(v. t.) Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
(v. t.) Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.
(v. t.) Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.
(v. t.) Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.
(v. t.) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.
(v. t.) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to.
(v. t.) To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.
(v. t.) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise.
(v. i.) To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.
(v. i.) To agree in pitch and tone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(2) ), nosological frontiers are still unclear and accordingly justify a comparative serological study of M.M., W.M., and B.M.G.
(3) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
(4) 53 outpatients with HIV-infection classified according to the Walter Reed staging system (WR1 to WR6).
(5) A statement from the company said it had assigned all its assets for the benefit of creditors, in accordance with Massachusetts' law.
(6) The patients were classified into two groups according to the presence (n = 166) or absence (n = 176) of documented episodes of atrial fibrillation preoperatively.
(7) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
(8) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
(9) More than £26bn was wiped off the value of Britain's top companieson Tuesday, according to FTSE Group.
(10) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
(11) According to the national bank, four Russian banks were operating in Crimea as of the end of April, but only one of them, Rossiisky National Commercial Bank, was widely represented, with 116 branches in the region.
(12) The pathogenicity of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in atypical pneumonias can be considered confirmed according to the availabile literature; its importance for other inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract, particularly for chronic bronchitis, is not yet sufficiently clear.
(13) Our results on humoral and cellular components of immunity in dependence of age, according to SENIEUR protocol admission criteria are presented.
(14) Accordingly, when bFGF, complexed to heparin, is treated with pepsin A, an aspartic protease with a broad specificity, only the Leu9-Pro10 peptide bond is cleaved generating the 146-amino acid form.
(15) We studied the effect of low-dose intrathecal morphine (0.00-0.20 mg) on pain relief and the incidence of side effects after cholecystectomy in 139 patients divided into eight groups according to intrathecal morphine dose: groups 1 (0.00 mg), 2 (0.04 mg), 3 (0.06 mg), 4 (0.08 mg), 5 (0.10 mg), 6 (0.12 mg), 7 (0.15 mg), and 8 (0.20 mg).
(16) The authors analyze the biomechanical effectiveness of pelvic osteotomy according to the Chiari method.
(17) And, according to a letter leaked to the BBC last week , he reckons he has found one: default-on.
(18) On the assumption of a distribution in properties of the suspension according to the theory of Bruggeman, the capacitance is calculated to have a value of about one half this.5.
(19) According to the experience of clinical trials the recommended ciprofloxacin dose varies between 100 and 500 mg b.i.d.
(20) According to the OFT, banks receive up to £3.5bn a year in unauthorised overdraft fees - nearly £10m a day.
Tone
Definition:
(n.) Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.
(n.) Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.
(n.) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.
(n.) A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.
(n.) The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone.
(n.) The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone.
(n.) A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones.
(n.) That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
(n.) Tonicity; as, arterial tone.
(n.) State of mind; temper; mood.
(n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory.
(n.) General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners.
(n.) The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; -- commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone.
(v. t.) To utter with an affected tone.
(v. t.) To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.
(v. t.) To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
(2) In summary, GABAergic tone did not effect basal acid secretion in anesthetized rats.
(3) After midazolam infusion, there was a 50% decrease in amplitude of P3 in response to target tones (P less than 0.006), whereas N3 latency increased by 40 ms (P less than 0.05).
(4) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
(5) More disturbing than his ideas was Malema's style and tone.
(6) Noradrenaline decreased the phasic contraction amplitude of the circular muscle and exerted a stimulant effect on the tone which suggested an existence of two alpha 1-adrenoceptor subtypes.
(7) Histamine (10(-6)-10(-4) M) induced concentration-dependent increases in tone and Ca2+i, but these responses were not sustained.
(8) Masking experiments are demonstrated for electrical frequency-modulated tone bursts from 1,000 to 10,000 cps and from 10,000 to 1,000 cps with superimposed clicks.
(9) The stimuli were two simple tones in experiment 1 and two tonal complexes in both experiments 2 and 3.
(10) Isolated outer hair cells from the organ of Corti of the guinea pig have been shown to change length in response to a mechanical stimulus in the form of a tone burst at a fixed frequency of 200 Hz (Canlon et al., 1988).
(11) Complex tones containing the first 20 harmonics of 50, 100, or 200 Hz, all at equal amplitude, were used.
(12) An attempt to eliminate the age effect by adjusting for age differences in monaural shadowing errors, fluid intelligence, and pure-tone hearing loss did not succeed.
(13) Inhibition of the production or action of these substances will allow for vasodilatation, and it is probable that perinatal pulmonary vascular tone reflects a balance between local prostaglandin and leukotriene production.
(14) Subject evaluations in accordance with the intensity levels of tones, i.e.
(15) Maximum expiratory flow on partial flow-volume curve at 25% forced vital capacity (PEF25) was measured as an index showing basal bronchomotor tone.
(16) Twenty-four hours later, a stimulus generalization test was conducted in the absence of drug; during this session, tones that varied in frequency around 4.5 KHz were presented while the animals were responding under the VI schedule.
(17) Auditory sensory perception was operationalized as number of tones heard on audiometric examination.
(18) Later, Lucas, also a former party leader, strongly defended Bennett, saying it was a “bad day for Natalie” but there was also “kind of a gloating tone that strikes one as having something to do with her being a woman in there too”.
(19) From a set of tones that varied only in intensity, it was possible to calculate the growth of loudness with intensity for the budgerigar.
(20) Two hundred forty-six fetuses had at least one abnormal biophysical profile variable with the risk of bad outcome, for a single abnormal variable, ranging from 8% (body movements) to 100% (tone) and increasing from 14% (any variable abnormal) to 63% (all variables abnormal).