(n.) The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes.
(n.) A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
(n.) An excrescence on the body, as a wart.
(n.) A small tool used in cleaving laths.
(v. i.) To shoot out; to sprout.
(3d sing.) Chideth.
Example Sentences:
(1) UV irradiation, dilution of cell cultures and treatment with Phytophthora megasperma (Pmg) elicitor or yeast extract were used to induce expression of chit genes.
(2) Ayrault had previously said that if Hollande met Putin in Paris he would “give a few home truths and not chit-chat”.
(3) Wreathed in smiles and profuse apologies for delaying Chisora, after he and Andy Gray had chit-chatted with the often truculent boxer on live radio, Keys delivers some cheery advice in the TalkSport studios.
(4) I'd been thinking, we don't know it now, but we'll look back with fondness on the time Mrs Thatcher was here: new friendships formed in the street, chit-chat about plumbers whom we hold in common.
(5) Having interviewed Garai a couple of years ago, when she was not yet pregnant, but playing a character who was, at the Royal Court Theatre in London, I knew how open she was to frank bodily chit-chats.
(6) The hacker was very sophisticated and would correspond with my contacts as though he or she were me, making pleasant chit chat, and would then ask them for a loan of money,” Knox says.
(7) The eventual Republican nominee, Mark Green, lost decisively in the Democratic wave that year and Walker was able to keep his powder dry and gain chits to eventually win election in 2010.
(8) Roger C Altman All this patio chit-chat and ostentatious jogging about Copenhagen seems like a new venture for Bilderberg: as if they're doing their level best to look normal and relaxed.
(9) The chit 2 gene is strongly activated by treatment with cell wall components from the fungus Phytophthora megasperma but not by the other stimuli.
(10) The former Sanders supporter said he was still on the fence, but conceded: “I’m probably going to vote for Hillary Clinton.” Jennifer Palmieri, a spokeswoman for Clinton’s campaign, walked over to the press section at the conclusion of the event for another chit-chat that turned into a full-blown scrum of reporters.
(11) We were just chit-chatting away,” recalls local baker Ellen Hansbury.
(12) The specific activity of Chit A was determined to be 3-fold higher than that of Chit B. Chit A also had a 10-fold lower binding constant (Kd) against the substrate analogue N,N',N'',N'''-tetraacetyl chitotetrose than Chit B, indicating that the two enzyme may differ in their affinities for binding to the substrate chitin.
(13) When tested in vitro for antifungal activity against the growth of Trichoderma reesei, Alternaria solani, and Fusarium oxysporum, Chit A showed greater antifungal activity than Chit B.
(14) We have purified two 28-kDa chitinases, designated Chitinase A (Chit A) and Chitinase B (Chit B), from maize seeds to homogeneity and isolated cDNA clones encoding these two enzymes using an oligonucleotide probe based on an amino acid sequence of a peptide derived from Chit A.
(15) Mary is running late, so on the tape you can hear Melanie and I chit-chatting about obscure French knitwear labels and nibbling the cookies she has brought along and cooing over Walter, Mary and Melanie's schnoodle (poodle-schnauzer cross – black, of course), and then suddenly in the background there is the unmistakable clack-clack-clack of someone hurrying in high heels and the noise of a door bursting open – all so exaggerated and theatrical it sounds, on the machine, like a radio play – and then Mary's booming, head-girl tones as she cuts off our conversation, shouting, "Lies!
(16) Diana married Mosley secretly, by special Reich permission at the family home of the Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels in Berlin in 1936, with Hitler as guest - he gave her a photograph of himself in an eagle-topped frame, which she deposited in a country branch of Drummonds bank at the outbreak of war ("I've got the little chit somewhere," she said at 90).
(17) Four chitinase cDNAs (chit 1-4) were isolated from cultured peanut cells.
(18) Expression of individual chit genes was assayed by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) followed by analysis of restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP).
