(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.
Pallbearer
Definition:
(n.) One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
Example Sentences:
(1) After the hour-long ceremony, which was closed to the media and where her coffin was draped in a white cloth and carried by six pallbearers, relatives stood outside and friends paid their condolences, hugging Steenkamp's parents.
(2) A second witness said pallbearers abandoned coffins they were carrying and ran for cover when the funeral came under fire.
(3) Only the squeaking of the boots of the military pallbearers could be heard in the Calvary church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Thursday as Chad Vollmer's coffin was wheeled to the front.
(4) There was the deathbed confession, the last rites, the pallbearers, the obligatory altar call , the burial ceremony, the stone, the angels-and-harps imagery.
(5) The PSNI has since vowed to use new forms of facial recognition imagery to arrest the masked pallbearers at Catney's funeral.
(6) After the ecumenical service ended, people lined up on either side of the cathedral’s long stairs holding “Unite for Philando” signs as pallbearers dressed in white raised clenched fists while carrying out his casket.
(7) Will Smith – who portrayed Ali in the eponymous 2001 film – and the former world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis were pallbearers at the funeral.
(8) Pallbearers carried the coffin of a senior Russian policeman at his funeral in Volgograd on Thursday, four days after he died in a suicide bomb blast in the city's main railway station .
(9) The mourners followed the pallbearers and the corpse they carried through the dusty streets toward the cemetery, past white stone buildings in varying states of construction and collapse.
(10) They hoisted the long blue mattress high, like pallbearers with a coffin, for a few hours one beautiful autumn morning at Columbia, giggling and chatting like young women anywhere, but also ferociously intent on solidarity in the form of transporting this symbol of conflict up stairs and along walkways.