(v. t.) To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.
(v. t.) To destroy by wasteful extravagance or lavish use; to squander.
(v. i.) To separate into parts and disappear; to waste away; to scatter; to disperse; to vanish; as, a fog or cloud gradually dissipates before the rays or heat of the sun; the heat of a body dissipates.
(v. i.) To be extravagant, wasteful, or dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure; to engage in dissipation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rhodamine 123-induced growth inhibition was partially reversed by treating the dye-pre-exposed infected erythrocytes with the proton ionophore carbonyl-cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone, which dissipates transmembrane proton gradients.
(2) These effects of t-butyl hydroperoxide on [9,10-3H]oleic acid incorporation are not affected by dissipating transmembrane gradients for calcium and potassium.
(3) It has been possible to separate this dissipation from that associated with elongation factor Tu function.
(4) A mutation from one state into another in such system ('bioids') involves an amplification of different 'kinds of information', as 'stochastic' (noise into dissipative structures), 'molecular' (autocatalysts), and 'stoichimetric' information.
(5) A comparison with the same transient input terminal input, the fraction of input charge dissipated by various branches in the neuron model is illustrated.
(6) Therefore, at least 75% of maximal import inhibition observed in the presence of F1 beta 1-32 + 2 and F1 beta 21-51 + 3 does not result from dissipation of delta psi.
(7) The surreal air of calm surrounding Spain's bond market shows no signs of dissipating.
(8) In the present studies, Cl replaced the much less permeant anion methanesulfonate (Mes) either (a) at constant [K], in which increased [K][Cl] permits net KCl and water flux across internal membranes, or (b) at constant [K][Cl] (choline substitution), in which the imposed gradients and diffusion potentials should dissipate slowly.
(9) Similarly, the formation of spatial dissipative structures by coupling of a transport process with an interfacial reaction was investigated as a simple experimental example of symmetry breaking.
(10) In contrast, prior depolarization of the cells using varying concentrations of KCl in the external medium, which dissipated the electrochemical gradient for chloride efflux, resulted in a corresponding prolongation of the transient calcium response to vasopressin and angiotensin.
(11) The ATPase activity and H+ translocation are critically dependent upon the presence of chloride, which suggests that chloride influences H+ translocation by dissipating the H+ gradient and acting at the catalytic site of the ATPase.
(12) Her support dissipated in a fruitless search for a site.
(13) This excess risk was dissipated when selected covariates were added to the model.
(14) The patient is allowed to do functional exercises 24 hours after reduction with the aid of the spring stepping roller, which not only helps dissipate swelling in the early stage but also remold the articular facet.
(15) The results show that there is considerable variation in the rate and pattern of dissipation of the various components of the experimentally produced haematoma.
(16) This was probably caused by either dissipation of membrane potential or damage to the vesicle membranes.
(17) The theoretical function described coherences between recording sites of small separation for linear, non-dispersive, dissipative waves moving on an infinite homogeneous plane medium, and driven by spatio-temporally noisy inputs.
(18) In the same study, it was shown, using a 9-amino acridine fluorescent pH probe, that completion of the first stage was characterized by increase in H+ permeability such that the H+ gradient between sperm head and medium was dissipated.
(19) However, when vesicles were loaded with both KCl and NaCl the height of the overshoot was considerably decreased indicating a Na+-K+-dependent dissipation of the intravesicular to extravesicular chloride gradient.
(20) With less space to dissipate water within the network, it is forced into the main channel.
Pervade
Definition:
(v. t.) To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate.
(v. t.) To pass or spread through the whole extent of; to be diffused throughout.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is totally unclear to them how they can get the skills needed for a successful career.” The report, Overlooked and Left Behind, argues that “a culture of inequality between vocational and academic routes to work” pervades the education system.
(2) The microfilaments are strands of polymerized actin which form a network that pervades the neutrophil cytoplasm.
(3) Building Britain's Future startlingly admits: "A sense of unfairness pervades modern contemporary Britain.
(4) 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.
(5) The chief executive of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, Paul Murphy, said the growing culture of secrecy pervading the government’s approach was disturbing.
(6) These structures pervade the cellular cords and rosette-like structures formed by immature type II pinealocytes.
(7) Examination of C. jejuni-colonized crypts by transmission electron microscopy revealed that the campylobacters freely pervaded the lumina of crypts without attachment to crypt microvilli.
(8) If they do, my hunch is that it's because their intuitions haven't kept pace with the extent that mobile technology has pervaded our lives, or with the scale of the data that outfits such as the NSA have been accumulating.
(9) Was justice itself falling prey to the menacing mood of rightwing fanaticism that has pervaded the country with the inexorable rise of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn?
(10) A debate about surveillance powers in the internet age is not best advanced by that all-pervading slogan: “nothing to hide, nothing to fear.” We cannot have a risk-free society, and it is too much to expect of the agencies or the law to deliver it.
(11) These strands form a three-dimensional lattice or mesh that pervades all parts of the cytoplasm.
(12) That Psy is promoting upmarket frocks and luxury fridges is somewhat ironic, considering Gangnam Style's lampooning of the rampant consumerism that pervades what has been described as South Korea's Beverly Hills.
(13) Quackery is currently a widespread problem that pervades all aspects of healthcare, including the treatment of learning disorders.
(14) Shock-induced drive was assumed to equally pervade all four situations; stimulus contiguity ('pairing') was present only in the DP and DPC tests; and the avoidance 'contingency' was present only in the DC and DPC paradigms.
(15) The enduring ambiguity pervades more the psychiatrist than the legal profession.
(16) The power and independence of the department chairmen and the absolute dependence on research productivity as the criterion for advancement in the academic hierarchy are pervading influences in Swedish dental education.
(17) The party conference season has done little to lift the gloom pervading the public sector, as politicians offer little to cheer staff worried about services, jobs and pensions.
(18) Nonetheless, the change in the doctor-patient relationship might merely reflect the growing indifference to people as individuals that seems to pervade our society in all service-related areas.
(19) But the message that pervades the paper is that once one is a nurse, one is a nurse forever.
(20) The upper-floor restaurants left a lot to be desired, even as the smell pervaded surrounding departments.