(v. t.) To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.
(v. t.) To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial.
(v. t.) To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of; as, we approve the measured of the administration.
(v. t.) To make or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.
(v. t.) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit; -- said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
(2) The genome characterization of the typing strains for all 13 species of the genus Staphylococcus, included into the Approval List of the Names of Bacterial (1980), is presented.
(3) Currently there are no IOC approved definitive tests for these hormones but highly specific immunoassays combined with suitable purification techniques may be sufficient to warrant IOC approval.
(4) The toluene group were more approving in their attitudes towards taking other drugs.
(5) No one knows if this drug will be approved for use by American physicians.
(6) Britain First applied to use seven slogans in the elections and four were rejected, but the remaining three, including the slogan relating to Rigby, were approved by the watchdog.
(7) Yet, polls have Maryland voters approving same-sex marriage by 14 to 20 points.
(8) Guidelines are presented for pharmacist coordination of the importation for use by institutionalized patients of drugs not currently approved by the FDA.
(9) Mal’s age alone was enough to earn him a significant amount of street cred in our misfit group of teenage boys, yet it was his history of extreme violence that ensured his approval rating was sky high.
(10) However, the law minister indicated he would allow the supreme court to approve a draft of the letter.
(11) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
(12) An ‘approved’ poster in the student center at Regent University.
(13) The final approved log contained 72 problems, 64 of which received importance ratings greater than or equal to 2 on the three-point scale.
(14) Masutha said the parole board had made a mistake when they approved Pistorius for early release, but his intervention has been widely criticised by legal experts.
(15) But he argued that Obama entered the agreement without approval from Congress, allowing the president to revoke it.
(16) Everton announce plan for new stadium in nearby Walton Hall Park Read more The club has set aside £2.5m to commence work on the stadium should its funding proposals – that Elstone claims will give the council an annual profit – gain approval.
(17) I am acutely aware that not all of you, by any stretch of the imagination, will approve of everything I have done.
(18) The participants strongly preferred the experimental leaflets to the approved leaflets, both with respect to accessibility of the contents (overall preference 78.1% v 17.8%) and ease of understanding the contraindications of drug use (90.2% v 73.7%).
(19) In the following, there will be indicated the approved techniques and methods of suturing the cleft palate and a new method will be discussed related to the reciprocal Z-type plastic operation.
(20) Unite, which will have to give seven days' notice before calling a strike after winning approval for industrial action in a ballot of the tanker drivers, is expected to finalise a framework that should allow discussions to begin on Monday.
Receive
Definition:
(v. t.) To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter.
(v. t.) Hence: To gain the knowledge of; to take into the mind by assent to; to give admission to; to accept, as an opinion, notion, etc.; to embrace.
(v. t.) To allow, as a custom, tradition, or the like; to give credence or acceptance to.
(v. t.) To give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, and the like; as, to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.
(v. t.) To admit; to take in; to hold; to contain; to have capacity for; to be able to take in.
(v. t.) To be affected by something; to suffer; to be subjected to; as, to receive pleasure or pain; to receive a wound or a blow; to receive damage.
(v. t.) To take from a thief, as goods known to be stolen.
(v. t.) To bat back (the ball) when served.
(v. i.) To receive visitors; to be at home to receive calls; as, she receives on Tuesdays.
(v. i.) To return, or bat back, the ball when served; as, it is your turn to receive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Combination therapy was most effective in patients receiving HCTZ prior to enalapril.
(2) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
(3) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
(4) The patients should have received treatment for at least seven days and they should not be "ill".
(5) Although lorazepam and haloperidol produced an equivalent mean decrease in aggression, significantly more subjects who received lorazepam had a greater decrease in aggression ratings than haloperidol recipients; this effect was independent of sedation.
(6) Arterial oxyhaemoglobin saturation (SaO2) was monitored continuously during normal labour in 33 healthy parturients receiving pethidine and nitrous oxide for analgesia.
(7) The control group received the same information in lecture form.
(8) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
(9) Therefore, we undertook a follow-up study on the survivors of 57 infants who received IUT's between 1966 and 1975.
(10) If Bennett were sentenced today under the new law, he likely would not receive a life sentence.
(11) Five days later, the animals were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups: Group 1 received intracranial implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 2 received intraperitoneal implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 3 received serial intraperitoneal injections of dexamethasone; and Group 4 received sham treatment.
(12) In a randomized double-blind study, 40 patients with coronary heart disease received intravenously either 0.025 mg nitroglycerin or placebo.
(13) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
(14) Three patients died from non-hepatic causes and another has received liver transplantation.
(15) 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.
(16) We investigated the incidence of skin cancer among patients who received high doses of PUVA to see whether such incidence increased.
(17) From 1978 to 1983 in the Orthopedic University Clinic (Oskar-Helene-Heim, Berlin) 75 children with fractures of the distal humerus received medical treatment.
(18) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(19) Data were collected on a sample of 131 women receiving treatment for gynecological cancer.
(20) In 2 patients who had received cadaveric renal allograft, ureteral obstruction was detected six and one-half and five and one-half years after transplantation.