(n.) That which exactly resembles or corresponds to something else; another, correspondent to the first; hence, a copy; a transcript; a counterpart.
(n.) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original.
(v. t.) To double; to fold; to render double.
(v. t.) To make a duplicate of (something); to make a copy or transcript of.
(v. t.) To divide into two by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, infusoria duplicate themselves.
Example Sentences:
(1) Short incubations with heparin (5 min) caused a release of the enzyme into the media, while longer incubations caused a 2-8-fold increase in net lipoprotein lipase secretion which was maximal after 2-16 h depending on cell type, and persisted for 24 h. The effect of heparin was dose-dependent and specific (it was not duplicated by other glycosaminoglycans).
(2) Preliminary data also suggest that high-molecular-weight rearrangements of the duplicated region are present in all tissues.
(3) In the second comparison, HSV was isolated from 225 of 1,026 (21.9%) specimens and duplicate human foreskin fibroblast cell wells stained at 24 and 72 h were PAP positive in 241 of 1,026 (23.5%).
(4) Evidence reported here shows that, consistent with prediction, 10 carcinogens are all active in inducing tandem duplications.
(5) So we concluded that duplications and accessories should be thought to have similar meanings with the ordinary branching patterns of MCA in the occurrence of aneurysms.
(6) The 500-bp element arose by duplication of one half of a 180-bp ancestor and insertion of a foreign segment between the two duplicated parts followed by amplification.
(7) A case of incomplete peno-scrotal transposition, with a perineal anorectal duplication, vesico-ureteric reflux and thoracic hemivertebrae is presented.
(8) For the case of the fluctuating pressure, the strength of the artery becomes considerably lower than those under constant amplitude and two-step-multi-duplicated pulsatile pressure.
(9) Reciprocal translocations involving the short arm of acrocentric chromosomes can segregate to produce partial duplications without associated deletions.
(10) The authors report a case of total bladder duplication by frontal septum.
(11) Control-operated cells with centrosomes left in the karyoplast progress through the cell cycle, duplicate the centrosome, and form clonal cell colonies.
(12) Partial duplication of the proximal part of the long arm of chromosome 5, on the other hand, is associated mainly with musculoskeletal abnormalities including muscle hypotrophy and hypotonia, scoliosis, lordosis, pectus carinatum, cubitus valgus, and genu valgum, in addition to psychomotor retardation.
(13) Using fluorescent in situ hybridization and digital imaging microscopy, we mapped probe p32.1 (D11S16) to the proximal part of region 11p14 (11p14.1) and demonstrated duplication of this probe in our patient.
(14) The efflux rate for EB of strains with duplicated ebr genes was twice the rate of strains with a single ebr gene.
(15) In addition to the fatigue tester and the pulse duplicator, a signal conditioner, a DC amplifier, an analog-to-digital converter, and a digital microcomputer comprised the essential hardware.
(16) The 3' untranslated region of the VMRI gene 11 equivalent contains a clear duplication of a portion of its coding sequence.
(17) The regulatory region of the casein gene contains two different TATA signals flanking the duplication site in the promoter region.
(18) A 68-year-old female patient was admitted for the examination of duplication of right ureter and right hydronephrosis.
(19) The curiously double nature of the virgin in this tale, her purity versus her duplicity, seems unquestionably related to the infantile split mother, as elucidated by Klein--a connection explored in an earlier paper.
(20) Furthermore, duplications in the vicinity of this locus involving the beta-amyloid gene and the proto-oncogene ets-2 have been reported in association with AD.
Indenture
Definition:
(n.) The act of indenting, or state of being indented.
(n.) A mutual agreement in writing between two or more parties, whereof each party has usually a counterpart or duplicate; sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master.
(v. t.) To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.
(v. t.) To bind by indentures or written contract; as, to indenture an apprentice.
(v. i.) To run or wind in and out; to be cut or notched; to indent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clearly, the economic argument for allowing one industry a workforce of virtually indentured labor does not hold water.
(2) As a youth he was an apothecary's apprentice, surrendering his indentures at the age of 18 and entering medical school at the London Hospital.
(3) That was the novel where I wanted to move outside America as a race-based country, to a time before –when white indentured servants and black slaves worked in the field together, before it was useful to separate them.
(4) For one group of immigrants, however – the farm workers who sustain our food supply – there is reason to fear that what awaits them is not a path to citizenship, but their cemented status as indentured servants.
(5) Why don't we call this policy by the name it really is, namely the indentured servitude of our young people.
(6) The 'rule of indenture' is seen in closer affinity to these basic contradictions than the more gracious 'gentlemen's agreement'.
(7) These concerns are exacerbated by the domination of synthetic hormone research by industry and its indentured academics, by failure of the industries concerned to disclose their unpublished data, by their manipulation of published data, and by refusal to label milk and meat from cows treated with biosynthetic hormones, and by denial of consumers' rights to know.
(8) I left home and started my indentures as a trainee journalist.
(9) As long as you’re not crass enough to dig out your basement By contrast, those born in the 1980s have their careers limited by 25 years of indentured servitude to their mortgage provider.
(10) According to the 2014 trafficking in persons (TiP) report published by the US state department last week, a high proportion of Malaysia's estimated 2 million illegal migrant labourers fall prey to forced labour at the hands of their employers, recruitment companies or organised crime syndicates, who refuse payment, withhold their documents or force them into indentured servitude.
(11) As opposed, presumably, to allowing foreign corporations to indenture your people on near-slave wages to stitch football boots.
(12) Just in case, through sheer over-optimism, a Cridland-influenced proposal keeps them indentured until the last five years, or less, of healthy life.
(13) 6.50pm BST Resentment among federal employees forced to work without timely pay is growing, Guardian business correspondent Dominic Rushe (@ dominicru ) reports : Government employees forced to work with no pay during the US government shutdown are being treated like “indentured servants”, the head of their largest union said on Friday.
(14) From the serosal surface, a slight whitish indenture marks this area.
(15) But once in Malaysia they fall prey to forced labour at the hands of their employers, recruitment companies or organised crime syndicates, who refuse payment, withhold their documents or force them into indentured servitude.
(16) Albert Edwards, who heads the global strategy team at Société Générale said the chancellor's flagship Help to Buy programme was artificially inflating property prices and driving young people deeper into "indentured servitude".
(17) My family shipped them in as indentured servants,” a sixth-generation Cocos islander, John Clunies-Ross, said.
(18) The idea that Scotland is friendlier to foreigners or people of other ethnicities has proved remarkably stubborn, partly because the country has adopted such a bowdlerised version of its imperial history into which slaves, indentured labourers and massacres have only recently been admitted.
(19) The introduction of major epidemic diseases through the movements of French soldiers to and from India and the immigration of indentured laborers from India account for the high mortality and morbidity rates in the 18th and 19th centuries and later.
(20) After English occupation of the island in the early 1800s, epidemics became commonplace as indentured laborers transported from India replaced the emancipated slaves.