(n.) A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.
(v. t.) To deceive with a falsehood.
Example Sentences:
(1) FLAM-76 cells were positive for cytoplasmic kappa (kapp)-type immunoglobulin but did not secrete it into the culture medium.
(2) The flanking sequence contains an open reading frame that probably corresponds to the 5' end of flaM.
(3) The Na and K ionic flows were measured by flam-photometric dosimetry allowing a 10(-5) Kg.
(4) These directed the synthesis of polypeptides with the following apparent molecular weights: flaV, 11,000; flaK, 42,000; flaL, 30,000 and 27,000; flaM, 38,000; flS, 60,000; and flaT, 35,000.
(5) (ii) hag gene expression was positively regulated by flaA, FLAB, flaC, flaD, flaE, flaG, flaH, flaI, flaK, flaL, flaM, flaN, flaO, flaP, flaQ, flaR, flaV, flaW, flaX, flaY, flaZ, flbA, and flbB genes.hag-lac expression was not observed in strains with these fla mutations.
(6) No structures homologous to flagellar bases or their parts were detected in the early-fla group nonflagellate mutants of flaAI, flaAII, flaAIII, flaB, flaC, flaD, flaE, flaFII, flaFIII, flaFVI, flaFVII, flaFX, flaK, and flaM.
(7) The identification of a free left Alu monomer (FLAM) family plus a free right Alu monomer (FRAM) family suggests that the dimeric structure results from the fusion of a FLAM sequence with a FRAM sequence (2).
(8) A friend from university also said Cameron smoked cannabis with him occasionally while listening to Supertramp as part of a group called the Flam Club.
(9) In particular, the following mutants were shown to have beta-galactosidase activity in the membrane fractions: on the inner membrane, mutants with flaB fusions, and on the inner and outer membranes, mutants with flaA4850, flaM, and flaU4849 fusions.
(10) The opposition leader, Tony Abbott , dismissed Beattie as "another flim flam man" who would just add to the leadership instability.
(11) FLAM-76 cells expressed CD38 (OKT10) and cell adhesion-associated antigens such as CD44 and CD54 (ICAM-1).
(12) "I don't know if they were deliberately hidden or just lost in the civil service flam – but because of this vast flow of material you would suddenly find a reference, for example, to 'we are going to lift the cap on the number of private beds in NHS hospitals' very deep in the impact memorandum."
(13) By using these mutant strains, the transcriptional order was shown to be flaV-flaK-flaL-flaM-flaS-flaT.
(14) Thus, the growth of FLAM-76 appeared to be regulated by the paracrine mechanism of IL-6.
(15) Among flagellar mutants of Escherichia coli, flaM or flaU mutants form basal bodies lacking the outer P and L rings, whereas flaY mutants predominantly form basal bodies lacking the L ring.
(16) Gene-polypeptide correlations from other studies enabled us to complete gene-polypeptide-structure correspondences for these two proteins as flaM----39-kilodalton protein----P ring and flaY----26-kilodalton protein----L ring.
(17) As for Buerk, he later dismissed the coverage as "silly season flam".
(18) The first phase, which involves only monomeric elements, is characterized by deep remodelling of the progenitor sequences and ends with the appearance of the first Alu dimeric element through the fusion of a FLAM and a FRAM element.
(19) From these experiments, we propose that the gene order in region II is flaK-flaE-motA-motB-cheA-cheW-cheR-cheB-++ +cheY-flaM-flaC, which is identical with that in E. coli.
(20) Chromosome analysis revealed FLAM-76 to have a hypodiploid chromosome constitution with t(11;14)(q13;q32) abnormality, which frequently is seen in neoplasms of B-cell origin.
Flan
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Guar gum was incorporated into 10 g carbohydrate portions of cheese biscuits and 20 g carbohydrate portions of pizza and egg and bacon flan.
(2) We speculate that the flbG and flaN promoters and the ftr element interact in some way to mediate the negative control of these divergent transcription units.
(3) The flbG (hook operon), flaN, and flagellin gene operons, which are at the lowest levels of the hierarchy and expressed late in the cell cycle, contain Ntr-like promoters.
(4) As shown here, this cluster is organized into four multicistronic transcription units flaN, flbG, flaO, and flbF that contain fla genes plus a fifth transcription unit II.1 of unknown function.
(5) Press the dough evenly into the base and sides of two loose-bottomed flan tins or ovenproof dishes (this amount makes enough for one 25cm diameter tin and one 20cm diameter tin).
(6) 2 Once chilled, roll the pastry out on a piece of baking parchment so that it is large enough to line the base and sides of a 20cm-diameter cake or flan tin (I used a round loose-bottomed cake tin).
(7) Three flagellar genes of Salmonella typhimurium (flaAII.2, flaQ, and flaN) were found to be multifunctional, each being associated with four distinct mutant phenotypes: nonflagellate (Fla-), paralyzed (Mot-), nonchemotactic (Che-) with clockwise motor bias, and nonchemotactic (Che-) with counterclockwise motor bias.
(8) The flaN, flbG, and flaO operons are all transcribed periodically, and flaO, which is near the top of the hierarchy and required in trans for the activation of flaN and flbG operons, is expressed earlier in the cell cycle than the other two transcription units.
(9) The deletions were then used in an analysis of (i) the relative position on the genome of previously described mutant loci in the flagellar genes, (ii) the relative position of a newly defined cistron, flaN, and (iii) the orientation and direction of transcription of genes previously assigned to multicistronic transcriptional units.
(10) By contrast, most of these flbG promoter mutations resulted in greatly elevated levels of transcription from the opposing flaN operon.
(11) Mice were inoculated with St. Louis encephalitis (SLE), Flanders (FLAN), California (CE), or Tensaw (TEN) viruses.
(12) (ii) hag gene expression was positively regulated by flaA, FLAB, flaC, flaD, flaE, flaG, flaH, flaI, flaK, flaL, flaM, flaN, flaO, flaP, flaQ, flaR, flaV, flaW, flaX, flaY, flaZ, flbA, and flbB genes.hag-lac expression was not observed in strains with these fla mutations.
(13) Infective virus appeared 64, 48, 48, and 40 hr before signs of illness and 90, 86, 64, and 56 hr before death in mice inoculated with SLE, FLAN, CE, and TEN viruses, respectively.
(14) Deletion of all or part of the ftr element or point mutations in the sequence drastically reduced the level of flbG transcript and resulted in increased levels of the flaN transcript.
(15) Similar experiments were used to confirm the location of the flaN promoter to a -12, -24 Nif and Ntr sequence motif.
(16) The flaAII.2, flaQ, and flaN genes of Salmonella typhimurium are important for assembly, rotation, and counterclockwise-clockwise switching of the flagellar motor.
(17) There's a bowling green, giant games of chess and dominoes, plus a tea room dishing up summery flans, chutneys, jam and cakes made from ingredients grown in the kitchen garden.
(18) Cath cooked a lovely risotto, which was followed by a goat's cheese flan and a salad made by Jo.
(19) We eat steak and lamb with ratatouille, finished off with dolce de leche flan, chosen from a hand-written menu and washed down with large gobletfuls of Uruguayan merlot.
(20) The flbG (hook operon or transcription unit II) and flaN (transcription unit I) operons of Caulobacter crescentus have a -12, -24 nucleotide sequence motif that is very similar to those of the Nif and Ntr promoters of enteric bacteria and Rhizobium spp.