(v. t.) To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard.
(v. t.) To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system.
(v. t.) To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.
(v. t.) To bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope or microscope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
(2) The difference in HDL and HDL2 cholesterol concentrations between the MI+ and MI- groups or between the MI+ and CHD- groups persisted after adjustment by analysis of covariance for the effect of physical activity, alcohol intake, obesity, duration of diabetes, and glycemic control.
(3) However, this predictive value disappeared when five baseline parameters found to predict the outcome (neopterin, beta 2-microglobulin, p24 antigen, anti-p18 antibody and immunoglobulin A) were adjusted.
(4) Throughout the period of rehabilitation, the frequent changes of a patient's condition may require a process of ongoing evaluation and appropriate adjustments in the physical therapy program.
(5) This modified endocrine activity in brook trout may reflect adjustment to adverse external ionic conditions.
(6) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
(7) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
(8) The prevalence of diabetes was 36% higher among San Antonio Mexican Americans than among Mexicans in Mexico City; this difference was highly statistically significant (age- and sex-adjusted prevalence ratio 1.36, P = 0.006).
(9) These reflexes can function to limit forces applied to a leg and provide compensatory adjustments in other legs.
(10) This activity scheme uses as its base, dose potency measured as TD50, the chronic dose rate that actuarially halves the adjusted percentage of tumor-free animals at the end of the study (Gold et al., Environ.
(11) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
(12) Sterilization rates at the time of abortions increased with increasing age and with increasing gravidity, but the total rates, adjusted for age and gravidity of patients, have changed little in the past 15 years.
(13) The adjusted odds ratio of having one or more hospitalization for current drinkers relative to life-long abstainers in females was 0.67 (95 per cent confidence interval 0.57-0.79) and in males was 0.74 (0.57-0.96).
(14) The crude survival rate at 5 years was 83.3% (age-adjusted 96%), and at 10 years 53.8%).
(15) There were no relationships between blood pressure and calorie-adjusted intakes of fats, carbohydrates, sodium, potassium, calcium or magnesium.
(16) In this paper we propose an alternative approach, based on a simple adjustment of the standard Pearson chi-square test for the equality of proportions.
(17) Dose adjustment using 24-hour levels was well tolerated and should help to attain a more rapid response to antidepressant treatment.
(18) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .
(19) Adjustment for possible mechanisms correlated with social class (marital status, smoking, time of first antenatal visit) decreased the higher occurrence of low birthweight infants in the low educational groups.
(20) 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.
Attune
Definition:
(v. t.) To tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp.
(v. t.) To arrange fitly; to make accordant.
Example Sentences:
(1) It could be said that Brown's methods were not eccentric but merely attuned to the demands of Eighties and Nineties culture.
(2) The overall results of this pilot study indicate that nurses need to be more attuned to assessing fatigue as a side effect of BRM therapy.
(3) Maybe I'm more attuned to the sadness now; maybe I'm better with the weaker Ben Richards, the desperation that makes him enter the competition.
(4) If I'm attuned acutely to the presence of women in children's entertainment, that's partly a result of having two daughters.
(5) Whereas both groups were attuned to this ball flight information, only the experts were capable of picking up information from the early part of the opponent's actions.
(6) The occupational health nurse should be attuned to issues and research regarding prevention of CVD.
(7) Physical illness may give rise to feelings of hopelessness to which the physician must stay attuned; the patient may also use physical illness as a pretext for seeking help for deeper things that trouble him.
(8) Urologists attuned to the possible diagnosis of MS in patients who present with symptoms of voiding dysfunction can facilitate the proper diagnosis with a basic office evaluation.
(9) The structure of the teacher's utterances was not as closely attuned to the communicative levels of the children.
(10) On discovering that children harmed in relationships can heal through play with an attuned adult, I decided to train as a play therapist.
(11) Hobsbawm Macaulay received an unusual amount of press attention for a PR start-up, and was portrayed as a rather quirky high-minded experiment, but in fact the agency was attuned to where power increasingly lay in Britain, with the media, the expanding cultural and charitable industries, and the then rising New Labour establishment.
(12) Sharpeners, highly attuned to system differences and nuances, and always alert to distinctions, try hard to let nothing slip by them unnoticed.
(13) He knew all about unconscious bias, was attuned to issues of diversity and was passionate about changing middle management composition which he said was “too male, stale and pale”.
(14) PFS is a painful rheumatologic disorder that may be detected by the wary clinician attuned to the presence of seven or more tender points.
(15) The transactional model provides a novel guide for the psychiatric hospital treatment of children by improving the attunement between the child and his or her important interpersonal environment.
(16) It is suggested that a progressive movement or dialectic between the pre-verbal affect-attunement level and formalized interpretation may be optimal in analytic therapy.
(17) In addition, the quality of the social context of feeding has been shown to affect food acceptance and the extent to which children are attuned to cues of hunger and satiety in self-regulating food intake.
(18) Women seem particularly attuned to seeking out not partners but rehabilitation projects, though there are plenty of men who reprise the pillar of strength routine when they could do with support themselves.
(19) Intercarpal displacements are linked to one another and are based upon the mutual attuning of carpal bone geometry, joint contacts, and ligamentous interconnections.
(20) Since many of those exposed are unaware that they received DES, the health care profession must be attuned to the signs and symptoms predisposed by the exposure and be able to provide adequate follow-up and education concerning this medical problem.