(v. t.) To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.
(v. t.) To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away.
(v. t.) To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.
(v. i.) To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor.
(v.) Vehement pursuit for the purpose of killing or capturing, as of an enemy, or game; an earnest seeking after any object greatly desired; the act or habit of hunting; a hunt.
(v.) That which is pursued or hunted.
(v.) An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace.
(v.) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point.
(n.) A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.
(n.) The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.
(n.) A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.
(n.) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
(v. t.) To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like.
(v. t.) To cut, so as to make a screw thread.
Example Sentences:
(1) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
(2) Results obtained from cumulative labeling and pulse-labeling and chase experiments with cells from late gastrulae, yolk plug-stage embryos, and neurulae showed that the 30S RNA is an intermediate in rRNA processing and is derived from 40S pre-rRNA and processed to 28S rRNA.
(3) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
(4) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
(5) All 17 candidates are going to be participating in debate night and I think that’s a wonderful opportunity Reince Priebus Republican party officials have defended the decision to limit participation, pointing out that the chasing pack will get a chance to debate separately before the main event.
(6) Pulse-chase experiments showed that the ornithine transcarbamylase precursor and the thiolase traveled from the cytosol to the mitochondria with half-lives of less than 5 min, whereas the three fusion proteins traveled with half-lives of 10-15 min.
(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) So the government wants a “root and branch” review to decide whether the BBC has “been chasing mass ratings at the expense of its original public service brief” ( BBC faces ‘root and branch’ review of its size and remit , 13 July).
(9) Pulse-chase analysis of the labelling of these lipids indicates that PI and lysoPI rapidly equilibrate after the initial slow synthesis of PI.
(10) The report's authors warns that to limit their spending councils will have "an incentive to discourage low-income families from living in the area" and that raises the possibility that councils will – like the ill-fated poll tax of the early 1990s – be left to chase desperately poor people through the courts for small amounts of unpaid tax.
(11) This result indicates that part of 5'-nucleotidase keeps one or two high-mannose or hybrid chains in the mature form, even after prolonged pulse-chase labeling.
(12) Conroy, out at the ovarian cancer event we’ve already touched on, was unrepentent as he was chased down the corridor by reporters.
(13) "For tax evaders, she should turn to Pasok and New Democracy to explain to her why they haven't touched the big money and have been chasing the simple worker for two years."
(14) Surfers chase the reliable swell here when it's flat further west.
(15) The mature molecular mass form of each of these proteins reaches its maximum specific radioactivity in a purified hepatocyte plasma membrane fraction after only 45 min of chase.
(16) In pulse-chase experiments, labelled proteins 26-34 kDa, appeared within 10 min and smaller forms co-migrated with surfactant-associated glycoprotein A from alveolar lavage.
(17) As a consequence of chasing funding, organisations shift their focus away from their areas of expertise into where the money is to sustain themselves.
(18) The secretion kinetics of nine proteins by Hep G2 cells in culture was investigated using pulse-chase techniques and immunoisolation of proteins with monospecific antibodies.
(19) Pulse-chase and long-term labeling experiments revealed different half-lives for the two c-myc-encoded proteins.
(20) It's an anxious time for those 180,000 teenagers chasing the last university places in clearing ; nails are bitten to the quick, eyes glazed from internet searching.
Poon
Definition:
(n.) A name for several East Indian, or their wood, used for the masts and spars of vessels, as Calophyllum angustifolium, C. inophullum, and Sterculia foetida; -- called also peon.
Example Sentences:
(1) As someone who had a chance to talk to him in the past, I really feel heartbroken to see how he has been treated,” said Patrick Poon, a Hong Kong-based Amnesty International activist.
(2) The proposed activation mechanism is based upon several key concepts, including the "S"-structure for the folding of the C1r2C1s2 tetramer among the C1q arms [Poon, et al., J. molec.
(3) Poon said Beijing was attempting to shift the focus on to how much medical attention Liu was receiving to shirk responsibility for its “cold-blooded” treatment of the democracy activist.
(4) It has been shown previously that in this paradigm older adults are differentially inhibited by semantically related primes (Bowles & Poon, 1985a).
(5) Patrick Poon, an Amnesty campaigner who also knows Liu, said Beijing was preventing the dissident’s friends from visiting him to avoid embarrassment over the fact that a man it portrayed as a “convicted criminal” still enjoyed popular support.
(6) A previous optimal chemical-mechanical model (C.-S. Poon.
(7) "If even people like him are taken away, it gives a very bad sign to other human rights defenders and netizens," said Patrick Poon, executive secretary of the China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group.
(8) Beijing had repeatedly rejected calls for Liu to be treated abroad, Poon pointed out.
(9) Adding injury to insult, Liu Xiaobo has been diagnosed with a grave illness in prison, where he should never have been put in the first place,” said Patrick Poon, a researcher at Amnesty International in Hong Kong.
(10) Still, when older adults become aware of memory problems, they typically become quite alarmed (see Poon et al., 1980).
(11) Poon's optimization model may give a key to integrate complicated and coflicting experimental results in a unique concept.
(12) In 2012 Poon donated £20m to the law school at King’s College London, which has been renamed in his honour.
(13) The Chinese authorities should immediately ensure that Liu Xiaobo receives adequate medical care, effective access to his family and that he and all others imprisoned solely for exercising their human rights are immediately and unconditionally released.” “The authorities should immediately and unconditionally lift all restrictions on his wife Liu Xia and let the two reunite as soon as possible,” Poon added.
(14) The increased exercise sensitivity in hypercapnia is qualitatively consistent with the hypothesis that VE is controlled to minimize the conflicting challenges due to chemical drive and the mechanical work of breathing (Poon, C. S. In: Modelling and Control of Breathing, New York: Elsevier, 1983, p. 189-196).
(15) But I hope that President Xi will see that it’s in China interests to not be viewed as not only silencing a man but wilfully and intentionally shortening his life.” Patrick Poon, another Amnesty International activist, said Chinese authorities could no longer justify preventing Liu from leaving China.
(16) A hamster protein (termed IBF) which binds to IES2 and stimulates transcription in vitro has previously been purified and was found to have a subunit molecular mass of 40,000 (Karnitz, L., Poon, D., Weil, P.A., and Chalkley, R. (1989) Mol.
(17) It adds injury to insult that Liu Xiaobo, who should never have been put in prison in the first place, has been diagnosed with a grave illness,” said Patrick Poon, a China researcher at Amnesty International.
(18) The application of this relative memorability analysis to previously reported data dealing with the immediate recall of spoken sentences (Stine, Wingfield, & Poon, 1986) revealed that although older adults show qualitative recall similar to younger adults when informational density is low, they show less discrimination among text elements when informational density is increased.
(19) This finding is consistent with the demonstration that stage VI oocytes contain a store of B-type cyclin polypeptides (Kobayashi, H., J. Minshull, C. Ford, R. Golsteyn, R. Poon, and T. Hunt.
(20) Poon said another one, Liu Zhengqing, was taken away from his home in Guangzhou on 24 March.