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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sequence
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dance routine/sequence (=a set of movements that are part of a dance)
▪ She was practising a complicated dance routine.
a random sequence
▪ They were asked to memorize a random sequence of numbers.
a series/sequence of events (=related events that happen one after the other)
▪ The incident was the first in a series of events that finally led to his arrest.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chronological
▪ In regions where early civilizations had flourished new research and discoveries filled out the chronological sequences.
▪ The predominant motive for writing this type of history is to demonstrate chronological sequence.
▪ Starting in 1993, the label plans to re-release all the Smiths albums on compact disc in chronological sequence.
▪ The chronological patient sequence is divided into blocks of, say four.
▪ Much more is also needed towards the building of a full chronological sequence of the main wares and vessel types.
correct
▪ The correct sequence is shown in Fig. 1 and must be followed, i.e. D1 to pin 3.
▪ This maintains the correct patterning sequence.
▪ The difficulty is that of translating the verbal problem or formula into the correct operations in the correct sequence.
▪ At this stage the model was modified to the correct amino-acid sequence.
▪ If the quality of bottom-up information was good, the algorithm could quickly home in on the correct sequence of words.
following
▪ Printer echo is controlled with the following key sequences.
▪ For example, the following code sequence would invert the first 20 characters on line 0 starting a column 0.
▪ Fisher imagined the following evolutionary sequence.
▪ In the following sequence we take you through the process and discuss a number of options in the basic set-up.
logical
▪ The content of the programme should follow a logical sequence.
▪ The system illustrated here follows a logical sequence of development resulting in a short-term financial planning and cash budgeting system.
▪ In no way could it conform to my carefully constructed logical building sequence.
▪ When possible list items in order of importance or in terms of logical sequence.
▪ A good letter writer will place in a logical sequence the matter about which he or she intends to write.
▪ These are then linked together in a set logical sequence to teach the beginner continuity of movement.
▪ The documentation for Quattro Pro also features plenty of screenshots, and follows a logical sequence similar to that of SuperCalc.
▪ Maintain a logical sequence of events - a storyline.
long
▪ The critical path through the network is the longest sequence of activities from the beginning of the network through to the end.
▪ Mr Pialat also shares with Mr Rivette a capacity for shaping and controlling long sequences.
▪ At that point, rather late one night, he and I had the last of a long sequence of talks.
▪ I was able to recall perfectly quite long sequences of words even when I was exposed to each for little more than twenty milliseconds.
▪ The longest sequence of required activities is the time it will take if no adjustments are made.
▪ For certain memorable periods, such as the two world wars, several interconnected vignettes form a longer sequence.
short
▪ Usually the teacher will use only a short sequence.
▪ He did it anyway, taking short sequences and explaining their meaning as he recited them.
▪ At other times a teacher may wish to use only a very short sequence.
▪ Initially, Paola simply passes into a short bridging sequence and passes out again, like the boy in the cloak.
▪ Mind you, that's just a short sequence they are streaming.
▪ Within a long programme you may find a short sequence which contains exactly what you want for a particular lesson.
▪ Technical deficiencies may irritate, but judicious selection of a short sequence can provide useful evidential material.
▪ The teacher can stop the video, re-run a short sequence, and then freeze on one particular frame.
whole
▪ The whole sequence was over in seconds, but it was breathtaking.
▪ I began to call the whole sequence of events PMSgate.
▪ Repeat the whole sequence twice, then relax.
▪ And then silence again and the whole sequence begins anew.
▪ If you like, the whole sequence could be shot from their point of view.
▪ Living beings comprise a whole sequence of levels forming such a hierarchy.
▪ Lets Watch returns to a viewing of the whole sequence at several points in the suggested sequence of activities.
▪ The whole sequence has taken three seconds.
■ NOUN
acid
▪ We wished to demonstrate whether epitopes contained within the amino acid sequence 206-217 of A-gliadin are specific to coeliac toxic cereals.
▪ Comparison of deduced amino acid sequences of the mouse and human TEF-1 proteins.
▪ Corresponding amino acid sequence of AChRa are noted below exon sequences.
▪ Amino acid sequence of the N-Oct 3 and N-Oct 5A and 5B proteins.
▪ Pancreatic and venom PLA2s have been divided into two groups on the basis of the amino acid sequences of the enzyme proteins.
▪ These are protein molecules, which owe their specificity to their amino acid sequence, and hence ultimately to the genes.
▪ Nucleotide and predicted amino acid sequence of the Oct-11 cDNA.
▪ The nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequence of the human ribosomal protein L12 cDNA.
