(n.) That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to man; as, kind offices, pious offices.
(n.) A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal office.
(n.) A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself; as, the office of a priest under the old dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new.
(n.) That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform; a function; -- answering to duty in intelligent beings.
(n.) The place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted; a house or apartment in which public officers and others transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's office.
(n.) The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office.
(n.) The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc.
(n.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service.
(v. t.) To perform, as the duties of an office; to discharge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(2) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(3) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
(4) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
(5) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
(6) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
(7) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
(8) Former detectives had dug out damning evidence of abuse, as well as testimony from officers recommending prosecution, sources said.
(9) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
(10) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(11) "We have peace in Sierra Leone now, and Tony Blair made a huge contribution to that," said Warrant Officer Abu Bakerr Kamara.
(12) The Labour MP urged David Cameron to guarantee that officers who give evidence over the alleged paedophile ring in Westminster will not be prosecuted.
(13) 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.
(14) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
(15) A third autopsy of Tomlinson, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second postmortem.
(16) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
(17) With such protection, Dempster tended professionally to outlive those inside and outside the office who claimed that he was outdated.
(18) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
(19) The findings provide additional evidence that, for at least some cases, the likelihood of a physician's admitting a patient to the hospital is influenced by the patient's living arrangements, travel time to the physician's office, and the extent to which medical care would cause a financial hardship for the patient.
(20) When the standoff ended after 30 minutes, a French police officer told the migrants: “Here is your friend.
Satellite
Definition:
(n.) An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent.
(n.) A secondary planet which revolves about another planet; as, the moon is a satellite of the earth. See Solar system, under Solar.
(a.) Situated near; accompanying; as, the satellite veins, those which accompany the arteries.
Example Sentences:
(1) Endogeneous satellite cells in skeletal muscle regenerating from bupivacaine damage were infected with an injected retrovirus containing the Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase gene under the promoter control of the Moloney murine leukemia virus long-terminal repeat.
(2) These preliminary experiments suggest that oSm is similar to IGF-I in its binding characteristics and that primary cultures of skeletal muscle satellite cells possess type I and type II IGF receptors.
(3) These differences point to the fact that the mechanisms that regulate satellite cell mitotic and fusion behavior are also not the same in all muscles.
(4) Thus, the previously described ubiquity of "82H" human centromeric sequences reflects the existence of diverse alpha satellite subsets located at the centromeric region of each human chromosome.
(5) After one cycle in bromodeoxyuridine we could examine the satellite polarity of the heterochromatic DNA.
(6) In the hybrid cells the human nucleolus organizer regions are active, as shown by Ag-AS staining and involvement in "satellite association."
(7) Oligonucleotide probes prepared according to the NH2-terminal amino acid sequences of the enzyme and its satellite polypeptide (a polypeptide associated with the extracellular enzyme of the native host) hybridized to different regions of the 7.0 kb DNA insert.
(8) Hypertrophy of the satellite cells with increase in the perineuronal intercellular spaces, often associated with irregular, scalloped nuclear and cell outlines, suggested that neuron shrinkage had occurred.
(9) The temperature at which most label, or cRNA-DNA hybrid formation, exists corresponds to the optimal rate temperature for the hybridisation of these same satellite cRNA-DNA hybrids as determined by RNA excess filter hybridisation.
(10) Using nonradioactive in situ hybridization with a chromosome 18 alpha-satellite DNA probe (D18Z1), the centromeres in the abnormal chromosomes were determined to be from chromosome 18.
(11) Profiles of randomly and serially sectioned satellite cells were analyzed stereologically to obtain nuclear and cytoplasmic areas.
(12) Countries would have to show, from historical data, satellite imagery and through direct measurement of trees, the extent, condition and the carbon content of their forests.
(13) The satellite component is not found when digging up from the tube bottom.
(14) The biopsy findings consisted of eosinophilic individual necrosis of epidermal cells, satellite cell necrosis, basal liquefaction degeneration, and scanty cell infiltration into the dermis.
(15) The Colorado-based tycoon is notoriously secretive and at one point looked as if he was going to mount a rival bid for the US satellite TV company.
(16) RNA3 is a small RNA of molecular weight 500,000 d considered to be a satellite RNA.
(17) Mc1 is a diverse satellite family of the Mc subgenome of which certain members with a 100 bp repeat unit are found to occur at the pericentromeric regions of each Mc autosome, while others are chromosome-specific, e.g.
(18) The long-range periodicity of mouse satellite DNA has been analyzed by digestion with five restriction nucleases.
(19) It is concluded that the satellite DNA, which appears homogeneous by digestion with endo R-EcRII, contains distinct segments each susceptible to degradation with one of the other nucleases.
(20) Unmanned drones help enormously with this problem as they can be operated via satellite from thousands of miles away and dramatically lower the risk to British forces.