(n.) Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation.
(v. t.) An omen.
(v. t.) To bode; to foreshow.
(v. i.) To be ominous.
Example Sentences:
(1) From London to New York to Hong Kong, many are crammed into micro-apartments that cost hundreds of pounds or dollars a month to rent, unsure when they will be able to afford a more permanent abode.
(2) Factors that militated against successful rehabilitation were the severity of the patients' illness at presentation, unemployment coupled with poor educational status and distance from the hospital of patient's normal abode.
(3) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian I don't drink as a rule, but one proud little abode cowering in the shadow of the monstrosity that is the Beetham Tower is a lovely little old Manchester boozer.
(4) Socially, the majority of these were lonely and many of these had no fixed abode.
(5) Once home to Princess Margaret until she died in 2002, Apartment 1A – a 21-room abode over four storeys – has since been used as office and storage space.
(6) Ruling initially accepted by foreign secretary, Robin Cook, but a "feasibility study" ordered into the potential return June 2004 UK government tries to block return of islanders through two orders in council, royal decrees which declared no one had right of abode May 2006 The high court overruled the orders in council, describing their use to expel an entire population as repugnant 2007 Foreign office appeal rejected
(7) A Greater Manchester police spokesman said: "Gregory Horan, 26, of no fixed abode, has been charged with being drunk in an aircraft and Lee Patrick Byrne, 28, from Dublin, Republic of Ireland, has been charged with a racially aggravated public order offence."
(8) Homeless people in London residing in bed and breakfast and private sector leased accommodation, residing in hostels, and of no fixed abode.
(9) It sounds boring and wonky, but amounts to a situation in which, as the former Treasury advisor Jonathan Portes wrote last week , “owners of grand and very valuable properties pay little more than those in humbler abodes”.
(10) But on Thursday the president would have found men shooting hoops near his future abode.
(11) On the contrary, the extracts of animals dwelling in the sea of Okhotsk possess the activating effect, except for sponges of genera Haliclona whose sample extracts display a significant activating effect independently of their place of abode.
(12) "In a semi-permanent-looking abode between two walls and a vending machine was Heidi Launne, a Swedish industrial design student at Aston University in Birmingham, who had been due to take a Scandinavian airlines flight to Helsinki at 6pm on Saturday.
(13) To do so, they need to have a national insurance number, which can only be allocated to people with a fixed abode – difficult for Roma, who tend to move about even within their own countries.
(14) In his dissenting judgment, Lord Bingham declared as void and unlawful a 2004 order to declare, without the authority of parliament, that no person had the right of abode in the Chagos islands.
(15) We can see where people lived, the household structure of each abode, their ages, where they were born, whether they had any disabilities, their occupations and how many children the family had (again, we find that not everybody had lots of children living in a single room, and how many children you had could depend on where in the country you lived).
(16) Those of no fixed abode constituted only 0.3% of all new patients seen in one year.
(17) Oskar Pawlowicz, 30, of Mitcham, and Dawid Tychon, 29, of no fixed abode, both pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary.
(18) Except for this, the ice has been unusually quiet, and it is closed in tightly round the ship,” Nansen reports, “Since the last strong pressure we have probably 10 to 20 feet of ice packed in below us.” In his book Farthest North (Tandem Books, 1975) he writes: “The Fram is a warm, cosy abode.
(19) It is a huge loss to the family and a big loss for the wider community.” On the Masjid Al Aqsa mosque’s Facebook page, a picture of Akram was shared with the message: “We share not only the picture but also the pain and grief of his departure from this world to the eternal abode of bliss.” Bolton MP Yasmin Qureshi tweeted: Yasmin Qureshi MP (@YasminQureshiMP) Saddened to hear that a young man from #Bolton was amongst those killed in tragic Saudi crane collapse.
(20) Naypyidaw, the grand but empty capital Myanmar’s generals built for themselves, means “abode of kings”, a hint at their aspirations.
