(n.) The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.
(n.) That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.
(n.) The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.
(n.) Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.
(n.) Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast.
(n.) Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote.
(n.) The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed.
(n.) The separation of a genus into its constituent species.
(n.) Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.
(n.) Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion.
(n.) One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs.
(n.) One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.
(n.) A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.
(n.) The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.
(n.) A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here we report that sperm from psr males fertilizes eggs, but that the paternal chromosomes are subsequently condensed into a chromatin mass before the first mitotic division of the egg and do not participate in further divisions.
(2) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
(3) Chapter one Announcement of the Islamic Caliphate The announcement of the renewal of the caliphate in Iraq in the year 1427AH [2006] was the arbiter between division and separation as well as the glory of the Muslims.
(4) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(5) Further study both of the signaling events that lead to MPF activation and of the substrates for phosphorylation by MPF should lead to a comprehensive understanding of the biochemistry of cell division.
(6) Whereas the growth and division of normal cells is carefully regulated to meet the needs of the body, tumor cells proliferate autonomously and continually, eventually interfering with and destroying the functions of normal tissue.
(7) Tuberclebacilli did not stimulate macrophage division.
(8) But on June 29, 2011, Lois G Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt organizations, learned at a meeting that groups were being targeted, according to the watchdog's report.
(9) Cause-specific mortality comparisons were also made among the employment subgroups and by duration of employment in the company division using an internal analysis method.
(10) Postoperative examination revealed division of accessory pathway and no regurgitation of mitral prosthesis.
(11) The Disability Division of ActionAid-India supports 38 non-governmental organisations involved in disability programmes in India.
(12) This column is located ventral and lateral to the dorsolateral division of the trigeminal motor nucleus, and just medial to the descending trigeminal nerve rootlets.
(13) The retail and wholesale divisions powered the improved profits.
(14) From these results we concluded that the mutants have some defect in cell division after low doses of UV irradiation, similar to the lon(-) or fil(+) mutant of E. coli.
(15) The cellular groups of the medial zone together with the tuberomammillary nucleus groups of the medial zone together with the tuberomammillary nucleus (TUMM) are positioned at the interface between the lateral and the medial hypothalamus, and form an array of cellular groups indicated in our study as the intermediate division of the hypothalamus.
(16) In the meantime, the proliferation of salmonellae appeared to occur extracellularly in the peritoneal cavity as evidenced by their division.
(17) Hybrids obtained following fusion of normal human diploid fibroblasts with different immortal human cell lines exhibited limited division potential.
(18) An expanded version of this paper, containing full experimental details of the semisynthesis and characterization of [GlyA1-3H]insulin, has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50129 (30 pages) at the British Library (Lending Division), Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem.
(19) Anti-IgM antibodies also induced DNA synthesis of PBL-B, but their ability to induce cell division was less than that of anti-IgD antibodies even when used in combination with IL-4.
(20) The Tea Party movement has turned climate denial into a litmus test of conservative credentials – and that has made climate change one of the most sharp divisions between Obama and Romney.
Subsidiary
Definition:
(a.) Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a subsidy; constituting a subsidy; being a part of, or of the nature of, a subsidy; as, subsidiary payments to an ally.
(n.) One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional supplies; an assistant; an auxiliary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
(2) magazine as well as adult TV channels through subsidiary Portland .
(3) Even as those words were being published, lawyers and senior executives from News International's subsidiary News Group were preparing to run to court to gag Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, who was suing the News of the World for its undisclosed involvement in the illegal interception of messages left on his mobile phone.
(4) None of Coventry’s subsidiaries recognised trade unions.
(5) It comes two years after the BSC stripped another Vedanta subsidiary of a safety award after the Observer drew its attention to the firm's involvement in one of the worst industrial tragedies in India's recent history.
(6) Hodge said it appeared that activities related to the Geneva branch of HSBC’s Swiss subsidiary were “pretty outrageous” and told Homer that tax investigators should have spoken to whistleblower Hervé Falciani, who initially obtained the list while employed as an IT worker in 2007.
(7) It was set up as a Thames subsidiary in 1971 to specialise in high quality mainstream drama and built a reputation for shooting on film and on location, unlike much production of scripted TV output at the time.
(8) In contrast, subsidiary pacemaker recovery time was correlated with both rate and duration of ventricular overdrive pacing.
(9) When present, the rule specified the locations of a subsidiary figure in each symbol according to the pattern top-right, bottom-left.
(10) The anti-piracy measures will be introduced across Google's main online search service, but not its subsidiary YouTube.
(11) Despite huge uncertainties over their ability to pay for carbon capture and storage technology, [Peel subsidiary] Ayrshire Power has decided to go ahead with these plans and call Labour's bluff.
(12) Among the finance directors on it were: Ken Hanna of Cadbury Schweppes, which was locked in a battle at the European court over its use of a Dublin subsidiary; Richard Lapthorne of Cable & Wireless; and AstraZeneca's Jon Symonds, embroiled in a multibillion pound "transfer pricing" dispute.
(13) The film-maker Michael Moore has suggested that the phone-hacking scandal at News International may spread to US subsidiary Fox News while speaking at a film festival event in New York.
(14) But, as it is currently drafted, it does not require companies in the UK to report on all the supply chains in their groups overseas, such as those of wholly owned subsidiaries abroad.
(15) In 46% of cases where diabetes should have been recorded as a subsidiary diagnosis, it was not.
(16) In January, West Coast Capital (USC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Sports Direct, entered a “pre-pack” administration whereby the business was shorn of some staff and debts and then immediately bought back by another division of Sports Direct.
(17) However, the company was forced to cancel after its members were denied visas by Puspal, a subsidiary licensing arm of the Malaysian information, communication and cultre ministry.
(18) Lebedev intends to make the Standard fresher and younger, and possibly more progressive, and move the paper away from the direct influence of Paul Dacre, the powerful and opinionated editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers, the DMGT subsidiary that publishes the paper.
(19) Clothing from its factories makes its way across the world, supplying big name brands in the west – from WalMart – the world's largest retailer (Asda is a subsidiary) – to high-street names like Tesco, Marks & Spencer and H&M.
(20) The bank had allowed narcotics traffickers and others to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through HSBC subsidiaries.