Sentence examples for as a def from inspiring English sources

c-FOS possesses the FXFP consensus motif, an ERK binding site, referred to as a DEF domain, which plays an important role as a sensor for ERK activity in cell fate decision [ 13, 15, 24].

"[I don't want] to deal [any more] with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as," Mos Def said.

There is such a thing as a high-def DVD burner, but you'd be foolish to buy one until the format war of high-def DVD formats (Blu-ray versus HD-DVD) is over.

The Moxi does pretty much what the Microsoft-based unit does as a high-def DVR and then takes the concept farther.

Not that I'm complaining, that guy's my hero – but I never thought of the Steve as a hi-def guy.

Offline, as hi-def as you want, and under your control.

Russell Simmons, 52, hip-hop pioneer and founder of Rush Communications, helped bring the rhymes of Public Enemy, LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys to the masses as a partner in Def Jam Recordings.

But Mr. Davis's partner Steven Shapiro testified at the trial as a witness for Def Jam, which had itself named Mr. Gottlieb as a personal co-defendant in its counterclaim against TVT Records -- the same tactic Mr. Davis complained about with respect to Mr. Gottlieb.

Last month, the rapper Yasiin Bey, previously known as Mos Def, performed a series of farewell concerts.

— The rapper and actor Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def, in a video made by the human-rights group Reprieve in which he allowed himself to be subjected to the procedure used to force-feed hunger-striking detainees at Guantánamo Bay.

Nasa has provided almost 300 thumbnails from a sequence of pictures that will eventually be run together as a colour hi-def movie.