(n.) One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass, or the like, regarded as going to make up, with others, a larger number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually separate or not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a member; a constituent.
(n.) An equal constituent portion; one of several or many like quantities, numbers, etc., into which anything is divided, or of which it is composed; proportional division or ingredient.
(n.) A constituent portion of a living or spiritual whole; a member; an organ; an essential element.
(n.) A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; -- usually in the plural with a collective sense.
(n.) Quarter; region; district; -- usually in the plural.
(n.) Such portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly make that quantity; as, 3 is a part of 12; -- the opposite of multiple. Also, a line or other element of a geometrical figure.
(n.) That which belongs to one, or which is assumed by one, or which falls to one, in a division or apportionment; share; portion; lot; interest; concern; duty; office.
(n.) One of the opposing parties or sides in a conflict or a controversy; a faction.
(n.) A particular character in a drama or a play; an assumed personification; also, the language, actions, and influence of a character or an actor in a play; or, figuratively, in real life. See To act a part, under Act.
(n.) One of the different melodies of a concerted composition, which heard in union compose its harmony; also, the music for each voice or instrument; as, the treble, tenor, or bass part; the violin part, etc.
(n.) To divide; to separate into distinct parts; to break into two or more parts or pieces; to sever.
(n.) To divide into shares; to divide and distribute; to allot; to apportion; to share.
(n.) To separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
(n.) Hence: To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants.
(n.) To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from silver.
(n.) To leave; to quit.
(v. i.) To be broken or divided into parts or pieces; to break; to become separated; to go asunder; as, rope parts; his hair parts in the middle.
(v. i.) To go away; to depart; to take leave; to quit each other; hence, to die; -- often with from.
(v. i.) To perform an act of parting; to relinquish a connection of any kind; -- followed by with or from.
(v. i.) To have a part or share; to partake.
(adv.) Partly; in a measure.
Example Sentences:
(1) We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the breakpoint area of alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asia type and several parts of the alpha-globin gene cluster to make a differential diagnosis between alpha-thalassemia-1 and Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis.
(2) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(3) The process of sequence rearrangement appears to be a significant part of the evolution of the genome and may have a much greater effect on the evolution of the phenotype than sequence alteration by base substitution.
(4) These results show that the pathogenic phenotypes of MCF viruses are dissociable from the thymotropic phenotype and depend, at least in part, upon the enhancer sequences.
(5) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(6) Because cystine in medium was converted rapidly to cysteine and cysteinyl-NAC in the presence of NAC and given that cysteine has a higher affinity for uptake by EC than cystine, we conclude that the enhanced uptake of radioactivity was in the form of cysteine and at least part of the stimulatory effect of NAC on EC glutathione was due to a formation of cysteine by a mixed disulfide reaction of NAC with cystine similar to that previously reported for Chinese hamster ovarian cells (R. D. Issels et al.
(7) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
(8) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(9) Muscle weakness and atrophy were most marked in the distal parts of the legs, especially in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, and then spread to the thighs and gluteal muscles.
(10) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(11) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
(12) Results show diet, self-control and parts of insulin-therapy to be problematic treatment components.
(13) 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.
(14) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(15) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
(16) The dramas are part of the BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow's plans for her "unashamedly intelligent" channel over the coming months.
(17) The method is based on two-dimensional scanning photon absorptiometry on the distal part of the forearm.
(18) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
(19) A strong block to the elongation of nascent RNA transcripts by RNA polymerase II occurs in the 5' part of the mammalian c-fos proto-oncogene.
(20) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
Whit
Definition:
(n.) The smallest part or particle imaginable; a bit; a jot; an iota; -- generally used in an adverbial phrase in a negative sentence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whit regard to different time of normalisation of immunoglobulin values in infants with acute obstructive bronchitis associated with bronchopneumonia it was concluded that the longitudinal determination of immunoglobulin values has clinical significance since it can be found which of these two diseases is dominant.
(2) The first survey conducted the long 1988 Whit Sunday week-end by the National police, has reviewed 800 accidental injuries, 9% of which concerning 134 children: 23 children only were restrained, and the comparison with the others allows to estimate the value of the protection insured by various systems of child restraint.
(3) Black males and whit males had similar patterns of intercourse, but any males from 2-parent families had sex less frequently than from 1-parent families.
(4) I think we’re likely to have the largest turnout ever of Latino voters to stop Donald Trump,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster who has argued that the party’s 2016 nominee would need at least 40% of the Latino vote to secure victory.
(5) The ultrastructure of the myoneural junctions in the body wall muscles has been studied in Branchiobdella pentodonta Whit.
(6) Surgery was performed with insertion of a modified type of Safian's solid silicone implant with triangular wedges that were removed on the posterior surface, and the spaces that were created were replaced with soft, pore-closed, whit silicone sponge.
(7) During this time the [2H]VLB in both the plasma and whit blood cell fraction of the blood declined markedly and continuously to very low levels.
(8) From the point of view of liberals, most of the appointments are abhorrent,” Whit Ayres, a top Republican political consultant and pollster, told the Guardian, “but they would have been with any Republican president.” Trump's cabinet picks: here are all of the appointments so far Read more Despite the eyebrows raised by his early appointment of Steve Bannon – a top adviser during the president-elect’s campaign and the former CEO of the far-right news site Breitbart – to be a close White House aide , the Trump administration’s personnel picks have stayed within the Republican mainstream.
(9) Nevada is a land that does not care a whit for humans.
(10) Based on dose response curves, Cyt and MTX dose modifications were individually adjusted to the whit blood cell counts and platelet counts over a 3-week period.
(11) Many will not have heard a whit about this band – named, by the way, after a pencil scrawl Healy once found in a borrowed book.
(12) In CD, side by side whit the maintenance treatment of the disease with anti-inflammatory drugs, the symptomatic treatments of diarrhoea play an important role and must be tailored to the responsible physiopathological mechanisms; some patients need artificial feeding.
(13) However, ethanolic extract of Momordica charantia Linn plant and Coccinia indica Whit and Arn root significantly lowered blood sugar in fasted model and depressed the peak value in glucose loaded model.
(14) Whit older children, one may add the Bernstein test and pressure and pH readings.
(15) The encounter promises to be contentious, with one activist Whit Jones (@whitjones) tweeting that the Occupy Wall Street movement had come to the state department.
(16) This turned out to be especially important for him, because it was taught by Whit Burnett, the highly regarded editor of Story, a magazine that specialised in publishing short fiction.
(17) Irecently discovered that the “Whit walks” I watched as a child were specific to the north of England, and to Manchester in particular.
(18) The results indicate diathermy to be perfectly safe in women whit copper-bearing IUDs.
(19) We show our experience in 12 patients treated during a year with weekly intermittent dialysis whit a rigid catheter for 36 hours a week.
(20) Brian Whitaker (@Brian_Whit) Ahmad Chalabi for prime minister?