(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.
Hollow
Definition:
(a.) Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.
(a.) Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
(a.) Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.
(a.) Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.
(n.) A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.
(n.) A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.
(v. t.) To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.
(adv.) Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv.
(interj.) Hollo.
(v. i.) To shout; to hollo.
(v. t.) To urge or call by shouting.
Example Sentences:
(1) No evidence for consumptive coagulopathy was noted in the absence of heparin during hemodialysis with cuprophane hollow fiber dialyzers.
(2) The buccal glands of adults of the Southern Hemisphere lamprey Geotria australis consist of a pair of small, bean-shaped, hollow sacs, embedded within the basilaris muscle in the region below the eyes and to either side of the piston cartilage.
(3) The whole thing has made me feel hollow inside,” says one Tory MP.
(4) "The hollow words of praise from the home secretary are meaningless today.
(5) In order to clarify the role of dialyzer geometry, the effect of hollow-fiber versus flat-sheet dialyzers and of different surface areas on C3a generation and leukocyte degranulation was investigated.
(6) A significant improvement in the precision of the hollow cathode as an emission source is reported.
(7) These include a redistribution of the neurons that originally were in barrel sides; a reduction in the neuropil between the neurons that originally were within hollows; and differential growth of layer IV dendrites.
(8) In layer IV high NMDA receptor densities were specifically confined to the barrel hollows.
(9) This study presents results from in vitro and in vivo experiments in rodents by the use of a PEEK-hollow fiber.
(10) Pathogenetic and etiologic points of view of the perforation of dermoid cysts of the small pelvis into adjacent hollow organs are discussed in short.
(11) This article describes the presurgical evaluation and surgical procedures for the treatment of partially edentulous patients with ITI hollow-screw implants.
(12) B43 MoAb was produced in vitro by hollow fiber technology and purified to homogeneity by affinity chromatography.
(13) Despite a 30% rate of luminal blockage in stents retrieved after indwelling times up to 3 months, the incidence of clinical obstruction in stented tracts up to 3 months was 4%, confirming other reports that significant urine flow occurs around rather than through hollow, vented stents.
(14) attack of pain, retroperitoneal hematoma, hemoperitoneum, rupture into a hollow viscus, infective aneurysm.
(15) Produced by Morrissey and Johnny Marr with Stephen Street, MIM sounds more full-blooded than anything they had previously recorded – notably Hatful of Hollow , the compilation that preceded it.
(16) Hollowing out legacy media’s revenues while using its content, “ digital colonialism ” and issues of censorship have plagued the company in 2016.
(17) In one clothes shop, with racks of discounted Calvin Klein and DKNY, the manager, Sav, explains what's happened: "In this crisis, the middle classes have been hollowed out."
(18) We also show that the laminin-derived synthetic peptide YIGSR contains sufficient information to induce single endothelial cells to form ring-like structures surrounding a hollow lumen, the basic putative unit in the formation of capillaries.
(19) The story of the past 30 years has been the relentless hollowing-out of industrial Britain, the single biggest change to the British economy in the postwar era.
(20) At the basis of each pilus, a cell wall differentiation was observed appearing, in face-on-view, as a ring-like structure made up of subunits, and in side-on view as a hollow cylinder penetrating through the cell wall.