(n.) A lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; -- originally, a Provincial English word, but introduced into India, and brought back to England in a special sense.
Example Sentences:
(1) Miller, the former husband of Angelina Jolie, is from Kingston, Surrey, and was educated at Tiffin, a local grammar school.
(2) Tony Rice, a Ferguson resident and protester, said “the shots came from up Tiffin Avenue” – an upwards-sloping street directly opposite the police department.
(3) Two unmarked police cars pulled up near the corner of Clark and Tiffin.
(4) Tony Rice, a Ferguson resident and protester, said: “The shots came from up Tiffin Avenue” – an upwards-sloping street directly opposite the police department.
(5) Lunch for thousands of office workers in Mumbai is the opposite of what takeaway means for most of us – a network of couriers known as dabbawalas collect tiffin boxes packed with home-cooked food from about 200,000 homes every day and deliver them to workers.
(6) • artigianopdx.com Tiffin Asha Tiffin Asha, Portland Photograph: Marina O'Loughlin for the Guardian Foodie author Karen Brooks says: "Only Portland can offer you pakora-fried chicken wrapped in a dosa and served from a colourful food cart window.
(7) Karen's recommendation is to try Tiffin Asha , at North Beech Street, on an arty stretch of historic Mississippi Avenue (a rare, non-pod cart).
(8) Next runs 14-18 June, scandoir.com Heavenly Himalayas, India Facebook Twitter Pinterest Run by Tamsin Chubb, founder of popular Little French Retreat, this fabulous adventure features a two-hour classical hatha yoga class each morning, plus mountain walks, tiffin-style packed lunches, sunset meditation and workshops on local bio-diversity, organic farming, cooking and yoga philosophy.
(9) On Tiffin Avenue, which slopes uphill away from the Ferguson police department, life goes on with contrasting scenes of normalcy and oddness.
(10) So does India's Subodh Gupta, who makes various $1m skulls, wheels and nuclear explosions out of amalgamations of Indian tiffin cookware.
Tiffing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tiff
Example Sentences:
(1) Partially purified preparations of TIF-2 inhibit the growth of a variety of human tumor cells in soft agar and monolayer cultures and are mitogenic for normal human and mouse cells.
(2) In E. coli K12, cell filamentation promoted by tif is enhanced by the lon mutation; in contrast, prophage induction and repair of UV-irradiated phage lambda, also promoted by tif, are not affected by lon.
(3) In the course of mapping the domain of the alpha-TIF gene, it was noted that the intact BamHI fragment was consistently more effective than the complete domain of the alpha-TIF gene in inducing expression of alpha genes.
(4) The protein X of a tif-1 mutant strain shows an identical shift in its isoelectric properties.
(5) DNA synthesis at the restrictive temperature is initiated also when the tif-1 phenotype is expressed in the dnaA46 tif-1 double mutant.
(6) The high recombinogenic activity is characteristic of the tif recipient.
(7) The objective of this study was to determine if an established human pancreatic cancer cell line, RWP-1, produced such a tumor growth inhibitory factor (TIF).
(8) Transcription from the upstream promoter is unaffected by TIF bound to the downstream promoter; RNA polymerase I is freely able to read through DNA-bound TIF.
(9) This binding is DNA sequence-independent, and is directed by protein-protein contacts with TIF.
(10) The major TIF activities have molecular weights in the ranges of greater than 28,000, 18,000 to 22,000, 10,000 to 16,000, and 5,000 to 10,000 and do not possess the antiviral activity associated with interferon.
(11) A virion protein of herpes simplex virus type-1, called Vmw65, alpha TIF or VP16, interacts with cellular transcription factors to transactivate immediate early viral genes.
(12) MOSER cells contain both positive (TGF) and negative (TIF) factors with relative concentrations that may be important parameters in the regulation of cell growth.
(13) 66, 359-366) provides a possible mechanism by which the triggering of VZV gene expression occurs in the absence of a functional alpha-TIF protein.
(14) Acute alcohol markedly increased TIF i-beta E and decreased TIF testosterone and TIF volume.
(15) Increased transcription does not result from the direct, independent binding of alpha TIF, but rather from an alpha TIF-dependent formation of a protein-DNA complex containing, in addition to alpha TIF, at least one host cell factor.
(16) Mutations within this region lead to similar changes of both template activity and binding of TIF-IB.
(17) at the most radioresistant stage of the mitotic cycle, the thermal intensification factor (TIF) being 1.7-2.0.
(18) Furthermore, antipain inhibits thermal induction of lambda prophage in the tif-1 mutant without affecting the kinetics of thermal induction of lambdacI857 prophage.
(19) These results indicate that the POMC-derived peptides ACTH and beta end are present in TIF and are secreted locally into this compartment, supporting previous reports demonstrating the presence and local synthesis of POMC peptides in testicular tissue.
(20) The results of this study reveal (i) a role for a sequence, 5'---GGGGG---3', flanked by 3 to 5 base pairs of symmetry (the G box), which is present in the upstream region of all immediate-early gene promoters, (ii) a requirement for the consensus sequence protected by ICP4 for autoregulation by this immediate-early gene product, and (iii) an alternative, sequence-independent mechanism for the augmentation of alpha gene expression by the virion-associated transcriptional activator Vmw65, now designated as TIF.