(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.
Tata
Definition:
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(1) Theoretical computations are performed of the intercalative binding of the neocarzinostatin chromophore (NCS) with the double-stranded oligonucleotides d(CGCG)2, d(GCGC)2, d(TATA)2 and d(ATAT)2.
(2) Although the islet promoter was found to lack a TATA box, a major transcript from the islet promoter was mapped 486 nucleotides upstream of the translation initiation site.
(3) Tata Steel, the owner of Britain’s largest steel works in Port Talbot, is in talks with the government about a similar restructuring for the British Steel pension scheme , which has liabilities of £15bn.
(4) The regulatory region of the casein gene contains two different TATA signals flanking the duplication site in the promoter region.
(5) Any loan between Tata and the government would be on commercial terms, but it could be a key in helping turn around the loss-making business.
(6) The nucleotide sequence of the E3 promoter region revealed consensus sequences for several DNA binding proteins but no apparent TATA box or Sp1 sites.
(7) The sequence TAGAAAA was found 30 bases upstream from the transcription initiation site and could be analogous to the TATA box.
(8) Although no CCAAT box was found a well-defined TATA box is present at position -126.
(9) Several promoter elements in the correct orientation for the transcript are present including consensus TATA and CAAT boxes and an SP1 site.
(10) The equilibrium between the loop and fully paired duplex conformations of the TATA 12-mer and TATA 16-mer is shifted toward the latter on addition of moderate salt.
(11) The TATA box-binding protein TBP directs transcription by all three eukaryotic RNA polymerases.
(12) The comparison of TATA expressed by the two variants and the B16 melanoma, made between different modes of inducing tumor-rejection activity, revealed that i) these two variants failed to induce an autologous antitumor response, ii) they were resistant to crossed immunization with an immunogenic preparations of B16 melanoma and iii) only MB16 melanoma preparations reduced significantly the tumoral incidence of B16 melanoma cells.
(13) The TATA-binding protein (TBP) is a principal component of the general factor TFIID and is required for specific transcription by RNA polymerase II.
(14) It is thought Tata, the Indian conglomerate that also owns Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley Tea, is also preparing to cut several hundred roles in operations that serve the Scunthorpe plant, mainly at its Rotherham site.
(15) Two putative metal-responsive elements (MREs a and b) within 240 bp of the transcription start site resembled mammalian MREs in their critical 8-bp cores (TGCRCNCS) and in their locations relative to each other and to the TATA box.
(16) The effect of increasing torsional stress on the conformation of the composing elements was determined by analysis of the sensitivity to the single strand-specific S1 endonuclease and it was observed that the sites of conformational alterations correspond to the positions relevant for promoter function (upstream activator sequence, TATA sequence, and RNA initiation site).
(17) Despite the variable loop sizes, the CTF (CCAAT-binding) protein interacts--either directly or indirectly via a co-activator--with the general basal TATA-binding transcription factors.
(18) Our results show, for the first time, that the TATA-less rpL32 gene utilizes TFIID for transcription initiation.
(19) Similar to its human counterpart, yeast TFIID also exhibited specific binding to the adenovirus type 2 major late promoter TATA element, as shown by both DNase I footprinting and gel mobility shift assays.
(20) A retrospective analysis of all total gastrectomies performed for adenocarcinoma of the stomach, between January 1975 and December 1986 at the Tata Memorial Hospital was undertaken to evaluate the results and establish the usefulness of the procedure.