(v. t.) To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air.
(v. t.) Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart.
(v. t.) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.
(v. t.) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.
(v. i.) To grow or become pure or clear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Competition with the labelled 10B12 MAb for binding to the purified antigen was demonstrated in sera of tumor-bearing and immune rats.
(2) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
(3) The nuclear origin of the Ha antigen was confirmed by the speckled nuclear immunofluorescence staining pattern given by purified antibody to Ha obtained from a specific immune precipitate.
(4) The quaternary structure of ribonucleotide reductase of Escherichia coli was investigated, with the use of purified B1 and B2 proteins and bifunctional cross-linking agents.
(5) Western blot analysis of these mitochondria using an antibody against carnitine palmitoyltransferase II purified from beef heart demonstrates a 68-kDa protein, which under ischemic conditions apparently is decreased by 2 kDa.
(6) ASF-II was purified to apparent homogeneity by using concanavalin A-agarose affinity chromatography, DEAE-cellulose chromatography, alumina gel adsorption, and isoelectric focussing techniques.
(7) The enzyme was solubilized by Triton X-100 and purified approximately 480-fold by gel filtration and affinity chromatography on alanine methyl ketone-AH-Sepharose 4B.
(8) The DNA untwisting enzyme has been purified approximately 300-fold from rat liver nuclei.
(9) heterografts of GW-39, a CEA-producing colonic tumor of human origin, was demonstrated in radioimmunoassay using radioiodinated CEA purified from GW-39.
(10) Four new monochain phospholipases were purified from the Oxyuranus scutellatus (taipan) venom.
(11) By growing purified human cytotrophoblasts under serum-free conditions and manipulating the culture surface, we were able to disassociate morphologic from biochemical differentiation.
(12) Lysates of cells were compared to purified DNA as PCR template.
(13) Histone mRNA, labeled with 32P or 3H-methionine during the S phase of partially synchronized HeLa cells, was isolated from the polyribosomes and purified as a "9S" component by sucrose gradient sedimentation.
(14) Proliferation of quiescent hematopoietic stem cells, purified by cell sorting and evaluated by spleen colony assay (CFU-S), was investigated by measuring the total cell number and CFU-S content and the DNA histogram at 20 and 48 hours of liquid culture.
(15) Adult nonpregnant female rhesus monkeys fed purified diets containing 100 or 4 ppm zinc for 1 yr were mated then studied through midgestation.
(16) Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against the soluble form (S-COMT) of catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT, EC 2.1.1.6) were produced using a purified preparation of the enzyme from pig liver as antigen.
(17) Transcription studies in vitro on repression of the tryptophan operon of Escherichia coli show that partially purified trp repressor binds specifically to DNA containing the trp operator with a repressor-operator dissociation constant of about 0.2 nM in 0.12 M salt at 37 degrees , a value consistent with the extent of trp operon regulation in vivo.
(18) The specificity of the assay was established by competitive displacement of 125I-labeled arginine-rich protein from its antiserum by arginine-rich protein and lipoproteins containing this protein, but not by rat albumin or other purified apolipoproteins.
(19) To augment the in vitro expansion of LAK cells, we added highly purified human recombinant interleukin-2, phytohemagglutinin and accessory cells (Uc cells) to the LAK culture system, with which huge number of LAK cells (LAK-L) were generated from originally small number of peripheral blood lymphocytes of cancer patients.
(20) This enzyme was purified to homogeneity and exhibited an apparent molecular weight of 36,000 on sodium dodecyl sulfate gels and 180,000 on a TSK G-3000SW column in the presence of Triton X-100.
Purist
Definition:
(n.) One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the choice of language.
(n.) One who maintains that the New Testament was written in pure Greek.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cynics will tell you Camra’s membership know all about identity crises – once the rebels of the 1970s, they’re now mostly older dads and grandads – purists upholding Camra’s “cask only” creed as sacred.
(2) But there are two problems for Turkey's entry Düm Tek Tek: linguistic purists will be angry that the song is in English except for the title; and some more traditional members of the national juries and televoters will be offended by Turkey's crop-top aesthetic.
(3) He frequently used the sounds and rhythms of dubstep – which by 2011 was nearing the peak of its explosive global rise – royally enraging the scene's purists, who were already struggling to cope with "their" sound spilling into the mainstream and picked him as scapegoat.
(4) No: people want to see live animals!” The purists will grumble.
(5) Quite right too, purists would say: Hinkley Point is already hideously expensive.
(6) The hip-hop world has become dominated by styles such as drill and trap, and their preoccupation with drug dealing and womanising, with the purists' calls for a return to hip-hop's golden era drowned out by Lex Luger's snares and Gucci Mane 's endless chants of "burrrrr".
(7) And rather than to the purists of Camra, it was to the anything-goes craft brewers of America that many turned for their inspiration: to exuberant beers with exotic ingredients (chilli, honey, chocolate, hemp, mustard, even myrrh), but also to hip design, guerrilla marketing and social media savvy.
(8) What might be even less acceptable to purists are the ballpark traditions that have sprung up around Fenway recently.
(9) Early celebrating is a serious violation of baseball protocol to some purists.
(10) Eric Gordon, director of Emerson College's Engagement Lab in Boston, takes a more purist approach.
(11) The 1995 Judge Dredd movie , starring Sylvester Stallone, angered some purists because he took his helmet off.
(12) If he gets there, at 32, in two such daunting matches, acclaim will have to flow, but there will be trouble from the purists.
(13) I know lots of purist Conservatives say this is not something the Tory party should do,” he says.
(14) The purists will brook no such change, insisting Republicans must stay true to their small government, socially conservative message.
(15) I was kind of hoping they might manage a reprise of their purist-bothering act at Euro 2004, only on the biggest stage of all.
(16) The bedroom tones of Verity Sharp and Fiona Talkington have enticed a cult audience to the late-night Radio 3 show, which jumps from Indian classical to American post-rock to British early music with an audacious rapidity that regularly outrages musical purists.
(17) It can be demonstrated that puristic ideologies tend to be inhumane.
(18) Though such innovations are anathema to many purist climbers, some Sherpas welcome them.
(19) As a purist I would love the fighters to be able to kick the head of a downed opponent,” he says.
(20) It might be less deadly than it was, and the miles of fixed ropes appal climbing purists, who say it’s not real mountaineering, but it’s still a dangerous, acutely uncomfortable environment that could end up killing you.