(v. t.) A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nucleotide sequence of a 2.2-kb DNA fragment which contains the complete RAD7 gene was determined.
(2) In the second approach, attachment sites of DTPA groups were directed away from the active region of the molecule by having fragment E1,2 bound in complex, with its active sites protected during the derivatization.
(3) The Fc fragment of this protein reacted with and was solubilized by the staphylococcal A protein which also precipitated the intact immunoglobulin.
(4) In order to determine the extent of this similarity, I have developed a panel of probes for many of the Pacl restriction fragments and have shown that most of the Pacl and Notl fragments found in MBa are also present in MBb.
(5) Under milder trypsin digestion conditions three resistant fragments were produced from the free protein.
(6) Five of them had a fast-moving Eco RI fragment 5.6 kb long that hybridized with zeta-specific probe but not with alpha-specific probe.
(7) Comparative data for the fragments from RNAs 1, 2, and 3 show that they have nearly the same sequence as the RNA 4 fragment.
(8) A sperm whale myoglobin gene containing multiple unique restriction sites has been constructed in pUC 18 by sequential assembly of chemically synthesized oligonucleotide fragments.
(9) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
(10) Northern hybridization analysis of R. toruloides RNA with a restriction fragment encoding part of the PAL gene indicates that PAL mRNA is 2.5 kilobases in length.
(11) The method of sonicating L3 and Mf fragment antigens used in this study is simple, and its results are easy to observe.
(12) Benzyloxycarbonylarginine p-nitrophenyl ester and other activated esters of N-a-sustituted arginine salts may be useful reagents for introduction of trypsin-labile protecting groups into peptide fragments for purpose of polypeptide semi-synthesis.
(13) The 6.6-kb DNA Bam HI fragment containing the resistance gene was cloned with the plasmid vector pIJ699.
(14) It was found that these Hageman factor fragments promoted rapid proteolysis of one-chain factor VII to a more active two-chain form.
(15) Restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) were studied in a large Algerian family which includes 6 haemophiliacs and a previously described case of female haemophilia A.
(16) A 2.7-kilobase DNA fragment carrying the entire exotoxin A (ETA) structural gene was divided into three nonoverlapping probes.
(17) A 6.4 kilobase C4B-5'-specific Taq I fragment usually provided a reliable guide to the presence of a C4A deletion but unusually in one instance this fragment was found to be a marker of a functioning C4A gene.
(18) The method involves the use of a monoclonal antibody fragment mixture that binds to platelets.
(19) Three distinct antigenic regions of bovine somatotropin (bST) were identified on the basis of the ability of a set of monoclonal antibodies to bind to proteolytic fragments and deletion variants of recombinant bST (rbST) in Western blot analyses.
(20) The coding sequence for Spirulina platensis acetohydroxy acid synthase (AHAS, EC 4.1.3.18) is shown to be contained within a 4.2 Kb ClaI fragment (ilvX) that has been cloned from a recombinant lambda library.
Smithereens
Definition:
(n. pl.) Fragments; atoms; smithers.
Example Sentences:
(1) But let's face it, in life, fairytale endings are the exception, not the rule, and so none of us were really surprised when the Cardinals came along and smashed Pirate dreams into smithereens.
(2) It has all the metaphors of smoothness.” Sporting a glittering LV logo at the front door, it could also be a gigantic Louis Vuitton perfume bottle, smashed to smithereens.
(3) The best thing for Europe would be if the euro were smashed to smithereens, allowing countries to devalue and impose capital controls.
(4) "He was standing there putting water in and if things had gone wrong with the water – it had never been tried before on a reactor fire – if it had exploded, Cumberland would have been finished, blown to smithereens.
(5) The Public Roads Authority in Oslo, which has a comprehensive network of cameras, was not alerted either: despite the fact that the government quarter, Norway’s most important seat of power, had been blown to smithereens by a bomb, the terror-response plan was not implemented.
(6) Often it has paperwork claiming it will be refurbished and re-used, but nobody has the resources to police the system, so in practice much of it ends up in primitive workshops in India and west Africa and China, where it is stripped out, boiled up, dunked in acid or smashed to smithereens by unskilled, low-paid and frequently child labour.
(7) Obama responded by pointing to the example from the Blitz: "I was struck by an article that I was reading the other day talking about the fact that the British, during world war two, when London was being bombed to smithereens, had 200 or so detainees.
(8) The record hasn't just been broken, it's been smashed to smithereens, adding weight to predictions that the Arctic may be ice-free in summer months within 20 years , say British, Italian and American-based scientists on board the Arctic Sunrise.
(9) When the court rejected the appeal, commenting "the longer this hearing has gone on, the more convinced this court has become that the verdict of the jury was correct", the men's expectations of immediate release were in smithereens, but so too was the reputation of British justice.
(10) European values have been blown to smithereens, as evident in the curbing of the right to asylum.
(11) He said: "It is rather strange that they said nothing when MPs were embezzling millions of pounds on furnishing their homes whilst our boys were being blown to smithereens because of a lack of funding for equipment."
(12) Of course, unless there are four people in this marriage – a domestic arrangement that not even the most liberal Cameroon would sanction – then that relegates those of us in the rest of the UK to junior partners, hapless children cowering upstairs as the crockery of state is smashed to smithereens.
(13) Cliffhangers 1980s: Dallas was famous for its cliffhangers, the most notorious being that time Pam Ewing woke up and discovered an entire series – a series that included a double bomb plot to blow JR to smithereens – had all been her dream.
(14) High on anticipation, the crowd responded with a thundering cheer which may have no precedent in rural Northamptonshire and the stands emptied as racegoers ran to the winner's enclosure to welcome back a jump jockey who has left the sport's previous records in smithereens.
(15) And you will … the All Blacks captain Richie McCaw is driven back by an Argentinian, England’s Toby Flood is flattened by the French defence and the Ireland prop Cian Healy appears on both ends of the equation, smithereening an Australian before being smithereened by a New Zealander.
(16) The blast blew al-Asiri to smithereens, while fortunately failing seriously to injure the prince.
(17) Lara Croft has never been without design problems (or presumably back pain), but to adjust her appearance while smashing her characterisation into smithereens would rather miss the point of all the criticism.