(v. t.) To have recourse to; to apply; to resort; to go; -- with a reflexive pronoun.
(v. t.) To commend or intrust to; to commit to.
Example Sentences:
(1) H-2u haplotype mice are unique among all E alpha+ strains because they do not provide in heterozygotes an E alpha chain that interacts with E betak,s,etc.
(2) But he knows what he is up to (the page-long sentence perfectly reflects the procrastination, Richard's, which it's describing), and even the occasional archaic-seeming idiom ("bethought", "betake", "smallened") has its place, if only to remind us that, contemporary though the setting is, the author has a respect for old-fashioned ways, in language and in life.
(3) The recognition sites or histotopes of a panel of autoreactive I-Ak-restricted T cell hybridomas was determined in two ways: 1) by their ability to be activated by a panel of A betak and A alphak mutant antigen-presenting cell lines, and 2) by inhibition of activation by anti-I-Ak monoclonal antibodies.
Entrust
Definition:
(v. t.) See Intrust.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinton has entrusted the job of handling her transition into the world’s most powerful job to Obama’s former interior secretary Ken Salazar , while Trump’s team is led by New Jersey governor Chris Christie.
(2) Similarly, "singularly foreign" appear mitochondria, namely the forges specifically entrusted with the respiratory metabolism.
(3) Medicine as a profession is entrusted with the responsibility to prevent disease and treat the sick--a responsibility that has both personal and social dimensions.
(4) Edwards, like most of Brown's victims, did not realise he was entrusting his money to someone who had not even passed his maths O-level.
(5) Entrusted to Moore, it would have been all over in a quick flurry of one-liners and raised eyebrows.
(6) The artist is not allowed to leave Beijing, and had to entrust the installation to collaborators.
(7) Among them was Amor Masovic, the chairman of the Bosnian Missing Persons Institute, the man entrusted by the state with the endless task of accounting for the dead.
(8) And I think also something like the recent Star Gazing Live on BBC2, the astronomy show stretched nightly across a single week, was an example of great, creative commissioning, where time and space, literally, was entrusted to a group of individuals and experts, at a risk it could all fall flat, but given encouragement and profile – and in the garnering, great viewing figures and rewards.
(9) Such reports were relatively prevalent among poor women, those without relatives nearby, and those willing to entrust the care of their children to nonfamily members.
(10) Referring to the armies of overseas contractors tech companies use to police social media he said, “are you going to entrust that decision to someone getting paid $2 an hour in the Philippines?” After the meeting wrapped up, the nation’s top spies demonstrated their skills of evasion.
(11) And if you must entrust data to them, make sure it's encrypted.
(12) The statement, issued by lawyers from two Chinese firms late on Saturday night and obtained by Hong Kong television, the South China Morning Post and Sing Tao newspaper, said they had been "entrusted by the family members of Wen Jiabao" but did not specify which relatives they represent.
(13) They are a party that people can easily associate with compassion for the poor and underdogs but they have never been a party that has persuaded people they are serious about wealth creation and the economy and managing public finances in a credible way ... Labour are people who care a lot but aren’t always the people you’d want to entrust with your money.
(14) Aung San Suu Kyi will entrust the party in parliament in the hands of other NLD elders, as expected, and assume a role within the cabinet,” said Nyantha Maw Lin, the managing director at political consultancy Vriens & Partners in Yangon.
(15) Together with J. Gruber, he was entrusted with the direction of the newly-founded Ohrenklinik of the University of Vienna, the first of its kind in the world.
(16) Deciding whether to entrust the internet to government control or the control of the telecommunications companies or internet service providers (ISPs) will continue to be a difficult call.
(17) Soon he'd be entrusted with an annual pay cheque of $3m for personal or professional use, even as he formulated an escape plan.
(18) Psychiatry is, among other things, the institutionalised denial of the tragic nature of life: individuals who want to reject the reality of free will and responsibility can medicalise life, and entrust its management to health professionals.
(19) Entrusting a 21-year-old who had never worked anywhere but restaurant kitchens with the administration of what, even by Treasury standards, is not an insignificant amount of money seemed a little odd to me – until it was explained that the fund, and by extension national insurance as a whole, was in the Treasury's view mostly an accounting fiction with very little relevance to the modern tax and benefit system.
(20) And it is not right for the investor according to the law, to hand over the production to those who have no right to it and they [those who have the right to it] are the ones determined in an agreement by the administration that is entrusted over the project and overseeing its organisation by the province in which the project is established.