(a.) In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers.
(a.) Far on in life or time.
Example Sentences:
(1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
(2) 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.
(3) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(4) An association of cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil and methotrexate already employed with success against solid tumours in other sites was used in the treatment of 62 patients with advanced tumours of the head and neck.
(5) When TSLP was pretreated with TF5 in vitro, the most restorative effects on the decreased MLR were found in hyperplastic stage and the effects were becoming less with the advance of tumor developments.
(6) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
(7) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
(8) Over the past decade the use of monoclonal antibodies has greatly advanced our knowledge of the biological properties and heterogeneity that exist within human tumours, and in particular in lung cancer.
(9) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
(10) Under a revised deal most people are now being vetted on time, but charges for the service have had to rise from £12 and free vetting for volunteers, to £28 for a standard disclosure and £33 for an advanced disclosure.
(11) Histological and electron-microscopic study of the lungs of 15 patients who had been treated with bleomycin for advanced squamous cell carcinoma demonstrated marked histological changes in nine.
(12) With better understanding of metabolic and compositional requirements, great advances have been made in the area of total parenteral nutrition.
(13) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
(14) 16 tube (usually a Baker tube) was inserted by gastrostomy and advanced distally into the colon.
(15) Of his number, 266 patients were in the advance stage of their disease while another 42 still had localized cancers.
(16) N-Acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (GAD) activities did not change significantly duringlate fetal, neonatal or young adult stages but increased significantly with advancing age.
(17) Serial antepartum platelet alloantibody quantitation by an enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay revealed rising antibody titers during advancing gestation.
(18) Most of the progressive cases were alcoholic, and some showed progression to advanced pancreatitis within 4 years.
(19) Expansion of the cell sheet following attachment, and the fusion of epiblasts advancing toward each other, does not require the presence of mineralocorticoid.
(20) One hundred and sixteen patients with advanced and metastatic adenocarcinoma of the pancreas were randomized to treatment with combined Streptozotocin and 5-fluorouracil or combined Streptozotocin and cyclophosphamide.
Wizardry
Definition:
(n.) The character or practices o/ wizards; sorcery; magic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
(2) David Stubbs Wizards vs Aliens 5.30pm, CBBC New series of Russell T Davies’s drama, full of wizardry and big-league special effects.
(3) The author encountered a patient who had undergone various sorcery and wizardry practices.
(4) Our trip over, we take one final look out from our luxurious room, back up the valley to the stupendous Matterhorn, and agree no amount of interior design wizardry can compete with that view.
(5) As Wilshere observed City’s pinball-wizardry pass him by, did he wonder what-might-have-been regarding the proposed move here?
(6) As all good students of the Harry Potter saga know well, Muggles are not usually allowed at Hogwarts school of witchcraft of wizardry.
(7) Campaign insiders say that the emphasis this year will be on efficiency more than any headline-grabbing technical wizardry.
(8) The game also demanded intimate knowledge of the first three Wizardry titles, making it stunningly inaccessible.
(9) Gaubeca said that the US border with Mexico had seen the introduction of hi-tech wizardry developed in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, such as unmanned drones, ground motion sensors, thermal imaging and night-vision goggles.
(10) Nine years ago, Chalmers formed a group called Urban Eden to preserve this wizardry.
(11) It is otherwise a mishmash of free-market wizardry and global cop role-playing.
(12) Technological wizardry aside, for sensory marketing to be successful it should continue to take its cues from human insights.
(13) They could be identified, profiled and targeted by the technical wizardry of professional pollsters.
(14) The dreams of patients, in which unconscious pressures come to the surface, are perceived to confirm the existence and reality of wizardry assault.
(15) Cameron said of New Labour's time in office: "The City, which should have been a powerhouse of competition and creativity, became instead a byword for a sort of financial wizardry that left the taxpayer with all the risk, and a fortunate few with all of the rewards.
(16) Current boss Pascal shows me his special room, where all his wizardry and magic happens.
(17) In 2001, it emerged a rare hatchet fish in BBC series The Blue Planet was "reanimated" using computer wizardry after the genuine fish that was captured by programme-makers died.
(18) We now know the banks' tricks involved not just dubious wizardry but a measure of wickedness too.
(19) Dickson said he hoped Shkreli’s “financial wizardry” would alert the authorities to the loopholes in the law.
(20) These movies combine apparently forward-looking technological FX wizardry with a deeply conservative commitment to Manichean violence.