(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.
Reserve
Definition:
(v. t.) To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.
(v. t.) Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain.
(v. t.) To make an exception of; to except.
(n.) The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.
(n.) That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.
(n.) That which is excepted; exception.
(n.) Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
(n.) A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy.
(n.) A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
(n.) Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.
Example Sentences:
(1) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
(2) It is suggested that the normal cyclical release of LH is inhibited in PCO disease by a negative feedback by androgens to the hypothalamus or the pituitary, and that wedge resection should be reserved for patients in whom other forms of treatment have failed.
(3) The use of functional test with the ACTH administration demonstrated organic affection of the CNS to sharply aggravate the weakening and even the exhaustion of the functional reserves of the glomerular and the reticular zones of the adrenal cortex developing during thyrotoxicosis, and also the reserve possibilities of the sympathico-adrenal system.
(4) Then, the delta Fract (coronary flow reserve index) map was obtained for each subject.
(5) Administration of one of the precursors of noradrenaline l-DOPA not only prevented the decrease in tissue noradrenaline content in myocardium, but restored completely its reserves, exhausted by electrostimulation of the aortic arch.
(6) We conclude that, whereas an identical protocol of acute ND had no significant effects on diaphragm muscle structure and function in adult rats, adolescent animals exhibit significantly less nutritional reserve.
(7) Further analysis of these changes according to smoking history, age, preoperative weight, dissection of IMA, and aortic cross-clamp time showed that only IMA dissection affected the postextubation changes in peak expiratory flow rate (p less than 0.0001), whereas the decreases in functional residual capacity and expiratory reserve volume at discharge were affected by IMA dissection (p less than 0.05) and age (p = 0.01).
(8) A golden toad (Bufo periglenes) in Monteverde Cloud forest reserve in Puntarenas province of Costa Rica.
(9) Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, Army Reserve.
(10) That, however, is reserved for the most serious cases and the indications are that a fine is the likely outcome.
(11) Overall, the differences in skeletal muscle energy state during rest and the corresponding changes in concentration of high-energy phosphates during mild exercise suggest a very limited energy reserve in the hypotonic muscle of VLBW infants.
(12) Parenteral cyclophosphamide or corticosteroid pulses should be reserved for cases with vasculitis or refractoriness to conventional drugs.
(13) Calcium supplementation should be reserved for patients with clear clinical signs of hypocalcemia and dialysate calcium should be adjusted to prevent excessive positive calcium balance.
(14) In June, a notorious elephant poacher led a gang of bandits in an attack on the Okapi wildlife reserve in DRC, killing seven people.
(15) Spiramycin, though not constantly effective, is reserved for immunosuppressed patients.
(16) It suggested that the decrease of pituitary reserve might probably be the pathogenesis of Kidney deficiency.
(17) A monoclonal antibody specific for columnar epithelium (RGE 53) gave a positive reaction in endocervical columnar cells and in some immature metaplastic cells but was negative in subcolumnar reserve cells, squamous (metaplastic) cells, dysplastic cells, and most cases of carcinoma in situ.
(18) But the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into housing that was established by Hockey, backed the need to review negative gearing.
(19) Chronic ingestion of alcohol is associated with a diminished marrow granulocyte reserve and may lead to neutrocytopenia.
(20) The loss of coronary reserve was less than that previously observed after a 15-min occlusion, suggesting that the magnitude of the postischemic vascular abnormalities increases with the duration of the ischemic insult.