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Meld


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Goodman added: "The line between advice on policy (which Crosby doesn't give) and advice on strategy (which he certainly does) isn't the iron wall that Downing Street and CCHQ would like to assert: the one tends to meld into the other.
  • (2) Mixing of membrane components was demonstrated by transfer of fluorescent lipophilic dye, and melding of granule contents was seen with differential interference microscopy.
  • (3) It was through these now-remote valleys that ideas of art, decorum, dress, religion and court culture passed backwards and forwards, east to west and back again, mixing and melding to create the most unexpected conjuctions.
  • (4) Helping to meld everyone's creativity into an artistic whole is different from handing down dictats from on high, even if they are dressed up as helpful suggestions.
  • (5) This thickens the sauce and melds the flavours together.
  • (6) The doctor's lectures were a linguistic and topical pastiche, melding Indian and Western biologies, psychologies, and sociologies.
  • (7) It all melds together to make one of the finest examples of tight design, and of understanding by the designers of their game’s core.
  • (8) Rather, traditional pharmacy should be melded with the values system fostered by the clinical movement so that pharmacy as a whole will become more fully professionalized.
  • (9) "There is a depth and honesty in his music, in the way his beats meld together," Atwood-Ferguson says.
  • (10) Assuming senators back the bill, the Senate and the House of Representatives versions will then be melded into one and voted on again by both chambers before passing to Obama for his signature.
  • (11) This is why a new sports strategy is being worked on that will further build on the cross-government work on sport and physical activity that happens.” However, that £1bn “public funding” for community sport melds money from the national lottery, of which sport is one of the direct, statutory beneficiaries, with funding Crouch’s government provides.
  • (12) The uniqueness is in the melding of arcane British crafts (lacemakers, embroiderers, feather specialists, leather workers, corset-makers) with modern technology to create extraordinarily dramatic designs.
  • (13) This article reports the progress of 13 students at the end of 1 year of planning and 1 year of implementing the MELD model in one urban elementary school.
  • (14) Such overlapping segments are then melded into one continuous string of nucleotides.
  • (15) FKA Twigs’ LP1 sees 26-year-old solo artist Tahliah Debrett Barnett meld a variety of genres – from trip hop and jazz to ambient and R&B – to conjure up a sensual sound that is both ethereal and unique.
  • (16) The combined intracellular injection of Lucifer Yellow and biocytin provides a simple means of melding the advantages of a fluorescent label (compatible with other fluorescence labels and with immunocytochemistry) with the benefits of a stable, non-fading, electron-dense marker.
  • (17) Melding these various inputs required close attention to detail and diplomatic flexibility.
  • (18) Inorganic capillary electrophoresis (ICE) is a new separations technology which melds the technique of classical electrophoresis with the separations approach of ion chromatography.
  • (19) This article presents the rationale for education in nutrition in the preparation of agriculturalists and reviews some of the past efforts and present activities of national and international organizations to meld nutrition into agricultural world development programs.
  • (20) Perhaps even more exciting is what the future holds, as the continued march of molecular biology is melded with novel approaches to the definitive treatment of thalassemias.

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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