(n.) A man who has charge of a door or gate; a doorkeeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages.
(n.) A carrier; one who carries or conveys burdens, luggage, etc.; for hire.
(n.) A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled in hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar.
(n.) A malt liquor, of a dark color and moderately bitter taste, possessing tonic and intoxicating qualities.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are in the middle of the third year of huge cuts in acute hospitals' budgets," said Porter.
(2) The hospital said it is seeking information from other porters who worked at Leeds general hospital when Savile was a volunteer.
(3) My dream is that one day, young kids in Nepal won’t have to risk working on the mountain as porters or guides, they will be able to get an education and build better lives for themselves,” Sherpa told AFP.
(4) Dr Mark Porter, the British Medical Association’s chair of council, said: “This leaked document makes clear that more seven-day services will require not only thousands of extra doctors, nurses and support staff but an additional investment in both the NHS and community care.
(5) Bountiful by Todd Porter and Diane Cu (Stewart, Tabori and Chang)
(6) Will Francis, director, Vandal London Facebook Twitter Pinterest Will has worked with a variety of global brands including Net-a-Porter, Samsung, Spotify, Microsoft, Warner Music and Nike Foundation to innovate in social media, something he’s been doing since his days as editor of MySpace in the mid-late noughties.
(7) Referring to “back of house” (BOH) staff and kitchen porters (KP) it read: “Morning, “Due to recent EHO contact and receiving two 1 star ratings along with an increase in food safety audit fails.
(8) His greatest passion on the trek up, apart from finding a 3G signal and playing rap music from a speaker on the back of his pack, was playing Tigers and Goats, a local version of chess, taking on all-comers – climbers, Sherpas, trekkers, random elderly porters passing through the lodges.
(9) These findings suggest several new hypotheses relating to the molecular mechanism of transport through uncoupling protein and suggest explanations for observed functional differences among porters belonging to the same gene family.
(10) You wrote I Will Always Love You for Porter Wagoner, even though he had sued you.
(11) I would work as a porter without payment Two of the smugglers were themselves Rohingya, including a religious leader, she said.
(12) Along the way he also reached the final of the US Open Cup, and in the MLS Cup dispatched the holders LA Galaxy in the conference semi-finals, before beating Porter’s Timbers in both the home and road legs of the Western final (his team had beaten Portland in the US Open Cup semis too).
(13) The key finding was that LDL receptors clustered in coated pits, structures that had been described by Roth and Porter 10 years earlier.
(14) Has Net-a-Porter found the holy grail of 21st-century fashion?
(15) The design and properties of a rigid, box-like device to be placed on the knife stage of a Porter-Blum MT-2 ultramicrotome are described.
(16) Valeri's was one of two places MLS's head honcho gets in the 23-man squad, with the game's coach filling the 10 spots not otherwise claimed by fan voting, so when Porter's choices were announced on Saturday, fans began an American tradition as old as All-Star games themselves: disagreeing with the choices.
(17) Luckily we have great collections, a great programme so we do our best … we are on a hamster wheel.” Blavatnik will join philanthropic names at the V&A such as Weston (the Weston Cast Court), Sackler (the Sackler Centre for Arts Education) and Porter (the Porter Gallery, which houses temporary displays).
(18) We studied 202 pregnant women who were porter of pregnancy intrahepatic cholestasis (CIE).
(19) Having failed to get into Rada, Wesker embarked on a series of menial jobs: bookseller's assistant, plumber's mate and, at the Bell hotel in Norwich, kitchen porter.
(20) A caravan comprising 300 yaks, 50 mules and 100 porters wound through the Himalayan valleys, carrying 900 boxes of food, all because 13 white men wanted to reach the summit.
Sorter
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, sorts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, experiments with the fluorescence-activated cell sorter revealed increased forward light scatter from resting exudate PMN compared to blood PMN.
(2) By labeling Thy-1-positive cells of rats with xenoanti-Thy-1 or mouse alloanti-Thy-1 antibody and separating them from Thy-1-negative cells on a fluorescence-activated cell sorter, it was shown that early lymphopoietic stem cells all carry Thy-1-antigen.
