(v. t.) To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture.
(v. t.) To receive or absorb into the mind and retain; as, to imbibe principles; to imbibe errors.
(v. t.) To saturate; to imbue.
Example Sentences:
(1) E. caudatum imbibed choline very rapidly; this was immediately and exclusively converted into phosphatidylcholine which was shown by radioautography after 10 min to be distributed throughout the cell membranes.
(2) And we’re getting more opportunities to consider the batshit curriculum that people such as Steve Bannon have imbibed on their way to the administration of a superpower.
(3) Many social drinkers also imbibe at well above the safe levels, their health silently damaged.
(4) Depolymerization of the chondromucoprotein and decreases in the ability of a disk to imbibe fluid, is, in effect, a "chemical decompression" of the nucleur pulposus.
(5) In general, though, the apparent harmony between government policy and Ofsted's work may be traceable to a much simpler matter of mindset: its head, Michael Wilshaw, is the former head of the Mossbourne academy in Hackney, and prone to sound as if he has imbibed a huge draught of whatever the education secretary, Michael Gove, is drinking.
(6) Both patients were heavy imbibers of alcohol and both had swallowed less paracetamol that that generally regarded as a lethal dose.
(7) A breakdown of the endothelium through disease or injury causes a marked increase in corneal thickness as the stroma imbibes fluid from the aqueous humor in the anterior chamber of the eye.
(8) Such an ability may provide a protective function to the motor neuron by restricting the intraneuronal transport of materials imbibed by the axon terminals outside the CNS.
(9) Antibodies to herpes simplex viral-induced antigens (HSVIA) were assayed by an indirect immunofluorescent technique in 93 regular cigarette smokers, 75 of whom also imbibed alcoholic beverages.
(10) Additionally, expression of Em genes can be repeated during early germination, if imbibing embryos are subjected to osmotic stress.
(11) Although a number of studies have demonstrated lower blood pressure in individuals ingesting less than two drinks per day compared with abstainers or heavy alcohol imbibers, the evidence is not conclusive.
(12) When dormant oat seeds were imbibed at the non-permissive temperature of 30 degrees C, the concentration of phosphoenolpyruvate and of glycerate 3-phosphate, which are two inhibitors of phosphofructokinase 2, increased almost linearly during 30 h. By contrast, these metabolites increased only after a lag period of about 10 h in non-dormant seeds imbibed at the same temperature.
(13) The party elders gathered on the stage would have immediately imbibed what that roar meant.
(14) The rats imbibing morphine solution exhibited a withdrawal syndrome, low level of initial nociception and received more electrocutaneous stimuli in the Vogel test.
(15) In epidemiological studies the incidence of cirrhosis can be correlated with the duration and amount of alcohol imbibed.
(16) Instead of hectoring the middle classes – who do their binge drinking at home – we might subconsciously induce them to imbibe less just by obliging importers to name popular varietal wines after parts of the liver and pancreas.
(17) After 2 weeks of free choice, hypothalamic, but not serum Prl and LH levels, were significantly increased in EtOH-imbibing groups compared to controls.
(18) Tony Blair added his characteristic descant, adding " We have imbibed deeply of the Olympic spirit … in throwing timidity to the winds we have rediscovered a spirit that is our own ".
(19) Seeds imbibed in benzyladenine, chloramphenicol, and in cycloheximide show retarded growth and slower starch degradation and enzyme production than the controls.
(20) They imbibe water into intervertebral disc and apophyseal joint articular cartilage, endowing the tissues with elasticity and compressibility.
Imbibed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Imbibe
Example Sentences:
(1) E. caudatum imbibed choline very rapidly; this was immediately and exclusively converted into phosphatidylcholine which was shown by radioautography after 10 min to be distributed throughout the cell membranes.
(2) And we’re getting more opportunities to consider the batshit curriculum that people such as Steve Bannon have imbibed on their way to the administration of a superpower.
(3) Many social drinkers also imbibe at well above the safe levels, their health silently damaged.
(4) Depolymerization of the chondromucoprotein and decreases in the ability of a disk to imbibe fluid, is, in effect, a "chemical decompression" of the nucleur pulposus.
(5) In general, though, the apparent harmony between government policy and Ofsted's work may be traceable to a much simpler matter of mindset: its head, Michael Wilshaw, is the former head of the Mossbourne academy in Hackney, and prone to sound as if he has imbibed a huge draught of whatever the education secretary, Michael Gove, is drinking.
(6) Both patients were heavy imbibers of alcohol and both had swallowed less paracetamol that that generally regarded as a lethal dose.
(7) A breakdown of the endothelium through disease or injury causes a marked increase in corneal thickness as the stroma imbibes fluid from the aqueous humor in the anterior chamber of the eye.
(8) Such an ability may provide a protective function to the motor neuron by restricting the intraneuronal transport of materials imbibed by the axon terminals outside the CNS.
(9) Antibodies to herpes simplex viral-induced antigens (HSVIA) were assayed by an indirect immunofluorescent technique in 93 regular cigarette smokers, 75 of whom also imbibed alcoholic beverages.
(10) Additionally, expression of Em genes can be repeated during early germination, if imbibing embryos are subjected to osmotic stress.
(11) Although a number of studies have demonstrated lower blood pressure in individuals ingesting less than two drinks per day compared with abstainers or heavy alcohol imbibers, the evidence is not conclusive.
(12) When dormant oat seeds were imbibed at the non-permissive temperature of 30 degrees C, the concentration of phosphoenolpyruvate and of glycerate 3-phosphate, which are two inhibitors of phosphofructokinase 2, increased almost linearly during 30 h. By contrast, these metabolites increased only after a lag period of about 10 h in non-dormant seeds imbibed at the same temperature.
(13) The party elders gathered on the stage would have immediately imbibed what that roar meant.
(14) The rats imbibing morphine solution exhibited a withdrawal syndrome, low level of initial nociception and received more electrocutaneous stimuli in the Vogel test.
(15) In epidemiological studies the incidence of cirrhosis can be correlated with the duration and amount of alcohol imbibed.
(16) Instead of hectoring the middle classes – who do their binge drinking at home – we might subconsciously induce them to imbibe less just by obliging importers to name popular varietal wines after parts of the liver and pancreas.
(17) After 2 weeks of free choice, hypothalamic, but not serum Prl and LH levels, were significantly increased in EtOH-imbibing groups compared to controls.
(18) Tony Blair added his characteristic descant, adding " We have imbibed deeply of the Olympic spirit … in throwing timidity to the winds we have rediscovered a spirit that is our own ".
(19) Seeds imbibed in benzyladenine, chloramphenicol, and in cycloheximide show retarded growth and slower starch degradation and enzyme production than the controls.
(20) They imbibe water into intervertebral disc and apophyseal joint articular cartilage, endowing the tissues with elasticity and compressibility.