(n.) A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog.
(n.) A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general.
(n.) A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
(v. t.) To tie together, or hold, with a leash.
Example Sentences:
(1) The activated matrix (an imidazolyl carbamate) is relatively stable to hydrolysis but smoothly reacts with N-nucleophiles such as those present in either affinity chromatography ligands or leashes, e.g.
(2) Two cases are presented in which radial forearm flaps with a proximal vascular leash are used to cover such defects without the need for microsurgical expertise.
(3) In February, President Barack Obama said drone strikes are "kept on a very tight leash" and "have not caused a huge number of civilian casualties".
(4) ethynyl estradiol), we investigated a series of 17 alpha-substituted estradiol compounds to determine the optimal properties of a leash at this position.
(5) He described them as five bundles of aberrant pyramidal fibres which separate out as leashes from the corticospinal fibres at different levels and each had its territory of bulbar nuclei (like the Reich which is the territory of the German empire of which there were only three).
(6) These findings suggest that the long 'leash' provided by PEO hydrogels may give the heparin more access to the thrombin-antithrombin pair than the tight bond to PVA, and that crowding of heparin units on a surface limits access of the thrombin-antithrombin pair.
(7) The walkers may be the ones with the pockets full of Pedigree Schmackos, barks the subtext, but ultimately it's the walkees who hold the leash.
(8) Thus Singapore’s indigenous capitalists were kept on a short leash.
(9) Two pole-leashes attached to 2 points on the harness gave the handler considerable control over the posture of the monkey, making it easier to teach the monkey to walk with a leash and to climb into its restraint chair or test apparatus.
(10) "And whenever he came out the dressing room he'd be pulling on the leash, tail wagging – let's go, let's get it done."
(11) The sketch show Rubbernecker featured four little-known talents: Robin Ince, Stephen Merchant, Jimmy Carr and Ricky Gervais – familiar, if at all, from Channel 4's 11 O'Clock Show, which also let Sacha Baron Cohen off his leash.
(12) The stationary phase consisted of iminodiacetic acid (IDA) chelate groups, bonded to small particle, wide pore silica gel by means of a polyether hydrophilic leash.
(13) Parliament needs to change the watchdog before it lets the rottweiler off the leash.
(14) Energy efficiency is a no-brainer, as is letting the GIB off the Treasury leash.
(15) A chest harness and pole-leash method to transfer rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) weighing up to 16 kg from home cage to primate restraint chair was designed.
(16) The hope, it seems, is that the outsourcing show will continue, but with better-managed firms on a tighter leash and smaller operators encouraged to enter the market.
(17) "It felt like it was on a leash for years and … we've come off the leash and just responded in that way basically," says one interviewee.
(18) Conditions for the coupling of a range of ligands and leashes have been evaluated.
(19) I think the difficult thing is just having to juggle your career and your spare time with a dog,” she tells me when we meet for our cutesily termed “welcome woof”, a brief rendezvous to check all three of us are happy at the prospect of handing over the leash.
(20) Mundine said the move would “let bigots off the leash”.
Ternary
Definition:
(a.) Proceeding by threes; consisting of three; as, the ternary number was anciently esteemed a symbol of perfection, and held in great veneration.
(a.) Containing, or consisting of, three different parts, as elements, atoms, groups, or radicals, which are regarded as having different functions or relations in the molecule; thus, sodic hydroxide, NaOH, is a ternary compound.
(n.) A ternion; the number three; three things taken together; a triad.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ternary complex consisting of a 65-kDa peptide originating from the proteoglycan core protein and a 43-kDa link protein bound to hyaluronic acid was purified from a clostripain digest of the rat chondrosarcoma aggregating proteoglycan and 14C-carbamylated with potassium [14C]cyanate.
(2) The binding kinetics suggest that during steady-state turnover product dissociation follows a specific, preferred pathway in which tetrahydrofolate (H4F) dissociation occurs after NADPH replaces NADP+ in the ternary complex.
(3) The results are most consistent with a general non-compulsory model for the formation of a ternary complex between carrier, phenylalanine molecule and a sodium ion, which can be formed from either binary complex, i.e., either species can combine first to the carrier.
(4) The ternary complexes between enzyme, NAD+ and either Cl- or trifluoroethanol and the binary complex between enzyme and orthophenanthroline have almost identical spectral parameters which are not consistent with a four coordinated geometry, but are consistent with a five coordinated geometry.
(5) Further, from the plateau values of the ratios, it follows that the substrates dissociate very infrequently from the ternary complex and that at a low substrate concentration 72% of the reaction follows the pathway in which ATP adds first to the enzyme.
(6) However, inefficient initiation by the mutant enzyme leads to processive and stable ternary elongating complex.
(7) We have investigated the effect of HRI in the partial reactions of protein chain initiation in which the IF-promoted binding of Met-tRNA(f) (Met) to 40S ribosomal subunits is enhanced by another initiation factor [ternary complex dissociation factor (TDF)] and AUG.
(8) Binary and ternary complexes of bovine adrenocortical mitochondrial cytochrome P-450scc with adrenodoxin and adrenodoxin reductase.adrenodoxin complex are formed in the presence of cholesterol and Emulgen 913.
(9) Neither antibody significantly inhibits EF-G-dependent GTPase activity, nor the binding of EF-G when the antibodies are incubated with 50 S subunits; however, Ab 187-272 causes a decrease in the binding of EF-Tu X aminoacyl-tRNA X GTP ternary complex and of EF-Tu-dependent GTPase when it is incubated with 70 S ribosomes.
(10) This double-ternary complex affinity chromatography has been applied successfully to human, horse, rat, and rabbit liver extracts to isolate the respective homogeneous alcohol dehydrogenases.
(11) We have described methods to prepare ternary complexes halted at defined positions along the DNA template, using specific dinucleotides to prime chain initiation along with limited subsets of the NTP substrates.
(12) For the estimation and correction of errors in the measurement of the respiratory flow with viscosity-affected respiratory flow receptors the viscosity of natural respiratory gases (N2, O2, CO2, H2O) and of the ternary system helium-oxygen-nitrogen, which is of importance in pulmonary function diagnosis, was determined.
(13) The capture probe-target-labeled probe "ternary complex" is then captured on magnetic beads containing oligo(dT).
(14) This observation indicated the formation of a ternary S protein-thrombin-antithrombin III (STAT) complex in serum.
(15) The ability of heparin to couple solution-phase thrombin to solid-phase heparin cofactor indicates that a ternary complex is formed.
(16) These results demonstrate the nonequivalence of actin monomers within the ternary complex.
(17) This study investigates the regulation, by salt and glycosaminoglycans, of ternary (alpha-beta-gamma) complex formation, measured by incubating radioiodinated alpha-subunit with a mixture of IGF-I and IGFBP-3 and precipitating bound radioactivity with an anti-IGFBP-3 antiserum.
(18) Based on the characteristics of the ternary complexes and of the tetracycline degradation products, it is concluded that only the active form of tetracycline can be complexed and extracted for fluorescence analysis.
(19) We describe a method for analyzing ternary transcription complexes, of RNA polymerase, DNA and nascent RNA32 chains, by agarose gel electrophoresis.
(20) Hg(II) can mediate the formation of the albumin dimer as well as a ternary complex of the type albumin-Hg(II)-L-cysteine.