(a.) A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe.
(a.) A minor subdivision of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem.
Example Sentences:
(1) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
(2) Reading these latest statistics, it’s crucial that our generation – millennials, Gen Y, whatever we want to call ourselves – abandons this preposterous narrative.
(3) The results showed that the drug "Shan-Dou-Gen" used in different regions in China at present are the roots or rhizomes derived from 9 species: Sophora tonkinensis Gagnep.
(4) A lectin, Helix pomatia agglutinin (HPA), was planted at the surface of rat GEN by the perfusion of the isolated left kidney with neuraminidase (NRD) and HPA.
(5) A new genus of actinomycetes, Excellospora Agre a. Guzeva gen. nov., is suggested on the basis of this study.
(6) Gen Pinochet was also under indictment in three cases stemming from the 3,000 people killed and thousands tortured during his regime, when he was feted by Washington as a bulwark against communism.
(7) Lt Gen Khan told the Washington Post that the documents were "a fabrication".
(8) The Gen-Probe assay utilizing both low (greater than or equal to 4.0) and high (greater than 7.0) ratio threshold values was compared to direct fluorescent antibody staining (DFA) as a predictor of isolation of Legionella on culture.
(9) Rauschia gen. nov. (type species: R. triangularis) is created for species previously pertaining to Nematodirus parasite of Lagomorpha, and in which the synlophe, very complex, differs from the synlophe of the parasite of Ruminants.
(10) The gen 24 protein contained one normal-sized kappa-type light chain (21 KD) and one unusually short delta-heavy chain (30 KD).
(11) The serum was also tested with extracts from unlabeled and surface 125I-labeled keratinocytes (Iodo-Gen method) by immunoblot analysis of one- and two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(12) Rhinonastes n. gen. is proposed for species possessing a dextroventral genital pore, a bilobed testis, a ventral C-shaped ovary lying between the 2 testicular lobes, and a disc-shaped haptor armed with a ventral anchor-bar complex and 14 hooks.
(13) And they kept coming … the hilarious Octodad: Dadliest Catch , the chilling psychological horror game Daylight , which again, uses procedural generation to create new environments (procedural content is another next-gen theme); and Galak-Z from 17bit Studios, described as an AI and physics-driven open-world action game.
(14) The deduced amino acid sequence was very similar to that of another thermostable neutral protease gene, nprM (M. Kubo and T. Imanaka, J. Gen. Microbiol.
(15) These results suggest that DNP-BP-induced interferon-gamma production modulates Ig isotype expression in vivo in an anti-gen-specific manner.
(16) We have previously proposed (Hartzell, H. C., 1984, J. Gen.
(17) Accepting the importance of such co-factors acting on the viral gens that regulate the HIV expression in the host cell, it was speculated on the possible role of vaccines, such as the hepatitis B vaccine, and some antiviral drugs which could be useful in the indirect prevention of AIDS-disease in both HIV-carriers and those practising AIDS-high-risk-activities.
(18) In the group of persons vaccinated with Gen-H-B-Vax, 62 completed the full cycle of vaccination, and protective titer of anti-HBs amounted to 90.3% of vaccinated.
(19) Chemotaxis toward amino acids by Bdellovibrio bacteriovorous strain UKi2 was studied by the capillary technique of Adler (J. Gen. Microbiol.
(20) Pending Petraeus's confirmation by Congress, the British deputy commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan, Lt Gen Nick Parker, will assume command.
Roman
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Rome, or the Roman people; like or characteristic of Rome, the Roman people, or things done by Romans; as, Roman fortitude; a Roman aqueduct; Roman art.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic religion; professing that religion.
(a.) Upright; erect; -- said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from Italic characters.
(a.) Expressed in letters, not in figures, as I., IV., i., iv., etc.; -- said of numerals, as distinguished from the Arabic numerals, 1, 4, etc.
(n.) A native, or permanent resident, of Rome; a citizen of Rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a Roman citizen were conferred.
(n.) Roman type, letters, or print, collectively; -- in distinction from Italics.
Example Sentences:
(1) The club then brought in Darren Randolph, Dean Brill, Scott Flinders, Roman Larrieu, and Simon Royce on loan at various times."
(2) It has been a place of pilgrimage for many centuries and a tourist attraction probably since Roman times.
(3) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
(4) So the worst start to a campaign in the Roman Abramovich era has condemned Chelsea to the top of the Premier League table.
(5) Most of what we know about it comes from the accounts given by the Roman writers Polybius (c200-118BC) and Livy (59BC-AD17).
(6) These include 250 pieces of Greek and Roman pottery and sculpture, and 1,500 Greek and Ottoman gold, silver and bronze coins.
(7) They too will almost certainly play a 4-2-3-1, with Messrs Piszczek, Subotic, Hummels and Schmeizer lining up from right to left in front of goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller.
(8) A treasure trove of more than £1.7bn-worth of old masters paintings, Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities, ancient weapons and prehistoric archaeological items were allowed to be sold overseas in the year to May 2013, according to official statistics issued by the government .
(9) JV If you go back to a western point of view from the time, even the Romans, the slaves worked then in a feudal society.
(10) About 4,000 government-issued shovels were handed out in several main piazzas to Romans trying to clear their streets before a freeze forecast for Sunday evening.
(11) Meanwhile, Chelsea fans' disgruntlement grows: "I know Rafa said no more transfers in January but we still need a midfielder and I don't think Roman or Emenalo share their thoughts with Rafa," blubs Mihir Khatwani.
(12) Sophie Jackson, of Museum of London Archaeology , said: "The waterlogged conditions left by the Walbrook stream have given us layer upon layer of Roman timber buildings, fences and yards, all beautifully preserved and containing amazing personal items, clothes and even documents – all of which will transform our understanding of the people of Roman London."
(13) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
(14) He has chosen to live in a modest Vatican hotel room instead of the grandeur of the apostolic palace; and he has dropped some of the papal pomp, while preaching the Roman Catholic church's need to identify with the world's poor.
(15) We aren't surprised that the Romans had nothing to say about, say, the nearby Avebury stone circle, because it's far less manifest than Stonehenge – and by extension, the oblivion of time that blankets scores of British Neolithic and bronze age sites is in keeping with our current ignorance: to this day, so few people visit them that their enigmatic character is itself underimagined.
(16) In spite of his place at the top of the Vatican hierarchy and his academic pedigree, he has urged the church to do more to appeal to the modern world, arguing it needs to build on the second Vatican Council of the 1960s, which proved a landmark moment in Roman Catholic history.
(17) Analysis of the genetic distance between Romanians and other Europeans who have been studied serologically are consistent with the hypothesis that Romanians descend from Roman ancestors who colonized Dacia between the 1st century B.C.
(18) "The relationship between a bishop and a priest of a Roman Catholic diocese has many of the hallmarks of an employment relationship, and therefore it is right and proper that the church should be held legally accountable for abuse by its priests.
(19) "I am a Roman Catholic and it's the backbone of my life.
(20) The plasma membrane components of five human B-cell lines and three human T-cell lines were separated by dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, incubated with the radioactive labeled lectins from lentil, castor bean, wheat germ, Phaseolus bean, peanut, gorse and the Roman snail and the molecular weights of the binding sites determined.