dna
▪ As they bind to similar DNA sequences and associate with the same proteins, they are likely to be closely related.
▪ It is the gradual reorganisation of the genetic program, the software coded into DNA sequences.
▪ Other methods of genetic purification can homogenize a DNA sequence.
▪ Both Myc+Max and Max+Max bind to the same DNA sequence.
▪ Lines up- and underlying DNA sequences delimit the footprints described in the text.
▪ Just one base wrong in a particular DNA sequence may cause a coding error in the protein formed by that gene.
▪ The deduced translation is shown beneath the DNA sequence.
▪ The mouse DNA sequence encoding TEF-1 was 92% homologous with the corresponding human sequence.
nucleotide
▪ Lanes 1, 3 and 5 demonstrate, that there is no influence of the nucleotide sequence on protein methylation.
▪ In itself, the nucleotide sequences are meaningless.
▪ The nucleotide sequence data of parthenogenesis bacteria will appear in Genbank under the following accession numbers.
▪ What genes do is not simply replicate their nucleotide sequences exactly.
▪ Figure 1B shows the nucleotide sequence of its promoter cassette.
▪ Based on nucleotide sequence and amino-acid sequence comparisons, coding segments 7 and 8 seem to represent a partial internal gene duplication.
▪ On the basis of their canonical nucleotide sequences they can be classified as group I introns.
▪ A phylogenetic analysis was performed with five corresponding algal and fungal intron nucleotide sequences.
protein
▪ Comparison between the protein sequences of Drosophila and rat ribosomal protein S2.
▪ Serratus is the most comprehensive, non-redundant protein sequence database available to the protein chemist.
▪ Cameleon provides a powerful interactive graphics interface to protein sequence homology modelling.
▪ It aligns two protein sequences interactively.
■ VERB
contain
▪ This indicates that region 1-110 of RAP30 contains a minimum sequence essential for interacting with RAP74 in vivo.
▪ But our table contains every computable sequence, so our new sequence must be somewhere in the list.
▪ Some long utterances may contain phoneme sequences which only match the intended words.
▪ These were also modified by linker addition soas to contain a BamHI recognition sequence.
▪ The weak positives are unidentified cosmids so far and may contain coding sequences.
▪ The area also contains important sedimentary sequences, and the metamorphic rocks of the Dalradian Super-Group at the Highland Boundary.
▪ Oligonucleotide B contains the ICP4 core sequence and is therefore expected to compete well with the longer ICP4 oligonucleotide.
▪ These synthetic strands contain special marker sequences that indicate the start and end of the message.
follow
▪ Change colour following the sequence of rows in the design.
▪ The application of conservation principles to different kinds of problems usually follows a sequence and thus constitutes a scale of development.
▪ In this second part Engels not only follows Morgan's sequence, he follows Morgan's method concerning three key points.
▪ The system illustrated here follows a logical sequence of development resulting in a short-term financial planning and cash budgeting system.
▪ Again, follow the basic cast-on sequence for two one and insert the comb.
▪ Sally, following the sequence of her notes, begins to respond to the issue of attention-getting.
▪ As well as being simpler, this allows us to follow a historical sequence which leads up to serialism.
▪ One must want to move to the next frame, anticipate the following sequence of color, texture and drama.
show
▪ A multiple dig, showing the sequence of digs along the burrow.
▪ Textbooks show the sequence of strokes by building up characters in various ways.
▪ To show the sequence of ideas or events.
▪ Naturally the film only showed the sequence once, and having seen it, Wil got up and walked out of the cinema.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Basic computer code consists of sequences of ones and zeros.
▪ The sequence of movements for this particular dance is quite difficult to learn.
▪ The action sequences are the best part of the film.
▪ The chairs are numbered in sequence.
▪ The dance is basically a sequence of steps that you repeat over and over again.
▪ The keys have to be turned in a particular sequence to open the safe.
▪ The report detailed the sequence of events that led to the oil spill.
▪ The system follows a logical sequence.
▪ White, who is doing research on the disease, was able to determine its DNA sequence.
▪ X-rays are taken in rapid sequence to get an image of the arteries leading to the heart.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Anyone whose eye-hand coordination was developed by catching a baseball will suffer repeated death in the combat sequences.
▪ Finally, when all the manipulations are complete, the resulting sequence is fed out again through the slot.
▪ His love of poetic and narrative sequences culminates in the three book designs that dominate the exhibition.
▪ In other words, she may find it difficult to relate sequences of letters to their appropriate pronunciation.
▪ My winning the lottery is improbable, because there are so many sequences of numbers other than mine that could come up.
▪ Since there were 32 subjects, four subjects saw a given sequence.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sequence

