(n.) A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.
(n.) The means, place, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land.
(n.) Admission to sexual intercourse.
(n.) Increase by something added; addition; as, an access of territory. [In this sense accession is more generally used.]
(n.) An onset, attack, or fit of disease.
(n.) A paroxysm; a fit of passion; an outburst; as, an access of fury.
Example Sentences:
(1) The inquiry found the law enforcement agencies routinely fail to record the professions of those whose communications data records they access under Ripa.
(2) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(3) It would be "very easy to manipulate and access one of our vehicles", he said.
(4) We know that several hundred thousand investors are likely to want to access their pension pots in the first weeks and months after the start of the new tax year.
(5) Our study suggests that a major part of the renal antimineralocorticoid activity of spironolactone may be attributable to minor sulfur-containing metabolites or their precursors having a high renal clearance that affords access to their site of activity via the renal tubular fluid.
(6) These results suggest that aluminum is able to gain access to the central nervous system under normal physiological conditions.
(7) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.
(8) Although the performance aspects of electronic displays are crucial considerations in workstation design, experience suggests that human factors in mechanical operation, software accessibility, and workstation environment are also important.
(9) One important consequence of the conservative mode of replication is that cellular enzymes never gain access to the reovirus genome but only to its ssRNA precursors.
(10) David Blunkett, not Straw, was the home secretary at the time the decision was taken to allow Poles and others immediate access to the British labour market.
(11) These high Danish rates seem to reflect the true prevalence and incidence in the less serious types of progressive muscular dystrophy, probably because the Danish health system with free medical care and easy access to specialized hospital departments makes it possible to identify all cases of progressive muscular dystrophy.
(12) Substantial percentages of both physicians and medical students reported access to drugs, family histories of substance abuse, stress at work and home, emotional problems, and sensation seeking.
(13) Access to general practitioners was found to be the most important determinant of global satisfaction.
(14) Interpreted in term of compartmental analysis, these observations suggest that a) the frog skin epithelium contains 2 separated but communicating compartments having different degrees of accessibility from outside; b) only that compartment filling at a fast rate (0.5 min) is involved in the transepithelial Na transport; c) the other one, filling at a rate of 4 to 7 min, is resplenished only under conditions where the basal pump system has a reduced activity.
(15) The results presented in this paper show that chronic lymphatic fistulae can be established successfully in fetal calves to give access to recirculating lymphocytes.
(16) The C4 and C4b models are compared with possible structures for the C1 component of complement to show the importance of the surface accessibility of the protease domains and short consensus repeat domains in C1 for C4 activation.
(17) B cells from both sources gained immediate access to extrafollicular areas of secondary lymphoid organs rich in interdigitating cells and T cells.
(18) The fusion protein is incorporated into the virion, which retains infectivity and displays the foreign amino acids in immunologically accessible form.
(19) These trends include an increase in the number of elderly who need the benefits of home care, the recognition that long-term chronic illnesses require appropriate management at home, and concern that patients have access to care at the level most appropriate to their illnesses.
(20) In addition, special legislation relating to adolescents, particularly legislation or court decisions concerning parental consent for contraception or abortion for a minor, has an important influence on the access that sexually active young people have to services.
Entree
Definition:
(n.) A coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entree of a house.
(n.) In French usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner to give zest to the appetite; in English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stapes is assigned the highest rating (2 points), while all other entrees on the scale are 1 point.
(2) His entree to the Conservative high command came through work and social contacts.
(3) Taste was the primary reason given by patrons for their entree choice, regardless of whether or not it was labeled.
(4) Because entrees contribute substantially to total meal fat content, we evaluated a cafeteria-based intervention for increasing the purchase rate of low-fat entrees (M = 6.83 g) relative to nonlow-fat entrees (M = 25.59 g).
(5) The three lowest calorie food selections within three food categories (i.e., salads, vegetables, entrees) were identified by labels.
(6) Entrees are sweet potato and coconut soup and for dessert there’s a triple chocolate torte with salted caramel burnt fig, vincotto spheres and espresso creamacotta.
(7) He used his celebrity status, his entree to the BBC and his connections with other stars as bait with which to draw young girls into his sphere.” In addition to unnamed supervisors and technical staff who worked on shows like Top of the Pops, Smith lists other examples of people who knew or suspected Savile was behaving inappropriately or illegally.
(8) Eating food from the first-class menu was associated with illness (p = 0.09), and eating a tourist-class entree was protective (p less than 0.01).
(9) A bacteriological survey of meat pies, frozen prepared dinners and entrees indicated that their bacterial populations were related to the components, the environment and handling in manufacture.
(10) Research in production times of vegetarian entrees provides a basis for comparison of production times of menu items for cost analysis.
(11) Category 4 contains foods high in Na and low in K relative to high energy: bread, rice, luncheon meats, commercial cookies and pastries, and fast food entrees.
(12) The NRA’s entree to the Koch world stems in part from bonds that the gun group’s top officials have forged.
(13) It was his move to Los Angeles, where he became bureau chief, which gave him his entree to war reporting.
(14) After the Wuss Island revelations we dine on medium rare steak (perfect) and kingfish with pigfish as the entree.
(15) On-site preparation was limited to rethermalization of frozen entrees and portioning of bulk-delivered items.
(16) Four Regional Health Protection Branch laboratories each compared aerobic colony counts obtained after "stomaching" and blending, for a minimum of 10 samples in each of the seven food groups: dry pastas; chocolate and cocoa powders; frozen entrees (macaroni and cheese, chow mein, chop suey, fried rice, seafood casseroles, and Salisbury steak); nonfat dry milk; shrimp and crabmeats; spices; and breakfast sausages.
(17) The intervention, which cost $80.00, produced significant increases (i.e., from 20% to 35%) in the purchase rate of LF entrees.
(18) Neither device could be said to offer an entree to instant liver surgery.
(19) Not one to miss an opportunity, Abbott cut in right after the soft entree: "And we don't want to give rise to a whole lot of mischief-making.
(20) "I often think how lucky I am to have them as owners; a magazine like ours could be easily run as an entree into society," he says.