See Also: araC(medicine)
genes, arac(medicine)

mete (iou) and araC (medicine)


mete (iou)



mete verb. [mi:t]
[Old English metan = Old Frisian meta, Old Saxon metan, Old High German mean (Dutch meten, German messen), Old Norse meta, Gothic mitan, from Germanic, from Indo-European base repr. also by Latin meditari MEDITATE, Greek medesthai care for.]
verb trans. Ascertain or determine the dimensions or quantity of, measure. Now poet. & dial. exc. in allus. to Matthew 7:2. Cf. MEASURE verb 3. OE.
Bible (AV): Matthew 7:2 With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you againe.
b. Complete the full measure or amount of. Also foll. by forth, out. E17-L18.
verb trans. Mark (out) the boundary or course of; = MEASURE verb 7. OE-E19.
verb trans. Estimate the greatness or value of. Cf. MEASURE verb 4. arch. OE.
verb trans. & intrans. Travel or go (a distance). Cf. MEASURE verb 5. OE-L17.
verb trans. Apportion by measure, allot; esp. allot (punishment, praise, reward, etc.). Usu. foll. by out. Now literary. OE.
T. Collins I meted out half a pint of water to him. S. Naipaul Blakey described the punishments meted out to refractory children.
verb intrans. Take measurements; measure distances for shooting at a mark; aim at. LME-M17.

araC (medicine)


araC
<molecular biology> In bacteria, the arabinose ara operon regulatory protein. One of a large group of bacterial transcription factors with the helix turn helix motif.