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DISTORT
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Traducere în limba română
distort verb tranzitiv
1. a deforma, a strâmba, a altera (aspectul).
his face was distorted with pain i se schimonosise faţa de durere.
2. (fig.) a deforma (mintal sau moral).
3. (fig.) a denatura (fapte, cuvinte etc.).
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
The huge mass of the cluster distorts and magnifies the light from galaxies that lie far behind it due to an effect called gravitational lensing.
(NASA’s Hubble Looks to the Final Frontier, NASA)
Suddenly the door was burst open, and in rushed my patient, with his face distorted with passion.
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
The tail is essential for structure-selective DNA-binding of the HMG boxes to DNA minicircles in the presence of equimolar linear DNA, and has little effect on the affinity for this already highly distorted DNA ligand, in contrast to binding to linear and four-way junction DNA.
(HMGB Family Protein, NCI Thesaurus)