(n.) One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
(n.) One who retards or hinders.
(n.) A mark or character used as the representative of a sound, or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a first element of written language.
(n.) A written or printed communication; a message expressed in intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle.
(n.) A writing; an inscription.
(n.) Verbal expression; literal statement or meaning; exact signification or requirement.
(n.) A single type; type, collectively; a style of type.
(n.) Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters.
(n.) A letter; an epistle.
(v. t.) To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered.
Example Sentences:
(1) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
(2) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
(3) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
(4) And, according to a letter leaked to the BBC last week , he reckons he has found one: default-on.
(5) Fry's letter was also delivered to the Lausanne headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, by Guillaume Bonnet of the campaign group All Out .
(6) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
(7) We have much more fighting to do!” Now Cherwell is preparing to publish letters or articles from other students who have been inspired to open up about their own ordeals.
(8) The reported study demonstrates that performance asymmetries between normal or reflected letters presented in the right and left visual field favors the right visual field when stimulus patterns are blocked and rotated 90 degrees clockwise and favors the left visual field when they are blocked and rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
(9) The letters of discharge or the case records were obtained for all patients under one year for the entire period and for all patients over one year for the period 1984-1986, a total of 627 persons.
(10) But under Comey’s FBI, the agency has continued to disregard the justice department’s legal opinion, and to this day, demands tech companies hand it all sorts of data under due-process free National Security Letters.
(11) The letter to Florence Nightingale was written by Bernita Decker as part of a nursing course assignment for our Nurse Educator advisor, Betty Pugh.
(12) A letter Acosta received warned her of a Snap cut of $11 for each family member in November.
(13) However, the law minister indicated he would allow the supreme court to approve a draft of the letter.
(14) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
(15) The prime minister sent back a letter dismissing his allegations.
(16) She kept it up for three years, until her son's letters finally persuaded her to cut down to one day a week.
(17) The letter praised the company's progress in responding to the inspection.
(18) The letters, seen by Guardian Money, state that the French-owned company is conducting a review of customer records to make sure all its information is up to date.
(19) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(20) "Fifa received a letter via email and fax from the Costa Rica FA on March 24 with regards to the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier played on March 22 between USA and Costa Rica," Fifa said.
Quaternary
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of four; by fours, or in sets of four.
(a.) Later than, or subsequent to, the Tertiary; Post-tertiary; as, the Quaternary age, or Age of man.
(n.) The number four.
(n.) The Quaternary age, era, or formation. See the Chart of Geology.
Example Sentences:
(1) The quaternary structure of ribonucleotide reductase of Escherichia coli was investigated, with the use of purified B1 and B2 proteins and bifunctional cross-linking agents.
(2) The sensitivity of an indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) test (screening test) for the detection of antibodies to cytomegalovirus (CMV) was examined by using 128 serum specimens and quaternary aminoethyl (QAE)-Sephadex A50 column chromatography to separate IgM from IgG class antibodies.
(3) Modifications in quaternary structure induced by variation of these physicochemical parameters were followed by means of X-ray and quasi-elastic light-scattering and quantified in terms of weight average molecular weight (M), radius of gyration (Rg) and hydrodynamic radius (Rh).
(4) These features of the new quaternary structure, denoted Y, may therefore be representative of quaternary states that occur transiently along pathways between the normal unliganded, T, and liganded, R, hemoglobin structures.
(5) On the other hand, the lack of any twitch-potentiating effect by naloxone methylbromide, a quaternary derivative of naloxone, suggests that opioids which potentiate the twitch must enter the lipid phase of the membrane to act.
(6) Two additional quaternary ammonium compounds, tetraethylammonium and N1-methylnicotinamide, were not significantly bound to either tissue.
(7) These effects are due to residual silanols on the surface of the column material and may be remedied by adding suitable amines or quaternary ammonium ions to the eluent as anti-tailing agents.
(8) A quantitative thin layer chromatographic (TLC) method has been developed for determination of the antiarrhythmic quaternary ammonium compound N,N-bis (phenylcarbamoyl methyl) dimethylammonium chloride (QX-572) in biological materials.
(9) While currently available antiarrhythmic agents fail to achieve the desired effect, the recent evidence dealing with the quaternary ammonium derivatives of propranolol, lidocaine, and bretylium provides some hope for the future development of drugs with antiarrhythmic as well as antifibrillatory properties which may provide a therapeutic approach to the prevention of SCD.
(10) In case of non hydrolyzing salts, the quaternary ammonium bromide salts it could not surely be proved by the applied methods whether primary ion exchange had been followed by secondary ion exchange or only primary ion exchange had occurred.
(11) Naloxone methobromide (naloxone MB), a quaternary compound, was also effective in antagonising this effect of nalbuphine but was less effective than naloxone hydrochloride.
(12) Temperature, protein tertiary and quaternary structure, chain heterogeneity, and ligand rebinding subsequent to CO photolysis all affect the line width and position of this transition.
(13) Iodine-containing solutions and quaternary ammonium compounds rarely sensitize.
(14) Administration of the quaternary derivative, neostigmine, indicated that the effects of scopolamine at 22 days were probably central in origin.
(15) The relationships between thermodynamic quantities in a quaternary system of electrolytes are discussed in Appendix 2.
(16) Liquid crystals possess high density packing of DNA molecules complexed with quaternary ammonium salt of oligomer-25 conidin.
(17) Its quaternary dimethyl derivative, designated as pranolium was firstly prepared by Lucchesi.
(18) On the basis of these structural studies, we discuss the relationships between the conformational differences in the allosteric site and the small changes in the quaternary structure within the T form to the possible mechanisms for CTP inhibition and ATP activation.
(19) N,N-dimethylanatoxin (DMAnTX), the quaternary derivative of the potent nicotinic agonist (+)-anatoxin-a (AnTX), has been evaluated for potency and efficacy at nicotinic acetylcholine receptors of frog motor endplates and Torpedo electric organs.
(20) Reaction of the thiol reagent 5,5'-dithio-bis(2-nitrobenzoic acid) (Nbs2) with the brain-specific protein S-100 favours stabilization of the quaternary structure of the protein via disulfide bond formation.