Sequence \Se"quence\ (s[=e]"kwens), n. [F. s['e]quence, L. sequentia, fr. sequens. See Sequent.]

  1. The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.

    How art thou a king But by fair sequence and succession?
    --Shak.

    Sequence and series of the seasons of the year.
    --Bacon.

  2. That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.

    The inevitable sequences of sin and punishment.
    --Bp. Hall.

  3. (Philos.) Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences.

  4. (Mus.)

    1. Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.

    2. A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.

  5. (R.C.Ch.) A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name.
    --Bp. Fitzpatrick.

    Originally the sequence was called a Prose, because its early form was rhythmical prose.
    --Shipley.

  6. (Card Playing)

    1. (Whist) Three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight.

    2. (Poker) All five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit; when of one suit, it is called a sequence flush.

  7. the specific order of any linear arrangement of items; as, the sequence of amino acid residues in a protein; the sequence of instructions in a computer program; the sequence of acts in a variety show.

Sequence

Sequence \Se"quence\, v. t. (Biochem.) to determine the sequence of; as, to sequence a protein or a DNA fragment.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sequence

late 14c., "hymn sung after the Hallelujah and before the Gospel," from Old French sequence "answering verses" (13c.), from Medieval Latin sequentia "a following, a succession," from Latin sequentem (nominative sequens), present participle of sequi "to follow" (see sequel). In Church use, a partial loan-translation of Greek akolouthia, from akolouthos "following." General sense of "succession," also "a sequence at cards," appeared 1570s.

sequence

"arrange in a sequence," 1954, from sequence (n.). Related: Sequenced; sequencing.

Wiktionary
sequence

n. 1 A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series 2 A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's ''Fifth Symphony''). 3 A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the ''Dies Irae'' (Day of Wrath) formerly used in funeral services. 4 (context mathematics English) An ordered list of objects. 5 (context now rare English) A subsequent event; a consequence or result. 6 A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show etc. vb. 1 (context transitive English) to arrange in an order 2 (context transitive English) to determine the order of things, especially of amino acids in a protein, or of bases in a nucleic acid 3 (context transitive English) to produce (music) with a sequencer

WordNet
sequence
  1. n. serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern; "the sequence of names was alphabetical"; "he invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA"

  2. a following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients" [syn: chronological sequence, succession, successiveness, chronological succession]

  3. film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie [syn: episode]

  4. the action of following in order; "he played the trumps in sequence" [syn: succession]

  5. several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys

sequence
  1. v. arrange in a sequence

  2. determine the order of constituents in; "They sequenced the human genome"

Wikipedia
Sequence (disambiguation)

Sequence may refer to any ordered collection of things:

Sequence (game)

Sequence, a board-and- card game, was invented by Douglas Reuter in Minneapolis, Minnesota, over a two-year period in the 1970s. Mr. Reuter originally called the game, "Sequence Five". Reuter spent years developing the concept, and, in June 1981, granted Jax Ltd. an exclusive license to manufacture, distribute and sell the board game, Sequence, and its subsequent variations. The game was first sold in a retail store in 1982.

Sequence (geology)

A sequence in geology refers to a sequence of geological events, processes, or rocks, arranged in chronological order.

A rock stratigraphical sequence is a geographical, or lithostratigraphic, discrete unit greater than a group or supergroup rank, and traceable over large areas of a continent. A stratigraphic sequence is bounded by unconformities of inter regional scope, such as in the division of cratons.

