(v. t.) To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.
(v. t.) Help; succor; assistance; relief.
(v. t.) The person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; a helper; an assistant.
(v. t.) A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan.
(v. t.) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions.
(v. t.) An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former Berlusconi aide, Valter Lavitola, is also on trial for being the alleged intermediary in the bribe.
(2) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(3) But soon after aid workers departed, barrel bombs dropped by Syrian helicopters caused renewed destruction.
(4) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(5) Such was the mystique surrounding Rumsfeld's standing that an aide sought to clarify that he didn't stand all the time, like a horse.
(6) The Nazi extermination of Jews in Lithuania (aided enthusiastically by local Lithuanians) was virtually total.
(7) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(8) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
(9) Duesberg contends that HIV is neither necessary nor sufficient to cause AIDS.
(10) Furthermore the limit between hearing aid fitting an cochlear implantation is discussed.
(11) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
(12) But both for malaria and Aids we’re seeing the tools that will let us do 95-100% reduction.
(13) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
(14) Grisham said she and other aides had not been aware of the trip and “appreciate everyone’s understanding”.
(15) We have recently described a nonnucleoside compound that specifically inhibits the reverse transcriptase of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), the causative agent of AIDS.
(16) Many hope this week's photocalls with the two men will be a recruiting aid and provide a desperately needed bounce in the polls.
(17) In the interim, sonographic studies during pregnancy in women at risk for AIDS may be helpful in identifying fetal intrauterine growth retardation and may help raise our level of suspicion for congenital AIDS.
(18) This paper presents findings from a survey on knowledge of and attitudes and practices towards AIDS among currently married Zimbabwean men conducted between April and June 1988.
(19) The Department for International Development (DfID) defines funding provided under the VUP as "financial aid to government".
(20) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.
Fid
Definition:
(n.) A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the trestle trees.
(n.) A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything.
(n.) A pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing.
(n.) A block of wood used in mounting and dismounting heavy guns.
Example Sentences:
(1) The method involves saturating all spins outside a plane, selectively exciting individual lines, phase encoding along each line, sampling the FID without gradients, and interleaving interrogation of multiple lines.
(2) The rate of longitudinal relaxation was measured by studying the FID after pairs of pulses of approximately 90 degrees.
(3) Twenty-two patients were examined with both FID-CT and 123I-SPECT.
(4) The detection of the insecticides was performed using a wide bore capillary gas chromatograph (GC) with flame ionization detection (FID).
(5) It is shown that one can obtain an expression for the FID signal induced by all resonating particles at any particular point in the imaged object.
(6) 19F free induction decay (FID) signals have been observed from the index fingers of four male and two female adult volunteers using a 27-MHz pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer equipped with a split ring resonator probe.
(7) The TLC-FID method was found to be better than the colorimetric method in terms of simplicity and accuracy in the determination of SDS in hydrophilic ointments.
(8) For positive extracts 5-methoxypsoralene is analysed quantitatively by capillary gas chromatography, using 5-alpha-cholestane as an internal standard and flame ionization detection (FID).
(9) To examine the relation of 1,2-DAG in heart tissues to cardiac hypertrophy associated with hypertension, we measured the amount of 1,2-DAG in spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) hearts at 4, 10 and 20 weeks of age, and in age-matched normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rat hearts using thin-layer chromatography with flame ionization detection (TLC-FID).
(10) On-line coupled liquid chromatography-gas chromatography-flame ionisation detection (LC-GC-FID) enables efficient and unambiguous determination of irradiation for some fat-containing foods (e.g.
(11) Thin-layer chromatography with flame ionization detection (TLC-FID) was compared with colorimetric and HPLC methods for measuring sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), an anionic surfactant, in hydrophilic ointments prepared according to the Japanese Pharmacopoeia, the United States Pharmacopoeia and British Pharmacopoeia.
(12) The activity of sparteine oxidase was assessed by the formation of 2- and 5-dehydrosparteines, which were estimated by capillary gas chromatography with N2-FID detection.
(13) When this residual phase coherency is utilized in conjunction with the fast SSFP (steady-state free precession) technique, both the FID and the echo signals can be obtained.
(14) All 18 components were stable for a two-week period; however, an interference caused a 10-fold increase in the FID response of trichloroethylene, toluene, and chlorobenzene.
(15) The collecting medium (helium) is continuously monitored by a flame ionization detector (FID) of a gas chromatograph (GC).
(16) GC analysis on an SE 30 packed column and FID was applied; relative retention times of the onion extract components were measured and matched with authentic prostaglandin samples using cholesterol as an internal standard.
(17) Since fluoride impurities accumulate almost exclusively in bone mineral, the 19F resonance signal is broadened by rigid lattice magnetic dipole-dipole interactions, causing the FID signal to have a relatively short lifetime of approximately 75 microseconds.
(18) The FIDs were obtained by two different heteronuclear correlation experiments, one that utilizes heteronuclear multiple-quantum coherence during t1, and one that utilizes 13C single-quantum coherence.
(19) RI calculations are highly reproducible with this technique (day-to-day variations range from 0.3 to 3.4 RI units) and are comparable to packed column, FID generated reference data.
(20) The urinary concentration of some solvents (acetone, cyclohexane, 1,2 dichloropropane, n-hexane, methyl ethyl ketone, perchloroethylene, styrene, toluene, 1,1,1, trichloroethane) was measured by means of a gas chromatography Hewlett-Packard 5890 supplied with a flame ionization detector (GC-FID, DANI HS 3950).