(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.
Cutter
Definition:
(n.) One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.
(n.) That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, or as a paper cutter.
(n.) A fore tooth; an incisor.
(n.) A boat used by ships of war.
(n.) A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead.
(n.) A small armed vessel, usually a steamer, in the revenue marine service; -- also called revenue cutter.
(n.) A small, light one-horse sleigh.
(n.) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
(n.) A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
(n.) A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; -- so called from the facility with which it can be cut.
Example Sentences:
(1) Problems associated with cloth wear and the unexpectedly slow rate, in man, of tissue ingrowth into the fabric of the Braunwald-Cutter aortic valve prosthesis have been discouraging, although this prosthesis has been associated with a very low thromboembolic rate in patients receiving anticoagulant therapy.
(2) Mitral valve replacement with the Smeloff-Cutter (S-C) prothesis was performed in 154 patients between September, 1965, and January, 1970.
(3) UK Border Force officers have warned of an emerging trend of "cutters" flying into Britain to practise female genital mutilation (FGM).
(4) The regional distribution of cutter fibers correlates with previous physiological studies on the distribution of the fast and slow motor axons to these muscle fibers.
(5) In a group of 429 glass cutters complaints in the region of the ulnar nerve were reported in 44.7%, the local findings in 36.8%.
(6) The bonus earnings of cane cutters who were found to be infected with S. mansoni were compared, retrospectively, with earnings of uninfected cane cutters during the years 1968-69.
(7) The alfalfa leaf-cutter bee, Megachile rotundata, stops abdominal contractions briefly during oviposition of female eggs but not during oviposition of male eggs.
(8) A 37-year-old woman had undergone aortic valve replacement with Smeloff-Cutter prosthetic valve in 1967.
(9) "As a little girl I would go looking for the cutters and ask them when it was my turn," Faduma Ali says.
(10) For osteotomy conic cutters were used (diameter of base 2.1 mm and 5 mm) and a drill (3000 rotations per minute) from the small instrumentarium of SYNTHES Co.
(11) The proximal end of the TEC system consists of a mechanical housing which controls the vacuum, the rotating cutter (750 RPM) and the cutter excursion (4 cm).
(12) Finer maps for identification of CpG islands and associated genes should involve several rare cutters including Eag I, Sac II and Bss HII.
(13) Despite her famous “let’s make ’em squeal” ad, the pork-cutter is not quite the Palinesque radical Democrats depict.
(14) Using the transverse-alternating field electrophoresis system, we describe a method to accurately evaluate the sizes of fragments generated by rare-cutter digestions within the 30-4700-kb range.
(15) In order to position Secretary Rubin – rather than any of the regulators – as the Administration’s chief spokesman on this issue, the Secretary intends to discuss the Administration’s position at a speech which will be covered by the press in New York on 27 February,” wrote Cutter on 21 February.
(16) A vitreous cutter was used simultaneously to remove liberated necrotic debris.
(17) A study was made of the exposure of welders and cutters in Dutch industries to air pollution consisting of total particulate, chromium, nickel, copper, nitrogen oxides, ozone, carbon monoxide and other pollutants.
(18) In the early hours of Wednesday, hundreds of people took bolt cutters to the fence.
(19) For a while, the “Washington consensus” imposed cookie-cutter market-based prescriptions on countries that needed to borrow money.
(20) The prevalence of Raynaud's phenomenon in chain saw users is twice as great as that in bush cutter users.