(superl.) Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe.
(superl.) Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan.
(superl.) Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years.
(superl.) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
(v. t.) To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans.
(v. i.) To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience.
(v. i.) Hence, to become due, as a note.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
(2) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
(3) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
(4) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
(5) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
(6) [5alpha-(3)H]5alpha-Androst-16-en-3-one (5alpha-androstenone) was infused at a constant rate for 180min into the spermatic artery of a sexually mature boar.
(7) Synapse loss was accentuated, however, within immature and mature plaques.
(8) Hormonal interactions play a determining role in pulmonary maturation.
(9) In the mature neutrophil, the number of binding sites for WEM-G11 were found to be about 20,000 per cell.
(10) In addition, transitional macrophages with both positive granules and positive RER, nuclear envelope, negative Golgi apparatus (as in exudate- resident macrophages in vivo), and mature macrophages with peroxidatic activity only in the RER and nuclear envelope (as in resident macrophages in vivo) were found.
(11) Plasma membranes were obtained from a homogeneous population of rabbit red blood cells at different maturation periods.
(12) The nature, intracellular distribution, and role of proteins synthesized during meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes in vitro have been examined.
(13) Between the 24th and 29th day mature daughter sporocysts with fully developed cercariae ready to emerge, or already emerged, could be seen in the digestive gland of the snail.
(14) The objective of this study was to examine the effects of different culture media used for maturation of bovine oocytes on in vitro embryo development following in vitro fertilization.
(15) Special conditions apply for the scoring of a first and a last bone stage in a sequence, which will introduce less bias in the estimation of individual skeletal maturity with the MAT-method than with the TW-method.
(16) Furthermore, the expression of the 'mature' markers was found to be correlated with the phagocytic capacity of the cells.
(17) Implantation is dependent on embryonic age and is independent of endometrial maturation within this window.
(18) After isolation of the complex IV only gpFII and tails are required for mature phage formation in vitro.
(19) In males, the percentage of animals having mucous cells increased with sexual maturation and attained 100 per cent at age six months.
(20) In late-passage and cloned HUT102 cells, an increase in HTLV production was concordant with a decrease in constitutive interferon production and the loss of mature T lymphocyte antigens.
Silverback
Definition:
(n.) The knot.
Example Sentences:
(1) The building in question on Sunday was Hofstra University's soccer stadium in Long Island – current home to the NASL champion Cosmos (they won the league’s Soccer Bowl last year, by winning the fall season in their first campaign back, then beating the spring champions, and Sunday’s opponents, Atlanta Silverbacks, in the final in Atlanta).
(2) In the other game Atlanta Silverbacks held out till the 44th minute against the Seattle Sounders, but Andy Rose's opener was the first of 5 as they were swept aside in their relocated "home" tie.
(3) Within an hour of the finish of the last of the second round games, fans of NASL side Atlanta Silverbacks were furious to discover that a potential home tie against Seattle was now an away fixture, after Seattle had essentially bought the right to host the tie from the Silverbacks' owners - but with their big home crowds the Sounders have the resources and the will to take advantage of the rules as they currently stand.
(4) Tanya Plibersek – not an unambitious woman – defers so neatly to Shorten that she delegates a proxy when obliged to vote against him, and, unlike a paranoid silverback, the opposition leader isn’t keeping his youngsters down.
(5) The large silverback sat at the very front of the enclosure, his back turned to the glass.
(6) Outside politics and the BBC, and anywhere else Farage’s “big silverback gorillas” are not delightedly deferred to, the lingering presence of pension-defying, grandparent-age colleagues can, one gathers, be distinctly unwelcome to co-workers – and not only those hoping for promotion within the next century or so.
(7) The bottom line here is that Riyadh, emboldened by renewed US support and alarmed by the gains of Iran, is reclaiming the role of silverback.
(8) London zoo says no member of the public was at risk, yet the incident inevitably has echoes of the incident at Cincinnati zoo in May, when a three-year-old boy was able to climb into the enclosure of a large silverback called Harambe , which was shot dead before the child was harmed.
(9) Shock at the killing of a splendid young silverback, Harambe, mixed with relief that the four-year-old boy came through it relatively unscathed (though doubtless traumatised).
(10) Malcolm Fitzpatrick, senior curator of mammals for the zoo, said “categorically … that our male silverback gorilla Kumbuka did not break through any glass”.
(11) The silverback gorilla whose escape sent ZSL London Zoo into lockdown made an “opportunistic” exit through two unlocked doors into a corridor where a keeper was working, the zoo said.
(12) I have been charged by a nervous female who thought I was too close to a member of her group, a blackback (adolescent) male who I was filming feeding; I have been walloped and bowled over by boisterous blackbacks, treating me just like one of the family, and on occasion, been on the receiving end of defensive silverbacks giving their awe-inspiring screaming charge.
(13) A silverback gorilla that escaped from its enclosure at London zoo has broken panes of glass at the attraction at least twice, the zoo has confirmed.
(14) When the Gorilla Doctors need to anaesthetise a member of a wild gorilla group in Rwanda, Uganda or DRC, a line of courageous park staff stand between the silverback and the patient, giving the vets time to operate to remove a snare or treat a wound.
(15) Clearly if a silverback wanted to kill a child, he could do so in an instant.
(16) 4th round: Carolina Railhawks vs Chivas USA Bracket 8 Seattle Sounders 5-1 Atlanta Silverbacks This was the game that had the city of Atlanta, and the state of Georgia, in an outrage against their hometown Silverbacks - for giving away their home team status to the Seattle Sounders.
(17) And then there's Atlanta , home of the Silverbacks, and perhaps most importantly a name that has cropped up more than once out of the mouth of the commissioner when discussing possible expansion teams, not least because it's the largest television market without an MLS franchise.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ian Redmond grooms Pablo, a silverback mountain gorilla, for parasitology research in Karisoke, Rwanda.
(19) This is a family of five western lowland gorillas (they originate from central Africa, but were born in captivity in Europe): the silverback male, Badongo; his three women, Kishka, Bahasha and Kahilli, and her one-year-old baby, Indigo, live together in a happy harem.
(20) When stressed, silverbacks strut and display their strength – often by dragging vegetation, group members or other objects (including humans) – but this is not a forest with soft leaf-litter but a zoo enclosure of concrete and rock, so such behaviour carries more risk to the unfortunate person being dragged.