(a.) Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing.
(a.) Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only.
(a.) Sole; only; exclusive.
(a.) Hence; Unique; rare; matchless.
(adv.) Solely; simply; exclusively.
Example Sentences:
(1) Combinations of maximum amounts of glucagon and the cyclic nucleotide did not produce a greater effect than either agent alone.
(2) Philip Shaw, chief economist at broker Investec, expects CPI to hit 5.1%, just shy of the 5.2% reached in September 2008, as the utility hikes alone add 0.4% to inflation.
(3) Recently, it has been shown that radiation therapy, alone or combined with chemotherapy, can be successful.
(4) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
(5) Arthrotomy with continuous irrigation appears to be more effective in decreasing long-term residual effects than arthrotomy alone.
(6) In addition, control experiments with naloxone, ethanol, or cigarette smoking alone were performed.
(7) Because it has been suggested that the lathyrogen, BAPN, may stimulate the release of proteases, the protease inhibitors Trasylol and epsilon-aminocaproic acid (EACA) were given alone or in combination to BAPN-treated rats.
(8) Cells (1 x 10(5)) were seeded in 12- x -75-mm tissue culture tubes and incubated with various doses of IL-1 beta, IL-1 alpha, TNF-alpha, and IFN-gamma, alone or in specific combinations, for 15 min, two, 12, 24, and 72 h. PGE concentrations in the media were measured by radio-immunoassay.
(9) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(10) Exogenous administration of estrogen alone or combined with progesterone have been associated with increased plasma cortisol levels.
(11) Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that these blebs were devoid of organelles and microvilli; scanning electron microscopy revealed that the blebs were highly wrinkled and more numerous than were the projections observed in tissue from animals treated with testosterone alone, or in tissue from unoperated controls.
(12) The combination of methotrexate and cyclosporin is significantly better than either alone in controlling GVHD.
(13) DTIC, BCNU and CCNU produced responses in 28% of patients, alone or in combination with each other.
(14) Malondialdehyde was undetectable in cerebrospinal fluid after subarachnoid placement of agarose alone, although it was present in similar amounts in all groups that received subarachnoid placement of OxyHb.
(15) Ketamine alone caused ataxia even in the lowest dose used.
(16) 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.
(17) Infusion of 1 unit of 25-HCC per hour for 6 hours induced an antiphosphaturia only when administered with 0.2 units of PTH per hour, while neither agent alone changed phosphate excretion.
(18) In keratinocyte lines immortalized by E7 alone, the p53 half-life was found to be similar to that in non-transformed cells; however, it decreased to approximately 1 h following supertransfection of an E6 gene.
(19) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
(20) When given chronically over 6 weeks the advantages of adding benserazide (50 mg kg-1 day-1) to levodopa (40 mg kg-1 day-1) were less marked and although more dopamine was present in the striatum than with levodopa given alone (200 mg kg-1 day-1) there was no evidence of any increase in its metabolites (HVA and DOPAC) and therefore of its turnover and utilisation.
Solitude
Definition:
(a.) state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.
(a.) Remoteness from society; destitution of company; seclusion; -- said of places; as, the solitude of a wood.
(a.) solitary or lonely place; a desert or wilderness.
Example Sentences:
(1) She wanted it used as a winter White House – a place where a president could find solitude and rest.
(2) The only sound was the breeze whispering to the grass: splendour in solitude.
(3) Solitude becomes a way of life and social interaction a scarce commodity for many chronic schizophrenics who are in institutional settings.
(4) I yearned for solitude; most of all, I wanted to sleep alone.
(5) A '"demi-alien", he began, in his solitude, to write a novel.
(6) You won't need a guide on the Petroglyph Point or Nordenskiold Site No 16 trails, where hikers can experience solitude among the primitive paintings and ruins.
(7) 'Solitude' was a measure of the time during each day when potential sources of help were spontaneously available.
(8) The years of solitude spent pushing others towards your goal, the decision to place yourself in harm's way (as in Stachel's case), and the constant threat of failure.
(9) Most important, Carlin says, Freeman, abetted by the screenwriter, "impressively conveys the giant solitude of Mandela".
(10) Eventually this marriage gets to old age in solitude, with the bitterness of loneliness."
(11) She doesn't mind being lonely – "if you call it solitude it doesn't seem so bad" – and she takes long walks, another of her salvations.
(12) Additional research is suggested to increase the generalizability of the findings of this study and to isolate conditions related to Orem's (1985) sets of actions for maintenance of a balance between solitude and social interaction.
(13) Symbiontic psychoses (induced delusions) are marked by 'solitude by twos'--together in alienation to the environment.
(14) But it was Salinger's own war that seems to have perpetuated his adolescence, trapping him in the mind and spirit of a disaffected teen and subsequently sponsoring a deep yearning for solitude.
(15) The differences in general activity were detected after 69 and 79 days of social deprivation; the hyperactivity induced by amphetamine was greater after 79 days of isolation and the pentylenetetrazol CD50's were higher after 56, 69 and 79 days of solitude.
(16) This resulted in the isolation of provincial psychiatric hospitals, general hospital psychiatric units and community mental health programs, with little overall accountability for the services provided--three solitudes.
(17) Either you play your difference for all it is worth, or you retreat into solitude.
(18) Photograph: National Trust What do you do if you hanker after a dose of solitude somewhere scenic and remote, but can no longer heft a heavy rucksack because of a dodgy back?
(19) Distinct hypochondriac and relation delusions evolved and the feeling of solitude increased.
(20) After a standing ovation and several prizes at Sundance, this quiet little film about a very small man who gets so fed up with people's reaction to his tiny size that he decides to live in total solitude, has made its way around the world as an example of the kind of American cinema you now hardly ever see.