(n.) A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a new book just published called So Far, So Bad , written well before the Closer farrago, French journalist Cécile Amar, quotes Trierweiler confessing that "François has no emotion".
(2) The truth is that Britain's defence strategy has become a farrago of dogmas, traditions, maxims and cliches, most of them born of the second world war, the cold war and Tony Blair's fixation with fighting Muslims.
(3) The answer does not lie in false techno-fixes or the faux-democratic farrago of the government-business funded Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef .
(4) #birdsonaplane #starlingsindistress May 8, 2017 The farrago reached its denouement, according to Dolganov, when airport staff played a recording entitled “starlings in distress” to try to scare the bird away, but it was never found and the flight was cancelled.
(5) These Super Sunday-ish collisions are so often presented in a farrago of swirling overstatement – seasons defined, destiny shaped, lives ruined, civilisations decimated – but Wenger will take encouragement from this performance.
(6) Actually, I lied – that is not the weirdest thing about this whole farrago.
(7) It is the dance up on the stage, which looks a farrago, that seems the distraction.
(8) From a farrago of post-feminist disdain, that last judgment was the most eccentric of all.
(9) The Death Star - the set of next #StarWars film at @PinewoodStudios to see benefits of film tax credits August 13, 2015 There’s good and bad news about the spin-offs Kennedy revealed to EW that Disney-owned Lucasfilm are still working on the ‘anthology’ film, rumoured to focus on bounty hunter Boba Fett, the film from which Josh Trank was unceremoniously dumped in April at the height of the whole Fantastic Four farrago.
(10) Frankly, when he was reappointed 18 months ago this World Cup was turning into a nightmare for the host nation, a farrago of structural problems, vertiginous anxiety and a team who had slipped to 22nd in the Fifa rankings.
(11) Further evidence that the Spaniard is unaffected by the Real Madrid transfer farrago came when Patrick van Anholt raced clear.
(12) But I just couldn't do it; I got stuck, wrote this farrago of a play.
(13) The biography of Mr Nuttall that has appeared at times on his website appears to be a complex farrago of exaggerations, half-truths and untruths that have unravelled as his run for the vacant Stoke-on-Trent Central seat has put him under more scrutiny than usual.
(14) Every last one of them was a farrago of wonkishness, insincerity, and cliche, polemical half-truths and bits of old stump speeches, mashed-up press releases and policy statements, reheated for popular consumption in some of the dullest American prose imaginable.
(15) I suspect the non-dom farrago is also a moral issue and the fact that 115 non-doms pay £9bn in income tax – and the government could lose serious money – doesn’t matter.
(16) Supporters of The Weinstein Company point out that the production company had dropped the earlier copyright claim prior to the farrago surrounding The Butler .
(17) What a farrago of self-regarding, self-congratulatory self-exculpation it was!
(18) Beyond the Farage farragos, one Demetri Marchessini, a Ukip donor, paid for an advert in the Telegraph to announce his abhorrence of homosexuality.
(19) The answer is Mail Online , an inspired farrago of rolling clickbait that has been a runaway commercial success for its corporate parent ever since it was launched.
(20) The farrago Trump has created on healthcare is consequential and shameful.
Heteroclite
Definition:
(a.) Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.
(n.) A word which is irregular or anomalous either in declension or conjugation, or which deviates from ordinary forms of inflection in words of a like kind; especially, a noun which is irregular in declension.
(n.) Any thing or person deviating from the common rule, or from common forms.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first concerns precursor cells that give rise to lambda-bearing NP-specific antibodies with heteroclitic fine specificity.
(2) The data suggest that the humoral response to different epitopes of a protein antigen during the maturation of the immune response is a stochastic process leading to transient humoral immunodominance, enhancing Ab populations and heterocliticity, depending upon individual characteristics, either in outbred or inbred populations.
(3) The goal of these experiments has been to capitalize on the functionally distinct responses of heteroclitic CTL to cross-reactive Ag to explore the role of Ag in regulating CTL proliferation and lytic function.
(4) It is predicted that a combination of solid-phase competition assay with high epitope density and direct binding assay with low epitope density would result in optimal detection of heteroclitic antibodies and small differences in antibody affinity for cross-reactive antigens.
(5) By contrast, the heteroclitic Abs to eGH developed by hypopituitary patients therapeutically injected with human growth hormone failed to react with any eGH-derived fragment.
(6) m ABs 8 to 14 and 16 to 20 demonstrated heteroclitic behavior, that is, they bound CTT IIIa better than the immunogen CTT III.
(7) One assay method failed to detect heteroclitic activity of 1 antibody which was clearly evident in the other 3 assays.
(8) Moreover, some anti-BP mAbs and anti-Cop 1 mAbs reacted in a heteroclitic manner and favored the cross-reactive antigen over the immunogen.
(9) However, immunization with the heterologous peptide resulted in a response strictly directed to rat CII and the immunogen while immunization with the autologous peptide elicited T cells which reacted in a heteroclitic fashion, with a stronger response to the heterologous peptide than to the autologous peptide, and did respond to rat CII but not to mouse CII.
(10) Polypeptides (Lys-Ser-Glu)n induced cross-reacting or heteroclitic antibodies.
(11) Monoclonal and anti-dinitrophenyl and anti-trinitrophenyl IgE antibodies were used to measure heterocliticity using competitive inhibition assays with homologous and heterologous haptens.
(12) To our knowledge, this is the first description of a T cell clone that is specific for a class I antigen and cross-reacts heteroclitically with a class II antigen.
(13) A number of antibodies showed heteroclitic binding to particular insulin variants.
(14) Med., 146 (1977) 1323-1331), by comparing the encephalitogenic guinea pig sequence to a less potent analog, had also previously observed what now would be termed a heteroclitic phenomenon at the T cell level in Lewis rats.
(15) In this report, we employ a competition assay to confirm that this alloresponse involves a groove-binding peptide, demonstrate that this peptide derives from or depends on fetal calf serum and exploit a panel of antigen-presenting cell lines--each displaying an Ak complex with a different position 69 substitution--to establish that the alloresponse is not just a heteroclitic response to ribonuclease, itself.
(16) The results indicated temporal and individual variations in the titers of each class of Ab as well as the existence of enhancer and heteroclitic Ab.
(17) Products of both genes had an exotic (heteroclitic) fine-specificity.
(18) Although most of the animals showed cross-reacting Ab, two out of 12 mice, chronically injected, developed heteroclitic Ab.
(19) Heterocliticity towards non-human GH was also detected.
(20) Some of the antibodies could be inhibited to a greater degree with the cross-reacting haptens than with the haptens homologous to the immunizing antigen, therefore these antibodies were heteroclitic.