(v. t.) To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack.
(v. t.) To strengthen and secure by forts or batteries, or by surrounding with a wall or ditch or other military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces.
(v. i.) To raise defensive works.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since iron from fortified formulas is well absorbed during the first three months of life, even if it is not immediately used for hemoglobin formation, an inccrease in the iron stores will occur...
(2) But she noticed Mohamed getting smaller and sicker, until she eventually brought him to the centre, where the nuns give him F-75 – an enriched formula adapted for malnourished children, fortified porridge, plumpy nut, and soup with meat and fish.
(3) These results indicate that healthy VLBW infants maintain adequate growth and macronutrient balance for the first 2 months postnatally when fed mothers' milk fortified with additional skim and cream components.
(4) Thirty infants in the breast-milk group and 29 in the fortified group completed the study.
(5) The crops were fortified with each fungicide at 3 levels per crop.
(6) Feeding a zinc-fortified formula on the other hand had no influence on copper nutritional status.
(7) Lowest content of ascorbic acid occurred in bruised beans cooked in copper-fortified water.
(8) In NADPH-fortified reconstituted systems containing P-450b, DHS yielded a stable type III spectral complex with peaks at 428 and 458 nm; a complex with a single 456 nm peak was formed in systems containing cytochrome P-450c.
(9) Danes spent a day with an officer at Langley, the CIA's headquarters in Virginia, and that seems to have fortified her patriotism, too.
(10) When the same nuclei were incubated in the same medium fortified with dialyzed cytosol, spermidine and yeast RNA (medium II), release of labeled 60-S and 40-S particles was observed.
(11) The Americans went first, a great convoy of armoured Jeeps snaking out from their fortified embassy under air cover.
(12) Recoveries averaged 86.8% for unexposed fish fortified with 2-12 ppm of chlorpyrifos.
(13) Bacterial corneal ulcer is a potentially blinding emergency which should ideally be treated by an ophthalmologist aided by slit lamp biomicroscopy, microbial stain and cultures, and then selected fortified topical antibiotics.
(14) Mutagenic activity in the creatine-fortified product was enhanced 15-fold.
(15) For blind fortified samples containing 800 ppb FBZ, average recovery and relative standard deviations for repeatability and reproducibility (RSDr and RSDR) based on results from 6 of the participating laboratories were 83%, 12.7%, and 14.0%, respectively.
(16) Despite Ca and P concentrations 50% to 100% higher in the fortified human milk than is usual in unfortified human milk, group FMM's Ca and P intakes remained significantly below those fed formula (P less than 0.001).
(17) The fortified children presented higher mean ferritin values at the end of the first and second school periods.
(18) The protein efficiency ratio (PER) for the fortified cereal alone was 1.4; however, when given as a mixed diet of cereal and humanized milk (providing 41 and 59 per cent of the protein, respectively) PER was 2.6 (casein standard = 2.5).
(19) Their drinking water was deionized, fortified with 5 essential trace metals, and either 0, 1, 10, or 100 ppm barium was added.
(20) With the aid of satelliting, most of the strains were adapted to grow on a human Mycoplasma growth agar consisting of brain-heart infusion agar fortified with 20% human blood, yeast extract, and arginine.
Munite
Definition:
(v. t.) To fortify; to strengthen.
Example Sentences:
(1) Russian forces also used cluster munitions which are particularly dangerous to civilians, the report says, citing video reports from Russian airbases where the bombs were clearly visible.
(2) Nor is the shipping of chemical munitions or agents outside state borders.
(3) Metabolites of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) were found in the urine of a group of TNT munition workers.
(4) There has also been concern that the Saudis were not straightforward with the UK government over the use of British-supplied cluster munitions.
(5) The town I grew up in was built around the manufacture of munitions during the second world war.
(6) Human Rights Watch reported that four cluster bombs exploded in the city on Thursday and Friday, and two Libyan residents of Misrata told the Guardian that they suspected the munitions were being used.
(7) "It is the first confirmed video showing casualties that we have seen of what has been an increasingly clear use of these munitions," said Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director of Human Rights Watch.
(8) The UK and Saudi Arabia claimed they not have broken the law after the Saudi government, under pressure from the Guardian, finally confirmed that it has used British-supplied cluster munitions in Yemen .
(9) The report also alleged other international humanitarian law violations during the conflict, including Palestinian militant groups’ storing munitions in civilian buildings and United Nations schools, and launching attacks near locations where hundreds of displaced civilians were taking shelter.
(10) Speaking during Foreign Office questions in the Commons, Hammond said: “The UK has long since given up the use of cluster munitions.
(11) The munition produces a huge cloud of fuel that is ignited to produce a blast and suck huge amounts of oxygen out of the air.
(12) And the US provided Colombia with GPS equipment that can be used to transform regular munitions into "smart bombs" that can accurately home in on specific targets, even if they are located in dense jungles.
(13) Some of the doctors say that it might be phosphorus or poison gas of some kind, but the investigation is ongoing, we don’t know for sure.” It is possible that Isis fighters could mistake some chemical munitions for ordinary weapons and use them without being aware of what they are handling.
(14) We have gathered evidence that the cause of this mortality is the highly toxic, incendiary munition white phosphorus (P4).
(15) And yet cluster munition producers are still able to fund their activities.
(16) The report calls for all 151 financial institutions in the “hall of shame” to develop policies that exclude all financial links with companies involved in the production of cluster munitions.
(17) In the same conditions, the specific activity and Km values in metacyclic forms was 75 mUnits x mg-1 of protein and 1.06 mM, respectively.
(18) Saudi Arabia is the UK’s biggest weapons client: since the start of its campaign with other Middle Eastern nations in Yemen in March 2015, the government has granted licences for £3.3bn of munitions, aircraft and other military equipment for the campaign that has been largely waged from the air.
(19) Paris attacks: France responds with airstrikes against Isis in Syria – live Read more The operation, carried out in coordination with US forces, struck a command centre, recruitment centre for jihadists, a munitions depot, and a training camp for fighters.
(20) Those countries party to the international cluster munitions convention are required to discourage other countries from using them.