(n.) The weight when the tare has been deducted, and tret is yet to be allowed.
(v. i.) To act as sutler; to supply provisions and other articles to troops.
Example Sentences:
(1) It all began, according to the Times of South Africa , when model and singer Lindiwe Suttle tweeted about the racism she has suffered in Cape Town, the country's most popular tourist destination.
(2) Chief operating officer Doug Suttles told the US news channel CNN: "We're throwing absolutely everything at this."
(3) Speaking six hours into the operation, BP's chief operating officer, Doug Suttles, said it appeared to be working and that mud, not oil, was now coming out of the ruptured pipe.
(4) Doug Suttles, the chief operating officer of BP's exploration unit, said activating the blowout preventer was a highly complex task – in part because it remains unclear whether the valve is working.
(5) Suttles said the first rig was due to arrive in the Gulf last night.
(6) BP's chief operating officer, Doug Suttles, said it decided to pull the plug on top kill after its "best and brightest people" agreed it was not working.
Tret
Definition:
() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Tread, for treadeth.
(n.) An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare deducted.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors suggest a highly sensitive rapid and simple method for measuring esterase activities of bovine pancreatic chymotrypsin, human neutrophilic cathepsin D, and elastase, and of human blood serum chymotrypsin-like esterase and elastase-like esterase activities, with fluorogenic synthetic ethers, amino acid derivatives, employed as substrates: N-benzoxycarbonylphenylalanine 4-methylumbelliferyl ester (Z-Phe-OMC) and tret-butyloxycarbonyl-1-alanine 4-methylumbelliferyl ester (BOC-Ala-OMC).
(2) Effect of three inhibitors of free radical processes (IFRP) differing in antiradical activity (2-tret.
(3) A deuterated internal standard, capillary gas-liquid chromatography and 3-enol-3-tret-BDMS and 3.20-bis-enol-bis-BDMS progesterone ethers as chromatographied derivatives were employed.
(4) The electronic device allowed one to accurately determine the time to peak effect (Tmax), duration of effect (Emax, time to return to baseline threshold (Tret) and the area under the time-effect curve (AUC) as a measure of the total local anaesthetic effect.
(5) A deuterated internal standard, capillary gas-liquid chromatography and chromatographed derivates: 3-enol-3-tret-butyldimethylsilyl-17-tri-methysilyl and 3-enol-3,17-bis-tret-butyldimethylsilyl NET esters were used.
(6) Kinetics of demethylation of a number of amines involving hepatic microsomal cytochrome P-450 and organic hydroperoxides (tret-butyl- and cumylhydroperoxide) have been investigated.
(7) The urban group consisted of 4,008 adults, randomly selected from the 16 districts of the city of Marseille; the rural group consisted of 1,789 adults, representing 85% of the target population living in a small residential town, Trets.
(8) Thus ethylated trypsin (Tret) resembles chymotrypsin in its behavior.