(Superl.) Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest.
(adv.) At or to the greatest distance. See Furthest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two of them, extending farthest into the 5' and 3' direction respectively, were characterized by restriction mapping and Southern hybridization as well as by electron microscopic analysis of hybrids between the cloned DNA and ovomucoid mRNA.
(2) In the outer stripe only those proximal straight tubules (P3 segments) farthest from the vascular bundles were damaged.
(3) Dissection of the femoral nerve below the inguinal ligament and its branch(es) to an uninvolved area of the quadricepts the farthest from the location of the tumor is essential.
(4) First and farthest to spread was gas-light iodine 131, which tends to accumulate in the thyroid gland – it was quickly detected as far away as Tokyo.
(5) In the inner stripe only those thick ascending loops of Henle at the periphery of the vascular bundles escaped damage; all thick ascending loops of Henle lying farthest from the bundles were severely damaged.
(6) The interior of the molecule has extensive base-paired regions which connect distant regions of the molecule; the farthest being 2500 nucleotides apart.
(7) The farthest reaching proposals in more than a decade for the funding of long-term care for the elderly and disabled have met with a cautious government response , amid fears in Whitehall over the £1.7bn cost of the scheme.
(8) Visual fatigue was determined by the changes of visuognosis persistent time, nearest and farthest point in nearvision, and accommodation from before to after classes.
(9) These intermediates accumulated during excision of RNA primers in the presence of adenine 9-beta-D-arabinoside 5'-triphosphate, and those Okazaki fragments blocked by RNA primers (class III) were found to have originated the farthest from the 5' ends of long nascent DNA strands.
(10) It was assumed that items that maximally instantiated the rule were those farthest from the category boundary that separated small and large stimuli.
(11) In fact, observations established that older pedestrians were the safest age group, standing the farthest away from traffic.
(12) The compressive method was practiced instinctively in farthest antiquity.
(13) The general law of local regulation of the circulation and the "law of behaviour" of vascular smooth muscle are proposed on the basis of precise definition of hierarchically interrelated aims of the circulation: 1) stabilization of substances and heat fluxes through the tissue, 2) stabilization of the tissue environment at farthest points from the supplying vessels, and 3) minimization of circulating blood volume.
(14) The various experimental conditions incorporated binaural and monaural listening with the latter utilizing the ear nearest or ear farthest from the sound source.
(15) Muscles located farthest from the spine also played an important role as the trunk became more asymmetric.
(16) Nodes nearest to tumor showed least reaction; nodes at intermediate distances from tumor were most reactive, while those farthest away showed mostly little reaction.
(17) Le Guin won a national book award for The Farthest Shore in 1973, and on Wednesday reflected on the industry, which has undergone profound change in the more than four decades between these literary achievements.
(18) Similarly, the human gamma-globin gene is silenced earlier when present farthest from the LCR.
(19) This week, 40 years after the third Earthsea book, The Farthest Shore , won the National Book award in children’s literature, Le Guin has been awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, presented to her by Neil Gaiman in New York.
(20) With a mean of 6.9 mm, the apices of the mesial roots of the first molars were farthest from the canal.
Hyphen
Definition:
(n.) A mark or short dash, thus [-], placed at the end of a line which terminates with a syllable of a word, the remainder of which is carried to the next line; or between the parts of many a compound word; as in fine-leaved, clear-headed. It is also sometimes used to separate the syllables of words.
(v. t.) To connect with, or separate by, a hyphen, as two words or the parts of a word.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 3' end of the cell cycle regulated mRNA terminates immediately following the region of hyphenated dyad symmetry typical of most histone mRNAs, whereas the constitutively expressed mRNA has a 1798 nt non-translated trailer that contains the same region of hyphenated dyad symmetry but is polyadenylated.
(2) Termination of sar RNA synthesis occurs after transcription of the first and second Ts of a TTTA sequence following a region of hyphenated dyad symmetry.
(3) The H2B protein coding region of HHC289 is flanked at the 3' end by a 1798-nt nontranslated trailer that contains a region of hyphenated dyad symmetry and a poly(A) addition sequence, followed by a poly(A) tail.
(4) Her relations address letters to our children using an invented hyphenated surname.
(5) It was possible to classify the patients into three groups with focal, hyphenated and linear attachment, respectively.
(6) Between these extremes were cases in which hyphenations along a locus of linear attachment allowed additional communications between the ventricular compartments.
(7) Features of the sequence involved in recognition by the T7 RNA polymerase are discussed and include the following region of hyphenated 2-fold symmetry (boxed regions are related through a 2-fold axis of symmetry at the center of the sequence shown).
(8) Size, ejection and displacement indexes of the functional right ventricle measured from the angiograms suggested that the severity of the malformation increased from focal attachment through hyphenated to linear attachment.
(9) Its vague and fluid nature allowed space for a range of options, hyphens and elisions.
(10) There has been rather a lot of talk recently of hard work: the mythical individuals who are thus wired – from politicians to Hollywood stars , households of folks so hard-working they sometimes have to drop the hyphen for efficiency .
(11) This binding region of the beta-actin enhancer contained a hyphenated dyad symmetry and an enhancer core-like sequence.
(12) She is clearly not an activist of the old school.” One way to understand Watson’s very 21st-century celebrity activism is to see her as a multi-hyphenate entrepreneur in the vein of Beyoncé and Gwyneth Paltrow .
(13) The Sunday crossword puzzle had the following cue for 4 down: "Places for day-care" (spelled, with the purist's uncertainty, with a hyphen).
(14) Alterations of specific bases in a region of hyphenated dyad symmetry located in the leader established that base pairing in the 5' terminal region of the pyrC leader transcript is required for normal regulation of dihydroorotase synthesis.
(15) The ends of the region of homology between pIM13 and pE194 were associated with hyphenated dyad symmetries.
(16) Footprints containing hyphenated palindrome sequences, found in the promoter regions of both genes, suggest the possible involvement of other classes of transcription factor.
(17) In the sequence alignments, identity between residues is indicated by a hyphen (-).
(18) The gene contains sequences that strongly resemble those found in E. coli promoters, an E. coli type of ribosomal binding site, and a hyphenated dyad sequence at the 3' end of the gene which resembles the rho-independent terminators found in some E. coli genes.
(19) The 24 base pair hyphenated palindrome at the 3' end of the HKB gene may be a site for termination of transcription of this gene.
(20) But apparently, yes – while hyphenations of both surnames are becoming more common, it is still rare for a woman to pass on her surname when it is different from the father's.