(n.) A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors.
(v. i.) To do chores.
(n.) A choir or chorus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Parties are a tedious chore, while sponsorships are pretty tiresome too: can you remember the key messaging about that motor oil you agreed to plug to the nearest reporter?
(2) A bout three in every 10 people in Britain think social workers help with household chores like cooking and cleaning, with personal care like washing and dressing, and with childcare.
(3) You can't put off any longer the chore of correcting the stack of student papers.
(4) The findings indicate excessive uses of the time and energy budget on walking trips to accomplish basic household necessities in which domestic chores consume by far the largest portion of this budget with the highest burden falling on the female members of the household.
(5) Women often work in exploitative conditions and shoulder disproportionate unpaid care responsibilities (such as child rearing, domestic chores, and caring for the sick and elderly).
(6) Time at home, alone, without chores, is still often felt as shirking responsibility.
(7) The husband will tend to all domestic chores while the wife works and vice versa.
(8) When the daycare finished, she settled into simply helping her mother with chores, focusing on raising her daughter and having late-night taco-making sessions with Theresa.
(9) Daily use involved repetitive chores and contact with glutaraldehyde.
(10) Considerable, traditional inequity in the distribution of child-care tasks and chore responsibility was noted, but women were generally satisfied with their husbands' home involvement.
(11) A working woman may face difficulties in attempting to fulfill the demands of both worlds, at home and outside, while a housewife may feel tired and irritated with her household chores and financial dependence.
(12) Residents must be relieved of time-consuming, nonmedical chores and internal medicine training must be redefined to provide experiences which are important to gain competence.
(13) Had the Mayans been skilled in predicting the future, they might have foreseen that a week already chock-full with jobs undone, frantic present buying and horrific office parties was hardly the best time to trouble people with the bothersome chore of preparing for the apocalypse.
(14) Our results indicate that patients with RA experience more losses than controls in every domain of human activity and that patients with OA experience more losses in the performance of household chores, shopping and errands, and leisure activities.
(15) Instead, it began when my mother dreamed of owning a car to ease her household chores.
(16) This indicated to me that over several years, consultants at this hospital feel these summaries are a chore, and the DH directive was a waste of paper.
(17) The dishwasher Since the middle of the 19th century men and women have been devising machines to ease the endless household chores of washing clothes and dishes.
(18) It's a rare interlude of childish exuberance for girls whose young lives are dominated by the twice daily walk to the well and home, carrying heavy water cans, and other domestic chores.
(19) Similarly, in the village of Sarkisla, in the province of Siva in central Turkey, children are responsible for the care of animals and other chores, and have no problems in growing up.
(20) Until now he has been manipulating the rival candidates but now he needs to ensure that, if he steps aside from the day-to-day presidential chores, he and his family will be safe.
Housekeeping
Definition:
(n.) The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder.
(n.) Care of domestic concerns; management of a house and home affairs.
(n.) Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions.
(a.) Domestic; used in a family; as, housekeeping commodities.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both genes appear to be housekeeping genes and are expressed at relatively low levels in all tissues.
(2) In the studies on genomic DNA, genes with multiple transcription initiation sites were found in brain, such as CCK, CNP and MAG, in addition to NSE which was a housekeeping gene, and this may contribute to the high sequence complexity of brain RNA.
(3) Now trapped in an occupied city, she takes on a job as a housekeeper to mysterious bachelor Gabriel Ortega.
(4) Examination of the sequences at other RNA polymerase II initiation sites suggests that we have identified an element that is important in the transcription of other housekeeping genes.
(5) Brown, it emerged, had been living in a luxurious three-bedroom villa in the exclusive resort of Punta Cana, on the eastern most tip of the country with his dog and a housekeeper.
(6) The base composition of the DNA MeTase promoter is markedly different from that of other housekeeping genes.
(7) Housekeeping (constitutively active) genes always replicate early and are in the early-replicating R-bands.
(8) The first one (upstream) is active in all tissues and its promoter has some of the structural features of a housekeeping promoter; the second, located 3 kilobases downstream, is active only in erythroid cells and its promoter displays structural homologies with the beta-globin gene promoters.
(9) Maintenance of dosage compensation for housekeeping genes on the human X chromosome is mediated through differential methylation of clustered CpG nucleotides associated with these genes.
(10) But the boldest dramatic licence is in proposing that Turner’s relationship with Hannah Danby, his housekeeper (played by Dorothy Atkinson) was sexual.
(11) Glamour magazine has lost its position as the most popular women's UK monthly lifestyle title in print after more than a decade, overtaken by Good Housekeeping.
(12) She worked for decades as a housekeeper in San Francisco’s downtown hotels and is now retired.
(13) As further evidence of the housekeeping nature of the LEP100 gene, Northern blots of RNA from several adult and embryonic tissues (skeletal muscle, kidney, liver, heart, gizzard, and brain) revealed a single message for LEP100 of the same size (about 3 kilobases) in each tissue.
(14) Thus, the cell line A172 is able to survive in the absence of a functional ABL gene product, indicating that the role of ABL is unlikely to be "housekeeping."
(15) While cytosolic NADP-IDH is a "housekeeping" enzyme, expressed in multiple tissues of the mouse, differences in the relative intensities of allelic isozyme bands provide evidence for tissue- and stage-specific regulatory variation.
(16) ts11 P1 produced about sixfold more chloramphenicol acetyltransferase activity than did ts11 P2 and had features of the promoters of housekeeping genes: high G + C content, multiple transcription start sites, absence of a TATA box, and presence of putative Sp1 binding sites.
(17) The genes for 18S rRNA and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase were representatives of constitutively expressed (i.e., "housekeeping") genes.
(18) Louise Chunn, the former editor of Good Housekeeping and InStyle, is the new editor of upmarket "thinking women's glossy" magazine Psychologies.
(19) We have size-fractionated the chromosome-sized DNA molecules of representative T. cruzi strains by pulsed field gradient (PFG) gel electrophoresis and located several housekeeping genes by Southern blotting using cDNA probes from the related trypanosome T. brucei.
(20) Physicians' care was the most favorably rated dimension, followed by admission process and housekeeping, while nursing care was the least favorably rated dimension.