(a.) Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.
(n.) A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.
Example Sentences:
(1) A spindle cell sarcoma appeared 20 months after implantation of a pellet of 3-methylcholanthrene in the denervated foreleg of an adult frog, Rana pipiens.
(2) The possibility that the ventral nerve photoreceptor cells serve a neurosecretory function in the adult Limulus is discussed.
(3) On the other hand, the LAP level, identical in preterms and SDB, is lower than in full-term infants but higher than in adults.
(4) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
(5) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(6) The anticonvulsant properties of the endogenous excitatory amino acid antagonist, kynurenic acid (KYA), were studied in prepubescent and adult rats using the amygdaloid kindling model of epilepsy.
(7) The purpose of the present study was to report on remaining teeth and periodontal conditions in a population of 200 adolescent and adult Vietnamese refugees.
(8) At the highest dose of chloroquine tested (500 microM), a slightly greater increase in insulin binding and a decrease in insulin degradation were observed in fetal cells as compared with adult cells.
(9) The problem of treatment oneside malocclusions of adult patients needs to concern of anchorange.
(10) The distribution of gelsolin, a calcium-dependent actin-severing and capping protein, in the retina of the developing and adult rabbit was studied.
(11) We have measured the antibody specificities to the two polysaccharides in sera from asymptomatic group C meningococcal carriers and vaccinated adults by a new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) procedure using methylated human serum albumin for coating the group C polysaccharide onto microtiter plates.
(12) Descriptive features of the syndrome in children, adults and adolescents are given based on the respective work of Pine, Masterson and Kernberg.
(13) The main clinical symptom was pain, usually sciatica, while neurological symptoms were less common than they are in adults.
(14) Intestinal glands are not observed until 8.5cm, and are shallow in depth even in the adult.
(15) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
(16) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(17) The authors followed up the occurrence of inflammation-mediated osteopenia (IMO) in young and adult rats weighing 50 g and 150 g, respectively.
(18) Previous studies in this laboratory with particulate Mn3O4 have shown that preweanling rats have substantially higher tissue Mn concentrations than similarly treated adults, indicating possible differences in uptake or elimination or both.
(19) It has also been reported in a severe form with fever and systemic symptoms both in children and adults.
(20) These results do not support the view that in the rat pheromones from adult males enhance puberty in females, contrary to what is known to happen in the mouse.
Adultery
Definition:
(n.) The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.
(n.) Adulteration; corruption.
(n.) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.
(n.) Faithlessness in religion.
(n.) The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery.
(n.) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
(n.) Injury; degradation; ruin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Embarrassed by international condemnation of the stoning sentence, Iran has tried to distract attentions from Mohammadi Ashtiani's initial charge of adultery by introducing new charges against her and portraying her as a murderer who killed her husband.
(2) He was by this time married to Ethel, daughter of the Chichester Cathedral sacristan, and had already committed adultery with their maid-of-all-work Lizzie.
(3) "Men and women who commit adultery shall be punished based on the circumstances to one of the following punishments: lashing, stoning [to death]," article 21 states.
(4) Official papers released at the Public Records Office in Kew last year explained how Mr Simpson covered for his wife's adultery and took responsibility for the failure of the marriage by arranging to be found with a woman in a bedroom of a hotel in Maidenhead.
(5) Last year a landmark law to prevent violence against women was pushed out of parliament, the quota of seats for women on provincial councils was cut, and a proposal to reintroduce stoning as a punishment for adultery – used more against women than men – put forward by the justice ministry.
(6) He filed for divorce on the grounds of adultery but the court ruled against him, with the controversial logic that there could have been no adultery because there is no such thing as sexual intercourse between women.
(7) Last night, Henri Brandman, who is representing Fielder-Civil, said in a statement: "I can confirm that I have been instructed to commence divorce proceedings on the grounds of Amy's adultery."
(8) The 46-year-old politician, who was a member of the Scottish parliament for eight years, was convicted of committing perjury when he convinced a libel jury in August 2006 that the Sunday tabloid had lied about his adultery and visits to a Manchester sex club.
(9) The semi-official Fars News Agency – mouthpiece of the regime – reported Lula's offer and for the first time said Ashtiani was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.
(10) He also visited the Central Prison, where he found women imprisoned with their babies as they served one-year sentences for adultery because they were unmarried.
(11) Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has been detained in Tabriz jail since 2006 and was sentenced to death on charges of adultery.
(12) Hamidi had been represented by human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei, who has since been forced to flee Iran after bringing to international attention the case of another of his clients, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani , a 43-year-old Iranian mother of two who has been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.
(13) Their rare and spectacular characteristics have for long been considered as divine punishment for the sin of adultery or bestiality or on the other hand as a mark of fertility and a gift from God.
(14) In January last year Huhne was divorced by his wife, Vicky Price, because of his admitted adultery with Trimingham.
(15) We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now – people were the same then, too – that's what's so wonderful and powerful.
(16) Does she also withhold it from women who are imprisoned or stoned for adultery?
(17) The recent global day against the imminent stoning of Sakine Mohammadi-Ashtiani in Iran for adultery is an example of the outrage sparked by the brutality associated with sharia law's penal code.
(18) Those who indulge in premarital intercourse, adultery, and masturbation for personal satisfaction will find such experiences shallow.
(19) Unconscious mechanisms can intervene, such as fantasmatic adultery (through IAD) which reequilibrates the couple: the husband who brought the HIV has to be forgiven, or punished.
(20) "They think unmarried pregnant girls have committed adultery, but forget that it takes two ... And they think an educated woman is not a good wife."