(a.) Not engaged on either side; not taking part with or assisting either of two or more contending parties; neuter; indifferent.
(a.) Neither good nor bad; of medium quality; middling; not decided or pronounced.
(a.) Neuter. See Neuter, a., 3.
(a.) Having neither acid nor basic properties; unable to turn red litmus blue or blue litmus red; -- said of certain salts or other compounds. Contrasted with acid, and alkaline.
(n.) A person or a nation that takes no part in a contest between others; one who is neutral.
Example Sentences:
(1) F(420) is photolabile aerobically in neutral and basic solutions, whereas the acid-stable chromophore is not photolabile under these conditions.
(2) Further analysis with two other synthetic peptides (212Cys to 222Glu and Cys X 221Ile to 236Glu) indicated that the dodecapeptide Ile-Glu-Phe-Gln-Lys-Asn-Asn-Arg-Leu-Leu-Glu mimicked either the whole or a major part of the neutralization epitope.
(3) In addition to esophageal manometry, we also performed acid-clearance studies and examined salivary output, acid-neutralizing capacity, and bicarbonate concentration.
(4) The presence of the expected C19 neutral and C18 phenolic steroids was confirmed.
(5) The free nucleoside IV was obtained by removal of blocking groups by sodium methoxide catalyzed deacylation, deionization under reducing atmosphere, and chromatography on neutral alumina.
(6) The spikes likely correspond to VP3, a hemagglutinin, while the rest of the mass density in the outer shell represents 780 molecules of VP7, a neutralization antigen.
(7) Poly (8NH2G) does not interact with poly(C) in neutral solution because of the high stability of the hemiprotonated G-G self-structure.
(8) Interaction of viable macrophages with cationic particles at 37 degrees C resulted in their "internalization" within vesicles and coated pits and a closer apposition between many segments of plasmalemma than with neutral or anionic substances.
(9) Most of the antibodies had some degree of complement-independent neutralizing capacity, but in common was a large neutralization-resistant fraction of virus (range 13 to 78%).
(10) Neutral sucrose density sedimentation patterns indicate that neutron-induced double strand-breaks sometimes occur in clusters of more than 100 in the same phage and that the effeciency with which double strand-breaks form is about 50 times that of gamma-induced double strand-breaks.
(11) None of these MAbs showed any virus-neutralizing activity in vitro; however, mice passively immunized with the purified MAbs were protected from lethal infection by the JHM strain of mouse hepatitis virus.
(12) This cell type often showed supranuclear lysozyme reactivity and apical neutral mucins, sialomucins, and sulphomucins in variable amounts.
(13) Many organisations choose not to affiliate their aid work with the UN, particularly in conflict situations, where the organisation is not always seen either as neutral or separate from the work of the UN security council.
(14) Phosphatidylcholine dispersed on Celite was rapidly solubilized by neutral bovine serum albumin solutions.
(15) Term pregnancy (TP) or nonpregnancy (NP) pooled sera were fractionated on a S-300 neutral column.
(16) The relative importance of each of these growth factors in the in vivo situation will have to be elucidated by future studies using specific receptor antagonists or neutralizing antibodies.
(17) A highly significant correlation was observed between neutralization of indirect hemolysis and neutralization of lethal activity.
(18) One p-nitrophenyl phosphate phosphatase (A) and five protein phosphatases (B, C, D, E, F) with neutral pH optimum (7.0-7.5) were partially purified from human platelets.
(19) Analysis of literature data in which both the in vivo protection test and the in vitro neutralization test results were available on the same sera showed consistency with the above conclusions for both cattle and swine sera.
(20) Ruminal digestion (% of intake) of neutral detergent fiber (NDF) and hemicellulose decreased linearly (P less than .05), whereas acid detergent fiber (ADF) digestion responded in a cubic (P less than .05) fashion to increasing concentrate level; NaHCO3 improved ruminal digestion of NDF (P less than .10) and ADF (P less than .05), but not hemicellulose.
Remonstration
Definition:
(n.) The act of remonstrating; remonstrance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most worrying of all, despite the head's spluttered remonstration, the parent didn't seem to get the point that school comes first.
(2) Incensed by Sánchez, he went to remonstrate with Dean.
(3) She’s the anti-Christ,” one woman remonstrated with the media pen.
(4) One man, who was held back by his girlfriend, remonstrated with a group breaking into a Lidl supermarket after discovering his car had been reduced to a burnt-out shell.
(5) Shortly after 4pm there was a brief lull when Father Hugh Mullan, a 40-year-old priest who lived in Springfield Park, remonstrated with the crowds.
(6) He remonstrated with the referee, Martin Atkinson, after the sending off of Glenn Whelan with Stoke leading 1-0.
(7) Wenger was still remonstrating with a touchline official about some perceived wrong from several minutes earlier when United hit them with a third knockout blow, Nani leaving Lehmann for dead with a left-foot shot that snuck under him and into the far right corner.
(8) When other teenagers surround him to remonstrate, he draws his gun.
(9) With the target clearly in sight and Jürgen Klopp remonstrating furiously with the fourth official because he believed the ball had gone out of play earlier in the move, Tottenham’s leading scorer delayed his shot far too long and practically invited Dejan Lovren to stick a foot in the way.
(10) The DFS alleged last week that one senior banker remonstrated with a US colleague using the words "you fucking Americans" when warned of the potential breaches of US sanctions.
(11) Charlotte Brontë remonstrated with the critic George Henry Lewes.
(12) But, most disturbingly, black Americans were dying at a disproportionate rate and this only inflamed their indignation, as one black private remonstrated: "You should see for yourself how the black man is being treated over here and the way we are dying.
(13) He remonstrates: A unitary board will not work because the board of governors of the BBC [which preceded the BBC Trust] helped create the culture in which these huge payments were made.
(14) The manager, Adam Koskoff, was hit with eggs when he went outside to remonstrate.
(15) Coogan is remonstrating with Brydon for his stereotyped impression of a northern accent.
(16) He took my remonstrance in good part, but the sad thing is that "demerging" is not only a word, it's exactly the right sort of term to apply to the English heritage industry, which, whatever else we may wish to believe about it, is potentially big business, and therefore subject entirely to the same calculus of profit as our other formerly public services.
(17) Hodgson was remonstrating with the fourth official even as Welbeck scored England's third goal moments later and the forward took up his complaints with Kruzliak again on the final whistle, claiming he had not heard the whistle.
(18) The atmosphere was tense and when Martino jumped from the bench to remonstrate with the match officials, the Brazilian referee sent him off.
(19) Surely, after hearing it, the crowd would surge forwards and carry me on their shoulders, from our hotel in Brighton maybe even as far as Westminster (stopping off at the Pease Pottage Services ), where we would nail our Grand Remonstrance to the doors of parliament itself.
(20) Wenger, who waited for the referee at the final whistle to remonstrate with him, said: "It's not a surprise the referee didn't book a single Barcelona player.