(v. i.) To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize or in business; as, tradesmen compete with one another.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similar to intact crayfish, animals with an isolated protocerebrum-eyestalk complex, exhibit competent circadian rhythms in the electroretinogram (ERG).
(2) In the measurement, enzyme-labeled and unlabeled antigens (Ag* and Ag) were allowed to compete in binding to the antibody (Ab) under conditions where Ag* much less than Ab much less than Ag.
(3) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
(4) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
(5) This competence persists over the eight measurement points.
(6) Dilemmas of trust, confidentiality, and professional competence highlight the limits of professional ethical codes.
(7) Skin allografts survived longer on ALS-treated, complement-deficient (C5 negative) recipients than on ALS-treated, complement-competent (C5 positive) recipients.
(8) LM-fragment-8 competes for this binding to the same extent as unlabelled LM (75%), while fragment PI is inactive and fibronectin (FN) competes by about 30% only.
(9) These agents compete with catecholamines at beta-adrenoreceptors.
(10) It is also suggested that alpha-lactalbumin, GTP, UDP, and CDP compete with the binding of HRP to a glycosyltransferase on the cell surface.
(11) Well-refined x-ray structures of the liganded forms of the wild-type and a mutant protein isolated from a strain defective in chemotaxis but fully competent in transport have provided a molecular view of the sugar-binding site and of a site for interacting with the Trg transmembrane signal transducer.
(12) The antagonist drugs showed the following order of potency to displace [3H]prazosin: prazosin much greater than phentolamine much greater than corynanthine greater than pyrextramine much greater than yohimbine much greater than piperoxan greater than benextramine greater than idazoxan; for the agonists: clonidine much greater than (-)-noradrenaline much greater than (-)-adrenaline much greater than phenylephrine, while other drugs, such as (-)-propranolol, dopamine, (-)-isoproterenol and serotonin only competed with the alpha-1-ligand at concentrations above 20 microM.
(13) Application of the chemoattractant, cAMP (20 nM), to aggregation-competent cells induced a rapid increase in [Ca2+]i within 1-2 s, and the [Ca2+]i level increased to about four-fold higher than the resting [Ca2+]i within 30 s of chemotactic stimulation.
(14) The present study was designed to evaluate competence of KM231 for immunotherapy of cancer.
(15) Quality of anaesthesia and risk of intoxication are competing principles in IVRA.
(16) Mutant polypeptides have been characterized that are competent and incompetent for association with GRP78-BiP.
(17) Lindane proved to be ten times more potent in competing with 35S-TBPS binding in electric organ than rat brain, while the bicyclophosphate analogs displayed up to three orders of magnitude greater affinity for rat brain over electric organ.
(18) In Experiment 1, subjects performing in groups of four were compared with individual performers both in competing and noncompeting (coacting) conditions.
(19) Competent nursing care depends on open and effective communication between the nurse and the patient.
(20) Furthermore, asialo-Pg does not compete with native Pg for cell binding.
Competitor
Definition:
(n.) One who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival.
(n.) An associate; a confederate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
(2) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
(3) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.
(4) CyIIIa.CAT) expression simultaneously in embryos bearing excess competitor regulatory DNA, we developed, and here describe, a new procedure for generating transgenic sea urchin embryos in which all of the cells in many embryos, and most in others, bear the exogenous DNA.
(5) Analysis of these human competitor proteins with homologous assay systems of viral core proteins and corresponding antisera showed that all, including the normal tissue extracts, appear similar to core proteins of known viruses, especially the RD 114 and woolly monkey species.
(6) The company lagged "far behind its major competitors, with zero reporting of its energy or environmental footprint to any source or stakeholder", the report said.
(7) These differences in hormonal responses to the fight are attributed to the more aggressive behavior displayed by the victorious opponents (winners) over their defeated competitors (losers).
(8) While it has not dominated the enormous mobile phone market in terms of sales – Apple has sold 41m handsets in three years, the same number Nokia sells in a month – it has won much of the more lucrative smartphone market, and drove its competitors to develop their own touchscreen handsets.
(9) Presenting his last set of results after 40 years with Britain 's largest mutual, Marks described 2012 as a "challenging year" but insisted that progress was being made on the Lloyds deal, which would triple the Co-op's branch network and transform the group into a major competitor to the big four banks.
(10) It also investigated the film market, looking at whether BSkyB's closer relationship with News Corp – which also owns the Hollywood studio 20th Century Fox – might enable it to buy up movies from the major US producers in order to prevent them being acquired by Sky's competitors.
(11) If backloading is not approved, this "floor price" could mean that UK businesses pay more for their emissions than continental European competitors.
(12) These results indicate that the use of serially diluted BPDE-DNA of high modification as standard competitor in the ELISA will lead to erroneous results in the measurement of adducts in DNAs modified to a low extent (biological samples).
(13) The region doesn't need more airport capacity; London already has more flights to the world's top business centres than any of its European competitors."
(14) It was clear, too, that they would need the kind of government support available to their competitors in countries such as Germany.
(15) Kinetics, and the effect of competitors as well as of specific inhibitors show this enzyme to be identical to the well-known kidney gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase ((gamma-glutamyl)-peptide:amino-acid gamma-glutamyltransferase, EC 2.3.2.2).
(16) In order to investigate the relationship between the origin-binding domain and the second region, we performed origin-specific DNA binding assays with increasing amounts of calf thymus DNA as competitor.
(17) Roberts said: "We are recognised as a stand out competitor within the IPO queue.
(18) If we can get the Bank of England to fund the banking system, why don’t we get them to build us a proper broadband system as modern and efficient as you’ve got in many of our competitors,” Livingstone said.
(19) In September it set up it's own union – the Social Workers Union – but denied it was a competitor to other trade unions.
(20) Studies in several types of animal models, especially cholesterol-fed rabbits, have shown that calcium competitors, calcium chelators, anticalcifying agents, and calcium channel blockers can reduce the accumulation of atherogenic lesion components and thus apparently decrease the progression of lesions.