(n.) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.
(n.) Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.
(n.) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
(n.) Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
(v. t.) To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(2) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
(3) In case of isolated damage of deep flexor tendon of the II-V fingers at the level of the I zone there were made palliative operations of 12 fingers: tenodesis and arthrodesis of distal interphalangeal articulation in functionally advantageous position.
(4) Precipitin tests had considerable advantages over other methods of serological diagnosis of influenza.
(5) Combined hypertension treatment with inhibitors of the converting enzyme (ICE) and diuretocs gives manifold advantages, the most important of them is a synergistic action of both drugs resulting in blood pressure decrease and prevention of hypokaliaemia.
(6) When given chronically over 6 weeks the advantages of adding benserazide (50 mg kg-1 day-1) to levodopa (40 mg kg-1 day-1) were less marked and although more dopamine was present in the striatum than with levodopa given alone (200 mg kg-1 day-1) there was no evidence of any increase in its metabolites (HVA and DOPAC) and therefore of its turnover and utilisation.
(7) Examination of the pharmacokinetic profile of acitretin reveals its main advantage over etretinate.
(8) The greatest advantages of spinal QCT for noninvasive bone mineral measurement lie in the high precision of the technique, the high sensitivity of the vertebral trabecular measurement site, and the potential for widespread application.
(9) This article discusses the advantages, clinical uses, limitations, and legal aspects of this mydriatic antagonist in optometric practice.
(10) Several technical advantages of this method of fusion make this approach particularly useful in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
(11) While the mouse P388 cells were sensitive to OP in vitro, no effect was seen when OP was administered in vivo, even when schedules designed to take advantage of OP's time-dependent toxicity were used.
(12) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
(13) To this end, a meiosis-defective mating-type mutation was used as a marker for the plus segment, by taking advantage of its suppressibility by a nonsense suppressor.
(14) Structurally altered polymorphic variants with reduced activity, such as tetrameric interface mutant Ile-58 to Thr, may produce not only an early selective advantage, through enhanced cytotoxicity of tumor necrosis factor for virus-infected cells, but also detrimental effects from increased mitochondrial oxidative damage, contributing to degenerative conditions, including diabetes, aging, and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
(15) This indicates that the effective advantage of i.p.
(16) In the UK, George Osborne used this to his advantage, claiming "Britain faces the disaster of having its international credit rating downgraded" even after Moody's ranked UK debt as "resilient".
(17) Advantages over other modes of treatment are discussed.
(18) Both targets were found more quickly in the high-probability location than in the other locations, but the advantage associated with targets in the high-probability location was larger for the inducing target than for the test target.
(19) When foods such as dairy products contain large numbers of egg yolk-negative strains of S. aureus, the PPSA agar has the advantage over egg yolk containing media such as Baird-Parker agar that fewer suspect colonies have to be confirmed.
(20) Survival ranged from 2 to 20 M, with a median survival time of 6 M. Tolerance to the subsequent CT, normal tissue reaction to accelerated RT, and the theoretical advantage of accelerated RT over conventional RT for SCCL were evaluated.
Gainer
Definition:
(n.) One who gains.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pensioners are biggest income gainers in year to April 2016 Photograph: Resolution Foundation and Office for National Statistics Anti-poverty campaigners also said the breakdown of incomes into large groups failed to capture the soaring earnings of the super-rich and executives in the top 1%.
(2) Miners Anglo American, Glencore and BHP Billiton were among the top gainers, tracking the price of copper higher.
(3) Those on lower incomes are significant gainers from the system.
(4) The paper was selling 306,000 before the closure of the NoW, making it the biggest gainer over the whole period.
(5) Suppliers of catering crockery have been the main gainers in recent years, because of a social shift to eating out.
(6) Shares in the bailed-out Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland were among the early gainers because the Conservatives have pledged to press on with sales of their shares.
(7) The Spanish IBEX is the biggest gainer, up 1.2% today to 9964.
(8) The key beneficiary of this weekend’s news has not unexpectedly been travel stocks with Air France-KLM higher in Paris and Easyjet and International Consolidated Airlines in London amongst the gainers as well as turnaround story of the year Thomas Cook whose shares have risen over 700% in the last 12 months, and who are expected to show a return to profit when they report their latest numbers on Thursday this week.
(9) The maker of Pot Noodle, Dove soap and Vaseline's shares are up more than 4% in early trading, leading the FTSE 100 gainers.
(10) By contrast, rapid gainers were more compliant with prenatal visits and reported more depressive symptoms and alcohol consumption than did other study subjects.
(11) Energy companies and utilities Facebook Twitter Pinterest Shares in Centrica, shown on this chart against the FTSE 100, and SSE - Scottish and Southern Energy - were among the early gainers in the FTSE 100.
(12) Barclays and the bailed-out RBS were the biggest gainers in the FTSE 100, rising more than 2% each.
(13) R3-R14 manufacture specific low molecular weight peptides (Gainer and Wollberg, '74), and both the cell bodies (Iliffe et al., '77) and the germinals contain unusually high concentrations of glycine.
(14) Most female reducers and male gainers were already normal weight.
(15) In prospective studies weight gainers in adolescence are more often hypertensive than weight stable individuals.
(16) With the notable exception of the topmost twentieth, income groups in the top half were net gainers from the changes.
(17) One consequence has been the speed of the depreciation of the euro.” Carmakers, which rely on exports and benefit from a weaker euro, were among the biggest gainers, with BMW shares up nearly 5% to hit a record high and France’s Peugeot Citroën rising 3.7%.
(18) This underestimation, caused by not taking into account infants' random deviations from their own growth trajectories, ranged from 59% to 94% and resulted in misclassification of approximately 24-67% of infants as abnormal gainers (below the 5th percentile or above the 95th percentile with respect to existing reference data) in the intervals evaluated.
(19) In axoplasm, only the major 200,000 M(r) neurofilament protein and a specific protein of approximately 400,000 M(r) were labeled, as reported previously [Pant, H. C., Shecket, G., Gainer, H. & Lasek, R. J.
(20) MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) Pfizer up 3%, leads Dow gainers April 28, 2014 AstraZeneca's shares are still up 15% in London.