(n.) A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America.
(n.) The district or country colonized; a settlement.
(n.) A company of persons from the same country sojourning in a foreign city or land; as, the American colony in Paris.
(n.) A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.
Example Sentences:
(1) Therefore, it is suggested that PE patients without endogenous erythroid colonies may follow almost the same clinical course as SP patients.
(2) A beta-adrenergic receptor cDNA cloned into a eukaryotic expression vector reliably induces high levels of beta-adrenergic receptor expression in 2-12% of COS cell colonies transfected with this plasmid after experimental conditions are optimized.
(3) Four of the 39 ticks in our colony were infected with a spirochete; presumably, Borrelia crocidurae.
(4) High-grade and low-grade candidemia were defined as 25 colony-forming units or more per 10 ml and 10 colony-forming units or fewer per 10 ml of blood, respectively.
(5) Cell lines specific for class I or class II loci of the MHC produced interferon and colony-stimulating factors.
(6) DNA from 9% (47 of 529) of the E. coli colonies tested hybridized with the ST probe, whereas only 5% (28 of 529) produced ST as measured by the suckling mouse bioassay.
(7) Proliferation of quiescent hematopoietic stem cells, purified by cell sorting and evaluated by spleen colony assay (CFU-S), was investigated by measuring the total cell number and CFU-S content and the DNA histogram at 20 and 48 hours of liquid culture.
(8) When an expression vector containing plasminogen cDNA is transfected into baby hamster kidney cells, the number of drug-resistant colonies as well as the levels of plasminogen secreted by those colonies is lower than observed in similar transfections of other protease precursor genes.
(9) Alterations in DNA synthesis induced by a single dose of cyclophosphamide in normal and tumorous tissues in vivo paralleled in many respects the changes seen when the more time-consuming techniques of the LI or granulocyte colony formation were employed.
(10) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
(11) We isolated soft agar colonies (a-subclones) and sub-clones from foci (h-subclones) of both hybrids, and, as a control, subclones of cells from random areas without foci of one hybrid (BS181 p-subclones).
(12) As compared with solvent-treated control, no significant increases were observed in the number of revertant colonies in all tester strains in both systems with and without mammalian metabolic activation (S9 Mix).
(13) When PMC purified to greater than 99% purity were cultured in methylcellulose with IL-3 and IL-4, approximately 25% of the PMC formed colonies, all of which contained both berberine sulfate-positive and berberine sulfate-negative mast cells.
(14) Viruses isolated from ticks (Ixodes uriae) from a seabird colony on the Isle of May, Scotland, were shown by complement fixation tests to be related to the Uukuniemi and Kemerovo serogroups.
(15) The genetic management of the African green monkey breeding colony was discussed in relation to the difference in distribution of phenotypes of M and ABO blood groups between the parental (wild-originated) and the first filial (colony-born) populations.
(16) When foods such as dairy products contain large numbers of egg yolk-negative strains of S. aureus, the PPSA agar has the advantage over egg yolk containing media such as Baird-Parker agar that fewer suspect colonies have to be confirmed.
(17) Control-operated cells with centrosomes left in the karyoplast progress through the cell cycle, duplicate the centrosome, and form clonal cell colonies.
(18) However, the blasts formed mixed colonies consisting of erythroblasts, granulocytes, macrophages, and immature blasts when cultured in methylcellulose with PHA-leukocyte conditioned medium.
(19) Direct testing, using colonies of N. gonorrhoeae mixed with the Phadebact gonococcus test reagents, produced noninterpretable results in many cases.
(20) With the H-2+ cells, treatment with each modality significantly increased the number of metastatic colonies.
Hamlet
Definition:
(n.) A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
(2) Hope was living in a disused council building in Tower Hamlets, east London, and, by maintaining a physical presence on site, providing services for a property guardian company called Newbould Guardians.
(3) As such, only in localised situations, where a popular revolt has long been brewing against cartel politics – Tower Hamlets or Bradford, for instance – has the left made a breakthrough.
(4) We deplore the proposal of the secretary of state Eric Pickles to “take over” the democratically elected council in Tower Hamlets ( Report , 5 November).
(5) Hamlet, the prototype of inaction, the man who thinks "too precisely on the event", and who, when he does act, unleashes a bloodbath.
(6) Later, Dizzee Rascal drew big crowds in Tower Hamlets as he ran through the streets where he grew up, throwing his trainers into the throng and running in his socks.
(7) Ten minutes' walk away is the wonderful Blaise Hamlet (open dawn until dusk).
(8) In September 1974 a study was made of all residents of the East London Borough of Tower Hamlets, aged 65 or more, who were known to have been receiving continuous medical and nursing care in hospital for more than a year.
(9) The form of QE we propose by contrast would provide job security and local business opportunities and rebalance the economy, since its infrastructure improvements would take place in every city, town, village and hamlet in the UK.
(10) Best Shakespeare productions: what's your favourite Hamlet?
(11) He also appeared in a number of Branagh's films including Much Ado About Nothing (1993) and as Polonius in Hamlet (1996).
(12) Newer communities have settled in towns and cities such as Milton Keynes, Slough, Northampton, Southampton, and in London, notably Ealing, Tower Hamlets and Newham.
(13) The study population of 130,000 consisted mainly of subsistence cultivators who live in remote hamlets, and included about 27,600 women between the ages of 15 and 49 years.
(14) A Scotland Yard statement said: "On Friday 4 April the Metropolitan Police Service received three files of material from the Department for Communities and Local Government relating to the London borough of Tower Hamlets.
(15) He owed his late-flourishing film career to Branagh, appearing in a string of his movies: as Bardolph in Henry V (1989), Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing (1993), the old blind man in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), a cantankerous old thespian in A Midwinter's Tale (1995), Polonius in Hamlet (1996) and Sir Nathaniel in the musical Love's Labour's Lost (2000).
(16) The LGA was called in to help Tower Hamlets with the appointment of staff last year when several members departed.
(17) Subsequently, he returned to cameo roles in films as diverse as the comedy Bean (1997) and Kenneth Branagh's all-star version of Hamlet (1996).
(18) A south Londoner, she left her Catholic grammar school in Tower Hamlets with little clear idea of what to do.
(19) The letter to Morgan also noted that improvements were being seen in schools in Birmingham and Tower Hamlets inspected in the wake of the Trojan Horse allegations of Islamist influence.
(20) And, among several Hamlets on film, my favourite remains Gregory Kozintsev's 1971 version , which reminded us that Hamlet is only one figure in a bustling, hyperactive court.