Category:Stratigraphy

Sequence (biology)

A sequence in biology is the one-dimensional ordering of monomers, covalently linked within a biopolymer; it is also referred to as the primary structure of the biological macromolecule.

Sequence (medicine)

In medicine, a sequence is a series of ordered consequences due to a single cause.

It differs from a syndrome in that seriality is more predictable: if A causes B, and B causes C, and C causes D, then D would not be seen if C is not seen. However, in less formal contexts, the term "syndrome" is sometimes used instead of sequence.

Examples include:

  • oligohydramnios sequence (also known as Potter sequence)
  • Pierre Robin sequence
  • Poland sequence
Sequence

In mathematics, a sequence is an enumerated collection of objects in which repetitions are allowed. Like a set, it contains members (also called elements, or terms). The number of elements (possibly infinite) is called the length of the sequence. Unlike a set, order matters, and exactly the same elements can appear multiple times at different positions in the sequence. Formally, a sequence can be defined as a function whose domain is either the set of the natural numbers (for infinite sequences) or the set of the first n natural numbers (for a sequence of finite length n). The position of an element in a sequence is its rank or index; it is the integer from which the element is the image; it depends on the context or of a specific convention, if the first element has index 0 or 1. When a symbol has been chosen for denoting a sequence, the nth element of the sequence is denoted by this symbol with n as subscript; for example, the nth element of the Fibonacci sequence is generally denoted F.

For example, (M, A, R, Y) is a sequence of letters with the letter 'M' first and 'Y' last. This sequence differs from (A, R, M, Y). Also, the sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8), which contains the number 1 at two different positions, is a valid sequence. Sequences can be finite, as in these examples, or infinite, such as the sequence of all even positive integers (2, 4, 6, ...). In computing and computer science, finite sequences are sometimes called strings, words or lists, the different names commonly corresponding to different ways to represent them in computer memory; infinite sequences are also called streams. The empty sequence ( ) is included in most notions of sequence, but may be excluded depending on the context.

Sequence (filmmaking)

In film, a sequence is a series of scenes that form a distinct narrative unit, which is usually connected either by unity of location or unity of time. For example a heist film might include an extended recruitment sequence in which the leader of the gang collects together the conspirators, a robbery sequence, an escape sequence, and so on. Each of these sequences might further contain sub-sequences; for example the robbery sequence might consist of an entry sequence, a safe-cracking sequence, and so on.

The sequence is one of a hierarchy of structural units used to describe the structure of films in varying degrees of granularity. Analysed this way, a film is composed of one or more acts; acts include one or more sequences; sequences are divided into one or more scenes; and scenes may be thought of as being built out of shots (if one is thinking visually) or beats (if one is thinking in narrative terms).

The sequence paradigm of screenwriting was developed by Frank Daniel.

Sequence (musical form)

A sequence ( Latin: sequentia) is a chant or hymn sung or recited during the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, before the proclamation of the Gospel. By the time of the Council of Trent (1543–1563) there were sequences for many feasts in the Church's year.

The sequence has always been sung before the Gospel. The 2002 edition of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, however, reversed the order and places the sequence before the Alleluia.

The form of this chant inspired a genre of Latin poetry written in a non- classical metre, often on a sacred Christian subject, which is also called a sequence.

Sequence (music)

In music, a sequence is the restatement of a motif or longer melodic (or harmonic) passage at a higher or lower pitch in the same voice. It is one of the most common and simple methods of elaborating a melody in eighteenth and nineteenth century classical music ( Classical period and Romantic music). Characteristics of sequences:

  • Two segments, usually no more than three or four
  • Usually only one direction: continuingly higher or lower
  • Segments continue by same interval distance

It is possible for melody or harmony to form a sequence without the other participating.

A real sequence is a sequence where the subsequent segments are exact transpositions of the first segment. A tonal sequence is a sequence where the subsequent segments are diatonic transpositions of the first segments. A modified sequence is a sequence where the subsequent segments are decorated or embellished so as to not destroy the character of the original segment. A false sequence is a literal repetition of the beginning of a figure and stating the rest in sequence. A modulating sequence is a sequence that leads from one tonal center to the next, with each segment technically being in a different key in some sequences. A rhythmic sequence is the repetition of a rhythm with free use of pitches.

