(adv.) Against the affirmative side; in opposition; on the negative side; -- The antithesis of pro, and usually in connection with it. See Pro.
(v. t.) To know; to understand; to acknowledge.
(v. t.) To study in order to know; to peruse; to learn; to commit to memory; to regard studiously.
(v. t.) To conduct, or superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer.
Example Sentences:
(1) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
(2) The epithelium of Brunner's gland stained intensely with Ricinus communis agglutinin-I (RCA-I), succinylated-WGA (S-WGA) and wheat-germ agglutinin (WGA), moderately with Bandeirea simplicifolia agglutinin-I (BS-I), Concanavalia ensiformis agglutinin (Con A) peanut agglutinin (PNA) and Ulex europaeus agglutinin-I (UEA-I) and occasionally with Dolichos biflorus agglutinin (DBA), Lens culinaris agglutinin (LCA) and soybean agglutinin (SBA).
(3) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
(4) A significant decrease in response to two mitogens (PHA, Con-A) was seen in tumor-bearing rats concomitantly with the tumor growth.
(5) Concanavalin A (con A) is a potent inhibitor of coagulant activity of native tissue factor.
(6) The epidermal glycoproteins were probed with the lectin, concanavalin A (Con A).
(7) Furthermore, exogenous IL-1, IL-2, IL-4, interferon-gamma, or a rat Con A supernatant failed to abrogate DFMO inhibition.
(8) Besides various skin tests with the antigens candida, trichophyton, mumps, streptokinase-streptodornase, tuberculin, DNCB and KLH also in vitro experiments measuring the immunoglobulin- and complement concentrations, the antibody production to KLH, the lymphocyte transformation rate to PHA, Pokeweed, Con A, PPD were done nearly in all patients.
(9) However, the Con A-sup stimulates synergistically M-1 cells with DF.
(10) In one series of trials, spleen cells from strains of chickens with differing levels of susceptibility to MD tumors were stimulated with graded doses of Concanavalin A (Con A) or phytohemagglutin (PHA).
(11) When spleen cells were further cultured in vitro for 5 days in the presence of Concanavalin-A stimulated rat spleen cell supernatant (Con-A factor), CD4 or CD8 positive cells were detected in the VV (IL-6) injected group, while few positive cells were detected in the control groups.
(12) Make Quinn stay with B613 I think it would be difficult to bring her back to the fold at Pope and Associates (unless they’re playing the long con and her infiltration of B613 is part of the plan), but her anger would be well utilized against her former coworkers.
(13) The mitogenic responses to phytohemagglutinin (PHA) and concanavalin A (Con A), but not pokeweed mitogen (PWM), were decreased significantly in cultures with isolated lymphocytes, while in whole blood cultures the responses to PHA and PWM but not to Con A were reduced.
(14) A polypeptide of about 150 kDa appeared as the main Con A binding protein.
(15) Would I be stupid not to wait another six months or so, to get a 90% mortgage given the cons of Help to Buy?
(16) IL-2 gene transcripts were hardly detected after Con A activation of spleen cells from LCMV-infected mice.
(17) Thirty-eight female Wistar rats were randomly assigned to one of three groups: run-trained (RUN), swim-trained (SWIM) or control (CON).
(18) Lymphocyte blastogenesis in hairless descendants of Mexican hairless dogs was examined using the following mitogens: phytohemagglutinin (PHA-M), Concanavalin A (Con A), lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and pokeweed mitogen (PWM).
(19) Neither WGA nor concanavalin A (Con A) significantly affected basal 3H-thymidine incorporation.
(20) The increase in Con A fiber-binding seems to be specific for EGF, since it was not observed in response to insulin, prostaglandin F2alpha or a higher serum concentration, which also initiate cell devision of confluent quiescent 3T3 cells.
Defraud
Definition:
(v. t.) To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld.
Example Sentences:
(1) The men are accused of running a near decade-long conspiracy during their time at the firm and are being charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, violations of the Clean Air Act, and wire fraud, the US attorney general Loretta Lynch said on Wednesday.
(2) A small number of contactless transactions could be made before the card is blocked However, the figure could understate the true level of losses as many customers are unaware that they can still be defrauded after reporting a card as stolen or lost.
(3) Barcelona have previously said of Bartomeu: “He made it clear that it has never been his intention, nor that of the club’s executives, to aim to defraud the national tax office.” Rosell resigned as president in January 2014, saying: “An unfair and reckless accusation of misappropriation has resulted in a lawsuit against me in the Audiencia Nacional [the high court].
(4) Then, earlier this month, a tentative legal settlement was reached that required Frey and his American publisher, Doubleday, to provide refunds to readers who felt they were defrauded in buying a book classified as memoir.
(5) Italian sisters Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo are contesting fraud charges in which the two are accused of defrauding Saatchi and Lawson of more than £300,000 while working for the celebrity couple.
(6) Prosecutors have cleared Messi of wrongdoing but are seeking an 18-month prison sentence for his father, Jorge Horacio Messi, for allegedly defrauding Spain’s tax office of €4m (now £3m) in unpaid taxes from 2007-09.
(7) NAF’s lawsuit accuses the group of conspiracy to defraud.
(8) The traces left on the body to all intents and purposes embrace a cultural "cul de sac" which risks being defrauded of most of its content by a lack of those propedeutics elements which painstaking reflection is capable of affording us.
(9) As an unsecured lender it is liable for this type of fraud – our defrauded customers have chargeback rights for any losses they face."
(10) Romania supports and applies measures to fight abuses of any kind, and the Romanian authorities condemn any attempts to defraud the existing national systems.
(11) Cohen said Trump and his university never defrauded anyone.
(12) The public admission by the man who led France's fight against tax evasion that he secretly defrauded the taxman and was "caught in a spiral of lies" is a huge embarrassment for Hollande, who promised that his government would be beyond reproach after the corruption allegations that dogged previous French administrations.
(13) The real division in Britain is not between London and the north, Scotland and Wales or the old and young, but between Johnson, Gove and Farage and the voters they defrauded.
(14) Disputes over what name to give the Blue Peter kitten are nothing compared to GMTV defrauding viewers of up to £35m in falsified phone-in competitions.
(15) Hayes, 35, a former UBS and Citigroup yen derivatives trader, was convicted of eight counts of conspiracy to defraud.
(16) In 2010 a family of Afghan immigrants accused Yaar, in a civil court in California, of defrauding them.
(17) Twelve Inland Revenue officials have already been convicted of fraud, corruption, conspiracy to defraud and drug trafficking.
(18) The plaintiffs, two Afghan-born brothers, Jamal and Ajmal Staneckzai, claim he "tricked, defrauded and deceived" them over the 2001 purchase of a house in Fresno, California.
(19) The length and complexity of international supply chains were key to customers being defrauded.
(20) Police have yet to recover the millions of pounds he defrauded from investors, which may explain why he has been able avoid the authorities for so long.