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Rejoin


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To join again; to unite after separation.
  • (v. t.) To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.
  • (v. t.) To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.
  • (v. i.) To answer to a reply.
  • (v. i.) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This finding suggests that the precursor mRNA is processed through the removal and rejoining of internal RNA sequences.
  • (2) In our opinion the improved survival in these patients (which tends to rejoin that of the general population) and the improved quality of life justifies the use of this treatment in severe obstructive IRC, despite a greater demand and cost of this treatment than those with a restrictive defect.
  • (3) Both agents impeded the rate of rejoining of DNA breaks with increasing time after irradiation.
  • (4) A Home Office spokesperson said: "As the home secretary said, the government's current thinking is to opt out of all measures and then negotiate to opt back into those individual measures which it is in our national interest to rejoin.
  • (5) The kinetics of the DNA strand-break rejoining process appeared to be biphasic over the dose range of 2-20 Gy when plotted on a linear vs linear axis (percentage of damage as a function of time).
  • (6) The results of cellular experiments using gene transfer frequencies as a measure of DNA rejoining strongly suggested that the A-T cell line had a greatly elevated frequency of misrepair of double-stranded DNA scissions.
  • (7) A nuclease-free polynucleotide ligase I purified about 3000-fold over the crude homogenate from calf thymus succeeded in rejoining 50% of the breaks in the X-irradiated DNA.
  • (8) Further, the rate of rejoining of interphase chromosome breaks was the same as the rate of increase in survival due to the repair of potentially lethal damage (PLD).
  • (9) Some responses of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum to ultraviolet light (UV) irradiation were investigated by analyzing two aspects of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) excision repair in the vegetative cells: (i) the fate of thymine-containing dimers and (ii) the production and rejoining of single-strand breaks.
  • (10) 3-Aminobenzamide (which inhibits poly(ADPribose) synthesis) does not delay the rejoining of DNA breaks.
  • (11) Inhibitors of the chromatin-associated enzyme adenosine diphosphate ribosyltransferase have been found to inhibit DNA strand rejoining and to potentiate lethality of DNA-damaging agents both in vivo and in vitro.
  • (12) As measured by alkaline elution, EM-C11 cells showed a defect in the rejoining of single-strand DNA breaks after exposure to X-rays and even more so after the EMS treatment.
  • (13) Removal of avarol resulted in a rapid DNA rejoining with biphasic repair kinetics [first half-time, 8 min (90% of the breaks) and a second half-time, 40 min (10% of the breaks)].
  • (14) I've had people who had left because of the coalition rejoin for Eastleigh.
  • (15) There was a positive correlation between return to wild-type radiosensitivity and an increase in the rate of DNA double-strand break rejoining.
  • (16) In agreement with their colony-forming ability, ataxia-telangiectasia cells (AT2BE) and normal fibroblasts exhibited similar dsb rejoining capacity following alpha-irradiation, but showed marked differences in the rejoining kinetics of dsb induced by gamma-rays or bleomycin.
  • (17) As measured by neutral elution after exposure to X rays, XR-V9B cells showed a defect in the rejoining of double-strand breaks (DSBs); after 4 h of repair more than 50% of DSBs remained in comparison to 5% in wild-type cells.
  • (18) Over dose ranges yielding surviving fractions of 75 to 0.056%, considerable DNA rejoining occurred after only 2.5 min posttreatment incubation in conditioned medium.
  • (19) This suggests that breakage and rejoining of the involved V genes occurred by some process other than that which normally rearranges Ig genes.
  • (20) Rejoining of DNA after X irradiation is not impaired by novobiocin.

Reply


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.
  • (v. i.) To answer a defendant's plea.
  • (v. i.) Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery.
  • (v. t.) To return for an answer.
  • (v. i.) That which is said, written, or done in answer to what is said, written, or done by another; an answer; a response.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
  • (2) Responses to a monthly survey of 450-500 surveyors (usually 250-300 reply).
  • (3) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
  • (4) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
  • (5) According to the report filed by the New York state department of financial services (NYSDFS), when warned by a US colleague about dealings with Iran, a Standard Chartered executive caustically replied: "You f---ing Americans.
  • (6) A survey sent randomly to 30 retail pharmacies got 24 replies.
  • (7) To which Salim replies: “But you do.” When such intimacy between two men can be broadcast to an audience of millions, we are shown that the ways of portraying gay sex can be reframed.
  • (8) Of 519 patients on the waiting list, replies were received from 471 (91%).
  • (9) Justice Hiley later suggested the conduct required by a doctor outside of his profession, as Chapman was describing it, was perhaps a “broad generality” and not specific enough “to create an ethical obligation.” “It’s no broader than the Hippocratic oath,” Chapman said in her reply.
  • (10) "Most technologies have their bright and dark side," he replies, buoyantly.
  • (11) Asked about white predominance in the sport, South African rugby journalist Paul Dobson replied: "If you suggest that again I'll get annoyed and put the phone down.
  • (12) #WhitePrideWorldWide.” Anonymous replied in true vigilante style on Sunday, by taking control of the KKK Twitter account and replacing the logo with its own.
  • (13) Asked what form the arrangements could take, the peer replied: "Wherever we think that there's something happening that is undesirable and we're looking very carefully at how to draw up those protections."
  • (14) Asked if he thought the committee had been misled, Whittingdale replied: "I'm not sure yet."
  • (15) "I can't decide by myself," Mourinho replied when asked how the injuries would influence his team selection at Anfield.
  • (16) Last year he was asked how it was mathematically possible for all schools to exceed the national average, and replied: " By getting better all the time. "
  • (17) I watched some boxing last night," he replies in his faint, lisping voice.
  • (18) The other example is of a woman who had a child who died at the age of 10 and expressed no regrets, but when questioned about whether she would have continued a pregnancy knowingly aware the baby would die in 10 years, the woman replied that she could not imagine how anyone could be so strong as to bear a child knowing the brevity of its life.
  • (19) Asked whether the US tax code was convoluted and difficult to understand partly because of lobbying by companies including Apple for exemptions, Cook replied: "No doubt."
  • (20) Rule one surely is to reply to customers' phone calls and letters.

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