(v. t.) To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.
(v. t.) To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; -- used reflexively.
(v. i.) To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self; as, to behave well or ill.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a group, the three mammalian proteins resemble bovine serum conglutinin and behave as lectins with rather broad sugar specificities directed at certain non-reducing terminal N-acetylglucosamine, mannose, glucose and fucose residues, but with subtle differences in fine specificities.
(2) When the Tunnel closed, Hardee decamped in 1991 to Up The Creek - a slightly better behaved venue in nearby Greenwich, which Hardee described as "the Tunnel with A-levels".
(3) It behaves as an acidic protein, pI 4.5--5.0, which is thermolabile and sulphydryl-sensitive.
(4) However, I’m behaving as if it’s all going to happen as planned.” It has certainly been a long road to production.
(5) The thickness of the media in the groups behaves like the number of nuclei: in hypertension with the highest values, there is no significant decrease as far as the 8th cross-section, while in the coronary sclerosis and third decade groups the values come closer together after the 6th cross-section.
(6) The analyzed tRNA gene behaved like a single transcription unit driven by its own promoter.
(7) These results favour the idea that the factor present in peak II fraction might behave as an ouabain-like substance.
(8) Proud of the way his forces behaved, he plans to frame the operational map of the night for his office wall.
(9) The pharmacological examination showed that the new compounds are deprived of the hypnotic activity characteristic for 3,3'-spirobi-5-methyltetrahydrofuranone-2 (2) and behaved in most tests as tranquillizers.
(10) I wanted to investigate how people behave together."
(11) The reference material, which must behave immunochemically the same as the patient's sample in all methods, is then used to assign a target value to the calibrator in each method and system.
(12) The relative permittivity and conductivity of rabbit eye lens were measured in the frequency domain between 2 and 18 GHz at temperatures of 37 and 20 degrees C. An analysis of the data suggested that a significant proportion of the bulk water in nuclear and cortical lens tissue may behave differently to pure water.
(13) Hypersensitivity was observed up to 7 min after the injection, after which the mice behaved normally.
(14) It's not a great stretch to see parallels between the movie's set-up and the film industry in 2012: disposable teens are manipulated into behaving in certain ways, before being degraded and dispatched, all the while being remotely observed by middle-aged men, gambling on their fates.
(15) Population studies of continuously cultured primary amnion cells from appropriate donors and of HeLa cells have established that the H- cell behaves as a stem cell which commonly divides into a like cell and a differentiated H+ type.
(16) Eight alpha-helices behave as relatively rigid bodies and corner regions are more flexible, showing larger fluctuations.
(17) Systemically administered CPP blocked AGS and significantly reduced IC neuronal firing in the behaving GEPR, suggesting an important action of systemically administered NMDA receptor antagonists on brainstem auditory nuclei critical to AGS.
(18) This polypeptide behaved identically to skeletal muscle actin on DNaseI affinity columns.
(19) Under these assumptions, any time-invariant variable may behave like a metabolite concentration, i.e.
(20) Should Britain start behaving like the small island state it is rather than maintaining the pretensions of being a significant world player?
Chillax
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The overall vibe is less posh, more rightwing, less London-centric – were she ever forced from power, it’s impossible to imagine May chillaxing over a flat white in Café Lisboa – and distinctly baby boomer.
(2) Many were taken by surprise at the Cameron team's intense ideology, despite the leader's chillaxed demeanour.
(3) It's unclear whether the atmosphere will be unusually laid-back when France's President Normal - who still lives in a rented flat and turns his own door-handles at the Élysée instead of waiting for a butler - meets Chillaxing Dave, fresh from winding down with DVD box-sets and karaoke machines.
(4) Asked how his friends would describe his personality, Cameron said: “I hope they’d say I’m optimistic, I enjoy life and that I’m fun, but also that I’m quite driven in doing what I believe in.” A biography of Cameron has previously depicted him as a prime minister who likes to “chillax” during weekends by singing karaoke, playing tennis and playing games on his iPad.
(5) A ccording to his biographers, David Cameron "chillaxes" over the weekend by playing a spot of tennis, messing about on his iPad and having friends over for a moderately boozy Sunday lunch.
(6) It’s time to kick off those wingtips, slip out of that suit and chillax.
(7) The prime minister, now famed for his weekends "chillaxing", said: "Charlie and I played tennis together and all sorts of other things."
(8) Baldwin, like Cameron pre-Brexit, benefited from a positive public image that associated him with pipe smoking (chillaxing, 1930s style) and a quiet, rural life.
(9) David Cameron has defended his style of government against claims he "chillaxes" too much at weekends by playing games on his iPad.
(10) Yeah, we’re gonna triple lock something because no one will believe us if we only double lock it and then we’re going to do some other things though we’re not entirely too clear how, but give us time as it’s early days and I’m sure something will turn up.” One Chillaxed Nation.
(11) Chillax on the patio under which wife-beater Trevor Jordache was buried?