(n.) The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.
(n.) That which is captured back; a prize retaken.
(v. t.) To capture again; to retake.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Europe such escapees often find themselves recaptured by boundary adjustments.
(2) Two of 15 recaptured P. leucopus had greater than or equal to 4-fold changes in antibody titer.
(3) All subsequent recaptures were made in the same situation in which the mosquitoes were marked.
(4) The truce was short-lived, and by the following February, hundreds of Taliban fighters had recaptured the area, prompting the British, aided by the US Army's 82nd airborne division, to conduct a massive operation in late 2007 to wrest back control of the district centre.
(5) However, in later experiments, mosquitoes recaptured seeking hosts at 48 h after release were in Sella's and Christophers' stages I and II, but parity rates had nearly doubled, indicating that eggs may have developed in less than 48 h and that mosquitoes returned to refeed immediately following oviposition.
(6) Specific target-organ (quadratus labii superioris muscle) activity can be recaptured with a smaller number (12.5%) of regenerating myelinated axons from the buccal division of the facial nerve during the fifth week of entubation.
(7) The purpose of the escalation will be to support the Iraqi-led recapture of Mosul, although senior US officials, including the head of military intelligence, have doubted the Iraqi’s ability to take the city in 2016.
(8) This paper develops capture-recapture methods applicable to programs as a whole.
(9) Although the mark-recapture and blood meal data indicated behavioral heterogeneity between buffalo and human biters, restriction endonuclease fragment length polymorphism analysis revealed no differences in repeat sequence profiles.
(10) Michu scored 22 goals in all competitions during his first season at Swansea but struggled to recapture that impressive form last term as injuries took their toll.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A general view taken on Sunday shows part of the ancient city of Palmyra, after government troops recaptured the Unesco world heritage site.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Displaced Iraqis begin returning to their home town of Tikrit, northern Iraq, which was recaptured from Isis in April.
(13) We have estimated, in addition, the effective population size for each generation for both populations with results from mark-recapture and other field data.
(14) The chipmunks were trapped and periodically recaptured in two study areas where 59 chipmunks became infected and developed neutralizing antibody during the summer cycle of virus transmission.
(15) Of 8,417 birds sampled, 1,227 (14.6%) were recaptured one or more times (mean 2.7 times).
(16) Bullivant disappeared at the same time as two others under control orders, neither of whom were recaptured.
(17) Because of the advantages of capture-recapture methods-estimation of level of completeness, possible comparability of estimates across different registries, and versatility to consider other determinants of cancer registration-a plea for greater use of these methods in cancer registration is made.
(18) It is concluded that during preganglionic nerve stimulation approximately 50-60% of endogenously produced choline is recaptured for ACh synthesis; thus, during activity preganglionic nerve terminals appear selectively to accumulate choline.4.
(19) No differences were found in the control group of animals, which supports the suggestion that the vesicles could arise from a membrane recapture process.
(20) An activity-dependent uptake mechanism exists to recapture the histamine for reuse at this continuously active synapse.
Regain
Definition:
(v. t.) To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.
Example Sentences:
(1) A key way of regaining public trust will be reforming the system of remuneration as agreed by the G20.
(2) The patient presented in coma but regained full consciousness over the next six hours with supportive therapy.
(3) In Experiment 1 (summer), hens regained body weight more rapidly, returned to production faster, and had larger egg weights (Weeks 1 to 4) when fed the 16 or 13% CP molt diets than when fed the 10% CP molt diet.
(4) There are a few seats, such as South Dorset and Braintree, where the Liberal Democrats are in third place and a third party revival would help the Conservatives to regain the seats lost to Labour but they are outnumbered by vulnerable Tory marginals.
(5) Changes in mean portal venous and aortic blood glucose and lactate concentrations after an intragastric infusion of d-glucose to chronically catheterized rats (after regaining preoperative weight) were compared to those of acutely catheterized rats (1 h after catheter placement).
(6) These cells regained responsiveness to PDGF after an additional incubation period in PDGF-free medium.
(7) Obese women who regained weight after successful weight reduction (relapsers, n = 44); formerly obese, average-weight women who maintained weight loss (maintainers, n = 30); and women who had always remained at the same average, nonobese weight (control subjects, n = 34) were interviewed.
(8) Those around him assumed he was dead and he was put in a coffin, only to regain consciousness at the last moment.
(9) Microbial lipases exhibit a total cutoff in activity with as low a pressure as 2 MPa and a remarkable activity regain with depressurization.
(10) To study important epitopes on glycoprotein E2 of Sindbis virus, eight variants selected to be singly or multiply resistant to six neutralizing monoclonal antibodies reactive against E2, as well as four revertants which had regained sensitivity to neutralization, were sequenced throughout the E2 region.
(11) Doctors hope that injecting stem cells directly into the spine will help repair damaged nerve cells enough for paralysed people to regain some movement, but such treatments have yet to be tested in humans.
(12) The patient regained good movement at the interphalangeal joint of the thumb.
(13) One patient regained thermoregulatory sweat function and no patient's condition progressed to generalized autonomic failure.
(14) The process of recovery has three stages, in the first the patient is unconscious, in the second he or she regains full consciousness signified by the end of the period of post traumatic amnesia and continues to show evidence of rapid improvement in basic physical and mental functions.
(15) Upon dialysis to remove DTT from the reduced UK mixture, the disulfides reformed and enzymatic activity was regained.
(16) Despite intensive nutritional rehabilitation, patient did not regain the use of his lower limbs.
(17) A unique pattern for a carbohydrate antigen is displayed by cells of the primitive streak; antigenicity is lost with de-epithelialisation and ingression, but is regained in a pericellular distribution on the mesoderm cells that emerge from the primitive streak.
(18) Out of 10 patients, eight treated by early mobilization regained full shoulder function within 1 year.
(19) The aged erythrocytes incubated in a mixture of adenine and inosine markedly regained their ATP levels, and also showed a marked transformation from spiked spherocytes to normal discocytes.
(20) She wanted the department to give her reporters better access to Helmand province, where British troops were fighting and dying as they battled to regain control.