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Altogether


Definition:

  • (adv.) All together; conjointly.
  • (adv.) Without exception; wholly; completely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While stereology is the principal technique, particularly in its application to the parenchyma, other compartments such as the airways and vasculature demand modifications or different methods altogether.
  • (2) Altogether 47 variables were investigated, and of these 34 gave results which were statistically significant.
  • (3) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
  • (4) Altogether, 29% of the drivers had evidence of alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, prescription or nonprescription stimulants, or some combination of these, in either blood or urine.
  • (5) Altogether 60% of the readmissions occurred during the two winter months (June and July).
  • (6) Originally she was barred from seeing Filip altogether.
  • (7) Taken altogether, these findings suggest that an autocrine IL-4-mediated pathway might be implicated in early thymocyte differentiation--namely, in the generation of T cells bearing the gamma delta T-cell receptor.
  • (8) Altogether, 17 species were recorded from the rice fields.
  • (9) Altogether the data indicate that the rod-like structure is found outside the cell and that the extra sequence that forms the head is inside.
  • (10) Altogether 10 reports on the safety of chorionic villus sampling, either by the transcervical (TC) or the transabdominal (TA) approach, were reviewed and combined with our own data.
  • (11) In 61 patients altogether subjective side-effects could be recorded, such as vertigo (5%), palpitations (2.8%), fatigue (2%), insomina (1.9%), nausea (1.7%) and vomiting (0.8%).
  • (12) After victimization, almost 15% of responding nurses had considered transferring to another unit; almost 18% had considered leaving nursing altogether.
  • (13) This weekend, Rae, 40, was dealt another blow: she expects to be one of the 200,000 disabled people who will lose benefit altogether, according to a Labour analysis, under further changes to disability benefit to be included in Wednesday’s budget .
  • (14) Altogether an increase of the linoleic acid of 14% and a decrease of the uric acid of 16% were furthermore the result.
  • (15) Altogether 16 experiments were performed, employing 260 recipients and 200 donors in two modifications: 1) bone marrow from animals exposed to hypokinesia for 3 days or 3 weeks (stage I or II of the general adaptation syndrome) was implanted to intact mice; 2) recipients who 5 to 7 day before exposure were implanted with bone marrow from intact donors were hypokinetic for 3 weeks.
  • (16) So it was not altogether a surprise this weekend when Elio di Rupo, the socialist charged with trying to form a viable coalition in Belgium, confessed failure to King Albert.
  • (17) Altogether, therefore, full descensus could be achieved in 29% of cases with hormonal treatment.
  • (18) When inflation was allowed to drift from 2% to 4% in the 1970s, inflation expectations became unanchored altogether, and price growth far exceeded 4%.
  • (19) Why not stop using the word recovery altogether – we are not, in fact, trying to return to some kind of normal.
  • (20) Altogether the amino-acid sequence shows 56% hydrophilic or charged amino acids arranged in alternating regions of hydrophilic or hydrophobic character as it is typical for porins.

