(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?
Obey
Definition:
(v. t.) To give ear to; to execute the commands of; to yield submission to; to comply with the orders of.
(v. t.) To submit to the authority of; to be ruled by.
(v. t.) To yield to the impulse, power, or operation of; as, a ship obeys her helm.
(v. i.) To give obedience.
Example Sentences:
(1) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
(2) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
(3) Maybe he was simply obeying orders, since Gordon Brown is not about to sanction a radical overhaul of the tripartite system of financial regulation he created.
(4) In contrast, Na+ uptake in the steady state obeyed Michaelis-Menten kinetics.
(5) The durg obeyed two-compartment model kinetics in serum, and elimination was monoexponential from 1 to 2 h after dosing.
(6) The data also indicated that the particle-size distributions were largely independent of the type of solution and obeyed a power law of the form N greater than D = N greater than 1DK.
(7) A leading Democratic member of Congress, Dave Obey, chairman of the House appropriations committee, called for him to be sacked.
(8) It concludes that psychological structures are recently evolved transactional processes that masquerade as explanatory entities, but obey rules of intentionality: a hypothesis with clinical and forensic implications.
(9) Calcium conductances (g(Ca)) as functions of time and voltage were found to be described quantitatively on the assumption that g(Ca) is determined by two variables (m and h), according to the equation g(Ca) = m(6)hg(Ca), where g(Ca) is a constant and m and h obey first order differential equations of the Hodgkin-Huxley type.6.
(10) But there was scepticism over whether the more radical elements on either side would obey the ceasefire, and concern in Kiev and western capitals that the truce would effectively "freeze" the conflict and give Moscow de facto control over the disputed chunk of eastern Ukraine that has been ruined by war this summer.
(11) If the president and Congress would simply obey the fourth amendment, this new shocking revelation that the government is now spying on citizens' phone data en masse would never have happened.
(12) The strength of this genetic control, however, systematically diminished throughout the course of practice obeying a monotonic trend over trials.
(13) This interaction is expressed by phenomena that obey similar parameters.
(14) However, there was relatively restricted diffusion in the collecting tubules; this may account for the failure of whole kidney ammonium excretion to obey quantitatively the predictions of nonionic diffusion and diffusion equilibrium of ammonia.
(15) Analysis of drug pharmacokinetics in numerous species demonstrates that drug elimination among species is predictable and, in general, obeys the power equation Y = aWb.
(16) 'Your only right is to obey': lawyer describes torture in China's secret jails Read more Separate reports have said two other civil rights attorneys, Li Heping and Wang Quanzhang, have also been tortured while in custody.
(17) The inhibition of the amidolytic activity of highly purified kallikrein preparations from human blood plasma obeys the pseudo-first order kinetics.
(18) Twenty two patients with confirmed MI obeying strict inclusion and exclusion criteria were studied.
(19) Assuming that the catalytic action of the enzyme obeys a Michaelis-Menten rate expression and that the deactivation of the enzyme follows a first-order decay, the present analysis employs the dimensionless, integrated form of the overall rate expression to obtain a criterion (based on the maximization of the determinant of the derivative matrix) that relates the a priori estimates of the parameters with the times at which samples should be withdrawn from the reacting mixture.
(20) "It doesn't mean we're going to establish a theocracy and force people to obey what they think is God's law."