(n.) A mark or short dash, thus [-], placed at the end of a line which terminates with a syllable of a word, the remainder of which is carried to the next line; or between the parts of many a compound word; as in fine-leaved, clear-headed. It is also sometimes used to separate the syllables of words.
(v. t.) To connect with, or separate by, a hyphen, as two words or the parts of a word.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 3' end of the cell cycle regulated mRNA terminates immediately following the region of hyphenated dyad symmetry typical of most histone mRNAs, whereas the constitutively expressed mRNA has a 1798 nt non-translated trailer that contains the same region of hyphenated dyad symmetry but is polyadenylated.
(2) Termination of sar RNA synthesis occurs after transcription of the first and second Ts of a TTTA sequence following a region of hyphenated dyad symmetry.
(3) The H2B protein coding region of HHC289 is flanked at the 3' end by a 1798-nt nontranslated trailer that contains a region of hyphenated dyad symmetry and a poly(A) addition sequence, followed by a poly(A) tail.
(4) Her relations address letters to our children using an invented hyphenated surname.
(5) It was possible to classify the patients into three groups with focal, hyphenated and linear attachment, respectively.
(6) Between these extremes were cases in which hyphenations along a locus of linear attachment allowed additional communications between the ventricular compartments.
(7) Features of the sequence involved in recognition by the T7 RNA polymerase are discussed and include the following region of hyphenated 2-fold symmetry (boxed regions are related through a 2-fold axis of symmetry at the center of the sequence shown).
(8) Size, ejection and displacement indexes of the functional right ventricle measured from the angiograms suggested that the severity of the malformation increased from focal attachment through hyphenated to linear attachment.
(9) Its vague and fluid nature allowed space for a range of options, hyphens and elisions.
(10) There has been rather a lot of talk recently of hard work: the mythical individuals who are thus wired – from politicians to Hollywood stars , households of folks so hard-working they sometimes have to drop the hyphen for efficiency .
(11) This binding region of the beta-actin enhancer contained a hyphenated dyad symmetry and an enhancer core-like sequence.
(12) She is clearly not an activist of the old school.” One way to understand Watson’s very 21st-century celebrity activism is to see her as a multi-hyphenate entrepreneur in the vein of Beyoncé and Gwyneth Paltrow .
(13) The Sunday crossword puzzle had the following cue for 4 down: "Places for day-care" (spelled, with the purist's uncertainty, with a hyphen).
(14) Alterations of specific bases in a region of hyphenated dyad symmetry located in the leader established that base pairing in the 5' terminal region of the pyrC leader transcript is required for normal regulation of dihydroorotase synthesis.
(15) The ends of the region of homology between pIM13 and pE194 were associated with hyphenated dyad symmetries.
(16) Footprints containing hyphenated palindrome sequences, found in the promoter regions of both genes, suggest the possible involvement of other classes of transcription factor.
(17) In the sequence alignments, identity between residues is indicated by a hyphen (-).
(18) The gene contains sequences that strongly resemble those found in E. coli promoters, an E. coli type of ribosomal binding site, and a hyphenated dyad sequence at the 3' end of the gene which resembles the rho-independent terminators found in some E. coli genes.
(19) The 24 base pair hyphenated palindrome at the 3' end of the HKB gene may be a site for termination of transcription of this gene.
(20) But apparently, yes – while hyphenations of both surnames are becoming more common, it is still rare for a woman to pass on her surname when it is different from the father's.
Tax
Definition:
(n.) A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.
(n.) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government.
(n.) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.
(n.) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.
(n.) A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
(n.) A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.
(n.) Charge; censure.
(n.) A lesson to be learned; a task.
(n.) To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government.
(n.) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.
(n.) To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride.
Example Sentences:
(1) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(2) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
(3) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(4) 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.
(5) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(6) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(7) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(8) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
(9) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
(10) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(11) Cameron also used the speech to lambast one of the central announcements in the budget - raising the top rate of tax for people earning more than £150,000 to 50p from next year.
(12) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(13) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
(14) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
(15) We know that several hundred thousand investors are likely to want to access their pension pots in the first weeks and months after the start of the new tax year.
(16) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
(17) "The Republic genuinely wishes Northern Ireland well and that includes the 12.5% corporate tax rate," he said.
(18) Initial analysis suggests that about one-fifth of gross costs would be directly returned to the public purse via income tax and national insurance payments.
(19) Gordon Brown believes that the fact of the G20 summit has persuaded many tax havens, such as Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to indicate that they will adopt a more open approach.
(20) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.