(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.
Ruffle
Definition:
(v. t.) To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
(v. t.) To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.
(v. t.) To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion.
(v. t.) To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
(v. t.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
(v. t.) To discompose; to agitate; to disturb.
(v. t.) To throw into disorder or confusion.
(v. t.) To throw together in a disorderly manner.
(v. i.) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
(v. i.) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
(v. i.) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
(v. t. & i.) That which is ruffled; specifically, a strip of lace, cambric, or other fine cloth, plaited or gathered on one edge or in the middle, and used as a trimming; a frill.
(v. t. & i.) A state of being ruffled or disturbed; disturbance; agitation; commotion; as, to put the mind in a ruffle.
(v. t. & i.) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; -- called also ruff.
(v. t. & i.) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of any one of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur. See Ootheca.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ruffles of the sub-marginal cells showed different characteristics, being longer and not propagated successively as were the marginal ruffles.
(2) Maturing enamel overlaid by either ruffle-ended or smooth-ended maturation ameloblasts showed similar Ca and P concentrations.
(3) Injection of GTP gamma S inhibited ruffling and increased spreading, suggesting an increase in adhesion.
(4) This is a team who have found their feet after that winless group section, a side who have already seen off the much admired Croatia and who can ruffle the feathers of the hosts or the reigning world champions.
(5) Stimulation of membrane ruffling is one of the first events induced by addition of growth factors to quiescent cultures.
(6) Suddenly he would be picking up speed, scurrying past opponents and, in one instance, slipping the ball through Laurent Koscielny’s legs for a nutmeg that was so exquisitely executed he might have been tempted to ruffle his opponent’s hair.
(7) In the SEM three corresponding types were identified, a relatively smooth spherical type, a highly ruffled type and a fairly smooth flattened type.
(8) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
(9) The Glasman "project" will undoubtedly ruffle feathers inside and outside Labour.
(10) In the active phase of root resorption, the resorption organ contained many odontoclasts with a well-developed ruffled border and a reduced clear zone, cementoblasts, fibroblasts, macrophages, neutrophils, and many blood vessels.
(11) The cells were oval or round, most of them with a rough surface due to presence of microvilli, ruffles, ridges, and blebs of various numbers and shapes.
(12) The osteoclasts secrete a large amount of protons by the action of H(+)-pump on the ruffled border into the sealed resorption cavity, resulting in the acidified microenvironment under which condition the bone matrix is dissolved.
(13) Ruffles were only rarely present in the continuous presence of NGF and were absent after NGF withdrawal.
(14) The presence of wide and short ruffles of epithelial cells covered with mucus is typical of the secretory phase of the cycle.
(15) Six of the orally infected P. maniculatus developed clinical signs including ruffled hair coat, inappetence, reluctance to move, and lameness in the rear legs.
(16) The increases in actin cables were associated with a lack of ruffled edges that are indicative of motile cells.
(17) Osteoclasts are multinucleated giant cells showing specialized membrane structures, clear zones and ruffled borders, which are responsible for the process of bone resorption.
(18) ruffled membrane movement, phagocytosis of some particles, glucose oxidation through the hexose monophosphate shunt and an increase in the activity of a membrane enzyme, adenylate cyclase.
(19) The presence of membrane ruffles at the cell border and of numerous thick bundles of actin crossing the cell body, suggests that the factor promotes cell spreading; this probably interferes with cytokinesis, ultimately leading to the formation of very large flattened multinucleated cells.
(20) They gradually displayed active membrane pseudopodia, thorn-like processes and petal-like ruffles after 2 h to 4 h of cultivation.