(19) Our court and our public have given clean chit to (Modi) and he became prime minister,” Shastri said.
(n.) A record of something which it is desired to remember; a note to help the memory.
(n.) A brief or informal note in writing of some transaction, or an outline of an intended instrument; an instrument drawn up in a brief and compendious form.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
(2) She was presented with a memorandum, rated “top secret and strictly personal”, by Charles Powell, her foreign affairs adviser.
(3) This Memorandum discusses the problems and techniques involved in the detection of carriers of haemophilia A (blood coagulation factor VIII deficiency) and haemophilia B (factor IX deficiency), particularly with a view to its application to genetic counselling.
(4) Each trial was initiated by a brief alerting diffuse flash preceding presentation of the memorandum (sample); the latter was a lighted circle (red or green, 1.5 s) to be retained by the animal during a subsequent delay for correct behavioral response (color match).
(5) In an open letter to the college Fran Fuller, chair of BASW, says that the plans were a surprise, as the organisations have a memorandum of understanding in place and have spent "many weeks" positively discussing the college's development.
(6) The leaked memorandum makes clear that the target of the heightened surveillance efforts are the delegations from Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Mexico, Guinea and Pakistan at the UN headquarters in New York - the so-called 'Middle Six' delegations whose votes are being fought over by the pro-war party, led by the US and Britain, and the party arguing for more time for UN inspections, led by France, China and Russia.
(7) Europe must save Greece to save itself | Timothy Garton Ash Read more Moreover, the government has failed to articulate a concrete, progressive, forward-looking reform agenda, and move beyond its populist talking points to aggressively embrace the urgently needed structural reforms, many of which are outlined in the memorandum.
(8) The firm, i4Health, lobbied the new Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) in July 2013 for a memorandum of understanding to "ensure that requests [for patient data] from life sciences receive prompt attention", an examination of the stakeholder forums of HSCIC shows.
(9) Or the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Netherlands and Mexico pledging to work together on flood risk management .
(10) He said there was no sign of an economic turnaround and Italy should sign a memorandum of understanding with the EU on structural reforms to get lower borrowing costs.
(11) Tony Abbott signed memorandums of understanding with all state premiers and territory chief ministers at Friday’s Council of Australian Governments (Coag) meeting.
(12) Yet Caroline Krass, a top lawyer in the office of legal counsel, whom Obama nominated to become the CIA’s chief attorney, told the panel on Tuesday that the Senate panel was n ot entitled to the memorandums , which she described as “pre-decisional” and therefore beyond Senate prerogative.
(13) This memorandum proposes a standardized system of reporting the histology of human lymph nodes based on commonly used simple staining techniques.
(14) It called for the bill to “be amended or, if not possible, the explanatory memorandum of the bill be clarified, to confirm that the commonwealth director of public prosecution must take into account the public interest, including the public interest in publication, before initiating a prosecution”.
(15) This memorandum reviews recent developments in viral immunopathology, with special reference to animal model systems, and indicates the possible relevance of the new concepts and techniques for certain diseases of man.
(16) In a memorandum of understanding setting up this project, user requirements were to be defined for the hardware and software used for data acquisition, processing and presentation.
(17) But aides insist that while the party's tone may have changed – a byproduct of being forced to grow up abruptly – its overarching objective remains the same: abolition of the memorandum outlining the terms of Athens's bailout and renegotiation of the loan agreement it has signed with its partners.
(18) It sounds terribly woolly, and it is – the report is full of "principles of stewardship", memorandums of understanding and statements of best practice.
(19) "It is food that is aimed for the thousands of Greek families blighted by the genocidal policies of the memorandum," said the party, referring to the loan agreement Athens has signed with international creditors to keep the debt-crippled country afloat.
(20) In other conditions placed on the new memorandum of understanding, Israel would no longer be allowed to spend over a quarter of the military aid on home-produced weaponry, and would instead be required the full amount on US arms.