(n.) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
(n.) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
(n.) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
(v. t.) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
(v. t.) To pierce with saps.
(v. t.) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
(v. i.) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
(n.) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) By contrast, SAP-35, the major surfactant-associated glycoprotein of molecular weight = 35,000, and other higher molecular weight proteins were not detected in significant quantities in the CLSE or surfactant-TA replacement surfactants, either by highly sensitive silver stain analysis or by immunoblot using monospecific antisera generated against bovine SAP-35.
(2) In normovolemia, the hepatic arterial flow (HAF) increased as the systemic arterial pressure (SAP) rose up to 140 mmHg, and then decreased as SAP rose further.
(3) Rat type II pneumocytes expressed vitamin K-dependent carboxylase activity that incorporated 14CO2 into microsomal protein precursors of molecular weights similar to those of surfactant-associated proteins (SAP).
(4) At this SAP a constant amount of SNP and 500 ml Dextran 60 were infused.
(5) The in vitro transcript probes could detect 1 ng of purified virus and as little as 1 microliter of sap extracts prepared from infected oat shoots.
(6) Combined propranolol-atropine blockade increased heart rate at rest in the SAP state, and significantly attenuated the tachycardia accompanying treadmill exercise.
(7) It is concluded that the cell sap from rat liver contains the complete set of enzymes for the synthesis from delta-aminolaevulinate of haem c and its linkage to a small pool of free apoprotein c present in soluble form.
(8) As shown earlier, at zero turgor pressure the intracellular freezing point of the parenchyma cells matches closely the negative pressure in the xylem sap.
(9) Whole blood components did not interfere with the efficacy of OKT1-SAP, as in vitro treatment of fresh whole blood resulted in effective elimination of clonable peripheral blood T-lymphocytes assessed by a limiting dilution assay.
(10) According to the theory of osmoelastic coupling, also large additives, such as the proteins of the cell sap, are able to cause an osmotic stress equivalent to that caused by polyethylene glycol.
(11) SAP did not bind to the macrophage cell line RAW264.7 nor did it enhance IL-1 secretion by this line.
(12) The cell sap in the absence of ribosomes was also able to incorporate radioactivity into purified cytochrome c, and the addition of ribosomes significantly enhanced the activity.
(13) The C4BP.SAP complex was also detected in normal serum and the results suggested that there was virtually no free SAP or uncomplexed C4BP in normal serum.
(14) An additional category, SAP "flare", was also identified (SAP increment greater than 15% at 1 month, with subsequent fall at 2 months).
(15) The biophysical activity of synthetic phospholipid-apoprotein combinants was assessed by measurements of adsorption facility and dynamic surface tension lowering ability at 37 degrees C. The SM-SAP-6 combinants had adsorption facility equivalent to natural lung surfactant, and to the surfactant extract preparations CLSE and surfactant-TA used in exogenous surfactant replacement therapy for the neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS).
(16) Histone phosphorylation is sharply inhibited after addition of DNA, the protein kinases of nuclear sap phosphorylating less effectively the histones complexed with DNA than the non-histone proteins.
(17) Specific SAP-35 RNA increased during organ culture and both SAP-35 content and SAP-35 RNA increased in the absence of exogenous hormones in 2% carbon-stripped fetal calf serum.
(18) The beta2-microglobulin in the cell-sap fraction was present in the unbound state.
(19) No patients at risk for developing heterotopic bone after THA could be identified from the preoperative level of SAP.
(20) The mass of SAP in these was determined from the extinction coefficient of SAP at 280 nm measured here precisely for the first time by spectrophotometry and cryogenic drying.
Unman
Definition:
(v. t.) To deprive of the distinctive qualities of a human being, as reason, or the like.
(v. t.) To emasculate; to deprive of virility.
(v. t.) To deprive of the courage and fortitude of a man; to break or subdue the manly spirit in; to cause to despond; to dishearten; to make womanish.
(v. t.) To deprive of men; as, to unman a ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
(2) Unmanned drones help enormously with this problem as they can be operated via satellite from thousands of miles away and dramatically lower the risk to British forces.
(3) I don’t do the social media myself, so who knows.” The Pentagon said the drone, also described as a “glider” or unmanned underwater vehicle, was deployed by civilian contractors aboard the USNS Bowditch, a scientific research ship.
(4) Last month, an unmanned drone strike in Pakistan near the Afghan border killed one of Jalaluddin Haqqani's sons – Badruddin, who was considered a vital part of the Haqqani structure.
(5) Thrun, seeking to reassure anyone worried about the risk posed by an automated car in the California experiment, said: "Our cars are never unmanned.
(6) It maintains that the undeclared air war in Pakistan and Yemen "is totally a function of the existence of an unmanned capability – it is unlikely a similar scale of force would be used if this capability were not available".
(7) Bullish as ever, a press release reveals that the service should be available by 2015 – once the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)'s rules on the safety of unmanned aerial vehicles are finalised.
(8) Just as the internet has revolutionised the transport of online data, the company says a network of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) – the "matternet" – could do the same for supplies.
(9) On Friday, an unmanned SpaceX Falcon rocket is set to take off from Cape Canaveral for the International Space Station orbiting Earth.
(10) In an undercover sting, reporters from the Sunday Times approached several former senior members of the military purporting to be representatives of from a South Korean defence firm seeking to sell an unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone, to the UK military.
(11) With these unmanned craft, governments can fight a coward's war, a god's war, harming only the unnamed.
(12) Cat gives station new lease of life Read more Tama quickly became Japan’s most famous cat after she was appointed honorary stationmaster at the unmanned Kishi station in rural Wakayama prefecture, western Japan, in 2007.
(13) Unmanned aircraft range from no bigger than a hummingbird to the size of an airliner, and their capabilities are improving rapidly.
(14) An unmanned spacecraft with a giant telescoping plunger would fly to the asteroid, suck it in, and secure it in a truly industrial-strength Hefty bag of sorts.
(15) We have successfully brought new technology into the nation's aviation system for more than 50 years, and I have no doubt we will do the same with unmanned aircraft.” An industry-commissioned study has predicted that more than 70,000 jobs would develop in the first three years after Congress loosens drone restrictions on US skies.
(16) Each hour that goes by with the prisons unmanned, the danger ramps up.” The POA said on Tuesday evening that it had asked its members to comply with the court order from 5pm.
(17) A spokesman said: "All operations, including those involving unmanned aerial systems, are informed by appropriate legal advice and are conducted in accordance with applicable International Humanitarian Law.
(18) These Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) – which rely on fibre optic cables, European "upstations" and satellite links – are part of an international trend towards remote combat.
(19) Rolls-Royce , the British engineering company developing the ships, claims the unmanned ships will be cheaper, greener and safer than those with a full complement of captain and crew.
(20) Amazon has turned the heat up on the Federal Aviation Administration, warning that unless the government agency allows it to start testing drones on US soil as part of its ambition to deliver products by unmanned aircraft it will be forced to shift its operations abroad.