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Graff


Definition:

  • (n.) A steward; an overseer.
  • (n. & v.) See Graft.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Simultaneous production of the label pair employs a continuous flow, mixed-gas target irradiated by the University of Wisconsin tandem Van de Graff accelerator.
  • (2) Black and Fenske have presented a topic that fits in very well with the discussions provided by Dr. Graff concerning overall patient evaluation and the understanding that skin diseases may be external expressions of internal disease.
  • (3) The idea is partly inspired by Arnie Graff the Baltimore-based community activist now working for the Labour party.
  • (4) (Debey, P., Hui Bon Hoa, G., Douzou, P., Godefroy-Colburn, T., Graffe, M., AND Grunberg-Manago, M. (1975) Biochemistry 14, 1553).
  • (5) The influence of the insulin secretagogues, carbachol and glucose, on protein kinase C activation in isolated pancreatic islets has been examined by determination of the phosphorylation state of an endogenous 80-kDa protein substrate of protein kinase C. The islet 80-kDa protein was identified as the myristoylated alanine-rich C kinase substrate previously described (Stumpo D. J., Graff, J. M., Albert, K. A., Greengard, P., and Blackshear, P. J.
  • (6) "Used well, a residence can be a huge help to advancing a country's interests," says Garrett Graff, editor of the Washingtonian Magazine .
  • (7) In late 2013 one Russian customer visited Graff Diamonds , a top end jewellery store in London’s Bond Street.
  • (8) One thing that I think really radicalised women is when they understood that this could lead to incarceration for women who had miscarriages,” says Agnieszka Graff, a commentator, activist, and author of World without Women: Gender in Polish Public Life.
  • (9) Although phorbol dibutyrate (5 microM) abolished the cholinergic stimulation of IPs generation (Graff et al., 1987), it did not affect the fluoride-induced response.
  • (10) But EU ambassador Laurent Graffe said: "The money is on track.
  • (11) Following a recent spate of stories claiming there is in-fighting in the Labour election team, Alexander denied he had sacked the party's community organiser, Arnie Graff.
  • (12) A previously isolated thermosensitive mutant [Springer, M., Graffe, M. & Grunberg-Manago, M. (6977) Mol.
  • (13) With the aid of a modified form of the 'therapy session check sheet' (TSCS) of Graff and Luborsky, a constellation of low manifest and low positive transference together with high resistance was isolated which was linked with low LCON with a high prediction rate.
  • (14) Speaking in London at a promotional event for the film, Harrison Ford , who plays Colonel Graff in the sci-fi epic, rejected any suggestion that Card's views are relevant to the content of Ender's Game.
  • (15) Jason Graff writes: "The answer to who plays football in the MOST correct fashion will soon have an answer."
  • (16) People were astonished,” said Agnieszka Graff, a commentator and activist.
  • (17) But in Brevik, unlike Mongstad, “we can utilise waste heat from cement factory so we don’t have to add additional heat,” said Oscar Graff, the chief technology officer for Aker Solutions Clean Carbon .
  • (18) Dr. Graff has done something that I have always felt was important, that is to create a list of possible cutaneous lesions presenting on the lower extremities which might be associated with skin problems elsewhere or be manifestations of systemic disease.
  • (19) positivearts.co.uk Nationwide Based in Manchester, but working across the country, Graff Workshop offers a wide variety of workshops, from birthday parties to team bonding days.
  • (20) NaF (5-20 mM) also increased IPs generation (Graff et al., 1987); this effect was potentiated by AlCl3 (10 microM) and unaffected by pertussis toxin.

Raff


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To sweep, snatch, draw, or huddle together; to take by a promiscuous sweep.
  • (n.) A promiscuous heap; a jumble; a large quantity; lumber; refuse.
  • (n.) The sweepings of society; the rabble; the mob; -- chiefly used in the compound or duplicate, riffraff.
  • (n.) A low fellow; a churl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Whole-cells and single-channel patch-clamp techniques were used to study these cell types in postnatal rat optic nerve cultures prepared according to the procedures of Raff et al.
  • (2) Mixed astrocyte-oligodendroglial clones were observed when cells cultivated in the presence of 1% FCS were switched to a 10% FCS-containing medium, confirming the bipotentiality of glial progenitor cells (Temple and Raff Nature 313:223, 1985).
  • (3) This study compared 30 patients with major head and neck cancer-related defects who underwent reconstruction with a rectus abdominis free flap (RAFF) with 39 patients with similar defects who underwent reconstruction with the PMMF.
  • (4) After facing significant backlash against the post on Twitter, Keller appended an apology for his use of the term “riff-raff”, writing that the word choice was “insensitive and counterproductive”.
  • (5) The US Bureau of Reclamation , for example, manages 337 reservoirs, and a science advisor to the agency, Dave Raff, says the bureau is taking on the emissions accounting task.
  • (6) S phase can be inhibited in wild-type Drosophila embryos by injecting aphidicolin, in which case not only do centrosomes replicate, but chromosomes continue to condense and decondense, the nuclear envelope undergoes cycles of breakdown and reformation, and cycles of budding activity continue at the cortex of the embryo (Raff and Glover, 1988).
  • (7) These results are consistent with studies using ferritin-labeled antibodies (S. De Petris and M. Raff.
  • (8) Watanabe and Raff (Nature 332:834-837, '88) have recently reported an independent study supporting the same conclusions.
  • (9) Shivaun Raff, co-founder of the UK vertical search company Foundem – one of the original complainants to the EC in spring 2010, after alleging that the US company was artificially demoting it in search results – said: "The only foolproof way to tackle abusive practices is to end them.
  • (10) For more extensive reviews on this topic, the reader is referred to recent reviews by Raff (1989), Richardson et al.
  • (11) At the same time, we saw how the pro-government press tried to turn our legitimate, peaceful protests into acts of terrorism.” Just as Erdoğan branded the protesters two years ago “riff-raff”, “terrorists” and “foreign agents”, in the election campaign he stoked division and malice by repeatedly smearing his HDP opponents as “terrorists, marginals, gays and atheists”.
  • (12) Victoria Raffe, director of authorisations at the FCA, said: “These firms are advising consumers who have often reached rock bottom, so it’s important that firms get it right.
  • (13) The aesthetic outcome was also better in patients who had reconstructions with the RAFF.
  • (14) Ralf Marschner, an avowed neo-Nazi and a former singer in a skinhead band called West-Saxon Riff-Raff, was a paid informant for the BfV between 2000 and 2002.
  • (15) We conclude that, for most major head and neck defects, reconstruction methods that utilize the RAFF and other free tissue transfer techniques are preferable when the requisite equipment and expertise are available.
  • (16) Riff Raff If you’re a fan of Jenga but feel the need for a stiffer challenge, Riff Raff might be for you.
  • (17) Shivaun Raff of Foundem, the British search company, was one of the first to complain to the commission about what she says was Google's manipulation of search results to reduce her site's visibility.
  • (18) Raff insisted that Google is leveraging its power in search to boost the position of its other properties, such as maps and video, which would constitute a potentially illegal abuse of dominance in one field to gain share in another.
  • (19) Foundem's Shivaun Raff explains: "We sent reconsideration requests then started sending emails to as many people as we could find, expecting each time that this was just a failure of process, expecting that once our case was in front of people with the power to do something it would get fixed."
  • (20) "We're very pleased the commission has taken this important step, but we're not surprised," said Shivaun Raff, chief executive of Bracknell-based Foundem.

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