(n.) A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian marsupial (Tarsipes rostratus) about the size of a mouse. It has a long muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, and feeds upon honey and insects. Called also noolbenger.
Example Sentences:
(1) Experimental work has established that a sexual process can occur in African trypanosomes (Jenni, Marti, Schweizer, Betschart, Le Page, Wells, Tait, Paindavoine, Pays & Steinert, 1986; Paindavoine, Zampetti-Bosseler, Pays, Schweizer, Guyaux, Jenni & Steinert, 1986; Tait, personal communication).
(2) Robert Tait is a senior correspondent for Radio Free Europe.
(3) Awards: 1954 Somerset Maugham Award (for Five, a collections of short stories); 1985, WH Smith Literary Award and the Mondello Prize for The Good Terrorist; 1994 James Tait Black Prize for Under my Skin; nominated for the 1996 Bad Sex Award iin the Literary Review.
(4) The statement was signed by Clare Solomon, president of the University of London Union, Cameron Tait, president of Sussex University's student union and Lee Hall, author of Billy Elliot, among others.
(5) Taite argues that just because it's luxurious doesn't mean clients always get their way.
(6) Tait described four categories of binocular disorders including convergence excess, convergence insufficiency, divergence excess, and divergence insufficiency.
(7) "I've had very influential people here," Taite says.
(8) I get about £130 a week once everything is added on, so this rise is very good,” Tait says.
(9) "These proposals offer countries the chance to buy their way out of reducing emissions through forest protection," said Greenpeace's head of biodiversity, Andy Tait.
(10) We recently identified residues 185-224 of the light chain of human high molecular weight kininogen (HMWK) as the binding site for plasma prekallikrein (Tait, J.F., and Fujikawa, K. (1986) J. Biol.
(11) Finally, if in doubt, all surgeons should recall the words of Halsteads in 1898 "No drainage at all is better than the ignorant employment of it" rather than the advice of Lawson Tait.
(12) Yesterday talks with the government were being led at the BBC by Thompson, chief operating officer Caroline Thomson, strategy chief John Tait and Lyons.
(13) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Valerie Tait reached state pension age 10 years ago but, at the age of 70, is still working part-time as a civil servant.
(14) But Tait is being replaced by a former BBC news executive, Richard Ayre, who was a member of Ofcom's content board until being appointed as a trustee.
(15) In a conventional protein fragmentation approach, the prekallikrein-binding site was mapped to positions 556-595 of the human H-kininogen sequence (Tait, J. F., and Fujikawa, K. (1986) J. Biol.
(16) By reporting successful treatment of tubal pregnancy with salpingectomy in 1884 Robert Lawson Tait (1845-1899) started an era of almost 70 years of exclusively extirpative treatment of ectopic pregnancy.
(17) To have crossed that line would, as Richard Tait and his sub-committee said clearly, amount to a very serious threat to the BBC's independence.
(18) Tait Coles, vice-principal, Dixons city academy, Bradford Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tait Coles If students asked me, I would turn the question around and ask them what they’d do.
(19) Taite has close-cropped grey hair, a goatee and a pair of black-rimmed glasses that automatically tint when he walks out into the southern California sunshine.
(20) It won the James Tait Black Prize, but was still received by some critics as almost hurtfully factual: the tone snappish, the refusal to flirt with the reader's expectations of personality taken as a snub.
Tatt
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To make (anything) by tatting; to work at tatting; as, tatted edging.
Example Sentences:
(1) Evidence is also presented that the 3'-UTR with its conserved (TATT)n motif probably has multiple functions in lymphoid cells operating both at the chromosomal level, where the sequence may be involved in the specific binding of the nonhistone chromatin high mobility group protein HMG-I, and at the RNA level, where the conserved sequence is involved in selective posttranscriptional mRNA degradation by a lymphocyte-specific nuclease(s).
(2) In particular, a tandemly repeated sequence (TATT), n, found in the 3' untranslated tail of the bovine IL-2 clone is also found in the 3' untranslated region of a large group of cytokine genes and other inducible genes of the lymphoid and immune response systems.
(3) In particular, a tandemly repeated sequence, (TATT)n, found in the 3' untranslated tail of the bovine IL-2 clone is also found in the 3' untranslated region of the other known interleukin and interferon genes, as well as in similar regions of many other inducible genes of the lymphoid and immune response systems, suggesting a cell or tissue-specific regulatory function for these evolutionarily conserved sequences.
(4) What the spin doctors play up Her pregnancy, her "edgy" Bristol art student days, and that dolphin tatt on her ankle.
(5) It contains 37 TATT or ATTT(A) sequences that have been suggested as mediators of the stability of mRNAs for cytokines, lymphokines, and oncogenes (Shaw, G., and R. Kamen.
(6) He should buy a Tatts Lotto ticket.” The manager of opposition business, Tony Burke , said the case against Robert was “cut and dried”.
(7) Wimbledon 2Day: BBC admits defeat over format Read more Looking at players’ arms, at the lack of full-sleeve, snake-skin tatts that are part of the modern footballer’s muscular armature, it’s tempting to conclude that the single best thing about tennis players is that they’re not footballers.
(8) Sequences highly homologous to the three Mt-sequences were also found in the 5'-flanking regions of the genes for the beta subunit of human F0F1-ATPase and rat somatic cytochrome c. The Mt1 sequence (TATT-CAGGT) is similar to the GFII recognition site (RTCACGTG) found in the 5'-flanking regions of the yeast nuclear genes for three cytochrome bc1 complex subunits.
(9) Only Sally's tots redeem her tatts from being tatty Why has the Speaker's wife, Sally Bercow, decided to get a tattoo?
(10) These results suggest a complex in vivo role for the 3'-UTR of bIL-2 cDNA and the conserved (TATT)n sequences found within it.
(11) The part-timers, the tatt-tourists and their half-baked vanilla scribblings, however, are another breed altogether.
(12) Bercow had her children's names inked, tweeting: "I will never regret having tatt of my kids."