(v. i.) To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.
() imp. & p. p. of Break.
Example Sentences:
(1) They broke in with a battering ram: an armoured vehicle known as a Bearcat.
(2) Cameron famously broke with the past, and highlighted his green credentials, by posing with huskies on a visit to Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic in 2006.
(3) When war broke out, the nine-year-old Arden was sent away to board at a school near York and then on Sedbergh School in Cumbria.
(4) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
(5) The 20-year-old now holds two world records after he broke the 50m best at the European Championships in Berlin during a 2014 season which saw him burst on to the international stage.
(6) Michele Hanson 'The heat finally broke – I realised something had to change …' Stuart Heritage (right) with his brother in 2003.
(7) Mark Latham's insights, insults and feuds are why he's worth reading | Gay Alcorn Read more BuzzFeed political editor Mark Di Stefano, the reporter who broke the story linking Latham to the less-than-savoury @RealMarkLatham Twitter account , had been chasing Stutchbury for days.
(8) This week, Umande broke ground on the first of a series of toilet block biocentres in a slum in Kisumu, near Lake Victoria.
(9) But in a setback to the UK, Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia in 1991, refused British entreaties to attend on the grounds that it would not have been treated as equal to the Somali government.
(10) The two of them broke up with their partners and in 1974 they married.
(11) From the stress-strain curve the following values were selected: strain, stress, and slope at 80 mmHg equivalent pressure (1 mmHg = 133.3 Pa); maximum stress, strain, and slope; and breaking stress, strain, and slope if the sample broke.
(12) While they're raking in the money, he is broke and out of work.'
(13) When last week’s scandal broke, Tesco chair Sir Richard Broadbent airily opined: “Things are always unnoticed until they are noticed.” He forgot to mention that that goes double if people are paid to turn a blind eye.
(14) Hazard, nominated for the Ballon d’Or earlier in the day, broke away from his industrious defensive running to curl a shot on to the base of the far post early on while Willian struck the crossbar with a free-kick just after the interval.
(15) When war broke out he was there again, scribbling anti-British propaganda for Coughlin's journal.
(16) Gowher Rizvi, chief representative of the prime minister, Sheik Hasina, told the Guardian that preparations for the forthcoming elections, were "completely on track" and that the tribunal, probing crimes committed during the 1971 war in which Bangladesh broke away from Pakistan, was about bringing justice previously denied by "the twists and turns" of the country's history.
(17) The airline had secured its injunction on the admittedly flimsy grounds that Unite broke strict rules over reporting ballot results.
(18) He couldn't quite get his body shape right as the ball broke to him.
(19) "We broke the trend, thankfully, and held the seat," he admits.
(20) When the news about the attack in Woolwich broke, by pure coincidence Ross Caputi was crashing on my sofa.
Brome
Definition:
(n.) See Bromine.
Example Sentences:
(1) The data also suggest that different factors may be involved in the translation of brome mosaic virus RNA and globin mRNA by this system.
(2) Internal initiation sites which are similarly inactive have also been detected in other viral RNAs (e.g., brome mosaic virus, tobacco mosaic virus, and polyoma 19S RNA) and this suggests that, although eukaryotic mRNAs can contain more than one initiation site for protein synthesis, only the site nearer the 5' terminus is active in vitro.
(3) To explore the functionality and conservation of specific base differences in the 3' 200 nucleotides of brome mosaic virus (BMV) RNA-1 (1t) and RNA-2 (2t) with respect to the 3' end of RNA-3 (3t), all possible permutations were used to exchange these regions among the genomic RNAs.
(4) Aflatoxin B1 was found in one of 100 specimens at a level of 50 ppb in a sample of alfalfa brome hay.
(5) In trial 1, two qualities of alfalfa and smooth brome hays replaced 0, 15, 30 or 100% of an ammonia (NH3)-treated corn cob negative control diet in a digestion trial using 26 mixed breed wethers (31.8 kg).
(6) The mRNA has an untranslated region of 38 residues before the initiation codon, AUG. A unique feature of the 5'-end sequence of the mRNA is that the sequence of 12 nucleotides (GUAUUAAUAAUG) prior to, and including, the initiation codon is the same as that found at the ribosome-binding site for 80S ribosomes in brome mosaic virus RNA4, a eukaryotic mRNA [Dasgupta, R., Shih, D., Saris, C. & Kaesberg, P. (1975) Nature 256, 624-628].
(7) Fortuitously, heterologous messenger RNAs from diverse eukaryotic and viral sources - Drosophila, dog pancreas, rabbit globin mRNA, brome mosaic virus, tobacco mosaic virus - were translated by the HS-lysate with an efficiency comparable to that of the commercial rabbit reticulocyte system and superior to the wheat germ system.
(8) In addition to the conserved 3' region present in all CMV RNAs (307 residues in RNA 1), RNAs 1 and 2 have highly homologous 5' leader sequences, a 12-nucleotide segment of which is also conserved in the corresponding RNAs of brome mosaic virus (BMV).
(9) Based on their polyacrylamide gel migrations, plant virus-associated ubiquitin-immunoreactive proteins were considered to be possible virus structural protein-ubiquitin conjugates of the following viruses: barley stripe mosaic, brome mosaic, cowpea mosaic (two proteins), cowpea severe mosaic (two proteins), and satellite panicum mosaic.
(10) Analysis of translation products synthesized in vitro in the presence of a mixture of brome mosaic virus (BMV) RNAs 1, 2, 3, and 4 usually shows a predominance of coat protein, coded by RNA4.
(11) In order to understand the relationship between replication and aminoacylation of the genomic RNAs of brome mosaic virus, the replication of four mutants, whose RNAs were expected (on the basis of their properties in vitro) to be inefficiently tyrosylated in vivo, was studied in barley protoplasts and plants.
(12) Brome, western wheat, and quack grasses demonstrated RAST inhibition patterns similar to the northern grasses.
(13) The genomic RNAs of brome mosaic virus (BMV) exhibit various tRNA-like properties, including specific tyrosylation by tyrosyl-tRNA synthetases and adenylation of the 3'-CCOH derivative by tRNA nucleotidyl transferases.
(14) Acetylated tyrosyl Brome mosaic virus RNA did not react with the binary complex,and only a slight degree, if any, of stabilization of tyrosine bound to viral RNA was observed after interaction with elongation factor 1.
(15) The nucleotide sequence has been determined for the first 53 bases of brome mosaic virus RNA4, the monocistronic messenger for brome mosaic virus coat protein.
(16) Although the genetic organization of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) differs considerably from that of the tripartite viruses (alfalfa mosaic virus [AlMV] and brome mosaic virus [BMV]), all of these RNA plant viruses share three domains of homology among their nonstructural proteins.
(17) All four components of brome mosaic virus RNA have m(7)G(5') ppp (5')Gp as their 5' terminus.
(18) The effect of ribodinucleoside monophosphates on total protein synthesis was studied in a wheat germ cell-free system, using brome mosaic virus (BMV) RNA as a messenger.
(19) The relative importances of protein-protein and RNA-protein interactions in stabilizing the architecture of brome mosaic virus particles are discussed in the light of the following experimental evidence: (a) disassembly pathways of the virus particles, (b) reassembly of the virus and self-association capacity of the protein moiety, and (c) the role of divalent cations in virus stabilization, and their relevance to localization of the RNA in the virus particles.
(20) Amino acid analyses of cross-linked tryptic peptides revealed that out of the total 188 amino acids of brome mosaic virus coat protein only the 80 N-terminal amino acids are involved in the interaction with viral RNA.