(n.) Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.
Example Sentences:
(1) To many he was a rockstar, to me he was simply 'Dad', and I loved him hugely.
(2) The reason I liked them was because they were a band, and my dad had a band.
(3) My dad had just died, and he was born on the very same day, in the very same year.
(4) Prince was named after his father's own stage persona, and when his parents split up he became determined to better his dad on piano.
(5) If he was a cartoon character, he’d be … On looks alone, American Dad’s Stan Smith .
(6) It will make entering the market more difficult still for new buyers, further highlighting the importance of the right timing, advice, support and financial planning; and not just having a mum and dad who bought a house, but a grandparent, too.” Average UK house price reaches £288,000 Read more The average property price in the UK, currently £283,565, is expected to double by 2030, breaking through the £500,000 mark to £557,444.
(7) I saw my dad sitting in the audience, looking at me like, “Yes, he really is crazy.” Having listened to thousands of people, I realised we had a narrow view of what the environment is.
(8) He is Taurus and I'm Pisces; my dad was Pisces and my mum was Taurus.
(9) DADs may reach a magnitude in which extrinsic interventions may not adequately terminate sustained triggered activity.
(10) Flaviu, a two-year-old male about the size of a cocker spaniel, arrived at the zoo from a park in Kent after being separated from his mum and dad for the first time.
(11) Multivariate techniques for LC-DAD data are shown to suffer from inherent limitations of sensitivity for the minor components.
(12) When we reached our summit, or whatever spot was deemed by my father to be of adequately punishing distance from the car to deserve lunch, Dad would invariably find he had forgotten his Swiss army knife (looking back, I begin to doubt he ever had one) and instead would cut cheese into slices with the edge of his credit card.
(13) Not just going to a live show, but that kind of live show, with that kind of audience, the kind where mums and dads either have to tag along or turn up at the end to pick their children up.
(14) "It's made him more real, more of a person for me, whereas when I was a little girl I would say to my friends 'My dad died in the war' but it didn't mean anything to me because I never knew him.
(15) I cook, I save money, I do my own thing.’ Photograph: Antonio Olmos Laura: 'I couldn't live at home with my dad any longer.
(16) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
(17) "But my dad ran a furniture business, which he lost at the time of the Great Recession before dying of a brain haemorrhage," he says.
(18) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
(19) Throughout his life, Dad observed the rule that profanity – effing and blinding as he called it – should be confined to workplaces and other all-male venues where men gathered outside the earshot of women and children.
(20) In his V-neck sweater, dad jeans and white New Balance sneakers, Michael Lewis doesn’t look like a troublemaker.
Dado
Definition:
(n.) That part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of Column.
(n.) In any wall, that part of the basement included between the base and the base course. See Base course, under Base.
(n.) In interior decoration, the lower part of the wall of an apartment when adorned with moldings, or otherwise specially decorated.
Example Sentences:
(1) DNA double strand breaks were observed in the dAdo treated cells 12 hr after the administration.
(2) dAdo toxicity could be prevented in MM96L by addition of the other three deoxynucleosides together but not by removing dAdo after a brief (2 hr) treatment.
(3) The number of viable cells at day 4 increased from 13.7% to 41.1% with the addition of 5 mM nicotinamide, and to 28.8% with 5 mM 3-aminobenzamide added with dCF and dAdo.
(4) On gel electrophoresis, both dCyd and dAdo phosphorylating activities comigrated, indicating that the activities are associated with the same protein.
(5) 2-Cl-dAdo had similar cytotoxic effects at a 0.1 microM concentration.
(6) The present studies with intact human erythrocytes demonstrate that nucleoside analogues which inhibit SAH-hydrolase caused substantial attenuation of adenine transfer from dAdo into ATP.
(7) However, when these special conditions were followed, oligomeric DNA containing 8-oxo-dGuo and 8-oxo-dAdo residues could be prepared in excellent yield.
(8) Deoxyadenosine (dAdo) and deoxyguanosine (dGuo) decrease methionine synthesis from homocysteine in cultured lymphoblasts; because of the possible trapping of 5-methyltetrahydrofolate this could lead to decreased purine nucleotide synthesis.
(9) dAdo and ddAdo were phosphate acceptors and dAMP was a donor.
(10) In medium supplemented with deoxycoformycin, a tight binding ADA inhibitor, dAdo retarded DNA rejoining in a dose and time dependent manner.
(11) Inhibition of LMC by Ado appears to be related to increases in lymphocyte cAMP levels, while the mechanism of action of dAdo remains obscure.
(12) Therefore, it is proposed that the presence of dAdo dThd affects the rate of insertion of repair patches but not the total amount of synthesized and inserted patches.
(13) Approximately two logs of human bone marrow T cells were removed by 24 h of incubation with dCf and dAdo at doses that preserved colony-forming ability of the treated marrow.
(14) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Curators: Sébastien Martinez Barat, Bernard Dubois, Sarah Levy, Judith Wielander A simple white dado rail skirts the edge of one room, branching off to form the silhouettes of a line of chairs pushed against the wall.
(15) In sum, we report here three T-cell lines of different phenotypes that displayed significantly different sensitivities to dAdo plus dCoF which may facilitate investigations on the mechanisms of ADA deficiency.
(16) 9-(2'-Deoxy-2'-fluoro-beta-D-arabinofuranosyl)adenine (2'-F-araA) was the only compound to show an incorporation pattern similar to that observed with dAdo by forming analog triphosphate only in the B cell-enriched lymphocyte population.
(17) The near-UV-induced photoreaction of the bifunctional 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) with 2'-deoxyadenosine (dAdo) was investigated in the dry state.
(18) Expression of dAXP catabolic activity in T X B hybrids behaved as a dominant mechanism, conferring resistance to dAdo- and dAdo-related nucleosides to T X B hybrids.
(19) Our studies confirm that CEM avidly accumulates dAXP from dAdo but does not catabolize intracellular dAXP.
(20) To explore the basis for this phenomenon, we have assessed the effects of dAdo and other deoxynucleosides on the repair of gamma-radiation induced DNA strand breaks in resting normal lymphocyte cultures.