(n.) A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house.
Example Sentences:
(1) 55, 357 (1983)] and later expanded upon by Tofts and Wray.
(2) A monoclonal antibody (MAb), designated PR-6, produced against chick oviduct progesterone receptors [Sullivan, W. P., Beito, T. G., Proper, J., Krco, C. J., & Toft, D. O.
(3) Critical pundits are unconvinced by it all – Mark Lawrenson pledges to shave his moustache off if they stay up – but January signings Stig Tofting, Fredi Bobic and Youri Djorkaeff help defy the odds and secure 16th place.
(4) The Active Learning Trust, which oversees five schools, has paid £16,943 to a company owned by trustee, Marilyn Toft.
(5) Over the past two decades, a great deal of evidence has accumulated in favor of the hypothesis that steroid hormones act at the level of nuclear DNA to regulate gene expression (Jensen EV, Suzuki T, Kawashima T, Stumpf WE, Jungblut PW, DeSombre ER, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1968; 59:632-638; Gorski J, Toft D, Shyamala G, Smith D, Notides A, Rec Prog Horm Res 1968; 24:45-80; O'Malley BW, Means AR, Science 1974; 183:610-620; O'Malley BW, Roop DR, Lai EC, Nordstrom JL, Catterall JF, Swaneck GE, Colbert DA, Tsai M-J, Dugaiczyk A, Woo SLC, Rec Prog Horm Res 1979; 35:1-46).
(6) Incubation of molybdate-stabilized L cell cytosol with a monoclonal antibody directed against the 100-kDa glucocorticoid-binding protein causes the immune-specific adsorption to protein A-Sepharose of both the 100-kDa glucocorticoid receptor and the 90-kDa murine heat shock protein (hsp90) (Sanchez, E. R., Toft, D. O., Schlesinger, M. J., and Pratt, W. B.
(7) Both examiners examined the patients using a Toftness Electromagnetic Radiation Receiver (EMRR) and by manual palpation (MP) of the spinous processes.
(8) Two years later, former Bolton bouncer and third Mitchell brother Stig Tofting was sacked by his Danish club AGF for alledgedly chinning four of his team-mates.
(9) Incubations of 5.9S antiestrogen-receptor complexes with antibodies against nontransformed steroid receptor-associated proteins (the 59 and 90 kDa proteins) did not result in the interaction of this larger antiestrogen-receptor complex with these antibodies (obtained from L. E. Faber and D. O. Toft, respectively).
Tot
Definition:
(n.) Anything small; -- frequently applied as a term of endearment to a little child.
(n.) A drinking cup of small size, holding about half a pint.
(n.) A foolish fellow.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Press Association tots up a total of £26bn in asset sales last year – including the state’s Eurostar stake, 30% of the Royal Mail and a slice of Lloyds.
(2) In Experiment 1, the definitions that Jones used with phonological interlopers created more TOTs even when no interlopers were presented.
(3) The results showed that both the TOT and NC were decreased by changing the body position from erect to recumbent.
(4) "Pulpit poofs" were hounded from the church, playground workers were exposed as "lesbians plotting to pervert nursery tots", celebrities such as Kenny Everett, Russell Harty and Freddie Mercury were hounded as diseased vermin.
(5) Following responses of No, TOT, and Yes to "Do you know his name?
(6) VOTs were identified more quickly than TOTs, and the two ears did not differ in consistency or speed of identification for either condition.
(7) Around the same time, the motor racing heiress Tamara Ecclestone totted up a champagne bill of £30,000 in one evening.
(8) A more uniform response in ventilatory timing was found at CO2 loaded ventilation and T degree max as well as the total duration of the ventilatory cycle (T degree tot) were significantly longer than (T1) (P less than 0.01) and (Ttot) (P less than 0.05) respectively.
(9) In so far as can be gleaned , the 120,000 families whose feral ways Mr Pickles and the prime minister like pointing to were totted up using outdated surveys concerned not with the school skiving, crime and loutishness that dominated yesterday's spin.
(10) New TOT-efficient lines were more readily established from parenterally infected Ae.
(11) Highly significant (p less than 0.001) synchronous sinusoidal seasonal cycles, peaking in the first month of winter, were demonstrated for plasma levels of total (TOT-C), low-density lipoprotein (LDL-C), and high-density lipoprotein (HDL-C) cholesterol.
(12) In contrast tot he healthy children (mean PCV 35.90%), the sick children had a mean PCV of 31.70 +or- 6.95%.
(13) Significant morbidity, particularly neurologic deficit and hemorrhage, may occur due tot the nature and location of lateral skull base tumors.
(14) Back-hybridization of poly(A(+))-RNA(tot) and poly(A(+))-RNA(11S) to their respective (3)H-cDNA revealed a highly abundant class representing 41% and 85% of the sequences in their respective (3)H-cDNA's.
(15) Results confirmed both expectations: (1) for the brain-injured group, TOT was lower and did not improve across trials; moreover, the number of recall errors was higher, increasing across trials; (2) for the control group, the number of recall errors was negligible across trials and TOT improved with time; (3) the normal trade-off between two simultaneous difficult tasks was not observed in the brain-injured group as they failed in both tasks; (4) the number of recall errors of the brain-injured subjects markedly increased towards the end of each trial, suggesting rapidly increasing fatigue.
(16) Part of this disparity may be due tot he inefficiency to previous sizing methods in measuring ultrafine size range, to evaluate size distribution of smoke from standard research cigarettes, commercial filter cigarettes, and from marijuana cigarettes with different delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol contents.
(17) They reported that interlopers that were phonologically related to the target word increased the incidence of TOTs and concluded that this supported Woodworth's position.
(18) Last month I was given unrestricted access to the enormous archive the PCGG has assembled in its years of global detective work: the president’s handwritten diary, frequently puffed with self-regard; the notepaper headed “From the office of the president”, with scribbled sums endlessly totting up his cash; minutes of company meetings with his comments scrawled in the margins; contracts; “side agreements”; records of multiple bank accounts; hundreds of share certificates; private investigators’ reports; and tens of thousands of pages of court judgments.
(19) Analysis of poly(A(+))-RNA(tot) and poly(A(+))-RNA(11S) under denaturing conditions on 2% agarose gel electrophoresis demonstrated two major components in both poly(A(+))-RNA populations.
(20) Our kind waiter, Paul, delighted our tot with her own special jug and cup, and steaming bowlfuls of spätzle pasta.