(a.) Affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what has been asserted; also, mutually contradicting; inconsistent.
(a.) Opposing or opposed; repugnant.
(n.) A proposition or thing which denies or opposes another; contrariety.
(n.) propositions with the same terms, but opposed to each other both in quality and quantity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The relationships between the menopause and risk factors for ischaemic heart disease are complex, which may be one reason for the contradictory results when relating menopausal age to the incidence of ischaemic heart disease.
(2) (1) EXCP appears to be a more serious finding only in those higher risk individuals with either a positive EXECG or lower MAXRPP; (2) EXCP and its interactions may help discriminate between anginal and nonanginal, exertional chest pain, and (3) the contradictory results found when EXCP was allowed to interact may explain conflicting results in previous multivariate models regarding the predictive significance of EXCP.
(3) We suggest a model for transcription that involves the participation of a nucleoskeleton at the active site and reconcile the contradictory results obtained using different salt concentrations.
(4) A few days on, we still don't know much , and the evidence against Lewthwaite is scant and contradictory.
(5) The literature on the possible risk of myasthenia gravis complicating pregnancy and delivery is sparse and partly contradictory but some of the reports on the number of perinatal and neonatal deaths are alarming.
(6) This seemed contradictory for a government keen on getting people out of their cars, and given that at the time the Treasury finances were relatively healthy.
(7) A former ministerial colleague of Iain Duncan Smith once put it to me that he was a striking example of cognitive dissonance: that is, of holding two or more contradictory beliefs in his head at any given moment.
(8) The often changing and contradictory assessments made of the situation in different countries and at different times are outlined, and the difficulty of making a balanced and just evaluation of long established drugs is shown, particularly if the available data are derived primarily from spontaneous reports which, besides being almost impossible to verify, are often incomplete.
(9) Up to now there are contradictory findings as to the presence of an endogenous opioid antagonist.
(10) This finding is contradictory to the generally held view that antagonist-induced opioid receptor up-regulation in brain increases asymptotically, leveling off after a relatively brief treatment period.
(11) However, the literature provides little information on this and is contradictory.
(12) Contradictory data have recently been published from two different laboratories on the presence vs absence of an intrinsic endonucliolytic activity of E. coli exonuclease III at apurinic sites in double-stranded DNA.
(13) The test is commonly used as a preoperative screen to predict hemorrhage, but the data supporting this indication are contradictory at best.
(14) In view of the contradictory results reported in the literature regarding induction of specific immunologic tolerance to mechlorethamine hydrochloride (HN2), the problem was reinvestigated using a "tolerogenic" schedule that had been reported to be effective.
(15) By compromising these contradictory requirements, small dialkylamino (including cyclic amino) groups were decided to be the most favorable substituents.
(16) Evidence is presented to demonstrate that two different "melanotic" genes were being considered, thus explaining the apparently contradictory reports.
(17) In type 2 diabetics contradictory results have been obtained, probably related to varying degrees of body overweight in the patients investigated.
(18) This appears to be contradictory to the current view that a decrease in serum PRL levels with a concurrent increase in the intracellular PRL levels caused by bromocriptine treatment results from the inhibition of exocytosis of secretory granules.
(19) The literature is contradictory regarding the effect of static magnetic fields on the function of the central nervous system of mammals.
(20) The evidence for the involvement of Ca2+ in dPRL release is based on contradictory or unclear data.
Pair
Definition:
(n.) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.]
(n.) Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes.
(n.) Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of oxen.
(n.) A married couple; a man and wife.
(n.) A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows.
(n.) Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote.
(n.) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion.
(v. i.) To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding.
(v. i.) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
(v. i.) Same as To pair off. See phrase below.
(v. t.) To unite in couples; to form a pair of; to bring together, as things which belong together, or which complement, or are adapted to one another.
(v. t.) To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
(v. t.) To impair.
Example Sentences:
(1) The distance between the end of fic and the start of pabA was 31 base pairs.
(2) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
(3) Mapping of the cross-link position between U2 and U6 RNAs is consistent with base-pairing between the 5' domain of U2 and the 3' end of U6 RNA.
(4) This value is about 30 times higher than the association constant for guanine-cytosine base pair formation under the same experimental conditions.
(5) For related pairs, both the primes (first pictures) and targets (second pictures) varied in rated "typicality" (Rosch, 1975), being either typical or relatively atypical members of their primary superordinate category.
(6) Plasma renin activity (PRA) and aldosterone concentration were measured before and during submaximal exercise in 10 male monozygotic twin pairs who were discordant for smoking.
(7) Fifty-two pairs of canine femora were tested to failure in four-point bending.
(8) Other DNase I hypersensitive sites located adjacent to the S14 cap site at -65 to -265 base pairs (Hss-1) or upstream at -1.3 kb (Hss-2), -2.1 kb (Hss-3'), -5.3 kb (Hss-4), and -6.2 kb (Hss-5) remained unaffected by changes in S14 gene transcription.
(9) Delta roc, which extends from base pairs 41883 to 43825, overlaps the nin5 deletion, which extend from base pairs 40501 to 43306.
(10) In all cases, endocrine cells immunoreactive to only one of the paired antisera were detected except for anti-glucagon and anti-glucagon-like peptide 1, which always immunostained the same cells.
(11) Arterial-type flows produced a pair of vortex sinks downstream of the branching port.
(12) Benzaldehyde's in cherries and cherrystones and amaretto, so it's immediately a base to pair things with."
(13) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
(14) Paired tolbutamide and glucose infusions using a square wave technique demonstrated that although early phase insulin secretion is dimished in the fetus, this is not due to an absolute deficiency of stored insulin.
(15) The distribution of the amino acid pairs, i, i + 1 in alpha-helical configurations does not differ from the random pairing.
(16) Male Sprague Dawley rats either trained (T, N = 9) for 11 wk on a rodent treadmill, remained sedentary, and were fed ad libitum (S, N = 8) or remained sedentary and were food restricted (pair fed, PF, N = 8) so that final body weights were similar to T. After training, T had significantly higher red gastrocnemius muscle citrate synthase activity compared with S and PF.
(17) We propose that, for a GC base pair in B conformation, there are two amino proton exchangeable states--a cytosine amino proton exchangeable state and a guanine amino proton exchangeable state; both require the disruption of only the corresponding interbase H bond.
(18) Whole gastrocnemius muscles were incubated in Ringer's solution enriched with H2-17O; the paired contralateral gastrocnemius muscles were incubated in a similar solution enriched with deuterons, as well.
(19) The building block of cytokeratin IFs is a heterotypic tetramer, consisting of two type I and two type II polypeptides arranged in pairs of laterally aligned coiled coils.
(20) For example, stem pairing with a sequence other than wild-type resulted in normal protein binding in vitro but derepression of protein synthesis in vivo.