(v. i.) To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.
(v. t.) To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake.
(v. t.) To challenge; to provoke; to defy.
(n.) The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash.
(n.) Defiance; challenge.
(v. i.) To lurk; to lie hid.
(v. t.) To terrify; to daunt.
(n.) A small fish; the dace.
Example Sentences:
(1) Opposition politicians such as Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam and Chee Soon Juan , brought low for daring to disagree.
(2) At a dinner party, say, if ever you hear a person speak of a school for Islamic children, or Catholic children (you can read such phrases daily in newspapers), pounce: "How dare you?
(3) "The Afghan people dared rockets and bombs, but they came out and voted and that's great."
(4) In real life, the Hollywood star wants to reshape Hove as a member of the design team behind one of Britain's most daring architectural projects.
(5) "I am looking forward to … producing ambitious, daring and engaging content both in the UK and internationally, as well as accessing their extensive library of film content."
(6) The "respect the game" police are back, (do they ever go away) and after Adrian Gonzalez, who dared to pump his fists following a fourth inning double that brought home LA's first run of the game.
(7) If they didn't think they could get away with it, they wouldn't dare do it."
(8) Besides, he consoled himself with the thought that the ghosts probably wouldn’t dare to hurt Pippi.
(9) Elsewhere, Lady Edith dares spend the night with her boyfriend, on the eve of his supposed departure to Germany, where he plans to become a citizen in order to divorce his wife on the grounds that she’s a lunatic, so that he may marry Edith.
(10) They will occasionally take selfies, if they’re feeling especially daring or if Joe Biden is in the vicinity .
(11) The Malaysian prime minister has announced he is scrapping the country's draconian security laws and relaxing media controls, in what he billed as a daringly bold package of reforms.
(12) From the genesis of the thing – pop stars dropping plans to perform; Greater Manchester police working to make it operationally possible; the footballer Michael Carrick moving his career testimonial match forward by two hours ; everything was about making things that little bit less crap, and dare I say it – out and out joyous.
(13) Cycling is perceived to be for the brave and adventurous, those who dare.
(14) How dare this unqualified mother of three challenge RGCB orthodoxy or attack the hypocrisy of those who condemned viable neighbourhoods as slums in order to build their own golden city from which anyone with choice escaped?
(15) For the third time, the Greeks have learned that weakness is strength because Europe dares not pull the trigger.
(16) Addressing the crowd, communist party leader Aleka Papariga warned that whatever government emerged in the coming days would face the wrath of the people if it dared to pass more belt-tightening measures.
(17) The plan that dared not speak its name before the last election is now plain for all to see: run it down, break it up, sell it off,” he said.
(18) It is what got my father and my brother kidnapped by the Taliban – they were Hazara men who dared to dream of a better life by pursuing education, and wished the same for their children.
(19) The reality was that it was a very difficult time, with my competitors very upset that I had dared to enter the market at all.
(20) A plane carrying the Rwandan president, Juvénal Habyarimana, had been shot down and I dared not imagine the consequences.
Darg
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Dargue
Example Sentences:
(1) Seminiferous epithelium in adult rats was studied by light and electron microscopy after 5 weeks of chronic administration of GnRH antagonist (Ac-D2 Nal 1, D4ClPhe 2, DTrp 3, DArg 6, DAla 10; GnRH code-103-289-10, National Institutes of Health, USA).
(2) The pattern of divergent transcription of the argEC BH cluster of genes previously demonstrated by the hybridization of RNA to the separated strand of a phi 80 darg transducing phage, is confirmed with the DNA of a set of different lambdadarg phages.
(3) In semi-thin preparations of rat testis treated with GnRH antagonist (Ac-D2Nal 1, D4ClPhe 2, DTrp 3, DArg 6, DAla 10; GnRH code- 103-289-10, National Institutes of Health, USA) for a period of 5 weeks, Leydig cells showed a reduction of 18% in the mean nuclear area as compared to the controls.
(4) Six adult ovariectomized rhesus macaques were given a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist [Ac-beta-(2)DNAL,pFDPhe,DTrp,DArg]-GnRH, by intravenous infusion for 3 to 3.5 days to determine whether the positive feedback action of estradiol benzoate (E2B) on pituitary luteinizing hormone (LH) secretion could be inhibited by blockage of GnRH binding to pituitary gonadotropes.
