(n.) A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch.
(n.) A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands.
(n.) A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
(v. i.) To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters.
(v. t.) To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(2) We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the breakpoint area of alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asia type and several parts of the alpha-globin gene cluster to make a differential diagnosis between alpha-thalassemia-1 and Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis.
(3) In some cervical nodes, a few follicles, lymphocyte clusters, and a well-developed plasmocyte population were also present.
(4) The 68C intermolt puff of Drosophila melanogaster contains a cluster of three glue protein genes, Sgs-3, Sgs-7, and Sgs-8.
(5) This analysis demonstrated that more than 75% of cosmids containing a rare restriction site also contained a second rare restriction site, suggesting a high degree of CpG-rich restriction site clustering.
(6) Typically the iron-iron axis (gz) of the binuclear iron-sulfur clusters is in the membrane plane.
(7) The fourth cluster included the type strains of Actinobacillus lignieresii, A. equuli, A. pleuropneumoniae, A. suis, A. ureae, H. parahaemolyticus, H. parainfluenzae, H. paraphrohaemolyticus, H. ducreyi, and P. haemolytica.
(8) Each species has approximately 500 core histones cluster repeats per haploid genome.
(9) mycoides cluster' at a similarity level (S) of 66% and which remained undivided at up to 78% S. At higher similarity levels, these strains fell heterogeneously into mixed sub-phenons containing strains of both subspecies.
(10) Thus, succinate dehydrogenase is the first enzyme which has been shown to contain all 3 of these Fe-S clusters.
(11) We examined 10 life areas clustered around the general categories of "substance use," "social functioning," and "emotional and interpersonal functioning."
(12) Genetic regulation of the ilvGMEDA cluster involves attenuation, internal promoters, internal Rho-dependent termination sites, a site of polarity in the ilvG pseudogene of the wild-type organism, and autoregulation by the ilvA gene product, the biosynthetic L-threonine deaminase.
(13) Neutral sucrose density sedimentation patterns indicate that neutron-induced double strand-breaks sometimes occur in clusters of more than 100 in the same phage and that the effeciency with which double strand-breaks form is about 50 times that of gamma-induced double strand-breaks.
(14) The difference in Brazil will be the huge distances involved, with the crazy decision not to host the group stages in geographical clusters leading to logistical and planning nightmares.
(15) Fifty-four cases were analysed, and a two-fold excess of clustering within one year was observed, both within single districts and between adjacent districts.
(16) All of the multivariate data were treated with mathematic method of cluster analysis.
(17) The perinatal development of the levator ani (LA) muscle in male and female rats was investigated by measuring the total number of muscle units (MU) (i.e., mononucleate cells, clustered or independent myotubes, and muscle fibers) in transverse semithin sections of the entire muscle and the MU cross-sectional area in 22-day-old fetuses (F22), 1-day-old (D1 = day of birth), 3-day-old (D3), and 6-day-old (D6) newborns.
(18) Since only a few of these medium sized terminals in any one cluster degenerate after tectal lesions, and none degenerate after cortical lesions, it is suggested that the morphological arrangement of these clusters may permit the convergence of axons from several sources, some of which are unidentified, onto the same dendritic segment.
(19) A transurethral prostatic resection for prostatism in a 73 year old man showed a cluster of richly capillarised clear cells originally thought to be indicative of invasive carcinoma.
(20) Moderately differentiated tumor revealed a wider range of nucleus size, less clustering (coefficient--3.59) and more hyperchromatic (70.1%) and "bare" (49.4%) nuclei and large nucleoli (22.2%).
Homestead
Definition:
(n.) The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it.
(n.) The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
(n.) The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was the tragedy that established Bridge Farm as the most woebegone of Archers homesteads.
(2) As well as sparking a novel, Merrill's caress further initiated Forster into the comradely haven of his and Carpenter's rural domesticity: a Derbyshire homestead, safe from public scrutiny.
(3) In the afternoons, tiny boys somehow ride adult bicycles, weaving along the tentacle paths that connect the homesteads.
(4) As our bus drives past, radiation levels inside surge to 61 microsieverts an hour (compared to the typical Japanese average of 0.34 microsieverts).Elsewhere inside the exclusion zone, at least 1,000 cattle are roaming wild after escaping from their farm homesteads, according to local authorities.
(5) She argued that the proposed laws had been "tabled within the context of a revived securocrat state", noting the secrecy around the Marikana mine massacre and use of public funds on Zuma's homestead.
(6) The EFF claims that the ANC has sold its revolutionary soul to "white monopoly capital" and that serial corruption scandals, notably the spending of £13.7m on president Jacob Zuma's homestead in Nkandla , show its contempt for the poor.
(7) The sprawling homestead is a jarring sight in one of the world's most unequal societies.
(8) He had been raised in a remote campesino homestead on the far side of the valley, and the trail we were on – a round trip of 40 miles, including a total ascent of 10,000ft – had been his weekly walk to primary school.
(9) Karen Nicoletto, 49, who was walking her dogs past Harris's former homestead, said the plaque outside his childhood home should stay.
(10) Zuma cast his vote in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal province, where a scandal over the spending of taxpayer millions on security upgrades at his homestead did not prevent crowds greeting him enthusiastically and ululating.
(11) "There were issues that had called for security, particularly in my homestead," he elaborated.
(12) In a measure of the importance of the event for the government, the opening ceremony at the tiny homestead museum was simultaneously translated into five languages and streamed to Polish embassies in 17 countries.
(13) A search for Glossina fuscipes fuscipes puparia near homesteads in the sleeping sickness focus of Busoga revealed puparia and puparial shells under Coffea canephora (coffee), Musa sp.
(14) Thirty-nine of the 77 Rett females were traced to 9 small and separate rural areas, and 17 pairs even came from the same farm or homestead.
(15) Yet 2bn rand will be spent on a multi-purpose centre a few kilometres away from President Zuma's homestead."
(16) A motorcyclist wearing a Scream mask pierced the deceptive calm outside the murdered Eugene Terre'Blanche 's homestead near Venterdsorp this afternoon.
(17) The row comes with the president, a Zulu traditionalist with four wives and 21 children, still trying to shrug off a scandal over the spending of taxpayer millions on upgrades at his family homestead.
(18) Speaking at the Humans to Mars conference in Washington last month, Nasa chief Charles Bolden laid out a vision for bringing the US space programme out of its first stage, exploration, and into pioneering, even homesteading.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Uptown, Jerry Seinfeld spent the year performing his monthly Homestead show, and reminding everyone why he became the most famous comedian in the world – absolutely nobody does observational comedy better .
(20) The xylem sap of nitrogen-fixing Pisum Sativum cv Homesteader has been examined by capillary gas chromatography and by gas chromatography mass spectrometry in both electron-impact and chemical ionization modes following the formation of N-heptafluorobutyryl isobutyl ester derivatives.