A sequence can be described according to its direction (ascending or descending in pitch) and its adherence to the diatonic scale—that is, the sequence is diatonic if the pitches remain within the scale, or chromatic (or non-diatonic) if pitches outside of the diatonic scale are used and especially if all pitches are shifted by exactly the same interval (i.e., they are transposed). The non-diatonic sequence tends to modulate to a new tonality or to cause temporarily tonicisation.

At least two instances of a sequential pattern—including the original statement—are required to identify a sequence, and the pattern should be based on several melody notes or at least two successive harmonies ( chords). Although stereotypically associated with Baroque music, and especially the music of Antonio Vivaldi, this device is widespread throughout Western music history.

Ritornellos and the amplification from melodies to Baroque lyrics are often built from sequences.

Sequence (journal)

Sequence was a short-lived but influential British film journal founded in 1947 by Lindsay Anderson, Gavin Lambert and Karel Reisz.

Anderson had returned to Oxford after his time with the army Intelligence Corps in Delhi, Lambert was a schoolfriend of Anderson from Cheltenham College who had dropped out of English at Magdalen College on discovering that he would have to study Middle English under C. S. Lewis, while Reiz was a chemistry graduate from Emmanuel College, Cambridge who later said "I met Lindsay Anderson on a Green Line bus. I was going to the British Film Institute to look at some film for my editing book and he was going to see Ford's The Iron Horse."

Founded as the Film Society Magazine, the organ of the Oxford Film Society, in 1947, with Penelope Houston as its first editor, the journal quickly changed its name to Sequence, and produced fourteen issues between 1947 and 1952, the last few being edited by Reisz and Anderson. The British Free Cinema movement, co-founded in 1956 by Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson and Lorenza Mazzetti, drew on the principles first expressed by the journal. Articles from Sequence by Anderson were published in Lindsay Anderson: The Collected Writings edited by Paul Ryan (London: Plexus, 2004).

Sequence (2013 film)

Sequence is a 2013 short fantasy horror film written and directed by Carles Torrens, and starring Joe Hursley, Emma Fitzpatrick, and Ronnie Gene Blevins. The film premiered September 6, 2013, at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival.

Usage examples of "sequence".

Spiraling pairs of cytosine, guanine, adenine, and thymine: we know these are instructions for growth, for the development of life, all coded in sequences of paired elements.

Whoever it was resorted to viral transfer, using adenovirus to transfer, splice, and mix human with chimpanzee DNA whole sequences at a time, a much faster process but haphazard.

So Cap had a theory to explain the strange sequences the Judy Lab had revealed: chimpanzee, human, and hybrid all in the same animal, laced with sequences from the adenovirus that did most of the splicing.

Jeffrey was particularly interested in the initial sequence of events, when Chris was first administering the epidural anesthesia.

It was left to George Martin to sequence the tracks and prepare the album for release.

After a marathon twenty-four hour session, utilising studios One, Two and Three as well as listening rooms 41 and 42, the huge double album was finally mixed and sequenced at 5 p.

I can run the whole sequence in one pot with about ninety-nine percent yield of the final amantadine derivative.

Jurassic marine strata are often correlated worldwide with great precision and confidence by recognition of a regular succession of ammonoid fauna that occurs in the same sequence wherever marine sediments of suitable age are preserved.

He went across to the Q-ship communicator one last time and initiated a Link sequence to Anabasis Headquarters on Ceres.

Distributed Sequence Annotation System, DAS for short, borrows an approach from Napster, the controversial software that allows people to swap music files over the Internet.

The chanting was picked up by others, and soon most of the people were deeply involved in a mesmerizing sequence that consisted of repetitive phrases sung in a pulsating beat with little change in tone, alternating with arrhythmic drumming that had more tonal variation than the voices.

An audile, sensory home like that soundmen provide for the sequences of film where there is no human speech, holding up their microphones in an empty room where the quality of silence contains vanished voices, vanished heartbeats.

Drew had given her time to talk with the ogre without encountering the man at the same time, thus avoiding another bashing sequence.

As the doors slid closed behind Beyer, Jetanien turned once more to the keypad and tapped out a sequence.

The sequence in which the fifteen bimolecular units forming the affinity twin had to be joined.