Break


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To fall in business; to become bankrupt.
  • (v. t.) To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock.
  • (v. t.) To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods.
  • (v. t.) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
  • (v. t.) To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise.
  • (v. t.) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey.
  • (v. t.) To destroy the completeness of; to remove a part from; as, to break a set.
  • (v. t.) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares.
  • (v. t.) To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments.
  • (v. t.) To exchange for other money or currency of smaller denomination; as, to break a five dollar bill.
  • (v. t.) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of; as, to break flax.
  • (v. t.) To weaken or impair, as health, spirit, or mind.
  • (v. t.) To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow.
  • (v. t.) To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend.
  • (v. t.) To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle.
  • (v. t.) To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin.
  • (v. t.) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
  • (v. i.) To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder.
  • (v. i.) To open spontaneously, or by pressure from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag.
  • (v. i.) To burst forth; to make its way; to come to view; to appear; to dawn.
  • (v. i.) To burst forth violently, as a storm.
  • (v. i.) To open up; to be scattered; to be dissipated; as, the clouds are breaking.
  • (v. i.) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
  • (v. i.) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking.
  • (v. i.) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait; as, to break into a run or gallop.
  • (v. i.) To fail in musical quality; as, a singer's voice breaks when it is strained beyond its compass and a tone or note is not completed, but degenerates into an unmusical sound instead. Also, to change in tone, as a boy's voice at puberty.
  • (v. i.) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
  • (v. t.) An opening made by fracture or disruption.
  • (v. t.) An interruption of continuity; change of direction; as, a break in a wall; a break in the deck of a ship.
  • (v. t.) A projection or recess from the face of a building.
  • (v. t.) An opening or displacement in the circuit, interrupting the electrical current.
  • (v. t.) An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation.
  • (v. t.) An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc.
  • (v. t.) The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn.
  • (v. t.) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.
  • (v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10.
  • (n.) See Commutator.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lucy and Ed will combine coverage of hard and breaking news with a commitment to investigative journalism, which their track record so clearly demonstrates”.
  • (2) They spend about 4.3 minutes of each working hour on a smoking break, the study shows.
  • (3) The mechanism by which pertussis toxin (PT) breaks the unresponsiveness of delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) to sheep red blood cells (SRBC) was examined in B10 mice.
  • (4) After absorption of labeled glucose, two pools of trehalose are found in dormant spores, one of which is extractable without breaking the spores, and the other, only after the spores are disintegrated.
  • (5) The following possible explanations were discussed: a) the tested psychotropic drugs block prostaglandin receptors in the stomach; b) the test substances react with prostaglandin in the nutritive solution; c) the substances stimulate metabolic processes in the stomach wall that break down prostaglandin.
  • (6) The ability of ligand to stimulate its own synthesis and that of its receptor suggests the presence of an autocrine positive feedback loop, however we were unable to break this loop in the breast cancer cells by antibodies that blocked the interaction of TGF alpha with the EGF receptor.
  • (7) Neutral sucrose density sedimentation patterns indicate that neutron-induced double strand-breaks sometimes occur in clusters of more than 100 in the same phage and that the effeciency with which double strand-breaks form is about 50 times that of gamma-induced double strand-breaks.
  • (8) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
  • (9) At high luminances, the temporal, but not spatial, properties of this mechanism break down in a manner which had not been studied.Low-frequency inhibitory processThis process is manifest as a decrease in sensitivity from that of the simple excitatory process.
  • (10) These experiments represent the first occasion that the sequence specificity of a DNA damaging agent, which causes only double-strand breaks, has been determined to the exact base-pair in intact cells.
  • (11) The OPL first appears as a thin, discontinuous break in the cytoblast layer that is frequently interrupted by the profiles of migrating neuro- and glioblasts.
  • (12) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
  • (13) But we need politicians to break out of historical routines.
  • (14) For Burroughs, who had been publishing ground-breaking books for 20 years without much appreciable financial return, it was association with fame and the music industry, as well as the possible benefits: a wider readership, film hook-ups and more money.
  • (15) Once you've invested many years in a career, figuring out how to take time out and then return to a role that's comparable to the one you left (or as comparable as you want it to be) requires more than confidence and enthusiasm - employers need to actively acknowledge the benefits of such breaks and be more receptive to those seeking to return”.
  • (16) A dose-dependent increase in chromatid lesions, i.e., achromatic lesions, chromatid breaks, chromatid deletions and triradial or quandriradial chromosomal exchange fiqures, was found.
  • (17) From the stress-strain curve the following values were selected: strain, stress, and slope at 80 mmHg equivalent pressure (1 mmHg = 133.3 Pa); maximum stress, strain, and slope; and breaking stress, strain, and slope if the sample broke.
  • (18) Everyone worked hard, but it is fair to pick out Willian because of his work-rate, quality on the ball, participation in the first goal and quality of the second.” It had been Willian’s fizzed cross, 11 minutes before the break, which Dragovic had nodded inadvertently inside Shovkovskiy’s near post to earn the hosts their initial lead.
  • (19) The possibility that mammalian DNA topoisomerase II is an intracellular target which mediates drug-induced DNA breaks is supported by the following studies using 4'-(9-acridinylamino)methane-sulfon-m-anisidide (m-AMSA): (a) a single m-AMSA-dependent DNA cleavage activity copurified with calf thymus DNA topoisomerase II activity at all chromatographic steps of the enzyme purification; (b) m-AMSA-induced DNA cleavage by this purified activity resulted in the covalent attachment of protein to the 5'-ends of the DNA via a tyrosyl phosphate bond.
  • (20) The authorities had said they used water cannon, teargas and smoke grenades to break up the protest.

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