(n.) Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc.
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) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(3) The surface of all cells was covered by a fuzzy coat consisting of fine hairs or bristles.
(4) Five patients have been examined by defecography before and four after closure of a loop ileostomy performed to cover healing of the pouch and ileoanal anastomoses.
(5) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
(6) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
(7) But because current donor contributions are not sufficient to cover the thousands of schools in need of security, I will ask in the commons debate that the UK government allocates more.
(8) The degree of infection and incidence of different genera covering the same period were identical in both series.
(9) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(10) The Sports Network broadcasts live NHL, Nascar, golf and horse racing – having also recently purchased the rights for Formula One – and will show 154 of the 196 games that NBC will cover.
(11) As to complications they recorded in one case mucosal bleeding after gastrofiberoptic polypectomy and in one case a covered perforation of the sigmoid at the site of colonoscopic polypectomy.
(12) The pressure is ramping up on Asda boss Andy Clarke, who next week will reveal the chain’s sales performance for the quarter covering Christmas.
(13) This week MediaGuardian 25, our survey of Britain's most important media companies, covering TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, music and digital, looks at BSkyB.
(14) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(15) Chapman and the other "illegals" – sleeper agents without diplomatic cover – seem to have done little to harm American national security.
(16) This hydrostatic pressure may well be the driving force for creating channels for acid and pepsin to cross the mucus layer covering the mucosal surface.
(17) A retrospective study of autopsy-verified fatal pulmonary embolism at a department of infectious diseases was carried out, covering a four-year period (1980-83).
(18) Over the same period, breeding in drums dropped from 14%-25% to 4.7%, even though the drums were not treated or covered.
(19) The study covered 500 children from Warsaw's primary schools--250 children aged 6-8 years and 250 aged 13-15 years.
(20) The smaller interfaces cover about 700 A2 of the subunit surface.
Kex
Definition:
(n.) A weed; a kecksy.
(n.) A dry husk or covering.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since the protective protein possesses extensive sequence homology with carboxypeptidase Y (carb Y) and the KEX 1 gene product from yeast, we have used the artificial substrate N-CBZ-Phe-Leu to detect and characterize the peptidase activity of the lysosomal carboxypeptidase (carb L).
(2) To study the molecular mechanisms involved in polyprotein processing, we have transfected the yeast KEX-2 gene into mouse NIH 3T3 fibroblasts and established a new cell line (called 2N-DK) where the KEX-2 endoprotease is permanently expressed.
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(4) The first-order rates are compared with that of a fourth variant Phe82----Gly which has been measured previously (E0 = 220 mV, kex = 0.7 s-1).
(5) While the mammalian endoproteases responsible for these cleavages are yet to be identified, this function has been unequivocally assigned in yeast to the product of the KEX-2 gene.
(6) The evidence for this cellular location is supported by measurement of intracellular and extracellular KEX-2 enzyme activity.
(7) The apparent pseudo-first-order exchange rate, kex, of the backbone amide protons and the correspondent activation enthalpies, delta H not equal to, were determined.
(8) For all other backbone amide protons in BPTI, the exchange was found to be uncorrelated and by an EX2 mechanism under all conditions of p2H and temperature where quantitative measurements could be obtained with the methods used, i.e., for kex approximately less than 5 min-1.
(9) For three variants of yeast iso-1-cytochrome c the rate constants measured by saturation transfer are wild-type (Asn52, E0 = 270 mV, kex = 0.3 s-1), Asn52----Ala (E0 = 240 mV, kex = 0.6 s-1), Asn52----Ile (E0 = 220 mV, kex = 1.0 s-1).
(10) It was found that the KEX-2 protease was unable to cleave the prepro-Lys-Arg-Pro-IL6 sequence, but that unspecific cleavage of the precursor protein had occurred.
(11) Thus, the kex phenotype does not require an alteration of the killer plasmid.--Kex1 and kex2 strains each contain near-normal levels of the 1.4 x 10(6) molecular weight double-stranded RNA, whose presence is correlated with the presence of the killer genome.
(12) The experimental study showed that KEX-I can inactivate directly the virus of Coxsackie B3, protect the heart cells in mice, prevent attack by Coxsackie B3, promote the growth of internal interferon and increase the NK cell's function to regulate immunity in experimental mice.
(13) When P2 organelles were separated in sucrose density gradients Rho1p comigrated with the Kex-2 activity, a late Golgi marker.
(14) Insulin affected both rate constants, reducing k(in) by 2.8-fold and increasing kex by 3.3-fold.
(15) The rate constants of efficient exchange interaction (kex) of spin-labelled lysozyme and the triplet probes perylene, eosine and anthracene butanoic acid with the haemoproteins were measured in microsomes and in solution by electron paramagnetic resonance and by the registration of delayed annihilation fluorescence.
(16) The look of Kex is, in part, down to Hálfdan Lárus Pedersen, a film production designer.
(17) At pH 6.0, first order rate constants for amino acid exit (kex) under steady state conditions for L-leucine, L-alanine, and L-serine were 1.1-1.3, 0.084, and 0.053 min-1, respectively.
(18) Most significantly, cleavage of the precursor to SRIF-28 was independent of the Kex 2 endoprotease since processing occurred efficiently in a kex 2 mutant strain.
(19) The clinical study was carried out with KEX-I according to a random, paired and cross-over design.
(20) Of particular clinical relevance is the [Cai] response to cardioplegia containing 16 mM [Kex]: neither group demonstrated the expected [Cai] increase in response to potassium depolarization.