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Actualize


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make actual; to realize in action.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
  • (2) For viewers in the US, you get the worst possible in-game managerial interview in Mike Matheny, one that's so bad, it's actually great!
  • (3) The blockade of H2 receptors is the primary action of these drugs; however, they possess also secondary actions which may represent untoward effects but in some cases may be actually useful (increase in prostaglandin synthesis, inhibition of LTB4 synthesis, etc.)
  • (4) (Predictive value positive refers to the proportion of all people identified who actually have the disease.)
  • (5) The number of gastrin-immunoreactive cells actually decreases just prior to weaning but then increases at and after, weaning.
  • (6) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
  • (7) Specifically, we apply techniques of data preprocessing, orthogonality constraints, and validation of solutions in a complete TC analysis, for the first time using actual MEP data.
  • (8) In the process, the DfE's definition of extremism has shifted from actual bomb-throwers to religious conservatives.
  • (9) To understand the reason for the opposite effect of the molar ratio observed at the middle of and at four residues away from the lysine-rich sequence, actual cross-linked residue(s) was (were) determined by subjecting cross-linked product to a protein sequencer.
  • (10) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
  • (11) The deep green people who have an issue with the language of natural capital are actually making the same jump from value to commodification that they state that they don’t want ... They’ve equated one with the other,” he says.
  • (12) "The value the public place on the BBC is actually rising," said Lyons, citing research carried out by the BBC Trust earlier this year.
  • (13) Although less growth occurred with limited glucose, M protein of high specific activity was produced with an actual increase in acid-extractable M protein during the stationary phase of growth.
  • (14) Don't we by chance come across this reciprocal spiral perspective when two people distrust one another without actually showing it?
  • (15) The level of several host-cell polyadenylated RNAs detected as cDNA clones (class 3 transcripts) were unchanged 8 hours after HSV-2 infection, and other cellular transcripts (class 2) actually accumulated at postinfection.
  • (16) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
  • (17) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
  • (18) In these systems, follicular lymphomas are subclassified by estimation of the different cell populations without the actual counting of cells.
  • (19) Estimates of the number of alcoholics in New Zealand indicate that a highly selected minority actually receive treatment for their alcoholism.
  • (20) The interresponse-time reinforcement contingencies inherent in these schedules may actually mask the effects of overall reinforcement rate; thus differences in response rate as a function of reinforcement rate when interresponse-time reinforcement is eliminated may be underestimated.

Realize


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to realize a scheme or project.
  • (v. t.) To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one's own in apprehension or experience.
  • (v. t.) To convert into real property; to make real estate of; as, to realize his fortune.
  • (v. t.) To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get; as, to realize large profits from a speculation.
  • (v. t.) To convert into actual money; as, to realize assets.
  • (v. i.) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares in stock companies, bonds, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
  • (2) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
  • (3) The affect of mutations in chromosomal genes determining the realization of RecBC and RecF pathways of recombination in E. coli K12 on the frequency of transposon Tn5 precise excision from the genome of the conjugative plasmid pNM1 has been demonstrated.
  • (4) As a result of the information gained from these studies, together with the normal dose-response curve previously established (Fitzgerald, 1971), a satisfactory quantitative and reproducible method suitable for routine clinical use has been realized.
  • (5) Considering the construction of the bite, beside the two usual procedures: a direct and indirect method with the different steps of the laboratory, we can realize a mixed one which all the advantages without the defects of both.
  • (6) The results showed that the two groups differed greatly in their attitudes over a wide range of topics; many staff members did not realize how much and in what ways seclusion affects patients.
  • (7) Postoperative recovery after both operations was uneventful and the aim of reconstruction fully realized.
  • (8) On the background of this recognition it is also important to know, that prognosis too varies with age because of the coexistence of individually prognosticated disease states and moreover to realize, that elderly patients do not tolerate invasive and prolonged surgical procedures.
  • (9) If there is any advantage to a particular strategy for selecting the distance monovision eye, it must be realized in vision performance areas other than visual acuity.
  • (10) The involvement of phospholipids into the function of the hormonoreactive system realizing the catecholamine action on the skeletal muscle metabolism was studied at different stages of chicken ontogenetic development.
  • (11) The discovered statistical regularity was realized as a nomogram for calculating the degree of severity and individual optimal doses of ribonuclease and fluorofur.
  • (12) When such a strategy obviously failed, the association of elevated blood pressure with dyslipoproteinemia and impaired glucose tolerance attracted more attention, particularly when it was realized that many antihypertensive drugs affected risk in MCVS in a possible negative way.
  • (13) Early work showed a relationship between these two molecules, which we wished to further document, in particular because of the growing realization of the functional importance of CD28 in some T cell activation pathways.
  • (14) I realize it’s petty, but it’s like the Michael Bolton thing from Office Space.
  • (15) Morphometry of photographed semithin sections was realized after whole body glutaraldehyde perfusion with semiautomatic MOP AM 02 and MOP Videoplan.
  • (16) Research Institute of Endocrinology and Hormone Chemistry, Khar'kov It was shown that realization of a neoplastic process in the breast is determined, in particular, by the chemical structure of agents employed and their dosage.
  • (17) The most considerable realization of the hydrophobic interaction with the surroundings of the enzyme esteratic site was marked for n-butyl derivative (compound I).
  • (18) A reflex nature of the vegetative effects of opioid peptides and the role of both mu- and delta-receptors in their realization are suggested.
  • (19) These fiscal savings have been realized by our students and their parents.
  • (20) Technology assessment is becoming increasingly important in the area of critical care due both to the explosion of technology associated with this discipline and to the realization that future demand for these health care resources will undoubtedly exceed the ability to pay.

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