(a.) Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the United States.
(n.) A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
(2) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(3) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(4) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
(5) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
(6) The prevalence of 24.4% among Mexican American men was similar to that among men from other ethnic backgrounds.
(7) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
(8) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(9) The thermoregulatory responses of this American marsupial were, in most aspects, similar to those of Australian marsupials.
(10) Twelve patients with South American mococutaneous leishmaniasis who attended the Hospital Amazonico in Peru between February and September 1974 were treated with amphotericin B.
(11) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.
(12) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
(13) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
(14) African Americans also have more outpatient episodes than whites.
(15) As a Native American I am pretty sensitive to charges of racism and white supremacy,” the Oklahoma congressman added.
(16) The prevalence of diabetes was 36% higher among San Antonio Mexican Americans than among Mexicans in Mexico City; this difference was highly statistically significant (age- and sex-adjusted prevalence ratio 1.36, P = 0.006).
(17) Responding to the 8 vignettes, 30 American and 32 Australian nurses took part in the study.
(18) A case-control study of breast cancer among Black American women was conducted in seven hospitals in New York City from 1969 to 1975.
(19) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
(20) All F. tularensis strains were found to have enzymatic activity irrespective of their subspecies, but neuraminidase activity was higher in the strains belonging to the American subspecies.
German
Definition:
(a.) Nearly related; closely akin.
(n.) A native or one of the people of Germany.
(n.) The German language.
(n.) A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures.
(n.) A social party at which the german is danced.
(n.) Of or pertaining to Germany.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the German Democratic Republic, patients with scleroderma and history of long term silica exposure are recognized as patients with occupational disease even though pneumoconiosis is not clearly demonstrated on X-ray film.
(2) He said Germany was Russia’s most important economic partner, and pointed out that 35% of German gas originated in Russia.
(3) Thus it is unclear how a language learner determines whether German even has a regular plural, and if so what form it takes.
(4) The Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the German flag.
(5) This empirical fact has in recent years been increasingly dealt with in pertinent German-language literature, the discussion clearly emphasizing the demand that programmes aimed at the vocational qualification of unemployed disabled persons be provided, along with accompanying measures.
(6) Her black persona unravelled this week when Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, a couple named on her Montana birth certificate as her biological parents, told Spokane’s KREM 2 News that her ancestry was German and Czech, with traces of Native American.
(7) She lived and worked in the German capital and since 2014 had been employed by a logistics company there, according to her Facebook profile.
(8) A text generation produces acceptable German reports.
(9) We have done well in our last games against them but this German team is much better than the previous sides we have faced.
(10) Entries for French fell by 0.5%, compared with a 13.2% fall last year, and entries for German fell by 5.5% compared with a 13.2% fall in 2011.
(11) The Italian data seem to fall within the standard of the American (1979) and West German (1978) surveys.
(12) Lisette van Vliet, a senior policy adviser to the Health and Environment Alliance, blamed pressure from the UK and German ministries and industry for delaying public protection from chronic diseases and environmental damage.
(13) "We estimate that German arrivals will be down by about 25% by the end of the year."
(14) In 2001, they filed a $4bn (£2.17bn) lawsuit against the government and two German firms in the US.
(15) The European commission has three official "procedural languages": German, French and English.
(16) "If Germans start spending more, Germany could start importing more from the periphery [worst hit by the debt crisis]," he said.
(17) This in turn meant frantic investment in German coal and lignite – 10 new plants are said to be opening – and a surge in Polish coal output.
(18) The presentation of the phagocytic theory of immunity, proposed by Metchnikoff in 1883, was immediately attacked by German pathologists and microbiologists.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Although my primary degree is from a German university, I did my postgraduate and general practice training in the UK.
(20) Christoph Schäublin said it had “triggered no feelings of triumph” that the of the Kunstmuseum Bern was to take on the artworks that were recently discovered in the home of German recluse Cornelius Gurlitt.