(prep.) In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath.
(prep.) Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in measure or degree than; as, things above comprehension; above mean actions; conduct above reproach.
(prep.) Surpassing in number or quantity; more than; as, above a hundred. (Passing into the adverbial sense. See Above, adv., 4.)
(adv.) In a higher place; overhead; into or from heaven; as, the clouds above.
(adv.) Earlier in order; higher in the same page; hence, in a foregoing page.
(adv.) Higher in rank or power; as, he appealed to the court above.
(adv.) More than; as, above five hundred were present.
Example Sentences:
Chiefly
Definition:
(adv.) In the first place; principally; preeminently; above; especially.
(adv.) For the most part; mostly.
Example Sentences:
(1) In sheep spleen, the enzyme resides chiefly in the soluble fraction of the cell.
(2) At autopsy bronchiectasis was found, affecting chiefly the right middle and lower lobes.
(3) Substance P had excitatory effects chiefly by release of acetylcholine.
(4) It occurred chiefly in the upper and lower extremities (40 cases) and less frequently in the trunk (11 cases) and the head and neck region (eight cases).
(5) These patients differ from those with Wilms tumor chiefly in the age of presentation and response to chemotherapy.
(6) The clover constituents chiefly incriminated for these effects are glycosides of the isoflavone derivatives genistein and its 4'-methyl ether biochanin-A, daidzein and its 4'-methyl ether formononetin, and pratensein; coumestrol and its 3'- and 4'-methyl ethers account for the estrogenic activity of alfalfa.
(7) The morphologic changes produced in the liver through irradiation at the rate of 1000 rad are characterized chiefly by a well expressed fatty dystrophia.
(8) The onset of the symptoms was chiefly the slowly progressive one (71%).
(9) Its adaptive value, chiefly in reptiles, remains an open question.
(10) This condition is a genodermatosis, seen chiefly around the shores of the Mediterranean, characterised by early pigment disturbances which progress virtually inexorably towards a diffuse epitheliomatosis which usually results in death before the age of 20 years.
(11) The peak incidence occurred in the age group between 2 and 3 years and poisoning chiefly took place in the mornings and in the afternoons, the most frequently ingested substances being household chemicals and drugs.
(12) The effect was chiefly on the frequency of state changes and less on epoch durations.
(13) The airway deadspace is the volume of the airway in which gas moves chiefly by convection.
(14) Correlative evidence suggests that younger intimal fibers may be chiefly susceptible to fibrolytic activity, leaving dense intimal scars characteristic of regressed arteries.
(15) Studies under hypoxia revealed that cardiac responses to hypoxia in the sheep are mediated chiefly by neurogenic factors.
(16) In some cases, other pulmonary histologic findings were noted, chiefly acute diffuse alveolar damage.
(17) scapularis for large mammals, chiefly cattle, horse and even man, was confirmed.
(18) A method is reported for the ion-interaction, reversed-phase separation of 24 compounds (chiefly monoamines) arising from the metabolism of tyrosine and tryptophan.
(19) In acidic urine (pH 5-6), almost no flumequine is excreted unchanged (1%): it is excreted chiefly as acyl glucuronide (84.2%).
(20) Reduction in the number of nerve cells could be ascertained chiefly in the motor cortex.