TRANSFERRED | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of transferred in English transferred Add to word list Add to word list past simple and past participle of transfer (Definition of transferred from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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transferred The embodied and ideologically embedded nature of cultural capital means that it cannot be transferred rapidly. From the Cambridge English Corpus Fertilized eggs are transferred into a special culture medium for further growth. From the Cambridge English Corpus Following a pressure increase in the pipette, the cell suspension was transferred to seminiferous tubules (dark blue). From the Cambridge English Corpus Relationship between nuclear remodeling and subsequent development of mouse embryonic nuclei transferred to enucleated oocytes. From the Cambridge English Corpus Following enucleation one fetal fibroblast cell was transferred into each enucleated oocyte. From the Cambridge English Corpus Fish were transferred serially such that eyes could be sampled after periods of 0, 2, 5, 10, and 20 days of exposure. From the Cambridge English Corpus Most important was the way this conceptual scheme was transferred to the experimental realm. From the Cambridge English Corpus Microtubules were organized around condensed chromosomes after the nucleus had been transferred into any of the three types of cytoplasm. From the Cambridge English Corpus When cultured blastocysts are transferred to recipients, the lack of mucin coat might account in part for subsequent failure of pregnancy. From the Cambridge English Corpus In all cases, two embryos could be transferred into the uterus. From the Cambridge English Corpus The vitreous humor was removed and the posterior eyecup was ever ted over a balsa wood dome and transferred to the recording chamber. From the Cambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

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