(v. t.) To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rearrangement was presumed to be responsible for activation of the ret gene.
(2) A government-commissioned review into the RET, headed by the businessman and climate change sceptic Dick Warburton, concluded that while it has largely achieved its aims and helped create jobs in clean energy, it should be either wound back or cut off entirely.
(3) Although lidocaine and mexiletine increased RET, procainamide and disopyramide did not.
(4) With low grade astrocytomas, survival beyond 4 years was significantly worse (higher death rates) in the group receiving more than 1400 rets.
(5) Striking similarities were found between the functional pathways affected differentially by RET stimulation and well-defined cholinergic pathways which originate in the midbrain tegmentum.
(6) Oxipurinol plasma levels and plasma elimination half-life were investigated in five healthy volunteers after oral administration of 300 mg allopurinol in customary (A 300) and in slow-release preparation (A ret) in a double blind cross-over study.
(7) The nucleotide sequence indicates that the active ret transforming gene encodes a fusion protein with a carboxy-terminal domain which is 40 to 50% homologous to members of the tyrosine kinase gene family.
(8) But neither option from Dick’s report is closing down the RET, to be clear.” Abbott has previously blamed the RET for having a “significant impact” on power prices, although the Warburton report found this wasn’t the case.
(9) The remaining 6 patients suffered from prominent swallowing disturbances and their initial postoperative RETS demonstrated prolonged defective transit or the presence of gastroesophageal (GE) reflux.
(10) NBD-cholesterol linoleate (NBD-CL) and octadecyl rhodamine B (R18) were incorporated simultaneously into LDL, as a RET donor and a RET acceptor, respectively.
(11) The plan would overcome the effect of falling electricity demand on the real impact of the RET.
(12) RET-P1 and lectin binding did not always correspond in developing retina, indicating that at least part of the observed lectin label must be due to other glycoproteins or glycolipids.
(13) The review concedes this, and changed the rationale it used to argue in favour of getting rid of the RET.
(14) We have investigated the pH-dependent interaction between large unilamellar phospholipid vesicles (liposomes) and membrane vesicles derived from Bacillus subtilis, utilizing a fluorescent assay based on resonance energy transfer (RET) (Struck, D. K., Hoekstra, D., and Pagano, R. E. (1981) Biochemistry 20, 4093-4099).
(15) A vigorous defence of the RET, run by the Solar Council, is targeting the 20 most marginal Coalition electorates in the country.
(16) The RET is working – it has helped triple solar and wind energy since 2009, led to some $18bn in investment and grown jobs in the sector by more than 250%” said John Connor, chief executive of the Climate Institute.
(17) The pneumonitis was more frequently noted with increasing rets dose in both age groups (n.s.)
(18) The ret proto-oncogene shows a pattern of expression restricted to neuroendocrine tissue.
(19) In all the patients included in this study, dosage had exceded 1,600 rets.
(20) Immunoprecipitation with anti-phosphotyrosine antibody followed by Western blotting revealed that p57retTPC is constitutively phosphorylated, whereas the ret proto-oncogene products are not.
Vet
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Under a revised deal most people are now being vetted on time, but charges for the service have had to rise from £12 and free vetting for volunteers, to £28 for a standard disclosure and £33 for an advanced disclosure.
(2) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
(3) It is claimed that Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, was "starstruck" by his association with Eastwood and that the film-maker's speech was not vetted beforehand.
(4) Results showed the greatest inhibition of noxious stimulus perception with Innovar-Vet, lesser inhibition with ketamine-xylazine and ketamine-diazepam, and the least obtunding of nociception with pentobarbital.
(5) Commonwealth annual funding for vocational education and training (VET) had increased by 25% in real terms since Labor came to office in 2007, amounting to more than $19bn, according to Rudd.
(6) White House plan to hire more border agents raises vetting fear, ex-senior official says Read more “But the fact is when the world changed, you have to change too, and so I do think there are amazing new opportunities now because he’s bringing nationalism to the fore, he’s bringing it into the mainstream, he’s asking these existential questions like: are we a nation?
(7) Getting them to safety is now vital.” While the EU’s hotspots approach improved the fingerprinting and security vetting of migrants, the auditors said that funding and relocation “bottlenecks” had extended the detention of migrants, with disastrous consequences for children.
(8) FBI director: new Hillary Clinton emails show no criminal wrongdoing Read more “Here in Minnesota, you’ve seen first-hand the problems caused with faulty refugee vetting, with very large numbers of Somali refugees coming into your state without your knowledge, without your support or approval,” the Republican nominee told a rally in the solidly Democratic state, two days before the presidential election.
(9) Had they bothered to inquire of a veteran from the ranks, they might have heard how exasperating it is to see the dainty long-range patriots of Labour thrashing it out with the staunch gutter jingoists of the Conservative party – and barely a non-commissioned vet among them.
(10) People from all countries nowadays go through a vetting process, particularly from parts of the worlds where there is political instability and violence, and are thoroughly checked.
(11) The faecal egg count depression (FECD) of febantel (Rintal vet.
(12) Tian Tian, the female, whose name means sweetie, and Yang Guang, meaning sunlight, travelled from China on board a Boeing 777F flight dubbed the FedEx Panda Express, with a vet and two animal handlers.
(13) A business department spokesman said the government was not planning to put a duty on police to vet union social media, specifically Twitter, during industrial action.
(14) The purpose of this study is to present measurement of ventilatory threshold (VeT) and maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) in a large group of predominantly older subjects using a bicycle ergometer and an automated measuring system.
(15) The official said the department does not vet US citizens' private travel to North Korea.
(16) I do feel the best interest of the country and the party and Tony Abbott are served by giving him the space to demonstrate that he’s listened to concerns and he’s acting and doing the appropriate thing to get the country back into a more stable political position.” Abbott told cabinet on Wednesday that he would make changes about the extent to which proposed staffing appointments had to go to the so-called “star chamber” for vetting, and the extent to which his office had to approve travel.
(17) Besides one group of control pigs, one group of pigs were pretreated with alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) combined with selenium (Tokosel Vet) injected i.m.
(18) For David Cameron to appoint Coulson to Downing Street , bypassing all the usual vetting procedures, casts grave doubt over his judgment.
(19) What she means, of course, is that Sarah Palin needs to vet them, instead.
(20) This issue was also raised in March by its new chairman, Lord Chris Patten, during a pre-appointment vetting process conducted by the culture media and sport committee.