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Reverb


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To echo.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An assumption has been made that the major effect of trifluoperazine and haloperidol consists in an increase in the reverberative activity of the brain.
  • (2) The interaction of several membrane oscillators without the participation of the pacemaker autogenerator may lead to the authorhythmic reverberative (extracellular) activity.
  • (3) A jangly, reverb-laden old piano and Peter Buck's 12-string guitar made this music sound ancient, somehow; Mike Mills' sad, descending bassline in the chorus only deepened its melancholy.
  • (4) Several experimental studies were done to explain the reverbating echoes.
  • (5) I put the recorder inside and hit it: a kind of springy reverb sound.
  • (6) Costanzo watches once to rehearse, positions his two microphones to approximate the distance and reverb needed, and then does it for real, eyes locked on the screen.
  • (7) The words are hard to make out in the reverb-drenched murk.
  • (8) There's a sensuality to the vocal which is the result of me finally having the mic to myself and simply revelling in the experience – all that lovely reverb, all that lovely low vibrato; God, I was enjoying myself!
  • (9) In the hands of Laibach, it becomes epic: a magnificent, reverb-drenched alternative carol.
  • (10) Electric guitar with the reverb amped up, pounding drums, a moody rolling synth line, and fake trumpets interspersed throughout – could anything be more papal?
  • (11) Sometimes it is possible to reveal correlation between the duration of dominating interdischarge intervals and the extremes in the recovery of excitability of neuronal pools, which indirectly indicates putative reverberative origin of impulse cyclic phenomenon.
  • (12) He was a big fan of the Eventide Harmonizer , an effects-processor used to add delays and reverb.
  • (13) The photos come from a program called Altiverb, developed by people who record sounds in different spaces and then calculate the reverb acting on those sounds.
  • (14) This summer, as part of Imogen Heap 's Reverb festival at the Roundhouse, Ryan will attempt to represent the synaesthetic experience with the London Contemporary Orchestra and visual artists Quayola & Sinigaglia, with the duo's images reacting live to Ryan's soundtrack.
  • (15) C. the focus acts also on the thalamo-cortical reverbation circle and gradually "teaches" it epileptic discharges which sometimes can be followed on the EEG, although this stage is still in the latent period, i.e.
  • (16) The reverb pattern – what happens to noise as it moves through space to our ears – is known as the delta.
  • (17) Cults are not typical top 20 fare – the duo are best known for Go Outside , a lo-fi, reverb-heavy song released last year.
  • (18) Or rather freemium: the app is a free download, but some of its effects – Hi-Lo, Echo, Roll, Loop, BeatSkip and Reverb – are sold as in-app purchases for £1.49 each, or £6.99 for all six.

Revert


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
  • (v. t.) To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
  • (v. t.) To change back. See Revert, v. i.
  • (v. i.) To return; to come back.
  • (v. i.) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
  • (v. i.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
  • (v. i.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, reverts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Friend erythroleukemia cells were induced to differentiate by dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and hexamethylene-bis-acetamide (HBMA) in order to investigate whether their lipid characteristics, common to other systems of transformed cells, revert to a normal differentiation pattern.
  • (2) Upon depletion of ATP in contraction, the P2 intensity reverted to the original rigor level, accompanied by development of rigor tension.
  • (3) Lipoprotein concentrations reverted to normal after substitution with thyroxine (T4) until the euthyroid state was reached.
  • (4) As compared with solvent-treated control, no significant increases were observed in the number of revertant colonies in all tester strains in both systems with and without mammalian metabolic activation (S9 Mix).
  • (5) Proteolytic activity of cell extracts from revertants of Shigella flexneri L-forms as well as biochemical properties of these strains and their sensitivity to antibiotics were studied.
  • (6) A total of 43 tra-3 revertants (one intragenic, 42 extragenic) have been isolated and analyzed, in the hope of identifying new sex-determination loci.
  • (7) All cellular signals characterized so far are reverted during retrodifferentiation: Redistribution of PKC and down-regulation of c-fos and c-jun contribute to an interruption of the differentiation-associated transsignaling cascade.
  • (8) Fruiting revertants of these strains accumulate wild-type levels of alpha-mannosidase-1 activity, suggesting that both the enzymatic and morphological defects are caused by single mutations in nonstructural genes essential for early development.
  • (9) All revertants to prototrophy tested showed the rifampin-sensitive (Rifs) property.
  • (10) This product was glycosylated since it bound to concanavalin A-Sepharose and reverted to the 66-kDa polypeptide after treatment with endoglycosidase H. This glycosylated product was resistant to protease digestion and fractionated with microsomal membranes on sucrose gradients, indicating that it is incorporated into the microsomal membranes.
  • (11) Of the five patients who had diabetes prior to treatment, three reverted to normal glucose tolerance during treatment.
  • (12) We studied the activation of polyoma middle T expression in revertant cells carrying transcriptionally inactive copies of the middle T (pmt) oncogene.
  • (13) However, with subsequent subcultivation, eight isolates reverted back to the standard of exhibiting motility and pellicle formation.
  • (14) A significant correlation was observed between prolactin and creatinine concentrations in these patients (r = 0.45 P less than 0.005) and prolactin reverted towards normal after successful renal transplantation.
  • (15) Conversely, when obesity was permitted to recur by giving the mice free access to food, PRL levels reverted back to the original obese pattern.
  • (16) We have isolated and characterized revertants of ts24, a member of the A complementation group of Sindbis HR mutants, that we had demonstrated previously to have a temperature-sensitive defect in the regulation of minus-strand synthesis.
  • (17) All revertants of adA24 carried dominant suppressor mutations.
  • (18) Using this technique we have cloned and sequenced the structural protein region of ts20 and of several revertants and concluded that the mutation was a change from histidine to leucine at amino acid 291 of E2.
  • (19) To study important epitopes on glycoprotein E2 of Sindbis virus, eight variants selected to be singly or multiply resistant to six neutralizing monoclonal antibodies reactive against E2, as well as four revertants which had regained sensitivity to neutralization, were sequenced throughout the E2 region.
  • (20) Enzymatic data for those ICR-191A-induced revertants of hisD3018 arising within the hisD gene indicate that the enzyme is wild type and, therefore, that ICR-191A can cause deletions as well as additions of single base pairs.

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