(v. t.) To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized.
(v. t.) To glorify; to exalt to the highest honor.
(v. t.) To rate as inspired; to include in the canon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using a sample of 170 patients the psychopathological contents of the AMP system and the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS) were compared by canonical correlations.
(2) Canonical discriminant function analysis of the relationship between these predictor variables on the first testing and whether participants (a) returned for retesting, (b) did not return because of apparent disinterest, or (c) did not return because of illness or death, revealed two significant canonical variates.
(3) Previous studies have documented transcription initiation sites and nuclease hypersensitive sites upstream of the epsilon-globin canonical cap site in K562 cells.
(4) The increased specificity of restriction endonucleases in the presence of spermidine is due to an enhancement of the cleavage rate at the canonical site and a slowing down of the cleavage rate at related sites.
(5) Canonical structures are not available for H3 due to its variability in length, sequence, and observed conformation in known antibody structures.
(6) A canonical promoter "TATA" box is located 30 base pairs upstream of the Cap site.
(7) The first canonical correlations were significant between risk factors and both sets of anthropometric variables (skinfolds, 0.36-0.46; circumferences, 0.39-0.54).
(8) Tyr1235 lies within the tyrosine kinase domain of p190MET, within a canonical tyrosine autophosphorylation site that shares homology with the corresponding region of the insulin, CSF-1 and platelet-derived growth factor receptors, and of p60src and p130gag-fps.
(9) On reversed sequences they vacillated between reproducing the events as modeled and "correcting" them to canonical order.
(10) Darkroom measures of tonic accommodation were determined using the infrared objective autorefractor, Canon Autoref R-1.
(11) Shadowtroopers and AT-AT walkers should keep the geeks happy At-AT walkers Photograph: YouTube Black-armoured stormtroopers have featured in numerous (largely non-canonical) Star Wars novels, games and comic books over the years, but never in the movies themselves.
(12) Resulting from the apparent use of a cryptic splice acceptor site in place of the canonical intron 5 site, this insertion is predicted to generate an in-frame insertion of five nonpolar amino acid residues within a highly polar region of the intracytoplasmic domain of the H-2K polypeptide.
(13) The findings were compared to those reported by Canon (1970) and were applied to a reassessment of the "visual capture" phenomenon.
(14) The output relation for the canonically simplest class of self-regulated incompletely coupled linear energy converters has been shown to be identical to the Hill force-velocity characteristic for muscle.
(15) The flanking regions of the gene contain the canonical elements typical for initiation and termination of transcription of yeast protein coding genes.
(16) It follows from the model that modifications of the first anticodon residue of the P-site tRNA can affect the stability of the A-site duplex, and that the translation of a DNA single chain analogue of mRNA should be accompanied by non-canonical base pairing at all three positions of the codon.
(17) The women remained defiant throughout the trial, issuing powerful closing statements that quickly entered the canon of Russia's dissident speeches.
(18) This work proposes that the approximately 200-residue binding segment of the canonical cytokine receptor is composed of two discrete folding domains that share a significant sequence and structural resemblance.
(19) Associations were examined by use of linear correlation, stepwise multiple regression, and canonical correlation analyses.
(20) We also found that a single OmpR-binding site can activate the ompC promoter, providing that the binding site is close and placed stereospecifically with respect to the canonical-35 and -10 regions.
Caponize
Definition:
(v. t.) To castrate, as a fowl.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sue Capon, who runs Brokerswood country park, said everyone was still coming to terms with the tragedy.
(2) When susceptibility to virulent Pasteurella multocida was compared, there was no significant (P greater than 0.05) difference between caponized and uncaponized tom turkeys.
(3) Yet they seem to have trumpeted this exciting new direction in their tax-hunting activities with similar fanfare to that which must have attended the nailing of Capone.
(4) That was all back in the 1920s and 30s, Capone was sent to prison for tax evasion, and the world moved on.
(5) Fibroblasts in the intermediate layer of comb dermis of intact single combed White Leghorn cocks and testosterone-injected capons, all 82 days of age, were divided into three types, namely A, B and C, according to the ultrastructure of these cells.
(6) Unlike Sherwood Forest's finest, however, Capone had a pronounced taste for the good life, wearing smart suits and drinking expensive Templeton Rye whisky.
(7) Caponized, sham-operated, and intact carcasses for analysis totaled, respectively, 28, 25, and 18 in Experiment 1 and 59, 33, and 30 in Experiment 2.
(8) Only when the director persuaded Capone’s heavies that his film was pure fiction did they agree to leave the studio.
(9) Comparing drugs prohibition to the ban on alcohol in 1920s America that gave rise to Al Capone and the mafia, Barton argues that criminalising the trade in drugs has put billions of pounds into the pockets of criminal gangs.
(10) We think of Al Capone, the St Valentine's Day massacre, bootlegging.
(11) Average body weight of caponized turkeys was significantly lower (1.2) than the control turkeys at 30 weeks of age.
(12) Today we often think of Prohibition as a deluded experiment, instinctively associating it with images of Al Capone, the mafia and the Valentine's Day Massacre.
(13) Kevinstar was also generous, also loves Kuma's, and could not be more correct about Chicagoans: "We are much more than Al Capone, Michael Jordan and Oprah".
(14) Depletion of brain regional norepinephrine (NE), dopamine (DA) after alpha methyl-paratyrosine (AMT), and serotonin (5HT) were measured in intact and caponized adult male Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica).
(15) Pondering one of the more delicious ironies of 20th century American justice, people always say wryly that they could only pin tax evasion on Al Capone.
(16) Read more Al Capone was the first US gangster to do this.
(17) Neither was there any significant (P greater than 0.05) difference between the surviving caponized and uncaponized toms in the development of serum anti-P. multocida antibody.
(18) The bodyguards of camorra boss Immacolata Capone, who was shot dead in 2004, were dressed like Uma Thurman in Kill Bill: bright yellow jumpsuits and cropped blonde hair.
(19) But as with Capone, the law eventually caught up with him.
(20) "S&P complaining about the US budget deficit is like Al Capone dumping on bootleggers," said Charles Dumas of Lombard Street Research.