(v. t.) To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider as the same in any relation.
(v. t.) To establish the identity of; to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted; as, to identify stolen property.
(v. i.) To become the same; to coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) A group of interested medical personnel has been identified which has begun to work together.
(2) Three categories of UV response have been identified.
(3) The combined analysis of pathogenesis and genetics associated with the salmonella virulence plasmids may identify new systems of bacterial virulence and the genetic basis for this virulence.
(4) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
(5) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
(6) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(7) The histological pattern of tumor was identified in 28 cases.
(8) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
(9) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
(10) The tumors were identified by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.
(11) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
(12) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
(13) During enzyme purification two nucleases were identified.
(14) Pokeweed mitogen-stimulated rat spleen cells were identified as a reliable source of rat burst-promoting activity (PBA), which permitted development of a reproducible assay for rat bone marrow erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E).
(15) Two small populations of GLY + neurons were observed outside of the named nuclei of the SOC; one was located dorsal to the LSO, near its dorsal hilus, and the other was identified near the medial pole of the LSO.
(16) The agent present in the serum which causes dissolution of the fibrin clot was isolated and identified as pepsinogen.
(17) In addition to the aqueduct other associated inner ear anomalies have been identified in 60% of this population including: enlarged vestibule (14); enlarged vestibule and lateral semicircular canal (7); enlarged vestibule and hypoplastic cochlea (4); and hypoplastic cochlea (4).
(18) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
(19) Various metabolites of etoposide and teniposide have been identified but their detection and quantitation are disputed.
(20) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
Opus
Definition:
(n.) A work; specif. (Mus.), a musical composition.
Example Sentences:
(1) It traces his progress of degradation unhampered by constituted authority and concludes with his magnum opus--the greatest massacre of South Sea Islanders in the annals of the South Sea slave trade.
(2) Five therapeutic drug assays, carbamazepine, phenobarbital, phenytoin, theophylline, and valproic acid, were evaluated using an automated random access system for performing thin dry film multilayer competitive immunoassays, the OPUS analyzer.
(3) The American author Jonathan Franzen might justly be called a perfectionist: his latest opus, Freedom, took nine years of painstaking effort to complete inside a spartan writing studio – and is now being widely acclaimed as a modern masterpiece.
(4) At the weekend, the film's director Ron Howard turned down requests by the Catholic organisation Opus Dei to add a disclaimer at the beginning of the film while a leading cardinal called for legal action against the film and the book, saying that they were offensive to Jesus Christ and the Catholic church.
(5) The results of laparoscopic (lap) and transvaginal (TV) oocyte pickups (OPUs) performed concurrently for in vitro fertilization in 232 consecutive treatment cycles have been reviewed.
(6) Hizmet, which has relatively moderate Islamist views, also has some of the characteristics of a cult or of an Islamic Opus Dei.
(7) Britain’s largest coal power producer, Drax, is bidding to buy Opus Energy and four gas stations in a move away from its coal legacy that has been welcomed by investors.
(8) Probably more centre than someone in Labour, not mentioning any names, who's actually Opus Dei – that is extreme right-wing thinking."
(9) The letter from the BBC, promising to produce his latest magnum opus, which always arrives on April 1.
(10) (3) Heep's 1970 prog-metal opus Bird of Prey is sampled.
(11) Earlier this month Drax said it was bidding to buy business energy provider Opus Energy and four gas stations as part of the move away from coal.
(12) I pictured Baghdad as Black Hawk Down’s Mogadishu, all claustrophobic and high-contrast gun battles with desperate men in dark alleys, and mostly I heard Ride of the Valkyries, that grim killing opus in Apocalypse Now, retrofitted for our urban assaults and nighttime raids.
(13) Dell'Utri, arrived North from his native Sicily, was a severe youth, mixing in Mafia circles and a member of the ultra-orthodox Opus Dei; Berlusconi was a crooner on cruise liners.
(14) This paper emphasizes the historical value of this opus and makes comments on the illustrations.
(15) "A disclaimer could have been a way for Sony to show that the company wants to be fair and respectful in its treatment of Christians and the Catholic church," Opus Dei's US spokesman Brian Finnerty told the Reuters news agency yesterday.
(16) The Opus deal is subject to the European commission approving a UK government contract to support the conversion of one of its coal units to running on biomass.
(17) Other films that have recently been cut for Chinese release – either by censors or their studios – include fantasy opus Cloud Atlas and the 2010 remake of The Karate Kid.
(18) Wire also does voice calls, with audio quality being one of its key selling points: clear and loud, using the Opus open source audio codec that was developed in part by the company’s chief scientist Koen Vos.
(19) And in her 1951 opus magnum The Origins of Totalitarianism , from which the above quotations derive, she warned that "a global, universally interrelated civilisation may produce barbarians from its own midst by forcing millions of people into conditions which, despite all appearances, are the conditions of savages".
(20) We found the OPUS assays acceptable for clinical use.