(n.) A child's apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves; a pinafore; a tier.
(n.) Furniture; apparatus; equipment.
(n.) A hoop or band, as of metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear.
(v. t.) To adorn; to attire; to dress.
(v. i.) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
(v. i.) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
(v. i.) To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon tires.
(v. t.) To exhaust the strength of, as by toil or labor; to exhaust the patience of; to wear out (one's interest, attention, or the like); to weary; to fatigue; to jade.
Example Sentences:
(1) As he sits in Athens wondering when the International Monetary Fund is going to deliver another bailout, George Papandreou might be tempted to hum a few lines of Tired of Waiting for You.
(2) I was so tired I just used to fall asleep on my feet.
(3) According to articles presented by Breitbart, Clinton is tired and ailing.
(4) That may sound familiar to Tottenham fans, who grew tired with their team’s aimless, sideways passing under André Villas-Boas.
(5) I’m personally sick and tired of Pristina and Belgrade, because we’ve been victimised by high politicians.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The bridge connecting the Albanian and Serb parts of Mitrovica.
(6) An example calculation of rolling resistance for a polyurethane tire is given in detail.
(7) The extent of inadequate rest has prompted fears that many people are too tired to do their jobs properly, with some so sleep-deprived their brains are as confused as if they had consumed too much alcohol.
(8) Do you not get tired of the mass surveillance in this country?” Finicum told reporters.
(9) We’re tired of answering these questions,” one woman said.
(10) I’m tired, man.” But he hopes that it might be done quickly.
(11) I, along with many others, am tired of this toxic propaganda.
(12) Further the diabetics claimed to be more tired and diabetic males had more sexual concerns.
(13) Apart from that, it’s becoming increasingly tiring to see people posing about how there is no point voting because it’s all rigged, the politicians are all the same and the rest.
(14) In any case, people had tired of combative rhetoric and wanted softer platitudes.
(15) There is no guarantee of surgical success with such an injury but Murray was tiring of the constant reliance on pain killers to get through tough matches.
(16) The concentrations of 1-NP and airborne particulates changed significantly in all examined areas in parallel with the rise and fall of the frequencies of studded tire use.
(17) Transposable and interspersed repetitive elements (TIREs) are ubiquitous features of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes.
(18) The players come to Australia tired and exhausted already because they’ve been going since mid-November.” Another issue is the way the women treat their practice time.
(19) But when you're tired, you've played in 94 or 95 minutes, players choose power rather than technique, rather than placing it.
(20) On the return journey, the tired passengers exchange smuggling anecdotes and safety tips.
Vire
Definition:
(n.) An arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow. Cf. Vireton.
Example Sentences:
(1) The virE locus that is responsible for the efficiency of infection by Agrobacterium tumefaciens (T. Hirooka and C. Kado, J. Bacteriol.
(2) Of six vir region complementation groups (virA, virB, virG, virC, virD, and virE) examined by using fusions to reporter genes, the promoters of only two (virC and virD) responded to the ros mutation.
(3) Mutations in these loci eliminate (virA, virB, virD and virG) or significantly restrict (virC and virE) the ability of Agrobacterium to transform plant cells.
(4) The promoter region of virE was analyzed by using gene fusions to promoterless cat and lux genes.
(5) One inducible complex is determined by the virE locus, two Ti-plasmid-dependent complexes are constitutively expressed, and a fourth one is controlled by chromosomal genes.
(6) Deletion of this vir box only completely abolished induction of the virE gene.
(7) "The main allegation is that senior officials at Revenue and Customs have acted ultra vires [beyond their powers] and we are duty bound to take that seriously," she said.
(8) Genetic complementation with mutant and wild-type alleles led to the identification of the virE locus at the right boundary, which was located about 6 kilobases from the left border of the segment of DNA that is transferred into the plant genome.
(9) To investigate the minimum sequences necessary for vir gene induction a deletion derivative of virE that lacks the vir box region was used.
(10) According to the whistleblower's submission to the committee, the estimate of future profits is ultra vires .
(11) Virulence of a virE2 mutant was restored by mixed infection with strains carrying an intact vir region, but not with virA, virB, virD, virE, or virG mutants or chvA, chvB, or exoC mutants.
(12) virE is transcribed from left to right toward the T region.
(13) We established the kinetics of induction for virB, virD, virE, and virG by using lacZ fusions, and we found that the virB mutant strain could not adapt to this low-pH medium unless 1 mM CaCl2 was added.
(14) Active vir fragments contained the strongly acetosyringone-inducible promoters of virB, virC, virD, and virE and the weakly inducible promoters of virA and virG.
(15) virE operon constructs with specific lesions in either virE1 or virE2 were impaired for complementation of pTiA6 delta E. Several mutations specific for the promoter-proximal virE1 locus appeared to have a polar effect on expression of the virE2-encoded 60-kDa protein.
(16) In the present communication, we have analyzed the virE operon at the molecular level.
(17) The virulence regulon of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens TiC58 plasmid is composed of six operons, virA, virB, virG, virC, virD and virE, which direct the transfer of T-DNA into plant cells.
(18) The nucleotide sequence of virE revealed three open reading frames, arranged as an operon, with a potential coding capacity for proteins of 9, 7.1, and 63.5 kilodaltons.
(19) This locus is very similar to the virE locus of octopine type Ti plasmids on the basis of nucleotide and amino acid sequence comparisons as well as genetic complementation analyses.
(20) virE is 2.0 kilobases long and encodes at least one protein of 69 kilodaltons.