(n.) A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cooled by a floor fan, nurses, doctors and support staff in blue scrubs move through the small anteroom next to the isolation ward to juggle the needs of the desperately ill patients inside as a stream of people knock on the canvas door asking for updates on their loved ones.
(2) But over 45 years, an individual employer thinking of taking on someone and wondering ‘Can they manage?’, might have thought, ‘That guy reached senior positions in the cabinet, perhaps I will interview that person.’ Perhaps there is hope.” Stacks of boxes crowd his anteroom.
(3) During half of an hour of chit-chat in an anteroom, before taking their place at the dinner table, May told Juncker that she didn’t want just to talk Brexit during the evening but there were other matters of world affairs to discuss.
(4) ’ As he’s leaving the room he’s taking his jacket off to go outside.” Hookem said the pair went into a small anteroom off the meeting venue, using different doors: “When I walked in, he approached me to attack me.
(5) Cameron had sought out Kirchner at the margins of the G20 in an anteroom before the first working session got underway.
(6) In Bob Rafelson's The King Of Marvin Gardens, the Atlantic City of 1972 becomes the anteroom to Paradise for two brothers: one a depressive talk-radio host, the other a manic huckster.
(7) When handling stress was minimized by placing the animals in an anteroom for 10 min before starting the test, the distribution of responding was normal although the overall frequency was still reduced.
(8) I go through that endless anteroom between extreme violence and the stupefied awareness of that violence.
(9) "All employment for women, then, was regarded as being an anteroom to marriage.
(10) The number of superfluous young people condemned to the anteroom of the modern world, an expanded Calais in its squalor and hopelessness, has grown exponentially in recent decades, especially in Asia and Africa’s youthful societies.
(11) The very first step began with the "sensus communis", an anteroom-like where all the sensations simultaneously perceived were coordinated to ensure mind unity.
(12) A couple of hours later, he was in the cabinet secretary's anteroom, where Sir Robert produced two files.
Reception
Definition:
(n.) The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence.
(n.) The state of being received.
(n.) The act or manner of receiving, esp. of receiving visitors; entertainment; hence, an occasion or ceremony of receiving guests; as, a hearty reception; an elaborate reception.
(n.) Acceptance, as of an opinion or doctrine.
(n.) A retaking; a recovery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
(2) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
(3) VS had a crude topography, and receptive fields of neurons in VS were relatively large.
(4) The use of UEBP-deficient female rat liver cytosol revealed that the afore-mentioned steroids are ineffective with respect to estrogen reception.
(5) Both face and paw receptive fields are unions of a certain set of skin areas called compartments.
(6) They thus have 2 receptive fields: one on the hindleg whose motor neurons they control and one on the ipsilateral middle leg, provided by inputs from the mesothoracic intersegmental interneurons.
(7) Thus cross-orientation suppression originates from within the receptive field.
(8) Medical treatment has several objectives: the action of water on the metabolism, action on the behaviour of the labyrinthine capillaries and the biology of neurosensorial cells, action on vestibular information and the receptivity of the nerve centres and finally on the patients' lifestyle.
(9) The contrast threshold for line orientation was studied using two lines with the same orientation under three different experimental conditions (series): (1) the two lines were presented in the same part of the receptive field; (2) they were along the same straight line and separated by 14' visual angle; (3) they were parallel and displaced at 4' of visual angle.
(10) 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”.
(11) "I never expected to get 100 caps and have the reception I did," said the Chelsea defender.
(12) Administration of the progestins, progesterone and dihydroprogesterone (DHP), and of the hypothalamic decapeptide, LH-RH, 6 hr prior to testing restored receptivity to varying degrees in these E2B + DHT treated mice.
(13) The regional difference in the prevalence of beta AR404-immunoreactive astrocytes suggests that these receptive sites may either: (i) be preferentially activated by catecholamines released from terminals rather than circulating catecholamines; or (ii) be down-regulated in AP due to blood-born substances, such as catecholamines.
(14) Neurons with receptive fields confined to the maxillary division of the trigeminal innervation field are found within a ring of cortex which a) completely surrounds the representation of the ophthalmic field, and b) includes parts of cytoarchitectural area 2, 1, 3, and 3a.
(15) Both tympanic and nontympanic pathways of sound reception are utilized by anuran amphibians.
(16) The characteristics of pattern and flicker (movement) detection are compared to electrophysiological studies on X (sustained) and Y (transient) neurones respectively, and correlations are described for studies of temporal frequency response, non-linearity, width of receptive field, strength of the inhibitory surround and motion sensitivity.
(17) Three groups of facts are compared in this study: the significant adaptive and adaptational modification of the receptive fields of neurons of the visual cortex of the cat, the conditioned, selective, subsensory change in the threshold of perception (detection and recognition) by an individual of a letter in relation to two control letters, and the role of spatially-specialized cortical inhibition in the formation and adaptive modifications of the receptive fields and detector properties of neurons of the visual cortex.
(18) After an hour or so, a car appeared, and another Isis man drove Abu Ali to a reception house not far away.
(19) Well one of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon … which means we’ve got to step up.” In the backrooms of the G20 meeting, Australia was continuing to resist language in the official communique encouraging countries to make pledges to the Green Climate Fund , but to a rousing reception at a local university, Obama announced the $3bn US commitment.
(20) It is concluded that chronic peripheral nerve section affects the anatomical and physiological mechanisms underlying the formation of light touch receptive fields of dorsal horn neurons in the lumbosacral cord of the adult cat, but that the resulting reorganization of receptive fields is spatially restricted.