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Sug


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of worm or larva.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Therefore sug represented a modification of the substrate specificity of the hpt gene product.
  • (2) Genetic analysis showed the sug mutation to be allelic with hpt.
  • (3) It is concluded that the polysaccharide is composed of tetrasaccharide repeating-units having the following structure, [sequence: see text] in which Sug is 3-deoxy-D-threo-hexulosonic acid.
  • (4) ----3)-alpha-L-FucAm-(1----3)-alpha-D-GlcNAc-(1----8)-beta-Sug+ ++-(2---- The O-antigen of S. arizonae O61 is structurally related to that of Pseudomonas aeruginosa O12, thus explaining the known serological cross-reactivity between these micro-organisms.
  • (5) It is concluded that the polysaccharide is composed of pentasaccharide repeating-units having the following structure: (Formula: see text) In this structure, L-PneNAc stands for 2-acetamido-2,6-dideoxy-L-talose (pneumosamine) and D-Sug for 2-acetamido-2,6-dideoxy-D-xylo-hexos-4-ulose.
  • (6) Chemical transformations (alkaline hydrolysis, reductive deamination, acetylation accompanied by intramolecular acylation of acetamidino group by ulosonic acid), 1H and 13C NMR analysis and mass spectral data proved the following structure of the trisaccharide unit of the polysaccharide: -8)-beta-Sug-(1-3)-alpha-L-FucNAm-(1-3)-alpha-D-QuiNAc -(1-
  • (7) These structural variations along the length of the vas deferens sug gest that this segment of the excurrent duct of the testis performs functions other than just as a passageway for spermatozoa.
  • (8) It contained 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucose, 2-acetamidino-2,6-dideoxy-L-galactose (FucAm), and 7-acetamido-3,5,7,9-tetradeoxy-5-[(R)-3-hydroxybutyramido]-D- glycero-L-galacto-nonulosonic acid (Sug).
  • (9) The results obtained with the immunoferritin technique and the cytotoxicity test correlated well and sug-ested that the shedding of MuMTV antigens from the cell surfaces may occur in vivo, providing the tumor a way to escape from the immune defense of the host.
  • (10) The O-specific polysaccharide, obtained on mild acid degradation of lipopolysaccharide of Pseudomonas aeruginosa O13 (Lányi classification), is built up of trisaccharide repeating units involving 2-acetamidino-2,6-dideoxy-D-glucose (N-acetyl-D-quinovosamine, D-QuiNAc), 2-acetamidino-2,6-dideoxy-L-galactose (L-fucosacetamidine, L-FucAm), and a new sialic-acid-like sugar, 5,7-diacetamido-3,5,7,9-tetradeoxy-D-glycero-L-galacto-nonuloso n ic acid (Sug), and thus contains simultaneously both acidic and basic functions.
  • (11) Monoclonal antibodies against two different determinants of the PnC molecule were used, one directed against the chain sugar of the repeating unit 2-acetamido-4-amino-2,4,6-trideoxygalactose (Sug) and the other against the phosphorylcholine residue.
  • (12) Antibodies against the "Sug" determinant reacted only with pneumococci, whereas antibodies against the phosphorylcholine determinant bound to cross-reacting streptococci as well as to pneumococci.
  • (13) In this structure, D-D-Hep is D-glycero-D-manno-heptose, Asc is 3,6-dideoxy-L-arabino-hexose (ascarylose), and Sug is 2,4-diamino-2,4,6-trideoxy-D-glucose (bacillosamine) in which N-2 is acetylated and N-4 is acylated with a 3,5-dihydroxyhexanoic acid.
  • (14) O-Specific polysaccharide chain of P. aeruginosa 013 (Lányi) lipopolysaccharide is composed of N-acetyl-D-quinovosamine (QuiNAc), acetamidino derivative of L-fucosamine (FucNAm), and 5,7-diacetamido-3,5,7,9-tetradeoxy-D-glycero-L-galacto-nonuloso nic acid (Sug).

Tug


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port.
  • (v. t.) To pull; to pluck.
  • (v. i.) To pull with great effort; to strain in labor; as, to tug at the oar; to tug against the stream.
  • (v. i.) To labor; to strive; to struggle.
  • (n.) A pull with the utmost effort, as in the athletic contest called tug of war; a supreme effort.
  • (n.) A sort of vehicle, used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
  • (n.) A small, powerful steamboat used to tow vessels; -- called also steam tug, tugboat, and towboat.
  • (n.) A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
  • (n.) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is patrolled for around six months of the year by a 35-year-old ocean-going tug which takes two days to cross the protected area.
  • (2) The broadcast featured panoramic shots of the hundreds of boats, tugs, cruisers and canoes sailing past the Houses of Parliament during the pageant staged as part of the national celebrations in June.
  • (3) The Guardian view on human rights in China: Liu Xiaobo is dying, free him | Editorial Read more Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer in May, the Nobel peace laureate is at the centre of a geopolitical tug-of-war with western governments urging China to show “humanity” by letting him travel overseas for treatment and Beijing accusing the world of meddling in its “domestic affairs”.
  • (4) With Robert Snodgrass having only 18 months remaining on his contract, the manager’s biggest battle looks certain to be a tug of war with the gifted Scotland winger’s assorted suitors.
  • (5) John Muir, a giant of the conservation movement, summed up the importance of bees to the human race when he said: “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” We harm them at our peril.
  • (6) We drive to the seafront, where two fishermen are toiling to the rear of the beach, turning cogs that wind a rope attached to their boat to tug it in from the sea over wooden planks.
  • (7) Three minutes later a dithering David Edgar allowed Callum Wilson to bully him out of possession before blatantly tugging his shirt.
  • (8) "The difference between me and the prime minister is …" – and here he went very strange, as if the tug of war in his synapses had caused permanent damage – "… when I lean across and say 'I love you, darling' I really mean it!"
  • (9) Under noncatalytic conditions, the fluorescence emission of TUG at 436 nm increased monotonically with Gal-Tase concentration, with a half-maximal response at approximately 4 microM.
  • (10) Whole nerve recordings from the posterior articular nerve revealed substantial activity from afferents in response to tugging on the ACL, although we could not differentiate receptors in the ACL from those in other periarticular tissues.
  • (11) Beneath this, there is the obnoxious notion that people owe their employer loyalty, gratitude and even love; tug your forelock and go "the extra mile" for an employer who may show you no loyalty and dump you as soon as you become old, pregnant or sick.
  • (12) The heartstrings were tugged still further before kick-off.
  • (13) It was a function of his immense enthusiasm and curiosity, but it was also, in its way, a literary playing out of the first principle of ecology: that everything is connected to everything else, or as John Muir put it, that "when one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world".
  • (14) He criticized the Obama administration, and said he would stay a staunch moderate despite the tug-of-war of Republican primaries.
  • (15) Howard could be a wild man – as we know from his later work – and you feel recklessness and revolution as a wind tugging at him.
  • (16) Ukraine's only safe solution is for the lethal tug of war between east and west to end.
  • (17) "It chugged down the middle of the river a couple of rod-lengths away from me like a tug boat.
  • (18) The former tug boat driver was working for a software firm in Houston when he was drafted into the operation.
  • (19) The capital exerts a huge cultural and political tug on Afghanistan .
  • (20) Writing last week in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the historian Andreas Wirsching likened Berlin's current dilemmas over Europe to those of Otto von Bismarck in the 19th century, suggesting the tug of war over the euro reflected a similar political dynamic that in the past had resulted in real wars.

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