(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?
Nark
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Our clone also contained a previously unidentified gene, which we propose to designate as narX, as well as a portion of narK.
(2) The phosphorylation of phosphoinositides in the acetylcholine receptor (AChR)-rich membranes from the electroplax of the electric fish Narke japonica has been examined.
(3) A narK deletion mutant, under conditions for the induction of nitrate respiration, was unable to perform nitrate transport.
(4) Loss of transport activity was recovered by transforming the mutant with a narK+ plasmid.
(5) We have isolated a tyrosine-specific protein kinase from the acetylcholine receptor (AChR)-rich membranes of the electric ray Narke japonica.
(6) We could not find the active (Na,K)-ATPase lacking glycoprotein subunit for the enzymes from three different sources (outer medulla of dog kidney, electric organs of Narke japonica and larvae of Artemia salina).
(7) Primer extension analysis identified several transcripts for the narK gene expressed from plasmids.
(8) IHF and Fis proteins are also required for full activation of narK expression, and their roles in DNA bending are discussed.
(9) Unlike the narGHJI operon, the 5' untranslated region of the narK gene contains two putative Fnr-binding-site sequences and two putative NarL-binding-site sequences.
(10) The asymmetric forms of acetylcholinesterase were purified from the electric organs of the electric rays Narke japonica and Torpedo californica, and their properties were compared.
(11) The vast majority [of businesses] are doing the right thing and, frankly, they are as narked as we are about the fact there are some people and businesses who are not doing the right thing.
(12) A Cl- channel in electric organs of Narke japonica was reconfirmed, using a polyclonal antibody, to be a 180k protein composed of two identical 90k units.
(13) Finally, the availability of molybdate and iron ions is necessary for optimal narK expression, whereas the availability of nitrite is not.
(14) The ORFA-narZ intergenic region, however, is about 80 nucleotides long and does not contain the cis-acting elements, NarL and Fnr boxes, nor the terC4 terminator sequence present in the 500 nucleotide narK-narG intergenic region.
(15) A phi (narK-lacZ) operon fusion was induced by nitrate, and its expression was fully dependent on narL+ and fnr+.
(16) Cripps was merely a temporary repository for a public narked off with all politicians: Clegg will have to show that he is more than that if he really is going to rival Churchill.
(17) Although the specific activities of nitrate reductase and nitrite reductase were similar in the two strains, the parental strain accumulated nitrite in the medium in almost stoichiometric amounts before it was further reduced, while the narK mutant did not accumulate nitrite in the medium but apparently reduced it as rapidly as it was formed.
(18) Acetylcholine receptor from Narke japonica electroplax exhibits a fluorescence change upon binding of snake neurotoxins.
(19) The effect of both acetylcholine (ACh) and pancreozymin (CCK-Pz) on the pancreas in vivo as well as in vitro was to reduce both the acinar cell membrane potential and the input resistance narkedly.
(20) Although the role of the narK gene product in cell metabolism remains uncertain, the pattern of narK gene expression is consistent with a proposed role of NarK in nitrate uptake by the cell for nitrate-linked electron transport.