(v. t.) To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement.
(v. t.) To set or appoint beforehand; to settle or establish antecedently.
(n.) That which is prefixed; esp., one or more letters or syllables combined or united with the beginning of a word to modify its signification; as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present studies were performed to determine if the omission of prefixation would provide a better method for localizing adenylate cyclase in cardiac muscle.
(2) Close correspondence was found between the two eyes with respect to both prefixation tonic level and magnitude of tonic after-effect.
(3) In rigor control, crossbridges were most regular in muscles that were stabilized before freezing by prefixation in glutaraldehyde followed by 'hardening' with neutralized tannic acid, so all nucleotide treatments were terminated by such fixation.
(4) The difference in adhesivity between intact and stimulated PEC can be abolished by glutaraldehyde prefixation.
(5) Prolongation of the prefixation and increasing the pH of the incubation medium increased the staining intensity of the secondary granules and decreased the staining intensity of the primary granules.
(6) The frontal basal cisterns could not be filled sufficiently with the contrast agent due to haematoma and a prefixed chiasm accompanied by arachnoid adhesions in two cases.
(7) Prefixation digestions of epidermal sheets with chondroitinase ABC.
(8) When most utterances were long enough to include pronominal prefixes as well as roots, morphological structure was apparently discovered.
(9) Prefixed virus was round with peak diameters of 141 and 130 nm, respectively, in phosphotungstate, and 148 and 117 nm, respectively, in uranyl acetate.
(10) The retrochiasmal location of a tumour and the presence of a prefixed chiasm pose a major difficulty in total excision of craniopharyngiomas.
(11) After filipin incubation of prefixed vibratome slices, filipin-cholesterol complexes appeared as 20-30 proturberances and pits on P- and E-faces.
(12) Randomly distributed alpha-mannan was detected by scanning electron microscopy at the surface of prefixed protoplasts using colloidal gold labelled with Concanavalin A as a marker.
(13) Exposure to TPA or the use of a hyperosmolal prefixative vehicle both yielded higher DC numbers than did controls or conventional prefixative vehicles, respectively.
(14) On the resulting radiographs some prefixed distances were measured.
(15) While these machinations have been taking place behind the scenes, chief executive David Abraham has masterminded a rolling rebrand that has seen the company's 10 channels gradually drop the UKTV prefix on-screen in favour of attention-seeking one-word names.
(16) Prefixation in glutaraldehyde had little effect on vesicle sensitivity to subsequent tonicity change, not did the fixative per se exert an obvious osmotic effect.
(17) The possible relation with prefixation flow heterogeneity in the vasodilated preparation is discussed.
(18) After prefixation with hyperosmolal vehicles, however, TPA treatment did not induce higher DC yield than in a control series.
(19) After prefixation in formaldehyde, samples were immunostained with poly- or monoclonal antibodies to desmin or vimentin, and indirectly tagged with colloidal gold probes by the biotin-streptavidin method.
(20) The results confirm that 3T3 cells contain aggregated intramembranous particles and that native SV3T3 cells do not, regardless of whether cells are prepared in glycerol, sucrose, tissue culture medium or following prefixation in paraformaldehyde.
Title
Definition:
(n.) An inscription put over or upon anything as a name by which it is known.
(n.) The inscription in the beginning of a book, usually containing the subject of the work, the author's and publisher's names, the date, etc.
(n.) The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.
(n.) A section or division of a subject, as of a law, a book, specif. (Roman & Canon Laws), a chapter or division of a law book.
(n.) An appellation of dignity, distinction, or preeminence (hereditary or acquired), given to persons, as duke marquis, honorable, esquire, etc.
(n.) A name; an appellation; a designation.
(n.) That which constitutes a just cause of exclusive possession; that which is the foundation of ownership of property, real or personal; a right; as, a good title to an estate, or an imperfect title.
(n.) The instrument which is evidence of a right.
(n.) That by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.
(n.) A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.
(n.) To call by a title; to name; to entitle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(2) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
(3) Moments later, Strauss introduces the bold human character with an energetic, upwards melody which he titles "the climb" in the score.
(4) The New York Times also alleged that the Met had not passed full details about how many people were victims of the illegal practice to the CPS because it has a history of cooperation with News International titles.
(5) The Weinstein Company, which Harvey owns with his brother Bob, lost rights to the title on Tuesday following a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America's arbitration board.
(6) Meanwhile, Brighton rock duo Royal Blood top this week's album chart with their self-titled album, scoring the UK's fastest selling British rock debut in three years.
(7) That’s why I thought: ‘I hope Tyson wins – even if he never gives me a shot.’ As long as the heavyweight titles are out of Germany we could have some interesting fights.
(8) I believe that the Lebedevs will be progressive and supportive owners of the Independent titles which have played such an important role in British public life for nearly 25 years.
(9) Rabbits, affected by acute bronchitis, treated orally with the title compounds showed a considerable reduction of the viscosity of the bronchial mucus.
(10) Levinson's film, to be titled Black Mass, will be based on the New York Times bestseller Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob , by Boston Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill.
(11) Different games, different moments but it is very important to start winning our points at home.” City started their title defence by defeating Newcastle United 2-0.
(12) His next target, apart from the straightforward matter of retaining his champion's title this winter, is 4,182, being the number of winners trained by Martin Pipe, with whom he had seven highly productive years at the start of his career.
(13) Information and titles for this bibliography were gleaned from printed indexes and university medical center libraries.
(14) There is a significant group of disorders which present with unruly hair, and these have been described under all manner of titles, including crinkly, woolly, kinky, crimped, frizzly, steely, spunglass, in an attempt to define their clinical appearance.
(15) I think that could have been the title of the play.
(16) The workforce has changed dramatically since 1900 – just 29,000 Americans today work in fishing and the number of job titles tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has grown to almost 600 – everything from “animal trainers” to “wind turbine service technicians” (and there are even more sub categories).
(17) This would be done under Title II of the Communications Act, which already covers telecommunications services but since 2002 has not covered "information services" – data travelling over the internet.
(18) The preparation of the title compounds from hyodeoxycholic acid is described.
(19) 5.08pm BST There were some non-title games on today.
(20) The only thing is that we had a chance to score another goal and instead we conceded a goal, as I think you saw.” Russia’s elimination means that Capello, who won nine league titles in 16 seasons with Milan, Real Madrid and Juventus, has now taken charge of seven World Cup games and won only one – when England beat Slovenia 1-0 four years ago.