(v. t.) To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; -- often with from or out of.
(v. t.) To reduce; to diminish.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 2,800-molecular-weight oligosaccharide was a constituent of the hemagglutinin, and treatment of this large oligosaccharide with specific exo-glycosidases demonstrated the presence of terminal galactose and fucose and allowed the deduction of a general structure for this component.
(2) In addition to the image of the soft tissue and alveolar bone provided, this procedure makes the deduction of the ideal fixture site possible.
(3) This deduction was supported by an exploratory dose-seeking study that spanned five years in 20 patients with recurrent (non-gall stone) acute or chronic pancreatitis and confirmed by a 20-week double-blind placebo-controlled crossover trial of the successful combination (daily doses of 600 micrograms organic selenium, 0.54 g vitamin C, 9000 IU B-carotene, 270 IU vitamin E and 2 g methionine) in a further 20 cases.
(4) Donald Trump has continued his criticism of Hillary Clinton’s support for election recounts in three states, claiming he won the popular vote “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally”.
(5) How many of those will he give before deducting a point?
(6) Government-funded health insurance programs that claim to provide comprehensive funding of their clients' demands have commonly adopted a purposive (deductive) approach to the problem of health care funding.
(7) This deduction was based on the subepithelial growth pattern and the presence of in-situ carcinoma showing a glandular or squamous pattern at the location of the esophageal gland duct.
(8) Review negative gearing Federal Labor and the Greens have proposed a rethink of negative gearing, the practice of property investors claiming their losses as a deduction against their taxable income.
(9) PSG's title will not, however, be confirmed until a league disciplinary panel meets to decide whether to impose a points deduction following allegations that their sporting director, Leonardo, barged a referee.
(10) The Swiss authorities tax these lending units as if they were required to pay large, tax-deductible interest bills – even if they have no such cost.
(11) Comparison of genomic and cDNA clones allowed the correct deduction of the intron boundaries and the 3'-end cleavage site of this gene.
(12) Both Red Star and Partizan began the next season with a six-point deduction because of the previous season's events [along with eight other clubs].
(13) These results with fura-2-loaded platelets indicate that mobilisation of internal Ca2+ can contribute a substantial proportion of the early peak [Ca2+]i evoked by thrombin directly confirming the deductions from previous work with different loadings of quin2.
(14) There is good reason to hope that the speculative nature which at this time pervades our bridging efforts will eventually be substituted by unequivocal facts and deductions.
(15) The number of uninsured was estimated deductively from the coverages of those insurance companies doing business in the state, with an additional factor for persons with more than one policy coverage.
(16) Researchers have indicated that the single-case study experimental design may be of value in chiropractic clinical practice, allowing for the formulation of deductive conclusions derived from each case.
(17) The inheritance levy, thought to be £20,000, would be deducted from the estates of older people when they die, replacing a system that forces many pensioners to sell their family homes to fund nursing home bills.
(18) Final deductions, however, must be followed by careful checking of all individual histories.
(19) Available data do not, at present, permit deduction as to whether additional selenium intake in man, exposed to mercury vapor or mercuric mercury, will have any effect, beneficial or adverse.
(20) Histological observations correlate well with tensiometry deductions.
Harpoon
Definition:
(n.) A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, fiat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun.
(v. t.) To strike, catch, or kill with a harpoon.
Example Sentences:
(1) This result can best be explained by assuming the reversibility of the reaction Delta(8)-cholestenol right harpoon over left harpoon Delta(7)-cholestenol.
(2) It is a career that has seen Mompo stand between harpoons and whales, document the environmental impact of the war between Israel and Lebanon and listen in horror to live radio updates from the captain of a nearby ship being captured by Somali pirates.
(3) Skrillex and Chance The Rapper Recess tracklist All is Fair In Love And Brostep with Ragga Twins Recess, with Kill the Noise, Fatman Scoop and Michael Angelakos Stranger, with KillaGraham from Milo and Otis and Sam Dew Try It Out (Neon Mix), with Alvin Risk Coast Is Clear, with Chance the Rapper and the Social Experiment Dirty Vibe, with Diplo, G-Dragon from Big Bang and CL from 2NE1 Ragga Bomb, with Ragga Twins Doompy Poomp Fuck That Ease My Mind, with Niki and the Dove Fire Away, with Kid Harpoon
(4) These findings indicate that the reaction: CDP choline + diglyceride right harpoon over left harpoon phosphatidyl choline + CMP is freely reversible in vivo.
(5) Thus, the pathway of d-arabinose catabolism in E. coli K-12 is believed to be: d-arabinose right harpoon over left harpoon d-ribulose --> d-ribulose-l-phosphate right harpoon over left harpoon dihydroxyacetone phosphate plus glycolaldehyde.
(6) 2.53pm BST There's no Bass Like Home Lily Allen just tweeted a link to her "unofficial World Cup song", which turns out to be the full version of the Kid Harpoon-produced Bass Like Home.
(7) Such mechanisms can be in accord with the observed rapid turnover rates of the enzyme, since rapid proton exchange can occur with the buffer components, EH(+) + B right harpoon over left harpoon E + BH(+).
(8) Almost five months ago, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Japan to lay down its harpoons, concluding that its scientific output appeared “limited” .
(9) In the New York magazine interview, Dimon said the Whale was not just dead, but "harpooned.
(10) The electrodes are equipped with small, gold-plated barbed tips which have the form of harpoons that may be pushed directly into a muscle, where they remain without being sutured into place.
(11) The saturable saxitoxin (STX) interaction with the nerve membrane is reversible and can be described by the equation STX + R right harpoon over left harpoon STX.R where R is the binding site or receptor.
(12) Incorporations from the other exogenous amino acids indicated the metabolic sequence: aspartate --> threonine --> glycine right harpoon over left harpoon serine.
(13) The last track, Fire Away, also includes British singer-songwriter Kid Harpoon, who has penned songs for Florence and the Machine, Calvin Harris, Shakira and Rihanna.
(14) Tannen calls hair, clothes and weight The Big Three because they are the killer subjects for the maternal harpoon: "All women are judged on their appearance.
(15) The fleet's other vessels are unable to operate unless the Nisshin Maru is present to haul in harpooned whales and process them.
(16) The U(S) right harpoon over left harpoon U(F) reaction in unfolded RNase A is used both to provide data on the kinetics of proline isomerization in the unfolded protein and as the basis of an assay for measuring proline isomerization during folding.The tyrosine-detected folding kinetics at low temperatures have been compared to those of proline isomerization in unfolded RNase A.
(17) Changes are represented kinetically by h(1) right harpoon over left harpoon x right harpoon over left harpoon h(2), where x signifies the inactive state.
(18) It is the first time the Antarctic hunt, during which harpoon vessels target almost 1,000 mainly minke whales, has been cancelled in more than a quarter of a century.
(19) The comparison is based on the recent observation that the U(S) right harpoon over left harpoon U(F) kinetics are independent of guanidinium chloride concentration, so that they can be extrapolated to low guanidinium chloride concentrations, at which folding takes place.
(20) Isotope-exchange studies indicated that the reaction proceeds in the following steps:Enzyme+ATP+P(i) right harpoon over left harpoon Enzyme-P+AMP+PP(i)Enzyme-P+pyruvate right harpoon over left harpoon Enzyme+phosphoenolpyruvate