(n.) The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder.
(n.) Care of domestic concerns; management of a house and home affairs.
(n.) Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions.
(a.) Domestic; used in a family; as, housekeeping commodities.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both genes appear to be housekeeping genes and are expressed at relatively low levels in all tissues.
(2) In the studies on genomic DNA, genes with multiple transcription initiation sites were found in brain, such as CCK, CNP and MAG, in addition to NSE which was a housekeeping gene, and this may contribute to the high sequence complexity of brain RNA.
(3) Now trapped in an occupied city, she takes on a job as a housekeeper to mysterious bachelor Gabriel Ortega.
(4) Examination of the sequences at other RNA polymerase II initiation sites suggests that we have identified an element that is important in the transcription of other housekeeping genes.
(5) Brown, it emerged, had been living in a luxurious three-bedroom villa in the exclusive resort of Punta Cana, on the eastern most tip of the country with his dog and a housekeeper.
(6) The base composition of the DNA MeTase promoter is markedly different from that of other housekeeping genes.
(7) Housekeeping (constitutively active) genes always replicate early and are in the early-replicating R-bands.
(8) The first one (upstream) is active in all tissues and its promoter has some of the structural features of a housekeeping promoter; the second, located 3 kilobases downstream, is active only in erythroid cells and its promoter displays structural homologies with the beta-globin gene promoters.
(9) Maintenance of dosage compensation for housekeeping genes on the human X chromosome is mediated through differential methylation of clustered CpG nucleotides associated with these genes.
(10) But the boldest dramatic licence is in proposing that Turner’s relationship with Hannah Danby, his housekeeper (played by Dorothy Atkinson) was sexual.
(11) Glamour magazine has lost its position as the most popular women's UK monthly lifestyle title in print after more than a decade, overtaken by Good Housekeeping.
(12) She worked for decades as a housekeeper in San Francisco’s downtown hotels and is now retired.
(13) As further evidence of the housekeeping nature of the LEP100 gene, Northern blots of RNA from several adult and embryonic tissues (skeletal muscle, kidney, liver, heart, gizzard, and brain) revealed a single message for LEP100 of the same size (about 3 kilobases) in each tissue.
(14) Thus, the cell line A172 is able to survive in the absence of a functional ABL gene product, indicating that the role of ABL is unlikely to be "housekeeping."
(15) While cytosolic NADP-IDH is a "housekeeping" enzyme, expressed in multiple tissues of the mouse, differences in the relative intensities of allelic isozyme bands provide evidence for tissue- and stage-specific regulatory variation.
(16) ts11 P1 produced about sixfold more chloramphenicol acetyltransferase activity than did ts11 P2 and had features of the promoters of housekeeping genes: high G + C content, multiple transcription start sites, absence of a TATA box, and presence of putative Sp1 binding sites.
(17) The genes for 18S rRNA and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase were representatives of constitutively expressed (i.e., "housekeeping") genes.
(18) Louise Chunn, the former editor of Good Housekeeping and InStyle, is the new editor of upmarket "thinking women's glossy" magazine Psychologies.
(19) We have size-fractionated the chromosome-sized DNA molecules of representative T. cruzi strains by pulsed field gradient (PFG) gel electrophoresis and located several housekeeping genes by Southern blotting using cDNA probes from the related trypanosome T. brucei.
(20) Physicians' care was the most favorably rated dimension, followed by admission process and housekeeping, while nursing care was the least favorably rated dimension.
Housework
Definition:
(n.) The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) The subjects responded to a mail survey that defined before surgery and after recovery functioning in relation to 22 activities of daily living representing personal care, housework-yard work, and recreation-social activities.
(2) Is it true that some went mad but at least some housework got done?
(3) In Disney's hands, it became a story about a nice girl who likes singing and housework.
(4) Mothers' postpartum mental health is related to both the emotional support and practical help (eg, housework and child care activities) provided by the husband and others.
(5) The purpose of the study was to develop and evaluate a housework-based method of selecting, from among adults with acquired brain damage, those who would benefit from housework-based training; and of assessing the effects of such training.
(6) The patients had a more positive view of their abilities to cope with housework, self-care, and managing money than their relatives.
(7) Patients received more help with activities like shopping, laundry and housework than personal activities such as bathing, using the toilet and dressing.
(8) The variables with a significant coefficient of association with early termination of breast feeding were maternal education, past experience with breast feeding, help of a maid, help with housework provided by a relative, breast feeding orientation during prenatal care and encouragement from the husband.
(9) Results show that traditional definitions of physical activity and work based on participation in the formal labour force ignore a sizeable amount of home economic production, as well as the physical demands of housework.
(10) Daughters raised by an employed mother spend less time on housework than women whose mothers stayed home full-time, but maternal employment has no effect on adult daughters’ involvement in caring for family members.” Belinda Phipps, chair of the Fawcett Society for women’s equality, said: “Although we have known for a long time that there are lots of benefits to children to have working mothers, it is great to see more research confirming this.” But Phipps said it was disappointing to see that progress on sharing domestic housework other than childcare was proving slow to change.
(11) He helped with housework and even occasionally said he enjoyed it.
(12) On the husband's end, he doesn't understand why he's working 50-plus hours a week to financially support a grown woman as well as their children only to come home to the expectation that he do 50% of the housework and support his wife's unpaid volunteer efforts.
(13) Sheryl Sandberg has encouraged men to get involved in advocating for women’s equality at work and at home, academics have pointed out that men’s participation is necessary for real change and earlier this year in his State of the Union address , President Obama said: “It’s time we stop treating child care as a side issue, or a women’s issue, and treat it like the national economic priority that it is for all of us.” It’s true; child care, housework, balancing work and home life - these are issues that men absolutely need to care about and take action on.
(14) The frequency of health-related problems associated with paid employment, housework, social life, home life and sex life decreased, indicating enhanced ability to take part in daily activities.
(15) TV bosses have already axed the hugely popular Super Girl singing contest, promising to replace it with programmes focused on housework and public safety.
(16) The chemical analysis of numerous housework cleansing agents exhibited the constant presence of nickel in these housework cleansings.
(17) Certainly, the lack of real mentorship, ingrained cultural patterns whereby women still bear the brunt of housework and childcare, and inadequate policies around parental leave and child support are all important factors.
(18) When women in an Anatolian town approached the visiting forestry minister in 2009, asking for work, he replied: "Isn't your housework enough?"
(19) Kimmel points to research that shows when men share housework and childcare, their children do better at school, they have higher rates of achievement, lower rates of absenteeism, are less likely to be diagnosed with ADHD and childhood depression, less likely to see therapists and to be put on medication.
(20) They did more than 50% of the housework and in-home child care, with the remainder split between spouse and hired help, even though nearly two thirds were working full-time.