(n.) The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal.
(n.) The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
(n.) The thing taken by force, surprise, or stratagem; a prize; prey.
(v. t.) To seize or take possession of by force, surprise, or stratagem; to overcome and hold; to secure by effort.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conventionally taken radiographs are captured by a video camera and processed by the IPS system (KONTRON).
(2) The corresponding hydrides, mono-n-butyltin hydride, di-n-butyltin hydride, tri-n-butyltin hydride, monophenyltin hydride, diphenyltin hydride triphenyltin hydride, are detected by electron-capture gas chromatography after clean-up by silica gel column chromatography.
(3) Western diplomats acknowledge that the capture of Qusair is likely to have emboldened President Bashar al-Assad , making him less likely to consider concessions – let alone stepping down.
(4) Similar results were obtained when hFSH was captured by an alpha-specific MAb (10.3A6).
(5) This derivative also allowed sensitive detection and measurement of indole-3-pyruvate in the picogram range using a gas chromatograph with an electron capture detector.
(6) Contrary to the claims of some commentators, such as Steve Vladeck , it is impossible to argue reasonably that the memo imposed a requirement of "infeasibility of capture" on Obama's assassination power.
(7) This investigation examined the role of anabolic steroids on baseline heart rate (HR) and HR responses to the threat of capture in Macaca fascicularis.
(8) Moallem’s news conference came a day after jihadis captured a major military air base in north-eastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the Islamic State group.
(9) Joe Gregory, parked outside the arena while waiting to pick up his girlfriend and her sister from the concert, captured its impact on his car’s dashcam.
(10) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
(11) The researchers' own knowledge of street language and drug behavior has enabled them to capture information that would escape most observers and even some participants.
(12) Using an ELISA with captured antigen by monoclonal antibodies, 604 blood donors were typed for the platelet-specific antigen systems HPA-1 and HPA-4.
(13) Mean treatment success, estimated from live-capture and mortality data, ranged between 87.1 and 100%.
(14) We have the nuclear-related wealth, which captures the highly skilled and the affluent and the upwardly mobile.
(15) The concentrations of clorazepate and its metabolite nordiazepam were determined by electron capture gas liquid chromatography.
(16) TUC, CPE and ART viruses were obtained from pools of Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) sp captured in Tucuruí, Pará State, in February, August and October of 1984, respectively.
(17) The RBEs of fast neutron, thermal neutron beams, and neutron capture therapy relative to 60Co gamma-ray were calculated as 2.78, 4.18, and 6.15 at 0.1 surviving fraction, respectively.
(18) As a result of recent development in medical practice including use of new antimicrobial agents, coagulase-negative Staphylococci (CNS) that were once considered nonpathogenic contaminants have captured attention as causes of disease.
(19) The original agricultural wastes had captured CO2 from the air through the photosynthesis process; biochar is a low-tech way of sequestering carbon, effectively for ever.
(20) The type 3 pattern occurred when the antidromic wavefront of early premature beats captured the original circuit exit.
Occupy
Definition:
(v. t.) To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.
(v. t.) To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space of; to cover or fill; as, the camp occupies five acres of ground.
(v. t.) To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of; to employ; to busy.
(v. t.) To do business in; to busy one's self with.
(v. t.) To use; to expend; to make use of.
(v. t.) To have sexual intercourse with.
(v. i.) To hold possession; to be an occupant.
(v. i.) To follow business; to traffic.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
(2) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
(3) At day 7 MD occupy about 14% area of posterior retina in transverse sections in Campbell rats versus 7% in normal animals.
(4) Here we report on the identification of four loci, pim-1, bmi-1, pal-1, and bla-1, which are occupied by proviruses in 35%, 35%, 28%, and 14% of the tumors, respectively.
(5) The statistical figures indicated that infections diseases occupied a dominant position in 1950s, while in recent years cardiovascular diseases and malignant tumors have become the major diseases.
(6) From the comparison of the sets of proteins labelled when A-site was free or occupied a conclusion was drawn that aminoacyl-tRNA located in ribosomal A-site affects the arrangement of deacylated tRNA in P-site.
(7) A spokesman for the UNHCR said that while there were many agencies working in Walungu, they had "minimal presence" in villages close to areas still occupied by Hutu militias known as FDLR.
(8) The first two peptides have been proposed to occupy inter-transmembrane regions while the third represented the C-terminal segment, proposed by various models to be either extracellular or intracellular.
(9) A key part of the reason why Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge, one of the NHS’s most prestigious hospitals, was put into special measures last week was that 200 of its beds were being occupied by patients who could not leave because there was a lack of social care in place to support them.
(10) This species has only one lung, the right, which is long and occupies most of the pleuro-peritoneal cavity.
(11) The area occupied by parenchymal cells, in sections comprising the entire half of the surface of the carotid body, is significantly greater in people born and living at 14,350 feet than in those at sea level.
(12) Ninety pharmacists are employed in 13 hospital pharmacies; half of the pharmacists are occupied bb drug product manufacturing.
(13) Nursing occupied about 210 min in 8 daylight hours for the infants at 10 weeks of age, and the time spent nursing decreased at the average rate of 9.4 min per week until the infants were about 6 months old.
(14) The lower lipid content, expressed as weight per unit weight of tissue, in palmo-plantar stratum corneum as compared to non-palmo-plantar stratum corneum may be related to the fact that a larger portion of the intercellular space of the former tissue is occupied by desmosomes.
(15) Occupied hyaluronate binding sites were measured by the displacement of radiolabeled cell surface hyaluronate with exogenous, unlabeled hyaluronate.
(16) Regarding space occupying lesions in the abdomen angiography is an aid in diagnosis and differential diagnosis and provides information on the curability.
(17) Cells of type-4 occupy the caudal part with a dorsorostral extension.
(18) While no fixed relation was found between the degree of histologic differentiation and T cell infiltration, fewer T cells were observed in the cases where cancer penetrated to the depth of cancer invasion and where it occupied a large area.
(19) In submandibular glands, 1 to 4 weeks after ovariectomy, no changes were observed in percentages of the acinar, intercalated duct, and granular convoluted tubular areas occupying photomicrographs.
(20) There was no statistically significant difference in basal concentrations of immunoreactive atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), as assessed by radioimmunoassay, between right and left atrial muscle of control rats; similarly, stereological analysis showed no statistically significant difference in the fractional volume of myocytes occupied by specific heart granules, or in numerical density of granules, between right and left atria.