(n.) The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added together; as, the sum of 5 and 7 is 12.
(n.) A quantity of money or currency; any amount, indefinitely; as, a sum of money; a small sum, or a large sum.
(n.) The principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium; as, this is the sum of all the evidence in the case; this is the sum and substance of his objections.
(n.) Height; completion; utmost degree.
(n.) A problem to be solved, or an example to be wrought out.
(v. t.) To bring together into one whole; to collect into one amount; to cast up, as a column of figures; to ascertain the totality of; -- usually with up.
(v. t.) To bring or collect into a small compass; to comprise in a few words; to condense; -- usually with up.
(v. t.) To have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Median effect analysis was applied for the evaluation of in vitro effect by the growth inhibition, and the in vivo effect by comparison of the increase of life span (ILS) in a combined group with the sum of ILS's in 2 single agent groups.
(2) Sonographic images of the gallbladder enable satisfactory approximation of gallbladder volume using the sum-of-cylinders method.
(3) It is shown that, by comparison of a reacting mixture at chemical equilibrium with a non-reacting but equally composed one, the sum of the mean concentrations of the reaction products can immediately be taken from optical absorption or from interferometric measurements.
(4) The visitors did have a chance to pull another back with three minutes remaining but Henry blazed a free-kick from within range on the left over the bar, summing up Wolves’ day out in the East Midlands.
(5) The norms are reported as "Scaled Score Equivalents of Raw Scores" for each age group and as "IQ Equivalents of Sums of Scaled Scores."
(6) The molar refractivity has been shown to be a superior parameter for the description of the activity of sulphonamides than the sum of electronegativities of atoms making up a heterocyclic substituent in the sulphonamide molecule and molecular weight of the substituent.
(7) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(8) The length of the diaphragmatic wall of the heart in both the right and left ventricle was equal to the sum of the length of the inflow tract and the thickness of the ventricular wall at the apex.
(9) Nickname: SuperSarko the Omnipresident Quote: "What made me who I am now is the sum of all the humiliations suffered during childhood."
(10) This structure is further characterized by approaches of both the carbonyl and the furan O atoms to ring H atoms with separations which are slightly less than the sum of the relevant van der Waals radii.
(11) The amount of gallium in 'blood-free' tissues was measured by correcting for gallium in residual blood and an estimate of intestinal absorption was then made by summing the values for all tissues examined.
(12) Enzyme levels in strains with concurrent mutations in both regulatory genes are considerably higher than the sum of the levels in strains with a cytR or a deoR mutation alone, indicating a certain co-operativity between the two repressor proteins.
(13) Transfer of nonprofessional tasks out of nursing and reduction of tension arising from reduced responsibility of nurses for coordinating activities with ancillary departments are possible explanations for the positive relation between the presence of SUM and professional nurses' satisfaction.
(14) The Soret MCD of the reduced protein is interpreted as th sum of two MCD curves: an intense, asymmetric MCD band very similar to that exhibited by deoxymyoglobin which we assign to paramagnetic high spin cytochrome a3(2+) and a weaker, more symmetric MCD contribution, which is attributed to diamagnetic low spin cytochrome a2+.
(15) In sum, these studies demonstrate the novel phospholipid ceramide 1-phosphate in HL-60 cells and suggest the possibility that a path exists from sphingomyelin to ceramide 1-phosphate via the phosphorylation of ceramide.
(16) During bilateral displacements, the activity induced by the respective contralateral leg is linearly summed or subtracted, depending on whether the legs are displaced in the same or in opposite directions.
(17) Binaural difference waves (BDWs), obtained by subtracting the sum of two monaural BAEPs from a binaural BAEP, were obtained in 16- to 20-day-old jaundiced Gunn rats before and after injection of sulfadimethoxine, which produces bilirubin neurotoxicity by promoting net transfer of bilirubin out of the circulation into brain tissue.
(18) The index was calculated by dividing the sum of the count rates over both knees and both wrists by the dose of technetium given.
