(v. t.) To distribute, or parcel out in parts or portions; or to distribute to each individual concerned; to assign as a share or lot; to set apart as one's share; to bestow on; to grant; to appoint; as, let every man be contented with that which Providence allots him.
Example Sentences:
(1) After weeks of battling both in the press and in Albany’s back rooms, $300m was allotted in the state budget to fund pre-K in New York City.
(2) [The EC number of the toxin (EC 3.1.4.41) has been allotted by the Nomenclature Committee of IUB, but has not yet been published.]
(3) Participants in the study were 10,741 men aged 34-61 at the onset, that were allotted to a study group of 2,955 men (Group B) examined by standardized methods in 1967-'68 (Stage I), 1970-'71 (Stage II), 1974-'76 (Stage III) and 1979-'81 (Stage IV) and three control groups, Group C (2,744 men), Group A (2,755 men) and Group D (2,287 men) examined in Stage II, III and IV respectively.
(4) I don’t think, at least in Iowa, her almost celebrity status over some of the others gets her any type of advantage.” Palin confused many onlookers with the directions taken in her remarks, which featured a freewheeling preamble of almost 10 minutes – half the time allotted to each speaker.
(5) Three appointments, 1 week apart, were alloted for treatment.
(6) These properties distinguish it from those other beta-lactamases that have been allotted to classes on the basis of their amino sequences.
(7) Material is allotted them not by whether it is true but by whether they might like it.
(8) Newly hatched chicks were allotted to five different climatic treatment groups (28 to 32, 32 to 34, 34 to 35, 35 to 37, and 37 to 40 C) for 2 days after hatch during which feed and water were withheld.
(9) David Spilsbury Birmingham • One view of the future: we are to leave Nato, abandon our nuclear deterrent, cultivate our allotments and become a new potato republic on the northern fringe of Europe.
(10) The batch of 147 undergraduate medical students (Group I) were trained in maternal and child health (MCH) by allotting them families study wherein either pregnant lady or a new born child was present.
(11) A total of 600 Bosbek day-old broiler chicks (Akropong Farms, Kumasi, Ghana) were randomly allotted to six dietary treatments containing 0, 5, 7.5, 10, 12.5, and 15% palm kernel cake (PKC), respectively.
(12) Can it focus on a war when it’s busy allotting prime lands to its officer cadre?
(13) Reportedly, her teleprompter conked out, inadvertently taking thousands of fresh “Obama Teleprompter” jokes with it, so she ad libbed, ultimately going 10 minutes over her allotted time while hurling out rewarmed zingers and bewildering anecdotes.
(14) However, there are also strains from cattle which cannot be allotted to one of the known host-specific varieties and also strains which belong to the host-specific variety hominis.
(15) A total of 212 patients with acute sports injuries were allotted at random to treatment with 20 mg tenoxicam daily, 20 piroxicam daily or a placebo for ten days.
(16) It is also confirmed that magnitude of permeability-area (PA) products for permeation of purified sucrose or mannitol into brain varies inversely with the length of time allotted for tracer circulation in the bloodstream.
(17) Angus (A), A X Hereford (H) and Tarentaise X HA heifers (n = 103) were stratified by age and weight within breed-type and location of birth and allotted randomly to the following treatments: 1) heifers exposed to mature bulls (T1; n = 52) or 2) heifers isolated from bulls (T2; n = 51).
(18) In the allotted interview space, a meeting room swathed in white fabric to cover the swirly carpet, the atmosphere was cheerful, but tense.
(19) Bulls or testosterone-treated cows (TTC) were introduced to cows, randomly allotted to one of four groups, within 72 h postpartum.
(20) Having named his cabinet, the new prime minister spends Sunday afternoon tending to his allotment.
Alloy
Definition:
(v. t.) Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.
(v. t.) The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness.
(v. t.) A baser metal mixed with a finer.
(v. t.) Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy.
(v. t.) To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper.
(v. t.) To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound.
(v. t.) To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.
(v. t.) To form a metallic compound.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sulphides, which possibly form on silver alloys, showed cytotoxicity.
(2) The influence of mucin on the corrosion behaviour of seven typical dental casting alloys was investigated.
(3) Tests were undertaken to study resistance to tears in laser welded dental metal alloys.
(4) Increased wear-resistance of microsurgical instruments by facing, electric spark alloying and vacuum surfacing increases the working life of the instruments by 1.5-3 times.
(5) Pitting corrosion was seen on low-resistant Ni-Cr alloys, which had less Cr content.
(6) One alloy tested contained 5% indium, and the second alloy contained 10% indium.
(7) Such failures can easily be avoided by using only one alloy with good passivation characteristics instead of different alloys.
(8) The investment containing 2.0 wt% NbC showed nearly the same casting accuracy for Ni-Cr alloys for metal-ceramic restoration as the commercial phosphate-bonded investment.
(9) It was determined that the Ag-rich phase of Ag-Pd-Cu-Au alloy was preferentially attacked to form Ag2S corrosion product.
(10) The current literature, for the most part, cites the use of noble alloys as controls for trials of alternative materials.
(11) Titanium-nickel alloy composed of 50% by weight of each metal has unique thermal shape-memory properties, with a transition temperature of 20 degrees C. Each stent consists of one wire with a diameter of 0.9 mm.
(12) Irrespective of the coated dental alloy, the coatings have pores, through which the electrolyte is in contact with the substrate material.
(13) Forty BIAS femoral stems had heads made of Co-base F 75 alloy and 18 Gustilo-Kyle femoral stems had Ti6A14V alloy heads.
(14) The occurrence of marginal spaces between the resin facing and gold alloy framework in 176 crowns and bridge retainers was studied.
(15) Base metal alloys, principally made of nickel, chromium, and beryllium have gained widespread usage, especially in the United States, due to their lower cost and higher mechanical properties.
(16) The amounts of polyethylene and methylmethacrylate debris and the histological reactions in the tissues corresponded closely with those reported in earlier studies of total hip prostheses made of stainless steel or cobalt-chromium alloy.
(17) The bond strength of the specimens brazed with the non-precious alloy was largely unaffected.
(18) The traditional alloys used as metal bases for fixed partial dentures are accompanied by various problems such as corrosion, allergy, toxicity, casting, and preparation for both patient and prosthodontist and in magnetic resonance imaging for diagnosis.
(19) The results revealed that experimental alloys inherited high early and final strength values without any significant change in their microstructure.
(20) The surface of dental alloys, on which such a composite plating was made, was analyzed by ESCA.