(n.) A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade.
Example Sentences:
(1) Beyond that, MSNBC devotes three hours each morning to a show hosted by a former rightwing GOP congressman and his cavalcade of vapid "centrist" establishment journalists such as Mark Halperin (then again, Fox features the idiosyncratic and unpredictable Shepard Smith each night).
(2) After the ceremony on Thursday, King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia will tour central Madrid in a motor cavalcade – a somewhat risky venture given the strength of republican sentiment that has emerged since the abdication was announced.
(3) It's a cavalcade of the bizarre that might leave lesser storytellers struggling for clarity.
(4) He was followed after the cavalcade by numbers of heavily armed members of the ALN (National Liberation Army) and unfortunately many freelance supporters in no uniform, but carrying, like the traditional rebels, revolvers and hand grenades in their belts.
(5) Host cities are disrupted for days or even weeks.The cavalcades roll into town, good intentions are shared in productive talks.
(6) Although the chancellor will spend barely six hours in the country, her presence has resulted in frogmen patrolling the seas, snipers guarding rooftops and an estimated 7,000 policemen, including elite riot units, securing the boulevards on which her cavalcade will pass.
(7) Leaders regularly cock a snook at democratic niceties in staying in power and many seem largely out of touch with their people's needs, behind their high walls and blue-light security cavalcades.
(8) As his cavalcade drove up to the interview venue, girls leaned out of the window and screamed as if they had seen a rock star.
(9) "Obviously it's very different from a general election so while everybody who voted yes is delighted, there are no street celebrations going on, no car cavalcades or anything like that."
(10) And if it was OK to discuss it – being gay, cross-dressing, waxing and waning libido, abortion, the evils of child abuse and violent marriages, the taboos of incest or underage sex, the huge technicolour cavalcade of being human – then the loneliness of a desperate problem was mitigated.
(11) Photographed shopping in a local supermarket before his election, he prefers to travel by train or car, with his cavalcade even respecting red lights, whereas Sarkozy favoured jets.
(12) If the casting is confirmed and Cumberbatch makes the trip to New Zealand, where filming is currently taking place, he will join a cavalcade of UK talent on the project.
(13) The approach brought peaceful, exuberant scenes on Thursday, with cavalcades of honking horns, but a small riot marred Friday’s peaceful protests – and left Johnson facing criticism that his officers had stood by as business were ransacked.
(14) He swept into a side entrance in a police cavalcade under flashing blue lights, avoiding most of the hundreds of onlookers including family members of Mladic's alleged victims and Serbian nationalist supporters of the war crimes suspect.
(15) The danger of a lack of transparency in fundraising is written in corruption allegations across contemporary Europe, a shameful cavalcade that may soon be joined by Nicolas Sarkozy .
(16) What do you get when you combine Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, Doc Rivers, the Donald Sterling Media Circus, the second best Reggie Jackson in sports history and a cavalcade of rich and famous people lining up to buy Los Angeles's other NBA team?
(17) Alongside the highway near the town of Ventersburg, at a rural settlement not yet reached by post-apartheid development, a knot of villagers had clustered: they were dancing and singing and clapping, and with the help of one or two vuvuzelas, cheering on the flag-festooned cavalcade of luxury cars ferrying well-heeled supporters down to the game.
(18) At a function at the Royal United Services Institute, a few yards from Downing Street, this month, his cavalcade, complete with motorcycle outriders, looked almost presidential; it is a comparison not lost on the Russian authorities who have charged him with plotting a coup against the Putin regime, or at least setting himself and some of his fellow exiles up as an opposition in waiting.
(19) Expectations are high.” A cavalcade of motorbikes and cars with their headlights on and horns blaring paraded through the streets of Kano, northern Nigeria’s biggest city, AFP reported.
(20) Circling a packed peninsula lined with scores of snazzy hotels and designer boutiques, the beaches will be buzzing from January to March, perpetually topped up by a cavalcade of South America's rich and famous.
Chain
Definition:
(n.) A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc.
(n.) That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit.
(n.) A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas.
(n.) An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land.
(n.) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
(n.) The warp threads of a web.
(v. t.) To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog.
(v. t.) To keep in slavery; to enslave.
(v. t.) To unite closely and strongly.
(v. t.) To measure with the chain.
(v. t.) To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor.
Example Sentences:
(1) We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the breakpoint area of alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asia type and several parts of the alpha-globin gene cluster to make a differential diagnosis between alpha-thalassemia-1 and Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis.
(2) In addition, DDT blocked succinate dehydrogenase and the cytochrome b-c span of the electron transport chain, which also secondarily reduced ATP synthesis.
(3) The high transition enthalpy for kerasin is ascribed to a lesser accommodation of gauche conformers in the hydrocarbon chains just below the transition temperature.
(4) Mannose receptor mediated uptake by the reticuloendothelial system has been suggested as an explanation for the rapid removal of ricin A chain antibody conjugates from the circulation after their administration.
(5) We have examined overlapping octapeptides from the kappa IIIb light chain variable region and show that some framework peptides have the ability to bind aggregated IgG.
(6) The Tyr side chain had two conformations of comparable energy, one over the ring between the Gln and Asn side chains, and the other with the Tyr side chain away from the ring.
(7) The lineage and clonality of Hodgkin's disease (HD) were investigated by analyzing the organization of the immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor beta-chain (T beta) gene loci in 18 cases of HD, and for comparison, in a panel of 103 cases of B- and T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs) and lymphoid leukemias (LLs).
(8) Only those derivatives with a free amino group and net positive charge in the side chain were effective.
(9) Approximately 90% of the patients have a lambda light chain myeloma protein and almost all patients excrete Bence-Jones protein.
(10) The reducing equivalents could be donated by formate or NADH through some segment of the membrane respiratory chain.
(11) Thus there may be four types of LPS in PACI: one contains unsubstituted core polysaccharide and yields L2 on acid hydrolysis, another has short antigenic side-chains of the SR type and yields the LI fraction, while the two high molecular weight fractions are derived from core polysaccharides with different side-chains.
(12) The seve polypeptide chains investigated had generalyy similar properties; all contained two residues per molecule of tryptophan and N-acetylserine was the common N-terminal amino acid residue.
(13) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
(14) Peptide:N-glycosidase F removed both the asparagine-linked oligosaccharide chains of ricin B-chain in the absence of lactose.
(15) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
(16) In general, optimal DAGAT activity in vitro was observed when long-chain unsaturated acyl-CoAs and diacylglycerols (DAGs) containing long acyl chains were used as substrates for in vitro TAG synthesis (although 1,2-didecanoin was also very effective).
(17) The canine system allows quantitative separation of native heme containing alpha and beta chains which recombine to for tetrameric hemoglobin with normal functional properties (n = 2.17).
(18) The product of this enzymatic hydrolysis was F420 with one less glutamic acid in the side chain.
(19) The present study deals with 832 ossicular chain reconstruction procedures performed in 655 patients from January 1975 to December 1985.
(20) On the other hand, if we correct for the population of HMM with degraded light chain 2, the difference in the binding constants in the presence and absence of Ca2+ may be as great as 5-fold.