(n.) The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.
(n.) The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.
(n.) The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.
(v. t.) To cultivate; to educate.
Example Sentences:
(1) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
(2) If ascorbic acid was omitted from the culture medium, the extensive new connective tissue matrix was not produced.
(3) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
(4) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(5) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
(6) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(7) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(8) Rapid overgrowth of all cultures with the E. coli necessitated the use of selective media containing antimicrobial agents to which the E. coli was sensitive.
(9) Patient or fetal cord serum is commonly used as a protein supplement to culture media used in in-vitro fertilization (IVF).
(10) The rate of accumulation of degraded LDL products was lower in collagen gel cultures, but the final levels achieved were the same in the two substrata.
(11) We have developed a new procedure for the rapid preparation of undegraded total RNA from cultured cells for specific quantitation by dot blotting analysis.
(12) A simple method for ultrarapid freezing of cell cultures in monolayers was developed.
(13) The results indicate that OA-bearing macrophages primed T cells and generated helper T cells, whereas the culture of normal lymphocytes with soluble OA in the absence of macrophages generated suppressor T cells.
(14) The effects of phenoxyacetic acid herbicides were investigated on the induction of chromosome aberrations in human peripheral lymphocyte cultures in vitro and in lymphocytes of exposed workers in vivo.
(15) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
(16) Human gingival fibroblasts were allowed to attach and spread on bio-glasses for 1-72 h. Unreactive silica glass and cell culture polystyrene served as controls.
(17) However, further improvement of culture systems is needed for active replication of HBV in vitro.
(18) This paper has considered the effects and potential application of PFCs, their emulsions and emulsion components for regulating growth and metabolic functions of microbial, animal and plant cells in culture.
(19) Cells (1 x 10(5)) were seeded in 12- x -75-mm tissue culture tubes and incubated with various doses of IL-1 beta, IL-1 alpha, TNF-alpha, and IFN-gamma, alone or in specific combinations, for 15 min, two, 12, 24, and 72 h. PGE concentrations in the media were measured by radio-immunoassay.
(20) This activation demonstrated in humans confirms the pharmacological results of the interferon induction obtained with SL04 in vivo in mice and in vitro in human cell cultures.
Romance
Definition:
(n.) A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like.
(n.) An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance.
(n.) A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance.
(n.) The languages, or rather the several dialects, which were originally forms of popular or vulgar Latin, and have now developed into Italian. Spanish, French, etc. (called the Romanic languages).
(n.) A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance.
(v. i.) To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, in genres such as westerns, sci-fi and romance, well over 50% of sales could be in ebook form.
(2) 23 May More films to see in 2014 • 2014 preview: thrillers • 2014 preview: comedy • 2014 preview: Oscar hopefuls • 2014 preview: science fiction • 2014 preview: romance • 2014 preview: drama • This article was amended on Thursday 2 January 2014.
(3) This component of a more comprehensive study of Houdini focuses on the unusual reification of his family romance fantasies, their endurance well beyond the usual boundaries in time, their kinship with mythological themes, and their infusion with the ambivalence that is often addressed toward the true parents.
(4) While the multiplexes seem to be racing to make filmgoing expensive and unglamorous, here was romance.
(5) In high school, I was having this mad, passionate romance.
(6) The contemporary family romance myth of the secret benefactor as rescuer is described.
(7) The following year he played a philosophising, brutal hitman in the film True Romance, written by Quentin Tarantino , which paved the way for his lead role in The Sopranos, the gangster family saga that ran for six seasons from 1999.
(8) When notoriously snooty indie website Pitchfork reviewed True Romance, it gave it an 8.3, which is significant of the coolster demographic she reaches across the Atlantic.
(9) Gareth Neame, managing director of Carnival Films, which produces the show, said: "We promise all the usual highs and lows, romance, drama and comedy played out by some of the most iconic characters on television."
(10) But given its popularity, it is little wonder that negotiating "Facebook divorce" status updates has become another unhappy event for failed romances, over when to launch the site's broken-heart icon out into the glare of the world's news feed.
(11) Rumours of their romance were fuelled when, after dinner meetings in Hong Kong, they were seen holding hands.
(12) Witherspoon began working in films aged 14, making an instant impression after being cast in the lead role for the 1991 teen romance The Man in the Moon.
(13) Olympic medals, Nobel prizes, the colour of coffee romances, prestige credit cards and superior chocolate from Terry's to Wispa .
(14) You can pick up your Daredevil comic at Secret Headquarters ( thesecretheadquarters.com ), romance a date at Cafe Stella (3932 Sunset Boulevard; 001 323 666 0265), and grab some Humboldt Fog at Cheese Store of Silver Lake ( cheesestoresl.com ).
(15) The high-tech production sticks closely to the original story charting the rise and romance of amateur boxer Rocky Balboa, played by Drew Sarich.
(16) China has been courting Robert Ocholla with the awkward intensity of a high-school romance.
(17) She described a concentrated process of grooming by the entertainer, who kept up an intermittent and almost entirely romance-free sexual liaison with her until her late 20s.
(18) Amazon already has imprints for cult fiction (47North), thrillers (Thomas & Mercer), romance (Montlake Romance), children's books (Amazon Children's Publishing), foreign literature (AmazonCrossing), as well as its main imprint AmazonEncore, which launched in 2009.
(19) Well here's what they'll someday learn if they have a soul; there's no romance in a mouse click.
(20) The sidebar is dominated by the French romance Blue is the Warmest Colour, winner of the Palme d'Or award at the Cannes film festival, and the dark Italian satire The Great Beauty, which swept the European film awards last weekend.