What's the difference between pert and shapely?

Pert


Definition:

  • (a.) Open; evident; apert.
  • (a.) Lively; brisk; sprightly; smart.
  • (a.) Indecorously free, or presuming; saucy; bold; impertinent.
  • (v. i.) To behave with pertness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To date we have analysed members of 28 DMD families (10 familial, 18 sporadic) and six BMD families (four familial, two sporadic) with the closely linked pERT probes 87-1, 87-8, and 87-15 (DXS164).
  • (2) The Electrodyn sprayer was compared with a compression sprayer (Hudson X-pert) for residual application of cypermethrin, a pyrethroid insecticide, to control the malaria vectors Anopheles arabiensis Patton and An.
  • (3) Analysis of cloned segments of X chromosome DNA from the patient and her son showed the XmnI(Asp) alleles of pERT 87-15 and the TaqI alleles of pERT 87-8 in both patients.
  • (4) Most of the PERT clones were mapped to human chromosome (chr) 2p23-2pter, where the N-myc gene is located.
  • (5) Richard Beckinsale was Geoffrey, Paula Wilcox was Beryl, pretty, pert and given the best lines: "Beryl, we live in a permissive society."
  • (6) Whaanga said: "My scars are not ugly, they mean I'm alive" – and to me they're much more impressive than a perfect, pert cleavage.
  • (7) The air pulsed automatic tonometer X-PERT NCT has been tested in hospitals on glaucomatous patients.
  • (8) Determining the minimum time (to), the maximum one (tp) and the more frequent time (tm) of each activity and applying the statistic method PERT, one gets the probable duration (te) of every activity and the critical path of the net is placed in evidence.
  • (9) Probe pERT-84 maps to the same fragment, within 750 kb of XJ1.1.
  • (10) RFLP analysis revealed that the affected male and an unaffected sister shared a complete Xp21 haplotype while the affected sister had inherited a recombinant Xp21 region resulting from a crossover between pERT 87-15 and J-Bir.
  • (11) L. M. Kunkel and his colleagues isolated genomic sequences (PERT 87) from within a large deletion causing DMD, whereas our group isolated genomic sequences (XJ) spanning the junction of an X-autosome translocation causing the disease.
  • (12) The insertion is demonstrated by field-inversion gel electrophoresis as an enlarged SfiI fragment hybridizing to probe J-Bir, while neighboring SfiI fragments (detected by probes PERT 87 and J-66) are unchanged.
  • (13) The recombinant DNA study showed a recombinant chromosome with a crossover between pERT 87-8 and pERT J-Bir in the manifesting carrier.
  • (14) On my first day at primary school, my teacher, Mr Smith, said in front of the class, “What kind of person calls their child Roo-pert?” Put me off school for ever.
  • (15) Photograph: Charlotte Pert The government then offered $5,000 to each family, but has been accused of dragging its heels over the payments.
  • (16) Denise has a small, trim nose; more decorous than pert.
  • (17) Residual effect and cost-benefit were evaluated and compared to the standard DDT spraying technique using the Hudson X-pert sprayer.
  • (18) Gluttony was, as Francine Prose (author of a pert monograph, Gluttony ) puts it, all about the "inordinate desire" for food, which makes us "depart from the path of reason".
  • (19) By applying over 100 fold excessive CTX and liver single strand cDNA to the CB double strand cDNA, subtractive hybridization was carried out by phenol-emulsion-reassociation-technique (PERT), in which the common expressed housekeep genes would be eluted by restrict site ligation, and CB specific cDNA flanking with EcoRI site in both ds cDNA ends could be cloned into lamda gill phage.
  • (20) The use of PERT as a standardized process for the placement of patients in community facilities is illustrated and advocated by the authors.

Shapely


Definition:

  • (superl.) Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical.
  • (superl.) Fit; suitable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
  • (2) The significance of the differences in these two patterns of actin is discussed in terms of differences in the accommodative ability and static lens shape in these two animals.
  • (3) A J-shaped relationship with a dip at the middle SBP (140-149 mmHg) was recognized between treated SBP and CVD.
  • (4) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
  • (5) In this paper we present a robust algorithm to determine automatically contours with elliptical shapes.
  • (6) Sickle and normal discocytes both showed membrane elasticity with reversion to original cell shape following release of the cell from its aspirated position at the pipette tip.
  • (7) These observations suggest that the liver secretes disk-shaped lipid bilayer particles which represent both the nascent form of high density lipoproteins and preferred substrate for lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase.
  • (8) The heterogeneity of obesity may be demonstrated by the shape of fat distribution and the prolactin response to insulin hypoglycaemia.
  • (9) We present numerical methods for studying the relationship between the shape of the vocal tract and its acoustic output.
  • (10) The shape of the nucleus changes from ovoid to a distinctive, radially splayed lobulated structure.
  • (11) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
  • (12) The drop in endosome pH increased and the shape of the distribution changed when the time between FITC-dextran infusion and kidney removal was increased from 5 to 20 min.
  • (13) Taking into account the calculated volume and considering the triangular image as one face of the particle, it is suggested that eIF-3 has the shape of a flat triangular prism with a height of about 7 nm and the above-mentioned side-lengths.
  • (14) The complex problems have been successfully managed with novel guiding catheter shapes and ultralow profile balloons.
  • (15) Thus obtained body shape variables were used in discriminant analysis in order to obtain unbiased classification probabilities of individuals having the MBS or being normal.
  • (16) These early hyperplastic lesions revealed stellate-shaped dilated bile canaliculi lined by blebs and abnormally thick elongated microvilli, a decreased number of microvilli on the sinusoidal surface, a marked increase in smooth endoplasmic reticulum, large nucleoli, and bundles of pericanalicular microfilaments.
  • (17) Models of the VMT nuclei were constructed to compare their size, shape and disposition across species.
  • (18) The mutant spores are pleomorphic and differ both in shape and size from the wild-type spores.
  • (19) This lack of symmetry in shape and magnitude may be due to non-sphericity of the skull over the temporal region or to variations in conductivities of intervening tissues.
  • (20) Jane's life clearly still has a massive Spike-shaped hole in it.

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