(v. t.) To take into the hand; to take up; to help.
(n.) The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward.
(n.) Understanding; apprehension.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, arteries which were exposed to CO showed a higher uptake of cholesterol as compared to their corresponding control.
(2) 5-HT thus appears to be the preferred substrate for uptake into platelets and for movement from cytoplasm to vesicles.
(3) The Na+ ionophore, gramicidin, had a small but significant inhibitory effect on Na(+)-dependent KG uptake, demonstrating that KG uptake was not the result of an intravesicular positive Na+ diffusion potential.
(4) Omission of K(+), Ca(++) or Mg(++) had no effect on uptake.
(5) Because cystine in medium was converted rapidly to cysteine and cysteinyl-NAC in the presence of NAC and given that cysteine has a higher affinity for uptake by EC than cystine, we conclude that the enhanced uptake of radioactivity was in the form of cysteine and at least part of the stimulatory effect of NAC on EC glutathione was due to a formation of cysteine by a mixed disulfide reaction of NAC with cystine similar to that previously reported for Chinese hamster ovarian cells (R. D. Issels et al.
(6) Manometric studies with resting cells obtained by growth on each of these sulfur sources yielded net oxygen uptake for all substrates except sulfite and dithionate.
(7) The PSB dioxygenase system displayed a narrow substrate range: none of 18 sulphonated or non-sulphonated analogues of PSB showed significant substrate-dependent O2 uptake.
(8) Mannose receptor mediated uptake by the reticuloendothelial system has been suggested as an explanation for the rapid removal of ricin A chain antibody conjugates from the circulation after their administration.
(9) In schizophrenic patients the density of dopamine uptake sites in the basal ganglia was slightly reduced, mainly in the middle third of putamen.
(10) During recovery glucose uptake was reduced and citrate release was unaffected.
(11) Spermine clearly activated 45Ca uptake by coupled mitochondria, but had no effect on Ca2+ egress from mitochondria previously loaded with 45Ca.
(12) If tracer is introduced into the carotid artery after osmotic treatment, brain uptake is increased by a net factor of 50 (a factor of 70 due to elevation of PA, multiplied by 7 due to infusion by the carotid route) as compared to uptake by normal, untreated brain with infusion into a peripheral vein.
(13) Prolonged immobilization was accompanied by a decrease in Ca-concentration dependence of Ca2+ uptake.
(14) Inhibition of thymidine uptake is attributed to an observed decrease in thymidine kinase activity caused by growth in 1 mM dibutyryl cyclic AMP, and possibly to a simultaneous alteration in membrane permeability.
(15) Uptake could be supported either by substrate oxidation or by adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP), and was inhibited in the former case by antimycin or cyanide, in the latter case by oligomycin, and in both cases by 2,4-dinitrophenol.
(16) Previous studies in this laboratory with particulate Mn3O4 have shown that preweanling rats have substantially higher tissue Mn concentrations than similarly treated adults, indicating possible differences in uptake or elimination or both.
(17) In contrast with oligodendrocytes, [Cl-]i in astrocytes is significantly increased (from 20 to 40 mM) above the equilibrium distribution owing to the activity of an inward directed Cl- pump; this suggests a different mechanism of K+ uptake in these cells.
(18) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
(19) The telencephalon of teleost fish shows high affinity uptake for D-[3H]aspartate, intermediate levels of GABAergic markers and low levels of cholinergic enzymes.
(20) There was a highly significant relationship between the two tests, r = 0.88, P less than 0.001, although the uptake method gave consistently higher results than those obtained from plasma disappearance.
Vox
Definition:
(n.) A voice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bell made the comment in response to a blogpost from Emily Bell , in which the Guardian columnist claimed that "the great VC‑backed media blitz of 2014", including Vox, FiveThirtyEight and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media, is being led almost exclusively by white males as it ostensibly aims to reform journalism.
(2) Only about 200,000 people have reportedly opted for the current version of the program , according to Vox, although 17.5m people qualify.
(3) On a side note, wasn't that the same year we had Gazza doing vox pops with drunken groups of England fans in the streets?
(4) As half an hour of vox-poppery proves, this is also a place where the supposedly rarefied issue of electoral reform may actually come up on the proverbial doorstep.
(5) "I would attribute the rise of FiveThirtyEight and Vox and all of these different sites to the fact that there is just an opportunity to do different journalism right now," Bell says.
(6) (Vox Sang 1989; 56: 145-150) have shown that it is possible to prepare clinically effective platelet concentrates with substantially reduced white cell contamination, whilst maintaining satisfactory levels of factor VIII:C after holding whole blood at 20 degrees C overnight.
(7) The vox pop – that spurious journalistic conceit – lets reporters seek out quotes to confirm each one's opinions (or for the BBC, just a meaningless one of each).
(8) Callie Schweitzer , Director of Marketing and Communications, Vox media The most important message I took from Lean In and how Sheryl described the women's movement was that it's not up to any one individual to change things for women, it's up to all of us.
(9) Designtex’s new Vox line, the first style in the Climatex® Dualcycle™ collection Photograph: Designtex Wool and synthetic hybrid Natural and synthetic fibres are typically not woven together in sustainable fabric design, because it can be difficult to pull them apart at the end of use phase, said Deidre Hoguet, director of sustainability and materials exploration at Designtex.
(10) Do I expect them to appreciate the sexually terroristic satires of Sade, or the erogenous verse of Sappho and Catullus, or Nicholson Baker's comical romp Vox?
(11) (If you are interested in the specifics of that, Vox has published a useful backgrounder over this past weekend.)
(12) The company announced this month that they've created a new line, Vox, from their hybrid material called Climatex® Dualcycle™ that combines both wool and a technically produced synthetic.
(13) Twitter is not the vox populi; it is a very effective way of getting a point across to a journalist.
(14) Designtex's Vox fabric styles will be available for purchase in September.
(15) After chiding the justices in Aereo, Vox's Tim Lee argued it's actually a good thing the justices are not technically savvy, because it allows them to see the bigger picture, citing that they have "done a remarkably good job of crafting a sensible body of patent and copyright laws in the past few decades".
(16) He said: “The sans-culottes popular uprising was against a stifling bureaucratic ancient regime whose democratic credentials had become very far from obvious.” He continued: “We can all agree vox populi is vox Dei, in other words the people then, as now, must be respected.” He also gave a commitment that French people living in the UK would be allowed to remain as long as the rights of British people in Europe were respected in a reciprocal way.
(17) Nuns, teenagers, a rabbi, a brass band, Justin Butcher – the vigorous choirmaster of the community choir Vox Holloway – and a group of Whitehall cleaners came together in Wesley's cafe in Westminster Central Hall to celebrate a rare victory.
(18) Crude extracts from Salvia sclarea seeds were known to contain a lectin which specifically agglutinates Tn erythrocytes (Bird, G. W. G., and Wingham, G. (1974) Vox Sang.
(19) It’s hard for him to prove that to everybody because of how insistent Taylor is that everything that they do with each other is photographed.” Vox dissected the commentary thus : “Somehow, as many angry observers implied, Hiddleston, and his smooth-as-silk British accent, was supposed to be better than this … and, by proxy, deserving of someone better than Swift.” A series of aggressive tweets from her ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris sent thousands of people to Swift’s Instagram to leave a snake emoji.
(20) At Vox, the female hire making early headlines with Klein’s departure was his co-founder Melissa Bell, a back-end publishing expert whose work for Klein’s Wonkblog was “unglamorous but considered vital” .