(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.
Evince
Definition:
(v. t.) To conquer; to subdue.
(v. t.) To show in a clear manner; to prove beyond any reasonable doubt; to manifest; to make evident; to bring to light; to evidence.
Example Sentences:
(1) As to the tissular and cellular levels, the possibility of a regulation of the enzymatic and transport systems of the microvilli by means of substrates contained in the mucous membrane of the small intestine and endogenous substances (permein and antipermein) was evinced.
(2) He added: “From what we’ve seen so far, Londoners can be forgiven for wondering if Zac will be a mayor who works to bring London’s diverse communities together or one who will drive them apart.” Others evince real surprise over Goldsmith’s stance.
(3) Transient peripheral vasomotor constriction and heart rate increases were initiated within an 8- to 12-sec period following target detection with the predictable schedule, with subjects evincing greater responsivity than their nonpredictable schedule counterparts.
(4) He and his staff evinced a friendly interest in American medical institutions as a result of Professor Yudin's visit to the Mayo Clinic and other institutions in this country in former years.
(5) A review of 15 well-documented cases of proliferative periostitis reported in the literature and a description of six new cases, five fully documented, have shown the following: a variety of irritants both odontogenic and nondontogenic in origin may induce neoperiostosis in the mandible; radiographically, cortical redundancy and preservation of the original cortical outline are the most common findings; and microsocopically, a fibro-osseous pattern evincing one of the three trabecular orientations--parallel, retiform, or haphazard fibrous dysplasia-like--is featured.
(6) The architecture of such a framework entails enabling the system (1) to make its recommendations on decision-analytic grounds; (2) to construct statistical models dynamically; (3) to update a statistical model based on the user's prior beliefs and on data from, the methodological concerns evinced by, the study.
(7) A MANOVA evinced significant group and gender differences.
(8) Both groups of birds evinced minor transient postoperative deficits of similar magnitude during the shape recognition task under orientation invariance conditions when the habitual training forms were used.
(9) Indeed, there is a rising anxiety amongst US public and private sector mandarins surrounding Iran’s apparent digital prowess, as evinced by research the Guardian was briefed on ahead of its September release.
(10) But there is no enthusiasm evinced here for the song, or its groundbreaking video , or the gap between Morten Harket's teeth.
(11) Univariate F tests and Bonferroni posttests revealed that the PTSD cases evinced markedly higher RCMAS, CDI, and CTRS scores than their phobic and nonphobic peers.
(12) The activity levels of succinate dehydrogenase (SDH), malate dehydrogenase (MDH) and cytochrome-C-oxidase showed a decrement whereas lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) evinced maximum activity during first 3 days of denervation.
(13) Partial moles are ordinarily triploids of nearly always diandric constitution that evince focal villous swelling with cistern formation and focal trophoblastic hyperplasia.
(14) In the stationary growth phase both strains evinced a drop in energy charge values followed by a rise to the original level.
(15) The postures were characteristic of those evinced initially by the saline-treated rats in the same test environment.
(16) The power of the method is evinced by our observation that 100% of the candidate alleles identified in the screen were ultimately found to have single-base changes at the DNA level that result in amino acid substitutions at the protein level.
(17) "Every single one of them not only categorically denied it but evinced great surprise that the allegation had been made," the spokesperson said.
(18) Patients were then taught situational coping strategies, and treatment ended when mood control was evinced.
(19) At the outset, soft lenses produce a somewhat lower visual acuity but with adaptation, acuity improves and becomes equal or better, as evinced by measurements made after three months of wear.
(20) A novel structural feature of the noncollagenous domain of basement membrane collagen was also evinced from these studies.