(v.) To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow.
(v.) Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
(v. i.) To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.
(v. i.) To dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth.
(v. i.) Hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear.
(v. i.) To lose distinct form or outline; to blend.
(v. i.) To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away.
Example Sentences:
(1) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(2) The melting profile exhibited two transitions--one at about 35 degrees C and one above 50 degrees C. Our spectral data showed that helices I and II were stable during the first transition, and agreed with other data that helix III was the most likely helix to have melted.
(3) A compact attachment for microscope-type instruments is described enabling to introduce, rapidly and qualitatively, minute biological speciments into melted embedding medium and ensuring the safety of optics.
(4) However, significant differences in the formation and melting of the highly crystalline phase were evident between the two polar headgroup stereoisomers.
(5) The second step (50 degrees-54 degrees) involves the melting of the anticodon and miniloop regions.
(6) The melting of sea ice, ice caps and glaciers across the planet is one of the clearest signs of global warming and the UK-led team of scientists will use the data from CryoSat-2 to track how this is affecting ocean currents, sea levels and the overall global climate.
(7) The hybrids formed by the rapidly reacting fractions of both NRNA and mRNA melt over a narrow temperature range with a midpoint about 11 degrees C below that of native L cell DNA.
(8) It somewhat condescendingly divides the population into 15 groups – among them, Terraced Melting Pot (“Lower-income workers, mostly young, living in tightly packed inner-urban terraces”), and Suburban Mind-sets (“Maturing families on mid-range incomes living a moderate lifestyle in suburban semis”).
(9) SEM of the resulting surface showed rounded fragments of enamel rods, enamel melting, cracks, and smooth-edged voids.
(10) About half of Greenland's surface ice sheet melts during a typical summer, but Zwally said he and other scientists had been recording an acceleration of that melting process over the last few decades.
(11) Below-zero temperatures crowned the top of the US from Idaho to Minnesota, where many roads still had an inch-thick plate of ice, polished smooth by traffic and impervious to ice-melting chemicals.
(12) The decrease in melting temperature in DNA samples modified by N-AcO-AAF(DNA-AAF) was carefully reinvestigated.
(13) 3 For the dough: melt the lard with 100ml water in a small pan and leave to cool slightly.
(14) Both proteins are able to protect DNA against thermal denaturation, but the differences observed in the melting profiles suggest that they interact by different mechanisms.
(15) To measure the degree of wetting of the metallic phases, silver, tin, and copper were melted in such proportions as to give specimens of silver, tin, the alpha, beta, and gamma silver-tin phases, the eutectic in the silver-copper system.
(16) In contrast to the helix-destabilizing and distortive modifications of DNA caused by ultraviolet light or N-acetoxy-2-(acetylamino)fluorene, CC-1065 increases the melting point of DNA and decreases the S1 nuclease activity.
(17) The unsaturated drug-DNA complex melts through complex thermal transitions with one broad endotherm in the same temperature region as free DNA and the other at a higher temperature which is rf (mol ligand per mol DNA in base pairs) value dependent.
(18) Melting profiles of normal, hybrid, and double heavy DNA indicated a structural change of the double heavy DNA.
(19) 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.
(20) The mutation in pro alpha 2(I) causes increased posttranslational modification in the amino-terminal half of some pro alpha 1(I) chains, lowers the melting temperature of type I collagen molecules that incorporate a mutant pro alpha 2(I) chain, and prevents or delays the secretion of those molecules from fibroblasts in cell culture.
Ment
Definition:
(p. p.) of Menge
() p. p. of Menge.
Example Sentences:
(1) When that phrase first flew across the Atlantic, we didn't know how to pronounce it: ha rassment or har ass ment?
(2) The ratio of ment TM in the period of REMs burst against the total ment TM during sREM (reflecting the noradrenergic hypofunction) was high in the younger group, while it decreased later.
