(v. t.) To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn.
(v. t.) To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Research to develop and ensure diffusion of smoking prevention programs must (a) be based on an appreciation of the social, psychological, and biological determinants at each stage in the onset process, (b) disentangle major interactions between program content, participant, provider, and setting factors as they determine impact, and (c) ensure both that diffusion is based on empirically grounded principles and that the process is monitored and its effectiveness evaluated.
(2) Felipe sought on Thursday to disentangle the monarchy from controversy.
(3) Much of the story, however, is doubtful; perhaps now, with Carr's death, it may be possible to disentangle some of the strands of insinuation, legal spin and lies.
(4) The results are discussed in relation to selection and gene flow and provide the basis for laboratory studies to disentangle confounded effects of (1) environmental means and environmental variabilities and (2) allele frequency and heterozygosity, and thus to further test for and determine the nature of any natural selection at particular allozyme loci.
(5) The aim was to analyse trends in mortality from peptic ulcer in Italy between 1955 and 1985, disentangling the role of age, cohort of birth, and period of death.
(6) I think they also believe when people start to look at the practical consequences of disentangling ourselves from this very complicated relationship, then maybe we will think again.” The European media coverage of the UK’s Brexit debate fuels the belief the UK could change its mind.
(7) Since in practice, genetic, nutritional and environmental factors are not readily disentangled, norms for a given study population need to be derived from healthy subjects of similar background and ethnicity.
(8) Coexisting epileptic and psychogenic symptoms being difficult to disentangle patients presenting both may be exposed to unfortunate alternating therapeutic strategies by ambitendent therapists.
(9) The transatlantic backdrop Britain’s attempts to disentangle itself from the EU are confronted with a level of complexity that may be insuperable Meanwhile, on this side of the Atlantic, Britain’s attempts to disentangle itself from the European Union are confronted with a level of complexity that may be insuperable .
(10) Thus, unreported environmental effects common to progeny of individual sires may also be involved in the observed interaction but could not be disentangled from true genotype x environment interaction effects using these data.
(11) But it's a pick'n'mix sort of philosophy that'd take a greater intellect than mine to disentangle.
(12) Arthur MacGregor, archaeologist and recently retired curator of the Ashmolean museum in Oxford, has tried to disentangle the competing claims.
(13) Both strains present a different susceptibility to a unique challenge with the mycobacterium which could be useful to disentangle the immunogenetic components involved, by means of appropriate selection and crosses.
(14) Once Allende took office, Korry sought accommodation with the new government, conceding that expropriations of the telephone and copper concessions (actually begun under Frei) were necessary to disentangle Chile from seven decades of 'incestuous and corrupting' dependency.
(15) Some of the Turkish-backed groups had been asked to disentangle themselves from jihadi groups that are active in parts of the war for the north.
(16) But disentangling a hostile local population from the al-Qaida fighters and leaders who have infiltrated the region will be a hugely difficult task.
(17) Further work is planned using more sophisticated statistical techniques to disentangle the relative contribution of each of these highly intercorrelated factors.
(18) Several alternative methods are made available for disentangling peaks, which can be tried successively on a single peak then each printed out with comments for comparison later.
(19) You don’t have the self-knowledge you think you do.” It took him a few years – until he found himself in another serious relationship – to begin to disentangle what had happened.
(20) Heavy drinking and heavy smoking are often associated; the effects of either alcohol and tobacco on human cancer can not be easily disentangled.
Unwind
Definition:
(v. t.) To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn.
(v. t.) To disentangle.
(v. i.) To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike cisplatin, bis(platinum) complex binding does not unwind supercoiled DNA.
(2) Of the 47 compounds that were positive or equivocal in the alkaline unwinding assay, only carbon tetrachloride and prednisolone were negative in the mouse lymphoma assay, while 12 of the 19 compounds that were negative in the alkaline unwinding assay were positive in the mouse lymphoma assay.
(3) As suggested from the high level of sequence similarity of these viral proteins with the recently described superfamilies of helicase-like proteins (3-5), the NTBM-containing cylindrical inclusion (CI) protein from plum pox virus (PPV), which belongs to the potyvirus group of positive strand RNA viruses, is shown to be able to unwind RNA duplexes.
(4) This limited unwinding of heterologous duplex DNA, termed heterologous unwinding, was detected within 30 seconds and reached a steady state within a few minutes.
(5) Comparison of the superhelix densities obtained by both methods permits a calculation of an unwinding angle for ethidium.
(6) The exposure of the cells from mussel haemolymph and from mouse L1210 to a genotoxic compound such as dimethylsulfate results in DNA damage and consequently in a reduction of the unwinding time.
(7) As for unwinding, the rituals of it give a satisfying end to the shape of my day.
(8) Chromosome replication appears to initiate in E. coli when the dnaA boxes in oriC become filled with DnaA protein, which could simultaneously mediate both the unwinding of the origin for the start of polymerization and the attachment of oriC to the cell envelope (Bramhill and Kornberg, 1988; Løbner-Olesen et al., 1989; Pierucci et al., 1989).
(9) The protein fraction containing the 93 000 dalton protein had considerable unwinding activity, depressing the melting temperature of poly(dA-dT) by 39 degrees C. The protein fraction containing the bulk of the 35 000 dalton protein did not have unwinding activity.
(10) The required cellular protein may be a eukaryotic single-stranded-DNA-binding protein (SSB), since unwinding of the template is also observed when Escherichia coli SSB is substituted for the HeLa protein fraction.
(11) Evidence is presented that the first step in initiation of SV40 DNA replication involves the specific binding of T antigen to the origin, followed by the local unwinding of the two strands of the template.
(12) Complex formation leads to very little, if any, unwinding of the duplex.
(13) It is suggested that the gene D product may function in replicative form DNA unwinding to expose the template for transcription.
(14) Topotecan (SK&F 104864) is a novel antitumor agent whose mechanism of action is inhibition of the DNA unwinding protein topoisomerase I.
(15) We used an RNA unwinding assay to compare the activities of these factors from the different species.
(16) The extension and unwinding of the DNA helix brought about by the intercalating chromophore of the dye molecules are not requirements for the entrapment process.
(17) Second, mutant T antigens with impaired ATPase function also showed a reduced DNA unwinding activity.
(18) Analysts at UBS said: “After Friday’s ... market plunge, many turned to the authorities for support measures as concerns rose that the rapid unwinding of margin trades was fuelling the sell-off.
(19) It is proposed that the DNA-unwinding activity causes the efficient recombination, DNA repair, and SOS induction (after application of nalidixic acid) in recD mutants.
(20) But within minutes of the five-year-old video of Obama being released by the Daily Caller website on Tuesday night , the "exclusive" began to unwind amid criticism that much of it had been reported at the time and the content was anything but explosive.