(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.
Supper
Definition:
(n.) A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal.
(v. i.) To take supper; to sup.
(v. t.) To supply with supper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
(2) You might even arrive home with something tolerable for supper.
(3) It is suggested that the identification of the host of Supperer's E. ursini and E. tasmaniae as V. ursinus was in error and that the allopatric L. latifrons is the natural host.
(4) The existence of a circadian rhythm for GFR, uTP, uA, and uRBP was corroborated by spontaneous changes over baseline levels, which also were prominent after lunch CL as compared to those following supper CL.
(5) Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the Observer Nigel Slater's cold noodle and tomato salad makes a nice grownup supper with leftovers for the packed lunch.
(6) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
(7) "No one ever bothered him at the suppers," former pastor Bob Moyer of Hartland told the paper.
(8) Davis had earlier declined the privilege of specifying his final supper, so instead was given the institution's choice of grilled cheeseburgers, oven browned potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, cookies and a grape beverage.
(9) Meantime, in Tamworth, Australia, Matt Crawford admits that "nerves, sleep deprivation and a curry supper = high risk viewing this morning".
(10) Come supper time, it will serve up a page with the menu of your favourite takeaway, which you can tap to order.
(11) But it was sociable, too – Roberto organised a barbecue (with steaks from his cattle-farmer friend) and a fish supper (with octopus stew from his fisherman friend).
(12) The comments, which follow Clooney's repeated claims over the past week that Britain should return the Parthenon marbles to Greece, were reportedly made in Milan at a press event during which the film's cast posed in front of the famed Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece The Last Supper.
(13) She doesn’t see the difference between sharing, say, pictures of a romantic supper during a weekend in Paris and what you do in your hotel room at the end of the night.
(14) Asked if the "country supper" was a typical occurrence, he says: "Yes, because we were neighbours."
(15) During the rebellion by Tory MPs on the European Union bill last week, Lib Dem ministers sat eating a canteen supper while they waited for the vote.
(16) But the digital alarm clock that wakes us in the morning or the wristwatch that tells us we are late for supper are unnatural clocks.
(17) The disease of the biliary tract was suspected on the basis of the endoscopic retrograde representation of the common bile duct, and serologically differentiated from a chronic destructive, non-supperative cholangitis on the basis of a lack of antimitochondrial antibodies.
(18) Once neither painfully elitist nor patronisingly populist, Edinburgh in August now threatens to become an oligarchy, a Chipping Norton of the arts, its sluices greased by Foster's lager, rather than by country suppers and police horses.
(19) Over a supper of brill, roast beef, and lemon parfait, the leaders, not having to take a quick decision, seemed to chill a bit, taking the heat out of the increasingly intemperate exchanges that have marked the past few weeks.
(20) The list of " 12 things that the £1,400 UK dividend could buy ", illustrated by a colourful assortment of Lego characters, appears to portray Scots as shoeless, sun-starved, football-obsessed fish supper addicts, with poor grooming habits and such limited imaginations that their favoured activity at the Edinburgh festival is eating hotdogs.