(adv.) Gladly; willingly; freely; -- now used only in the phrases, had as lief, and would as lief; as, I had, or would, as lief go as not.
Example Sentences:
(1) Radio 2 listeners recently voted Liege and Lief the most influential folk album ever.
(2) Liege and Lief, released in 1969, had such an air of confidence that it actually made English folk music vaguely hip for a while - no mean feat given the English loathing for their own folk traditions.
(3) Lief motif of this paper is the search for deficits in psychomotor growth in propositi of four and six years old, finding an important relation between neonatal bacterial meningitis and neuropsychological deficits (hyperkinesia, perceptive area impairment, reading-writing disorders, etc.)
(4) The instrument used was the Sexual Knowledge and Attitude Test (SKAT; Lief & Reed, 1972).
(5) The test was originally designed in 1967 by Harold I. Lief, MD and David Reed, PhD, at the Center for the Study of Sex Education in Medicine, Marriage Council of Philadelphia.
Rief
Definition:
(n.) Robbery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twelve solutions of 0.1 M boric acid and varying glycerol concentration were used to vary pH in a twelve-compartment commercial recycling isoelectric focusing (RIEF) system.
(2) Continuous flow zone electrophoresis (CFE) and recycling isoelectric focusing (RIEF) are two of the alternative formats for fluid phase preparative isolation of biological products in liquid separation media.
(3) RIEF clearly separated each protein with no detectable contamination.
(4) These data demonstrate the superiority of RIEF over CFE for resolution of protein mixtures having only minor charge differences.
(5) Gel filtration chromatography removed most of the remaining, higher molecular weight contaminants of the RIEF-purified enzyme.
(6) Mixtures of 1) cytochrome c, myoglobin, and ovalbumin or 2) beta-lactoglobulin and ovalbumin were used to evaluate the resolving capabilities of CFE and RIEF.
(7) The ground-based McDonnell Douglas CFE and RIEF were compared for the ability to resolve mixtures of proteins with known charge differences.
(8) RIEF may be more efficient due to the documented electrodissociation of noncovalent protein:protein complexes which occurs during RIEF separations.
(9) It is concluded that the borate-glycerol system can be adequately stabilized in RIEF for isoelectric purification of certain proteins.
(10) Fibrolase, a blood clot-lysing enzyme, was isolated from the venom of the snake Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix using preparative scale isoelectric focusing in the recycling isoelectric focusing (RIEF) apparatus.
(11) Both CFE and RIEF apparently separated the components of both mixtures into individual peaks, separated by fractions which contained little or no detectable protein.