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Tana


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Banxring.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A sample of the inhabitants of two typical villages in the endemic region north of Lake Tana were studied by clinical and quantitative parasitologic methods.
  • (2) Cyclic AMP (cAMP) content and the expression of cAMP-dependent phenotypes were positively correlated with respiration capacity in respiration-deficient mutants of Escherichia coli K-12 ("reductive repression," R. Hertz, and J. Bar-Tana, (1982) Arch.
  • (3) The mechanism of reaction of fatty acyl-CoA synthesis catalysed by fatty acyl-CoA synthetase from ox liver (fraction II; Bar-Tana, Rose & Shapiro, 1968) was investigated by a kinetic study of CoA disappearance dependent on butyrate plus ATP or butyryl-AMP (overall and partial reaction b respectively).
  • (4) The conversion pattern exerted by fibrate drugs in 3T3-L1 cells was similar to that reported previously for primary cultured epididymal preadipocytes (R. Brandes, R. Arad and J. Bar-Tana, Biochim.
  • (5) Biomphalaria pfeifferi snail density peaked towards the end of the rainy season (September) in Lake Tana and around the middle of the dry season (January) on the shore of the River Abay.
  • (6) Ramsay and Tana married in 1996 and have four children.
  • (7) I describe here the membership dynamics of a group of Tana River red colobus, Colobus badius rufomitratus, which provide the first evidence of high rates of membership turnover by both sexes in primates, and speculate that the function of female transference in this case may be related to mate choice and the avoidance of infanticide.
  • (8) The respective capacities of MEDICA homologues of varying acyl chain length as inhibitors of fatty acid and cholesterol synthesis in cultured rat hepatocytes and in vivo (Bar-Tana, J., Rose-Kahn, G., and Srebnik, M. (1985) J. Biol.
  • (9) I couldn’t carry on being the authoritarian coach and telling people what to do.” In 2005, Henry was approached by the All Black captain, Tana Umaga.
  • (10) The districts were Tana, a poor pastoral area, and Meru and Kisii districts, both farming areas with literacy and health levels around the Kenyan average.
  • (11) The following year the pair ended up in a high court battle, with Ramsay alleging his computers had been hacked and blaming Hutcheson amid claims that emails between Ramsay and Tana had been read by a third party.
  • (12) Two epidemics of a new virus disease, tanapox, occurred in 1957 and 1962 among the Wapakomo tribe along the Tana River in Kenya.
  • (13) Sera collected from inhabitants of the Tana River valley in 1971 were examined for antibody to tanapox virus.
  • (14) The induction of adipose conversion in 3T3-L1 cells by bezafibrate (Brandes, R., Hertz, R. Arad R., Naishtat S., Weil, S. and Bar-Tana, J.
  • (15) Treatment of normal or puromycin aminonucleoside-nephrotic rats, kept on a balanced Purina chow diet, with beta, beta'-tetramethyl-substituted hexadecanedioic acid (MEDICA 16) (Bar-Tana, J., G. Rose-Kahn, and M. Srebnik.
  • (16) Rat liver acetyl-CoA carboxylase activity was inhibited by the free as well as the CoA monothioester of beta, beta'-methyl-substituted hexadecanedioic acid (MEDICA 16) (Bar-Tana, J., Rose-Kahn, G. and Srebnik, M. (1985) J. Biol.
  • (17) Further north, Salini is also constructing a power plant near Lake Tana, while Sinohydro, the Chinese firm that helped build the famous Three Gorges Dam, has just completed another.
  • (18) The mechanism of butyrate activation catalysed by an enzyme fraction derived from ox liver particles (fraction I; Bar-Tana, Rose & Shapiro, 1968) was studied by an analysis of the initial-velocity pattern of the overall reaction and found to conform to the Bi Uni Uni Bi Ping Pong model (Cleland, 1963a,b,c) in agreement with the reaction scheme proposed by Berg (1956).
  • (19) It stopped the refugees from moving further into Kenya with a roadblock on the road south and another at the Tana river in Garissa town , 100km to the south.
  • (20) Lake Tana, in Ethiopia, is the source of, and provides 85% of the water for, the Blue Nile, one of the two main tributaries of the Nile.

Tank


Definition:

  • (n.) A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
  • (n.) A large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
  • (2) Rather than being deterred, the Serbs drove forward with tanks, infantry and heavy artillery.
  • (3) My [other cousin] has got everything other than tanks at his farm," he said.
  • (4) Between having Lily and promoting Fish Tank, Jarvis has done a lot of growing up in the past year.
  • (5) The group was one of the few in Syria to have received anti-tank rockets and had regularly used them against Syrian armour.
  • (6) Finally, it examines Brancheau's death, which played out in front of a crowd, many of whom did not fully understand what was going on as the experienced trainer was dragged under water and flung around the tank.
  • (7) When estimates of milk loss were replaced by estimates based on bulk tank somatic cell counts, milk loss accounted for over 80% of the total cost of mastitis.
  • (8) To reduce the risks posed by the hazard, the report recommends that a management plan be created to determine the level of soil contamination and for managing excavated soil, and to decommission disused septic tanks to prevent the spread of contamination.
  • (9) Acholeplasma laidlawii was frequently isolated from samples both from cows and from farm bulk tanks during wet, rainy weather in the spring of 1978, apparently as contaminants only.
  • (10) In the words of the Brookings Institution think tank, victory by Trump, the quintessential New Yorker, “would not have been possible without the influence of rural areas and smaller metropolitan areas”.
  • (11) On 12 September 1980, the head of the military, Kenan Evren, sent tanks rolling through the streets of the Turkish capital and installed a ruthless military government.
  • (12) The waterborne origin of these infections highlights the importance of maintaining clean water supplies, especially where storage tanks are used.
  • (13) New analysis by the climate think tank Sandbag predicts that by 2020 the ETS could be so over-supplied with tradable permits that it will be almost completely irrelevant.
  • (14) As fighter jets screamed overhead and tanks churned up the sand, it looked and sounded like the violent protests sweeping the Middle East had spread to the wealthy emirate of Abu Dhabi.
  • (15) Aortic pressure and right-ventricular filling pressure could be adjusted independently of each other via two header tanks.
  • (16) Computer-processed signals were derived from 20 evenly spaced tank-surface electrodes, and a single, moving, equivalent cardiac dipole generator was optimally fitted to the recorded potentials for each 1-msec sampling interval.
  • (17) The group insists it is "an independent, non-partisan Scottish think-tank, research organisation and educational charity".
  • (18) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
  • (19) Besides other advantages, the set provides an ICP monitoring, a pump device and a protection of the air filter of the collecting tank for safer transport.
  • (20) I would like it to always look as fresh as the day I made it, so part of the contract is: if the glass breaks, we mend it; if the tank gets dirty, we clean it; if the shark rots, we find you a new shark."

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