What's the difference between derivative and straddle?

Derivative


Definition:

  • (a.) Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word.
  • (n.) That which is derived; anything obtained or deduced from another.
  • (n.) A word formed from another word, by a prefix or suffix, an internal modification, or some other change; a word which takes its origin from a root.
  • (n.) A chord, not fundamental, but obtained from another by inversion; or, vice versa, a ground tone or root implied in its harmonics in an actual chord.
  • (n.) An agent which is adapted to produce a derivation (in the medical sense).
  • (n.) A derived function; a function obtained from a given function by a certain algebraic process.
  • (n.) A substance so related to another substance by modification or partial substitution as to be regarded as derived from it; thus, the amido compounds are derivatives of ammonia, and the hydrocarbons are derivatives of methane, benzene, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The interaction of the antibody with both the bacterial and the tissue derived polysialic acids suggests that the conformational epitope critical for the interaction is formed by both classes of compounds.
  • (2) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
  • (3) Leumorphin is a 29-amino-acid peptide derived from preproenkephalin B. Intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.)
  • (4) A full-length cDNA encoding porcine heart aconitase was derived from lambda gt10 recombinant clones and by amplification of the 5' end of the mRNA.
  • (5) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.
  • (6) In addition to their involvement in thrombosis, activated platelets release growth factors, most notably a platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) which may be the principal mediator of smooth muscle cell migration from the media into the intima and of smooth muscle cell proliferation in the intima as well as of vasoconstriction.
  • (7) Release of 51Cr was apparently a function of immune thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells) because it was abrogated by prior incubation of spleen cells with anti-thymus antiserum and complement but was undiminished by passage of spleen cells through nylon-wool columns.
  • (8) PMNs could be primed for PMA-triggered oxidative burst by muramyl peptide molecules (MDP) and two of its adjuvant active nonpyrogenic derivatives.
  • (9) Recent studies have shown that an aberration in platelet-derived growth factor gene expression is unlikely to be a factor in proliferation of smooth-muscle cells.
  • (10) The macrophage-derived product, interleukin 1 (IL 1) is thought to play an important regulatory role in the proliferation of T lymphocytes; however, its mechanism of action is unknown.
  • (11) In the upper limb and facial forms of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy first recorded in Swiss and Finns respectively, the differences in their patterns of neurological disease and ocular lesions could be the result of their amyloids deriving from proteins other than prealbumin.
  • (12) The antiproliferative activity of IFN was studied using the parental L cell line, a tk- derivative, and a tk- (tk+) subline into which the tk gene of herpes simplex virus was introduced.
  • (13) Bipolar derivations with the maximum PSE always included the locations with the maximum PSE obtained from a linked ears reference.
  • (14) Only those derivatives with a free amino group and net positive charge in the side chain were effective.
  • (15) Northern blot analysis with an 18-mer radiolabelled oligonucleotide, derived from an ALP specific cDNA clone, revealed a specific mRNA of about 700-800 nucleotides in HS-24 tumor cells.
  • (16) The mortality data were derived from the reports by Miyagi Prefectural Government.
  • (17) Ferrocene derivatives, in general, show a degree of versatility, coupling the electron-transfer reactions of many enzymes.
  • (18) The ADAM derivative of carnitine was separated from decomposition products of the reagent and related compounds such as amino acid derivatives on a silica gel column eluted with methanol-5% aqueous SDS-phosphoric acid (990:10:1).
  • (19) This doxorubicin derivative did not bind to Sepharose which was conjugated with cardiac actin.
  • (20) In the triploids, the 40 female chromosomes present (mouse, n = 20) were derived from a single diploid pronucleus formed after the extrusion of a first polar body, and following the monospermic fertilization of primary oocytes.

Straddle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart.
  • (v. i.) To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
  • (v. t.) To place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of; as, to straddle a fence or a horse.
  • (n.) The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart.
  • (n.) The position, or the distance between the feet, of one who straddles; as, a wide straddle.
  • (n.) A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a "put" and a "call," i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The militants have also seized a huge chunk of territory straddling the Iraq-Syria border, and have declared a self-styled caliphate in the territory they control.
  • (2) embed Even globe-straddling colossus Philip Morris International (PMI), owner of brands including Marlboro, has set its stall out for a “smoke-free” future, where nicotine addicts get their fix from vaping and other non-tobacco products.
  • (3) Eitan was born Rafael Kaminsky in the moshav of Tel Adashim near Nazareth, straddling the Jezreel Valley across from Megiddo, better known as Armageddon.
  • (4) Fourthly, the atrioventricular connection is determined as follows: (1) usual alignment, (2) criss-crossing, (3) straddling, (4) double inlet, and (5) unilateral atrioventricular valve atresia, by using an apical four-chamber echo view.
  • (5) For the first time even the relatively affluent will approach old age still straddled with mortgages, and still financially supporting adult children through paying for their education and housing.
  • (6) Some are retired, others straddle the uncertain worlds of petty trading, agriculture and seasonal migrant labour.
  • (7) All patients showed improvement after 4 weeks' treatment on either drug and of 12 parameters measured only two showed a statistically significant favour to phenylbutazone (intermalleolar straddle and intercondylar distance; both when pain first appeared).
  • (8) The n-bandlets straddle the midline glia and are known to produce most of the central neuroblasts.
  • (9) A heart is described with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries, normally positioned atria, and a straddling mitral valve.
  • (10) Most PV-immunoreactive (PV-IR) neurons were restricted to a 25 to 60 microns thick band straddling the border between lamina II and III.
  • (11) Third-world” Caernarfon, my local town when I was growing up, is straddled by two council estates: Ysgybor Goch and Maesincla.
  • (12) The elusive Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , who on 29 June proclaimed a "caliphate" straddling Syria and Iraq, made his appeal in a sermon delivered on Friday, in the militant-held northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
  • (13) Mild reflux occurred in three patients in whom the stent tubes straddled the distal esophageal sphincter.
  • (14) A case of straddling tricuspid valve associated with VSD was presented, who was diagnosed as VSD with pulmonary hypertension but not diagnosed as straddling in preoperative state.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In a joint statement two of China’s most powerful political bodies, the central committee and state council, described the new city, which will straddle three counties about 100km southwest of Beijing, as “a strategy crucial for a millennium to come”.
  • (16) A fourth zebrin II+ compartment straddles the paravermian region (P4+).
  • (17) The germ for this beta 2-microglobulin-like domain is already found in the cell adhesion protein of the slime mold straddling the border between unicellular and multicellular eukaryotes.
  • (18) Ninety-seven percent of the dermoids were found in the temporal half of the globe; of these, 76 percent were in the inferolateral quadrant, straddling the corneoscleral limbus.
  • (19) With one foot in the underworld and the other in the entertainment business, he is straddling two camps and ultimately has two systems working in his favour.
  • (20) The downhill skiing here is never too hard, although there are a few black runs around the surrounding mountains, and the highest peak is La Dôle , at 1,677m, straddling the French-Swiss border.