What's the difference between behaved and dock?

Behaved


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Behave

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?

Dock


Definition:

  • (n.) A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination.
  • (n.) The solid part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cutting.
  • (n.) A case of leather to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
  • (v. t.) to cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse.
  • (v. t.) To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages.
  • (v. t.) To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail.
  • (n.) An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide.
  • (n.) The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock.
  • (n.) The place in court where a criminal or accused person stands.
  • (v. t.) To draw, law, or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
  • (2) Read more After Monday’s launch at 7.30am (11.30pm GMT), the taikonauts will dock with the Tiangong 2 space laboratory, where they will spend about a month, testing systems and processes for space stays and refuelling, and doing scientific experiments.
  • (3) Our findings suggest that a physiological role of the alpha-latrotoxin receptor may be the docking of synaptic vesicles at the active zone.
  • (4) Disgraced former Labour MP Eric Joyce, who assaulted a colleague in a Commons bar in 2012, had his card blocked when he owed £12,919.61, and later had his salary docked.
  • (5) However, John's first stage success, A Dock Brief – set in the cells, where an incompetent barrister counsels himself and his convicted client – was rooted in his own nervousness about failure and his permanent terror at having responsibility for another's fate.
  • (6) Some of them, pulled together for the manifesto, are silly, or doomed, or simply there for shock value - information points in the form of holograms of Dixon of Dock Green, the legalisation of soft drugs, official brothels opposite Westminster, complete with division bells.
  • (7) Macedonia acted as a Greek car ferry docked in Athens carrying 2,400 Syrian refugees from the island of Kos, just some of the 50,000 Middle Eastern, African and Asian migrants and refugees who arrived in Greece in July alone.
  • (8) Starting from the extra electron density map of peptides co-crystallized with HLA-A2, the nonapeptide IMP58-66 was docked residue by residue in the protein binding cleft.
  • (9) But like the capital's other docks, the Royal Albert fell into decline in the 1950s.
  • (10) The impressive views take in West Angle Bay, Rat Island and the whole length of Milford Haven and Man of War Roads, a 15km ship-teeming passage leading from Dale all the way to Pembroke Dock.
  • (11) 'Froch, Dock, Hoch - whatever his name is - has been making his name on the back of my son for the last six years, He's not even on our rostrum, let me tell you.
  • (12) Cross-linking experiments confirmed that lysine residues on the alpha-subunit, but not the beta-subunit, are involved in the 'docking' process between the proteins.
  • (13) The eight people in the dock had been arrested following clashes between protesters and riot police at Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on 6 May 2012, the eve of Vladimir Putin's third inauguration as Russian president.
  • (14) Significant increments in mean plasma cortisol levels followed these surgical procedures with the maximal response 15 min after mulesing plus castration with tail docking.
  • (15) He passed her to his brother and friends, and over time gave her as payment to men for debts he owed.” Also in the dock were brothers Sajid Bostan, 38, and Majid Bostan, 37, associates of the Hussain brothers, and two women, Karen MacGregor, 58, and Shelley Davies, 40, who associated with one another and with Ali and Arshid Hussain.
  • (16) Formation of the hydrophobic core by docking helix and sheet is (partly) rate determining.
  • (17) Sitting in a cafe overlooking Swansea docks, Shorrock said he wants Swansea Bay up and running in 2019-20, with larger schemes in Cardiff and Newport by 2022-23 and, if possible, more after that.
  • (18) The 46-kDa fragment was neither able to reassociate with nor to reconstitute the activity of docking protein-depleted microsomes.
  • (19) 'I was politicised by the docks': the rise of Len McCluskey Read more Unite is Britain’s biggest union, with 1.4 million members, and provided Corbyn’s 2015 campaign for leadership with £175,000 as well as office space.
  • (20) Oscar Pistorius rubs his face as he sits in the dock during his ongoing murder trial at a packed high court in Pretoria on May 5.

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