(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.
Upside
Definition:
(n.) The upper side; the part that is uppermost.
Example Sentences:
(1) In just a week her life has been turned upside down.
(2) If you turn the bowl upside down, the whites should be stiff enough not to fall out.
(3) 'This is the upside of the downside': Women's March finds hope in defiance Read more As thousands gathered for the afternoon rally and march, Trump tweeted his solidarity with their action.
(4) On the upside, this year's monsoon will lead to bumper agricultural production, and the cheaper rupee also comes with a thick silver lining.
(5) My whole world was turned upside down by the brutality of it.
(6) Archer said he was sticking to his view that house prices would see "solid but limited increases" in 2013, but admitted "there is a growing possibility that … house prices could surprise on the upside over the second half of in 2013".
(7) His many books, which included a biography of Oliver Cromwell and a celebration of the radical millenarian groups of the period called The World Turned Upside Down, were widely read.
(8) The rod was rotated 180 degrees so that the mice were oriented upside down on the bottom of the screen.
(9) "As others, we have been surprised on the upside on the growth performance so far this year on the UK" said Moritz Kraemer, S&P's head of sovereign ratings for Europe."
(10) Alonso, after hitting the wall and being catapulted airborne, landed upside down in his McLaren before crawling out of his car.
(11) Passing the scope down the patellofemoral joint allows visualization of the anterior horns of both menisci, the tibial attachment of the anterior cruciate ligament, and the anterior fat pad, but the view on the monitor is upside down.
(12) Hair colouring is one such example: as the great Nora Ephron wrote in her hilarious essay On Maintenance , "Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair any more is the secret upside of death," and ain't that the truth.
(13) Mussolini and his mistress hung upside down in Milan by Italian partisans.
(14) Mike van Dulken (@Accendo_Mike) Portuguese GDP upside suprise adds to FR and DE this morning.
(15) Campaigners for a British exit may be disappointed that Mansfield suggests there may be only a small economic upside to a British withdrawal – a 1.1% increase in GDP, which works out at £1.3bn.
(16) It was like seeing herself reflected in a mirror upside down.
(17) The upside is all for Trump.” Historically, the golden rule of Mexico’s foreign policy has been to avoid being seen as taking sides in US politics; hence the two invitations, even though Mexico favours Clinton’s position on a path to citizenship for migrants.
(18) Still, there's an upside to 007's monogamy, and it may just explain how this much-maligned film has wheedled its way so irrevocably into my affections: uniquely in the world of Bond, it allows a vein of romantic adventure to develop that's real, not illusory.
(19) Pressed on whether a cross-party consensus existed, Adonis said: " Increasingly the question is who is going to act rather than just make speeches, and act must mean really serious devolution of resources and also a preparedness to devolve tax resources – this has to be neutral at the point you have to devolve it – so as to give really big incentives to the big cities and county regions to attract business, to be business friendly, to be highly receptive to business innovation because they will keep more of the upside from increased business activity."
(20) While that's going on, Nakazawa accidentally wallops Tulio upside the head.