(3) The lymphocyte subsets in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) and the peripheral blood of 25 healthy volunteers were examined by analysis with a fluorescence-activated cell sorter.
(4) Furthermore, by fluorescence-activated cell sorter analysis, equal proportions of stimulated lymphocytes in culture alone or with alveolar epithelial cell monolayers were induced to express receptors for interleukin-2 and for transferrin.
(5) Cell-sorter analysis of cells with membrane-bound P-IgG, coupled to direct determination of P-IgG released in the medium, revealed the fate of bound P-IgG: 40-60% of the P-IgGs were released in the medium within 30 minutes at 37 degrees C. This was accompanied and followed by a much slower, metabolic energy-dependent, internalization process of the membrane-bound P-IgG.
(6) Three different methods, morphologic, immunocytochemic, and fluorescence activated cell sorter (FC) analysis, were compared with respect to their efficiency in detecting breast cancer cells in bone marrow.
(7) Using fluorescence-activated cell sorter, CD4+CD8+ cells were sorted out from AKR thymocytes (H-2k, Thy-1.1) stained with two monoclonal antibodies against CD4 and CD8 (anti-L3T4 and anti-Ly-2).
(8) We describe here the methods by which enriched populations of oligodendrocytes were isolated from adult porcine brains using Percoll density gradient centrifugation and their immunological properties analyzed by a fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS).
(9) 5-Bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdUrd) vs. propidium iodide with the two-parameter Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorter analysis showed relative inhibition of non-S-phase BrdUrd uptake at 24 hours.
(10) Fluorescence-activated cell sorter studies revealed a few T cells (apparently nonfunctional) in thymus and spleen; interestingly, these cells seemed highly disposed to neoplasia, because thymic T-cell lymphomas were observed in 41 of 269 mice.
(11) Using indirect immunofluorescence in combination with a cell sorter, we have shown that the level of expression of HA within cloned populations of producing cells can be variable.
(12) This phenomenon was missed because LAK cells are sensitive to NaN3 which is usually contained in buffers of MoAb and in the running solution of cell sorter.
(13) Data from a fluorescence-activated cell sorter indicated that supplementation with HCS reduced the number of T cells in phytohaemagglutinin-stimulated cultures and suppressed proliferation of T and B cells in pokeweed-mitogen-stimulated cultures compared with controls.
(14) To investigate cell surface antigens of activated human eosinophils using monoclonal antibodies, we established a murine anti-human eosinophil monoclonal antibody AE500 by immunizing with blood eosinophils from patients with idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) and characterized the reactivity to a variety of human leucocytes by a fluorescence-activated cell sorter.
(15) Mast cells and macrophages were isolated from human lung tissues by using density gradient centrifugation, cell sorter, and adherence techniques.
(16) Strategies designed to address this problem will be discussed and include functional expression of neuropeptide hormone receptors in frog oocytes, hybrid depletion and inactivation of receptor-encoding mRNAs by RNase H digestion, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of cDNAs encoding putative receptors, and expression of transfected receptor genes in cell cultures followed by identification using a cell sorter.
(17) Using a pair of fluorescence-labeled monoclonal antibodies specific to each GPA, somatic mutations in erythrocytes of MN heterozygotes at the GPA-M and -N alleles can be quantitatively determined using a flow sorter (Langlois et al., 1986).
(18) IL 2R was determined by analysing T cell surface Tac antigen with anti-Tac, a monoclonal antibody that binds at or near the binding site for IL 2, using a fluorescence-activated cell sorter.
(19) We studied the relationship between the amount of DAF on the membrane and cell maturity in total nucleated bone marrow (BM) cells, mature BM and peripheral blood (PB) neutrophils from normal subjects, and patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) using a fluorescence-activated cell sorter with anti-DAF monoclonal antibodies.
(20) By double-parameter fluorescence-activated cell sorter analysis, it was found that 5-10% of all splenic Lyt-2+ and L3T4+ lymphocytes are large, of which more than half are in mitotic cycle.