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IMPORTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used of especially merchandise brought from a foreign source
Example:
imported wines
Classified under:
Similar:
foreign; strange (relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb import
Context examples:
Also, because some studies had involved introducing different types of probiotics, these could have fought against each other to work effectively, and many of the intervention times used might have been too short to significantly increase the abundance of the imported bacteria.
(Anxiety May Be Alleviated by Changing Gut Bacteria, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Together, these findings have given rise to a model in which CLIP association with the class II groove acts to prevent inappropriate presentation of peptides imported into the ER for association with major histocompatibility complex class I molecules.
(Antigen Presentation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Derived from the original group of Syrian hamsters captured by Dr. Israel Aharoni in 1930 and imported into the United States in 1938, followed by colony derivation at Lakeview in 1949 and 1951 and to Charles River in 1969, where the strain is propagated today.
(LVG Hamster, NCI Thesaurus)
That wine was not imported among us from foreign countries to supply the want of water or other drinks, but because it was a sort of liquid which made us merry by putting us out of our senses, diverted all melancholy thoughts, begat wild extravagant imaginations in the brain, raised our hopes and banished our fears, suspended every office of reason for a time, and deprived us of the use of our limbs, till we fell into a profound sleep; although it must be confessed, that we always awaked sick and dispirited; and that the use of this liquor filled us with diseases which made our lives uncomfortable and short.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
