(n.) That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
(n.) A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole.
(n.) A part assigned; allotment; share; fate.
(n.) The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance.
(n.) A wife's fortune; a dowry.
(v. t.) To separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute.
(v. t.) To endow with a portion or inheritance.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(2) The low affinity of several N1-alkylpyrroleethylamines suggests that the benzene portion of the alpha-methyltryptamines is necessary for significant affinity.
(3) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
(4) The present results provide no evidence for a clear morphological substrate for electrotonic transmission in the somatic efferent portion of the primate oculomotor nucleus.
(5) The cis isomer was retained longer in liver, particularly in mitochondria, but had low retention in that portion of the endoplasmic reticulum isolated as the rough membrane fraction.
(6) The supravesical portion showed a cystic appearance with a capsule in the space of Retzius.
(7) In addition, lightly immunostained cells were distinguished in the caudal portion of the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus, area of tuber cinereum, retrochiasmatic area, and rostral portion of the paraventricular thalamic nucleus after colchicine treatment.
(8) A few free-floating cells could be observed in the lumen of this intermediate portion, most of which were macrophages.
(9) A 68 year-old man with a history of right thalamic hemorrhage demonstrated radiologically in the pulvinar and posterior portion of the dorsomedian nucleus developed a clinical picture of severe physical sequelae associated with major affective, behavioral and psychic disorders.
(10) It may, however, be useful to compare local wall dynamics in the more isometrically-contracting basal segment with those in the middle portion which brings about most of the emptying of the ventricle.
(11) Thus, the estrogen-sensitive phase was confined to the early portion of FPH stimulation.
(12) Thus it appears that a portion of the adaptation to prolonged and intense endurance training that is responsible for the higher lactate threshold in the trained state persists for a long time (greater than 85 days) after training is stopped.
(13) The horizontal portion of the intracavernous ICA as well as the whole aspect of the aneurysm could be exposed as a result of the extended opening of the cavernous roof anterior to the posterior clinoid process.
(14) Three animals received unilateral lesions which included both the inferior parietal lobule and a portion of adjacent dorsal prestriate cortex (IPL-PS).
(15) Heparitinase I (EC 4.2.2.8), an enzyme with specificity restricted to the heparan sulfate portion of the polysaccharide, releases fragments with the electrophoretic mobility and the structure of heparin.
(16) These animals spent a much greater portion of their SWS in the lighter SWS I, as compared to the control group which showed a predominance of the deeper SWS II.
(17) The vector is relatively small (6 kilobase pairs) and contains a portion of the L. seymouri alpha-tubulin gene positioned in-frame with a truncated neomycin phosphotransferase gene that confers resistance to the aminoglycoside G418.
(18) Studies using serum from mice that had been immunized with synthetic peptides from the HIV envelope region suggested that this response is directed, at least in part, at several determinants of the transmembrane portion of the HIV envelope glycoprotein.
(19) We propose a model in which BvgB and the N-terminal portion of BvgC are localized in the periplasm.
(20) We report the case of a premature infant, small for gestational age, who experienced rostral herniation of a portion of frontal lobe through the anterior fontanel as the result of a hemorrhagic cerebellar infarction followed by a large parieto-occipital intracerebral hemorrhage.
Subcontract
Definition:
(n.) A contract under, or subordinate to, a previous contract.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said he was working hard to ensure that the large companies that take on the task of helping the unemployed also subcontract some of this work to smaller, local voluntary firms.
(2) Funds are awarded to schools of medicine or osteopathy which in turn subcontract with at least two other health professional schools.
(3) An investment corporation could be set up to spend the money, either by building generation capacity directly, or by subcontracting the work to existing operators.
(4) The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, headed by environment secretary Liz Truss, and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), whose chief executive is Lin Homer, continue to refuse to ensure that all their subcontracted staff are paid the living wage.
(5) He also pointed out that where NBC will be the exclusive Premier League rights holder (and it is not planning to subcontract games, as Fox does with ESPN), it is one of several partners MLS has, including ESPN, Univision, numerous local affiliates and its own MLS Digital arm: "It's a much, much different relationship.
(6) Employers shouldn’t be misclassifying workers to keep labor costs down and they shouldn’t be hiding behind complex arrangements like franchising and subcontracting to skirt their responsibilities to their workers.
(7) Ed Miliband is said to have "subcontracted" responsibility for HS2 to Balls and moved Maria Eagle, an outspoken supporter of HS2, out of her job as shadow transport secretary, in his recent reshuffle.
(8) It in turn subcontracted the supply of some equipment to a third company, Dorset company Kestrel Ophthalmics .
(9) Think instead of the thousands of workers at the base of football’s financial pyramid, the people in catering, cleaning, security and ground maintenance who are paid the minimum wage and, if their work is subcontracted, perhaps not even that.
(10) In a submission to a Senate inquiry into serious allegations of abuse and conditions at the Australian-run Nauru detention centre , a former employee subcontracted to security provider Wilson Security accused the company of engaging in serious misconduct.
(11) In an extraordinary submission to a Senate inquiry into serious allegations of abuse and conditions at the Australian-run Nauru detention centre , a former employee subcontracted to security provider Wilson Security accused the company of engaging in serious misconduct.
(12) The inquiry also heard evidence from three executives from Wilson Security, which is subcontracted by Transfield Services to manage security.
(13) In a letter to Lin Homer, chief executive of HMRC, the Whitehall cleaners argue that although they are subcontracted through a cleaning company, it is ultimately the responsibility of the government department to ensure a just wage.
(14) Yet the design of the HIP [home insulation program] facilitated installers subcontracting work to other entities or individuals.” Garrett said it eventually “became apparent” to him that the architecture of the scheme was insufficient.
(15) He blames producers who are subcontracting, or buying in chicken from China and then relabelling it as Thai produce before selling it on, just as British factories buy in poultry from the Netherlands and relabel it as British.
(16) Citizens UK welcomes that commitment, and calls on Manchester City to go further, to set an example and commit to ensuring that its subcontracted staff – such as those working for the catering companies which serve up major matchday profits to the football clubs – are also paid a living wage.
(17) I had never imagined that the justice minister, Chris Grayling, would in effect subcontract a fine repayment to a racketeer.
(18) Others will get involved with subcontracting [to them], although risk having their fingers burned by payment by results … there is also a big push to establish consortia and there is a push to establish partnerships with business."
(19) It subcontracts much of its work to a pool of 250 or so academics, businessmen, economists, retired civil servants and journalists.
(20) I didn’t actually come here to free slaves,” says Liam Neeson as Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace , like a person to whom a huge number of vexing tasks has been subcontracted.