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finance(2) (iou)



finance verb. L15.
[from the noun.]
verb intrans. & trans. Pay or put to ransom. Only in L15.
verb intrans. Engage in or manage financial operations; provide oneself with capital. E19.
verb trans. Provide with money, esp. capital; provide money for. M19.
L. Namier The factor had to finance his West Indian correspondentslend them money for the sake of consignments. M. Girouard School boards financed by a local school rate were to be set up in the towns.
fi'nanceable adjective L20.
financer noun = FINANCIER noun 2 M17-M18.

Telomeres (health)


"Caps" (made of repeated DNA sequences) found at the ends of chromosomes that protect the ends of the chromosomes from degradation. The telomeres on a chromosome shorten with each round of cell replication. Telomere shortening has been suggested to be a "clock" that regulates how many times an individual cell can divide (that is, when the telomeres of the chromosomes in a cell shorten past a particular point, the cell can no longer divide).