(v. t.) To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.
(v. t.) To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space of; to cover or fill; as, the camp occupies five acres of ground.
(v. t.) To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of; to employ; to busy.
(v. t.) To do business in; to busy one's self with.
(v. t.) To use; to expend; to make use of.
(v. t.) To have sexual intercourse with.
(v. i.) To hold possession; to be an occupant.
(v. i.) To follow business; to traffic.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
(2) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
(3) At day 7 MD occupy about 14% area of posterior retina in transverse sections in Campbell rats versus 7% in normal animals.
(4) Here we report on the identification of four loci, pim-1, bmi-1, pal-1, and bla-1, which are occupied by proviruses in 35%, 35%, 28%, and 14% of the tumors, respectively.
(5) The statistical figures indicated that infections diseases occupied a dominant position in 1950s, while in recent years cardiovascular diseases and malignant tumors have become the major diseases.
(6) From the comparison of the sets of proteins labelled when A-site was free or occupied a conclusion was drawn that aminoacyl-tRNA located in ribosomal A-site affects the arrangement of deacylated tRNA in P-site.
(7) A spokesman for the UNHCR said that while there were many agencies working in Walungu, they had "minimal presence" in villages close to areas still occupied by Hutu militias known as FDLR.
(8) The first two peptides have been proposed to occupy inter-transmembrane regions while the third represented the C-terminal segment, proposed by various models to be either extracellular or intracellular.
(9) A key part of the reason why Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge, one of the NHS’s most prestigious hospitals, was put into special measures last week was that 200 of its beds were being occupied by patients who could not leave because there was a lack of social care in place to support them.
(10) This species has only one lung, the right, which is long and occupies most of the pleuro-peritoneal cavity.
(11) The area occupied by parenchymal cells, in sections comprising the entire half of the surface of the carotid body, is significantly greater in people born and living at 14,350 feet than in those at sea level.
(12) Ninety pharmacists are employed in 13 hospital pharmacies; half of the pharmacists are occupied bb drug product manufacturing.
(13) Nursing occupied about 210 min in 8 daylight hours for the infants at 10 weeks of age, and the time spent nursing decreased at the average rate of 9.4 min per week until the infants were about 6 months old.
(14) The lower lipid content, expressed as weight per unit weight of tissue, in palmo-plantar stratum corneum as compared to non-palmo-plantar stratum corneum may be related to the fact that a larger portion of the intercellular space of the former tissue is occupied by desmosomes.
(15) Occupied hyaluronate binding sites were measured by the displacement of radiolabeled cell surface hyaluronate with exogenous, unlabeled hyaluronate.
(16) Regarding space occupying lesions in the abdomen angiography is an aid in diagnosis and differential diagnosis and provides information on the curability.
(17) Cells of type-4 occupy the caudal part with a dorsorostral extension.
(18) While no fixed relation was found between the degree of histologic differentiation and T cell infiltration, fewer T cells were observed in the cases where cancer penetrated to the depth of cancer invasion and where it occupied a large area.
(19) In submandibular glands, 1 to 4 weeks after ovariectomy, no changes were observed in percentages of the acinar, intercalated duct, and granular convoluted tubular areas occupying photomicrographs.
(20) There was no statistically significant difference in basal concentrations of immunoreactive atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), as assessed by radioimmunoassay, between right and left atrial muscle of control rats; similarly, stereological analysis showed no statistically significant difference in the fractional volume of myocytes occupied by specific heart granules, or in numerical density of granules, between right and left atria.
Reoccupy
Definition:
(v. t.) To occupy again.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tony Blair has insisted that Labour can recover from its disastrous general election defeat only if it reoccupies the centre ground of British politics, proudly championing a pro-business agenda and bold new ideas to reform public services.
(2) The protesters did not attempt to reoccupy roads and no violence was reported.
(3) 3.11pm GMT Harriet Salem, reporting from the Guardian, just told me that pro-Russia protesters have reoccupied the regional government building in Donetsk that was taken back by police earlier today (the pro-Russia protesters having originally occupied it on Monday.
(4) A faster rate of spread into woven bone appears to be the major cause of higher bone uptake of 99mTc(Sn)MDP in thalassemic subjects, which suggests that in these patients bone tissue reoccupies the space previously replaced by hyperplastic marrow.
(5) The free postsynaptic differentiations are reoccupied predominantly by boutons containing pleiomorphic vesicles and which are for the most part gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)ergic, thus forming heterologous synapses; less frequently these sites are occupied by boutons of the ipsilateral visual contingent to form homologous synapses.
(6) Hong Kong will never be the same again.” Hundreds of police guarded the expressway running past Hong Kong’s government headquarters to prevent protesters from reoccupying an area they turned into a sprawling campsite for more than two months last year.
(7) Iraq’s Sunni minority have long felt alienated by the country’s Shia-led government in Baghdad, and it is Shia-dominated government forces who will reoccupy the city.
(8) Far from being a gradual process, in which men and women slowly reoccupied territory that had been taken from them by spreading glaciers, the resettling of Britain now appears to have been rapid, dramatic and bloody.
(9) He predicted that the national shop vacancy rate will rise to an all-time high of nearly 20% if all the stores belonging to collapsed retailers are not reoccupied.
(10) Incubated eggs and newly hatched chicks were left unattended and the area was not reoccupied in 1974.
(11) In zinc-iodide-osmium (ZIO) stained preparations, muscle fibers with small nerve terminals were present at 60 d and were still present in old muscle at 120 d. Fluorescent staining of nerve terminals and acetylcholine receptors revealed that in young muscle, postsynaptic sites were nearly or completely reoccupied by 60 d. In old muscle, about 22% of former junctions were denervated, with the remainder minimally to fully reinnervated.
(12) Thus, unlike after partial denervation only, motoneurons were unable to maintain their large neonatal territory when the muscle was temporarily paralysed and they were unable to reoccupy this territory after the muscles recovered from the paralysis.
(13) Resaturation of uncovered receptors has been studied by reincubating cells in normal medium; within 40 min, 50% of the free sites are reoccupied.
(14) The ring was probably found in 1785 by a farmer ploughing a few miles away within the walls of Silchester , one of the most enigmatic Roman sites in the country – a town which flourished before the Roman invasion, was abandoned by the 7th century and was never reoccupied.
(15) Gn-RH stimulated [32P]phosphate incorporation into phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns), which could be terminated by displacement of previously bound Gn-RH from its receptor by antide and restarted by reoccupying the receptors with Gn-RH.
(16) As the result of the K+ in equilibrium Hi+ ion exchange at the histamine binding sites of the release pool, these sites become transiently occupied by K+ ions only to be immediately reoccupied by Hi+ ions from the donor pool.
(17) Demonstrators also reoccupied government buildings evacuated earlier in the week.
(18) Synaptic boutons on the surface of identified autonomic ganglion cells were visualized by methylene blue staining at intervals of 1-2 months following denervation to assess whether regenerating axon terminals reoccupy original synaptic sites.
(19) Tony Blair had warned that Labour could recover only if it reoccupied the centre ground of British politics and his close ally Lord Mandelson said that Labour needed once again to champion the aspirational classes.
(20) Chris Patten, EU external relations commissioner when Israel reoccupied the West Bank after suicide bombings in 2002, used to attack the US as the "Washington branch of the Likud".