(n.) The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.
(n.) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down.
(n.) Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because the mitogenic action of IL 2 resembles that of some growth factors, the possible role of phosphatidylinositol breakdown in the activation of T cells by IL 2 was examined.
(2) It is also becoming apparent that effects of insulin and other acute regulatory agents on muscle breakdown are limited to nonmyofibrillar components.
(3) The coronary vasodilator adenosine can be formed in the heart by breakdown of AMP or S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAdoHcy).
(4) Post-operative levels of C3 breakdown products were significantly higher in atheromatic patients than in controls, most likely due to the insertion of dacron arterial prostheses in the first group.
(5) F(ab')2 anti-Ig stimulates the rapid breakdown of inositol phospholipids in B cells, resulting in the prolonged release of inositol (poly)phosphates and diacylglycerol.
(6) The kinetics of the luminescent signal with the different luciferin esters varied significantly, indicating possible differences in the rates of uptake, breakdown and enzyme inhibition.
(7) The muscle-protein breakdown is sustained and the released amino acids are taken up by the liver and other RE structures where they are used as substrates for energy and for synthesis of defense-related proteins.
(8) At follow-up, the initial presence of signs of repression was significantly more common in such initially nonregressive patients as had escaped a later psychotic breakdown.
(9) Third, an indirect activation of protein kinase C may occur via an increase in the rate of phosphoinositide breakdown.
(10) The response is dose dependent for LPA concentrations from 10(-8) to 10(-3) M. Incubation of oocytes in LPA does not induce germinal vesicle breakdown.
(11) The breakdown of systemic fibrinogen may be important because of the anticoagulant effect this can produce.
(12) The breakdown of homocysteine, via the transsulphuration pathway, was augmented by Zn deficiency.
(13) Parallel sections were analyzed for possible parenchymal changes associated with the BBB breakdown.
(14) The breakdown of answers to both questions revealed a significant partisan divide depending on people’s voting intention, with Labor supporters much more likely than Coalition backers to see the commission as a political attack and Heydon as conflicted.
(15) The commonest finding is a slight to moderate breakdown of BCB function without evidence of intrathecal immunoglobulin synthesis.
(16) HOE was the most active compound, being able to accelerate PIP2 breakdown at concentrations between 10(-12) and 10(-6) M, while in the case of HEE the effective doses ranged from 10(-11) to 10(-7) M and from 10(-9) to 10(-6) M in the case of HNE.
(17) The critical membrane potential difference for breakdown is therefore pulse-length independent.
(18) Della Roe, Dhu’s mother, said the loss of her daughter had triggered an emotional breakdown.
(19) With ribosomes the pH optimum of proteolytic breakdown is at about 7.
(20) The findings link terminal breakdown of the blood-brain barrier and extensive viral antigen expression in CSF leukocytes with experimental CDV infection resulting in death.
Breakup
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The consequences for Syria have been multiple massacres, ethnic cleansing, torture, a humanitarian crisis and the risk of the country's breakup.
(2) Read more on Scottish independence • ' I believe in solidarity with the folk living south of Carlisle ' • ' The UK is on shifting sands – we can't assume survival ' • ' Better Together is truly scraping the barrel now ' The fact is that far from fearing the breakup of the UK, the English are looking at the benefits that devolution has brought the Scots and asking why they are not able to enjoy the same.
(3) Based on a clinical sample of 136 cases, four classes of child sexual abuse cases in divorce are proposed: divorce precipitated by discovery of sexual abuse; long-standing sexual victimization revealed after marital breakup; sexual abuse precipitated by marital dissolution; and false allegations made during or after divorce.
(4) It is hypothesized that this group arose in the early Triassic period, prior to the breakup of Pangea.
(5) Jeremy Corbyn’s disagreement with his wife over whether their son should attend a selective grammar school or the local comprehensive apparently led to their breakup.
(6) Model Katie Price's interview with Piers Morgan, in which she spoke about her breakup with husband Peter Andre and her recent miscarriage, brought 4.5 million viewers to ITV1 on Saturday, 11 July.
(7) In 82% of the cases, there were no marital separations or family breakups of any kind within six months before or six months after the abuse.
(8) By the mid 20th century, however, the apparent decline of the gout in Europe and North America and the breakup of the gouty diathesis in those lands had been more than compensated by their large-scale reappearance in the Maori and in other indigenous inhabitants of the Pacific Basin who, at first sight, appeared to have become one large gouty family.
(9) Earlier the prime minister had indicated that he had no intention of resigning in the event of a yes vote when he said it would be his duty to negotiate the breakup of the UK.
(10) Srebrenica remains a form of enclave, a Bosnian Muslim-governed island in the Serb half of Bosnia, whose strongman leader, Milorad Dodik, plays down the crimes committed and regularly calls for the breakup of Bosnia-Herzegovina .
(11) Despite their jokey exterior, most had big things on their mind, fretting over marriages and babies, breakups and single life; less "grossout" comedy than "freakout".
(12) The Chancellor spoke out days after Der Spiegel reported that Merkel has changed her stance from 2012 when she said there was no alternative to Greek membership of the euro on the grounds that an exit could trigger a wider breakup of the single currency.
(13) There have been more than 50 serious financial crises since the breakup of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s, and the world was due one.
(14) A US federal judge ordered the Microsoft Corporation to split into two companies today, prescribing the biggest corporate breakup since AT&T while harshly rebuking the global software giant for stifling computer-age competition.
(15) PM: Just because the cost of breakup is so great doesn't mean it won't happen.
(16) "It's bringing back the worst memories of the Sarkozy era," warned a Socialist teacher in La Rochelle, shuddering at Sarkozy's public breakup with Cecilia .
(17) My greatest fear is that the breakup of the euro will return [us] to the competitive devaluations, and the nationalisms, and the kind of politics we had in the 1930s.
(18) Centrica and SSE saw their stock market value fall 2% on Thursday following a 5% decline on Wednesday as the City continued to fret about the possible impact of a 20-month price freeze and a breakup of large energy groups should a Labour government be elected in 2015.
(19) When combined with debris plots and attitude determinations, it can help establish the breakup sequence.
(20) But there are upside and downside risks to that forecast, NIESR's economists stressed, notably that a disorderly breakup of the euro would likely lead to a "considerably more severe downturn".