(n.) The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.
(n.) Symbolically: Something unsubstantial, light, or volatile.
(n.) A particular state of the atmosphere, as respects heat, cold, moisture, etc., or as affecting the sensations; as, a smoky air, a damp air, the morning air, etc.
(n.) Any aeriform body; a gas; as, oxygen was formerly called vital air.
(n.) Air in motion; a light breeze; a gentle wind.
(n.) Odoriferous or contaminated air.
(n.) That which surrounds and influences.
(n.) Utterance abroad; publicity; vent.
(n.) Intelligence; information.
(n.) A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria.
(n.) In harmonized chorals, psalmody, part songs, etc., the part which bears the tune or melody -- in modern harmony usually the upper part -- is sometimes called the air.
(n.) The peculiar look, appearance, and bearing of a person; mien; demeanor; as, the air of a youth; a heavy air; a lofty air.
(n.) An artificial or affected manner; show of pride or vanity; haughtiness; as, it is said of a person, he puts on airs.
(n.) The representation or reproduction of the effect of the atmospheric medium through which every object in nature is viewed.
(n.) Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of that portrait has a good air.
(n.) The artificial motion or carriage of a horse.
(n.) To expose to the air for the purpose of cooling, refreshing, or purifying; to ventilate; as, to air a room.
(n.) To expose for the sake of public notice; to display ostentatiously; as, to air one's opinion.
(n.) To expose to heat, for the purpose of expelling dampness, or of warming; as, to air linen; to air liquors.
Example Sentences:
(1) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(2) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(3) Sperm were examined at 4.5 h, 8 to 9 h, and 24 to 25 h of incubation (37 degrees C, 5% CO2, and 95% air).
(4) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
(5) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(6) By increasing luminal air pressure from 10 to 20 cm H2O a significant reduction in GBF was observed.
(7) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
(8) Do [MPs] remember the madness of those advertisements that talked of the cool fresh mountain air of menthol cigarettes?
(9) Enough with Clintonism and its prideful air of professional-class virtue.
(10) These data suggest that submaximal exercise and cold air exposure enhance nonspecific bronchial reactivity in asthmatic but not in normal subjects.
(11) The phenylalanine model allows the rapid assessment of whole body and muscle protein turnover from plasma samples alone, obviating the need for measurement of expired air CO2 production or enrichment.
(12) Age-specific MRs for the over-75-year age group were also not related to the winter air temperatures in the eight cities.
(13) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
(14) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
(15) Both eosin derivatives, however, inactivate acetylcholinesterase upon illumination of air-equilibrated samples of hemoglobin-free labeled ghosts.
(16) The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, provides $2.3tn of the annual subsidies.
(17) Rats were injected subcutaneously with 10 ml of air into the dorsal skin to make an air-pouch and with 2 ml of antiserum at an appropriate dilution for passive sensitization, and then 5 ml of air was removed.
(18) Of the other patients, four panicked with sodium lactate, none with 5% CO2, and one with room air hyperventilation.
(19) In presence of oxygen (air) the phototactic reaction values are somewhat lower than in its absence.
(20) In general, air from the mediastinum far more often enters the left pleural cavity than the right one.
Bellows
Definition:
(n. sing. & pl.) An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind.
Example Sentences:
(1) To give variations in the peak flow-rate (from pulsatile to intermediate to non-pulsatile), three types of blood pump (piston-bellows, screw, and centrifugal) were applied to dogs.
(2) Partition coefficients for anesthetic circuit components (masks, bellows, bags, airways, and circuit tubes) consistently ranked halothane greater than isoflurane greater than sevoflurane greater than I-653, suggesting a reverse order of washin and washout rates for an anesthetic circuit constructed from similar components.
(3) She tried to rescue him from accusations of an apparent comparison of Israel to Islamic State, but a Jewish MP leaving in tears after being bellowed at by a Corbynite is all anyone will remember of Labour and Jewishness.
(4) The performance was not without some good‑natured heckling, largely involving bellowed chants of "We want you to stay" from the assembled playing staff.
(5) Water-sealed spirometer (Harvard), dry bellow wedge spirometer (Vitalograph) and computerized pneumotachograph (Gould), all of them satisfying the ATS recommendations were compared.
(6) Chosen by impressive writers and critics – including Elizabeth Bowen, Philip Larkin, George Steiner, Saul Bellow, AS Byatt, Ruth Rendell, John Carey – these shortlists demanded, at least, some respect.
(7) Bellows is known for his powerful paintings representing the hardship and desperation and grittiness of life in New York as it emerged in to the 20th century.
(8) Each time the home secretary referred to numbers of extra staff being drafted in to sort out the backlog, there were bellows of "You sacked that many!"
(9) Fans bellowed “Beat The Heat!”, turning a summertime slogan into a mission statement and a double-entendre.
(10) Coquelin is relatively new to the side but at one point he could be seen bellowing at his team-mates, demanding they did not lower their standards.
(11) In the end the Chelsea players who had hoped to conquer the world were left slumped on the turf as the Brazilian drums pounded and the raucous hordes of Corinthians supporters bellowed their celebration into the night sky.
(12) All examinations were performed with a half--open dry bellows spirometer.
(13) It is, however, the perfect place in which to contemplate the bellowing horror of 19th-century rural-industrial injustice.
(14) Leicester survive late scare against Swansea to secure first win of season Read more Conte, wearing a black armband in memory of those who lost their lives in the earthquake which struck central Italy on Wednesday, never stopped bellowing instructions at any point, even when the game was clearly won.
(15) All parts subject to wear, such as filter, tubings, and bellows, are commercially available through the medical equipment market.
(16) Expiration occurs by opening the diaphragm bellows to the atmosphere.
(17) Allen cites a list of actors, including Jeff Daniels (Purple Rose of Cairo), Patricia Clarkson (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and Dianne Wiest (Hannah and Her Sisters), who Taylor persuaded him to use, as well as being able to convince already well-known personalities such as Saul Bellow, Marshall McLuhan and Susan Sontag to make cameo appearances.
(18) During the second period of IMO the level of AVP in plasma decreased even bellow the control values which was accompanied by water diuresis.
(19) In 1949, Saul Bellow went to a cocktail party hosted by Cyril Connolly, and found his preconceptions of literary England being undermined: “Although I don’t judge the inverted with harshness, still it is rather difficult to go to London thinking of Dickens and Hardy to say nothing of Milton and Marx and land in the midst of fairies.” Most of the people I’ve mentioned were living their lives more or less openly.
(20) After his death the obituaries proclaimed Bellows one of the greatest of all American painters – a man more famous at the time than his friend and contemporary Edward Hopper.