(v. t.) To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament.
(v. t.) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
(v. t.) To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften.
(v. t.) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
(v. t.) To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
(v. t.) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.
(v. i.) To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.
(v. i.) To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied.
(v. i.) To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power.
Example Sentences:
(1) We investigated this suppression quantitatively, using a chemical assay for cell-bound and dissolved capsular polysaccharide.
(2) Thus Sephadex chromatography of the solution obtained by dissolving the antigen-antibody precipitate in these media repeatedly gave two peaks corresponding to anti-ovalbumin and ovalbumin.
(3) Although the brain AP50 is prominently phosphorylated by an endogenous protein kinase in isolated coated vesicle preparations, the neuronal AP50 was not detectably phosphorylated in intact cells as assessed by two-dimensional non-equilibrium pH gradient gel electrophoresis of labeled cells dissolved directly in SDS-containing buffers.
(4) After Listeria, a bacterium, is phagocytosed by a macrophage, it dissolves the phagosomal membrane and enters the cytoplasm.
(5) In muscle cells the mitochondria were in the process of dissolving and the sarcoplasmic reticulum formed elongate cisternae.
(6) Homogenates of these cells in chloroform-methanol solution showed an identical absorption spectrum with pure bilirubin dissolved in the same solution.
(7) However, in some patients absorption of the drug is markedly sensitive to changes in dissolution rate and new pharmacopoeal standards should not be defined until very rapidly-dissolving formulations have been studied.
(8) In the first few days of immersion high concentrations of dissolved metal ions were observed.
(9) It expresses the ratio between the partial pressure of the dissolved gas and the reduction of hydrostatic pressure during ascent (given as pressure gradient).
(10) Egypt has been without a sitting lower house of parliament since summer 2012, when it was dissolved by the country's supreme court .
(11) Each hand washing is filtered, and the residue collected on a membrane filter is dissolved in hydrochloric acid.
(12) An epidemic of abuse with "T's and blues" began in the late 1970's in which pentazocine-Talwin tablets ("T")--and the antihistamine tripelennamine (known as blues) were crushed, dissolved together, filtered, and injected intravenously.
(13) Osteoclasts dissolve bone mineral by the vectorial secretion of hydrogen ion at their osseous attachment site.
(14) This collagenolytic activity, which dissolved the collagen substrate, was derived from B. gingivalis and human GCF.
(15) Dexon's tensile strength is high initially and it retains its strength through the critical period of muscle-scleral wound healing, then dissolves in a rapid uniform manner.
(16) These results show that Mg-containing apatites dissolve to a greater extent than Mg-free apatites with the subsequent reprecipitation of Mg-poor apatites.
(17) In recent years, the clinical application of aerosol inhalation therapy has increased rapidly, however, many problems are not yet fully dissolved.
(18) In 1952, Clarence Agress performed an experiment on dogs to demonstrate his idea that a thrombus in a coronary artery could be dissolved without harm to the myocardium.
(19) The results show that when Cs is dissolved in aqueous buffer, the terminal atoms of residue 1 side chain are not available for binding to antibodies recognizing the face of the molecule defined by residues 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, suggesting that the chain is probably folded back under the molecule, as observed in the crystal structure.
(20) To further characterize the role of superoxide anion-radical in the vanadium redox cycling, the increase of optical density of vanadate(V) dissolved in Tris buffer was measured at 328 nm during the addition of KO2.
Unfreeze
Definition:
(v. t.) To thaw.
Example Sentences:
(1) Contents of water in mitochondria were increased significantly with the ratio of freezable water to unfreezable water unchanged.
(2) Mr Taub was summoned following the Israeli decisions to build 3,000 new housing units in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, to unfreeze planning in the area known as E1 and to withhold tax revenue from the Palestinian Authority.
(3) Likewise significantly different limit values of unfreezable water Wu were reached for smaller Wt the greater the crosslinking of collagen.
(4) But the Guardian understands that the unfreezing of the aid was formally approved by the Department for International Development, the FCO and Downing Street.
(5) The remarks by Hague allowed the government to unfreeze £91m in UK assets belonging to the Arabian Gulf Oil Company, a Libyan oil firm under the NTC's control, which had been on an EU sanctions list.
(6) He said Britain would work to unfreeze regime assets, including £91m in oil company assets, and make them available to the NTC.
(7) Removal of unfreezable water of cells in the drying, therfore, might induce deoxyribonucleic acid strand breaks.
(8) Mitchell decided to unfreeze the aid to Rwanda last month, citing progress at the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region under the chairmanship of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the president of Uganda.
(9) The unfreezable water capacity of "matzo" model crackers, as measured by DSC, ranged from ca.
(10) But the state of the body also meant the postmortem took longer because the pathologist had to wait for it to unfreeze naturally - a desperate delay for detectives wanting to know how and when Yeates died.
(11) Updated at 10.17am GMT 9.33am GMT Eurozone officials predict Greek delays The newswires are now buzzing with eurozone officials saying the decision on Greece's aid deal will be delayed until later this month: • REUTERS: SENIOR EU OFFICIAL SAYS UNLIKELY THAT EURO ZONE MINISTERS CAN TAKE FINAL DECISION ON UNFREEZING AID FOR GREECE ON MON, SECOND MEETING PROBABLY NEEDED DJ FX Trader (@djfxtrader) Very Possible There will be 2nd Round of Discussions on Greece-Euro Zone Official November 9, 2012 9.06am GMT An early bid for quote of the day... Peter Spiegel (@SpiegelPeter) "I'm very much looking forward to 1st boring #eurogroup .
(12) Draghi said the "non-standard measures" were aimed at helping to unfreeze lending to households and businesses.
(13) Staff development educators are instrumental as change agents in identifying the need for change, developing and implementing a strategic plan to unfreeze, change, and refreeze learning behavior, and evaluating its effectiveness.
(14) Britain and France would also press for a fresh UN security council resolution on Friday to unfreeze all Libyan assets, the prime minister said.
(15) Water behavior was assessed from high resolution [1H] nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spin-spin relaxation studies and differential scanning calorimetric (DSC) measurements of unfreezable water content.
(16) Putin signed a decree on Monday to unfreeze the ban on delivering the $800m (£546m) contract for the Russian-made S-300 missiles as Moscow forged ahead with a $20bn oil-for-goods barter deal with Tehran.
(17) Currently the western offer consists of presidential waivers and the unfreezing of blocked Iranian assets in the west.
(18) But matching Labor’s commitments on things like unfreezing MBS indexation would blow a hole in the budget worth several billions over the forward estimates, unless the Coalition is now signalling an intention to drop its election commitments, like business tax cuts.
(19) The difference between the amount of water molecules that froze in calorimetry and the total amount of water detected by gas chromatography indicates the presence of unfreezable, tightly bound water molecules.
(20) Updated at 4.33pm GMT 3.49pm GMT Givat Hamatos While the decision to unfreeze development in the E1 area , is attracting particularly strong condemnation, because it would split the West Bank into two and isolate East Jerusalem, Israel is also set to give its final approval to "a new Jewish neighbourhood in south-east Jerusalem called Givat Hamatos, the first completely detached new Jewish neighbourhood over the Green Line since the construction of Har Homa in 1997".