(v.) Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.
(v.) Business; employment; undertaking; labor.
(v. t.) To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to.
(v. t.) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
(v. t.) To charge; to tax; as with a fault.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(2) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
(3) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
(4) Full consideration should be given to the dynamics of motion when assessing risk factors in working tasks.
(5) This implementation reduced a formidable task to a relatively routine run.
(6) Early detection of breast cancer is the major indication, and mammography is the single best test for this task.
(7) An operant delayed-matching task was used to assess the role of proactive interference (PI) effects on short-term memory capacity of rats.
(8) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
(9) The effects of noise on information processing in perceptual and memory tasks, as well as time reaction to perceptual stimuli, were investigated in a laboratory experiment.
(10) A control experiment demonstrated that changes in general arousal could not account for the effects of task difficulty on neuronal responses.
(11) The pattern of results in simpler tasks is more difficult to interpret.
(12) In the appetitive passive avoidance task, only the substantia nigra lesion group exhibited a deficiency.
(13) For such a task, Malawi needs the best government it can get, and this will have to be demanded by the people.
(14) Stress may increase to an intolerable level with the number of tasks, with higher qualified work and due to the lack of familiarity with fellow workers in ever changing settings.
(15) The tasks which appeared to present the most difficulties for the patients were written spelling, pragmatic processing tasks like sentence disambiguation and proverb interpretation.
(16) Fifty-one severely retarded adults were taught a difficult visual discrimination in an assembly task by one of three training techniques: (a) adding and reducing large cue differences on the relevant-shape dimension; (b) adding and fading a redundant-color dimension; or (c) a combination of the two techniques.
(17) Similarities are pointed out between tasks used for the purpose of operationally defining the schizophrenic 'deficit' and tasks used to define creativity.
(18) On the reaction time task no main effects were found but the time X drinker category interaction was significant; in session 1 LSD's RT were shorter than those of HSD.
(19) Two different mental stressors were used: a mental arithmetic task with low stimulus intensity and one with high stimulus intensity characterised by more challenging instructions, a more competitive situation, and exposure to affective noise.
(20) This information then will allow the physician to determine safe levels of ventilation for a particular work task.
Unoccupied
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) We’ve identified private accommodation that can be used to house refugees; we’ve set aside rented accommodation, university flats and unoccupied housing association homes for use by refugees.
(2) R units are either occupied (RO) or unoccupied (RU); C units are either active (CA) or inactive (CI).
(3) In immunoprecipitation experiments, one tested antiserum bound unoccupied as well as 17 beta-estradiol-occupied rERs, indicating that this region is exposed in both receptor forms.
(4) The most intense labelling for unoccupied PRs was in the condensed chromatin.
(5) I have repeatedly explained to BT that the house was unoccupied at the time the calls were made.
(6) Sequential application of standard unoccupied site blocking, antibody incubation, and washing steps resulted in significant losses of all growth factors (46-98%).
(7) On Day 12 of the oestrous cycle corpora lutea were collected and luteal progesterone concentrations, unoccupied receptors for LH and number and sizes of steroidogenic and non-steroidogenic luteal cell types were determined.
(8) The energy level of the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) of the delta 3 esters also correlated with log k12.
(9) The unoccupied higher and lower mobility forms of the receptor, designated R and D, are considered to be in rapid equilibrium with liganded forms, designated RL and DL.
(10) We conclude that unoccupied alpha 2 M receptors are diffusely distributed on the cell surface.
(11) After the capture of analyte, the unoccupied antibody sites are blocked by the addition of an excess amount of betatype.
(12) The hybridization was visualized by additional binding of avidin-FITC (fluorescein) to the unoccupied biotinylated human DNA bound to the human chromosomes.
(13) Unoccupied estrogen receptors and progesterone receptors were measured in the cytoplasm of five sections along the length of endometrium obtained from noncancerous, premenopausal hysterectomy specimens.
(14) Unoccupied nonactivated receptors are thought to be weakly bound to nuclei of target cells from which they are leaking during tissue fractionation and thus found in the cytosol fraction of homogenates in a nontransformed heterooligomeric "8-9 S" form, which includes hsp90.
(15) We used cell enucleation of two human breast cancer-derived cell lines, MCF-7 and T47D, to determine whether the unoccupied receptors were also nuclear in these cells and to determine whether the weak estrogen phenol red, present in nearly all tissue culture media, affected the distribution of the receptors seen with this technique.
(16) Empty Belgravia Extraordinarily expensive houses owned by people with properties in several other countries, such that they are usually unoccupied.
(17) One of these forms was predominant following short incubations (2 h) with [3H]TCDD at a low temperature (0 degree C) and was characterized by having the same elution profile on DEAE-Sepharose as the unoccupied form, but demonstrated some affinity for DNA.
(18) Both unoccupied oestradiol receptors (measured by separating bound from free hormone with dextran-coated charcoal; DCC) and 'total' receptor populations (as measured by an enzyme immunoassay) were measured in each fibroid and adjoining myometrium.
(19) The unoccupied receptors for all three hormones were recovered instead in the nucleus-containing cell fragments (nucleoplasts).
(20) Now the children have left they have two unoccupied rooms, so the amount of rent for which they can claim housing benefit has been reduced by 25%.