(n.) A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.
(v. t.) To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.
(v. t.) To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.
(v. t.) To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.
(v. t.) To take for granted; to assume without proof.
(v. t.) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
(v. i.) To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.
Example Sentences:
(1) I had to beg to stay in the apartment I was living in at the time for another night.
(2) She said: “Begging can cause considerable concern to residents, workers and visitors, particularly those who feel intimidated by this activity.” In Merseyside, Ch Insp Mark Morgan insisted his force did not prosecute vulnerable people unless they were aggressive, repeat offenders who had failed to engage in offers of support.
(3) The other day I had to BEG a meeting with [BBC1 controller] Jay Hunt, just so I could explain what we're spending all her money on in Doctor Who.
(4) x head "We have the begging bowl out to Europe in the hope of stabilising our economy.
(5) This begs the question of whether racism informed the way he was treated.
(6) The weakest free schools have ineffective leadership ... with little challenge to tackle poor performance.” The report said that the best leaders “understand inspection”, begging the question of whether schools are expected to lead for Ofsted?
(7) Since this dedicated unit was disbanded there has been a significant increase in the numbers of people who are begging, she told the council earlier this year.
(8) Flattered, entreated, begged by the rest of the committee, he did not yield: "Recommendations are recommendations, there it is"; and "I honestly believe it's all there"; "I promise you I have done my very best"; "if I hadn't thought my recommendations were fit for purpose, I would not have made them"; "with all due respect, I could not have done any more than I did".
(9) Any Championship managers watching this will most definitely not be looking forward to next season’s meetings with Newcastle, which rather begs the question: how on earth did it come this?
(10) I begged them to take me to the toilet when we stopped but they refused.
(11) Two of them begged for a rescue mission in phone calls yesterday, as the battles raged through a powerful sandstorm that shrouded the city from journalists and anxious refugees who have been watching the fighting from the safety of Turkish soil, just a few hundred feet away.
(12) She said that although Unicef was doing all it could to protect Syrian children and to help them continue their education, it was a difficult task: some have taken to begging or working in fields or factories to help supplement their families' income, and many girls are getting married earlier without finishing their schooling.
(13) Trump responded by recalling Romney “begging” for his endorsement four years before.
(14) I had seen him begging in the city centre a few times and had slipped him a few bob from time to time.
(15) Some say they were trying to reach Algeria to beg on city streets, others that Europe was their destination.
(16) However this begs the question, if Spotify are not the enemy, who is?
(17) Then go beg the lady with the clipboard, while others swan past to join the cocktail-swilling vacationers swathed in white linen on the porch.
(18) However, providers, physicians and hospitals are begging for relief from the burden of uncompensated care.
(19) Instead, I made my way to Satis to beg Miss Havisham to secretly confer several thousand pounds on Herbert.
(20) It begs the question – were the comments he made after the Hillsborough panel report sincere or just sound bites?"
Jeg
Definition:
(n.) See Jig, 6.
Example Sentences:
(1) This enhancer sequence is not strictly cell-type specific since it functions in cell lines of both placental (JEG-3) and pituitary (18-54,SF) origin.
(2) VIP maximally increased the transient expression of CRE alpha CAT and the expression of endogenous hCG-alpha mRNA in JEG-3 cells by 4- and 9-fold, respectively.
(3) This result may be explained by the observation that the JAr cells lacked any detectable glucocorticoid receptor and the receptor levels in cytosol prepared from JEG and BeWo cells were 12% and 2%, respectively, of those measured in HeLa cytosol.
(4) The HLA-6.0 or HLA-E genes may encode the lower molecular mass component on Jeg-3 cells, because these genes express molecules of about 38 kDa and 41 kDa, respectively, when transfected to appropriate host cells.
(5) In order to determine whether RA stimulates the hCG secretion by other trophoblastic cell lines, we evaluated the effect of RA on hCG, hCG-alpha subunit (hCG-alpha), and progesterone secretion in three choriocarcinoma cell lines: JEG-3, JAR, and BeWo.
(6) Reporter genes containing either the intact 1.5 kilobase of 5'-flanking sequence from the HCG alpha gene, or just the 36-bp tandem repeat cAMP response element, when coupled to an enhancerless promoter, both exhibit a vigorous cAMP stimulation of expression but no response to phorbol ester in JEG-3 cells.
(7) We demonstrate the molecular peculiarities of these modified smooth muscle cells using monoclonal antibodies produced against a benign human JEG-cell tumour.
(8) The transcriptional activities of P1 + P2 in their natural tandem orientation were additive in rat keratinocytes and human JEG choriocarcinoma cells.
(9) Using DNase I protection analyses and gel-mobility shift assays, we examined in vitro the domains in the human alpha-gene 5'-flanking sequence that bind nuclear proteins extracted from JEG-3 choriocarcinoma cells.
(10) The effect of JEG-3 choriocarcinoma supernatant on human natural killer cell and lymphokine-activated killer cell activity was investigated.
(11) Similar observations have been made in JeG-3 cells and Chinese hamster ovary cells stably transfected with human apoE cDNA constructs.
(12) In human choriocarcinoma JEG-3 and monkey COS-1 cells, the cytosolic thyroid hormone binding protein is a monomer of the tetrameric pyruvate kinase, subtype M2, which does not bind T3.
(13) In this study the 5'-flanking sequence of the CG beta gene was fused to a sensitive luciferase (LUC) reporter gene, allowing delineation of a CG beta CRE in transient expression assays performed in JEG-3 choriocarcinoma cells.
(14) JEG-3 choriocarcinoma cells demonstrate c-myc transcript levels that are greater than those of nonmalignant trophoblastic tissue at any stage of gestation.
(15) No significant expression of any of these ANG-GH fusion genes over the promoterless pOGH was observed in JEG-3 cells.
(16) Results of these studies suggest that there is some degree of tissue specificity of FN gene expression and reveal that cAMP induction is mediated, in part, by the same element (CRE) in both HT-1080 and JEG-3 cells.
(17) Epidermal growth factor (EGF) binds to JEG-3 cells, a tissue culture line of human choriocarcinoma.
(18) In JEG-3 choriocarcinoma cells the MMTV promoter is transcribed inefficiently, even after transfection of the receptor cDNA and treatment with glucocorticoids or progestins.
(19) A similar increase in Class I antigens is also found in JEG-3 choriocarcinoma cells after treatment with IFN-gamma.
(20) Deletion of the FN promoter from positions -510 to -56 resulted in an ~30-fold decrease in promoter activity when this construction was transfected into HT-1080 cells, and similar results were observed in NIH 3T3 cells; however, less than a 2-fold effect was observed in JEG-3 cells.