(v. t.) Penned or shut up; confined; -- often with up.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some retailers said April's downpours led to pent-up demand which was unleashed at the first sign of summer, with shoppers rushing to update their summer wardrobes.
(2) The effects of the hypoglycaemic compound pent-4-enoic acid, and of four structurally related non-hypoglycaemic compounds (pent-2-enoic acid, pentanoic acid, cyclopropanecarboxylic acid and cyclobutanecarboxylic acid), on several reactions in rat liver mitochondria were determined.
(3) In a reconstituted sequence with purified enzymes crotonoyl-CoA was largely converted into acetyl-CoA, and pent-2-enoyl-CoA into acetyl-CoA and propionyl-CoA.
(4) Cell replication rates in male rats increased specifically in the histologically damaged P2 segments after PER or PENT exposure.
(5) The percentage inhibition of [1-(14)C]palmitate oxidation by pent-4-enoic acid was the same whether carnitine was present or not.
(6) The pent-up fury of the parents reflected the intensity of the violent protests that marked a dramatic week in Mexico, which has deepened the political crisis facing President Enrique Peña Nieto as he returns from a week-long trip to China and Australia, seen by many as a sign of disdain for the suffering and anger at home.
(7) Trichloroethylene (TCE), perchloroethylene (PER), and pentachloroethane (PENT) are widely used industrial chemicals that cause an increased incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma in mice and a very low incidence of renal tubular adenocarcinoma in rats.
(8) The metabolic effects of the hypoglycaemic agent pent-4-enoate were studied in isolated, beating or potassium-arrested rat hearts.
(9) Excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) elicited by stimulation of mossy fibers were suppressed by Pent.
(10) N-(5-acetoxypent-1-yl)doxorubicin (4), which should give rise to N-(5-hydroxypent-1-yl)doxorubicin on esterase-mediated hydrolysis, and N-(pent-1-yl)doxorubicin (5), were also prepared for comparative biological studies.
(11) The return of Paragon was welcomed by mortgage broker Ray Boulger of John Charcol who said there was pent up demand for such lending from professional landlords, particularly since Lloyds Banking Group pulled back from the market this month.
(12) The mechanism of the hypoglycaemic effect of pent-4-enoic acid is discussed; it is suggested that there is an inhibition of fatty acid and ketone-body oxidation and of gluconeogenesis so that glucose reserves become exhausted, leading to hypoglycaemia.
(13) After exercise, the increase of [pent] was much smaller (240%) and was less significant (P less than 0.2) than with the placebo.
(14) But in a sign of pent-up reform pressure on Capitol Hill, two measures dealing with the NSA were quietly included in the 1,600-page spending text with relatively little fanfare – or opposition from the White House – and are likely to pave the way for more binding legislative efforts once President Barack Obama outlines his own response to the surveillance scandal on Friday.
(15) Renal alpha 2 mu concentrations in male rats increased after PER or PENT but not TCE administration.
(16) By partial hydrolysis, periodate oxidation, methylation, specific optical rotation, and 13C and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance studies, the structure of the O-chain was established as being a linear backbone of alternating 1,3-linked alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl and beta-L-rhamnopyranosyl units, to which 2,2-linked beta-D-threo-pent-2-ulofuranoside (D-xylulofuranoside) units were present on every L-rhamnopyranosyl residue, as shown below.
(17) Pent-4-enoate (0.1mm) caused a rapid and almost complete decrease in free CoA and a large increase in acid-soluble acyl-CoA when incubated with coupled mitochondria.
(18) With transactions at two-thirds of their 2007 peak, prices are finally reacting as much to pent-up demand as to the prospect of economic growth.
(19) Under these conditions 1-(2,3-dideoxy-5-O-p-toluyl-alpha-D- glycero-pent-2-enofuranosyl)-5-Tms-uracil was obtained from 1-(2-deoxy-alpha-D-ribofuranosyl)-5-Tms-uracil.
(20) Lipopolysaccharides of Yersinia enterocolitica serovars O:5 and O:5,27 were shown to have a similar sugar composition, consisting of L-rhamnose, D-glucose, D-galactose, D- and L-glycero-D-manno-heptose, 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucose, 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-galactose, 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonate and D-threo-pent-2-ulose (D-xylulose).
Rent
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Rend
(v. i.) To rant.
() imp. & p. p. of Rend.
(n.) An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
(n.) Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.
(v. t.) To tear. See Rend.
(n.) Income; revenue. See Catel.
(n.) Pay; reward; share; toll.
(n.) A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.
(n.) To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.
(n.) To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.
(v. i.) To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.
Example Sentences:
(1) Smith manages to get a suspended possession order, postponing eviction, provided Evans (who has a new job) pays her rent on time and pays back her arrears at a rate of £5 a week.
(2) In Colchester, David Sherwood of Fenn Wright reported: "High tenant demand but increasingly tenants in rent arrears as the recession bites."
(3) Andrew and his wife Amy belong to Generation Rent, an army of millions, all locked out of home ownership in Britain.
(4) Education is becoming unaffordable because of tuition fees and rent.
(5) Others seek shelter wherever they can – on rented farmland, and in empty houses and disused garages.
(6) Lucy Morton, a senior partner at WA Ellis in Knightsbridge, says most foreign students want one-bed flats at up to £1,000 a week and they often pay the whole year's rent up front.
(7) Saving for a deposit is near impossible while paying extortionate rents for barely habitable flatshares.
(8) The councillors, including Philip Glanville, Hackney’s cabinet member for housing, said they had previously urged Benyon and Westbrook not to increase rents on the estate to market values, which in some cases would lead to a rise from about £600 a month to nearer £2,400, calling such a move unacceptable.
(9) A separate DWP-commissioned report, by the Institute of Fiscal Studies , on the impact of housing benefit caps for private sector tenants was welcomed by ministers as a sign that fears that the reform would lead to mass migration out of high-rent areas like London were unfounded.
(10) Karzai had come under criticism in the past from Afghans for renting the property to international officials.
(11) We’ve identified private accommodation that can be used to house refugees; we’ve set aside rented accommodation, university flats and unoccupied housing association homes for use by refugees.
(12) It said a government investment of £12bn could build 600,000 shared ownership homes, enough to give almost half of England's private renting families the opportunity to buy.
(13) In Palo Alto, there are the people who do really well here, and everyone else is struggling to make ends meet,” said Vatche Bezdikian, an anesthesiologist on his way to lunch on University Avenue, the main street, where Facebook first rented office space.
(14) To some extent, housing associations have taken their place, but affordable, social rented homes have been sold off more quickly than they have been replaced.
(15) Some social landlords are refusing to rent properties to tenants who would be faced with the bedroom tax if they were to take up a larger home, even when tenants provide assurances they can afford the shortfall.
(16) Their task was to reduce the size of the properties and change the tenure mix from private rented to shared ownership or open market housing.
(17) Vulnerability: For an average social landlord with general needs housing about 40% of the rent roll is tenant payment (the remainder being paid direct by housing benefit).
(18) The average rents in social housing meanwhile increased by 6.1% from £88.90 to £94.30 a week.
(19) The scheme, which will be completed in 2016-17, comprises 491 homes for social rent and 300 for private sale.
(20) She warned that housing benefit caps would make moving to the private rented sector increasingly difficult for those on low incomes, and complained that homes were now allowed to stand empty in London and elsewhere because they had been sold abroad as financial assets.