(a.) Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the author's view, "traumatic" fibromyositis is no more than a verbal construct arrived at by adding an adjectival modifier to the old terms for idiopathic rheumatic disorders.
(2) MDL 72.974A was extremely well tolerated and no treatment-related changes in vital signs or the adjectival check-list (EWL-N) occurred.
(3) These projects typically have just enough decking, white paint and glass balustrades to allow good-looking young couples to be photographed inside them holding glasses of white wine, such that the adjectival nouns "luxury lifestyle" can be attached.
(4) Means, standard deviations, and a series of one-way analyses of variance were computed on the questionnaire's 25 adjectival pairs.
(5) Pain severity was assessed using a visual analogue scale and the adjectival check-list of the McGill Pain Questionnaire.
(6) Participants expressed concern that adjectival descriptors could be misleading.
(7) Standard adjectival descriptors and standard rating scales were used.
(8) The children classed as educable produced more correct responses than those termed trainable for declarative, question, and single-adjectival structures.
(9) The singer's love of animals did not inhibit his adjectival exuberance, which included sneering at the "pot-dog pudginess" of princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.
(10) It is concluded that, despite considerable overlap with subaffective disorders, the current adjectival use of this rubric does not identify a specific psychopathologic syndrome.
(11) The formats reviewed were bar graphs, pie charts, numeric listings, and adjectival descriptors such as high and low.
(12) Mitchell has let it be known he used the word "adjectivally" and was not directing it at the police.
(13) Personological implications of the two new scales were examined in relation to other measures and to observers' adjectival and Q-sort descriptions.
(14) Three aphasic patients are described whose speech contains invented word-forms which are legal combinations of meaningful parts of real words, like "fratellismo" (brother + ness) instead of "fratellanza" (brother + hood), and from combinations of meaningless and meaningful parts, like "terness + ico" (where "ico" is a real adjectival ending).
(15) We classify materials using a four-level adjectival rating system based on (among other factors) the Draize score.
(16) Worse, he has moved from beetle-browed, harrumphing man of flesh and blood, to half of an oft-uttered adjectival compound: "Leveson-compliant".
(17) The indexing program makes use of the MEID dictionary and some auxiliary semantic databases for identifying adjectival forms, synonyms, hypernyms and other semantic relations while searching for the longest consistent match into SNOMED.
(18) The Adjectival format, which provided nutrition profile information in the form of descriptive adjectives, was the most preferred.
(19) Both groups found imperatives easiest, and future, embedded, and double-adjectival structures most difficult.
(20) Yet the 31-page text oozes such high-minded, adjectival good intentions – 400 of them – that one recently ejected Labour cabinet minister snarled: "It's not a programme for government.
Predicative
Definition:
(a.) Expressing affirmation or predication; affirming; predicating, as, a predicative term.
Example Sentences:
(1) His proposals are therefore predicated on a cut in potential income for EU migrants being sufficient to slow the numbers of poorer EU migrants coming to the UK.
(2) Clinical evaluation and management should be predicated upon pathophysiologic considerations, with examination technique and extent individualized for each case.
(3) Such an overall approach, here developed from the model of carrageenin-induced inflammation, also predicates that lysosomal enzymes, lipid peroxide and proamidase (related, respectively, to the inflammatory response in a narrow sense, to tissue damage and to tissue repair) are three basic parameters required when studying inflammatory processes.
(4) Interpretation of plasma concentration data during encainide therapy is predicated on an understanding of the role of active metabolites during treatment.
(5) Their use must be predicated by a differentiation of which arterial segments are hemodynamically involved, yet this determination may not be possible even after extensive noninvasive and invasive investigation.
(6) This level of diagnostic skills is predicated upon the ability to make a judgment on the basis of inherently ill-defined and insufficient data or, in other words, upon the ability to use rules and procedures of clinical inference.
(7) Immunologic mechanisms involved in tumor cell destruction are predicated principally on in vitro procedures, but the relevancy of these experimental observations to the actual events in vivo remains unclear and unresolved.
(8) Therefore, although impaired breathing may complicate swallowing dysfunction and vice versa, it does not appear that one can be predicated from the other.
(9) Appropriate changes in public health policy need not be predicated on results from still further studies.
(10) Since my correspondent refused to be named, I felt there was little to be gained from meeting him as my deservedly award-winning non-fiction had always been predicated on full disclosure.
(11) Although chest radiology is the first imaging option in evaluating patients for pulmonary manifestations of drug toxicity, the limitations of the pattern approach often predicate the use of other imaging techniques in addition to clinical and laboratory evaluation.
(12) These studies were predicated on observations that subjects who were more resistant to SMS had higher plasma AVP after severe nausea than subjects with lower resistances.
(13) The present discussion suggests an alternative explanation making reference to text-level representations, and particularly to the lexicalization of predicates.
(14) Their starting predicate – that the old ways of traditional media are inefficient and scream to be changed – is one reason why Google has fundamentally misread the reaction of publishers and authors to its quest to digitise the 20m or so books ever published.
(15) Most of the research on the regulation of immune responses has been predicated on the assumption that such regulation is accomplished by the interacting components of the immune system itself, e.g.
(16) Reliance on fine-needle aspiration (FNA) of the thyroid as the key determinant whether to observe only or proceed surgically is predicated on achieving a minimal false-negative error rate (the incidence of malignant disease in nodules diagnosed benign by means of FNA).
(17) "Ninety-nine per cent of decisions are predicated on feelings – instinctive, emotional, fears, conflicts, unresolved childhood problems.
(18) Furthermore, equivalency and superiority of antigingivitis agents or devices should be predicated, at least in part, on their ability to prevent the onset of periodontitis.
(19) The assay is predicated on the ability of immobilized monoclonal antibody to distinguish glycated albumin from all other plasma proteins, followed by detection and quantitation of the bound glycoalbumin with an enzyme-conjugated second antibody directed against human albumin.
(20) It was a voice that was predicated on inclusion and difference, multiple perspectives not a single dominant view.