(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.
(v. t.) To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.
(v. t.) To shoot into ramifications.
(v. t.) To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed.
(v. t.) To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.
(v. i.) The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch.
(v. i.) Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
(2) Cell Biol., 101:1990-1998), the fetal antigen is specifically associated with regions of neuronal sprouting and, therefore, can be used as a molecular marker of neurite growth.
(3) Histological examination showed that in many cases these terminal sprouts appeared to reinnervate abandoned junctional sites on adjacent denervated fibers.
(4) Cytokines may be involved in stimulation of dystrophic neuritic sprouting, neuronal death, and amyloid deposition noted in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients.
(5) This finding suggested that in addition to growing within the host, xenogeneic transplants may also stimulate a compensatory sprouting response from the host.
(6) These results suggest that purified laminin can facilitate and guide process outgrowth of 5-HT, DA and NE neurons during early developmental stage, but does not induce sprouting on these same fiber types in the adult brain.
(7) The vascular system develops during embryonic development by at least two distinct processes; vasculogenesis is the development of blood vessels from in situ differentiating angioblasts and angiogenesis is the sprouting of capillaries from pre-existing vessels.
(8) Finally, using a newly developed paradigm for examining the composition of regenerating axons by axonal transport, we determined that significant amounts of the 57 kDa neuronal IF protein were conveyed into the regrowing axonal sprouts of DRG neurons.
(9) mRNA was prepared from muscle at different times after denervation: a maximal increase was obtained already after 1 day, consistent with an involvement in sprouting.
(10) Thus vascular sprouting and proliferation of viable tumor cells is confined to basal regions of the tumor.
(11) The bean sprout enzyme catalyzed ferredoxin-dependent electron transfer from NADPH to equine cytochrome c at a high rate but, unlike the spinach enzyme, exhibited little NADPH to 2,6-dichlorophenol indophenol diaphorase activity.
(12) Three days following implantation of 2 x 10(5) tumor cells onto the striated skin muscle, capillary sprouts were noted in the tumor cell mass.
(13) Virtually no B-50 immunoreactivity was seen in control nerves, but bright immunofluorescence appeared in regenerating sprouts.
(14) The nucleoside phosphotransferase from malt sprouts contains one Mg2 per dimeric enzyme molecule.
(15) The contrasting effects on sprouting and the eventual quality of repair of mechanically lesioned nerves have suggested a mechanism whereby sprouting may regulate perikaryal adjustments to injury.
(16) Neurotoxin lesioning of 5-HT fibers selectively induced the homotypic collateral sprouting of spared 5-HT fibers in the hippocampus.
(17) In control rats, a similar sprouting reaction occurred, but the maximal distance of elongation rarely exceeded 1 mm.
(18) After differentiation, both Ewing's and neural lines developed neuritic processes with varicosities and little arborization, except for the initially undifferentiated Ewing's line (A4573) which displayed extensive lateral sprouting from neuritic processes after differentiation.
(19) Preterminal, intranodal, and intraterminal sprouting were found to significantly increase from 1 to 6 months following partial denervation.
(20) In the cerebellum a progressive regeneration and apparent sprouting of NE fibers was observed.