Equal
Definition:
(a.) Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied to number, degree, quantity, and intensity, and to any subject which admits of them; neither inferior nor superior, greater nor less, better nor worse; corresponding; alike; as, equal quantities of land, water, etc. ; houses of equal size; persons of equal stature or talents; commodities of equal value.
(a.) Bearing a suitable relation; of just proportion; having competent power, abilities, or means; adequate; as, he is not equal to the task.
(a.) Not variable; equable; uniform; even; as, an equal movement.
(a.) Evenly balanced; not unduly inclining to either side; characterized by fairness; unbiased; impartial; equitable; just.
(a.) Of the same interest or concern; indifferent.
(a.) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; -- opposed to mixed.
(a.) Exactly agreeing with respect to quantity.
(n.) One not inferior or superior to another; one having the same or a similar age, rank, station, office, talents, strength, or other quality or condition; an equal quantity or number; as, "If equals be taken from equals the remainders are equal."
(n.) State of being equal; equality.
(v. t.) To be or become equal to; to have the same quantity, the same value, the same degree or rank, or the like, with; to be commen/urate with.
(v. t.) To make equal return to; to recompense fully.
(v. t.) To make equal or equal to; to equalize; hence, to compare or regard as equals; to put on equality.
Example Sentences:
(1) The angiographic appearances are highly characteristic and equal in value to a histological diagnosis.
(2) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(3) But everyone in a nation should have the equal right to sing or not sing.
(4) In patients with coronary artery disease, electrocardiographic signs of left atrial enlargement (LAE-negative P wave deflection greater than or equal to 1 mm2 in lead V1) are associated with increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP).
(5) These same molecules may be equally responsible for the pathologic characteristics of the immune response seen, for example, in inflammatory bowel diseases.
(6) A NYHA-class greater than II was observed in 18% of patients with type-I hypertrophy, in 29% with type II, but in 61% with type III (p less than or equal to 0.05).
(7) The effect of S-adenosylhomocysteine on DNA methylation was examined, and it was found at equal molar concentrations of S-adenosylhomocysteine to to S-adenosylmethionine that DNA methylation was competitively inhibited 50%.
(8) All five individuals appeared to have acute C. pneumoniae infection as determined by results of serologic tests (titers of IgM antibody for all individuals were greater than or equal to 1:16).
(9) Gross brain atrophy was slight and equal in both groups.
(10) The amount of water, creatinine, electrolytes, proteins, and enzymes were higher during the day (up to three fold, p always less than 0.05), while equal amounts of amino acids were excreted in the day and the night period.
(11) The M 13 specific DNA present in minicells isolated several hours after infection consists of single stranded viral DNA and double stranded replicative forms in nearly equal amounts.
(12) Simple cells that are nearly equally dominated by each eye always exhibit strong phase-specific interaction.
(13) At sufficiently high field intensities, the reaction may approach a value equal to that of the free enzyme system.
(14) lengths with the subjects equally divided into these four groups: distributed trials, distributed sessions; distributed trials, massed sessions; massed trials, distributed sessions; and massed trials, massed sessions.
(15) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
(16) Adverse outcomes were reported more frequently by consultant physicians, by those who 'titrated' the intravenous sedative, and by those who used an additional intravenous agent, but were reported equally frequently by endoscopists using midazolam and endoscopists using diazepam.
(17) For obstruction of greater than or equal to 50% of the pulmonary vascular cross-sectional area and pulmonary hypertension thrombolytic therapy should be given and insertion of an inferior caval filter can be considered.
(18) Johnson and Campion are optimistic that marriage equality will win out, and soon.
(19) In 0.17 M Na+(aq), tRNA(Phe) exists in its native conformation and the number of strong binding sites (Ka greater than or equal to 10(4)) was estimated to be 3-4 by titration experiments, in agreement with X-ray structural data for crystalline tRNA(Phe) (Jack et al., 1977).
(20) It is commonly assumed that the visual resolution limit must be equal to or less than the Nyquist frequency of the cone mosaic.