(n.) Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid.
Example Sentences:
(1) She was a once-in-a-lifetime gal.” A friend of Breaux wrote on Instagram: “God really does give his best angels their wings first.” Breaux was a student at Louisiana State University in Eunice and lived in Lafayette, where she was working at clothing retailer Coco Eros.
(2) She has denounced others for calling him a terrorist, saying he was a freedom fighter in Sri Lanka's non-violent revolutionary student movement Eros .
(3) There were loud cheers from the thousands who gathered around the statue of Eros when the two marches joined up.
(4) Writing in the Guardian , Comfort Ero, Africa director of the International Crisis Group, said: “The insurgents are hampering the work of the independent national electoral commission and have already forced it to halt elections in high-risk areas of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states.
(5) On the background of a creative psychotherapy with a young man covering the antagonism between Eros and Thanatos creativity is presented as a power not only mediating between destructive and constructive processes but integrating itself into the personal image and sense of life.
(6) Clones resistant to only two drugs (Tet-Chl or Ero-Cli), or sensitive to all drugs were found in cultures of the wild-type strain treated by acridine dyes or ethidium bromide.
(7) In a cross between isogenic plasmids (PI(258)penZ cad x PI(258)penI asa ero), transductants were doubly selected for cadmium and erythromycin resistances.
(8) However, in the hot summer of 1912 an initially chaste and awkward relationship, punctuated with readings of Housman poems and stilted conversations about Eros, swiftly took wing.
(9) The transformation frequencies for the plasmid marker erythromycin resistance (ero) and the chromosomal markers trp, thy, and cyt are of the same order of magnitude, whereas the frequency for the chromosomal marker tyr is approximately one order of magnitude lower.
(10) A strain of C. perfringens type A, isolated from a patient, was found to be resistant to four antibiotics: tetracycline (Tet), chloramphénicol (Chl), erythromycin (Ero) and clindamycin (Cli).
(11) Straight after, they change clothes again to pose for Vanity Fair's upcoming swinging London issue, a session which starts at the ultra-kitsch Eve Club (where Christine Keeler once partied) and ends with them hanging off Eros in the middle of Piccadilly Circus at 9pm.
(12) The friendships based on the concept of pedagogical Eros, as propagated by Gustav Wyneken (1875-1964) in his Wickersdorf Free School Community, are presented as an example.
(13) The electoral commission has stated in guidance that electoral registration officers (EROs) must send out reminders, or even pay a personal visit, telling people to register to vote.
(14) Interestingly, he does not, in Beware of Pity , allude to, or make any real use of, the atmosphere of stifling sexual repression that animates "Eros Matutinus", one of the best chapters of The World of Yesterday , in which Zweig acknowledges there were some very significant aspects of genteel society the world was right to discard.
(15) A further factor shown to be involved is the dialectic tension between eros and thanatos.
(16) This paper examines the aspects of dreaming derived from the principle of Eros, the life instinct as described by Freud in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.
(17) A "complete Eros", or ultimate cure was impossible.
(18) Two types of liposomes, a fluid type, consisting of cholesterol-phosphatidylcholine-phosphatidylserine (5:4:1), and a solid type, consisting of cholesterol-distearoylphosphatidylcholine-dipalmitoylphosphatidylglyc ero l (10:10:1), were used.
(19) The commission strongly recommends that EROs undertake an audit of their registers and write to all households – regardless of whether or not they currently have any registered electors – in good time before the May polls.
(20) Thanatos and Eros seated across from each other over the backgammon board on table four, the onlookers suspending the judgment of ridicule and extending the courtesy of tolerance.
Ers
Definition:
(n.) The bitter vetch (Ervum Ervilia).
Example Sentences:
(1) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
(2) The overall recoveries of activated ER following chromatography on DEAE-cellulose were significantly lower than the recoveries of the nonactivated ER, 71 and 85%, respectively.
(3) Expression of AR was compared with that of ER and PR as well as with tumour grade and age.
(4) Furthermore, we did not observe correlation between the concentrations of ER and of antiestrogen binding sites (AEBS) in the tumors.
(5) In Stage II patients, chemotherapy has an impact on disease mortality for ER-positive and ER-negative premenopausal women and possibly ER-negative postmenopausal patients.
(6) Plasmids containing the inverted repeat alone bound ER, though less efficiently than did plasmids containing the entire sequence.
(7) It was found that the number of ER in the patients was significantly decreased.
(8) In human breast cancer the proliferating cells appear to differ from those containing estrogen receptors (ER) as shown by studies on isolated cellular subpopulations.
(9) Evidence for Golgi apparatus-associated processing of oligosaccharides in the ER was obtained by lectin-gold cytochemistry revealing the presence of the galactose (beta 1----4)N-acetylglucosamine sequence and sialic acid residues.
(10) Tissues were processed for indirect immunocytochemical localization with specific monoclonal antibodies against estrogen receptor (ER; H222) and progestin receptor (PR; JZB39).
(11) AR and ER mRNA-containing neurons were widely distributed in the rat brain, with the greatest densities of cells in the hypothalamus, and in regions of the telencephalon that provide strong inputs in the medial preoptic and ventromedial nuclei, each of which is thought to play a key role in mediating the hormonal control of copulatory behavior, as well as in the lateral septal nucleus, the medial and cortical nuclei of the amygdala, the amygdalohippocampal area, and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.
(12) At saturating concentrations of ER, plasmids bearing one, two, and four EREs in tandem bound approximately one, two, and four dimeric ER molecules, respectively.
(13) Such data provide strong evidence that in this concentration range the growth inhibitory effects of nonsteroidal antioestrogens are mediated by the intracellular ER.
(14) The expression of the ER cDNA in HeLa cells produces a protein that has the same relative molecular mass and binds oestradiol with the same affinity as the MCF-7 ER.
(15) Both methods, which are applicable to paraffin sections, were developed and validated in breast carcinomas with known ER content.
(16) Our results suggest that the synthesis of ER in cervical epithelium can be influenced by underlying stroma.
(17) Despite fulfilling a boyhood wish to play for Milan when he returned to Italy, the striker admitted he erred in taking his career back to Serie A, having had a controversial spell at Internazionale before City recruited him for £17.5m in August 2010.
(18) We have performed a quantitative analysis of steady-state levels of ER-mRNA for 88 untreated, primary breast carcinomas.
(19) Under these conditions, it was shown that resident enzymes of the cis-, medial, and trans-Golgi return to the ER.
(20) In freeze-fracture replicas the ER was seen to consist of both short and long tubules, some of the latter forming anastomoses with each other.