单词 | read-through |
释义 | read-throughn. 1. An act of reading through; spec. an initial rehearsal for a performance, at which actors read their parts from scripts. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > [noun] > read-through read-through1947 table read1993 1947 N. Coward Diary 17 June (2000) 85 First read-through of Peace in Our Time. Everyone rather too reverent and a bit inaudible. 1963 E. Humphreys Gift ii. i. 209 He was late for the read through... Started talking loudly to the actress next to him and greeting everybody when we had already begun to read. 1976 J. Grenfell Joyce Grenfell requests Pleasure xvi. 230 Our spirits went up and down..after the usual enthusiastic read-through when the material seemed so original and imaginative. 1988 S. Gray How's that for telling 'em, Fat Lady? i. 3 No doubt she'll be very good. She certainly seemed to be at the read-through we had the night before I left. 1997 Theatre July 8/2 I well remember the first read-through of Dennis Potter's TV play Karaoke, in which I played a very sad character who could not speak properly. 2. Molecular Biology. Continuation of nucleic acid transcription or translation beyond a normal termination sequence. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [noun] > changes or actions of genes or chromosomes repulsion1908 polymery1914 hypostasis1917 inversion1921 polymerism1923 interchange1927 position change1937 heterochromatization1941 read-through1969 1969 W. S. Reznikoff et al. in Jrnl. Molecular Biol. 43 202 The transcription of the lac operon which takes place will be due to transcription which is initiated at the beginning of this other operon. We will use the term ‘read-through’ to describe this sort of transcription. 1978 Nature 30 Mar. 417/2 One of these..is the only oligonucleotide consistent with transcriptional ‘read-through’ of the termination site. 1988 Mouse News Let. Nov. 164 The 5'-LTR was deleted and upstream cellular promoters are recombined into the neo gene, causing its expression by a read-through transcription. 2005 C. de Haan & P. Rottier in P. Roy Virus Struct. & Assembly 171 The more downstream pol1b gene is translated by translational readthrough, using a ribosomal frameshift mechanism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1947 |
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