(v. t.) To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast.
(n.) A thin, single-cut file for combmakers.
(v. i.) To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly.
(v. i.) To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
(2) None of the strains was found to be positive for cytotoxic enterotoxin in the GM1-ELISA.
(3) The Wales international and Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald both admitted having sex with the victim, – McDonald was found not guilty of the same charge.
(4) It was found that the skeletal muscle enzyme of the chick embryo is independent of the presence of creatine and consequently is another constitutive enzyme like the creatine kinase of the early embryonic chick heart.
(5) By electrophoresis and scanning densitometry, actin was found to constitute about 4% to 6% of the total cellular protein in the human corneal epithelium.
(6) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(7) In 49 cases undergoing systemic lymphadenectomy 32 were found to have glandular involvement, of which both aortic and pelvic nodes were positive in 17 cases (53.1%), aortic nodes positive but pelvic negative in six (18.8%), and pelvic nodes positive but aortic negative in nine (28.1%).
(8) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(9) During control, no significant difference between systolic fluctuation (delta Pa) and pleural swings (delta Ppl) was found.
(10) These organic compounds were found to be stable on the sorbent tubes for at least seven days.
(11) We have determined the genomic structure of the fosB gene and shown that it consists of 4 exons and 3 introns at positions also found in the c-fos gene.
(12) Maximum increases in portal plasma secretin concentrations of 143, 146 and 190% and maximum increases in VIP of 116, 155 and 147% after, respectively, intraduodenal 0.1 M NaHCO3, 0.1 M Na2CO3, and 0.025 M NaOH were found.
(13) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(14) We similarly evaluated the ability of other phospholipids to form stable foam at various concentrations and ethanol volume fractions and found: bovine brain sphingomyelin greater than dipalmitoyl 3-sn-phosphatidylcholine greater than egg sphingomyelin greater than egg lecithin greater than phosphatidylglycerol.
(15) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
(16) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
(17) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
(18) We have investigated the increase in the spcDNA population upon cycloheximide treatment of individual sequences, which are found to amplify differentially.
(19) No consistent relationship could be found between the time interval from SAH to operation and the severity of vasospasm.
(20) It was also found that lipocortin I and ONO-RS-082, but not neomycin, facilitated the generation of GIF-producing T cells.
Fount
Definition:
(n.) A font.
(n.) A fountain.
Example Sentences:
(1) I want us to do more research and be known as the fount of knowledge about dealing with victims of torture.
(2) In contrast, the levels of FeLV viral RNA and p30 are fount to be low or undetectable in the majority of these tumored and normal tissues examined.
(3) Air velocity was not fount to be a limiting factor since the conidia remained attached after conidiophores had been violently shaken by air currents in an observation chamber.
(4) Charles I, the fount of all the troubles of the 17th century, had an elder sister, Elizabeth, the Winter Queen of Bohemia and heroine of Protestant Europe.
(5) However, later in life, as Chinese identity and Confucian attitudes emphasising education, discipline and hierarchy became more important, he would be criticised for presenting himself as a fount of wisdom, a convincing articulator of modern Asia to western audiences, while actually behaving with all the intolerance of a Chinese emperor.
(6) Inevitably, too, Bowie – pop cultural magician, androgyne, fount of subversive creativity, master of flamboyance and understatement – would be its muse.
(7) The results indicate the existence of founts of histoplasmosis infection in Somalia, particularly in humid areas bordering the rivers rather than in the surrounding arid semi-desert area characteristic of most of the country.
(8) It was fount that 0.2% tannic acid caused brownish discolorations within 10-12 days both in vitro and in vivo.
(9) The base and tip binding was fount to be associated with special surface modifications of the membrane in these regions.
(10) Cages were equipped with mature bird trigger-cups (TC), fount-cups (FC), vertically activated nipple drinkers (VAND), or cone-shaped cups (CC).
(11) It is the fount of citizenship and focus of military loyalty.
(12) When purified peritoneal exudate lymphocytes from these animals were cultured in vitro in the presence of various concentrations of Listeria antigen, it was fount that the optimal antigenic dose for specific antigen-induced incorporation of [3H]thymidine varied for individual animals.
(13) In which context I was struck recently by a remark made to me by an old Treasury friend, now retired, whom I had always regarded as the fount of orthodoxy and the “Treasury View” (that is, an ultra-cautious approach to spending and borrowing, and the introduction of restrictive measures at the slightest opportunity).
(14) The sera from six mice were fount to have significantly elevated serum calcium concentrations while sera from two were normocalcemic.
(15) The molecular weights of the reductases of B. cereus and B. megaterium were fount to be 155,000 and 150,000, respectively.
(16) He was an endless fount of poetry quotes and kept a dictionary that he had won in a competition by his chair.