(n.) A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.
(n.) The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.
(n.) The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.
(n.) A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.
(n.) The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(2) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
(3) The club then brought in Darren Randolph, Dean Brill, Scott Flinders, Roman Larrieu, and Simon Royce on loan at various times."
(4) Dean Baquet, the managing editor in question, does admit in the piece that walking out was not perhaps the best thing for a senior editor like him to do.
(5) Crocker had retired from the government in April 2009, becoming dean of the Bush school of government and public service at Texas A&M University.
(6) A Benn family spokesperson said: "At the suggestion of the Speaker of the House of Commons and by agreement with the Lords Speaker, Black Rod and the dean of Westminster Abbey, an approach was made by Black Rod to the palace for agreement that Mr Benn's body rest in the chapel of St Mary Undercroft on the night before his funeral.
(7) The findings can be a starting point for faculty-dean dialogue about tenure expections.
(8) Nonetheless, the NSA persuaded Erwin Griswold, the former dean of Harvard law school, the then solicitor general of the United States, to knowingly lie to the United States supreme court that it was still a secret.
(9) The appearance of the enamel of their permanent teeth was assessed 11 years later (children aged 12-15 years) and recorded using Dean's and the FDI indices.
(10) Dean, who started working at the flagship A&F store on 11 June last year, told the tribunal: "I had been bullied out of my job.
(11) The second episode, that of Dean Vaughan, has been reconstructed for the first time using the Broadlands Manuscripts of Lord Palmerston.
(12) Yu Hongchen, the vice dean of China’s football management centre, said Team China players had been left “heartbroken” by the defeat to Syria.
(13) Dean's system, however, has several shortcomings, principally its inability to measure fluorosis in different tooth surfaces.
(14) As dean of the Medical Faculty (1930-1931) or prodean (1931-1932) he had to resolve under complicated conditions of the general economic crisis many difficult problems of its further development and concept.
(15) The chairman is Lord Currie, dean of the business school at City University in London.
(16) 98, 491-505 (1984)] and G. L. Rice, J. W. Gray, P. N. Dean, and W. C. Dewey [Cancer Res.
(17) During the 1982-83 academic year, ten members of the College of Health Deans participated in a five-round Delphi study to identify objectives for schools of the allied health professions through the year 1991.
(18) Separately, in February a group of junior doctors at Tameside privately raised a number of concerns with the postgraduate medical dean for Greater Manchester, Jackie Hayden.
(19) Neighbor Dean McDaniel said he’d known the family for nearly 17 years, and remembered Abdulazeez as an elementary school student and teenager.
(20) Responses from faculty (nominated by their deans to answer the survey) from 82% of the medical schools indicated considerable agreement between the basic science teachers and clinical teachers on the relative importance of a set of biomedical concepts, and showed relatively minor levels of disagreement on how difficult these concepts are.
Decanal
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to a dean or deanery.
Example Sentences:
(1) The permeability properties of planar lipid bilayers made from egg lecithin, n-decane and a long-chain secondary amine (n-lauryl [trialkylmethyl]amine) are described.
(2) The thick lipid membranes were formed by placing a solution of sheep red cell lipids in decane between two cellophane partitions which formed the interfaces between the membrane and the two aqueous bathing solutions.
(3) If the concentration of alcohol in decane is increased the amount of protein adsorbed on the emulsion is decreased.
(4) The bioluminescence marker was expressed in the presence of n-decanal, and was monitored as chemiluminescence in a liquid scintillation counter.
(5) In addition it appears that the altered partitioning of the 5-doxyl decane into the central region of the membrane is not related to lipid order changes in this region.
(6) The effects of MDL 73005EF (8-[2-(2,3-dihydro-1,4-benzodioxin-2-yl)methylamino]-8- azaspiro[4,5]decan-7,9-dione methyl sulphonate), a novel selective 5-HT1A receptor ligand with putative anxiolytic properties, were explored using models of central pre- and postsynaptic 5-HT1A receptor function in the male rat.
(7) The specific membrane glycoproteins with high affinity for camphor and decanal were isolated from rat olfactory epithelium.
(8) The inhibitory effect of two novel antiplatelet agents, 1,10-bis[3-(N,N-diethylcarbamoyl)piperidino]decane dihydrobromide (G-110) and 1,6-bis[3-(N,N-diethylcarbamoyl)piperidino]hexane dihydrobromide (G-112), on platelet adhesion and subsequent aggregation on collagen-coated surface was evaluated under controlled flow.
(9) This is probably due to the increased hydrophobicity of the bridge of the decane-bridged compound.
(10) Three radiolabeled compounds (14C-benzo(a)pyrene, 14C-decane, and 14C-naphthalene) of widely differing volatilities, broadly representative of the spectrum of compounds in petroleum samples, were separately added to Matrix.
(11) 1 ml of decane extract of diethyl ether was analyzed by means of gas chromatograph on the column of Im X 0.3 cm, filled with chromosorbe.
(12) IC50 values were approximately one-tenth lower at the 5-hydroxytryptamine1A receptor than adenosine A1 receptor; similar values were obtained for inhibition of (+-)-[3H]-8-hydroxydipropylaminotetralin and [3H]-8-[2-[4-(2-methoxyphenyl)-1-piperazinyl]ethyl]-8- azaspirol[4.5]-decane-7,9-dione binding, suggesting an independence of agonist efficacy.
(13) Tetraphenylborate-induced current transients were studied in lipid bilayers formed from bacterial phosphatidylethanolamine in decane.
(14) Bis(carboxymethylthio)-1.10 decane (BCMTD), a thiodicarboxylic acid, was shown to be a hypolipidemic peroxisome-proliferating drug as it: (a) decreased the total serum triacylglycerols and cholesterol; (b) induced hepatomegaly; (c) increased the peroxisomal beta-oxidation and catalase activity and the activities of the multiorganelle localized enzymes: palmitoyl-CoA synthetase, palmitoyl-CoA hydrolase, glycerophosphate acyltransferase; (d) decreased the carnitine palmitoyltransferase and urate oxidase activities; and (e) induced the bifunctional eonyl-CoA hydratase in peroxisomes.
(15) Analysis of chromosomal contribution showed the P1 decanalized phenotype to be due to chromosome 2.
(16) Spiro[4.5]decane-2-carboxylic acid (12a), spiro[4.5]decane-2,2-dicarboxylic acid (11a), spiro[4.6]undecane-2-carboxylic acid (12b), spiro[4.6]undecane- 2,2-dicarboxylic acid (11b), and spiro[4.6]undecane-2-acetic acid (13) were synthesized by an improved method and evaluated for anticonvulsant activity.
(17) By contrast, no lysis was observed after 20 hours with either decanal (56 microM) or AOG (100 microM) alone.
(18) At the tips of two syringes, large spherical model membranes have been made from phosphatidylcholine and varying amounts of mixed brain gangliosides dissolved in n-decane.
(19) It was found that n-decane was unsuitable as a solvent in these experiments because significant partitioning of n-decane into the aqueous phase and atmosphere occurred and this could not be adequately controlled.
(20) When Pseudomonas C12B is grown on nutrient broth to the stationary phase, cell extracts contain two secondary alkylsulphatases (S1 and S2) active towards potassium decan-5-yl sulphate but not towards potassium pentan-3-yl sulphate and one primary alkylsulphatase (P1) active towards sodium dodecan-1-yl sulphate (sodium dodecyl sulphate).