(a.) Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable.
(a.) Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(2) Because cystine in medium was converted rapidly to cysteine and cysteinyl-NAC in the presence of NAC and given that cysteine has a higher affinity for uptake by EC than cystine, we conclude that the enhanced uptake of radioactivity was in the form of cysteine and at least part of the stimulatory effect of NAC on EC glutathione was due to a formation of cysteine by a mixed disulfide reaction of NAC with cystine similar to that previously reported for Chinese hamster ovarian cells (R. D. Issels et al.
(3) The small units described here could be inhibitory interneurons which convert the excitatory response of large units into inhibition.
(4) Only small amounts of 3H oleic acid were converted.
(5) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
(6) The enzyme was quantitated by incubation of 16-micron-thick brain sections with 0.07-2 nM of the converting enzyme inhibitor 125I-351A and comparison to 125I-standards.
(7) DR was not demonstrably converted to R in these studies.
(8) Combined hypertension treatment with inhibitors of the converting enzyme (ICE) and diuretocs gives manifold advantages, the most important of them is a synergistic action of both drugs resulting in blood pressure decrease and prevention of hypokaliaemia.
(9) The hemodynamic effects of captopril and other angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors may be mediated by the endogenous opioid system.
(10) The 1-0-methylalduronic-acidmethylesters, obtained by the methanolysis of the polysaccharides, are reduced with boronhydrid to the corresponding methyl glycosides; there are split with acid to the aldoses, which are converted in pyridine with hydroxylamine to the aldoximes and than with acetic anhydride to the aldonitrilacetates, which can be separated by gaschromatography without difficulty.
(11) Moreover, the ribosylation inhibitors converted the glucocorticoid antagonist RU-486 into a potent agonist for cytolysis of L1210 cells.
(12) Two EGZ-derived proteins were engineered in which either His98 or Glu133 amino acid was converted to an Ala residue.
(13) The rate of indole production is increased about 4-fold when the aminoacrylate produced is converted to S-(hydroxyethyl)-L-cysteine by a coupled beta-replacement reaction with beta-mercaptoethanol.
(14) Sorbitol, by itself or in combination with mannitol is slowly converted to acids by the plaque microorganisms.
(15) The fucose-labeled glycoproteins were converted to glycopeptides by pronase digestion and separated into two major classes by gel filtration on Sephadex-G-50.
(16) We conclude that systemic converting enzyme activity, assessed by in vivo measurement and correlation of PRA and AII, is not inhibited by severe hypoxia.
(17) 17-Isoaldosterone was not secreted or converted to aldosterone to any significant extent in the normal subjects investigated.
(18) Allyl 4-O-benzyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranoside was converted into allyl 4-O-benzyl-3-O-methyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranoside and this was condensed with 2,3,4-tri-O-acetyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl chloride to give a disaccharide derivative which was converted into allyl 4-O-benzyl-2-O-(2,3-O-isopropylidene-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)-3-O-methyl -alpha- L-rhamnopyranoside.
(19) In order to increase the efficiency of androgen blockade, we have used 4-MA, an inhibitor of 5 alpha-reductase, the enzyme which converts testosterone into DHT, to reduce intracellular DHT concentrations and thus facilitate the action of the antiandrogen Flutamide.
(20) In addition, we have demonstrated that the recombinant 17-kD precursor protein can be converted to the 15-kD protein by cytoplasmic extracts of human cells.
Roadster
Definition:
(n.) A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides.
(n.) A horse that is accustomed to traveling on the high road, or is suitable for use on ordinary roads.
(n.) A bicycle or tricycle adapted for common roads rather than for the racing track.
(n.) One who drives much; a coach driver.
(n.) A hunter who keeps to the roads instead of following the hounds across country.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tesla Model-S launch: an electric car to answer even Clarkson's objections Read more Elon Musk’s Tesla has shown that electric vehicles are viable for a business with its Roadster and then Model S , which recently gained a faster dual-motor version with an “insane mode” which reaches 60 miles per hour in under 3.2 seconds.
(2) A fourth Tesla, the Roadster, launched the Tesla motors range.
(3) The company has produced almost two million Minis at Cowley since 2001, and now wants to expand the Mini lineup to seven models, with a coupe version planned this year and a Roadster in 2012 – both to be made in Oxford.David Cameron, the prime minister, said: "The Mini plant in Oxford has been one of our great manufacturing success stories, they should be hugely proud of their achievements.
(4) This article was corrected on Friday 17 July 2015 to clarify that it was the Roadster, not the Model S, that was based on a Lotus.
(5) Apart from the Tesla Roadster, the only other model that will be on sale in time for the introduction of the grant is the Mitsubishi i-Miev , a four-seater car that will cost a hefty £25,000 before the grant.
(6) According to an order filed on Monday setting the conditions for release, Webb secured the bond with five Rolex watches plus a Cartier Roadster, Hublot, Breitling, Panerai, Royal Oak Offshore and Luminor Marina.
(7) The Roadster, Tesla’s first car, the Model S, and now the Model X, are being used to pave the way for Tesla’s Model 3, which is Musk’s vision of a mass market “The goal at Tesla is to produce a mass-market electric car, but we can only get there one step at a time by selling the Roadster and now the Model S to fund the mass market,” said Musk at the UK launch of the Model S .
(8) For just €299 (£248), the company pre-emptively bought the rights to the third high pressure front of the year and named it Cooper, in homage to its latest Mini Cooper Roadster.
(9) The Warwickshire-based sports car manufacturer, in which Ford will retain a £40m holding, will start producing a £91,000 V8 Vantage Roadster in April, a DBS - as driven by Daniel Craig in the latest Bond film, Casino Royale - from October and a four-seater Rapide in 2010.
(10) But the creators of AeroMobil’s Flying Roadster insist their innovation is more than just a boy’s toy dreamt up by science fiction fans.
(11) Until now, electric cars have been criticised for being too expensive (the California-based Tesla roadster costs around £90,000) or looking more like go-karts than real cars (think G-Wiz).
(12) However, the Wheego LiFe, its second vehicle, can reach 65mph and was the third electric car approved for use on US highways after the Tesla Roadster and the Nissan Leaf.
(13) All of the first generation of electric cars eligible for the grant, such as the Nissan Leaf, Mitsubishi i-MiEV and Telsa Roadster sports car , cost over £20,000.
(14) In spite of the car’s low centre of gravity, he said, the Flying Roadster could land on stretches of lawn or even farmland.
(15) BMW once sponsored a high-pressure cold front , naming it Cooper in order to promote its Mini Cooper Roadster.
(16) Australian first person in the world to order Tesla Model 3 electric car Read more It is the culmination of the Tesla chief executive Elon Musk’s dream since unveiling the company’s first car, an electric roadster, in 2006.
(17) My requirements were discussed, and I was shown a 1950 Ladies Rudge Roadster.
(18) Elon Musk has made it official: his electric car company, Tesla Motors, is planning to debut an unnamed new Roadster in four years, and it won’t be based on a Lotus like the last one.
(19) This includes the launch of the Lamborghini Reventon Roadster, whose 6.5-litre V12 engine will deliver a top speed of 205mph and a 0-60mph time of 3.4 seconds.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tesla Model S test drive in London Seven years after Tesla introduced the Roadster electric sports car – which it no longer makes – electric cars still make up less than 1% of US sales.