(n.) A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.
(n.) Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.
(n.) The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.
(n.) The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
(2) The fate of the inhibited fungus is the subject of this report.
(3) The Notch locus in Drosophila encodes a transmembrane protein required for the determination of cell fate in ectodermal cells.
(4) It is the second fate that is overtaking the government's higher education reforms.
(5) The urban wasteland ecosystem contained in outdoor lysimeters employed as a model gives valuable information and has considerable value in predicting the ecological fate of industrial chemicals.
(6) In this article we present a synthesis of recent information concerning the fate of lactate in skeletal muscle.
(7) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(8) The report's authors warns that to limit their spending councils will have "an incentive to discourage low-income families from living in the area" and that raises the possibility that councils will – like the ill-fated poll tax of the early 1990s – be left to chase desperately poor people through the courts for small amounts of unpaid tax.
(9) The fate of the same viruses was investigated also in non-stimulated separated lymphocytes for comparative purposes.
(10) He had been moved from a civilian prison to the country's intelligence HQ, leading Mansfield to question whether there was a disagreement among Syrian authorities about the fate of Khan.
(11) This finding is in apparent contrast to the fate of the endogenous Fc receptors expressed on mouse macrophages.
(12) It is also clear that apoptosis, which represents an alternative tissue injury-limiting fate to necrosis in situ, may be important in limiting tissue injury and determining whether inflammation persists or resolves.
(13) It's not a great stretch to see parallels between the movie's set-up and the film industry in 2012: disposable teens are manipulated into behaving in certain ways, before being degraded and dispatched, all the while being remotely observed by middle-aged men, gambling on their fates.
(14) The chapters deal with general preliminaries and indications for surgery, the selection of bypass material, surgical instruments for coronary opertaions, the methods of extracorporeal circulation, the distal coronary anastomosis, the proximal aortal anastomosis, intraoperative monitoring of results, intra- and postoperative myocardinal infarction, the fate of venous bypass grafts, operative treatment of the ruptured ventricular septum and papillary muscle, and ventricular aneurysmectomy.
(15) The comforts of home will determine Liverpool's fate in 2014, according to Brendan Rodgers, and they made a convincing start against Hull City.
(16) Back to my favourite Tunisian poet: “If, one day, a people desire to live, then fate will answer their call.
(17) When the EGF receptor on cultured 3T3 cells is affinity labeled with high specific activity 125I-EGF, and the fate of the affinity labeled EGF-receptor complex determined, the loss in binding activity was accounted for by receptor internalization and subsequent proteolytic processing of the EGF receptor molecules in the lysosomes.
(18) The fate of cholesteryl esters in high density lipoprotein (HDL) was studied to determine whether the transfer of esterified cholesterol from HDL to other plasma lipoproteins occurred to a significant extent in man.
(19) If Thatcher's government is in part to blame, then Bill Clinton's is even more so; driven by a desire to let every American own their own home, it was Clinton's decision to create the ill-fated sub-prime mortgage system .
(20) Su(H) is also involved in controlling the fates of sensillum accessory cells and is specifically expressed in two of these cells.
Yate
Definition:
(n.) A gate. See 1st Gate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two lunches are recoded with John Yates and Andy Hayman, the former assistant commissioners.
(2) X2 test, with Yates correction if need, was used as statistical.
(3) John Yates, a Metropolitan police assistant commissioner, was criticised by the Conservative chairman of the Commons culture and media select committee, John Whittingdale, for failing to disclose information to MPs, but the Yard continues to refuse to say how many victims it has warned, and how many members of the royal household, military, police and government have been warned of evidence that Mulcaire intercepted their voicemail.
(4) This difference is highly significant (kappa 2 with Yates' correction = 11.7, P < 0.001).
(5) Yates and the BBC also cautioned that the project remains in the early stages of development, with no script or cast, and will not reach cinemas for several years.
(6) Watson suggested that Yates had been wrong to claim there had been only a small number of victims at a time when he knew this material had still not been analysed.Yates acknowledged that police had failed to contact all potential victims.
(7) Experts in the law on interception dismissed as "nonsense" the claim by Yates that the hacking into voicemails could not be investigated if the victim had already listened to messages.
(8) Statements by John Yates John Yates told fellow senior officers that budget cuts would weaken the ability to resist attack from al-Qaida-inspired terrorists.
(9) In the House of Commons last week, Chris Bryant MP said that Yates had misled the committees by claiming that it is illegal to hack voicemail messages only if they have not already been heard by the intended recipient.
(10) Despite recommendations to the contrary, medical researchers still routinely use the Yates-corrected chi-square statistic in analyses of 2 x 2 contingency tables.
(11) In a statement, Scotland Yard said: "Assistant commissioner John Yates has this afternoon indicated his intention to resign to the chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA).
(12) A cis-acting DNA sequence previously described within the BamHI-C fragment of the EBV genome (J. Yates, N. Warren, D. Reisman, and B. Sugden, Proc.
(13) After an itinerant childhood, overshadowed by abandonment and infidelity, Yates claimed to have experimented with sex and heroin at an early age.
(14) It also emerged today that the Home Office questioned the decision by Scotland Yard's assistant commissioner, John Yates, not to reopen the Met's phone-tapping investigation.
(15) John Yates Assistant commissioner specialist operations, Metropolitan Police Service
(16) In a letter to John Whittingdale, chairman of the culture, media and sport select committee, Yates – who was responsible for dealing with the hacking affair for nearly 20 months – gave no explanation for the failure to inform more than 36 potential victims.
(17) A spokeswoman for Vaz said he had received a reply from Yates and the committee is likely to make it public in due course.
(18) Of the remaining nine glands, only five were localized accurately (P less than 0.01, chi 2 test including Yates' correction).
(19) Stephen Yates, an adviser to the former vice-president Dick Cheney, told reporters the telephone call was “an important step in the direction that many of us have long advocated” but cautioned against over-interpreting the contact.
(20) But fans of the current Doctor, Matt Smith, could be disappointed, as Yates said that the film would be "quite a radical transformation" from the latest BBC1 series which ended in October.