(a.) Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining; contingent or conditioned; subordinate; -- often with on or upon; as, dependent on God; dependent upon friends.
(n.) One who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for support of favor; a hanger-on; a retainer; as, a numerous train of dependents.
(n.) That which depends; corollary; consequence.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Na+ ionophore, gramicidin, had a small but significant inhibitory effect on Na(+)-dependent KG uptake, demonstrating that KG uptake was not the result of an intravesicular positive Na+ diffusion potential.
(2) Neutrons induced a dose-dependent cytotoxicity and mutation frequency in the AL cells.
(3) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
(4) Between 25 and 40 degrees C, the thermal dependencies of VR and f were approximately constant (Q10's of 1.31 and 1.36 got VR and f, respectively).
(5) Cellulase regulation appears to depend upon a complex relationship involving catabolite repression, inhibition, and induction.
(6) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
(7) We propose that this dependence on coexpression reflects the association between the LTA::STa hybrids and LTB subunits.
(8) These results show that the pathogenic phenotypes of MCF viruses are dissociable from the thymotropic phenotype and depend, at least in part, upon the enhancer sequences.
(9) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
(10) This death is also dependent on the presence of chloride and is prevented with the non-selective EAA antagonist, kynurenic acid, but is not prevented by QA.
(11) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
(12) Cyclic AMP stimulated phosphorylation by [gamma-32P]ATP of two proteins of apparent Mr = 20,000 and 7,000 that were concentrated in sarcoplasmic reticulum, but the stimulation was markedly dependent on the presence of added soluble cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase.
(13) The PSB dioxygenase system displayed a narrow substrate range: none of 18 sulphonated or non-sulphonated analogues of PSB showed significant substrate-dependent O2 uptake.
(14) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
(15) Gel filtration of the 40,000 rpm supernatant fraction of a homogenate of rat cerebral cortex on a Sepharose 6B column yielded two fractions: fraction II with the "Ca(2+) plus Mg(2+)-dependent" phosphodiesterase activity and fraction III containing its modulator.
(16) In contrast, the effects of deltamethrin and cypermethrin promote transmitter release by a Na+ dependent process.
(17) 5 pregnant insulin-dependent diabetics were also studied.
(18) RNAs encoding a wild-type (RBK1) and a mutant (RBK1(Y379V,V381T); RBK1*) subunit of voltage-dependent potassium channels were injected into Xenopus oocytes.
(19) Photoirradiation of F1 in the presence of the analog leads to inactivation depending linearly on the incorporation of label.
(20) [Ca2+]i exhibited a sigmoidal dependence on [Na+]o. Mg2+, a competitive inhibitor of Na2+-Ca2+ antiport in these cells, antagonized the increase in [Ca2+]i produced by lowering [Na+]o.
Preposition
Definition:
(n.) A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running.
(n.) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Like" is a preposition, said the accusers, and may take only a noun phrase object, as in "crazy like a fox" or "like a bat out of hell".
(2) The increased sensitivity of the gpELISA over the VAR ELISA is reflected in the greater seroconversion rate and prepositive rate specificity.
(3) He omitted 43% of articles, 40% of complementizers, 20% of pronouns, 27% of semantically marked prepositions, 43% of purely grammatic prepositions, and 22% of auxiliary verbs, but his average sentence length was 9.8 words and 64% of his sentences contained embedded clauses.
(4) Articles, prepositions and conjunctions showed a similar use with that of the normals.
(5) No relationships between age and these measures were found, except for an increase in the use of prepositional phrases and indefinite words and longer pauses among older persons.
(6) Prepositions whose meanings can be described in terms of simple topological notions are understood and used with greater facility than those involving dimensional or Euclidean spatial notions.
(7) Our suggestion follows the linguistic analysis of the closed-class elements that convey spatial relations, the prepositions (Talmy, 1983).
(8) Techniques depend on mechanical analysis of sentence length, multiple prepositional phrases, direct phraseology, and arrangement of printed materials on the page.
(9) The degress of transfer, which was larger than in previously reported studies, was attributed to the instructional procedures requiring active production of prepositional mediators, coupled with an emphasis on their value.
(10) Moderately retarded children were instructed to produce prepositional mediatros by physically manipulating PA objects in learning three nine-term PA lists.
(11) The problem with stranding a preposition is that it can end the sentence with a word that is too lightweight to serve as its focal point, making the sentence sound like "the last sputter of an engine going dead".
(12) Three experimental variables were investigated: (a) the temporal sequence of information in the instructions, comparing instructions with preposition versus the ordinary postoposition of noun; (b) the spatial organization of the target objects, comparing an organization with color as the primary organizational factor to the ordinary organization primarily based on form; and (c) the specific timing of the presentation of instructions and tokens, comparing a successive presentation of instructions and tokens to the ordinary simultaneous presentation.
(13) The structure of language provides but a small set of prepositions to encode the vast number of spatial relations that we can perceive.
(14) The data point toward three common rules governing the two anti-Dex responses despite immunogenetic and antigenic disparities: (1) age dependency of the IgG isotype regulation of the response; (2) down-regulation of IgG isotype expression by T cells; and (3) individually determined preposition for IgG isotype formation in a given animal.
(15) "Your Portuguese is also missing a preposition," says Claudia C, who sounds like a member of Prince & The Revolution.
(16) Compared to the normal subjects, the dementia subjects used fewer total words, fewer unique words, fewer prepositional phrases, fewer subordinate clauses, and more incomplete sentence fragments.
(17) The prerequisites for normal gait are: (1) stability in the stance phase of gait, (2) clearance of the foot in the swing phase, (3) proper foot preposition in swing, and (4) an adequate step length.
(18) It was found that mediation subjects performed significantly better than control subjects on an unaided test list administered 2 weeks after training, regardless of distribution of training, degree of aid or number of prepositions provided during training sessions.
(19) This study has been born out the preposition of a working group of nurses and headnurses belonging to the Regional Sociopsychiatric Organization, who wanted to explore the reasons why several psychiatric and geriatric nurses left the Regional Neuropsychiatric Hospital over the years 1983-1988.
(20) The alternative to stranding a preposition at the end of a clause is allowing it to accompany a "wh" word to the front, a rule that the linguist JR (Haj) Ross dubbed pied-piping, because it reminded him of the way that the Pied Piper lured the rats out of the village of Hamelin.