(interj.) Hush; be silent; -- a signal for silence.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to working with hist colleagues on general review and health-policy matters, he also handled issues related to the special needs of children and helped to get third-party benefit packages altered to better suit the treatment needs of children.
(2) The interaction of histamine (Hist) and acetylcholine (ACh) on human isolated bronchial smooth muscle (HIBSM) contraction, and the influence of the epithelium, was assessed using HIBSM obtained from 15 patients undergoing thoracotomy.
(3) The approach is illustrated by several examples of previously unknown correspondences with important biological implications: Drosophila elongation factor Tu is shown to be encoded by two genes that are differently expressed during development; a cluster of three Drosophila genes likely encode maltases; a flesh-fly fat body protein resembles the hypothesized Drosophila alcohol dehydrogenase ancestral protein; an unknown protein encoded at the multifunctional E. coli hisT locus resembles aspartate beta-semialdehyde dehydrogenase; and the E. coli tyrR protein is related to nitrogen regulatory proteins.
(4) We investigated the effects of epithelium removal and cooling (32 degrees C, 27 degrees C, 22 degrees C) on isolated tracheal smooth muscle contraction induced by bethanechol (BCh), acetylcholine (ACh), histamine (Hist), and KCl in guinea pigs.
(5) A 2.3-kilobase HindIII-ClaI restriction fragment containing the hisT gene was subcloned into plasmid pBR322, and the resulting plasmid (designated psi 300) was mapped with restriction enzymes.
(6) Examination of the regulation of the histidine operon in strains carrying the feedback-resistant mutation in an episome and hisT and hisW mutations in the chromosome showed that the hisG regulatory mutation is epistatic to the hisT and hisW mutations.
(7) The approach is applied to the trp-cysB-pyrF and aroC-hisT-purF-dhuA regions of the Salmonella typhimurium chromosome.
(8) Four phenotypes of strain EB146 (leuK16), leucine excretion, wrinkled colony morphology, and elevated levels of leu and his enzymes, are complemented by a plasmid having a 1.65-kilobase DNA fragment containing the E. coli K-12 hisT locus.
(9) The effects of norepinephrine (NE), histamine (HIST), glutamate, and adenosine, singly and in combinations, on the accumulation of adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) in slices of rabbit cerebral cortex were examined using tissue from animals 4 days before to 38 days after birth.
(10) The present studies were undertaken to obtain histamine (HIST) dose-response curves for tracheal smooth muscle (TSM) from an actively ragweed-sensitized canine model of asthma and to compare these results with 1) HIST dose-response data from littermate control dogs, 2) initially nonsensitized TSM passively sensitized (in vitro) to ragweed and 3) the dose-response curve to an agonist that opens primarily voltage-sensitive calcium channels, i.e., K+.
(11) The hemodynamic response to maximal exercise was determined in rats with a chronic myocardial infarction (MI) that were subjected to 6-8 wk of high-intensity sprint training (HIST) or limited exercise activity (sedentary control).
(12) The presence of Campylobacter pylori was investigated in duodenal, antral and fundic biopsies of 149 consecutive patients undergoing upper gastrointestinal tract endoscopy by biopsy urease tests (CLOtest; "CLO test") and histologic examination ("HIST") after modified Giemsa staining.
(13) On the other hand, pretreatment of the muscle with 10(-5) M Hist for 10 min did not influence the contraction by either MeCh or Hist.
(14) After pretreatment of the muscle with 10(-5) M MeCh for 10 min, the contractile effect of 10(-5) M Hist was suppressed intensely for a certain time period, but that of 10(-5) M MeCh was not diminished.
(15) Hist and Gast caused an increase of PGE2 contents in gastric mucosa.
(16) Subclones containing restriction fragments from plasmid psi 300 inserted downstream from the lac promoter established that the hisT gene is oriented from the HindIII site toward the ClaI site.
(17) This mutation is linked to purF, suggesting that it is a new allele of hisT.
(18) The hisT gene codes for an enzyme responsible for the conversion of uridine to pseudouridine (Psi) in the anticodon region of many tRNA species in Salmonella typhimurium.
(19) Furthermore, this suppression was not surmounted by the elevation of Hist concentration.
(20) In general, HIST was found as most sensitive and effective.
Hit
Definition:
(pron.) It.
() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth.
(imp. & p. p.) of Hit
(v. t.) To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).
(v. t.) To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit.
(v. t.) To guess; to light upon or discover.
(v. t.) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
(v. i.) To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on.
(v. i.) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck.
(n.) A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
(n.) A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit.
(n.) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.
(n.) A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.
(n.) A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; -- sometimes used specifically for a base hit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Philip Shaw, chief economist at broker Investec, expects CPI to hit 5.1%, just shy of the 5.2% reached in September 2008, as the utility hikes alone add 0.4% to inflation.
(2) Sierra Leone is one of the three West Africa nations hit hard by an Ebola epidemic this year.
(3) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
(4) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
(5) Hanley Ramirez was hitting behind Michael Young and now he's injured.
(6) Botswana, Kenya, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have also been badly hit.
(7) We are better off in.” Out campaigners have claimed that the NHS could be badly hit by a decision to stay in the EU.
(8) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
(9) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
(10) Macron hit back on Twitter, saying her proposals to take France out of the EU would destroy France’s fishing industry.
(11) VAT increases don't just hit the poor more than the rich, they also hit small firms, threaten retail jobs and, by boosting inflation, could also lead to higher interest rates."
(12) And Norris Cole hits a "good night everybody" three-pointer.
(13) If you’ve escaped the impact of cuts so far , consider yourself lucky, but don’t think that you won’t be affected after the next tranche hits.
(14) Government borrowing has hit a record high for a September.
(15) The weapon is 13 metres long, weighs 60 tonnes and can carry nuclear warheads with up to eight times the destructive capacity of the bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the second world war.
(16) The debate certainly hit upon a larger issue: the tendency for people in positions of social and cultural power to tell the stories of minorities for them, rather than allowing minority communities to speak for themselves.
(17) On the first anniversary of Peach's death I took part in my first ever demonstration where we chanted the names of the six SPG officers who were said to have been hitting people with batons on the street where Peach died.
(18) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
(19) Two short homologous sequences in the rat insulin I enhancer fragment used, IEB2 and IEB1, have been described as playing a dominant role in the regulation of HIT hamster insulinoma cell-specific transcription of the insulin gene (1).
(20) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.