(v. t.) To raise or move, or attempt to raise or move, with a pry or lever; to prize.
(v. i.) To peep narrowly; to gaze; to inspect closely; to attempt to discover something by a scrutinizing curiosity; -- often implying reproach.
(n.) Curious inspection; impertinent peeping.
Example Sentences:
(1) Affinity-purified human placental ribonuclease inhibitor (PRI) was digested by trypsin.
(2) I used to tease him with the suggestion he had chosen me as walking companion because I had no mathematics at all and so he was safe from prying questions, but in fact now and then he did used to tell me about what he was doing – and how clear it all seemed when he spoke!
(3) Human placental ribonuclease inhibitor (PRI), a 50-kDa tight-binding inhibitor of angiogenin and pancreatic ribonuclease, consists predominantly of 7 internal repeats, each 57 residues long.
(4) Deep in the taiga, the Mordovian colonies are well away from prying eyes.
(5) Peña Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, suffered a severe reverse in regional elections last month as voters punished the party for failing to crack down on corruption, impunity and brutal drug gang violence.
(6) Open the phone just enough to reveal the metal bracket covering the home button cable, remove it with tweezers, and pry the connector up from its socket.
(7) Similarly, the development of ventriculomegaly may depend upon cerebral elastic properties besides the pri mary disturbance of CSF dynamics.
(8) Before Vicente Fox became president in 2000, the Institutional Revolutionary party (PRI) had won every election since 1929.
(9) Thirty DES-exposed women aged 17-30 years and 30 control women with a history of abnormal Pap smear findings were interviewed with the SADS-L and completed the SCL-90-R and the PRI-Q.
(10) However, the PrI sera of these horses showed reactivity at various intensities with one to seven of the component antigens.
(11) The pantographic reproducibility index (PRI) has been developed to quantitate incoordinated mandibular movements; one of the signs and symptoms of TMJ dysfunction.
(12) Data from this study suggest that the MGPQ-PRI might be useful for the assessment of fibromyalgic pain in a clinical setting and during follow-up of the disease.
(13) The arrangement of overlapping genes at the pri locus of IncP alpha plasmids also appears to be present in the IncP beta group.
(14) So pry between the boards of the housing recovery and the termites start crawling out.
(15) The delay in the postcastration increase in plasma level of LH in the OVX hens was not associated with anorexia of incubating hens, since plasma levels of LH were not affected by force-feeding unless plasma levels of PRI were suppressed by nest deprivation.
(16) Some people are also afraid that prying eyes might spot Prep, which can also be used for HIV treatment, in a person’s medicine cabinet and assume that they are positive.
(17) Alec says 2,000 legislators and business lobbyists are expected to attend, participating in numerous meetings where new model bills will be privately crafted – away from the prying eyes of the media .
(18) Compared with the control group, statistically significant increases of SCE and HFC, as well as decreased cell kinetics (PRI) were observed for both occupationally and environmentally exposed groups.
(19) Banks have far more to fear from the prying of other financial companies than they do from any data provider.
(20) The stability of the angiogenin-PRI complex was assessed by cation-exchange HPLC quantitation of free angiogenin.
Widen
Definition:
(v. t.) To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking.
(v. i.) To grow wide or wider; to enlarge; to spread; to extend.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bohler's angle may be reconstituted with apparent reduction of the posterior facet when projected laterally; however, Broden's and axial views show persistent widening and split of the posterior facet.
(2) Their narrowed processes pass at a common site through the muscle layer and above this layer again slightly widen and project above the neighbouring tegument.
(3) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
(4) A patient with hypertensive heart disease, in whom atrial premature beats with a decrease in the amplitude and widening of his bundle potential, prolongation of the H-V interval, and right bundle branch block pattern suggested intrahisian longitudinal dissociation, is described.
(5) The question of how the contraction of adjacent endothelial cells might widen the intercellular clefts and thus regulate permeability is discussed.
(6) These alterations include fenestration, widened intercellular junctions, increase in pinocytotic vesicles, and infolding of the luminal surface.
(7) Protriptyline also widened the ventricular echo zone and allowed easy induction of long runs of ventricular tachycardia.
(8) Diffuse widening of the subarchnoidal space, diffuse cerebral changes, interhemispheric assymetry of the venous and arterial phases of cerebral circulation: the most peculiar symptoms of the CNS affection in SLE according to CT and EEG and radionuclide studies of cerebral hemodynamics.
(9) But the bill anticipates the outcome by seeking to widen government powers to enable more people to be given support in the form of direct payments, for services up to and including residential care.
(10) Osteopetrosis is diffuse and is associated with important metaphyseal widening as well as epiphyseal irregularities and often carpal and tarsal supernumerary bones.
(11) Spinning top urethra (STU) is a term used to describe a widened posterior urethra seen mainly in girls.
(12) This is caused by a paravertebral haematoma, and can be difficult to differentiate from widening due to an aortic rupture.
(13) Resentment towards the political elite, the widening gap between the immensely rich and the poor, the deteriorating social security system, the collapse in oil prices and what Forbes has called "a stampede" of investors out of Russia – an outflow of $42bn in the first four months of 2012 – means the economy is flagging.
(14) The high mortality of some groups within the NHS, and the fact that differentials between social classes have widened more than in the general population, suggest that the NHS needs to pay more attention to the health of its own staff.
(15) A case of bilateral aneurysmatic widening of the Dacron graft after aorto-femoral bypass is described.
(16) The PPD was positive and X-ray showed widening of the mediastinum.
(17) It is bad enough that the minimum wage required by law is hardly generous, yet there we were again last week confronted with reports of delivery company Hermes exploiting workers , HM Revenue & Customs widening its investigation into the notorious wages shirker Sports Direct and a challenge to Uber’s employment practices.
(18) The advantages of this technique are: the abdominal aorta of rats proximally to renal arteries is characterized by a well developed adventitia and its caliber is double of that of infrarenal aorta; b) the left renal vein is more easily access of caval vein with similar caliber; c) the use of left renal vein and the widening of pulmonary artery permits a wide anastomosis; d) the so obtained heart position is better than the transversal one; e) the calibers of all anastomosis is so wide to permit the realization of this technique without extreme optical magnification.
(19) Generally, during heavy exercise all species hyperventilate creating hypocapnia, increased PAO2, widened A-a O2 gradient, and PaO2 homeostasis.
(20) Working in tandem with Westminster city council, Transport for London and the Greater London Authority, the crown estate has pedestrianised several side streets, widened pavements, and introduced a diagonal crossing at Oxford Circus and new traffic islands at Piccadilly Circus, along with two-way traffic on Piccadilly, Pall Mall and St James's Street.