(n.) A special business intrusted to a messenger; something to be told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to do an errand. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere.
Example Sentences:
(1) But it is difficult not to conclude that the survey, which ends on St Andrew’s day, 30 November, has been something of a fools errand for those loyal driveway-trampers.
(2) Many tasks (e.g., solving algebraic equations and running errands) require the execution of several component processes in an unconstrained order.
(3) His first job was also as an errand boy and assistant in a grocer's shop, from which he moved on to be a junior shop assistant and an early switchboard operator.
(4) Through either running in a group or carrying out one-off missions you can complete physical tasks that benefit the community, for example doing errands for those who are isolated or lonely.
(5) Techniques such as Loci can be readily adapted to help us remember appointments, birthdays, errands we need to run, etc.
(6) Our results indicate that patients with RA experience more losses than controls in every domain of human activity and that patients with OA experience more losses in the performance of household chores, shopping and errands, and leisure activities.
(7) Though she pursued further studies and wrote, Aung San Suu Kyi did bring up children, darn socks and run grocery errands.
(8) He said he'd run some errands, and would "be right back".
(9) The first point to make, stresses Jason Butler from IFA Bloomsbury Wealth, is that "all the evidence suggests trying to time investment markets is a fools' errand".
(10) Photograph: TaskRabbit Leah Busque is the founder and CEO of TaskRabbit.com , an online and mobile peer-to-peer marketplace for neighbourhood errands and small jobs One blustery Boston night in February 2008, Leah Busque and her husband were about to go out for dinner when they realised they'd run out of dog food and didn't have time to get any.
(11) Ameobi dinks a ball over the top (seriously) and finds Gouffran again, once more with the Liverpool defenders busy running errands or something, but this time Johnson nips across and half-blocks, enough in any case to prevent another goal.
(12) A useful strategy to counteract such absent-mindedness can be to develop a fixed method for performing such tasks: always place your keys in the same spot on the sideboard, always carry out the late-night errands in the same order (lock the back door, turn off the gas, turn off lights, etc).
(13) The whole idea that we were going to shut down the government to get rid of Obamacare in 2013, this plan never had a chance,” he said, adding that it was a “fool’s errand”.
(14) But as Stevenson heads off towards his seventh errand of the day, it's not clear what is keeping him going like this just shy of his 70th birthday.
(15) Pimpi is still working as an errand boy in a government office aged 38.
(16) And here’s a taster from the ‘errands’ section: • Organise all Jermain’s personal needs i.e.
(17) The men seem to be on some urgent errand or quest, but are constantly waylaid by events, the scenery, or perhaps the atmosphere.
(18) Fame Monster is said to revisit Jennifer O'Neill's two years travelling the world with Gaga, which she claims included running her errands, and sometimes even sleeping in the same bed.
(19) The second daughter of a middle-class Muslim family from the city’s Mulund area, Firoza learned to cycle at eight so she could run errands for her mother – she would hire a bike for 30 minutes a day because her father did not have the money to buy one.
(20) I was trusted to run errands alone in the van, so I knew I could leave the site without arousing suspicion.
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Definition:
(n.) A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
(n.) A boy child.
(n.) A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.
(n.) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
(n.) Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.
(v. t.) To attend (one) as a page.
(n.) One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.
(n.) Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.
(n.) The type set up for printing a page.
(v. t.) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two-dimensional SDS-PAGE (non-reduced and then reduced) analyses of HSV-1-infected HEL cells treated with the cleavable cross-linker DTBP demonstrated that molecules that comigrated with gC were the only components of these high Mr complexes.
(2) SDS-PAGE analysis of the immunoprecipitates under reducing conditions revealed that the cardiac channel is mainly composed of two large polypeptides of 190 and 150 kDa, and five smaller polypeptides of 60, 55, 35, 30, and 25 kDa.
(3) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
(4) The initial history, physical findings, and roentgenographic examinations are found on this page.
(5) We put forward the hypothesis that the agglutinability in acriflavine, together with the PAGE profile type II, may be associated with particular structures responsible for virulence.
(6) The evolution of tissue damage in compressive spinal cord injuries in rats was studied using an immunohistochemical technique and by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) analysis.
(7) The Radio-PAGE and immunoblot typing methods both gave precise identification of Helicobacter pylori strains, but Radio-PAGE was found to give higher resolution and represents a standardised universally applicable fingerprinting method for Helicobacter pylori.
(8) Wright said that he was told the other two pages of documents were not provided because of freedom of information subsections concerning privacy, "sources and methods," and that can "put someone's life in danger."
(9) Giving voice to that sentiment the mass-selling daily newspaper Ta Nea dedicated its front-page editorial to what it hoped would soon be the group's demise, describing Alexopoulos' desertion as a "positive development".
(10) Increased phosphorylation of p27 was detected using 2-dimensional SDS-PAGE.
(11) An expanded version of this paper, containing full experimental details of the semisynthesis and characterization of [GlyA1-3H]insulin, has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50129 (30 pages) at the British Library (Lending Division), Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem.
(12) By labeling of intact cells with 32Pi for 18-20 h in the absence of hormone, covalent binding of [3H]dexamethasone 21-mesylate, immunopurification and SDS-PAGE analysis, the steroid binding protein was found to contain, on average, 2-3 phosphates as phosphoserine.
(13) However, the monkey lens low molecular weight proteins differ from the human low molecular weight proteins in charge as well as molecular weight determined by SDS-PAGE.
(14) Species-specific proteins identified in these mycoplasmas and the 41 kDa protein of M. synoviae were purified by preparative SDS-PAGE in amounts sufficient for further characterization and for use in serodiagnostic tests.
(15) A simple two step purification is described, which results in 99% pure homogeneous protein (as determined by PAGE).
(16) Photograph: Geektime The same developer’s Red Bouncing Ball Spikes game has also been doing well on the App Store, although as yet Flying Cyrus fever hasn’t spread to Android – the game has been installed less than 5,000 times according to its Google Play store page.
(17) The electrophoretic pattern of free radical-exposed FABP was not markedly different when examined either by the non-denaturing or by denaturing PAGE, suggesting the absence of any degradation or aggregation of FABP by O2- or OH..
(18) Immunoprecipitates were analysed by SDS-PAGE and considerable heterogeneity in antigen recognition between individual animals was observed, regardless of infection regimen.
(19) This section includes a description of the presentations on the pages, the use of color in the scans, and the use of certain advanced features of the ACTA-Scanner, the scanner used for the atlas.
(20) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".