(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.
Retake
Definition:
(v. t.) To take or receive again.
(v. t.) To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.
Example Sentences:
(1) No changes for either side, but Zinedine Zidane has been whispering into Cristiano Ronaldo's ear as he retakes the pitch.
(2) This year, that means anyone doing a retake in order to get the grades for law or accounting and finance degrees.
(3) A standardized questionnaire, with satisfactory retake item reliabilities and well established validities, was administered to a representative sample of female university students (N = 2366), drawn from Cairo and Ein-Shams Universities, both located in Greater Cairo.
(4) On top of that, a campaign to retake the north will pit largely Shia soldiers against Sunni fighters and, if air power and artillery are used in civilian areas, will risk further alienating the population.
(5) However, due to moving the larger studio audience (some of whom were on a gallery above the main set) around for different shots and retakes it took three times that.
(6) The official said they wanted to retake Mosul in the spring, before the summer heat and the holiday month of Ramadan kick in.
(7) Al-Maliki's appeal seems not only to have fallen on deaf ears but some tribal militias reportedly defected and fought alongside Isis, thus frustrating the government's efforts to retake Falluja.
(8) Criminals are released from prison and return to work every day, but the prospect of an unrepentant convicted rapist retaking his place at a League One football club has proved another matter.
(9) He added: "Retake the opportunity for individual tenants to choose to have their rent paid direct, then we will be with you all the way."
(10) There was no one in red and white prepared to take charge and deal with the visitors' inevitable surge, when it eventually came, by calming his team-mates down and retaking control of possession.
(11) Arab Iraq may still try to retake the province, but it is too focused on turning Baghdad and the Shia south into a fortress.
(12) More than a third of graduates from the training program, which until this year was available only to men, retake at lease one phase, the US army told AFP this week.
(13) The day after Zeidan's removal, the powerful Misrata militia, allied to congress, launched an offensive to retake the blockaded oil terminals, storming the base of an army special forces unit – the Zawiya Martyrs brigade – in the central city of Sirte, leaving five people dead.
(14) The military-drafted, vaguely worded constitution allows for the army chief to retake power in a national emergency.
(15) The long-promised battle for Tikrit and the province of Salahuddin, north of Baghdad, is set to be a dry run for another offensive, backed by the US-led international coalition and Shia militia, to retake Isis-controlled Mosul.
(16) They’re going to be retaking territory that’s part of the disputed territory.
(17) The Iraqi prime minister has vowed to retake every inch seized by the militants.
(18) Two earlier attempts to retake Delga failed, but in the early hours of Monday morning police launched a third and decisive assault, and have now re-entered the town, residents said by telephone.
(19) Hugely popular, evidence that the comprehensive ideal could succeed brilliantly, they offered a much wider curriculum than schools; students could be “academic” or given a second chance (the pass rate for “retakes” was almost double); all could escape the constraining regime of schools and be treated as young adults.
(20) She added: "That night, no one could tell me whether we could retake the Falklands.