What's the difference between maroon and stranded?

Maroon


Definition:

  • (n.) In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains.
  • (v. t.) To put (a person) ashore on a desolate island or coast and leave him to his fate.
  • (a.) Having the color called maroon. See 4th Maroon.
  • (n.) A brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple.
  • (n.) An explosive shell. See Marron, 3.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Schyman comes across like a fusion of Germaine Greer and Ken Livingstone, dressed in Parisian chic with a maroon dress and a colourful scarf.
  • (2) However, the dihybrid cross with linkage group I marker maroon showed a highly significant departure from 39:13:9:3 ratio.
  • (3) Nominees: Sticks and Stones, Maroon Productions for Channel 4 Charlie and Lola "I am not sleepy and I will not go to bed", Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Children's Breakthrough Award - Behind the Screen Jonathan Smith - Make Me Normal, Century Films for Channel 4 "The jury said that this year's winner had directed a moving and inspiring documentary which forced the audience to consider the impact of autism and Aspergers syndrome and how it can impact on the lives of those it affects."
  • (4) But the crisis has left divisions more deeply entrenched than ever between the rich, Dutch-speaking north and poorer, French-speaking south, with melting pot Brussels marooned in the middle.
  • (5) The commemoration began when the clock on the neo-gothic Town Hall struck 12, and a maroon was fired from the roof.
  • (6) No one else need bother to paint them as a ramshackle and rancorous rabble marooned in the past and without a plausible account of the future.
  • (7) Guardian US environment correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg looked at the role cities would have to play in reducing emissions: At-risk cities hold solutions to climate change: UN report It is already taking shape as the 21st century urban nightmare: a big storm hits a city like Shanghai, Mumbai, Miami or New York, knocking out power supply and waste treatment plants, washing out entire neighbourhoods and marooning the survivors in a toxic and foul-smelling swamp.
  • (8) Mutants of the maroon-like complex, representative of the five known complementation classes, were subjected to fine structure mapping experiments utilizing a nutritional selective procedure which permits the survival of rare ma-l(+) progeny from large-scale crosses.
  • (9) The amount of retrodisplacement was greatest with Kennerdell-Maroon or four-wall decompression and the least with lateral wall decompression.
  • (10) Plus her parents recently moved back to Carlisle from Harrogate, and will be able to help with childcare if she ends up marooned in Westminster during the week.
  • (11) "He had a strange life, marooned inside communist East Germany in his west Berlin apartment just a stone's throw from where his hero Christopher Isherwood had once lived, and surrounded by expressionist art, bars and other musicians and artists," says Tobias Rüther, author of Heroes: David Bowie and Berlin .
  • (12) Dan Barron blames this result on the maroon jerseys, while Greg Phillips nominates the theme to Ronnie Corbett vehicle Sorry as the perfect Hazlehurst soundtrack for this shambles.
  • (13) Layali has spent her entire life marooned on this colonial holdover, which is not equipped for refugees.
  • (14) The King Jacob stopped 100 metres from the marooned boat, whose captain – believed to be a Tunisian – manoeuvred clumsily in the dark, ramming the Portuguese boat.
  • (15) Five genetically distinct mutants with increased bleeding times and abnormal dense granules were used: maroon (ru-2mr), light ear (le), ruby eye (ru), beige (bg1), and pale ear (ep).
  • (16) Neutrophils stained dark maroon and contained green granules, eosinophils contained bright blue granules, basophils revealed yellow and pink granules, and monocytes stained green with green and yellow vacuoles.
  • (17) Parents are no longer marooned at home, waiting for cultural news to reach them several weeks later.
  • (18) When questioned about this iconography of one of the 20th-century’s worst mass murderers, he conceded that Mao had “probably” been a monster, but added: “We will be arguing about this to the end of time.” In a sense, Briggs remained marooned in the optimistic period of his prime – the 40s to the 60s – a believer above all in what he called in one of his best books The Age of Improvement (1959).
  • (19) Parents risk being taken in by someone's promises, only to find their children suddenly marooned.
  • (20) Snowden has since fled Hong Kong for Moscow, where he is reportedly marooned while resisting US attempts to extradite him to face charges under the Espionage Act.

Stranded


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Strand

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Within the outflow tract wall, the labelled cells were enmeshed by strands of alcian blue-stained extracellular matrix.
  • (2) Theoretical computations are performed of the intercalative binding of the neocarzinostatin chromophore (NCS) with the double-stranded oligonucleotides d(CGCG)2, d(GCGC)2, d(TATA)2 and d(ATAT)2.
  • (3) Single stranded DNA and RNA are hydrolyzed by the spinach endonuclease.
  • (4) The M 13 specific DNA present in minicells isolated several hours after infection consists of single stranded viral DNA and double stranded replicative forms in nearly equal amounts.
  • (5) Each L subunit contains 127 residues arranged into 10 beta-strands connected by turns.
  • (6) Globin cDNA was used as the template for the synthesis of a complementary strand (ccDNA) by avian myeloblastosis virus DNA polymerase.
  • (7) Both strong-stop DNAs are made early during in vitro reactions and decline in concentration later, consistent with postulated roles as initiators of long minus- and plus-strand DNA.
  • (8) Neutral sucrose density sedimentation patterns indicate that neutron-induced double strand-breaks sometimes occur in clusters of more than 100 in the same phage and that the effeciency with which double strand-breaks form is about 50 times that of gamma-induced double strand-breaks.
  • (9) Equilibrium and kinetic studies of the interaction of gene 32 protein of T4 phage with single-stranded fd DNA were performed monitoring the changes in protein fluorescence.
  • (10) 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.
  • (11) Structural studies indicate that caveolae are decorated on their cytoplasmic surface by a unique array of filaments or strands that form striated coatings.
  • (12) An average size chromomere of the polytene X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster contains enough DNA in each haploid equivalent strand to code for 30 genes, each 1,000 nucleotides long.
  • (13) Preparations of the 72 kDa, purified by immunoprecipitation or by single-stranded DNA-cellulose column chromatography and incubated with [gamma-32P]ATP, were found to contain protein kinase activity.
  • (14) Longer times of radiolabeling demonstrated that the nascent RNA accumulated as 42S RNA, which was primarily of the same sense as the virion strand when it was radiolabeled at 5 h postinfection.
  • (15) In vivo, ribosomal RNA of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is transcribed from the light strand of gamma DNA.
  • (16) It is conceivable that DNA replication of RSF1010 does not need the priming mechanism for lagging strand synthesis and proceeds by the strand displacement mechanism.
  • (17) These experiments represent the first occasion that the sequence specificity of a DNA damaging agent, which causes only double-strand breaks, has been determined to the exact base-pair in intact cells.
  • (18) Crandell feline kidney cells in which the ADV-G strain of ADV was permissively replicating contained virion and non-structural proteins, large amounts of single stranded virion DNA, duplex replicative form (RF) DNA, and mRNA.
  • (19) Oligodeoxynucleotides related to the non-transcribed DNA strands can effectively inhibit the RNA synthesis catalyzed by E. coli RNA polymerase.
  • (20) The Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (CaMV) genome is a double-stranded DNA molecule of about 5 million daltons.

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