(n.) Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.
(n.) The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.
(n.) The cargo of a vessel when stowed.
(n.) The body.
(v. i.) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell.
(v.) A projecting part of a building.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
(2) Their efforts will include blocking the NSA from undermining encryption and barring other law enforcement agencies from collecting US data in bulk.
(3) Cholestyramine resin was beneficial in reducing stool bulk but had no substantial effect on fat absorption.
(4) Chromatographic separation revealed that the bulk (85%) of the mitogenic activity in SSV-transformed NRK cells was not due to p28v-sis but rather two distinct endothelial cell growth factors that eluted off heparin-Sepharose between 1 and 2 M NaCl.
(5) The remainder of the plasmid appeared to be associated with five positioned nucleosomes and two nonnucleosomal, partially protected regions on the bulk of the molecules.
(6) The fact that proteolytic activity could be detected within 2 days at 7 degrees C is significant, since bulk cooled milk is normally held for 3 to 4 days at temperatures between 4 and 7 degrees C at farms or factories prior to processing.
(7) The surface film transition is especially noted in the pressure-area curve of the surfactant and approximates in two dimensions the broad thermotropic phase transition of the bulk phase surfactant.
(8) Serine (12.0-18.2%), tyrosine (5.8-9.0%) and glycine (4.5-7.1%), along with arginine, make up the bulk of the amino acid residues in these molecules.
(9) Age at diagnosis (greater than or equal to 60 years vs less than or equal to 60 years), total number of involved sites, tumor bulk (mass size greater than or equal to 10 cm vs less than 10 cm), serum LDH (greater than or equal to 500 Units) and prompt achievement of complete remission following intensive combination regimens appear to be the most important variables predicting for cure in aggressive lymphomas.
(10) The repaired alveolar processes were similar in bulk and contour in sites grafted with NPHA and with bone.
(11) The results are presented as effectiveness factor plots graphed as functions of bulk galactose and oxygen concentrations.
(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) Any substance applied into the bulk solution must pass through this layer by diffusion before reaching the receptors.2.
(14) However, the studies on 0-2A progenitor cells were carried out in bulk cultures of optic nerve, and so it was possible that other cell-cell interactions were required for differentiation in culture.
(15) When estimates of milk loss were replaced by estimates based on bulk tank somatic cell counts, milk loss accounted for over 80% of the total cost of mastitis.
(16) By comparing the results of the electroimmunoassay of fractions obtained by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of human leukocyte interferon with the antiviral activity of the fractions, an excellent dissociation of molecules with interferon activity from the bulk of contaminating antigens was achieved.
(17) The receptor subregion that interacts with the propyl C-1 of 1 is more tolerant of bulk and of polar substituents than the subregion that interacts with propyl C-3.
(18) Dynamic computerized tomography (CT) was performed on 42 patients with acute head injury to evaluate the hemodynamics and to elucidate the nature of fatal diffuse brain bulk enlargement.
(19) At pH 7.0, acrylamide partitions between the bulk aqueous phase and the proteins, human serum albumin, monellin and ovalbumin.
(20) The fact that good activity was maintained in these new analogues, which possess hydrophilicity and steric bulk considerably different from the parent compound, suggests that neither end of these molecules is critical for recognition and binding of the inhibitors by renin.
Collier
Definition:
(n.) One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.
(n.) A vessel employed in the coal trade.
Example Sentences:
(1) Collier usually attends in his place, but Guardian Australia has been told he was not invited to next month’s meeting, in the hope that omitting him might encourage Barnett to board a plane.
(2) An officer with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology police, Sean Collier, 26, was identified as the victim of a shooting at the university amid a manhunt for the Boston bombing suspects.
(3) Mary Collier from Right to Life Australia, the anti-abortion group that organised the public seminars, expressed her disappointment at the high court’s decision.
(4) If we’re going to put the resources into it, then it needs to be something that supports reform, whether that be housing, education, health services.” The proposal is being considered by the Aboriginal affairs cabinet subcommittee, which Redman sits on along with Barnett and Aboriginal affairs minister Peter Collier.
(5) The NADase activity of choleragen was similar to that of diphtheria toxin previously described [J. Kandel, R. J. Collier & D. W. Chung (1974) J. Biol.
(6) Ethanol-induced accumulation of extracellular adenosine is required for the development of heterologous desensitization (Nagy, L. E., Diamond, I., Collier, K., Lopez, L., Ullman, B., and Gordon, A. S., Mol.
(7) Recent cloning of the human MGMT cDNA (Tano, K.; Shiota, S.; Collier, J.; Foote, R.S.
(8) Collier reiterated that royalties would not fill the gap left by federal money, but said Redman’s offer of using the development fund was a “positive commitment” that could be used to support those communities determined to be “sustainable”.
(9) The minister for Aboriginal affairs, Peter Collier, also told the WA parliament she died in hospital.
(10) WA Aboriginal affairs minister Peter Collier told ABC radio in Perth on Wednesday that he had not seen the report until it was shown to him by the ABC.
(11) Meanwhile, another story entitled I’m Crazy, containing material that was later used in The Catcher in the Rye , appeared in Collier’s magazine on 22 December 1945.
(12) In Duval County, overall D. tenuis prevalence was 7%, whereas that of M. llewellyni was 14%; the latter species was not found in Collier County.
(13) Mike Collier Armenia Armenia has traditionally had close ties with Russia and most Armenians continue to support that political and economic alliance.
(14) Scullion travelled to WA last week to meet Collier on another issue .
(15) Paul Collier's work, the Bottom Billion, about broken states backs up the case for using our DfID budget – yes for meeting the Millennium Development Goals, yes for vaccination and malaria reduction and all of those extremely worthwhile things – but we're mad if we don't put money into mending broken states where so many of the problems of poverty come from."
(16) The Aboriginal affairs minister, Peter Collier, has said the plan would be released “very soon”.
(17) They have made it about as clear as mud,” said Dwight Brock, clerk for Collier County.
(18) The dimeric enzyme, alpha-Glycerophosphate dehydrogenase, was purified from eight Drosophila species by the method of Collier et al.
(19) But Judge Collier said in court documents that the government had “not shown by clear and convincing evidence defendant’s release would pose an unreasonable danger to the community or any particular individual”.
(20) Western Australia's minister for education, Peter Collier, said he clicked the "like" button under what he thought was an innocent photo of the then 16-year-old in late 2011.