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Example sentences for: variant
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Then we are told that heinie is “spelled as if it were Yiddish,” which shows how much Thorne knows about German spelling and pronunciation; the variant hinie is not shown (the word is, after all, a diminutive of behind: the heinie spelling probably cropped up during WWI in confusion with the similarly pronounced Heinie , a synonym for Bosch or Kraut , short for Hein-rich ). At Hicksville it might have been fun to mention that it is a placename in New York (Nassau County) and in several other states.
Demonstration that design meets requirements-prototype or variant testing.
Primer extension analysis of the wild type and kidney-recovered variants demonstrated that the sagA/pel message expressed in the kidney-recovered variant had an identical transcription start site to the 500 base message present in the wild type strain (Fig.
Most recently, the crystal structure of the polymerase in complex with a DNA promoter has revealed the structural basis for this specificity [ 1 2 ] . In addition, a number of researchers have examined the contribution of various nucleotides and functional groups in the promoter and various amino acids in the polymerase to specificity [ 3 4 5 ] . Based upon both structural and mutagenic analyses, it has proven possible to identify polymerase variants with altered specificities for promoters [ 6 7 ] . Polymerase variants with altered specificities have also been identified using genetic selections [ 8 ] . However, the variant polymerases and variant promoters that have so far been identified are close in sequence to the wild-type.
OED2e lists swedge as a variant of swage and suggests that swage , in turn, is an early form of swag a `swaying or lurching motion.