(n.) A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing.
(n.) The shadow or outlines of a figure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The syndrome he described--a psychosis of early onset with a deteriorating course characterized by a "silly" affect, behavioral peculiarities, and formal thought disorder--not only adumbrated Kraepelin's generic category of dementia praecox but quite specifically defined the later subtype of hebephrenic, or disorganized, schizophrenia as well.
(2) The way companies now see themselves largely chimes with the vision adumbrated in 1990 by the management guru, Charles Handy, when he argued that companies were "communities not properties", and that profits were "a necessary but not sufficient condition of success".
(3) These conclusions and the rapidity of action of intravenously administered substances necessitated the adumbration of a new electrical hypothesis for the mechanism whereby signals pass from one part of the brain and spinal cord to another.
(4) His later years, as the preachments of abolitionists and slaveholders reached their shrill adumbration of bloody war, were marked, even made notorious, by his fiery championing of John Brown, whom he had briefly met in Concord, finding him "a man of great common sense, deliberate and practical", endowed with "tact and prudence" and the Spartan habits and spare diet of a soldier.
(5) These data are interpreted as support for the hypothesis (first adumbrated nearly 20 years ago) that HLA antigens index unusual hormone concentrations, which in turn are causally related to the diseases.
(6) Just a few paragraphs before, Obama had adumbrated the Muhammad video explanation, saying: "Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths.
(7) In particular, private health insurers' potential role in cost control is explored, and some promising insurer strategies are adumbrated.
(8) Possibilities to overcome the radiation damage problem are adumbrated.
(9) She wrote two books in 1918, Married Love and Wise Parenthood, in which she adumbrated some of her eugenicist views.
(10) The purpose of this paper is to describe an aspect of the functioning of a therapeutic community conceptualized in terms of a sociotherapy framework as adumbrated, for example, by Edelson (1970), Rapoport (1960), and White et al.
(11) Further genetic advances required for development of recombinant BCG into an effective recombinant vaccine vehicle, including possibilities for oral administration, are adumbrated.
(12) The changing form and relations of PPTg and LDT are adumbrated including that of the microcellular nucleus (MI) to the former and of Barrington's detrusor nucleus (B) which is unstained, to the latter.
Sketch
Definition:
(n.) An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a representation of an object or scene as serves the artist's purpose by recording its chief features; also, a preliminary study for an original work.
(n.) To draw the outline or chief features of; to make a rought of.
(n.) To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.
(v. i.) To make sketches, as of landscapes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The history of tobacco production and marketing is sketched, and the literature on chronic diseases related to smoking is summarized for the Pacific region.
(2) The record includes postoperative drawings of the intraoperative field by Dr. Cushing, a sketch by Dr. McKenzie illustrating the postoperative sensory examination, and pre- and postoperative photographs of the patient.
(3) A philosophy student at Sussex University, he was part of an improvised comedy sketch group and one skit required him to beatbox (making complex drum noises with your mouth).
(4) All the summer deals in graphical, Etch-a-sketch form .
(5) Destiny is an experience we’ve wanted to explore for many years, but maybe didn’t have the bandwidth, the technology, the expertise, the critical mass to get it done.” Art and inspiration While engineers were working on the logistics of constructing one seamless online galaxy for players to explore and meet in, the 14-person concept art team was beginning to sketch out the look of the world.
(6) Saturday Night Live is very much about sketches and impressions – I could do that OK, but I can’t do it as well as they do it.
(7) After spending a good five minutes sketching out the vast scale of the economic and social challenge facing the town, Wright is careful to stress that Hartlepool still has plenty to fuel its inherent optimism.
(8) The series is widely regarded as the first British sitcom, focusing on characters and situations over a single half-hour sketch, rather than stand-up comedy or variety which was then dominant in British radio.
(9) Al Murray In 1988, I was performing in a kids' show and a sketch show with more performers than audience members.
(10) Designs for measuring the short-term and long-term effects are sketched, and suggestions are given for distinguishing between these effects in six representative cases.
(11) A brief historical sketch, tracing the development of the College of Physicians and Surgeons and its library from the Royal charter date of 1754, is presented.
(12) As an accomplished artist and prolific writer his original operative sketches and detailed notes at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (1912-1932) are now being explored as early documentation of this pioneering surgeon's development of a field.
(13) Illustration: Virtual Design Agency As the original sketches were made from sticky tape, the corners of the letters in the final design are missing.
(14) A patient management questionnaire sent to staff physicians and nurses in 183 Oregon nursing homes consisted of eight patient sketches which varied age, mental status, and enjoyment of life.
(15) Each week, Frost's script, the sketches and topical songs would riff on a single theme - for example class, when John Cleese, Corbett and Barker appeared in one of the most famous sketches in the annals of British comedy.
(16) In an ideal typical way the cohorts 1920 and 1930 are sketched.
(17) The introduction sketches the results of earlier studies with local drug injections and selective neurotoxins which provided pharmacological evidence that monoamines can influence food intake and body weight.
(18) Nothing in the process of picture-making can be certain, but it would be reasonable to assume that she sees a young man aged 23 or 24 standing a few feet away with a brush in his hand (such a delicate implement compared with a knife fit for cabbage stalks) and dabbing at a piece of canvas or board which is the picture's preparatory sketch.
(19) Consider their peerless dead parrot sketch which, in many people's memories, ends when Cleese does his huge rant, and Palin grudgingly offers to replace the bird.
(20) "Then I invited Arthur over because we'd written some sketches in Ireland, and we had that 'if one man can do it, why can't another?'