(v. t.) To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
(v. t.) To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three types of survey procedure were adopted and blood samples were taken for examination.
(2) The spatial spread or blur parameter of the blobs was adopted as a scale parameter.
(3) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
(4) It is the route the authorities are now adopting, after the wave of taxpayer bailouts in2008-09.
(5) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
(6) Mixing experiments were performed to test the putative inhibitory effects of allotype-suppressed spleen cells from the first adoptive transfer (stage I) on the antibody response of normal spleen cells in a second adoptive transfer (stage II).
(7) Gordon Brown believes that the fact of the G20 summit has persuaded many tax havens, such as Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to indicate that they will adopt a more open approach.
(8) Second, this report can be adopted and adapted by the entire health service, from dental practices to ambulances, from GP surgeries to acute hospitals.
(9) Legislation governing adoption has attempted to make the adoptive family the equivalent of a consanguinal one, with varying degrees of success.
(10) A detailed stereochemical analysis of known protein structures has been made which shows that: (1) irregular regions of proteins consist of a limited number of standard structures formed by three, four of more residues; (2) an amino acid residue of a protein can adopt one of the six sterically allowed conformations designated here as alpha, alpha L, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon.
(11) Different approaches can be adopted in preventing virus infections.
(12) For the 20 patients who received treatment in the latter period (1987-1990), we gave priority to conservative treatment for type T cases that were free from complications, and adopted a treatment method attaching greater importance to the resection of intimal tears.
(13) On the basis of weekly ultrasound scans, a conservative approach was adopted.
(14) The analytical model was the same as that adopted in our previous study on colorectal cancer screening (Tsuji et al.
(15) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(16) Children and adopters are encouraged to meet with foster carers after placement to show the child they are well.
(17) A facility for keeping chickens free of Marek's disease (MD) was obtained by adopting a system of filtered air under positive pressure (FAPP) for ventilation, and by imposing restrictions on entrance of articles, materials and personnel.
(18) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
(19) EAAU could adoptively be transferred by sensitized and in vitro stimulated CD4 T-lymphocytes.
(20) The results showed that patients with and without GOR disease cannot be separated solely on the basis of the standard manometric test, even adopting more parameters besides the traditional DOS pressure measurement.
Hellenist
Definition:
(n.) One who affiliates with Greeks, or imitates Greek manners; esp., a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, and Egypt; distinguished from the Hebraists, or native Jews (Acts vi. 1).
(n.) One skilled in the Greek language and literature; as, the critical Hellenist.
Example Sentences:
(1) The writers examine the course of Greek ophthalmology from the Hellenistic period to the foundation of the first universities (19th century).
(2) From Hippocrates ("Prognostic") to the hellenistic period ("Decorum"), we note an important change as to the revelation of a bad prognosis: Hippocrates advocates the blunt information of the patient when there is no hope for him; but his follower in a later century takes into consideration the patient's psychology.
(3) This paper reviews some implications of hellenistic philosophy for CBT.
(4) The book based on his thesis, Hellenistic Magic and the Synoptic Tradition, was published in 1974.
(5) The Hellenistic-style cover illustration by Cleonike Damianakes showed a seated, robed woman, head bent, eyes closed, shoulders and thigh exposed.
(6) Samothrace (Samothraki) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ancient hellenistic theatre at the Sanctuary of Great Gods, Samothrace.
(7) Although cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) is a relatively new psychotherapeutic approach, the theoretical antecedents actually date back two thousand years, to the period of the hellenistic philosophers.
(8) The introduction of falciparum malaria in southern Europe is placed in Hellenistic and Early Imperial Roman times, based on paleoclimatological evidence and historical and medical data.
(9) After Alexander the Great conquered the region, commanders from the Hellenistic state founded by his successor, Seleucus I Nicator, fortified the hill and made it into their army headquarters.
(10) 3600 B.C., through the Egyptian and Greek civilizations, the Hellenistic period, the Dark Ages, Middle Ages, Renaissance, and into the modern period is reviewed.
(11) However, from Hellenistic to Romantic times it again increased together with increases in the incidence of malaria and in poorer farming.
(12) Its mountains and valleys were a major intellectual crossroads where the Hellenistic, Persian, Central Asian, Tibetan, Indian and Chinese worlds met and fused.
(13) Kings with names such as Diomedes of the Punjab, Menander of Kabul and Heliochles of Balkh, ruled over a remarkable Indo-Hellenistic civilisation that grew up in what is now the Taliban heartlands of the Federally Administered Tribal Agencies (Fata) and eastern Afghanistan.
(14) In connexion with this work it was possible to remove twelve human skeletons from the Persian and Hellenistic Period which are described here.
(15) A human skeleton recovered from a Sicilian archaeological site and dating from the Hellenistic period (330-210 B.C.)
(16) A week ago Isis militants released a video showing them smashing statues and carvings in Mosul’s museum, which housed Assyrian and Hellenistic artefacts dating back 3,000 years.