(19) A "peeling" technique was used to estimate the time constants (tau 0 and tau 1) and coefficients (a0 and a1) of the first two exponential terms of the series of exponential terms whose sum represented the slope of the voltage response.
(20) To determine the effectiveness of nitroglycerin, alone or with phenylephrine, during AMI in man, 12 patients (five or whom had left heart failure) were evaluated by summing ST-segment abnormalities (sigmaST) from 35 precordial electrodes.
Sup
Definition:
(v. t.) To take into the mouth with the lips, as a liquid; to take or drink by a little at a time; to sip.
(n.) A small mouthful, as of liquor or broth; a little taken with the lips; a sip.
(v. i.) To eat the evening meal; to take supper.
(v. t.) To treat with supper.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, when it has attained a length of about half the cell body diameter, it becomes SUP GLU+ and 6-11B-1+.
(2) However, the Con A-sup stimulates synergistically M-1 cells with DF.
(3) An expanded version of this paper, containing full experimental details of the semisynthesis and characterization of [GlyA1-3H]insulin, has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50129 (30 pages) at the British Library (Lending Division), Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem.
(4) In this paper we show that the sup-3 mutation is an amplification of the structural gene for the MHC A protein, myo-3.
(5) The capacity of such activated M phi to function as APC decreased upon removal of Con A sup, and could be regenerated by a second pulse.
(6) We report that E. coli K-12 and W1485 (sup0) accumulated trehalose but that they required a higher osmotic strength in the growth medium than that required by their sup+ derivatives.
(7) Putative null sup-38 mutations cause maternal-effect lethality which is rescued by a wild-type copy of the locus in the zygote.
(8) Solar UV-irradiance was compared with radiation from different phototherapy devices (UVB, SUP, and PUVA therapy equipment).
(9) In addition to mutations in sup-20, other mutations causing muscle defects, such as unc-54 and unc-22 mutations, suppress the hypercontracted phenotype of unc-105.
(10) The particularities of the case are the long period between onset of the disease and establishment of the diagnosis-the cutaneous lesions having persisted all the time, and the marked persistence of postlesional erythemas showing positive improvement by means of selective ultraviolet phototherapy (SUP).
(11) Studies on femurs retrieved at autopsy from patients who underwent cemented total hip arthroplasty two week sup to seventeen years earlier and were functioning well, have shown that the failure of cemented femoral components is initiated primarily by mechanical factors, consisting of debonding at the cement-prosthesis interface and fractures of the cement rather than lack of bone ingrowth or fibrous tissue formation at the interface.
(12) Analytical gel filtration of M phi sup revealed that the factor had an apparent molecular weight of 27,000 daltons which was distinct from interleukin 1.
(13) It is shown that these suppressor cells can inhibit an ongoing response of T cells to active SUP and that this inhibition is reversible.
(14) Mutations in the internal promoter of the first gene decreased transcription, both in vitro and in vivo, of the second-tRNA(SUP)6-o-gene.
(15) The group with the most heterogeneity was the SUP, sharing similarities with the UP and SBP mostly.
(16) Translation of the UGA codon was found to occur with high fidelity since it was refractory to ribosomal mutations affecting proofreading and to suppression by the sup-9 gene product.
(17) Although the incisional hernia may sometimes stay silent and asymptomatic for years, it inevitably ends sup by representing a reason for acute and subacute pathologic events; an early surgical treatment is therefore desirable once the incisional hernia has been diagnosed.
(18) Detailed evidence for the amino acid sequences of the peptides has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50143 (23 pages) at the British Library Lending Division, Boston Spa, Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies may be obtained as indicated in Biochem.
(19) The PWM that remained in solution after incubation with E (Sup E-PWM) had little mitogenic capacity and inhibited the blast cell response induced by fluid-phase PWM.
(20) Similar responses were apparent following the HDT to SUP II transition, except for VO2, which changed little.