(n.) The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain; -- opposed to beginning, when used of anything having a first part.
(n.) Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence.
(n.) Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction.
(n.) The object aimed at in any effort considered as the close and effect of exertion; ppurpose; intention; aim; as, to labor for private or public ends.
(n.) That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends.
(n.) One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
(v. t.) To bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to terminate; as, to end a speech.
(v. t.) To form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the word back.
(v. t.) To destroy; to put to death.
(v. i.) To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a close; to cease; to terminate; as, a voyage ends; life ends; winter ends.
Example Sentences:
(1) These included bringing in the A* grade, reducing the number of modules from six to four, and a greater attempt to assess the whole course at the end.
(2) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(3) A full-length cDNA encoding porcine heart aconitase was derived from lambda gt10 recombinant clones and by amplification of the 5' end of the mRNA.
(4) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
(5) In patients with coronary artery disease, electrocardiographic signs of left atrial enlargement (LAE-negative P wave deflection greater than or equal to 1 mm2 in lead V1) are associated with increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP).
(6) The distance between the end of fic and the start of pabA was 31 base pairs.
(7) Further, at the end of treatment fewer patients had depressive symptoms and the total daily number of hours of wellbeing and normal movement increased.
(8) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(9) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
(10) 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.
(11) Anthropometric and nutritional (serum albumin and transferrin) values were normal in both groups both at the beginning and at the end of the treatment period.
(12) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
(13) Noradrenaline (NA) was released from sympathetic nerve endings in the tissue by electrical stimulation of the mesenteric nerves or by the indirect sympathomimetic agent tyramine.
(14) The B cell epitopes included regions of transition between the more hydropathic (including the N-terminal end of the F1 and F2 protein) and hydrophilic sequences.
(15) According to the national bank, four Russian banks were operating in Crimea as of the end of April, but only one of them, Rossiisky National Commercial Bank, was widely represented, with 116 branches in the region.
(16) This paper reports, principally, the caries results of the first three surveys of 5, 12 and 5-year-olds undertaken at the end of 1987, 1988 and 1989, respectively.
(17) For dental procedures requiring tracheal intubation, one could perhaps use non-depolarizing muscle relaxants, like pancuronium, with reversal at the end of the procedure.
(18) For retrospective action to be taken, and an FA charge to follow, the decision of the panel must be unanimous.” The match between the sides ended in acrimony and two City red cards.
(19) The number of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) producing IgM (spontaneous and pokeweed mitogen (PWM) stimulated) at the end of a seven day culture period was similar in PBC patients and control subjects while the amount of IgM synthesized (spontaneous and PWM stimulated) during this period was significantly greater in the patient group, implying that the amount of IgM produced per B cell was increased in PBC.
(20) ACh released from the vesicular fraction was about 100-fold more than could be accounted for by miniature end-plate potentials; possible causes of this overestimate are discussed.
Erd
Definition:
(n.) The earth.
Example Sentences:
(1) By assuming that repopulation of late-responding tissues is insignificant during normal treatment regimes it is possible to use the method to assess the broader implications for treatment strategies in terms of the behaviour of the Extrapolated Response Dose (ERD).
(2) Preceding or during movement, maximum ERD was observed in most cases in central-vertex regions.
(3) In the prostate, however, hCG treatment neither changed AHH and 7-ERDE activities nor the concentration of the microsomal cytochrome P-450.
(4) In comparisons with earlier studies on adult liver and placental microsomes, the present results with fetal liver suggest that there are differences in cytochrome P-450-associated ERDE and AHH activities between these tissues, which might be due to different tissue-specific isoenzyme patterns.
(5) Both prestimulus level of alpha power and relative ERD were asymmetrically distributed over the left and right hemispheres.
(6) The first, with large VEP amplitude, having at the same time large ERD, and the second, with small VEP amplitude and small ERD.
(7) Statistical comparison of ERD maps for accurate and inaccurate movement (Wilcoxon test) resulted in significant differences for the right parietal region prior to movement onset, with a larger ERD before accurate movement.
(8) The addition of NDGA to epidermal microsomes prepared from control and 3-methylcholanthrene (3-MC)-pretreated rats and hepatic microsomal preparations from control, 3-MC-pretreated, and phenobarbital (PB)-pretreated rats resulted in a concentration-dependent inhibition of aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) and 7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase (ERD) activities.
(9) The contribution of induction by cigarette smoking to the variability of ERDE inhibition by MAb 1-7-1 remained unclear.
(10) It also seems that isozymes for alcohol induction or debrisoquine hydroxylation do not contribute significantly to hepatic or placental AHH or ERDE.
(11) Treatment results in terms of survival, local disease-free survival and complication rates were compared with cumulative radiation effect (CRE) and extrapolated response dose (ERD) values for point A (CRETA and ERDTA respectively) and for rectum (CRETr and ERDTr respectively).
(12) The outer circumpulpal dentin layer of the enamel-related dentin (ERD) was considerably harder and denser than the comparable layer of the cementum-related dentin (CRD).
(13) 7-Ethoxycoumarin O-deethylase (7-ECD), 7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase (7-ERD), and 7-pentoxyresorufin O-deethylase (7-PRD) activities were monitored by fluorescent detection of their products.
(14) For the sake of Rolling Stone’s reputation, Sabrina Rubin Erdely had better be the country’s greatest judge of character,” the Washington Post’s media critic, Erik Wemple, wrote on Tuesday .
(15) Along with this 10 Hz ERD a localized and short-lasting (about 0.5 s) burst of 40 Hz oscillations was embedded around movement onset.
(16) Biochemical data are also presented that establish that erd, unlike rcd1 and rcd2, is not associated with abnormal metabolism of retinal cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cyclic GMP).
(17) Irish setters affected with rod-cone dysplasia type 1 (rcd1) were bred to Norwegian elkhounds affected with early retinal degeneration (erd).
(18) The EEG was analysed in the 10 Hz band (10-12 Hz) and in four 40 Hz bands (34-36, 36-38, 38-40, 40-42) by calculation of ERD time courses and ERD maps, whereby a ERD is characterized by a movement-related band power decrease.
(19) Indicators on chest X ray of high risk of ERD were the presence of more than 10 opacities, extensive opacification of lung fields, size of metastases, and hazy background obscuring the vascular pattern.
(20) Furthermore, while the type of inhibition of the hepatic ERDE was competitive or mixed, that of the placental enzyme cannot be described in ordinary terms of inhibition kinetics.