the days leading up to the funeral or as part of the ceremony.
(6) At the end of the ceremony, Havel's coffin was to be carried through the cathedral's Golden Gate to Strasnice crematorium for a private family funeral.
(7) About 60 coffins were expected, although the number was not immediately confirmed.
(8) The attack in Peshawar is yet another nail in Pakistan’s coffin, cynical residents and pundits alike will tell you today.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest People carry the coffin of Giulio Regeni during his funeral in Fiumicello, northern Italy, on 12 February.
(10) Another man, placed in what he called "the electric coffin" – in which a detainee is forced to lie inside a wooden box, across two metal plates through which they pass a current.
(11) "Each decade," he continued, "we shiftily declare we have buried class; each decade the coffin stays empty."
(12) The board’s chief executive, Peter Deague, told Guardian Australia that meant they could cater to anyone who weighed up to 250kg, as a coffin for a person of that size usually weighed about 100kg.
(13) The political battle over memorials follows a separate row over "phony" arrival ceremonies, in which flag-draped coffins of dead military personnel were carried from planes and presented to relatives.
(14) He was still able to have a good conversation with me.” The PSNI is also investigating the firing of shots by the New IRA over the coffin of a veteran west Belfast republican on Sunday night.
(15) But it's the images of women and their children marching through the night that stick most in the mind: infants toting cardboard coffins, mothers chanting hate.
(16) The final nail in social security's coffin came with the demise of the Department of Social Security in 2001 and its replacement by the Department for Work and Pensions.
(17) In some establishments, mournful dirges played while coffins were carried through the crowds of drinkers; in others, the walls were hung with black crepe.
(18) If you want a coffin, alternatives to the regular chipboard, veneered box are now mainstream and in all good undertakers’ catalogues.
(19) This study ought to be the final nail in the coffin of techno-libertarianism.
(20) There is no formation of callus at the site of the fracture, but only a firm formation of fibrous tissue which does not bother the horse unless the fragments are too much dislocated giving rise to a greater destruction of the coffin joint.