(superl.) Having an abundance of material possessions; possessed of a large amount of property; well supplied with land, goods, or money; wealthy; opulent; affluent; -- opposed to poor.
(superl.) Hence, in general, well supplied; abounding; abundant; copious; bountiful; as, a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop.
(superl.) Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful; as, rich soil or land; a rich mine.
(superl.) Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly; as, a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents.
(superl.) Abounding in agreeable or nutritive qualities; -- especially applied to articles of food or drink which are high-seasoned or abound in oleaginous ingredients, or are sweet, luscious, and high-flavored; as, a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry; rich wine or fruit.
(superl.) Not faint or delicate; vivid; as, a rich color.
(superl.) Full of sweet and harmonius sounds; as, a rich voice; rich music.
(superl.) Abounding in beauty; gorgeous; as, a rich landscape; rich scenery.
(superl.) Abounding in humor; exciting amusement; entertaining; as, the scene was a rich one; a rich incident or character.
(v. t.) To enrich.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a period on fat-rich diet the patient's physical fitness was increased and the recovery period after the acute load was shorter.
(2) This analysis demonstrated that more than 75% of cosmids containing a rare restriction site also contained a second rare restriction site, suggesting a high degree of CpG-rich restriction site clustering.
(3) Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) was prepared, and platelet aggregation studies were conducted directly or conducted on washed platelets prepared from PRP collected with ACD.
(4) No significant fatty acid binding by proteins was detected in S. cerevisiae, even when grown on a fatty acid-rich medium, thus indicating that such proteins are not essential to fatty acid metabolism.
(5) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
(6) Maybe the world economy goes tits up again, only this time we punish the rich instead of the poor.
(7) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
(8) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
(9) In spite of the presence of scar tissue following rhytidectomy, this procedure has been quite successful because of the rich blood supply in that area.
(10) The specificity of the assay was established by competitive displacement of 125I-labeled arginine-rich protein from its antiserum by arginine-rich protein and lipoproteins containing this protein, but not by rat albumin or other purified apolipoproteins.
(11) At constant arterial pO2, changes in coronary flow were associated with changes in energy-rich phosphates, but not systematically with changes in coronary venous pO2.
(12) To understand the reason for the opposite effect of the molar ratio observed at the middle of and at four residues away from the lysine-rich sequence, actual cross-linked residue(s) was (were) determined by subjecting cross-linked product to a protein sequencer.
(13) The diet increased the formation of a cholesterol-rich very low density lipoprotein (VLDL), decreased high density lipoprotein (HDL)-associated cholesterol and phospholipids, but had virtually no effect on low density lipoprotein (LDL)-lipids.
(14) An AT-rich stretch is centered at position -31 with respect to the transcription initiation site, and a potential CCAAT box is centered at position -138.
(15) The slow alpha-lipoprotein was distributed in the range of densities between low density and high density lipoproteins and was rich in apoprotein E. This abnormal lipoprotein of PBC was observed in those in Stages II and III but not in those in Stage I.
(16) A transurethral prostatic resection for prostatism in a 73 year old man showed a cluster of richly capillarised clear cells originally thought to be indicative of invasive carcinoma.
(17) VAT increases don't just hit the poor more than the rich, they also hit small firms, threaten retail jobs and, by boosting inflation, could also lead to higher interest rates."
(18) To facilitate detoxification, the centrifuge is employed to provide plasma rich in toxins, but void of potentially interfering blood components such as platelets and whole blood cells.
(19) In the perfused rat liver, ursodeoxycholate in high dose produces an HCO3- -rich hypercholeresis which we have shown previously to be inhibited by replacement of perfusate Na+ with Li+ or by addition of amiloride (or amiloride analogues).
(20) B cells from both sources gained immediate access to extrafollicular areas of secondary lymphoid organs rich in interdigitating cells and T cells.
Stoichiometric
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Stoichiometrical
Example Sentences:
(1) Stoichiometric inactivation of aminoacylation was achieved with the incorporation of 1 mol of tRNA(oxLeu) per mol LeuRS.
(2) It has now achieved wide applicability to the measurement of cellular biochemical activity by means of stoichiometric chromogenic reactions.
(3) Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), the primary physiological inhibitor of tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) in plasma, is a serine proteinase inhibitor (serpin) that forms a 1:1 stoichiometric complex with its target proteinase leading to the formation of a stable inactive complex.
(4) Ceftriaxone, a cephalosporin, is bound reversibly to defatted human serum albumin from adults, with a first stoichiometric binding constant of 60,000 M-1, as found by equilibrium dialysis at pH 7.4, 37 degrees.
(5) Electrophoretic resolution of phosphorylated and non-phosphorylated forms of Lgamma has enabled the stoichiometric nature of the phosphorylation (previously deduced from measurement of the specific radioactivity of the ATP pool) to be confirmed.
(6) Stoichiometric studies show that 1 mol of 4-aminobenzoate is converted to an equimolecular amount of 4-hydroxyaniline and CO2 with the consumption of 1 mol each of NADH and molecular oxygen.
(7) A histochemical method for staining CNS zinc by the stoichiometric formation of zinc: quinoline fluorescent chelates is described.
(8) Carboxypeptidase Y digestion resulted in the near stoichiometric release of leucine, the COOH-terminal amino acid.
(9) It is stoichiometrically inhibited by diisopropylfluorophosphate.
(10) It is eluted from the membrane at low ionic strength as a monomeric and 1:1 stoichiometric complex.
(11) Formate generation was much reduced at pH 7.4, whereas stoichiometric formation of formate was observed in the absence of TMANO.
(12) Incubation of purified protein phosphatase-1G with cyclic-AMP-dependent protein kinase and MgATP, which leads to stoichiometric phosphorylation of the G-subunit [Caudwell et al.
(13) Isolated protein S1 stoichiometrically disrupts the secondary structure of helical and stacked single-stranded polynucleotides and converts them into their fully or partially denatured forms.
(14) Immunochemical, immunofluorescent and electron microscopic studies indicate that TAP functions stoichiometrically by binding physically to tubulin to form a complex active in microtubule assembly.
(15) The interaction of the stimulatory protein with DNA polymerase was stoichiometric.
(16) Data and equations are also given for the solubility of O2 at 760 mm in air-saturated and lightly buffered 0.15 M KCl and 0.25 M sucrose over the range 5 to 40 degrees C. In the method described the rates of O2 and H+ uptake are precisely linear and stoichiometric when NADH is present in large excess over O2.
(17) Special cases, such as the occurrence of net lipid synthesis or gluconeogenesis, are formally considered with derivation of explicit stoichiometric equations.
(18) In contrast to the widely accepted view, histone H1 was found in virions in stoichiometric amounts with respect to other histones.
(19) The diazonium salt of 5'-(4-aminophenyl phosphoryl)-uridine 2'(3')-phosphate reacts stoichiometrically with pancreatic ribonuclease and modifies only one tyrosyl residue, which was identified as Tyr 73 in the amino acid sequence.
(20) Most of the E3 components supplying the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex appear to be synthesised from approximately 6415-base aceEF-lpd readthrough transcripts, but additional approximately 4640-base aceEF transcripts terminating after the aceF gene provide a transcriptional basis for the observed stoichiometric excess of E1p and E2p relative to E3 in the assembled complex.