(n.) The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Interaction between antibacterial agents is often assessed in chessboard titrations, in which bacteriostatic synergy is detected as a mutual reduction in the minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of the agents being tested.
(2) The days when empires could treat sovereign states as pieces on a chessboard are over," he said, speaking to graduates from Moscow's New Economic School.
(3) I think it's sort of time to let go of the icon of the globe, because it places us above it and I think it has allowed us to see nature in this really abstracted way and sort of move pieces, like pieces on a chessboard, and really loose touch with the Earth.
(4) We investigated the exploratory movements of Anabantid fishes in a chessboard-like aquarium (divided into 25 communicating compartments) as a new environment.
(5) Antagonism was not reliably demonstrated in chessboard titrations, especially with the newer quinolones.
(6) The value of combination therapy, as evidenced by chessboard and killing-curve techniques with the strain, is discussed.
(7) In an anonymous basement a few streets from the 1 Undershaft site stands a chessboard showing the City of London’s future skyline.
(8) However, treatment with incomplete chessboard vaccinations in combination with a low dose of cyclophosphamide (which is not immunosuppressive, but partly inhibits tumor growth) had a synergistic therapeutic effect on minimal residual disease of Lewis lung adenocarcinoma.
(9) How many knights on a chessboard was the first question.
(10) In 21 patients with idiopathic retrobulbar neuritis (IRN) the optic nerve function was assessed using visual evoked potentials under a reversible black-and-white chessboard pattern stimulation.
(11) In a macrodilution chessboard assay against multiple combinations of penicillin, gentamicin and netilmicin, bactericidal activity uniformly occurred at two- to four-fold lower concentrations of penicillin + netilmicin than with penicillin + gentamicin.
(12) If you don't respect yourself, if you don't project your own authority, how do you expect not to end up a plaything of the bloviators and the rent seekers and people who would move you about like a piece on a chessboard?
(13) The therapeutic effect of this so-called chessboard vaccination on minimal residual disease was compared to that of the subcutaneous or i.d.
(14) As chessboard vaccination only proved to be successful in Lewis lung adenocarcinoma, but not in the other tumors, it can be concluded that the exposure of Thomsen-Friedenreich antigen plays no decisive role in tumor therapy with tumor cells and VCN.
(15) The young men of the Black Car Brigade were sprawled across the living room, chessboard on the table, guitar on the sofa, guns leaning against the wall.
(16) It’s not just another piece on the Westminster chessboard.
(17) The results show that compared to VCN-treated M-TC or single mixtures of M-TC and VCN, chessboard vaccination is the only procedure that is therapeutically effective on metastasation of Lewis lung adenocarcinoma.
(18) injections were performed in a chessboard-like manner: different numbers (10(5), 10(6), 10(7), and 10(8) of mitomycin-treated autologous tumor cells (M-TC) were each mixed with different amounts (10, 50, and 100 mU) of VCN.
(19) Embryonal carcinomas show a chessboard-like pattern of proliferating fractions with high 3H-thymidine labelling indices and short tpot.
(20) This was observed in the control system in which at 1 C'H50 hemolysis inhibition increase from 50 to 90% was found after 2 hr at 37 degrees C, after 8 hr at 20 degrees C and after 18 hr at 4 degrees C. Simultaneously, a double increase of the standard serum titre was obtained at 4 and 20 degrees C as compared with that at 37 degrees C. At stable concentration of the antigen and complement the effect of C' fixation was the strongest at 4 degrees C, slightly weaker at 20 degrees C and the weakest at 37 degrees C. The above dependence resulted from a different reaction distribution in the chessboard system at each temperature.
Rank
Definition:
(superl.) Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.
(superl.) Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy.
(superl.) Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land.
(superl.) Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue.
(superl.) Strong to the taste.
(superl.) Inflamed with venereal appetite.
(adv.) Rankly; stoutly; violently.
(n. & v.) A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers.
(n. & v.) A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a).
(n. & v.) Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.
(n. & v.) An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings.
(n. & v.) Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank.
(n. & v.) Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.
(v. t.) To place abreast, or in a line.
(v. t.) To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify.
(v. t.) To take rank of; to outrank.
(v. i.) To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division.
(v. i.) To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks high in public estimation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
(2) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
(3) Measures of average and cumulative rank were used to augment tests of the significance of correlations between different indicators.
(4) The programs are written in Fortran and are implemented on a Rank Xerox Sigma 6 computer.
(5) Significant differences in the pharmacological characteristics of the alpha 2 adrenoceptor were observed between the tissues with reference to both absolute drug affinities as well as rank order of drug potency.
(6) While superheroes like “superman” (21st in SplashData’s 2014 rankings) and “batman” (24th) may be popular choices for passwords, the results if they are cracked could be anything other than super – and users will only have themselves to blame.
(7) This analysis is based on a ranking of neighbourhoods according to the participation of young people in higher education.
(8) When histamine (5 micrograms) was injected into three different levels of the ventricular system, the magnitude and duration of the resulting increases in plasma epinephrine and glucose were in the following rank order: the third ventricle greater than aqueduct much greater than fourth ventricle.
(9) The rank order of potency of the peptides tested was VIP greater than rat (r) peptide histidine isoleucine = human (h) PHI greater than rGRF greater than bovine GRF = porcine PHI = VIP-(10-28) greater than hGRF greater than secretin greater than apamin greater than glucagon.
(10) In the latter case, the studies have resulted in a ranking of processes and treatment methods to protect the environment.
(11) Cefuzoname seems to be among the middle ranks of beta-lactam agents as far as penetration rate is concerned; however, when its potent antibacterial activity and broad spectrum are taken into account, the concentrations in CSF in patients with meningitis seem worth examining.
(12) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
(13) Using an explicit process, the Oregon Health Services Commission has completed the ranking of 714 condition-treatment pairs.
(14) Autonomy, sense of accomplishment and time spent in patient care ranked as the top three factors contributing to job satisfaction.
(15) On guinea-pig lung strip the rank order of potency was U-46619 greater than Wy17186 much greater than PGF2 alpha greater than PGE2 and responses to all agonists tested were blocked by AH19437 but not by SC-19220.
(16) In the UK, George Osborne used this to his advantage, claiming "Britain faces the disaster of having its international credit rating downgraded" even after Moody's ranked UK debt as "resilient".
(17) The eight senators, including the incoming ranking member Mark Warner of Virginia, wrote to Barack Obama to request he declassify relevant intelligence on the election.
(18) Hence, a priori haplotyping cannot exclude a particular CF mutation, but in combination with population genetic data, enables mutations to be ranked by decreasing probability.
(19) The rank order of potencies of the four AEDs was: (a) in young: CBZ > PHT > PhB > VPA; (b) in adult: CBZ > PhB > PHT > VPA.
(20) Patients clinically evaluated as effective tended to be so pathologically as well, as shown by Spearman's rank correlation test which gave a significant correlation between the clinical and pathological scores.