(v. t.) To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.
(v. t.) To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish.
(v. t.) To seek the society of; to court intimacy with.
(v. t.) To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine.
(v. t.) To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass.
Example Sentences:
(1) A group I subset (six animals), for which predominant cultivable microbiota was described, had a mean GI of 2.4.
(2) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
(3) The authors present the first results on the utilization of fish infusion (IFP) as a basic medium for the cultivation of bacteria.
(4) Throughout the entire cultivation cytidyl derivatives occurred in trace quantities.
(5) A human salivary gland adenocarcinoma cell line was cultivated in the presence of dibutyryl cyclic AMP (dB-cAMP), cis-diammine dichloroplatinum (cisplatin) or mitomycin C (MMC) only, or of the combination of dB-cAMP and each of the antineoplastic drugs.
(6) Liver cells, however, cultured in this way, can also be used for experiments in the early stage of serial cultivation.
(7) When rabbit and horse sera were used instead of human serum for cultivation, in both groups the share of positive cultures increased and more large forms of B. hominis cells were observed.
(8) After 21 days, supragingival and marginal plaque was collected from each subject and assayed for total cultivable microbiota, total facultative anaerobes, facultative Streptococci, Actinomyces, Fusobacterium, Veillonella and Capnocytophaga.
(9) The cultivation of embryos in shell-less culture did not affect the normal macroscopic or histological appearance of the membrane, or the rate of proliferation of its constituent cells, as assessed by tritiated thymidine incorporation.
(10) A procedure for cultivation of the seed material for biosynthesis of eremomycin providing an increase in the antibiotic yield by 24 per cent was developed.
(11) Several species of leishmania and three methods of cultivation: monophasic, biphasic and co-cultivation were used in a compared study bearing on the intensive production of leishmania.
(12) It is a very widely cultivated plant in eastern countries like India, Bangladesh, Ceylon, Malaya, the Philippines and Japan.
(13) The ratio of total protein content of DNA content increased 1.46 fold in 10(-5) M dexamethasone-treated cells on the seventh day of cultivation.
(14) The phenomenology of various protrusions, including fimbria, is described, and the effect of cultivation conditions (continuous culture, periodic culture) and growth phases on their emergence was elucidated.
(15) Finally, the analytical device was applied to the registration of production of monoclonal antibodies in a cultivation.
(16) After 48-hour cultivation the incorporation of 3H-thymidine into the DNA of mouse cells was 5 times higher than into the DNA of guinea-pig cells.
(17) The effect of cultivation temperature and pH on growth of the culture Penicillium brevi-compactum and biosynthesis of extracellular phosphohydrolases (acid and alkaline RNases and acid PMEase) involved in RNA degradation was studied.
(18) The pH effect on the nisine biosynthesis during the cultivation of Streptococcus lactis was studied at pH 5,8 6,7 and 7,2.
(19) We have studied the expression of genes that typify osteogenic differentiation in mandibular condyles during in vitro cultivation.
(20) By Western blot analysis we found that cultivated liver stellate cells secreted RBP into the medium.
Infield
Definition:
(v. t.) To inclose, as a field.
(n.) Arable and manured land kept continually under crop; -- distinguished from outfield.
(n.) The diamond; -- opposed to outfield. See Diamond, n., 5.
Example Sentences:
(1) Roger Kirkby: An infield single for Papi, lol Wait until he steals a base in this series.
(2) 3.58am BST Tigers 5 - Red Sox 1, top of 8th Martinez is held in check by Doubront, who gets him to pop out on the right side of the infield - Carp makes the catch.
(3) 1.54am GMT Giants 1 - Tigers 2, Top 6th Infield hit from Marco Scutaro to start things off.
(4) Three patients died manifesting only local (infield) recurrence; five died manifesting only distant recurrence; and five developed local and distant recurrence.
(5) The infield failure rate increased as a function of stage from 9% in Stage I to 23% in Stage II and 48% in Stage III.
(6) Two down for Pedro Alvarez, who is looking for that elusive ball out of the infield.
(7) The Belgian held off Ciaran Clark to wriggle infield and spit a shot which flew through Brad Guzan’s legs at the near post.
(8) Then Frazier launches a rope that bounces off the wall in center field, McCutchen casually grabs it and throws back into the infield - the Reds third baseman has a one out double.
(9) The centre-half had collected a throw-in on 15 minutes and attempted a blind pass infield, only to dribble the ball straight to a rampaging Costa.
(10) With the infield in, Jay hit a grounder to diving second baseman Dustin Pedroia.
(11) The infield relapse-free survival at 24 months was 49% (95% confidence interval: 32-66%).
(12) Events went from bad to ridiculous for the Redbirds in the second inning, when Stephen Drew popped the ball up into the infield and catcher Yadier Molina and pitcher Adam Wainwright both moved towards the ball and then contrived to call each other off and watched the ball drop harmlessly between them.
(13) He actually gets 0-2 on Torii Hunter before wasting a pitch to make it 1-2 and he hits an infield single to Xander Bogaerts.
(14) 72 min: Downing, ostensibly on the right now, keeps wandering infield.
(15) In the 86th minute Gardner swept the ball infield and it fell to McClean 20 yards out.
(16) The survival and rate of chest infield relapse was examined in 48 patients with limited disease small cell lung cancer (LSCLC) who had achieved complete (CR) or partial response (PR) following three courses of chemotherapy.
(17) 12.19am GMT Giants 0 - Tigers 0, Top 1st Marco Scutaro pops up, and outfielder Austin Jackson has to go all the way to the edge of the infield to make the catch.
(18) Pedroia pops to right, and then Ortiz grounds one into the shallow outfield where Carpenter, playing in the shift, makes the grab and fires not in time - an infield base hit for Papi!
(19) They win a throw in and when it comes infield after a couple of "phases" Paulinho tries to chip Casillas who has to push it out from behind the line.
(20) The midfielder’s nod down went infield to the Dutchman and his lay-off was put ruthlessly beyond McGregor by Rooney.