What's the difference between mead and merd?

Mead


Definition:

  • (n.) A fermented drink made of water and honey with malt, yeast, etc.; metheglin; hydromel.
  • (n.) A drink composed of sirup of sarsaparilla or other flavoring extract, and water. It is sometimes charged with carbonic acid gas.
  • (n.) A meadow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ed Mead, a director of estate agency Douglas & Gordon, says the recent pace of price rises has been deterring some homeowners from selling up in case they miss out on more growth.
  • (2) Con A and two serine proteases also raised both cAMP and 1-MeAde production.
  • (3) "I just wanted to go out there and enjoy it," said Dujardin, who is only the second British rider to win double gold at one Games, following the eventer Richard Meade 40 years ago.
  • (4) Wendy Mead, who chairs the corporation’s environment committee, said: “Diesel was sold as an environmental solution but it is in fact an invisible killer.
  • (5) It is hypothesized that the increase of reactance in these patients can be explained by an increase of capacitance due to an increase of airway compliance or a decrease of peripheral resistance according to Mead's analogon of the lungs.
  • (6) Surprisingly high levels of the Mead acid (20:3 n-9) were found, with the highest appearing in the artery from the baby with the lowest birth weight.
  • (7) Mead (5,8,11-icosatrienoic) acid was found to be metabolized by the cyclooxygenase enzyme system of ram seminal vesicle microsomes in a calcium-dependent manner.
  • (8) Production of 1-MeAde by GSS was inhibited by ethionine and selenoethionine, competitive inhibitors of methionine.
  • (9) Wyndham Mead , an American who has lived in Berlin for the past three years, joined because he was looking for an alternative to "impersonal gay dating sites".
  • (10) With respect to 1-MeAde production, the effect of GSS on follicle cells results in the receptor-mediated formation of cyclic AMP (cAMP).
  • (11) George H. Mead's conception of though as internal dialogue between the "I" and "me" aspects of the self and his notion of the "generalized other" were foreshadowed by some of the Scottish moralists, particularly Adam Smith.
  • (12) Thus, in repair-proficient cells, 3-MeAde is efficiently removed from DNA and does not contribute in a major way to mutagenesis.
  • (13) Ed Mead, executive director of realtor Douglas & Gordon in London, said his firm had seen two buyers from China looking to buy whole blocks of flats.
  • (14) Nothing gets a publisher’s chequebook out faster than a memoir, to the point that nonfiction books that are ostensibly about a specific subject (butchery, say, or George Eliot) are now styled and sold as memoirs (respectively Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession by Julie Powell; and The Road to Middlemarch, by Rebecca Mead.)
  • (15) Compared with method 1 the TLCO and related indices by method 2 were lower using the procedure of Jones and Meade and higher using the procedure of Ogilvie et al.
  • (16) The absence of this "anti-atelectasis" factor was proposed by Avery and Mead in 1959 to be the cause of hyaline membrane disease of premature infants.
  • (17) The N(6)-methyladenine (MeAde) and 5-methylcytosine (MeC) contents in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of bacteriophage lambda has been analyzed as a function of host specificity.
  • (18) Use of [methyl-14C]methionine showed that a radiolabel was incorporated into 1-MeAde during incubation with GSS and IBMX, but not with 1-MeAde-R.
  • (19) As a final show of support ahead of the court martial, pro-Manning activists staged a demonstration at the gates of Fort Meade near Baltimore over the weekend.
  • (20) We compared Konno-Mead diagrams derived from isovolume calibrated magnetometers and RIP in the DC-mode during room air and CO2 rebreathing in the sitting and supine positions.

Merd


Definition:

  • (n.) Ordure; dung.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The effect of the merD gene on the expression of the mer operon was determined from the rates of accumulation of merA-lacZ fusion protein in the presence and absence of an active merD gene in trans.
  • (2) This region included the 3'-terminal part of the merA gene, merD, unidentified reading frame URF1, and a part of URF2 homologous to previously sequenced determinants of plasmid R100.
  • (3) No polypeptide equivalent to merD or merC of R100 was detected.
  • (4) The product of merD coregulates (modulates) the expression of the operon.
  • (5) MerD bound specifically with the mer promoter sequence.
  • (6) Using merD-lacZ protein fusions, we show that merD is translated.
  • (7) MerD protein was over-produced using a T7 expression system.
  • (8) merP or merD of R100 were observed on either strand.
  • (9) The merD gene was cloned in a T7 promoter expression vector and the MerD protein product was visualized by autoradiography.
  • (10) All four sequenced examples of the mercury resistance (mer) operon of gram-negative bacteria have a promoter-distal reading frame, merD, whose removal has little effect on the resistance phenotype and whose translation has not previously been observed.
  • (11) The purified protein migrated as a 13,500 molecular weight protein on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and the N-terminal amino acid sequence corresponded to that deduced from the DNA sequence of merD.
  • (12) A frame-shift mutation in merD, created by deletion of 3 bp and an insertion of a 16 bp sequence upstream of the major inverted repeats present at the 3' end of the merD sequence, resulted in increased synthesis of the structural gene transcript and higher level of resistance to Hg2+ by a factor of about 2.
  • (13) "Breteau is an idealist, ready put everyone in the merde ," said Jean-François Tavira, recruited by Zoe's Ark to pilot the plane, while the presiding judge described the pair's absence as an act of "grand cowardice".
  • (14) DNase I footprinting experiments identified a common mer operator sequence for MerR and MerD.
  • (15) I don't recall whether back in 1991 people quipped about Kohlrrand or Mitterohl, as everyone now does about Merkozy giving way to Merde.
  • (16) Merde, " exclaims the woman, but she barely breaks her stride.
  • (17) He's an old lady begging on a bridge, a dying man, a father picking his daughter up from a party, a motion-capture performer on a green screen, a velvety leprechaun called Monsieur Merde who flits through Père Lachaise cemetery and interrupts a fashion shoot to kidnap the model (Eva Mendes), lick her armpits and eat her hair.
  • (18) However, Hg(II)-induced merD expression, as measured by beta-galactosidase activity and immunoblotting, is 10- to 15-fold lower than that of fusions to the gene immediately preceding it, merA.
  • (19) The products of the merR and merD genes were not identified.
  • (20) In contrast, the synthesis rates of mRNA corresponding to the promoter-distal genes merA and merD, were initially fivefold lower than the rates of the promoter-proximal genes for the first five minutes after induction, and then rose gradually to approximately 50% of the merTPC synthesis rates.

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