(n.) A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface.
(a.) Formed with a surface closely corded, or ribbed transversely; -- applied to textile fabrics of silk or wool; as, rep silk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sequence of the rep control region was determined, and putative regulatory sequences were identified; no evidence for autoregulation of expression was obtained.
(2) This has "nothing to do with any of our businesses," Koch spokespeople were quoted as telling the congressman's staff members in a May 20 letter that Waxman sent to Reps. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the Energy and Commerce Committee chair, and Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), who chairs the Energy and Power Subcommittee.
(3) The results add support for the general significance of AAV-2 and specifically the rep gene as tools for down-regulating heterologous gene expression.
(4) Deletions between -94 and -153 bp relative to the p19 cap site reduced Rep induction of both the p19 and p40 promoters coordinately.
(5) Specific binding with 125I-rEp showed that 60% of the binding was inhibited by excess pure erythropoietin (Ep), but not by albumin, fetal calf serum, and a variety of growth factors or glycoproteins.
(6) The rep gene proteins of AAV type 2 (AAV2) inhibited the trans-activating ability of HIV-1.
(7) "We regret that Congress was forced to waste its time voting on a foolish bill that was premised entirely on false claims and ignorance," David Jenkins, an REP official, said in a statement.
(8) Nine out of 10 private sector workplaces have never seen a union rep, let alone a picket line; the number of days lost to strike action in recent years have been, barring a relatively small spike in 2011, at historic lows.
(9) Thom Majka, a sales rep who keeps his Indians cap on through every game for good luck, said: “These fans couldn’t care less about the election.
(10) The law’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin of Indian Springs, said the measure would make the clinics safer, while clinic operators said it was an attempt to shut them down through a regulation they could not meet.
(11) Reps are asked to sign a contract that includes the clause: “I will not promote the singing of abusive, offensive, crude or intimidating chants and songs.” The contract also asks reps to confirm that they are “the first representative of the University of Nottingham that new students will meet and therefore recognise that [they are] a role model”.
(12) Light responses (ReP) and pre-stimulus membrane potential (PMP) and conductance of photoreceptors of Astacus leptodactylus and Limulus polyphemus (lateral eye) were recorded and changes were observed when the photoreceptor was depolarized by the action of external ouabain of high potassium concentration application.
(13) We propose that REP sequences may be a prokaryotic equivalent of 'selfish DNA' and that gene conversion may play a role in the evolution and maintenance of REP sequences.
(14) Diffraction-limited 1064-nanometer light pulses from a high rep rate Q-switched Nd-YAG laser were coupled through novel means into a probe with index-matched optical contact with the cornea.
(15) And the most jaw-dropping part is that Rep. Sensenbrenner is the same guy who fathered The Patriot Act !
(16) One thing we missed out on was that Justin Bieber wanted to rep BlackBerry .
(17) The crude extract (fraction II) prepared from E. coli could replicate plasmid pKYM, only when the extract contained the rep protein which was produced by the plasmid and essential for its multiplication in vivo.
(18) These results have been used to calculate the geometrical contribution to the error in the measurement of relative effective renal plasma flow (REP) by 131-I-Hippuran renography.
(19) Rep, which makes a sequence-specific single-stranded nick to form a covalent Rep-ori replication intermediate.
(20) Updated at 6.57pm BST 6.49pm BST A congressman, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), once lost an arm-wrestling match against Russian president Vladimir Putin , and now he has told the world about it.
Rex
Definition:
(n.) A king.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bio-Rex 70, a carboxylic acid cation exchanger, is studied as a biological ion-exchanger resin model for cellular cytoplasm.
(2) Photograph: Rex Features 'Voga' Vogueing + yoga, apparently.
(3) Photograph: Rex Features If Brookstein had confined his anger to legitimate provocations, it would be easier to sympathise, for he seems to have suffered more than enough of them on The X Factor.
(4) Using an extracellular microelectrode recording technique, the effects of intravenously administered morphine sulfate upon the single-unit activities of cells in Rexed lamina VII of the lumbar spinal cord were studied in cats following decerebration and spinal cord transection at L1.
(5) Photograph: Rex If they are still unhappy they can go to the free Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), which resolves disputes between consumers and financial firms, although the PAC raised concerns about the service’s backlog of cases.
(6) The lateral basal region (LBR) of the spinal cord gray matter (Rexed's laminae IV-VII) by physiologic and anatomic criteria is the major terminal zone for the corticospinal (CS) tract in the cat.
(7) Phosphorylation of Rex occurred in all HTLV-I-infected cell lines examined in vivo, primarily at serine residues and to a very small extent at threonine residues.
(8) Mutations bas, rex and sesD delay recovery from the prolonged depolarization afterpotential.
(9) In the upper cervical cord of chick embryos at stage 36 when all spinal neurons finished cell migration and the cytoarchitecture similar to that of the cat spinal cord (Rexed, 1952) could be recognized (cf.
(10) For the second show in the Guardian’s 10-week radio series on NTS, Alexis talked to the Guide’s Kate Hutchinson about glam’s early innovators, forgotten outliers and its modern descendants: T Rex to David Bowie and Iron Virgin to Perfume Genius.
(11) Chymotryptic digestion of phosphorylated Rex yielded two phosphopeptides.
(12) Rex also bound in vitro to the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) Rev-responsive element (RRE), while purified HIV-1 Rev protein did not bind to the RXRE.
(13) The state department issued a stinging rebuke of the behaviour of the Saudis and their Egyptian, Emirati and Bahraini allies, with the secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, warning them to make their demands on Qatar “ reasonable and actionable ”.
(14) The vibrissae of rex are curved or bent and may break off; those of waved are a mixture of straight, curved, and bent hairs.
(15) Therefore, binding of RevBL to the RRE had neither positive nor negative effects on the mRNA, since this mRNA could be efficiently utilized in the presence of a functional Rex-RXRE interaction.
(16) The results of the present study are, to the authors' knowledge, the first demonstration of the suppressive effect of morphine on the spinal nociceptive neurons in Rexed lamina V as they respond to graded noxious thermal stimuli.
(17) On the basis of these in vitro data the observed defect in the Devon Rex cats can be fully explained.
(18) Photograph: REX Shutterstock Nicky Morgan S ecretary of state for education and minister for women and equalities Morgan dramatically increased her majority at the election and she will keep both of her ministerial briefs, where she won plaudits especially for her rethink on equal marriage, which she had previously opposed.
(19) Photograph: Rex Feeding into this narrative, an email from Sarah Vine, Gove’s wife, was accidentally sent to a member of the public, leaking details of her reservations about Johnson’s popularity with members and media bosses.
(20) One of these mutants is able to suppress the function of the wild-type HTLV-I Rex protein in trans on the homologous rex response element sequence.