(n.) A large basket used in carrying or hoisting coal or ore.
(n.) A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scott Corfe, of the Centre for Economics and Business Research, notes that almost half the job creation over the past quarter was in one region, London.
(2) Scott Corfe, senior economist at the Centre for Economics and Business Research, said: "UK employers may be behaving in a different way during this economic crisis compared with previous crises.
(3) I want the next mayor of London to wake up each morning thinking about how to increase housebuilding – because only doubling our current levels of housebuilding to 50,000 a year will we solve this crisis.” Scott Corfe of CEBR, which conducted the research, said the housing crisis “risks undermining the capital’s position as a global centre of enterprise, talent and success”.
(4) She and her eldest son were starved to death in the dungeons of Corfe castle.
(5) Scott Corfe at the Centre for Economics and Business Research Growth optimists in the UK appear to be banking on a strong export-led recovery, given that domestic demand for goods and services is likely to remain suppressed in an era of sluggish household income growth and reduced government demand.
(6) Scott Corfe, senior economist at the Centre for Economics and Business Research The UK labour market has defied economic gravity since the start of the year, with unemployment falling despite the UK economy contracting between Q4 2011 and Q2 2012.
(7) It’s hard to see where any significant inflationary pressure will come from in the remainder of 2015 and 2016, and the UK could be on course to see inflation below the Bank of England’s central 2% target until 2017,” said Scott Corfe at the Centre for Economics and Business Research.
Orf
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Orfe
Example Sentences:
(1) Translation of the tnsC ORF reveals strong homology to a consensus sequence for nucleotide binding sites as well as a region of similarity to a transcriptional activator (MalT).
(2) The 912 nucleotide ORF has been identified as the cell-to-cell transport protein gene.
(3) The RNA sequence was 6791 nucleotides in length and contained four open reading frames (ORFs).
(4) DNA sequence analysis of a 3.8-kb genomic piece allowed identification of (i) an open reading frame (ORF) with striking homology to the previously identified D. melanogaster ORF and (ii) conserved sequence elements of possible regulatory relevance within and flanking the second intron.
(5) A consensus promoter sequence was found immediately 5' to the first ORF.
(6) The tat open reading frame (ORF) has a strong signal for translation initiation, while rev and vpu ORFs have weaker signals.
(7) No homology to any published protein sequence was found for the smaller ORFs.
(8) The positive-strand RNA genome of pestiviruses contains a single large open reading frame (ORF) extending its entire length and is capable of encoding 450 kDa of protein.
(9) The ten classes of mutants included (i) mutants showing abortive intracellular and extracellular growth; (ii) mutants showing abortive intracellular growth; (iii) rough mutants; (iv) mutants showing greatly reduced hemolysin and phospholipase secretion but showing normal growth in cells and little or no association with F-actin; (v) mutants with mutations mapping to an open reading frame (ORF) adjacent to hlyA and referred to as ORF U, lacking phospholipase activity, and with 50% normal hemolysin activity; (vi) mutants with reduced secretion of both hemolysin and phospholipase; (vii) nonhemolytic mutants with mutations mapping to the structural gene, hlyA; (viii) mutants with 25% normal hemolysin secretion and absolutely no association with F-actin; (ix) mutants with mutations mapping to ORF U, lacking phospholipase activity, and with normal hemolysin activity; and (x) mutants showing a mixed-plaque morphology but normal for all other parameters.
(10) The region of the AcMNPV genome encompassing EcoRI-H and -S (map positions 82.6-85.8) contains five open reading frames (ORFs) forming one transcriptional unit.
(11) We have used immunoblotting analysis to identify four protein products of orf-1.
(12) The nucleotide sequences, comprising a total of 8.6 kb, and the amino acid translations for nine predicted open reading frames (ORFs) (designated SalF4L, SalF 19R, SalF21R, B4R, B8R, B9R, B10R, and B14R) are presented.
(13) The Cs cob.1 ORF was cloned into the vector pMALcr1 and over-expressed as a hybrid protein fused to maltose-binding protein (MBP).
(14) Starting from two in-frame AUG codons (seven amino acid residues apart) an open reading frame (ORF) was identified that extended in frame into the ORF coding for the downstream E2 membrane protein gene.
(15) Oral antisecretory potency of ORF 17583 in gastric fistula dogs was 31 times greater than cimetidine, 3.7 times greater than ranitidine and equal to that of omeprazole and famotidine.
(16) sigB lay in an operon with four open reading frames (orfs) in the order orfV-orfW-sigB-orfX, and lacZ gene fusions showed that all four frames were translated in vivo.
(17) An upstream sequence surrounding the first AUG of the smaller ORF corresponds to a potentially functional initiation codon.
(18) An open reading frame (ORF) coding for a 57.3 kDa polypeptide was identified.
(19) A 591-nt ORF is located near the 5' end of MStV RNA3, while a second ORF of 948 nt is located near the 3' end in the viral complementary RNA (vcRNA).
(20) The nucleotide sequence showed two overlapping open reading frames (ORFs) within the kikA region.