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.


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