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Sorb


Definition:

  • (n.) The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree.
  • (n.) The fruit of these trees.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The formation of phospholipid micelles was proved by linear dependence of the content of the sorbed phosphatidyl choline versus, the content of apoHDL bound to Sepharose.
  • (2) Relative contribution of integral intensity of the latter at 96 degrees C in sorbed water is about 4 times lower than in the liquid one.
  • (3) Aluminas, silicas and aluminosilicates were evaluated for their ability to sorb radiolabeled aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) from aqueous solution (in vitro).
  • (4) The results confirm the theory of cell volume regulation: volume changes of living cells in different solutions represent a balance between the tendency of intracellular proteins -- which exist in the fully extended conformation -- to polarize, sorb, and draw into the sac or cell more water and the opposite tendency to lose water from the sac or cell created by the lower level of the solutes in the cell or sac water than in the external medium.
  • (5) On the basis of the data obtained the nature of sorbing forces and structural properties of the albumine molecule concerned are discussed.
  • (6) The salt-protein, sucrose-starch, and salt-starch combinations sorbed less water than that predicted by calculated sorption values.
  • (7) This tube is connected to the permanent apparatus and the sorbed organics are thermally transferred to a small Tenex pre-column while the water vapor is vented.
  • (8) In aqueous media these compounds are reversible sorbed on the surface of the gel.
  • (9) Fourier transform infrared (FT IR) spectroscopy was conducted on solid samples of crystallin with and without irreversibly sorbed HCI gas.
  • (10) Pharmacokinetics and organe distribution of Methotrexate (MTX) in Gardner lymphosarcoma bearing C3H mice was investigated following two ways of drug administration: 1. intraperitoneal injection, 2. intratumoral implantation of 2-hydroxyethylmethacrylate gel with sorbed Methotrexate (localized chemotherapy).
  • (11) The powder-component (Bio-sorb, Surgikos) leads to an accelerated setting.
  • (12) The therapeutic AUVM effect is associated with the ability of these materials to rapidly sorb and eliminate inflammation-inducing mediators as well as the protective properties of the AUVM against secondary wound infections.
  • (13) Thus, the long-term (decades) efficacy of AC in sorbing radon in a soil environment will not be compromised by the blocking of its sorption sites by lead.
  • (14) For the less water soluble odorants (octane and amyl acetate), the uncut side did sorb significantly more odorant than the cut side.
  • (15) Immune lymphocytes sorbed on the surface of the target cells were characterized during the period of the first three hours of combined incubation by the presence of the electron-dense matrix, abundance of mitochondria and lipids; small lymphocytes had disseminated ribosome organized into polysomes in the medium lymphocytes forming individual cysterns of the granular endoplasmic reticulum in the large lymphocytes, this indicating active protein synthesis by these cells.
  • (16) It was also shown that the T-lymphocyte population forming "active" rosettes could be assessed by the number of SRBC sorbed on their surface.
  • (17) Besides these genes for known functions, three additional genes were discovered: sorC, coding for a transcriptional 40kD regulatory protein, and sorF and sorB, coding for two proteins of 14kD and 19kD, respectively, involved in transport.
  • (18) The AB-17-8 anionite and Ky-21-8 cationite are capable of adequately sorbing the poliovirus in pasteurized milk, but it is only from the cationite, and then only in a small amount, that eluation of the virus can be accomplished.
  • (19) The appearance of new TPF binding centres, alteration in fluorescence anisotropy of sorbed dye as well as inactivation of myosine ATPase of model fibres at high concentrations indicate that the cooperative phase of sorption is characterized by changes in the structure of contractile proteins.
  • (20) Comparing the metal content in oil fuel and waste gases showed that no more than 10% of the studied compounds are sorbed on the boiler walls, the remaining 90% being released into the atmosphere.

Wend


Definition:

  • () p. p. of Wene.
  • (v. i.) To go; to pass; to betake one's self.
  • (v. i.) To turn round.
  • (v. t.) To direct; to betake; -- used chiefly in the phrase to wend one's way. Also used reflexively.
  • (n.) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet the 38-year old former State Department official has raised a Snowden-like alarm that Americans' communication data remains highly vulnerable to surreptitious collection by the National Security Agency – and will remain vulnerable despite the legislative fixes wending through Congress to redress the bulk domestic phone data collection Snowden revealed.
  • (2) The government's vocabulary seemed to consciously echo the reunification process, with Merkel heralding an "Energie-Wende" – "die Wende" is the word for change which became shorthand for the fall of communism and reunification.
  • (3) Conversely, lines such as "Forthi, iwysse, bi zowre wylle, wende me bihoues" are incomprehensible to the general reader.
  • (4) The mighty Chao Phraya river, which wends through the city, is predicted to break its banks over the weekend when coastal tides swell its volume, threatening to inundate central areas.
  • (5) Indeed, another word that is frequently popping up in civil discourse these days is Wende : “turning point”.
  • (6) President Xi, like his predecessor Hu Jintao, speaks often about the Confucian virtues of harmony ( hexie ) and stability ( wending ).
  • (7) The sand here is powdery, so if you've brought buckets, wend your way across the maze of saltings and shallow lagoons towards the sea.
  • (8) This article investigates causes of death between 1854 and 1884 among the Wends of Serbin, Texas, a nineteenth-century European immigrant community.
  • (9) When I viewed the flat post-Wende, it had been empty for five years and had simply been forgotten about in the chaos.
  • (10) And it is also taking a painfully long time to wend its way through the legislative process.
  • (11) The discard ban is just one element of the new CFP, which has been wending its way through the corridors of Brussels for more than two years.
  • (12) The issue is now likely to wend its way back up the legal system until it reaches the US supreme court once again for an ultimate decision.
  • (13) In an online poll of doctors, 1,900 out of 2,600 respondents said it was appropriate to pull the legislation even as it wends its way through the House of Lords.