(n.) That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad.
(n.) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
(n.) The consequence of anything; the issue; conclusion; result; that in which an action, operation, or series of operations, terminates.
(v. t.) To break forth.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
(2) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(3) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(4) Stress is laid on certain principles of diagnostic research in the event of extra-suprarenal pheochromocytomas.
(5) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(6) Moreover, homozygous deletion of the FMS gene may be an important event in the genesis of the MDS variant 5q- syndrome.
(7) Brain damage may be followed by a number of dynamic events including reactive synaptogenesis, rerouting of axons to unusual locations and altered axon retraction processes.
(8) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
(9) In crosses between inverted repeats, a single intrachromatid reciprocal exchange leads to inversion of the sequence between the crossover sites and recovery of both genes involved in the event.
(10) Further study both of the signaling events that lead to MPF activation and of the substrates for phosphorylation by MPF should lead to a comprehensive understanding of the biochemistry of cell division.
(11) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(12) A second Scottish referendum has turned from a highly probable event into an almost inevitable one.
(13) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(14) Cardiovascular disease event rates will be assessed through continuous community surveillance of fatal and nonfatal myocardial infarction and stroke.
(15) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
(16) A good understanding of upper gastrointestinal physiology is required to properly understand the pathophysiological events in various diseases or after operations on the upper gastrointestinal tract.
(17) We have examined the initial events in myelin synthesis, including the insertion and orientation of PLP in the plasma membrane, in rat oligodendrocytes which express PLP and the other myelin-specific proteins when cultured without neurons (Dubois-Dalcq, M., T. Behar, L. Hudson, and R. A. Lazzarini.
(18) These findings suggest that in hamsters (i) A and B antigens are tumor-related antigens; (ii) H, Le(b), Le(x) and Le(y) are oncofetal antigens; and (iii) fucosylation is an important event in cell differentiation.
(19) The incomplete penetrance of the neoplastic phenotype and the monoclonality of lymphoid tumors suggest that tumor formation in v-fps mice requires genetic or epigenetic events in addition to expression of the P130gag-fps protein-tyrosine kinase.
(20) Additionally, the "early warning" capability of SaO2 monitoring was analyzed by recording the severity and outcome of hypoxemic events during treatment.
Wrecker
Definition:
(n.) One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.
(n.) One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, etc. Specifically: (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder. (b) One who is employed in saving property or lives from a wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the wreckers of Key West.
(n.) A vessel employed by wreckers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her transformation from marriage wrecker to part of the establishment has been “rapid and remarkable”.
(2) There were moments when lots of people had doubts whether our plans would work moments, as I was well aware, when people had doubts about me.” Osborne qualified his criticism of Corbyn’s Labour as the party of wreckers by warning the Tories that they must not become complacent.
(3) Tony Abbott has to decide whether he wants to return to Australia’s proud tradition of working constructively with partners like the US and China on tackling climate change or to continue to act as a wrecker of global cooperation,” shadow environment minister Mark Butler said.
(4) Shaoshan, the birthplace of the greatest wrecker of Chinese tradition, has become, in many ways, a repository of it.
(5) She has been economic with the truth about her home in South Africa and accused of being a "home–wrecker" because of an affair with a family friend.
(6) But with the Conservatives now matching their brazenly uncosted spending pledges with brazenly implausible claims that they will win a majority, it could be crucial in those Lib-Con marginals across the south-west and south-east where having wreckers or ideologues in government frightens the horses.
(7) Junior doctors' strike has become the mother of all deadlocks Read more Yet they must do all of that to avoid being seen as the unreasonable ones, the wreckers.
(8) The climate scientists came to regard him as a meddling, time-wasting and probably politically motivated wrecker, who rarely published his own papers and devoted his retirement to trashing theirs.
(9) But now it must make a tricky choice – to spurn the offer of an extension to Kyoto, which would paint it firmly as the villain, the wrecker of a deal and thus of the climate; or to move away from its entrenched opposition to a legally binding treaty, and start being treated more like a developed country.
(10) A lot of younger Corbynites, he went on, view these old-school operators as passionate idealists in the Jeremy mould rather than hard-left wreckers, which compounds other members’ increasing sense of desperation.
(11) Yet while the US media has been quick to trumpet any evidence of Facebook as the country's leading marriage-wrecker, the truth is "It's complicated," as the site's relationship status would have it.
(12) The nadir came in the 3,000m final when, just after half way, she collided with the American favourite, Mary Decker, who tumbled out of the race, leaving a wretched Budd to continue to a chorus of boos and finish seventh, forever branded Decker's wrecker.
(13) Circa 1985, in holding fast to the old maxim "no enemies on the left" and supporting the presence of Trotskyist wreckers in the Labour party, he rather did my head in – because I was fighting a gaggle of them who had moved into my constituency, hell-bent on taking over an essentially meaningless little branch of the Labour Party Young Socialists by being as unpleasant to other people as possible.
(14) Meanwhile, the anti-union Mail, Express and Sun have expressed their honeyed "understanding" for people they would normally castigate as wreckers and layabouts.
(15) Angela Merkel, Europe’s most powerful, values-oriented, refugee-welcoming and Putin-resisting leader, finally met Donald Trump , potential wrecker of the west and liberal democracy.
(16) The current crop of Labor members of parliament, they were wreckers in government and now they just want to wreck government.
(17) Both contenders abhorred the growing appeal of the mavericks, wreckers and so-called populists, but had little to say specifically in policy terms about how to combat anti-EU forces such Nigel Farage's Ukip, France's Front National, or the Freedom party of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands.
(18) "With renowned wreckers Mark van Bommel and Lucio on opposing sides, is this game not rife with battle fever?"
(19) Nancy teased Debo that invitations to writers and artists to stay had more to do with interiors than intellect: "They are terrible wreckers, worse than puppies and will give a mellow old look to the house in no time at all.
(20) While pictures of women branded as sluts, victims, home-wreckers (etc) stay accessible on the internet, job opportunities, new relationships, college entry and basic self-esteem are wrecked.