(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?"
Seg
Definition:
(n.) Sedge.
(n.) The gladen, and other species of Iris.
(n.) A castrated bull.
Example Sentences:
(1) The seg-3 mutant Escherichia coli does not support the maintenance of mini-F plasmid at 42 degrees C. We cloned the chromosomal DNA segment of the wild-type strain W3110 that complements the Seg- phenotype of this mutant.
(2) The evoked spinal electrogram (SEG) in man was recorded from the epidural space, applying the technique of continuous epidural block, and compared with cord dorsum potential (CDP) in wakeful rabbits.
(3) Complementation tests showed that the arcA gene corresponded to the dye gene, which is also known as fexA, msp, seg, or sfrA because of various phenotypic properties [Bachmann, B.
(4) The viral growth was not significantly affected by host polAts, seg, and groPC mutations.
(5) F-genote formation from seg Hfr stains is dependent on a functional recA gene, as F-genote formation was not seen with a seg-2, recA-1 Hfr.
(6) There were no significant differences in bioavailability of riboflavin and pyridoxine hydrochloride between the SEG formulation and the tablet albeit a trend toward consistent absorption was seen from the SEG formulation.
(7) The inactivation constant of the fast time course reaction was 0.1 seg-1.
(8) Removal of the brain from a CNS isolated prior to ecdysteroid exposure resulted in the appearance of spontaneous bursts, which were abolished by removing the suboesophageal ganglion (SEG).
(9) The circuitry responsible for activating these motor pattern generators is associated with the SEG, and is under the control of the brain.
(10) We concluded that (1) at presentation, the specific glomerular lesion in severe lupus GN cannot be predicted on clinical or serological criteria alone; (2) on the basis of morbidity and mortality, cases with all three morphologic variants should be classified as severe lupus GN; and (3) patients with MGN + PGN appear to experience more adverse outcomes than patients with SEG or diffuse GN.
(11) Original values and ratio of the first day p. p. (T = 6.91%: Seg = 41.13%) changed in the average value of T = 1.93%: Seg = 43.96% during the whole puerperium.
(12) The suboesophageal ganglion (SEG) receives input from mechanosensory neurons in all parts of the head and its sensory appendages.
(13) The Inc- plasmid was able to complement the thermosensitive replication defects of Seg- plasmids belonging to the same original incompatibility class but was unable to complement onels belonging to a different incompatibility class.
(14) The wave-form characteristics of the evoked SEG in man were very similar to those of the CDP in wakeful rabbits.
(15) Ecdysteroids appear to alter locomotor function by acting at various levels including the segmental ganglia, the SEG and the brain.
(16) The cell bodies of the motor neurons are situated dorsally in the supraesophageal ganglion (SEG) and are ipsilateral to the muscles they innervate.
(17) Nematode DNA segments containing these repeats were tested for ARS and CEN (or SEG) function after ligation to shuttle vectors and introduction into yeast cells.
(18) The actuarial five-year survival of patients with mild and moderate Seg GN was 82%.
(19) Cardiac catheterization revealed 99% stenosis to seg.
(20) The behavior of an anti-cancer drug consisting of transcatheter hepatic segmental arterial chemoembolization using Lipiodol mixed with an anti-cancer drug followed by gelatin sponge (segmental Lp-TAE: Seg-Lp-TAE) was assessed in comparison to that of the non-segmental Lp-TAE to whole liver (Lp-TAE) by means of Tc-99m pertechnetate (RI).