(n.) An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number.
Example Sentences:
(1) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(2) In normal seminal vesicle, the reaction product was apparently more abundant in columnar and basal cells than in other cell types.
(3) It is concluded that selection against insertional mutations is unlikely to be the major factor involved in the containment of element abundance.
(4) Proliferating cells were abundant and scattered throughout the stratified epithelium before the appearance of villi.
(5) The papillae on the oral sucker were more abundant than those elsewhere.
(6) Plakoglobin is present in the fertilized egg, increases in abundance by neurula stage, then declines at the tailbud and tadpole stages.
(7) Mitoses were always more abundant after 3-4 days in culture, and were consistently higher in cultures to which phytohemagglutinin had not been added.
(8) Ten of 11 diffuse poorly differentiated lymphocytic lymphomas were composed of cells with large amounts of surface immunoglobulin, whereas only 1 of 5 diffuse well differentiated lymphocytic tumors contained such abundant surface immunoglobulin.
(9) It is of particular interest that in this paraprotein the major component is a biantennary complex-type oligosaccharide that lacks a fucose residue and an oligosaccharide with the structure (Formula: see text) exists as one of the most abundant components.
(10) The outstanding morphologic feature of cortical cells exposed to microunit ACTH concentrations for 40 min was the abundance of electron-dense granules (0.2-0.4 mum).
(11) Abundant ciliated cells were present in all lung specimens.
(12) Electron microscopic examination of all leptomeningeal and meningioma cultures revealed desmosomes and dense tonofilament formation; in addition, granular, filamentous basement membrane-like material was abundant in the extracellular spaces of all cultures.
(13) The appearance of an abundant class of polyribosomes was correlated with globin synthesis by demonstrating that a discrete class of polyribosomes arises in cells treated with the inducers hexamethylene bisacetamide and hemin.
(14) The protein was abundant in all t(14;18)-carrying cell lines and lymphomas and was also found at lower levels in pre-B-cell lines and nonmalignant lymphoid tissues that do not carry t(14;18) translocations.
(15) Phosphotyrosine-modified proteins were also abundant in and highly restricted to the process-rich layers of the embryonic optic tectum.
(16) Prosaposin, the precursor of saposins A, B, C, and D, which activate lysosomal hydrolysis of sphingolipids, exists in various tissues and body fluids and is especially abundant in the nervous system.
(17) In the outer membrane it was one of three or four most abundant proteins.
(18) The abundance of adhesion molecules on leukocytes and keratinocytes in oral lichen planus is indicative of a special state of activation.
(19) Methanospirillum hungatei and Methanosarcina barkeri predominated in ethanol-grown granules, whereas many morphotypes of methanogens were abundant in granules from the full-scale reactor.
(20) Ultrastructural examination of noncartilaginous regions of the tumor demonstrated mesenchymal cells with features suggestive of cartilaginous differentiation, viz, scalloped cell membranes, sac-like distension of abundant rough endoplasmic reticulum, and a matrix containing fibrillary and finely granular material.
Sanguine
Definition:
(a.) Having the color of blood; red.
(a.) Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament.
(a.) Warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper.
(a.) Anticipating the best; not desponding; confident; full of hope; as, sanguine of success.
(n.) Blood color; red.
(n.) Anything of a blood-red color, as cloth.
(n.) Bloodstone.
(n.) Red crayon. See the Note under Crayon, 1.
(v. t.) To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Bishop of Hulme, who speaks for the Anglican church on urban life and faith, is less sanguine.
(2) Ministers are sanguine, expecting the controversy to die down once the bill becomes law, even if they are concerned at the way in which the rightwing commentariat has lined up against the bill.
(3) The article points out the possibilities and limitations of combining a) ascending phlebography of the leg and pelvis with peripheral venous pressure measurement (phlebodynamometry) and b) visualisation of the veins of the pelvis and vena cava inferior with central sanguinous venous pressure measurement (CP).
(4) Davis is sanguine about her occasionally fraught on-set encounters: "It's always an act of faith.
(5) Trade ministers, much lower down the pecking order, are more sanguine.
(6) The horses had stertorous breathing (n = 4) or intermittently sanguineous nasal discharge (n = 7).
(7) The initially sanguine expectations regarding the practical use of recombinant DNA research, for instance in the production of biologically important substances by bacteria, will therefore possibly not be realized at short notice.
(8) The sera from 2.028 blood donors were screened by all those techniques, as well as 105 known sera, used as references (87 HBS antigen positive sera with different titers, 18 HBS antigen negative sera) and coming from 4 origins: NIH-Bethesda, Centre National de Transfusion Sanguine, Paris; Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris; Hôpital Broussais, Paris.
(9) Fellow goalkeeper Tim Howard chimed in after the first US practice on the field to note that the grass comes in trays and that it “kind of jells together” to create “spots on the field that may tear up easily.” Clint Dempsey was fairly sanguine though — noting that while the ball may not bounce as much on this surface, that with the field being watered well “the ball will be moving quickly —which is important — and rolling true.” Let’s hope that the turf becomes a footnote in the game.
(10) In conditions of conflict between probability and value of reinforcement the dogs manifested two opposite strategies of behaviour: orientation to highly probable events (choleric and phlegmatic) and to low-probable events (sanguinic and melancholic) what is connected with individual properties of functioning and the character of interaction of four brain structures (frontal cortex, hippocampus, hypothalamus, amygdala).
(11) Cooze and the trust’s chairman, Phil Sumbler, say they knew the other shareholders would sell at some point and are sanguine about them making so much money.
(12) We need to keep cool heads as the market heats up.” Carney has been less sanguine over the state of Britain’s economy and earlier this week sent clear hints to financial markets that interest rates would be held at their record low of 0.5% for many months to come against the backdrop of a weaker world economy and a slowdown in the UK.
(13) Weaknesses are being exploited by firms to reduce their tax burdens.” While the proposed new rules could run into opposition from national EU governments that have to endorse the package, Moscovici sounded sanguine that there would be quick approval, enabling the mandatory and automatic exchange of information on tax rulings to come into effect by the end of next year.
(14) David can afford to be sanguine about his brother's choice of career, however, because he remains the more senior figure after making Question Time his own.
(15) Outside Byzantium Café, Saki, who is 72 and remembers the declaration of Cypriot independence ("You British knew what was going to happen"), is relatively sanguine.
(16) Although he couldn’t be described as sanguine about the reality of representing himself – “I get minor panic attacks just being in the same room as my ex” – he does believe it’s possible to do a decent job on your own behalf in court.
(17) The result is that, once again, the US and Britain have persuaded themselves of an ambitious course of action – weakening or even breaking the Putin-Assad link – the results of which other allies are less sanguine about.
(18) Personally I thought the Gomez take (cited in an mlssoccer.com story ) was about the most sanguine on it: I love it – I love it.
(19) Watery, serous, serosanguineous, and sanguineous discharges are surgically significant; while they are most often caused by intraductal papillomas or fibrocystic disease, they can be due to cancer or a precancerous mastopathy.
(20) Matthew Taylor, the former chief adviser on strategy to Tony Blair, is more sanguine about the chances of making the pitch "Brown in adversity".