affinity - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • feel: Turk feels an affinity with the dour playwright's style.
  • possess: Possesses strong affinity with gold, silver, platinum, and precious stones.
  • demonstrate: You should also be able to demonstrate an affinity with the Outdoors and camping.

Preposition: for

  • receptor: It is about 20 times as potent as morphine and has a high affinity for opioid receptors and slow dissociation from them.
  • oxygen: The affinity for the fourth oxygen to bind is approximately 300 times that for the first.

Adjective modifier

  • binding: A reliable assay is needed to be able to measure binding affinity.
  • elective: In fact, as Roberto Unger has demonstrated, there is no elective affinity between capitalism and democracy.
  • ideological: It meshed well with Russia's traditional primary focus on relations with the United States and was reinforced by apparent ideological affinity.
  • natural: The Teacher... Some people have a natural affinity with children.
  • close: The close affinity of the author's thought to that of Philo point in the same direction.

Modifies a noun

  • chromatography: Examples are the detection of cartilage damage in arthritis and the visualization of the process of affinity chromatography.
  • maturation: Affinity maturation: a retrospective view C. Berek, M. Apel.
  • purification: Protein purification Sareum's purification platform exploits the use of affinity tag protein purification methods.
  • receptor: IgE antibodies are bound by their Fc portion to high affinity Fc receptors expressed on Mast cells and basophils.
  • antibody: Both infections evoke CTL responses and high affinity antibody production.

Noun used with modifier

  • electron: This is the reverse of the electron affinity of the chlorine.
  • processor: The lack of processor affinity also causes less damage with a shared L2 cache.
  • oxygen: There is a reduction in cardiac output and an increase in hemoglobin oxygen affinity.

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