(a.) Of or pertaining to Lombardy, or the inhabitants of Lombardy.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
(n.) A money lender or banker; -- so called because the business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards.
(n.) Same as Lombard-house.
(n.) A form of cannon formerly in use.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conditions have been described which allow an in vitro indefinite multiplication of differentiated murine macrophages (Lombard et al: Biol Cell 53, 219, 1985).
(2) Overall, Lombard Street argues that an ECB bond-buying plan would push down short-term borrowing costs (assuming the Bundesbank doesn't block it), but would do little to really fix the crisis: We always come back to a simple point – without economic growth, there can be no end to the euro crisis.
(3) The purpose of this study was to investigate the Lombard effect on the speech of esophageal talkers, artificial larynx users, and normal speakers.
(4) But Pascal Menges, manager of the Lombard Odier Global Energy Fund , which invests in the energy sector, sees failure as the driving motive behind the deal.
(5) The results of these experiments indicate that interference with speech intelligibility is directly related to elicitation of the Lombard and sidetone amplification effects.
(6) The Lounge was a speakeasy in the 1920s and hosted Humphrey Bogart, Carol Lombard, Gary Cooper, John Wayne and Clark Gable.
(7) The report by the respected economic analysts Lombard Street Research echoed fears from City analysts that the G20 conference at the weekend was unable to agree a plan to promote growth in the global economy.
(8) The Lombard effect was found to be extremely stable and robust.
(9) This composition is supportive of the functional role in audition proposed for the muscle by Lombard and Straughan (1974).
(10) Charles Dumas of Lombard Street Research has put some hard numbers on this trend.
(11) Dario Perkins of Lombard Street Research warns that public opinion in all the struggling economies – Portugal, Greece, Spain and Italy – is likely to become increasingly impatient if the universally prescribed recipe of austerity fails to improve people's lives.
(12) Put differently, they performed the role of the avant garde, a term whose transposition from the military to the artistic realm might have been made for the futurists, whose ideas and antics travelled faster than the Lombard Battalion of Volunteer Cyclists and Automobilists formed by their leaders when they joined up.
(13) Jamie Dannhauser, analyst at Lombard Street Research, said the PMI data was consistent with Spain and Italy going back into recession, adding that the loss of momentum for the eurozone should be a serious concern for the European Central Bank, which has twice raised interest rates this year after becoming alarmed at rising inflation.
(14) Maya Bhandar at Lombard Street Research, says that the economy is contracting at an annualised rate of 14-15% in the current quarter.
(15) This restaurant was built in 1902, and Carole Lombard and Clark Gable honeymooned in the hotel upstairs.
(16) The present study reports three experiments that test the robustness of the Lombard effect when speakers are given instructions and training with visual feedback to help suppress it.
(17) Any impairment of audio-phonatory control by background noise is followed by an increase in both the intensity and pitch of the speaking voice (Lombard reflex, 1911), thus increasing vocal strain.
(18) Vocal therapy and voice training may have a favorable effect on the Lombard reflex (probably by improvement of the kinesthetic control mechanism) so that the speaking voice in a noisy environment is raised less with less vocal strain.
(19) Charles Dumas, the eminent boss of economic analysts Lombard Street Research, describes in his latest monthly review how Japan's refusal to adapt has cost its citizens dearly.
(20) The Lombard effect is the tendency to increase one's vocal intensity in noise.
Native
Definition:
(a.) Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
(a.) Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances in which one is born; -- opposed to foreign; as, native land, language, color, etc.
(a.) Born in the region in which one lives; as, a native inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where used or sold; not foreign or imported; as, native oysters, or strawberries.
(a.) Original; constituting the original substance of anything; as, native dust.
(a.) Conferred by birth; derived from origin; born with one; inherent; inborn; not acquired; as, native genius, cheerfulness, simplicity, rights, etc.
(a.) Found in nature uncombined with other elements; as, native silver.
(a.) Found in nature; not artificial; as native sodium chloride.
(n.) One who, or that which, is born in a place or country referred to; a denizen by birth; an animal, a fruit, or vegetable, produced in a certain region; as, a native of France.
(n.) Any of the live stock found in a region, as distinguished from such as belong to pure and distinct imported breeds.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 2 weeks, the native and heterotopic pituitaries were assayed for SP, TSH, PRL, and LH.
(2) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(3) The effects of in vivo administration of native prostaglandin E2 (PGE) on the cycling status of the granulocyte-monocyte progenitor cell (CFU-GM) were examined in a mouse model.
(4) This indicated that proteolysis at Lys1313-Glu also proceeded in native alpha 2M.
(5) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
(6) As a Native American I am pretty sensitive to charges of racism and white supremacy,” the Oklahoma congressman added.
(7) The canine system allows quantitative separation of native heme containing alpha and beta chains which recombine to for tetrameric hemoglobin with normal functional properties (n = 2.17).
(8) We conclude that this enzyme is essentially identical to the native enzyme and should be very useful in the future study of this important hydroxylase.
(9) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
(10) In 0.17 M Na+(aq), tRNA(Phe) exists in its native conformation and the number of strong binding sites (Ka greater than or equal to 10(4)) was estimated to be 3-4 by titration experiments, in agreement with X-ray structural data for crystalline tRNA(Phe) (Jack et al., 1977).
(11) At concentrations several hundredfold higher than the equivalents present in the minimum concentration of rat skin soluble collagen required for platelet aggregation, neither Hyl-Gal (at 29 muM) nor Hyl-Gal-Glc (at 18 muM) caused platelet aggregation or inhibited platelet aggregation by native collagen.
(12) The frequency of oesophageal cancer varies among the native and immigrant populations in different countries.
(13) 1H NMR spectroscopy has been used to characterize these proteins and to compare them to one another and to native antithrombin III.
(14) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
(15) Concanavalin A (con A) is a potent inhibitor of coagulant activity of native tissue factor.
(16) Binding of uPA to filters was blocked by a synthetic oligopeptide containing the known receptor binding region of native uPA.
(17) Refolding was observed by injection of denatured protein into columns having isocratic concentrations in the transition and native base-line zones.
(18) These two crystallins were compared with respect to their native molecular masses, subunit structures, peptide mapping and amino acid compositions in order to establish the identity of each crystallin.
(19) Hybridomas were selected on the basis of solid-phase reactivity with the purified native A transferase, cell immunofluorescence and immunoprecipitation of transferase activity, and absence of reactivity with blood group ABH carbohydrate determinants.
(20) Single-stranded circles did not form if a limited number of nucleotides were removed from the 3' ends of native molecules by Escherichia coli exonuclease III digestion prior to denaturation and annealing.