What's the difference between met and ret?

Met


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Meet
  • () imp. & p. p. of Meet.
  • () imp. & p. p. of Mete, to measure.
  • () p. p. of Mete, to dream.
  • (p. p.) of Mete

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stimulation of human leukocytes with various chemical mediators such as TPA, f-Met-Leu-Phe, LTB4, etc.
  • (2) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
  • (3) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
  • (4) A key component of a career program should be recognition of a nurse's needs and the program should be evaluated to determine if these needs are met.
  • (5) This case is unusual in that it demonstrated no malignant epithelium beyond that of a borderline tumor, but met the criteria of malignancy because of its invasiveness and metastasis.
  • (6) Dietary intakes, measured by three 24-hour recalls, revealed that protein, iron and Vitamin C generally met or exceeded the Nutrition Recommendations for age.
  • (7) Peter Stott of the Met Office, who led the study, said: "With global warming we're talking about very big changes in the overall water cycle.
  • (8) My father has never met him but has a different view.
  • (9) The substructural units, 5-14 linear and 5-14 cyclic, have been used as models for MCH-- H-Asp1-Thr-Met-Arg-Cys-Met-Val-Gly-Arg HO-Val17-Glu-Trp-Cys-Pro-Arg-Tyr-Val in 1H-nmr conformational studies.
  • (10) Johnson said the move would save businesses £350m from not having to meet the more exacting standards, which will now only have to be met by buses.
  • (11) At the moment the MPA makes the appointments in consultation with the Met commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson.
  • (12) We have named them bombolitin I (Ile-Lys-Ile-Thr-Thr-Met-Leu-Ala-Lys-Leu-Gly-Lys-Val-Leu-Ala-His-Val-NH2 ), bombolitin II (Ser-Lys-Ile-Thr-Asp-Ile-Leu-Ala-Lys-Leu-Gly-Lys-Val-Leu-Ala-His-Val-NH2 ), bombolitin III (Ile-Lys-Ile-Met-Asp-Ile-Leu-Ala-Lys-Leu-Gly-Lys-Val-Leu-Ala-His-Val-NH2 ), bombolitin IV (Ile-Asn-Ile-Lys-Asp-Ile-Leu-Ala-Lys-Leu-Val-Lys-Val-Leu-Gly-His-Val-NH2 ), and bombolitin V (Ile-Asn-Val-Leu-Gly-Ile-Leu-Gly-Leu-Leu-Gly-Lys-Ala-Leu-Ser-His-Leu-NH2 ).
  • (13) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
  • (14) This goal seems to have been met as indicated by an evaluation received from the students, since 58.3 percent believed they better understood the role of the technologist and clinical laboratory in patient care.
  • (15) Without a renewables target, Energy Department officials said, it would be possible for a large proportion of this shortfall to be met by gas-fired power generation.
  • (16) The University of the Arts London and Sunderland, Sheffield Hallam, Manchester Met and Leeds Met university have also experienced sharp declines in applications.
  • (17) "I am deeply proud of the achievements of the Met since I became commissioner.
  • (18) DNA fragments coding for signal peptides with different lengths (28, 31, 33 and 41 amino acids from the translation initiator Met) were prepared and fused with the E. coli beta-lactamase structural gene.
  • (19) The New York Times also alleged that the Met had not passed full details about how many people were victims of the illegal practice to the CPS because it has a history of cooperation with News International titles.
  • (20) Cysteamine pretreatment of rats (depletion of somatostatin containing D-cells and decrease in somatostatin secretion) did not change the Met-enkephalin effect on insulin secretion.

Ret


Definition:

  • (v. t.) See Aret.
  • (v. t.) To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The rearrangement was presumed to be responsible for activation of the ret gene.
  • (2) A government-commissioned review into the RET, headed by the businessman and climate change sceptic Dick Warburton, concluded that while it has largely achieved its aims and helped create jobs in clean energy, it should be either wound back or cut off entirely.
  • (3) Although lidocaine and mexiletine increased RET, procainamide and disopyramide did not.
  • (4) With low grade astrocytomas, survival beyond 4 years was significantly worse (higher death rates) in the group receiving more than 1400 rets.
  • (5) Striking similarities were found between the functional pathways affected differentially by RET stimulation and well-defined cholinergic pathways which originate in the midbrain tegmentum.
  • (6) Oxipurinol plasma levels and plasma elimination half-life were investigated in five healthy volunteers after oral administration of 300 mg allopurinol in customary (A 300) and in slow-release preparation (A ret) in a double blind cross-over study.
  • (7) The nucleotide sequence indicates that the active ret transforming gene encodes a fusion protein with a carboxy-terminal domain which is 40 to 50% homologous to members of the tyrosine kinase gene family.
  • (8) But neither option from Dick’s report is closing down the RET, to be clear.” Abbott has previously blamed the RET for having a “significant impact” on power prices, although the Warburton report found this wasn’t the case.
  • (9) The remaining 6 patients suffered from prominent swallowing disturbances and their initial postoperative RETS demonstrated prolonged defective transit or the presence of gastroesophageal (GE) reflux.
  • (10) NBD-cholesterol linoleate (NBD-CL) and octadecyl rhodamine B (R18) were incorporated simultaneously into LDL, as a RET donor and a RET acceptor, respectively.
  • (11) The plan would overcome the effect of falling electricity demand on the real impact of the RET.
  • (12) RET-P1 and lectin binding did not always correspond in developing retina, indicating that at least part of the observed lectin label must be due to other glycoproteins or glycolipids.
  • (13) The review concedes this, and changed the rationale it used to argue in favour of getting rid of the RET.
  • (14) We have investigated the pH-dependent interaction between large unilamellar phospholipid vesicles (liposomes) and membrane vesicles derived from Bacillus subtilis, utilizing a fluorescent assay based on resonance energy transfer (RET) (Struck, D. K., Hoekstra, D., and Pagano, R. E. (1981) Biochemistry 20, 4093-4099).
  • (15) A vigorous defence of the RET, run by the Solar Council, is targeting the 20 most marginal Coalition electorates in the country.
  • (16) The RET is working – it has helped triple solar and wind energy since 2009, led to some $18bn in investment and grown jobs in the sector by more than 250%” said John Connor, chief executive of the Climate Institute.
  • (17) The pneumonitis was more frequently noted with increasing rets dose in both age groups (n.s.)
  • (18) The ret proto-oncogene shows a pattern of expression restricted to neuroendocrine tissue.
  • (19) In all the patients included in this study, dosage had exceded 1,600 rets.
  • (20) Immunoprecipitation with anti-phosphotyrosine antibody followed by Western blotting revealed that p57retTPC is constitutively phosphorylated, whereas the ret proto-oncogene products are not.

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