(adv. & a.) Near or towards the stern of a vessel; astern; abaft.
Example Sentences:
(1) All values for the AFT were on an equal level for normal subjects younger than 65 years.
(2) This caused variations in fore-and-aft motion with position along the vertical axis of the head and variations in vertical motion with position along the fore-and-aft axis of the head.
(3) Here, we report a combined biochemical and microscopical attempt to determine whether the protein reduction occurs throughout the excised, in vitro-cultured root and whether the plasmalemma proteins which are affected by AFTs can be both solubilized and characterized.
(4) The impulses of fore-aft force were closely correlated with step length.
(5) The design considerations and trade-offs associated with the choice of slit width, slit separation distance, and aft slot depth are discussed along with the effect of these parameters on the SMSA's performance.
(6) A total of 792 ATCs and 2,366 AFTs completed the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) and questionnaires concerning job satisfaction and job attitudes.
(7) The data indicate that the biological activity of AFT-6 is partly due to the molecules having antigenic determinants of AgT-1.
(8) Electronic scanning-slit fluorography involves replacing paired fore and aft slits for scatter rejection with only one beam-defining tantalum fore aperture.
(9) Since the vestibulospinal level of vestibular function is frequently neglected in the evaluation of vertiginous patients, we developed a new posture equilibrometer for recording body swaying X (left-right) and Y (fore-aft) components of angular displacement, velocity, and acceleration with its transducer on the head of the subject.
(10) During the assault, which began in earnest 40 miles from the coast, several journalists continued to broadcast from the aft deck, sharing a microphone in a relay as they broadcast to the world.
(11) Using the transducer AFT was monitored noninvasively over extended periods in about 200 normal and sick neonates.
(12) These results indicate that for a period of approximately 5 days afte r ovulation, the development of the rabbit ectopic corpus luteum and the secretion of progesterone are autonomous from estradiol secreted by ovarian follicles.
(13) There was no rebound decrease in AFT up to 65 minutes.
(14) Onsets and magnitudes of lateral and fore-aft reactive forces associated with the movement and of electromyographic (EMG) activity of the ipsilateral deltoid and external abdominal oblique and contralateral paraspinal muscles were monitored.
(15) At sacrifice there was extensive bile ductule cell proliferation and numerous precancerous changes evident in AFT-treated animals.
(16) Substituting the IM fat estimate at the 12th rib for adjusted fat thickness (AFT) in the equation explained 60% of the variation in percentage of chemical fat.
(17) No changes in AFT or VFT were noted in control experiments.
(18) UK defense hardware firm BAE Systems makes the airplane’s aft section; Californian company Northrop Grumman makes the plane’s center fuselages, as does Ankara’s Turkish Aerospace Industries.
(19) The body sway response signals are digitized for the calculation of the following parameters by a computer: average velocity of body sway, mean value for fore-aft and lateral body sway, and maximal amplitude of body sway.
(20) For the frontal patients, significant correlations were found between the number of prompts on the AFT and the number of perseverative errors on the WCST.
Bavarian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Bavaria.
(n.) A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria.
Example Sentences:
(1) It said that the Bavarian finance ministry last week threatened to take legal action against an academic at the Technical University of Berlin, who had uploaded a PDF of Mein Kampf to the university's website.
(2) Horst Seehofer, Bavarian state premier "Integration is the achievement of one who has integrated … I don't have to recognise anyone who lives from the state, rejects that state, refuses to ensure his children receive an education and continues to produce little headscarfed girls."
(3) The CSU, the Bavarian sister party to Merkel’s Christian Democrat CDU, has accused the chancellor of making an “unparalleled historical mistake” in opening Germany’s borders.
(4) German Chancellor Merkel’s sister party won the Bavarian election which bodes well for her to keep her position in next week’s general election.
(5) Scalise even got castigated for such idiocy by no less than Erick Erickson , whose words and deeds usually sound like he’s auditioning for a role in a WWII movie as the piggy Bavarian Gauleiter pinching at dirndls in between faking a WWI injury to keep from getting sent to the front.
(6) The Bavarian International School, north of Munich, was paid £32,000.
(7) Bavarian public gardens are regularly pilfered for their hydrangea flowers.
(8) Wheat, barley, and maize, each in 15-kg parcels at 15 and 19% initial moisture content (IMC), were kept in a Bavarian farm granary from June through November 1990.
(9) Bayern scored their third with Müller netting from a tight angle in the 82nd minute, setting the Bavarians up in style for their Champions League quarter-final with Porto.
(10) Frank Sillner, the chief executive of the brewery in Straubing, said he had intended the special issue of 2,000 crates to be a commentary on the migration crisis and a reminder of Bavarian values.
(11) He was in the Bavarian capital to cover the walls of the Haus der Kunst with thousands of brightly coloured school backpacks spelling out Chinese characters quoting the lament of a mother of a dead child in Sichaun interviewed as part of Ai's project: "She lived happily for seven years in this world."
(12) Citing anonymous security sources, Bavarian state broadcaster BR reported that Germany had received warnings from both US and French intelligence agencies earlier in the day.
(13) "Bavarians live the baroque life," says Angela Schmid, head of the German housewife association's Württemberg branch.
(14) He recently shared the Berlin stage – the Admiralspalast where Hitler once had a vast purpose-built box from which he would watch operetta – with Michael Mittermeier, a Bavarian comic with a considerable following in Germany.
(15) Anti-B19-IgG antibodies were tested for by the ELISA method in 768 sera, 76 from children and juveniles, aged 1-15 years, attending the Outpatients Department of the Children's Clinic, University of Munich, and 692 from persons, aged 18-68 years, attending the blood donor service of the Bavarian Red Cross in Munich.
(16) Mixing that pace of new arrivals with up to 6 million beer-drinking revellers who usually descend on the Bavarian capital for two weeks of festivities could cause tensions, regional interior minister Joachim Herrmann warned.
(17) In southern Germany, the Bavarian state premier, Horst Seehofer, said there was “reason to believe” that a man arrested last week during a routine motorway check with “many machine guns, revolvers and explosives” in his car might “possibly be linked” to the attacks.
(18) The room’s contents were confiscated by Bavarian authorities and some works have gone to the Kunstmuseum in Berne, Switzerland.
(19) The centre of town is totally underwater, all the shops are destroyed.” In southern Germany, dangerously swollen rivers have severely damaged Bavarian towns.
(20) The collective even went to Landsberg, the Bavarian jail where Hitler was imprisoned for treason following the Munich beer hall putsch, and where he wrote his ominous tome.