(a.) Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination.
Example Sentences:
(1) Isotope competition studies indicated that the pathway was regulated by isoleucine.
(2) Competition with the labelled 10B12 MAb for binding to the purified antigen was demonstrated in sera of tumor-bearing and immune rats.
(3) [Ca2+]i exhibited a sigmoidal dependence on [Na+]o. Mg2+, a competitive inhibitor of Na2+-Ca2+ antiport in these cells, antagonized the increase in [Ca2+]i produced by lowering [Na+]o.
(4) In K+-depolarized basilar arteries, ifenprodil competitively antagonized the response to Ca2+, and this was enhanced by pre-incubation in calcium hopantenate.
(5) The effect of S-adenosylhomocysteine on DNA methylation was examined, and it was found at equal molar concentrations of S-adenosylhomocysteine to to S-adenosylmethionine that DNA methylation was competitively inhibited 50%.
(6) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
(7) Furthermore, high-density catalase-positive--but not catalase-negative--E. coli can survive and multiply in the presence of competitive, peroxide-generating streptococci.
(8) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
(9) "We presently are involved in a number of intellectual property lawsuits, and as we face increasing competition and gain an increasingly high profile, we expect the number of patent and other intellectual property claims against us to grow," the company said.
(10) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
(11) The inhibition of all three agonist responses by 1.1 mM calcium was competitive.
(12) The specificity of the assay was established by competitive displacement of 125I-labeled arginine-rich protein from its antiserum by arginine-rich protein and lipoproteins containing this protein, but not by rat albumin or other purified apolipoproteins.
(13) The interaction between adrenalin and 5-hydroxytryptamine was competitive.
(14) Speaking to pro-market thinktank Reform, Milburn called for “more competition” and said the shadow health team were making a “fundamental political misjudgment” by attempting to roll back policies he had overseen.
(15) The specificity of the assay was further demonstrated by a lack of competition of cytochrome C, myoglobin, epidermal growth factor or bovine serum albumin with bFGF for binding to the antibodies.
(16) A competition radioimmunoassay for murine leukemia virus p30 has been developed.
(17) We repeat our call for them to do so at the earliest opportunity, and to share those findings so that we can take any appropriate actions.” In the BBC programme the 29-year-old Rupp, who won 10,000m silver at the London 2012 Olympics behind Farah, was accused of having taken testosterone and being a regular user of the asthma drug prednisone, which is banned in competition.
(18) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
(19) Presence of the optimum concentration is explained by a mechanism known as the non-competitive auto-inhibition.5.
(20) "Law is all I've ever wanted to do, but it's so competitive.
Emulous
Definition:
(a.) Ambitiously desirous to equal or even to excel another; eager to emulate or vie with another; desirous of like excellence with another; -- with of; as, emulous of another's example or virtues.
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) The hosts had resisted through the early stages, emulating their rugged first-half displays against Manchester United and Arsenal here this season, and even mustered a flurry of half-chances just before the interval to offer a reminder they might glean greater reward thereafter.
(3) He'd later carry this over into Netflix's House Of Cards but before that, TV had already begun to emulate this new, bleak, antiheroic maturity with a cycle of dark, longform, acclaimed dramas, commencing with The Sopranos and culminating in Breaking Bad .
(4) Again, he took a coasting, if not moribund, council department and turned it into an innovative, widely admired and emulated approach to social work (known as the "Hackney model").
(5) This leads to a notion of a "universal" hierarchically structured automaton mu which can move on a given graph in such a way as to emulate any automaton which moves on that graph in response to inputs.
(6) The Gayes’ lawyer branded Williams and Thicke liars who went beyond trying to emulate the sound of Gaye’s late-1970s music and copied the R&B legend’s hit Got to Give It Up outright.
(7) The choice of different values for simulation parameters (e.g., frequency and amplitude of pulses) allows one to emulate some typical physiological patterns of hormone secretion for luteinizing hormone, growth hormone, and thyrotropin or other hormones.
(8) While the money is significant, campaigners have argued that to emulate countries such as the Netherlands‚ where around one-third of all journeys are made by bike, as opposed to about 2% in Britain‚ requires consistent, significant spending over decades to establish a nationwide system of dedicated cycle infrastructure.
(9) In London a candlelit vigil – which the government hopes will be emulated in churches, by other faiths and by families across the land – will be held at Westminster Abbey, ending with the last candle being extinguished at 11pm, the moment war was declared.
(10) It may also be timely to appear more serious, seeing as Paddy seems to have misplaced its sense of humour of late, Betfair never had one in the first place, and rivals trying to emulate the old Paddy-style jokes look very tired.
(11) 1928's Downton Abbey jewellery collection If it's the jewels and the glitz that gets you going on Downton, then you'll be pleased to know that you can emulate the luxury of Lady Edith from as little as £11.25 (via ACHICA) – though what Lady Mary would make of such cheap imitations doesn't bear thinking of.
(12) A simulated voltage-to-frequency audio signal emulates normal experimental audio monitoring of the electrode potential, and a window displays a simulated oscilloscope trace (together with "electrical noise") of the resting or action potential response.
(13) I wanted to emulate them because they made me laugh.
(14) That change is now being emulated across the country, he says.
(15) He said President Obama's proposals to clamp down on investment banking and bankers' bonuses should not be emulated in Europe as they take the focus away from regulatory reform.
(16) The superiorly based omohyoid muscle flap was found to more closely emulate the size and orientation of the underlying PCA muscle.
(17) If you pull one side, your feet are in the cold.” Quite how long Hazard – who did manage seven minutes off the bench – is shivering out in the wilderness remains to be seen but Chelsea’s predicament requires a creative talent who signed a new five-and-a-half-year contract in February to emulate Willian and Pedro, allying discipline to those mind-boggling flashes of skill.
(18) New Zealand’s decision to recognise climate change as a factor in forced migration marks a moral and ethical precedent that Australia and other countries have yet to emulate.
(19) Iceland lost three successive matches earlier this year against the United Arab Emirates, the United States and Denmark and, for a while, it looked like they might emulate their 2007-08 low of five in a row to Latvia, Liechtenstein, Denmark, Belarus and Malta.
(20) PGV-MA emulates the effects of truncal vagotomy and antrectomy on acid secretion, without affecting gastric emptying and deserves further investigation as a possible surgical alternative in the treatment of duodenal ulcer disease.