(v. i.) To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.
(v. t.) Same as Defilade.
(n.) Any narrow passage or gorge in which troops can march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long, narrow pass between hills, rocks, etc.
(n.) The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior. See Defilade.
(v. t.) To make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute.
(v. t.) To soil or sully; to tarnish, as reputation; to taint.
(v. t.) To injure in purity of character; to corrupt.
(v. t.) To corrupt the chastity of; to debauch; to violate.
(v. t.) To make ceremonially unclean; to pollute.
Example Sentences:
(1) To most of us, Ken Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian activist and a martyr, a brave and inspiring campaigner who led his Ogoni people's struggle against the decades-long defilement of their land by Big Oil, and ended up paying for it with his life.
(2) He told the Weekend Nation: "Malawians must understand that the person they employed as the president of their country … has defiled the conditions of service."
(3) Hindu nationalists want to make India great again.” Hindu nationalism is rooted in the belief that Muslim and British invasions defiled Hindu culture and values, which are seen as synonymous with those of India, writes Syracuse professor Prema Kurien in her book A Place at the Multicultural Table: the Development of an American Hinduism .
(4) for bladder neck and prostatic obstructions because the risk of jatrogenic defilement, and any method of preventing, reducing or delaying the occurrence of infection in catheterized patients, should be tooking considerations.
(5) In outdoor factory environments many defiling substances are produced by different working processes.
(6) Many Sunnis regard the Alevis as infidels and believe that to share their food is to be defiled.
(7) When a young unmarried girl gets pregnant, the man may be accused of "defilement" - rape.
(8) Kancha Sherpa, the sole surviving member of Hillary's expedition, believes the melting glaciers are a punishment for defiling nature.
(9) Various surgical techniques were employed, such as refixation at the processus coracoideus, tenodesis in the sulcus intertubercularis, keyhole operation, in combination with an intraarticular inspection, revision, or if necessary widening of a narrow passage ("defile").
(10) Most dangerously, we see it in the way that religion is used to justify the murder of innocents by those who have distorted and defiled the great religion of Islam, and who attacked my country from Afghanistan.
(11) Among that majority, count the man who could have defied it and thereby defiles the term “leader of the opposition”, because that’s exactly what he’s not.
(12) We don’t want anything tomorrow to happen that would defile the name of Michael Brown,” he said.
(13) Several hemorheologic and plasma proteic features were analyzed in workers exposed to acoustic defilement.
(14) In all cases, the approach was done through the anterior way, with up thoracic defile exploration and mobilizing upper limb.
(15) Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.
(16) Initially (at 2 cm depth), high radioactivity is always detected, which among other things is caused by the defilement of the bullet's surface when shot through the textile covering marked by technetium.
(17) The exposition to acoustic defilement during work activity may be considered as aetiological factor for the development and progression of sensorineural hearing impairment, and more extensively for the occurrence of cardiovascular complications.
(18) Abbas, in a speech two weeks ago, warned of religious war, and with the same breath accused Jews of defiling the Jerusalem mosques.
(19) It’s not just someone strangling and poisoning, it’s physically defiling women.
(20) He has defiled the Holocaust, which is sacrosanct for the Jewish people, with absurd historical inaccuracies.
Wem
Definition:
(n.) The abdomen; the uterus; the womb.
(n.) Spot; blemish; harm; hurt.
(v. t.) To stain; to blemish; to harm; to corrupt.
(n.) An indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, a sebaceous cyst.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the mature neutrophil, the number of binding sites for WEM-G11 were found to be about 20,000 per cell.
(2) Moreover, it is neither easier to understand nor easier to work with and, like WEM, it also requires a prior probability.
(3) By immunoblotting, it was demonstrated that the epitope recognized by WEM-G11 is in the chain of m.w.
(4) No correlation was seen, however, between stimulation of neutrophil function in vitro and total blood leukocyte counts, neutrophil counts, monocyte counts, or intensity of binding of MAb WEM-G1.
(5) Biochemical studies presented here show that WEM-G1 recognizes the sugar sequence 3-fucosyllactosamine, Gal beta 1-4[Fuc alpha 1-3]GlcNAc.
(6) Furthermore, a strong positive correlation in the ability of neutrophils to be stimulated by the MAb WEM-G1 and either CSF-alpha (r = .76) or MNC-SN (r = .68), as well as between CSF-alpha and MNC-SN (r = .79) was demonstrated.
(7) Knowledge of the biochemical structure of the WEM-G1 antigen suggested testing granulocyte function with other monoclonal antibodies of similar specificity.
(8) A positive correlation was found between the ability of neutrophils to kill in the "resting" state and their capacity to be stimulated by MAb WEM-G1, CSF-alpha, or MNC-SN.
(9) Our results also suggest a potential clinical use of WEM-G1 in measuring neutrophil functional capacity in vitro and predicting the capacity to respond to CSF-like cytokines.
(10) The immunized group treated with "control" mouse ascites, WEM-G11, was highly resistant (90% survival).
(11) WEM-G11 F(ab')2, and to a greater extent WEM-G11 IgG, induced degranulation, but only from cytochalasin B-treated neutrophils.
(12) "I grew up thinking the true lyrics to Que Sera Sera were, Tell me ma, me ma, I won't be home for tea - we're off to Wem-ber-lee," writes John Davis.
(13) MAb WEM-G11 F(ab')2 also stimulated the phagocytosis of antibody-coated sheep erythrocytes by neutrophils.
(14) Mouse monoclonal antibody WEM-G1 specifically binds to human neutrophils and eosinophils.
(15) Hope it's chips, it's chips, we hope it's chips, it's chips Que sera sera Whatever will be, will be We're going to Wem-ber-lee Que sera sera.
(16) Depletion of adherent cells, followed by simultaneous immunomagnetic bead depletion of Leu 4+, Leu 7+, Leu 11+, Leu M1+, Leu M3+, B1+, WEM-G11+, and Glycophorin A+ cells from normal bone marrow mononuclear cells, consistently led to recoveries of erythroid and nonerythroid colony-forming cells of greater than 100% and enrichment of 13- to 99-fold.
(17) Populations of normal human colony-forming cells (blast cells) and cluster-forming cells (promyelocytes-myelocytes) were obtained from bone marrow by using the monoclonal antibody WEM G11 and the fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS).
(18) There is no reason to expect WA and WEM to converge at the upper end of the scale.
(19) The agents used to stimulate cytotoxic capacity were the monoclonal antibody (MAb) WEM-G1, colony-stimulating factor (CSF-alpha), or mononuclear cell supernatant (MNC-SN).
(20) Enriched populations of either normal human promyelocytes and myelocytes or blast cells were obtained by fluorescence-activated cell sorting with the monoclonal antibody WEM-G11.