(n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.
(n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The profile includes three physiologic assessments and four variables which express the number, location, and severity of a patient's injuries in terms of 'Abbreviated injury scale' values.
(2) The results also demonstrate the effect of an outward current to prolong the action potential and the effect of an outward current blocker to abbreviate the action potential.
(3) We investigated the accuracy of the Hodkinson abbreviated mental test (AMT) as a screening instrument for dementia in an Italian population.
(4) The aberrant conformation is evidently forced upon the abbreviated constructs by the residual 5' precursor sequence, since its removal by the maturation endonuclease RNAase M5 precipitates the reordering of the mature domain into its native conformation.
(5) This abbreviated therapeutic approach may eliminate the need for serial electropharmacologic testing, long-term drug therapy, antitachycardia pacemakers, and surgical ablation.
(6) Challenge after abbreviation of primary infections at different stages of worm development showed that persistence of larvae beyond day 21 was critical in determining poor response to reinfection.
(7) An abbreviated review of behavioral animal studies provides additional support for the clinical investigations presented.
(8) Under simulated ischaemic conditions, lignocaine, propranolol and nicainoprol did not produce a concentration-dependent reduction in action potential duration whereas disopyramide and verapamil, respectively, prolonged and abbreviated both APD50 and APD90.
(9) The temperature-sensitive Drosophila developmental mutation, l(3)c21RRW630 (abbreviated RW630) disturbs oogenesis and has a maternal effect on embryogenesis.
(10) PEP I was prolonged, LVET I was abbreviated, while QS2 I remained unaltered.
(11) And, finally, the "R", an abbreviation for recommandé (registered), suggests that it would have contained the 100-franc allowance that Theo regularly sent his brother.
(12) A correlation and linear regression study was performed, to establish differences between the detailed and the abbreviated methods.
(13) An abbreviated form of the MMPI test was used in the clinical part.
(14) Abbreviated and full versions of the discharge summary were generated with very little interactive time required of the physician or record clerk.
(15) The lateral preferences of 959 Brazilian adults (471 males and 488 females) were assessed with the abbreviated form of the Edinburgh Inventory using the interview method.
(16) Two-thirds of hospitals performed a major antiglobulin crossmatch (rather than an abbreviated one) before all neonatal red cell transfusions.
(17) This report describes the development and validation of a computerized system for converting ICD-9CM rubrics to Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) scores.
(18) Third, MATa cells expressing a truncated but functional STE2 gene (in which the COOH-terminal 135-hydrophilic residues were deleted) produced a protein detected by cross-linking to 35S-alpha-factor of apparent molecular weight 33,000, close to the size expected for the predicted abbreviated STE2 polypeptide.
(19) The Interview Schedule for Social Interaction, could be abbreviated and simplified for the use in population surveys.
(20) The Italian MMPI abbreviated version was administered to all subjects.
Snow
Definition:
(n.) A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.
(n.) Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms.
(n.) Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes.
(v. i.) To fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.
(v. t.) To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow.
Example Sentences:
(1) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
(2) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
(3) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
(4) The fairytales – which have been distributed by leaflet to universities around Singapore – include versions of Cinderella, the Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel and Snow White, each involving a reworked tale that relates to fertility, sex or marriage, and a resulting moral.
(5) The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows.
(6) And there is plenty of beauty in London - seeing Parliament Square in the snow, the dome of St Paul's rising above the City, the simple perfection of a Georgian terrace or the quietly elegant streets of Mayfair.
(7) Faster than ever we could deal with them these shattered men were coming in, and yet across the few acres of snow before me the busy guns were making more.
(8) The only people we saw was a small party on snow shoes.
(9) As the level of disruption across the country continued to escalate, the government ordered an urgent audit of the country's snow readiness .
(10) Daily subcutaneous injection of L-dopa for 4 weeks into 2-year-old low egg production hens resulted in a lightening of feather color to snow white and increased oviduct and ovary weights and the development of well developed follicles.
(11) "And I think that there was some major journalist [the Channel Four news presenter Jon Snow in 2010] who would be as big a supporter of Remembrance Day as anybody, but who said he didn't wear a poppy because he felt people were telling him he should do it.
(12) As Florian Grimm, the local head of snow management, told a colleague recently: “Today nobody would accept stones any more, or spots of grass in spring.
(13) It was minus five degrees and snowing on the day we fitted him.
(14) As night fell, one teenager, Alex, who had slipped out of an independent school (she refused to say which one) was heading home, pausing only grab a flier advertising a "Snow Rave" for 16-18-year-olds.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest View over the snow fields and lake.
(16) He added the rainfall could turn to snow in parts of Scotland.
(17) The original 1858 edition of John Snow's On Chloroform and Other Anaesthetics, from which came the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology reprints in 1971 and 1989, was donated to the Wood Library-Museum by Ralph Waters of Madison, Wisconsin, in 1967.
(18) Then they trudged through heavy, deep snow and climbed up to another ridge.
(19) The early appearance of the stable snow cover facilitates a rapid drop in the number of NFRS cases as early as in October, while prolonged autumn with rains, snow, periods of thaw and ice-covered ground leads to a rise in NFRS morbidity occurring in autumn and winter and ending only in March.
(20) There's even a little used term for it – rasputitsa – a biannual phenomenon that appears in spring because of melting snow and in the autumn because of rain.