(a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
(a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
(a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
(a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
(a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
(a.) The mob; the populace.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(2) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(3) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(4) Their particular electrophoretic mobility was retained.
(5) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
(6) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
(7) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(8) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
(9) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
(10) Furthermore, carcinoembryonic antigen from the carcinoma tissue was found to have the same electrophoretical mobility as the UEA-I binding glycoproteins.
(11) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(12) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(13) In order to obtain the most suitable mobile phase, we studied the influence of pH and acetonitrile content on the capacity factor (k').
(14) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
(15) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(16) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
(17) Heparitinase I (EC 4.2.2.8), an enzyme with specificity restricted to the heparan sulfate portion of the polysaccharide, releases fragments with the electrophoretic mobility and the structure of heparin.
(18) The transference by conjugation of protease genetic information between Proteus mirabilis strains only occurs upon mobilization by a conjugative plasmid such as RP4 (Inc P group).
(19) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(20) Moreover, it is the recombinant p70 polypeptides of slowest mobility that coelute with S6 kinase activity on anion-exchange chromatography.
Sceptre
Definition:
(n.) A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace.
(n.) Hence, royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty; as, to assume the scepter.
(v. t.) To endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority.
Example Sentences:
(1) The problem, said Dr Kinsey, was that Shakespeare's "sceptred isle ... set in a silver sea" is now set in a sea of rubbish.
(2) 'A n excessive sense of entitlement" was what the mayor of London ascribed to those looting their way across our sceptred isle – but he could have been referring to himself.
(3) Of the two most successful imprints, with a pair of titles longlisted, Chatto (Flanagan, Mukherjee) is in the top group, but Sceptre (Hustvedt, David Mitchell) is a mere third-tier outfit in Booker terms, entitled to only two submissions.
(4) Much was made of the royal couple's modernity (the aeroplanes, radio and television), and the young Queen's femininity, able to juggle children and a handbag, along with the crown of state and orb and sceptre.
(5) It comes amid a spate of knife killings in London that has prompted Scotland Yard to renew its anti-knife initiative, Operation Sceptre .
(6) The Art of Thinking Clearly: Better Thinking, Better Decisions by Rolf Dobelli is published by Sceptre, £9.99.
(7) Wintering, inspired by Plath's Ariel poems, by Kate Moses is published by Sceptre
(8) More powerfully still, we are made to visualise the horrific scenes in Rosenberg's most ambitious war poem, "Dead Man's Dump", from its very first lines: The plunging limbers over the shattered track Racketed with their rusty freight, Stuck out like many crowns of thorns, And the rusty stakes like sceptres old To stay the flood of brutish men Upon our brothers dear.
(9) I hesitated before taking the tiny hollow sceptre, but not for too long.
(10) But the Prince of Wales was determined not to let go of the only woman who had truly understood his loneliness and he and Camilla gradually began to be accepted as a couple by the ordinary people of this sceptred isle.
(11) The head of the Metropolitan police’s anti-knife initiative, Operation Sceptre, has admitted past failures in engaging with communities most affected by youth violence, amid criticism of the force’s latest strategy to tackle the problem.
(12) A mace head, a high-status object comparable to a sceptre, and a little bowl burnt on one side, which he believes may have held incense, suggest the dead could have been religious and political leaders and their immediate families.
(13) And, yet, if the Tory manifesto is more or less par for the course, although a bit too leftish in its message for the old party faithful (who wants riff-raff joining in the governance of these "sceptr'd isles"?
(14) The Met launched the eighth phase of Operation Sceptre at the beginning of the month, making 511 arrests and recovering 380 knives.
(15) When it’s a life and death situation, where you are seriously thinking that you’re going to be killed, you don’t care what the law says because the law’s not going to be there to protect you.” As part of the Operation Sceptre initiative, police said they were also recruiting community “role models” to deliver anti-knife messages to young people.
(16) The 18th-century Spanish crown and 17th-century sceptre were displayed rather than put on the king's head or in his hand, no foreign dignitaries or royals were invited and the afternoon reception for 2,000 guests featured finger foods rather than an elaborate banquet.
(17) The deaths have come amid a spate of stabbings in the capital that has spurred the Metropolitan police to revisit its anti-knife initiative , Operation Sceptre, with the formation of a dedicated 80-strong “murder suppression” unit.