(v. t.) To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.
(v. t.) To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.
(v. t.) To unite in marrige.
(n.) A junction or joining made by splicing.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is argued that this process drove the evolution of present 5' and 3' splice sites from a subset of proto-splice sites and also drove the evolution of a more efficient splicing machinery.
(3) One splicing mutation results in a 3 amino acid in-frame insertion.
(4) Each of the two spliced molecules contains a 5'-terminal leader sequence transcribed from a DNA segment with an estimated length of 60 to 110 nuvleotides.
(5) Previously, we identified a candidate gene, Tcp-10b, whose t allele generates alternatively spliced transcripts.
(6) Analysis of this mutant illustrates that indirect flight muscles and jump muscles utilize different mechanisms for alternative RNA splicing.
(7) A comparison between the primary structures of the rat and human genes reveals that the heterogeneity of the C-terminal peptides can be explained in large part by a frameshift mutation and the utilization of an alternative splice donor site in the third exon of the rat gene.
(8) A new alternative splice site was incidently found 81 nucleotide downstream of motif II in both normal and truncated 4.1 mRNA.
(9) The IGA-65 present in splicing extracts was distinguishable from known U-snRNP and hnRNP proteins on protein gels.
(10) The protein variation potentially includes N-terminal differences coded for by transcript-specific 5' exons and internal differences arising from the optional inclusion of a 39 base-pair exon and from the alternative use of two 3' splice sites separated by six base-pairs.
(11) Certain RNA molecules can mediate their own cleavage or splicing or act as enzymes to promote reactions on substrate RNA molecules.
(12) In order to identify putative protein splicing factors associated with the 200S InRNP particles, a panel of monoclonal antibodies directed against these particles were screened for their ability to inhibit splicing of pre-mRNA in vitro.
(13) Similar results were obtained when hybrid-selected RNA, which had been labeled for 3 h with [3H]uridine, was analyzed on formaldehyde-agarose gels, suggesting that the observed differences were due to splicing rather than RNA stability.
(14) At the restrictive temperature the ratio of unspliced U6 precursor to mature RNA is elevated in the mutants compared to the wild type grown under identical conditions, indicating a defect in U6 pre-RNA splicing.
(15) These two splicing intermediates cosedimented under a variety of conditions, indicating that they are contained in the same RNP complex.
(16) Recombinant retroviruses containing intact or spliced CRPV sequences can now be used to introduce the viral genes efficiently into a variety of cell lines.
(17) The 0.85 kb fragment was cloned and sequenced and the result indicated that the introns from the xylanase gene were accurately spliced by the plant cells.
(18) The RNA-catalysed self-splicing reaction of group II intron RNA is assumed to proceed by two consecutive transesterification steps, accompanied by lariat formation.
(19) U1 snRNA is an essential splicing factor known to base pair with 5' splice sites of premessenger RNAs.
(20) We have used such constructs, assayed by transient expression in chicken embryo fibroblasts, to define the minimal sequences necessary to inhibit splicing.
Strop
Definition:
(n.) A strap; specifically, same as Strap, 3.
(v. t.) To draw over, or rub upon, a strop with a view to sharpen; as, to strop a razor.
(n.) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Solskjaer's need to gamble was such that he withdrew Fábio da Silva, by now in such a strop with himself and everybody else that another sending off probably beckoned.
(2) Or perhaps it's all down to people taking Wagner's strops too seriously .
(3) We threw a strop and we threatened to lose our focus but we gathered ourselves at half-time.
(4) Is his reputation for walking out in a strop justified?
(5) The Tory speech writer condemned Goldsmith for throwing a “strop” by quitting and was unhappy when the Tories announced they would not stand.
(6) After last season's fiasco with Peter Odemiwingie, Steve Clarke wants to sign a totally dependable striker who's not going to throw any strops.
(7) Infamously, he refused to appear in the video for his UK No 2 hit Wearing My Rolex , apparently spending two days on set having a strop in the back of his car.
(8) Harry's strop was both maladroit and inappropriate, to the extent that you might think his bark is worse than his bite.
(9) Just a gobby teenager stropping off to her bedroom.
(10) The aircraft is suspended, in an arrested nose dive, from a complicated cat's cradle of strops and ratchet straps.
(11) Emerge into focus Kevin Garvey, police chief of Mapleton County, ripped and brooding in the way only fictional police chiefs can be, and in a right old strop about a memorial for the Departed, which he predicts will end in a ruck when mysterious religious group, the Guilty Remnant, show up.