(n.) The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support.
(n.) That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college.
(n.) That which is given or bestowed upon the person or mind; gift of nature; accomplishment; natural capacity; talents; -- usually in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using a monoclonal antibody (528) to the binding portion of the human EGF receptor, immunoperoxidase staining demonstrated that the basal cell layer of normal urothelium is richly endowed with cell surface EGF receptors while the superficial cell layer is not.
(2) Since both PGlcUA- and DPPG-liposomes exhibited similar size distribution and zeta-potential, glucuronic acid, rather than negative charge, on the liposomal surface appears to endow liposomes with a longer circulation time in the bloodstream.
(3) Cells of superficial layers, that are endowed with typical secretory granules, seem to contribute some unknown components to the secretions of these glands.
(4) Both syngeneic and allogeneic thymic epithelium endowed nude mice with the capacity to mount IgG antibody and delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) responses to the T-dependent antigen ovalbumin (OVA).
(5) The effects induced by the antiandrogen Cyproterone Acetate (CPA) on the proliferation of EVSA-T human breast cancer cells endowed with androgen receptors were studied.
(6) Poly(vinylbenzo-18-crown-6), a water-soluble polymer endowed with ion-binding crown moieties as pendent groups, forms insoluble complexes with polyadenylate in the presence of K+; the corresponding monomeric benzo-18-crown-6, does not form a precipitate under the same conditions.
(7) "With devices like [the Xbox] Natal [which is expected to be launched this Christmas] we're really talking about a converged interactive media industry," says Jon Kingsbury, who runs the Creative Economy Innovation Programme at the independent National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta).
(8) These transformations and relational-structure models are each endowed with the same experimentally observed invariance properties, which include independence to pattern translation and pattern jitter, and, depending on the particular versions of the models, independence to pattern reflection and inversion (180 degrees rotation).
(9) Type 2 multipolar cells are large neurons endowed with numerous primary spiny dendrites constituting a wide round dendritic field and with a thick axon.
(10) The eosinophil is richly endowed with toxic cationic proteins and is able to mount a respiratory burst.
(11) The results thus obtained produce an evidence that oligomerization endows aldolase protomers with enhanced stability.
(12) In contrast, type II pneumonocytes are cuboidal and are richly endowed with organelles including large Golgi complexes, extensive endoplasmic reticulum and numerous inclusion bodies.
(13) Thus the results indicate that differences in the gating properties of these two channel classes combine to endow them with strikingly different transducer properties.
(14) The possible reasons of this failure are: the physician's lack of experience in a radiographic chapter, lack of endowment of that medical unit, patient's refusal to be examined or the atypical evolution of the disease.
(15) It declines to reveal the full extent of its fossil fuel investments, but in 2014 its £18bn endowment included over £450m invested in the fossil fuel majors Shell, BP, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton alone.
(16) A number of other areas appear richly endowed in both enkephalinase and enkephalins whereas substance P is hardly detectable.
(17) The subicular complex is well endowed with cells and fibers and the parasubiculum consistently displays unusually heavy NPY innervation.
(18) These results suggest that rMuIFN-gamma rather than other cytokines might endow neonatal mice with the enhanced antilisterial resistance involving macrophages and T lymphocytes.
(19) The Europeans are hopeful this will not now be a problem," said Mark Hibbs, a nuclear expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
(20) The US would be in a situation where it would presumably then say we’d reimpose sanctions which would only hurt, for the most part, US businesses, which would then turn on whichever administration,” said George Perkovich, vice-president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Legacy
Definition:
(n.) A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.
(n.) A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
(2) All former US presidents set up a library in their name to house their papers and honour their legacy.
(3) But the condition of edifices such as B30 and B38 - and all the other "legacy" structures built at Sellafield decades ago - suggest Britain might end up paying a heavy price for this new commitment to nuclear energy.
(4) Even so, the release of the first-half figures could help clear the way for the chancellor, George Osborne, to start selling off the taxpayer’s 79% stake in the bank, a legacy of the institution’s 2008 bailout.
(5) His greatest legacy, besides his three children, is the joy and happiness he offered to others, particularly to those fighting personal battles.
(6) The only explanation he can come up with is that Cameron is worried about his legacy.
(7) These tacos, the legacy of the city's many Lebanese immigrants, a variation of shawarma , the grilled marinated meat dish popular throughout the Middle East.
(8) But the genius of the High Line was to revive and repurpose a decaying piece of legacy infrastructure, and by doing so to revitalise several moribund districts of Manhattan, whereas the garden bridge would be new-build in an already vibrant part of London.
(9) It brought back Thatcher biographer Hugo Young's words for a front page portrait that offered criticism as well as praise for her legacy.
(10) Never camera-shy, he also leaves his legacy on celluloid too.
(11) Flats by the basketball arena, which will be the site of the first ‘legacy neighbourhood’, Chobham Manor.
(12) We still have at our disposal the rational interpretive skills that are the legacy of humanistic education, not as a sentimental piety enjoining us to return to traditional values or the classics but as the active practice of worldly secular rational discourse.
(13) "We are not leaving them an adequate legacy of homes.
(14) "EA's next CEO inherits a company beset by a broad range of legacy problems created not just by difficult retail market conditions but also by its own hand," says Nick Gibson an analyst at Games Investor Consulting Ltd. "It has been too eager to use major acquisitions – Jamdat, Playfish, Bioware, PopCap etc – to try to accelerate growth or gain early leadership positions in emerging markets, often overpaying by substantial amounts for companies that subsequently fail to deliver what EA expected they would."
(15) This is why in the end it won’t be the euro or the Ukrainian war that defines Merkel’s legacy.
(16) While building a structure that would enable us to realise our strategic vision was crucial, saying goodbye to close colleagues – some of whom had been with our legacy organisations for over a decade – was really hard.
(17) Commercialised … one of the new murals commissioned by the Legacy List, by Dutch collective Graphic Surgery.
(18) A key part of the legacy vision espoused by Lord Coe that helped to win the Games was the promise to use the 2012 Olympics to inspire more young people to play sport.
(19) The legacy of half a century of the voting rights struggle also hangs in the balance.
(20) He is currently writing Pan-Africanism: A History Facebook Twitter Pinterest Juliet Gardiner: ‘Britain’s greatly diminished power will be his legacy’ In 1848, the French politician Ledru Rollin is reputed to have said: “There go the people.