(n.) The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, and is much used for tea in South America.
(n.) Same as Checkmate.
(a.) See 2d Mat.
(v. t.) To confuse; to confound.
(v. t.) To checkmate.
(n.) One who customarily associates with another; a companion; an associate; any object which is associated or combined with a similar object.
(n.) Hence, specifically, a husband or wife; and among the lower animals, one of a pair associated for propagation and the care of their young.
(n.) A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
(n.) An officer in a merchant vessel ranking next below the captain. If there are more than one bearing the title, they are called, respectively, first mate, second mate, third mate, etc. In the navy, a subordinate officer or assistant; as, master's mate; surgeon's mate.
(v. t.) To match; to marry.
(v. t.) To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
(v. i.) To be or become a mate or mates, especially in sexual companionship; as, some birds mate for life; this bird will not mate with that one.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's Billy no-mates with a Heckler & Koch sniper-rifle, drowning in loneliness, booze and depression.
(2) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
(3) Adult nonpregnant female rhesus monkeys fed purified diets containing 100 or 4 ppm zinc for 1 yr were mated then studied through midgestation.
(4) Abnormal synaptonemal complexes were seen in all 19 crosses of N. crassa and N. intermedia that were examined, including matings between standard laboratory strains, inversions, Spore killers, and strains collected from nature.
(5) One hundred and ninety-six herd mates without RP served as controls.
(6) Males exploit this behavioural switch by increasing their sneaky mating attempts.
(7) To this end, a meiosis-defective mating-type mutation was used as a marker for the plus segment, by taking advantage of its suppressibility by a nonsense suppressor.
(8) Using allozymes as the genetic probe, data are presented which show that wild Drosophila buzzatii females and males engaged in copulation mate at random.
(9) Nwakali, an attacking midfielder, was the player of the Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, which Nigeria won, and at which his team-mate Chukwueze, a winger, also impressed.
(10) Gibbs was sent off in the first half at Stamford Bridge for handball, despite replays clearly showing it was his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who illegally deflected an Eden Hazard shot.
(11) Fumonisins are mycotoxins produced by strains belonging to several different mating populations of Gibberella fujikuroi (anamorphs, Fusarium section Liseola), a major pathogen of maize and sorghum worldwide.
(12) Transfer of the shuttle vectors from B. uniformis donors to E. coli occurred at the same frequencies when the matings were done aerobically or anaerobically.
(13) the does had been grazing on lucerne from the time of mating and received a free-choice lick, which included iodine.
(14) The present investigation examines the assortative mating coefficients for scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) from five separate studies.
(15) After irradiation by 137Cs gamma-rays at a dose of 5 Gy the males were mated to unirradiated females and genetic analysis of fertility in the F1 progeny was carried out.
(16) Swarming is a requisite for mating in populations of Aedes communis and Ae.
(17) Recombination between markers was observed in matings between phage beta and the heteroimmune corynebacteriophages gamma and L. In such matings between heteroimmune phages the c markers of phages beta and gamma failed to segregate from the imm markers which determine the specificity of lysogenic immunity in these phages.
(18) Labs that produce new legal highs use the simple expedient of giving them to their mates to test.
(19) On the basis of segregating phenotypes, the genetic potentials of these compatible nocardiae were ascertained as follows: the formation of a diploid with subsequent segregation of parental or haploid recombinant genomes or both; persistence of the diploid through many generations; continuing reassortment of genetic information by multiple matings between parental or recombinant organisms; and, very probably, second-round recombinations within the diploid.
(20) A test mating between two Manchester Terriers affected by Perthes' disease (PD) resulted in the birth of three affected males and two unaffected females.
Maty
Definition:
(n.) A native house servant in India.
Example Sentences:
(1) Differential binding specificities of MATy 1 and MATy 2 antibodies to the naked and capped LPS cores were further analyzed utilizing S. typhimurium polysaccharide fractions with different O-chain:core ratios which were obtained after separation by Sephacryl S-200 chromatography.
(2) On the basis of their reactivity pattern and binding affinity, MATy-V7 (IgM) and MATy-O9 (IgG3) antibodies were selected for further characterization of their antigenic specificity.
(3) Up to 2,000 people, including children as young as eight, sought shelter in the informal camp Jamshid and Mati are staying in, made up of a cluster of squalid warehouses behind Belgrade’s main train station.
(4) Jamshid Shadab, 27, and Matiullah (Mati) Afzal, 25, applied for special immigrant visas (SIV) to the US , but Jamshid has had his application denied twice and Mati’s is still pending.
(5) "We don't want instability and we don't want impunity," said Mwalimu Mati, a civil society activist and anti-corruption campaigner in Nairobi.
(6) The use of chemically defined native and synthetic saccharides as inhibitors, in combination with the conformation of the Salmonella core oligosaccharide, permitted the definition of antigenic determinants carried in the core domain recognized by each antibody: (i) the branches I and VIII are essential for MATy 1 recognition, (ii) the backbone III-IV-V for MATy 2, (iii) the backbone II-III-IV-V for MAST 56, and (iv) the backbone plus the branch III-IV-V-VIII for MAST 50.
(7) During the dinner, an intimate “fireside chat” at the Manhattan apartment of hoteliers Mati Weiderpass and Ian Reisner earlier this week, Cruz said if one of his daughters was gay, he would still love her “with all our hearts”, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
(8) Mati, who has an economics degree as well as a medical laboratory degree, worked as a translator for 10 months before being held hostage by the Taliban.
(9) Moreover, some of our results seem to show that MATI and MATII are associated in vivo.
(10) I had only one choice, to go to the Taliban and surrender myself, otherwise if they fought me they would kill me.” Jamshid and Mati’s journey took them through Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, and Bulgaria until they reached Serbia, where they have been stranded for more than two months following the closure of the Balkans migration route last year .
(11) In an inhibition enzyme immunoassay with rabbit factor-specific anti-Salmonella antibodies as the competing agents, the reactivity of MATy-V7 and MATy-O9 were significantly inhibited by the anti-Vi and anti-O9 antisera, respectively.
(12) Two MAT activities can be dissociated in a wild type extract (MATI and MATII) by DEAE cellulose chromatography.
(13) I was captured by the Taliban once,” Mati explains in a Guardian video.
(14) "This was a completely false accusation by the police," said Mwalimu Mati, a prominent civil society activist who had worked with Kingara on a project examining illegal land grabs.
(15) Residues 109 and 116 are also critical for stimulation of myoglobin-specific I-Ad-restricted clones (Berkower, I., L. A. Matis, G.K. Buckenmeyer, F.R.
(16) 265: 17935-17940, 1990) and that alpha-abundance is likely increased as a result of increased efficiency of alpha-mRNA translation (L. Lescale-Matys and A.
(17) They did it today and didn’t get reward.” He added: “Maty is very disappointed, he’s distraught.
(18) Immunoblotting analysis showed that MATy 1 distinguished only the bottom bands (naked LPS core) among the heterogeneous LPS populations, whereas MATy 2 gave a ladder pattern (reactive with both naked and O-chain-substituted LPS cores).
(19) Mwalimu Mati, the head of the anti-corruption watchdog Mars Group Kenya, said the decision was a serious setback.
(20) Mwalimu Mati, of the anti-graft watchdog Mars Group Kenya , said the cost of the kits was a real matter of concern for Kenyans.