(n.) A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady.
(n.) The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school.
(n.) A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman.
(n.) A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The announcement of Dame Helen Ghosh's departure from the top job at the Home Office the morning after the Olympics is likely to leave Whitehall looking "maler and paler".
(2) There was also an OBE for Daily Mirror advice columnist and broadcaster, Dr Miriam Stoppard , while Dr Claire Bertschinger , whose appearance in Michael Buerk's 1984 reports from Ethiopia inspired Bob Geldof to organise Live Aid, was made a dame for services to nursing and international humanitarian aid.
(3) Over the last few days a former member of parliament's intelligence and security committee, Lord King, a former director of GCHQ, Sir David Omand, and a former director general of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington, have questioned whether the agencies need to be more transparent and accept more rigorous scrutiny of their work.
(4) The Fellowship combines the academic rigour of an MBA with the reflective and ideological framework of a wellness retreat in Bali; without the sun and spa treatments, but with the added element of the formidable Dame Mary Marsh, a great example of a woman leading as a former headteacher, charity chief executive, NED and leadership development campaigner.
(5) Applications of [D-Ala2,Met5]enkephalinamide (DAME), [D-Ala2,D-Leu5]enkephalin (DADL), Leu5 enkephalin, Met5 enkephalin, Dynorphin 1-9 and normorphine produced dose-dependent depressions of the dorsal root potential.
(6) Twitter has hired the former Pearson chief executive Dame Marjorie Scardino to be the first woman on its board, after critics rounded on its all-male lineup.
(7) It was not clear what would happen to other high-profile publishing executives, not least Dame Gail Rebuck, the chairman and chief executive of Random House.
(8) Dame Julie Mellor has accused the boards of hospitals of adding to patients' pain and letting poor care continue unchallenged by doing too little to spot and stop serious failings.
(9) Sands will be the second woman to edit the agenda-setting programme after Dame Jenny Abramsky, the chair of the Royal Academy of Music.
(10) So as Dame Quentin and the soon to be Sir Peter amble off, who is in for a gong at our next round of knighthoods?
(11) She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in February 2014.
(12) Dame Sally Davies, the chief medical officer, said at the time however that e-cigarettes should only be used a means to help smokers quit.
(13) Not on the basis of things they can't do anything about' Dame Marjorie Scardino, outgoing chief executive of Financial Times owner Pearson 'I think it is probably wrong on balance to force companies to take women on' Karren Brady, West Ham Utd vice chairman, Kerrang!
(14) Grace Coddington, Dame Helen Mirren, Laura Mvula, and Karen Elson, in the pink duster coat that proved so popular for M&S.
(15) Microinjections (1 microliter) of D- Ala2-Met-enkephalinamide (DAME) (3.4-27.2 nM) into normovolemic unanesthetized monkeys reduced SBP by 10-65 mm Hg in a dose-related fashion.
(16) In a statement, the chief medical officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, said: "Severe winter flu and its complications can make people really ill and can kill, particularly those who are weak and frail which is why we already offer vaccinations to the most at risk groups.
(17) Dame Vivienne said the couple's son, Joe Corre, co-founder of the lingerie brand Agent Provocateur, and Ben Westwood, her son from her first marriage, were with McLaren when he died.
(18) In recent days, a former head of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington, acknowledged her old agency needed to be more transparent.
(19) Wasn’t it for exactly that kind of incompetence she had been made a dame?
(20) Abramovich said little and spoke only in Russian, with the judge, Dame Elizabeth Gloster, and a packed courtroom of barristers, security guards and supporters listening to a translation via headphones.
Dase
Definition:
(v. t.) See Daze.
Example Sentences:
(1) N'dase treatment of small resting T stimulators caused partial restoration of APC function: strong responses were observed but only in the presence of exogenous lymphokines.
(2) In four of five studies, P5-Dase was similar in dams that underwent thyroidectomy (Tx) on day 7 of gestation and sham Tx dams.
(3) We have cloned and sequenced a DNA fragment that encodes the arylmalonate decarboxylase (AM-Dase) gene from Alcaligenes bronchisepticus KU 1201.
(4) Since endo-beta-N-acetylglucosamini dase D hydrolyzes (Man)5(GlcNAc)2Asn but not (Man)6(GlcNAc)2Asn, the presence of the unsubstituted alpha-mannosyl residue linked at the C-3 position of the terminal mannose of Manbeta1 leads to 4GlcNAcbeta1 leads to 4 GlcNAcAsn core must be essential for the action of the enzyme.
(5) This was also the dase when the mean impulse frequency of the sustained discharge was defined as a measure of the neural response.
(6) P5-Dase was determined in placenta homogenates enriched with dithiothreitol by measuring the conversion of T4 to rT3.
(7) The placenta contains iodothyronine 5-deiodinase activity (P5-Dase) that probably acts on iodothyronines in the fetal circulation to convert T4 to rT3 and T3 to 3,3'-T2.
(8) Stimulation of OA-PEC with small concentrations of lipopolysaccharide or treatment of T-blast cells with neuraminidase (N'dase) strongly enhanced the APC function of these cells and led to helper-independent responses.
(9) The mechanism of increased activity of NAN'dase-treated C2 was the generation of increased molecules of activated C3 (C3b), resulting in more molecules of C5 binding to (C4b, 2a, 3b)n. Removal of N-acetyl-neuraminate from C2 did not alter its binding to a cationic exchanger.
(10) PNA reactivity observed after fucosidase or sialidase digestion was susceptible to endo-alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase (endo-GalNAc-dase) digestion.
(11) P5-Dase was not altered in dams that were treated with methimazole (MMI) to induce maternal and fetal hypothyroidism.
(12) Treatment of dams with supraphysiological doses of T4, beginning on the seventh day of gestation, did not significantly affect P5-Dase.
(13) The nature of the fatty acids produced depends upon the strain: in some dases they correspond to the branched paraffins contained in the fuel.
(14) Zinc deficiency in rats caused decrease in the activity of pancreatic carboxypeptidase A, but it had no effect on pancreatic carboxypepti dase B and liver alcohol dehydrogenase.
(15) Placenta iodothyronine 5'-deiodinase activity (P5'-Dase) was also measured in some studies.
(16) In the experimental part of the article; material and method as well as results of anterograde transport on the efferent trigeminal pathways in rabbits by means of horseradish peroxi- dase (HRP) and its representation by means of tratramethylbenzidine (TMB) are discussed.
(17) In three of four studies, P5-Dase was similar in fed dams to values in dams fasted for the last 5 days of pregnancy.
(18) Whereas PNA reactivity in these cells was not reduced by beta-galactosidase treatment, it was significantly diminished by endo-GalNAc-dase digestion.
(19) Since thyroid status and fasting have profound effects on iodothyronine deiodinases in other tissues, the present studies were performed to determine if these perturbations affected P5-Dase.
(20) P5'-Dase was not decreased in Tx rats and was modestly decreased in MMI-treated rats.