(5) NPC 567 (DArg[Hyp3,DPhe7]-bradykinin), a B2 receptor antagonist, had no effect on bradykinin-induced 45Ca2+ efflux, but abolished prostaglandin synthesis.
(6) Both collagenases split bonds Gln-Gly and Leu-Gly in synthetic peptides DNP-Pro-Gln-Gly-Ile-Ala-Gly-Gln-DArg-OH and DNP-Pro-Leu-Gly-Ile-Ala-Gly-DArg-NH2, respectively.
(7) The effect of bradykinin was suppressed by the competitive kinin antagonist [DArg,Hyp3,Thi5,8,DPhe7]bradykinin.
(8) To examine the role of intrarenal kinins in deoxycorticosterone acetate-salt-treated rats, which have high renal kallikrein, Fab fragments of antibradykinin antibody or DArg[Hyp3Thi5,8DPhe7]bradykinin, a kinin antagonist, were used to block kinins.
(9) DArg[Hyp3,Gly6,Leu8]BK showed high affinity on Rb.J.V.
(10) Two new B1 receptor antagonists, [Hyp3,Thi5,DTic7,Oic8]desArg9-BK and DArg[Hyp3,Thi5,DTic7,Oic8]desArg9-BK were tested in vitro on the rabbit jugular vein and the guinea pig ileum (preparations containing B2 receptors) and on the rabbit aorta (preparation containing B1 receptors) for pharmacological characterization.
(11) In an amidolytic assay, the Ki values for the inhibition of human urinary kallikrein were 0.5, 0.3, and 2.5 microM for B4307 (DArg-Arg-Pro-Hyp-Gly-Thi-Ser-DPhe-Thi-Arg), B4308 (Lys-Lys-Arg-Hyp-Hyp-Gly-Thi-Ser-DPhe-Thi-Arg) and B3852 (Arg-Pro-Hyp-Gly-Phe-Ser-DPhe-Phe-Arg), respectively.
(12) Heteroduplex DNA mapping of these lumbdadarg and of the phi 80 darg isolated by B. Konrad indicates that the two kinds of phages carry the arg cluster in opposite orientations, a situation favorable for the isolation of argECBH DNA.
(13) DArg[Hyp3,DPhe7,Leu8]-BK showed pA2 values of 8.86 on Rb.J.V., but only 6.77 on G.P.I.
(14) In this study, we have used the potent, specific bradykinin antagonist DArg[Hyp3DPhe7] bradykinin (NPC 567) as a probe to examine the role of bradykinin in carrageenan-induced edema in the paws of rats.
(15) In a second group of rats pretreated with a B2 kinin receptor antagonist, [DArg Hyp3, Thi5,8 D Phe7]bradykinin, AA infusion raised urinary kinins identically as in untreated controls, but GFR and RPF responses were absent.
(16) [Arg1(Tos),Hyp3,Thi5,DTic7,Oic8]-BK and DArg[Hyp3,Thi5,DTic7,Oic8]-BK showed almost similar pA2 values on both Rb.J.V.
(17) The length (in kilobases, kb) of the segments, determined by electron microscopy and ararose gel electrophoresis is 4.2, 7.5, 8.4, 6.2, 6.9, and 6.4 kb for gamma darg13; 13.0, 7.5, 4.7, 6.2, 6.9, and 6.4 kb for gamma darg 14: and 5.3, 11.0, 4.7, 6.2, 6.9, and 6.4 kb for gamma darg23.
(18) The Ki values for B4307 (DArg-Arg-Pro-Hyp-Gly-Thi-Ser-DPhe-Thi-Arg), B4308 (Lys-Lys-Arg-Hyp-Hyp-Gly-Thi-Ser-DPhe-Thi-Arg), and B3852 (Arg-Pro-Hyp-Gly-Phe-Ser-DPhe-Phe-Arg) are 0.5, 0.3 and 2.5 microM, respectively.
(19) Two novel analogs of bradykinin (BK), [DAla7]-BK and DArg-BK, exhibited a dissociation of smooth muscle activities toward higher potency on the uterus than on the ileum, in spite of increased metabolic stability to pulmonary enzymatic breakdown in the rat blood pressure assay.
(20) The bradykinin analogs [desArg9,Leu8]BK and DArg[Hyp3,DPhe7]BK have been reported to have antagonist activity at the B1 and B2 bradykinin receptors in smooth muscle, respectively.