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Funge


Definition:

  • (n.) A blockhead; a dolt; a fool.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful," Fung wrote on his blog.
  • (2) Ho-fung Hung, of Johns Hopkins University in the US, grew up in Hong Kong and follows its politics.
  • (3) 262, 10839-10847) reported that mAb 4A interacts with T alpha at the carboxyl-terminal peptide, whereas Fung and co-workers (Navon, S. E., and Fung, B. K.-k. (1988) J. Biol.
  • (4) Paul Oakenfold: In 1987, two friends of mine, Ian St Paul and Trevor Fung, were working out in Ibiza, so I decided to have my 24th birthday there and invite some other friends - Danny Rampling, Nicky Holloway and Johnny Walker.
  • (5) The move comes just ahead of a formal court battle which Isohunt, set up by Gary Fung of Canada, was certain to lose.
  • (6) 250, 246; Perutz, M.F., Sanders, J.K.M., Chenery, D.H., Noble, R.W., Penelly, R.R., Fung, L.W.-M., Ho, C., Giannini, I., Porschke, D. and Winkler, H. (1978) Biochemistry 17, 3640).
  • (7) But I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful," Fung wrote on his blog before the shutdown.
  • (8) (Y. K. Fung, A. L. Murphree, A. Tang, J. Qian, S. H. Hinrichs, and W. F. Benedict, Science 236:1657-1661, 1987) but did confirm the presence of a truncated transcript in the RB cell line Y79.
  • (9) Temperature-sensitive mutants of Salmonella typhimurium that are defective in the biosynthesis of 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonate are known to accumulate disaccharide precursor(s) of lipid A at 42 degrees C (Rick, P. D., Fung, L. W.-M., Ho, C., and Osborn, M. J.
  • (10) U.S.A. 87, 5873-5877; Yamane, H. K., Farnsworth, C. C., Xie, H., Howald, W., Fung, B. K-K., Clarke, S., Gelb, M. H., and Glomset, J.
  • (11) A US court had ruled against a defence offered by Fung in March, using the same finding that had led to the closure of the peer-to-peer music- and film-sharing system Grokster.
  • (12) There was a record-breaking amount of people casting their ballots this year,” the Electoral Affairs Commission chairman, Barnabus Fung, told reporters on Monday.
  • (13) On the first night of the holiday we bumped into Trevor Fung, a London DJ working out in Ibiza, who told us about Amnesia and this new drug called ecstasy.
  • (14) Zhang Dejiang, who heads the leading group on Hong Kong affairs, said that copying a foreign electoral system could "become a democracy trap … and possibly bring a disastrous result", Ma Fung-kwok, a delegate at Thursday's closed-door meeting, told Reuters .
  • (15) The alveolar septa capillaries in control rats were shown to form a network the parameters ow which rather correspond to the "sheet-blow" model (Fung and Sobin, 1969).
  • (16) The polynomial description of Evans and Fung and strain energy expressions introduced by Zarda et al.
  • (17) 262, 10839-10847) and the amino terminus (Navon, S.E., and Fung, B.K.-K. (1988) J. Biol.
  • (18) The mathematical aspects of the problem of the interpretation of the experimental data on the viscoelastic behaviour of materials by making use of the linear and quasi-linear relaxation model proposed by Fung, are considered.
  • (19) Previous high resolution proton NMR data on human erythrocyte spectrin molecules has indicated the existence of regions exhibiting rapid internal motions within the intact molecules [L. W.-M. Fung, H.-Z.
  • (20) 43, 1585] and the partial sequence deduced by Van Dop and co-workers from cDNA [Van Dop, C., Medynski, D., Sullivan, K., Wu, A. M., Fung, B. K.-K. & Bourne, H. R. (1984) Biochem.

Fungus


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of the Fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, -- the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls, and the allies of each.
  • (n.) A spongy, morbid growth or granulation in animal bodies, as the proud flesh of wounds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fate of the inhibited fungus is the subject of this report.
  • (2) Binding of fibronectin, an extracellular matrix (ECM) protein, to Candida albicans was measured, and adherence of the fungus to immobilized ECM proteins, fibronectin, laminin, types I and IV collagen, and subendothelial ECM was studied.
  • (3) Cycloheximide and chloramphenicol in combination have a greater effect on yeast cells of Histoplasma capsulatum than on the mycelial phase of this fungus.
  • (4) Two new isomeric delta-lactones 2 and 3 have been isolated from the marine fungus Helicascus kanaloanus (ATCC 18591).
  • (5) The manganese peroxidase (MnP), from the lignin-degrading fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium, an H2O2-dependent heme enzyme, oxidizes a variety of organic compounds but only in the presence of Mn(II).
  • (6) They induced modifications in particle distribution, a blebbing of particle-free areas and the appearance of lamellar figures on the plasma membrane of fungus cells.
  • (7) Polyribonucleotide segments, about 60 nucleotides long and consisting of about 95% adenylic acid residues, were isolated from whole cell ribonucleic acid of the deuteromyceteous fungus Trichoderma viride.
  • (8) There was no significant change in proportion among G (+), G (-) and fungus groups.
  • (9) The degree of binding differed according to the morphological form of the fungus.
  • (10) Ion-exchange chromatography showed that this fungus produced multiple molecular forms of LPO.
  • (11) Subsequent culture is desirable but not always possible.A simple scheme for identifying fungi and fungus-like organisms is presented based on general morphology, staining, and other special characteristics with notes on types of tissue reactions and common pitfalls.
  • (12) Nevertheless, the finding that MST and CFU studies were loosely correlated in a few strains of mice indicated that the proliferation of the fungus in the kidneys was not always the major cause of death.
  • (13) Torulopsis glabrata is a yeast-like fungus with increasing importance as an opportunistic human pathogen.
  • (14) The fungus was demonstrated in the lesions and was isolated from the diseased parts as well as from the air, floor and walls of the breeding cabin.
  • (15) Morphologic features of Malassezia(M.) furfur in the horny layer from clinical lesions of tinea versicolor were examined by scanning electron microscopy and compared with the appearance of fungus in the horny layer from normal skin and in culture.
  • (16) medicaginis and eliminated the inhibitory effect showed by this fungus on strain A2 of R. meliloti.
  • (17) The authors observed maximum simultaneous biosynthesis of antibiotic and pigment in the microphilic fungus with using 48-hour seed mycelium having the specific growth rate of 0.008-0.011 h-1 in an amount of 5-7 per cent (v).
  • (18) Once the fungus enters the hair cortex just above the hair bulb, it produces myriads of spores that remain trapped and hidden beneath the cuticle for the length of the intact hair.
  • (19) DNA isolated from the wild-type aflatoxin-producing (Afl+) fungus Aspergillus parasiticus NRRL 5862 was used to construct a cosmid genomic DNA library employing the homologous gene (pyrG) encoding orotidine monophosphate decarboxylase for selection of fungal transformants.
  • (20) The fungus was not recovered from the brains of normal mice.

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