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Rend


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
  • (v. t.) To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak.
  • (v. i.) To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Or perhaps we could focus on the relationship of Leia and Solo, now married, and there could be a heart-rendingly poignant study of their elderly existence together, rather like Michael Haneke's Amour , but set in space.
  • (2) They meticulously slotted together details to give a painstaking picture of the events that led up to the girls' disappearance, and then away from it; the innocent before and the nightmarish after; the last known seconds of the girls' meandering progress through familiar streets, arms linked, and then the frantic, increasingly heart-rending search that came to an end when the naked and decomposing - and, as we now know, partially burned - bodies of the two friends were found lying together, limbs tangled, at the bottom of a deep and muddy ditch, where the nettles grew tall.
  • (3) It reads , in part: “These young people, who have come to learn how to strive against the propagation of stereotypes, from people who only see in immigration a source of illegality, social conflict and violence, can contribute much to show the world a Church, without borders, as Mother of all; a church that extends to the world the culture of solidarity and care for the people and families that are affected many times by heart-rending circumstances.” Carroll said: “It is wonderful to know that he was touched by the letters we wrote him and hopefully those letters will inspire him as he prepares to come to the US.
  • (4) He flew to Kuala Lumpur for the public service marking the first anniversary of the plane’s disappearance, and was moved by a “heart-rending” speech given by Grace Subathirai Nathan, whose mother was on the plane and who continues to speak on behalf of the families of missing passengers.
  • (5) Climate change is also contributing to the heart-rending refugee crisis.
  • (6) On Sunday, Kassig’s parents released in full the heart-rending letter their son wrote to them from captivity.
  • (7) Dr John Doherty Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire • Marty Feldman turned the French text on HP sauce ( Letters , 16 January) into a heart-rending chanson.
  • (8) She has drawn up an illustration of Malcolm's dizzyingly complex 'web of care' and gives a heart-rending account of the challenges they faced with different types of care Malcolm needed.
  • (9) A method is proposed to induce chemically the incorporation of bacterial agents inot enamel and thus rende this tissue resistant to bacterial colonization.
  • (10) Binding of antibodies to hemopoietic cells rends their idiotypic determinants major immunogens even in the presence of tolerance to constant region epitopes.
  • (11) "The Hellenic republic today is in heart-rending turmoil, a humiliating sovereign debt crisis has brought Greece to the brink of absolute ruin.
  • (12) It is the blistering, heart-rending story of two people finding each other and trying to heal themselves through love.
  • (13) This report lays bare the heart-rending, prolonged suffering of civilians in Afghanistan, who continue to bear the brunt of the armed conflict and live in insecurity and uncertainty over whether a trip to a bank, a tailoring class, to a court room or a wedding party, may be their last,” said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein.
  • (14) I get these heart-rending letters with some awful stories."
  • (15) There is the squeezing type contraction in which the network contracts to a single small clump with gradual expulsion of solution material, and the rending type contraction in which the network tears itself into a number of separate pieces.
  • (16) We are supporting her family at this very difficult time, and will be providing support for friends and colleagues from the constabulary as we come to terms with the loss of an officer in such tragic and heart-rending circumstances.
  • (17) Numerous technical problems concerning dosage methodologies are encountered especially with angiotensin II determination and must rend cautious when interpreting data.
  • (18) The existence of different centromere stages in different cell types, rends Parascaris chromosomes a very good model to study centromere organization.
  • (19) Tumour recurrence rends to be localized in the anterior commissure and sometimes infiltrates into the prelaryngeal area.
  • (20) Authors advise a strict prevention of acute rend failure and early grafting.

