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Cambridge, Mass.
Judy Pearsall. 1998.
The New OxfordDictionary of
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This research note describes the early stages of a project
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of the microfilaments found in practically all eukaryotic cells – it
comprises 5–10% of the protein of such cells (see actin filament). In
solutions of...
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Ofsted Office for Standards in Education (regulatory body)
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the TV and eats a diet that is mainly junk food.
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Someone who's full of piss and vinegar is full of youthful energy.
Full of the joys of spring
If you are full of the joys of spring, you are very happy and full of energy.
Full swing
If ... literature, and often a writer too.
Man of means
A man, or woman, of means is wealthy.
Man of parts
A man of parts is a person who is talented in a number of different areas or ways.
Man of straw ...
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If you would do something at the drop of a hat, you'd do it immediately.
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Department of Pharmacology
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Professor
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University of Freiburg
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Inhibitors of Cell Wall S ynthesis . . . . 270
Inhibitors of Tetrahydrofolate
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InhibitorsofDNAFunction 276
InhibitorsofProteinSynthesis 278
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DEFINITIONS OF THE SYMBOL
Definitions and analyses of the nature of symbols and of symbolism are all ... amalgam of varied elements, offers only a secondary explanation of
the problem of ‘origins’ without attempting to go deeply into the raison d’être of
the entity. To say that the image of the bat ... find in myth an account of
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ACTUALITY OF THE SYMBOL
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However, the above quotation is extremely helpful in enabling us to mark out
the limits of the symbolic. If there...
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org. St Paul's Cath., 1796 1838; composer of th. and church mus. One of first profs. at
RAM, 1823. Founder-member of Philharmonic ... of Canterbury's Diploma in Church Mus., awarded only after examination to
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Added 6th, Chord of. In key of ... those of Dom John Stéphan, of Buckfast Abbey, Devon, who in
1947 discussed a newly-discovered MS. of the tune in the handwriting of John Francis Wade, a Lat.
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HOW TO.1 General Principles
... 1879-1970
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The OxfordDictionaryof Quotations
Preface
What is a “quotation”? It is a saying or piece of writing that strikes people as so true or
memorable...
... moderation.
A rash of dermatologists, a hive of allergists, a
scrub of interns, a giggle of nurses, a flood of
urologists, a pile of proctologists, an eyeful of
ophthalmologists, a whiff of anesthesiologists, ... –
Professor of Clinical Gerontology, Oxford, England
The aging of an organism is a progressive loss of
adaptability as time passes.
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It is the editors’ hope that the Second Editionof the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of
Earth Science will serve the needs of scientists, ... terminology of the fields covered
in this Dictionary is important for an appreciation of its literature and
applications.
All of the definitions are drawn from the McGraw-Hill Dictionaryof Scientific ... latter part of which, the
oldest system of rocks was made.
2.
The last of three subdivisions of Archean time,
when the lowest forms of life probably existed; as more physical measurements of
geologic...