(a.) Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans.
(a.) Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
(2) This study was designed to investigate the localization and cyclic regulation of the mRNA for these two IGFBPs in the porcine ovary, RNA was extracted from whole ovaries morphologically classified as immature, preovulatory, and luteal.
(3) Using an in vitro culture system, light scatter analyses, and two-color flow cytometry, we provide evidence that the interleukin-2 (IL-2) and transferrin receptors can be induced within 48 hr on nonproliferating immature thymocytes.
(4) Adults and immatures of Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls were collected by flagging vegetation and from lizards during a 3-mo period in the Hualapai Mountain Park, Mohave County, AZ, in 1991.
(5) Synapse loss was accentuated, however, within immature and mature plaques.
(6) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(7) Immature follicles are practically devoid of receptors for this hormone.
(8) The high concentrations of gonadotropins present in immature female rats by the end of the second week of life were suppressed by treatment with an antagonist against luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH-A; Org.
(9) Gilts that had already reached sexual maturity at the time of insemination showed a higher rate of oestrus and better litter size than immature animals.
(10) DR(+) cells, however, showed no change in percentage and a lesser drop in absolute numbers, suggesting an increase with advancing disease of DR(+), Ig(-) null cells, which may represent immature B cell precursors.
(11) However, the blasts formed mixed colonies consisting of erythroblasts, granulocytes, macrophages, and immature blasts when cultured in methylcellulose with PHA-leukocyte conditioned medium.
(12) I’m probably still far too immature, but maybe as I get older I could consider it.
(13) These findings may indicate the loss of the receptor in the course of CML with increasing immaturity of cells released from bone marrow.
(14) At the external wall of the host's gut, parasitic cysts of this nematode with immature stages inside were also observed.
(15) TdT determination indicate would the presence of immature cells that are not detected in the normal lymphnode; molecular analysis of the rearrangements of these genes would reveal the presence of even a small monoclonal population of both T and B lineages in the lymphnodes.
(16) Glucose utilization and lactate production were inadequate with respect to the immature cell population.
(17) The variations of the elastic properties and the density around the circumference of both the immature osteopetrotic femur and the unaffected femur were found to be similar to those previously measured on normal adult bovine femora.
(18) In the kidney, binding was associated with immature as well as mature glomeruli.
(19) A monoclonal antibody specific for columnar epithelium (RGE 53) gave a positive reaction in endocervical columnar cells and in some immature metaplastic cells but was negative in subcolumnar reserve cells, squamous (metaplastic) cells, dysplastic cells, and most cases of carcinoma in situ.
(20) The results from gel filtration of glycopeptides indicate that there is a higher content of large molecular weight, sialic acid-rich oligosaccharide units in the glycoprotein of immature myelin.
Ripe
Definition:
(n.) The bank of a river.
(superl.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.
(superl.) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.
(superl.) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.
(superl.) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
(superl.) Ready for action or effect; prepared.
(superl.) Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
(superl.) Intoxicated.
(v. i.) To ripen; to grow ripe.
(v. t.) To mature; to ripen.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1200 examinations of sonographical demonstrable placental ripeness were done in 552 pregnant women.
(2) I found their remarks a little ripe, if mostly well argued, although Nicholson's characterisation of the characters' default mindset as "Brown people bad, American people good" rather misses the obvious retort: "They wanna kill me, I wanna live."
(3) President Hassan Rouhani , who is visiting New York to speak at the UN general assembly next week, said at a meeting with journalists and media executives on Friday that “conditions were ripe” for his administration to start implementing the agreement, struck in Vienna in July, by the end of the year.
(4) The amount of banana starch not hydrolyzed and absorbed from the human small intestine and therefore passing into the colon may be up to 8 times more than the NSP present in this food and depends on the state of ripeness when the fruit is eaten.
(5) 75 Patients were treated with Prostaglandin-F2 alpha-gel intracervical to ripe the cervix prior to first trimester abortion.
(6) These demographic realities define a policy issue ripe for study.
(7) Her main project is new girl Tai (the late Brittany Murphy) who arrives at school as a clumsy, unconfident "ugly duckling" ripe for making over – allowing the film to indulge in that wonderful 80s teen movie trope: the dressing up montage.
(8) It’s when we have untrusted heads of these old institutions that everything seems ripe for revolution – if someone has the guts and ingenuity to really go for it.
(9) I gaze at it across the street and, as if by magic, I ache with longing, just as I used to in the days when a trip here was the most enjoyable thing I could possibly imagine: when books were all I wanted, when I thought of them as pieces of ripe fruit, waiting to be peeled and devoured.
(10) Some on the left who want Brexit say that the time is not yet ripe.
(11) We think that, after a rather premature condemnation, the time is ripe for a reevaluation and a reevaluation of the ureterosigmoidostomy.
(12) The oogonia pass through seven maturation stages to form the ripe ova.
(13) Total lipid constituted 15% of the dry wt of ripe eggs, 70% of the total lipid being polar lipid with phosphatidylcholine (PC) accounting for almost 90% of the polar lipid.
(14) A child growing up in America witnesses 16,000 murders and 200,000 acts of violence by the time he or she reaches the ripe old age of 18.
(15) Lamicel produced a cervical dilatation and ripeness equal to the syntetic tent without MgSO4.
(16) "The issue is ripe in our country, given the experiences that we know of elsewhere," he added.
(17) There's only so much traipsing sodden hills one person can do; once your Pringles supply from the nearest point of civilisation has been depleted, and anyone with bones ripe for jumping carries the risk of a shared grandparent, it's a wonder more people don't while away the long nights with a spot of leisurely murder.
(18) I think the time is ripe to push these issues into London councils and the London Assembly .
(19) Music in hospitals, he argues, is an area ripe for further exploration.
(20) The relationship between disability in activities of daily living and age-related impairment of physical performance is especially ripe for study.