Rendering


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Render
  • (n.) The act of one who renders, or that which is rendered.
  • (n.) A version; translation; as, the rendering of the Hebrew text.
  • (n.) In art, the presentation, expression, or interpretation of an idea, theme, or part.
  • (n.) The act of laying the first coat of plaster on brickwork or stonework.
  • (n.) The coat of plaster thus laid on.
  • (n.) The process of trying out or extracting lard, tallow, etc., from animal fat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Expression of transfected CD4 on the surface of HeLa and other human cells renders them susceptible to HIV infection 10.
  • (2) If an E. coli Gal-U mutant strain, defective in the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) carbohydrate chain length, was used, each approach rendered 100% labelling.
  • (3) The use of sulphur-containing amino acids and 2-deoxyglucose in growth media led to impaired cell wall synthesis and rendered cells very susceptible to treatment with mercapto-ethanol and various lytic enzymes.
  • (4) This was capable of sensitizing human thyroid (and other) cells and rendering them susceptible to killing by normal lymphocytes.
  • (5) The conventional explanation for the high fatality rate due to cytomegalovirus (CMV) pneumonitis among allogeneic transplant recipients is that immunosuppression renders the host unable to control replication of this opportunistic agent.
  • (6) This chapter describes a systematic approach to the art of collection for services rendered, based primarily on a pay-as-you-go philosophy.
  • (7) Newborn rats were rendered hyperthyroid (daily subcutaneous injections of L-triiodothyronine, 10 micrograms 100 g-1 body weight) or hypothyroid (0.05% 6-n-propyl-2-thiouracil in drinking water to nursing mothers) during the first 3 weeks of postnatal life.
  • (8) The rapidity of obtaining the results (within one hour), the complete absence of untoward reactions to the radiopharmaceuticals, the much lower frequency of subtle or indeterminate results, the ability to render useful information in the presence of moderate jaundice and the lack of interference from overlying intestinal contents establishes these radionuclide agents as superior to both radiographic oral and intravenous cholangiography in the investigation of the acute abdomen.
  • (9) Most ears are rendered dry and safe, with cavity problems minimized by careful technique.
  • (10) All initially positive patients were rendered tilt negative by therapy.
  • (11) In a noncontracting in vitro preparation of combined right and left atria we demonstrated by electron microscopy that, at 37 degrees C, transition from zero pressure to a physiological distending pressure of 5.1 mm Hg rapidly rendered atrial endocardial endothelium permeable to the macromolecular probes horseradish peroxidase (HRP; M(r), approximately 40,000) and wheat germ agglutinin-HRP (M(r), approximately 70,000); each probe was introduced at the atrial cavitary endocardial surface.
  • (12) Davis said he would be surprised if an incoming Conservative government did not set up an immediate inquiry into this case and others where Britain is alleged to have been involved in the secret rendering by the US of detainees to prison where they were likely to be tortured.
  • (13) (c) A greater than 80% reduction in clone PAK 17.15 lung colony number was observed in mice rendered thrombocytopenic by i.v.
  • (14) Exact comparisons of recovery of ocular tone (Maddox Wing test) between the anaesthetics were not possible as both Althesin and methohexitone rendered some patients incapable of taking the tests in the early post-operative period.
  • (15) (vii) Two deletions within the EBNA-2 gene which rendered EBV transformation incompetent did not transactivate LMP1, whereas a transformation-competent EBNA-2 deletion mutant did transactivate LMP1.
  • (16) Psychiatrists in the U.S. have raised a host of issues related to their experience with peer review including a concern for the patient's confidentiality, the need to correlate normative standards with local customary practice, the significance of the reviewer's theoretical orientation and training, the optimal documentation required and the impact of peer review on the reimbursement of claims for services rendered.
  • (17) Thus, the solid-phase synthesis of peptides selectively deprotected at the side chain of tyrosine is rendered possible by the use of 2-chlorotrityl resin and Fmoc-Tyr(Trt)-OH.
  • (18) Either vaccine given at full dosage alone, or in combination, rendered birds resistant to homologous viral challenge.
  • (19) This erratic course renders difficult assessment of the efficacy of methods of treatment.
  • (20) Off came defensive midfielder Claudio Yacob, rendered surplus to requirements by the dismissals of Afellay and Adam, and on went forward Rickie Lambert.

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