(v. i.) To utter a low, murmuring, continued sound, as a cat does when pleased.
(v. t.) To signify or express by purring.
(n.) The low, murmuring sound made by a cat to express contentment or pleasure.
Example Sentences:
(1) No correlation between PUR, platelet survival, platelet function and the clinical situation could be assessed.
(2) The sequence of markers in the corresponding segment (mel to purA; 91.5 to 93.5 min) of the E. coli linkage map was shown to be mel--aspA--mop(groE)--ampA--frdA--pur A.
(3) Two types of repetitive DNA elements are located within the PAI-1 structural gene and flanking DNAs: we have found 12 Alu elements and 5 repeats of a long poly (Pur) element.
(4) These things happen, it all comes together and a team suddenly starts purring; we hit five in about 10 minutes and, with Jimmy [Greaves] in that groove, we'd have beaten any team anywhere.
(5) Pur repressor bound specifically to purF operator DNA as determined by gel retardation and DNase I footprinting assays.
(6) It is concluded that: PUR, but not BAC, is a useful pharmacological tool for the aminopeptidase inhibition and for activation of enkephalinergic neurons; aminopeptidases are concerned with activities of opioid peptides.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest David Cameron tells Michael Bloomberg ‘the Queen purred’ Buckingham Palace declined to comment on the discussions between Geidt and Heywood.
(8) Before a ferociously red crowd, in which the Australian fans, scattered throughout the stadium in little blobs of yellow, struggled to assert themselves in any meaningful way, the Chileans started with their customary disregard for defence, a line of five attackers purring forward with gushing, almost smug intent.
(9) The order of the markers was hom-1-thr-1-his-1-(gly-1 or gly-2)-pur-1-pur-2.
(10) Nicola Sturgeon could be sat in that castle now – we know she had her eye on it – it was a damn close-run thing.” Royal circles found particularly offensive Cameron’s portrayal of the Queen as having “purred down the line” when he telephoned her to tell her Scotland had voted against independence.
(11) The dominance of the referendum explains why a relieved Cameron told the former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, in an overheard conversation days after the referendum, that the Queen had “ purred down the line ” when he told her the result.
(12) Furthermore, Pur-1 is able to activate an intact insulin promoter in HeLa cells, where it is normally inactive.
(13) The concentration of PPRibP has been examined in the rat adrenal gland at various times after induction of diabetes with STZ, in view of the key role it plays in the synthesis of Purs and Pyrs.
(14) Mutations in this group have previously been shown to be pleiotropic, affecting not only ras but also two other genetic entities, gua 1 and pur 1, which yield auxotrophic mutations.--The eight new mutations have been characterized phenotypically in double heterozygotes with gua 1, pur 1 and ras mutations.
(15) Washington is positively purring with pleasure over Abe's tougher stance.
(16) He tossed Shakespeare into a modern-day, thinly veiled Miami in the electrifying Romeo + Juliet and sent Nicole Kidman wafting, purring and simpering through bohemian Paris in Moulin Rouge!
(17) Puromycin aminonucleoside, an analog of PUR with no inhibitory action on protein synthesis, had no effect.
(18) Exogenously supplied histidine (that blocks conversion of AMP to guanine nucleotides) does not reduce the growth rate of the strain of pur apt genotype on adenosine as the sole purine source.
(19) The mutation, called rer, is located between arg B and pur D loci.
(20) PUR induced the dose-related analgesic effect abolished by NAL and increased the level of ENK in the striatum.
Puri
Definition:
(n.) See Euxanthin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Guests include Melinda Gates; the head of the UN Development Programme, Helen Clark ; UNFPA's executive director Babatunde Osotimehin , and acting head of UN Women Lakshmi Puri .
(2) Based on available data, their order on the E. coli chromosome appears to be tyrA, ranA, nadB, rnc, purI.
(3) We'll also hear from Lakshmi Puri , deputy executive director of UN Women, and Professor Gita Sen , from the Institute of Management in Bangalore, who writes extensively on women's issues.
(4) My friends and I clapped,” said Rukhmini Puri, a history student, as she emerged with her friends from a cinema in Nehru Place in Delhi, the Indian capital.
(5) A genetic locus has been identified in Escherichia coli that is analogous to the purI locus in Salmonella.
(6) Written by Aroon Purie, one of India's best-known publishers, the editorial summed up what many are saying from well-heeled Delhi sitting rooms to bus stop tea shops: "In India, the sheer banality of the word evokes a sense of deja vu … [but] the size and frequency of corruption in 2010 made it the theme of the year."
(7) India's ambassador to the UN, Hardeep Singh Puri, said his country's representative was scheduled to arrive in Damascus on Tuesday, joining counterparts from Brazil and South Africa for a meeting with Syria's foreign minister to appeal for an end to the crackdown and to introduce democratic reforms.
(8) The final preparations of esterases I and II, which were puri fied 70-and 140-fold, respectively, gave single protein bands on polyacrylamide gel and sodium dodecyl sulfate-gel electrophoreses.
(9) Jyothi Puri, a 12-year-old whose two-year-old cousin was among those cremated on Monday, has now decided she wants to be a doctor when she grows up.
(10) The technique of subureteric Teflon injection for the correction of vesico-ureteric reflux was first described by Puri and O'Donnell in 1984.
(11) Puri said Reader’s prognosis was uncertain after suffering a series of strokes and that doctors wanted to run further tests for cancer.
(12) Drinking-water aquifers are already seriously polluted with faecal protozoal pathogens from the existing stock of latrines in rural Puri,” she says.
(13) June in Odisha state’s Puri district, and the mercury is hitting 39C.
(14) I don’t place you above the the other conspirators and I don’t place any great weight on the nickname ‘the Master’, which at the time of the police recordings may have been used with a degree of irony.” The judge added: “It is clear there are a range of medical problems, some of them serious and potentially very serious indeed.” Reader’s barrister, Hesham Puri, told the court his client could now only walk using a frame and needed daily assistance in simple tasks including showering.
(15) Glutathione monoethyl ester (L-gamma-glutamyl-L-cysteinylglycine ethyl ester) was shown by R. N. Puri and A. Meister (1983, Proc.
(16) A study in the journal Environmental Science and Technology in April found that certain diarrhoea-causing protozoa can travel 150 metres or more in the high groundwater of Puri to contaminate even deep tube wells, which are thought safer than shallow tube wells and open ponds.
(17) During solation of the gel in the absense of myosin: (a) electron microscopy demonstrated that the number of free, recognizable F- actin filaments increased; (b) solation-dependent contraction of the extract and the Ca++-stimulated MgATPase activity were reconstituted by adding puried Dictyostelium myosin.
(18) Dr Samir Puri, lecturer in war studies, King’s College London, is the author of Fighting and Negotiating with Armed Groups • Comments will be opened later today
(19) In Kalyan Puri, new-borns and toddlers fall through a gap in provision.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest This toilet with a leach pit in Puri has been built next to a hand pump, making contamination likely They aren’t the only ones whose backyard toilet is a threat to the water supply.