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Eek


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Alt. of Eeke

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Synovectomy of the elbow is highly effective even when performed relatively late (stage 3 according to Larsen-Dahle-Eek) insofar as pain relief and swelling are concerned.
  • (2) Sometime, somewhere in the limitless future it will be listened to, and, if there is intelligent life in another galaxy and creatures from outer space do land on earth having learned English from BBC broadcasts, the chances are they will not say 'Take me to your leader' but 'How bona to vada your dolly old eek!'"
  • (3) The virus produced cytopathic effects (CPE) in equine embryo kidney (EEK) cell culture, contained deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), was resistant to chloroform and pH 3, and was moderately resistant to heat.
  • (4) Sixteen protected NAc-tetrapeptide amides were studied, namely the variants of DEKS: NEKS, EEKS, DDKS, DQKS, NQKS, DERS, NERS, EERS, DDRS, NDRS, DQRS, and DKES.
  • (5) The extreme C-terminus of the NF-M tail contains two highly conserved homologous sequences each of 15 amino acids, with the consensus EEK-V-TKKVEK-TS, plus another very closely related 7 amino acid sequence.
  • (6) 3.09am BST Eek, Mitt Romney – asked to respond about his crappy "self-deportation" thing, decides to relitigate some old answers he's obviously still fuming about.
  • (7) Most of you managed to get this one right ... " They would frequently reinvent language - "How bona to vada your dolly old eek" meant "How nice to see you" in Julian and Sandyspeak.
  • (8) The predicted eek protein contains all the amino acid residues conserved in the catalytic domains of protein-tyrosine kinases and is most similar to two putative receptor protein-tyrosine kinases of the eph subclass, elk (69%) and eph (57%).
  • (9) Human genomic DNAs encoding part of eek (EEK) as well as another putative protein-tyrosine kinase most similar to elk (90%), ERK (elk-related kinase), were isolated and partially characterized.
  • (10) PBMC isolated from these foals at different days after inoculation did not display appreciably reduced or elevated NK cytotoxicities against Chang liver cells and EHV-1-infected EEK targets, when compared with that of a PBMC reference from a healthy adult horse.
  • (11) In Northern blot analysis of rat RNA, DNAs encoding rat eek and human ERK hybridized to transcripts most abundant in brain and lung, respectively.
  • (12) Chang liver, rabbit kidney (RK-13), equine sarcoid (ES) and embryonic equine kidney (EEK) cells were more susceptible when presented to horse PBMC than monolayer cultures.
  • (13) 3.34am GMT Florida State 10-21 Auburn, 13:47, 3rd quarter Eek.
  • (14) Cytotoxicity against EHV-1-infected EEK cells developed faster, between 4 and 8 h of incubation and reaching a maximum at 24 h. By contrast, cytotoxicity against uninfected fibroblasts was not significant until approximately 16 h of incubation with maximum cytotoxicity observed between 32 h and 48 h. Specific pathogen-free (SPF) foals were inoculated with live EHV-1.
  • (15) The indications for each of three operative methods were presented with clinical assessment and Larsen, Dahle, Eek scale of radiological changes taken into consideration.
  • (16) Rat cDNA clones encoding eek (eph- and elk-related kinase) were isolated from a brain cDNA library probed with DNA encoding the kinase region of the insulin receptor-related receptor.
  • (17) In Manhattan’s chi-chi Sant Ambroeus restaurant, the pair of smartly dressed women at the next table are making not-so-surreptitious “eek” faces at each other, having clocked that their neighbour for lunch is Taylor Swift .
  • (18) Horse PBMC demonstrated higher levels of NK-type activity against EEK, EEL and RK-13 cells infected with equine herpesvirus 1 (EHV-1) compared with uninfected cells.
  • (19) It's like a real-life cartoon, with all the sound effects – thump, thwack, bang, crash, eek, splat – as they roll, bite each other and tumble slowly off their bamboo platform on to the grass.
  • (20) These two new members of the eph subclass of receptor protein-tyrosine kinases, eek and erk, may therefore have tissue-specific functions distinct from those of other eph family members.

Seek


Definition:

  • (a.) Sick.
  • (v. t.) To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.
  • (v. t.) To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to bessech.
  • (v. t.) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life.
  • (v. t.) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
  • (v. i.) To make search or inquiry: to endeavor to make discovery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
  • (2) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
  • (3) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
  • (4) In many cases, physicians seek to protect themselves from involvement with these difficult, highly anxious patients by making a referral to a psychiatrist.
  • (5) There was a 35% decrease in the number of patients seeking emergency treatment and one study put the savings in economic and social costs at just under £7m a year .
  • (6) The study included fifty children, aged six to fourteen years, selected from patients seeking routine dental care at Children's Hospital National Medical Center.
  • (7) But the comments of myself and others that I have seen have not criticised Islam but those who seek to hijack and misrepresent Islam,” he said.
  • (8) A series of 241 patients with subphrenic abscess was analysed to seek reasons for the continuing mortality.
  • (9) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
  • (10) She was provided medical treatment and encouraged and supported to seek counselling, including flights for that help to Nairobi.
  • (11) Substantial percentages of both physicians and medical students reported access to drugs, family histories of substance abuse, stress at work and home, emotional problems, and sensation seeking.
  • (12) "We must be clear that there can be no letup in our efforts to seek ways to remove Bill Walker from parliament," Rennie said.
  • (13) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
  • (14) It said: “We will be seeking to inform and encourage dialogue about Israel and the Palestinians in the wider cultural and creative community.
  • (15) It is understood that Labor, the Greens and the crossbench will seek to remove many of these additional measures, leaving the bill focused on the visa issue.
  • (16) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
  • (17) But Berlusconi and Sarkozy, seeking to curry favour with the strong far-right constituencies in both countries, sought to bury their differences by urging the rest of Europe to buy into their anti-immigration agenda.
  • (18) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Asked if Watson should seek to refresh his mandate after Corbyn’s overwhelming victory among members, McCluskey added: “Well, if Tom wants to try to refresh his mandate it would be interesting to see what happens.” Watson said it was time “to be proud of our party”, because the Conservatives were beatable and the prime minister, Theresa May, could call an election any time.
  • (19) Once you've invested many years in a career, figuring out how to take time out and then return to a role that's comparable to the one you left (or as comparable as you want it to be) requires more than confidence and enthusiasm - employers need to actively acknowledge the benefits of such breaks and be more receptive to those seeking to return”.
  • (20) No patient had a previous infarction, and none underwent intervention seeking to restore coronary patency.

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