(a.) Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.
(a.) Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; -- used of things.
(a.) Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of persons.
(a.) Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar.
(v. t.) To fit; to suit; to adapt.
Example Sentences:
(1) They have already missed the critical periods in language learning and thus are apt to remain severely depressed in language skills at best.
(2) The ApU analogues ApT, Apcl5U, Apbr5U, Apa5U and Apno5(2)U were synthesized with the aid of ribonuclease U2 starting from 2',3'-cyclic Ap and the respective uridine derivatives.
(3) The current CEO, the aptly named John Boss, took home $5.4m in salary and other compensation in 2015.
(4) We describe immunofluorescence microscopic studies of the amebal-plasmodial transition (APT) in Physarum polycephalum.
(5) The most promising clinical application of APT so far has been the monitoring of gastric emptying.
(6) Damage which is apt to be most cytotoxic is probably less effective as an inducer of skin cancer than is more subtle damage, which is tolerated but can initiate malignant transformation.
(7) Fornalini in 1984 independently revived the concept of APT using the closed method of needle induction, as later accepted.
(8) So really, it could be anyone.” US intelligence believes the Democratic party’s servers were hacked by a group known alternatively as Fancy Bear, APT 29 or Sofacy, which they say was working for the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence .
(9) A patient with an anal lesion, however, was more apt to develop small bowel disease simply because the small bowel was a far commoner site of Crohn disease in this series.
(10) Although most vitreous seeds were necrotic tumor cells, some were almost intact tumor cells which were apt to be situated along blood vessels.
(11) Recurrences, which are apt to be more common after PTA versus carotid subclavian bypass, are easily managed with repeat dilatation.
(12) The busy atmosphere and routine of a hospital is apt to induce apprehension in a patient about to have a surgical operation.
(13) Expression of the APT gene is under the control of lambda bacteriophage PL promoter.
(14) We are apt to know what the current situation is after ten years have passed.
(15) The author considers the loss of opportunities in life as an apt criterium of the vital impact of different permanent health impairments.
(16) Applied potential tomography (APT) or electrical impedance imaging has received considerable attention during the past few years and some in vivo images have been produced.
(17) The stronger the smoking habit, the less apt the smoker is to quit or maintain a nonsmoking status.
(18) Members of the medical profession were considered particularly apt to accurately and reliably report their personal experience with lower back pain and were therefore selected for this survey.
(19) The groups with low right-left ear ratios were less likely to have a somatosensory disorder than the other two groups, but they were more apt to have a language problem.
(20) As our understanding of the biochemical and cellular mechanisms of APT improve, a number of key clinical issues may be clarified: (1) risk factor assessment for APT, (2) criteria for early diagnosis of APT, and (3) improved therapeutic approach to patients with APT.
Eligible
Definition:
(a.) That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.
(a.) Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house.
Example Sentences:
(1) Instead, the White House opted for a low-key approach, publishing a blogpost profiling Trinace Edwards, a brain-tumour victim who recently discovered she was eligible for Medicaid coverage.
(2) Anything not eligible is simply ignored or assumed to be someone else’s responsibility.
(3) Between January 1979 and April 1983, 113 children undergoing their first relapse of acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL) at any site were registered in Pediatric Oncology Group study 7834; 98 were eligible and evaluable.
(4) The results indicate that the legislated increase in the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits beginning in the 21st century will have relatively small effects on the ages of retirement and benefit acceptance.
(5) Twenty-five of the 29 eligible doctoral programs in nursing participated in the study; results are based on the responses of 326 faculty, 659 students, and 296 alumni.
(6) Only subjects 65 years of age or older were eligible for inclusion.
(7) The SAA is also the only entity eligible to apply for these funds.
(8) Students from low-income backgrounds will be eligible to apply for top-up grants up to a further £3,250, dependant on household income (ie the full £3,250 grant will be available up to a household income of £25,000 and a partial grant up to a household income of £60,000).
(9) It was based on 12 publications selected out of 993 eligible.
(10) Of 103 eligible children, the quality of recovery was assessed by the Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) at 6 months after injury in 92 patients (86% of series) and at 1 year in 82 patients (73% of series).
(11) Approximately 40 per cent of women eligible for prenatal diagnosis did not receive any information from the referring body prior to counselling at our centre.
(12) Nancy Davis was a middle-ranking film actor in her 20s when she received her initial introduction to Reagan, having already told a friend that he was top of her list of Hollywood’s eligible bachelors.
(13) A questionnaire was administered to parents who volunteered their children for a randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial of a drug to treat asthma and to a control group of parents whose children were eligible for the trial but had refused the invitation.
(14) Two interview surveys were conducted with AFDC and HR (general assistance) Medicaid eligibles, the first under the fee-for-service system servicing the Medicaid population, and the second 18 months after the introduction of a mandatory, prepaid managed care system for Medicaid beneficiaries.
(15) Others who were at the sharp end, including doctors, nurses and even newspaper war correspondents, may also be eligible.
(16) The white paper will also force councils to define more precisely eligibility criteria for social care and provide the elderly with information about services in the local area.
(17) Eligible subjects include early PD patients (illness duration less than 5 years and in stages I and II), aged 30 to 79, who are not taking or requiring any anti-PD medications.
(18) Out of 582 eligible women contacted from the age-sex register, 252 (43%) attended the clinic.
(19) In 2013, he told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl that the Texas senator might not be eligible to be president.
(20) The five eligible patients initially treated with placebo had progressive CFU increases; when three were switched to clarithromycin plus the four drugs, their CFU declined.