(n.) The territory over which dominion or authority is exerted; the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively.
(n.) Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne.
(n.) Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
(2) The monoclonal antibody (mAb), SY38, binds to a cytoplasmic domain of synaptophysin.
(3) Therefore, neither of these two regions of the Tat protein appear to be discrete activation domains.
(4) Mapping of the cross-link position between U2 and U6 RNAs is consistent with base-pairing between the 5' domain of U2 and the 3' end of U6 RNA.
(5) A domain containing a CA repeat, similar to ones found in other late, cAMP-induced Dictyostelium genes, is required for cAMP-induced and developmental expression.
(6) Blocking the heparin-binding domains of fibronectin inhibited osteoblast attachment by 40-45%, which is complementary to inhibition results previously obtained with the RGDS tetrapeptide.
(7) The specified region of the inner E2 core domain was highly homologous to the region of the E2 subunit of pyruvate dehydrogenase and alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase.
(8) The relevant phase diagram shows different macroheterogeneous phases and microstructured domains.
(9) We have examined the in vitro membrane assembly characteristics of a variety of leader peptidase mutants and found that domains required for insertion in vivo are also necessary for insertion in vitro.
(10) Combination of domain substitutions to generate the [Glu107,123]bFGF and [Arg19,Lys123,126]bFGF mutants did not show any additivity of the mutations on biological activity.
(11) Two lectins, wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and peanut agglutinin (PNA), were used to compare domains within the interphotoreceptor matrices (IPM) of the cat and monkey, two species where the morphological relationship between the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors is distinctly different.
(12) The peptides, which were synthesized using a FMOC solid phase procedure and purified by HPLC, consisted of residues 6-25 from the putative aqueous domain, residues 22-35, which overlaps the putative aqueous and transmembrane domains, and residues 1-38 and 1-40 representing nearly the full length of beta-AP.
(13) The region is distinctive in that the sequence is absent from the homologous domain of the erythroid alpha chain and diverges from the normal internal repeat structure observed throughout other spectrins.
(14) Synthetic DNA corresponding to the hydrophobic domain of cytochrome b5 was enzymatically fused in-frame to cloned DNA corresponding to the C-terminus of the Escherichia coli enzyme, beta-galactosidase.
(15) In this paper the domain of validity of the unlabelled and labelled minimal models of glucose disappearance is studied.
(16) In vivo labeling with 32Pi showed that plectin was the target for cAMP-independent protein kinases which phosphorylated 18-kDa domains at the end(s) of the molecule.
(17) In contrast, the enzymic domain of the colicin (T2) remained in the aqueous phase and was recovered in a highly active form as a consequence of its dissociation from the immunity protein.
(18) The most striking homology was to yeast SEC7 in the central domain of the gene (57% identical over 466 bp) and also the protein level (42% identical amino acids; 39% conserved amino acids).
(19) Its features are consistent with observed structural dimensions and the molecular periodicities related to transcription, replication and matrix attachment domains.
(20) The three major RNA domains, as defined by secondary structure, appear to exist as autonomous structural units in three dimensions, for the most part.
Overlord
Definition:
(n.) One who is lord over another or others; a superior lord; a master.
Example Sentences:
(1) What he liked best was to talk to the cricket pro, Bert Wensley, formerly of Sussex, about such heroes as Maurice Tate, Duleepsinhji and HT Bartlett, and to encourage Bert to enlarge on his reasons for describing Sir Home Gordon, Bart, the overlord of Sussex cricket, as a "shit" - the first time we heard that word.
(2) It was launched on Wednesday with a party at the Mandarin Oriental hotel next door – an event so glittering that Formula One overlord Bernie Ecclestone was in attendance and überchef Heston Blumenthal did the catering.
(3) Believe the hype and he was a cross between a mafioso overlord and "HRH Victor Meldrew" (the epithet is David Starkey's).
(4) If the oligarchs of Silicon Valley feel empowered to sink outlets that they disagree with, our robot overlords will be here sooner than we think.
(5) Deliciously, The Internship is distributed by Searchlight's corporate overlord, 21st Century Fox.
(6) A year would have been the sort of seemly distance that might permit us to stop worrying and love our all-powerful tech overlords again.
(7) Bear that in mind while the feral overlords, with no real life experience, steal from the poor to bail out the rich.
(8) Seeing as I've already broken the fashion ranks by revealing the Great 57th Birthday Denim Swag Haul, I shall further anger my style overlords by confessing I strongly disagree with this rule.
(9) Instead of being a geeky orphan with money problems, the new Peter Parker (played by Andrew Garfield) was set up as a brooding teen (still with money problems) whose lack of mum and dad is linked in some mysterious manner to the seemingly omnipotent Oscorp and its shadowy overlord.
(10) She will be our discount dictator, perhaps, when her permatanned, pouting overlord has annexed us as a puppet state.
(11) Humans are part of nature, not its overlords, and caring for ourselves and for nature is inseparable in caring for our common home.
(12) Chinese people's long-standing animus toward their erstwhile colonial overlord is, of course, very real.
(13) As the US disengaged, Iran stepped in and, in the years since the US withdrawal, has acted as an overlord in neighbouring Iraq.
(14) This is entirely unfair to This Is 40 , no matter what one thinks of Apatow and his current status as Total Overlord of American Comedy.
(15) He will remain editor-in-chief, which he says will be more than a titular role, but plans to be an "enabler" rather than an overlord.
(16) Take out the results against the Bundesliga’s southern overlords and you’ll get an average points return against the 16 others in the league that has markedly decreased from 2.34 (2011-12) to 2 (2012-13) and 2.1 (2013-14).
(17) Its fate, and its chaotic confrontation with the eurozone’s overlords, is going to shape all of Europe’s future.
(18) On the eve of the 70th anniversary of the launch of Operation Overlord , Livingston has detailed memorabilia relating to the allied commander and the wartime president Franklin D Roosevelt , as well as other White House-related and sporting items.
(19) "I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords," Jennings wrote next to his last answer, displaying one human quality conspicuously absent in Watson – a sense of humour.
(20) My Dalek is not fit to serve at the court of his mighty citrus overlord.