(3) The ratio of the number of mentalis twitch movement (ment TM) during sREM against the number of rapid eye movements (REMs) (reflecting dopaminergic activities) was below normal in the younger cases but increased markedly.
(4) Muscarine has been iso lared in a yield of 0.013 percent from mycelia of Clitocybe rivulosa grown in the laboratory on a medium supple mented with beer wort.
(5) An increase in the level of the spontaneous mutational process is shown to increase the size of population samples which are ment, when analysed, to reveal statistically significant differences between the effect observed and the level of spontaneous mutagenesis.
(6) Twelve scales of THI were grouped into two, the first consisting of ten scales (SUSY, RESP, EYSK, MOUT, DIGE, IMPU, MENT, DEPR, NERV, and LIFE) and the second consisting of two scales (AGGR and LISC).
(7) The importance of 5 alpha reductase in the differential action of testosterone and MENT on prostate was confirmed by using a 5 alpha-reductase inhibitor.
(8) Winnicott's notion of the creation of the subject in the psychological space between mother and infant involves a conception of the on-going constitution of the subject in the simultaneity of forms of dialectical tension between at-one-ment and separateness, internality and externality, I and me, I and Thou.
(9) Classification systems are ment to be an aid in taking therapeutical decisions in the assessment of the prognosis and in comparising of different lesions.
(10) In contrast, cyproterone acetate, an antiandrogen that competitively binds to the androgen receptors, inhibited the action of MENT and of testosterone on the prostate as well as on the muscle.
(11) Still, we have our two-edged gift of tongues to watch, and tongues we find to sing of London's Babylon, Skye's Wyoming Turkey Magazine Radikal Poet Murat Mentes The aliens sniffing the aromas rising from Turkish kitchens The aliens hearing poems of Rumi, melodies of Mevlevis The aliens seeing the brightness of the Bosphorus, of domes, of young smiles Ask each other: "Those signals do come from the Earth, but which part exactly?"
(12) Comparison of MENT-reconstructed images with corresponding anatomic myocardial cross sections indicate that as few as 6 to 12 views can be used to reconstruct the cross sections of the multiple coronary branches (n = 6-11) within a plane of reconstruction.
(13) Selected published studies investigating the existence of thought disorder in close relatives were re-examined in response to the conclusion by Saccuzzo, Callahan, and Madsen (J Nerv Ment Dis 176:368-371, 1988) that "the evidence for thought disorder in the families of schizophrenics is weak and inconclusive."
(14) The 42-kDa protein designated here as MENT (mature erythrocyte nuclear termination stage-specific protein) is hyperexpressed at the terminal stage of chicken erythropoiesis and is accumulated in adult chicken erythrocyte nuclei.
(15) The ability of 7 alpha-methyl-19-nortestosterone acetate (MENT) to increase the weights of ventral prostate and seminal vesicles of castrated rats was four times higher than that of testosterone, while its effect on the weights of bulbocavernosus plus levator ani muscles (muscle), was 10 times that of testosterone.
(16) He was hounded out of his native Scotland to a hideaway in the south of France after the furore over his £16.9m pension pot which was later halved under pressure from the government and the new management of the bank.
(17) J. Nerv Ment Dis 177:480-486) which found that subjects with multiple personality disorder (MPD) experienced significantly more changes in visual functioning between alter personalities than a control group simulating the disorder.
(18) Upon denaturation in 98% formamide, the viral genome sedi-mented at 24S in formamide sucrose gradient and became sensitive to RNase.
(19) This paper is ment to be a basic introduction to the following communications on flaptechniques in the same journal.
(20) He later apologised “It’s not glasses he needs – it’s a Labrador!” – Lyon midfielder Cl é ment Grenier to referee Ruddy Buquet after a stormy 2-1 loss at home to Saint-Étienne “I’m surprised by the unacceptable and immature attitude of Romao, who made vulgar remarks towards [Canal+ pundit] Pierre Ménès and me because he couldn’t think of anything else to say after fouling me but insult me.