(v. t.) To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo.
(v. t.) To seek justice or right from, by legal process; to institute process in law against; to bring an action against; to prosecute judicially.
(v. t.) To proceed with, as an action, and follow it up to its proper termination; to gain by legal process.
(v. t.) To clean, as the beak; -- said of a hawk.
(v. t.) To leave high and dry on shore; as, to sue a ship.
(v. i.) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
(v. i.) To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek (for something) in law; as, to sue for damages.
(v. i.) To woo; to pay addresses as a lover.
(v. i.) To be left high and dry on the shore, as a ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Soon after the takeover, PFD creative director Sue Douglas, the former Sunday Express editor, left amid reports that the company wasn't big enough for "two alpha females in Chanel".
(2) It was sparked by Ferguson's decision to sue Magnier over the lucrative stud fees now being earned by retired racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, which the Scot used to co-own.
(3) Public health officials planned to sue these results to design and target education about the benefits of early initiation of breast feeding.
(4) The list is split between on and off-screen talent, including Sherlock producer Sue Vertue, the writer of Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley, Sally Wainwright, and Elisabeth Murdoch , founder of MasterChef producer Shine.
(5) Sue Capon, who runs Brokerswood country park, said everyone was still coming to terms with the tragedy.
(6) Following the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance's Hoax of Hollywood conference in Tehran this week, it has been reported that Iran may "sue Hollywood" over what it considers to be unrealistic portrayals of the country in several films.
(7) Polonsky is hoping to sue Lebedev for libel and is seeking damages for defamation, his lawyer Andrew Stephenson has said.
(8) The law’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin of Indian Springs, said the measure would make the clinics safer, while clinic operators said it was an attempt to shut them down through a regulation they could not meet.
(9) In 2004 her action reached the US supreme court, which ruled that she could sue the Austrians.
(10) "If these things are not against the law we need amendments to the Equality Act", she said, adding that if they were against the law "we need to sue the backsides off people".
(11) Sue We’re the same people we were when we met as teenagers.
(12) He said he decided not to sue News International because he felt the only remedy was justice for the alleged perpetrators, not punishment of the press for the alleged criminal offences of a few.
(13) Sue Tibballs, chief executive of the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) , said she thought the Games could be a "genuine turning point".
(14) Therapists have been advised to become familiar with and sensitive to such characteristics and their manifestations and to be honest with themselves and patients about their prejudices (Sue et al.
(15) 2010s: In 2012, Sue Ellen is a very different woman.
(16) The landmark case, brought by a small environmental group through the UK courts, will allow people to sue the government for breaching EU pollution laws and will force ministers to prepare plans for many cities to improve air quality.
(17) Acid-base terminology including the sue of SI units is reviewed.
(18) They see angry shouting Steve Hedley-style pickets at every station, braziers at every street corner, and such general industrial unrest that there is a run on the pound and a broken and dejected Coalition government is obliged to sue for peace and throw its policies into reverse.
(19) Findus indicated it was ready to sue as the company announced it would on Monday file a complaint against an unidentified party.
(20) The return of a government headed by, for example, the centre-right New Democracy, would open up the possibility that Athens would sue for peace on the terms demanded by the troika.
Supe
Definition:
(n.) A super.
Example Sentences:
(1) The resulting vector, pHSG683, confers chloramphenicol resistance, enforces SmS on strAR and supE- host bacteria, and has multiple cloning sites within the coding region of synthetic rpsL gene.
(2) When pHSG683 DNA was prepared from strAR and sup+ cells grown in tryptophan-rich medium with Cm and Sm, less than 10(-6) plasmids failed to enforce SmS on strAR and supE- cells in tryptophan-less medium with Cm.
(3) The lung volume at which airway closure occurred in pregnancy and the post-partum period did not change in relation to the vital capacity whereas the expiratory reserve volume did, so that airway closure became imminent in the pregnant women during tidal ventilation, especially whilst in the suping position.
(4) We show here that the mutation in rodA is a single-base change from a glutamine to a chain termination (amber) codon, and that an amber suppressor (supE) present in the strain restores the ability to produce a reduced level of normal RodA protein.
(5) The lethal phenotype was expressed specifically in supE (glutamine-inserting) host strains and not in Sup+ strains, because the mutant genes, by design, also possessed an amber mutation derived from a glutamine codon.
(6) About 90% of the Trp+ revertants induced by methylnitrosocyanamide were due to mutations in suppressor genes, and 85% of the suppressor mutations occurred in gene supE.
(7) This can be eliminated by using a supE-strain as MG1655 and by site-directed mutagenesis of the cDNA to create an in frame UAA stop codon.
(8) All three mischarging mutant enzymes still retain a certain degree of tRNA specificity; in vivo they acylate supE glutaminyl tRNA (tRNA(Gln] and supF tRNA(Tyr) but not a number of other suppressor tRNA's.
(9) The asuA1 and asuA2 mutations are linked to trp, reduce suppression by supE approximately twofold, and affect a variety of suppressors.
(10) When amber suppressor mutations at the supD, supE, or supF loci were introduced into such sup0 osmodefective strains, they became osmotolerant and gained the ability to accumulate trehalose in response to elevated medium osmolarity.
(11) The two independently isolated suppressors behaved as supD and supE mutants, respectively, of E. coli.
(12) High levels of expression of I-FABP mRNA in supE+ strains of E. coli, such as JM101, is associated with suppression of termination at its UGA stop codon.
(13) Our results indicate that the supE glutamine tRNA context can tolerate multiple mutations (including mutation of the discriminator and first base-pair) and still remain predominantly glutamine-accepting.
(14) Of the 15 mutants generated by this method, none are suppressible by supD, supE, or supF.
(15) The effects of streptomycin and neomycin on the phenotypic suppression of frameshift mutations in the lacZ gene of Escherichia coli and on the efficiency of suppression of amber mutations in T4 phage by the informational supE tRNA nonsense suppressor were compared.
(16) Suppressor analysis by using BE1047 (trpambphooch) revealed that the most frequently occurring reversion was due to a mutation in suppressor gene, supE.
(17) Plaque-forming phages carrying the E. coli trp, his, cysB, thyA, supD, supE, sup F, hsd, tna and lig genes have been isolated.
(18) Or perhaps Aquaman could pop his head unexpectedly above the waterline and reveal the existence of a previously unimagined submerged society of mer-men while Supes is having a quiet day off fishing.
(19) Phage of the insertion mutant, M13mp19-NheI, produced light blue plaques on SupE strains because of the introduced amber codon.
(20) In all three, the relaxed phenotype was suppressed by supD, supE, supF or sup6.