(a.) Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother.
(a.) Kindly inclined; zealous.
(a.) Proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender; as, the affectionate care of a parent; affectionate countenance, message, language.
(a.) Strongly inclined; -- with to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Management and treatment issues are surveyed, such as the necessity to recognize that in some adolescents violence erupts not from narcissitic rage but from strong wishes for affectionate contact.
(2) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
(3) While gothic grandeur fills the windows, the walls are plastered with pop memorabilia and personal paraphernalia: tributes, affectionate caricatures; a Who poster signed by Roger Daltrey; a Queens Park Rangers banner and, relegated to the top of a bookcase, a ministerial red box from the Home Office.
(4) Or that British ministers would one day talk again with affectionate solicitude about French and German unemployment rates.
(5) ‘He needed help and they just took him’ Williamson Street, on the east side of Madison, is affectionately known to its diverse residents as “Willy Street”.
(6) The Clegg-Cameron marriage in the Rose Garden last May is the tableau that sticks in the mind, but it paved the way for other extraordinary images such as Andrew Lansley and Vince Cable patting each other's arms affectionately in Downing Street , on their way into the first coalition cabinet meeting since the war.
(7) Is "The Chalice" actually the Copenhagen Police Headquarters, affectionately referred to by its denizens as "The Chalice" (could this be "The Chalice"?)
(8) The sample as a whole saw mothers were more over-involved, overprotective, tolerant, affectionate, stimulating, performance-orientated and shaming.
(9) She is, by the way, a beautiful and affectionate cat.
(10) The mother is irascible, the father aloof; on the other hand, the parental combination "mother and father affectionate" is more common.
(11) A brightly coloured train rattles across their path and stops abruptly and, after an affectionate hug, the two creatures climb aboard, carefully fasten their seatbelts and are bounced away to a rendezvous with their friends (a lavishly hatted family of peg dolls called the Pontipines; Makka Pakka, a squat, fuzzy troglodyte with OCD, and the Tombliboos, a triumvirate of pastel-coloured pepper pot creatures who live inside a topiary bush).
(12) He was affectionately renowned for his short arms and long pockets in the post-match rounds at the Bell and Hare pub in Tottenham High Street, and the giant suitcase he perpetually brought along on foreign tours was a running joke among his team-mates, who maintained it was to carry all his money.
(13) The matricidal group differed from the control group in the way they viewed the difference between mother and father on various scales, like over-involved, tolerant, affectionate and performance-orientated.
(14) Or that it still plays most home games in a modest 31-year-old, 6,500-seat on-campus field house affectionately known as the Ski Lodge.
(15) Prenatal ultrasound scans are believed to enable mothers to form an early affectionate bond to their child, to provide a reassuring image of the fetus, and to promote improvements in mothers' health behaviors on the behalf of the fetus.
(16) He had close and affectionate relations with the monarchs, as revealed in one poem entitled Lines for January 20th death of his father, George V. The poem reads: "Beyond the river-side; The frozen fields stretch wide; To where the beech-clumps bide; Leafless and still; In snow upon the hill; I think of One who died."
(17) The Gun raises an interesting moral dilemma both for the author and the reader over whether it is ethical to write or to read an affectionate account of a device that could be considered inherently evil.
(18) For Kenny Deuchar, known affectionately as Doctor Goals, balancing the pressure of treating patients as a qualified doctor and scoring goals as a professional footballer has been something he has balanced for well over a decade.
(19) In its story, which added "(We'll see you in Ukwaine against Fwance)", the Sun said Hodgson was "affectionately known as Woy due to his speech impediment".
(20) Evidently, Richards saw the impersonation as an affectionate tribute, and in this third picture in the franchise he has a brief role as Jack Sparrow's wonderfully seedy father, Captain Jack Teague.
Regard
Definition:
(v. t.) To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.
(v. t.) Hence, to look or front toward; to face.
(v. t.) To look closely at; to observe attentively; to pay attention to; to notice or remark particularly.
(v. t.) To look upon, as in a certain relation; to hold as an popinion; to consider; as, to regard abstinence from wine as a duty; to regard another as a friend or enemy.
(v. t.) To consider and treat; to have a certain feeling toward; as, to regard one with favor or dislike.
(v. t.) To pay respect to; to treat as something of peculiar value, sanctity, or the like; to care for; to esteem.
(v. t.) To take into consideration; to take account of, as a fact or condition.
(v. t.) To have relation to, as bearing upon; to respect; to relate to; to touch; as, an argument does not regard the question; -- often used impersonally; as, I agree with you as regards this or that.
(v. i.) To look attentively; to consider; to notice.
(v. t.) A look; aspect directed to another; view; gaze.
(v. t.) Attention of the mind with a feeling of interest; observation; heed; notice.
(v. t.) That view of the mind which springs from perception of value, estimable qualities, or anything that excites admiration; respect; esteem; reverence; affection; as, to have a high regard for a person; -- often in the plural.
(v. t.) State of being regarded, whether favorably or otherwise; estimation; repute; note; account.
(v. t.) Consideration; thought; reflection; heed.
(v. t.) Matter for consideration; account; condition.
(v. t.) Respect; relation; reference.
(v. t.) Object of sight; scene; view; aspect.
(v. t.) Supervision; inspection.
Example Sentences:
(1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(2) Atmaca, who belongs to the Gregorian-Armenian church in Istanbul, said that he nevertheless holds the current pontiff in high regard.
(3) The condition is compared to extrahepatic and intrahepatic biliary atresia of man and evidence is presented for regarding this case to be one of extrahepatic origin.
(4) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
(5) From the biochemical markers in follicular fluid, cyclic adenosine monophosphate has a distinct predictive value in regard to pregnancy in in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer cycles.
(6) The groups were matched with regard to sex, age and body mass index.
(7) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
(8) There was no mention of remaining problems regarding 16 of the 28 omphalocoele patients and 10 of the 16 gastroschisis patients.
(9) Current recommendations regarding contraception in patients with diabetes are not appropriate for the adolescent population and therefore tend to support this phenomenon rather than relieve it.
(10) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
(11) The independent but combined use of both antigens, appreciably raises the diagnostic success percentage with regard to that obtained when only one tumour marker was used.
(12) The observed pulmonary hypertension is probably the result of the left heart insufficiency and is being discussed with regard of the histopathological alterations in the heart muscle and the pulmonary vessels.
(13) Conversely, beta-L-homo analogues of fuconojirimycin can also be regarded as derivatives of deoxymannojirimycin.
(14) Neil Blessitt Bristol • We need to establish what the legal position is with regard to the establishment by the government of a private company co-owned by the Department of Health and the French firm Sopra Steria.
(15) The results of the measurements permitted the identification of five main cytologic types, with regard to nuclear size, nuclear area dispersion and irregularity of nuclear profiles.
(16) Furthermore, the frequency of side-effects was studied with regard to age, sex and groups of drugs.
(17) There is no deal done regarding Paul Pogba, lots of bla bla bla,” the Dutchman wrote on Twitter .
(18) Following the hypothesis that infertile patients may present emotional conflicts with regard to the wish of having a child, psychodynamic interviews were carried out with 116 infertile couples concomitantly with their first consultation at the Sterility Department.
(19) Ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma has distinctly different clinical behavior compared to serous carcinoma and should be regarded as an aggressive epithelial histologic type.
(20) Patients were also rated with regard to their pulmonary function and clinical status, including medication prescribed.