(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.
Retake
Definition:
(v. t.) To take or receive again.
(v. t.) To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.
Example Sentences:
(1) No changes for either side, but Zinedine Zidane has been whispering into Cristiano Ronaldo's ear as he retakes the pitch.
(2) This year, that means anyone doing a retake in order to get the grades for law or accounting and finance degrees.
(3) A standardized questionnaire, with satisfactory retake item reliabilities and well established validities, was administered to a representative sample of female university students (N = 2366), drawn from Cairo and Ein-Shams Universities, both located in Greater Cairo.
(4) On top of that, a campaign to retake the north will pit largely Shia soldiers against Sunni fighters and, if air power and artillery are used in civilian areas, will risk further alienating the population.
(5) However, due to moving the larger studio audience (some of whom were on a gallery above the main set) around for different shots and retakes it took three times that.
(6) The official said they wanted to retake Mosul in the spring, before the summer heat and the holiday month of Ramadan kick in.
(7) Al-Maliki's appeal seems not only to have fallen on deaf ears but some tribal militias reportedly defected and fought alongside Isis, thus frustrating the government's efforts to retake Falluja.
(8) Criminals are released from prison and return to work every day, but the prospect of an unrepentant convicted rapist retaking his place at a League One football club has proved another matter.
(9) He added: "Retake the opportunity for individual tenants to choose to have their rent paid direct, then we will be with you all the way."
(10) There was no one in red and white prepared to take charge and deal with the visitors' inevitable surge, when it eventually came, by calming his team-mates down and retaking control of possession.
(11) Arab Iraq may still try to retake the province, but it is too focused on turning Baghdad and the Shia south into a fortress.
(12) More than a third of graduates from the training program, which until this year was available only to men, retake at lease one phase, the US army told AFP this week.
(13) The day after Zeidan's removal, the powerful Misrata militia, allied to congress, launched an offensive to retake the blockaded oil terminals, storming the base of an army special forces unit – the Zawiya Martyrs brigade – in the central city of Sirte, leaving five people dead.
(14) The military-drafted, vaguely worded constitution allows for the army chief to retake power in a national emergency.
(15) The long-promised battle for Tikrit and the province of Salahuddin, north of Baghdad, is set to be a dry run for another offensive, backed by the US-led international coalition and Shia militia, to retake Isis-controlled Mosul.
(16) They’re going to be retaking territory that’s part of the disputed territory.
(17) The Iraqi prime minister has vowed to retake every inch seized by the militants.
(18) Two earlier attempts to retake Delga failed, but in the early hours of Monday morning police launched a third and decisive assault, and have now re-entered the town, residents said by telephone.
(19) Hugely popular, evidence that the comprehensive ideal could succeed brilliantly, they offered a much wider curriculum than schools; students could be “academic” or given a second chance (the pass rate for “retakes” was almost double); all could escape the constraining regime of schools and be treated as young adults.
(20) She added: "That night, no one could tell me whether we could retake the Falklands.