(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.
Wont
Definition:
(a.) Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used.
(n.) Custom; habit; use; usage.
(imp.) of Wont
(p. p.) of Wont
(v. i.) To be accustomed or habituated; to be used.
(v. t.) To accustom; -- used reflexively.
Example Sentences:
(1) The voters don’t do gratitude, self-pitying politicians are wont to moan.
(2) Atlético are sitting deep, and Real have no space to release Ronaldo or Bale into, as is their wont.
(3) Tennyson was wont to stride out over the downland, with its dramatic sea views towards the Needles.
(4) Meanwhile, as is apparently his wont, Slutski has allowed a few minutes of a half to go by before making a substitution.
(5) If we do away with the notion that the personal is political, as feminism-lite is wont to do, who gets left holding the baby?
(6) Yet well-meaning westerners – health experts, development workers, sustainability folk and so on – are wont to wince at the sight.
(7) Or maybe John of Gaunt had it right: “That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.” Main illustration by Christophe Gowans • Follow the Long Read on Twitter at @gdnlongread , or sign up to the long read weekly email here This article was amended on 21 June 2016.
(8) you just contact us Assange: 2010 03 17 22:57:52 but don't disappear without saying why for an extended period or I'll get worried;) Manning: 2010 03 17 22:58:03 i wont Assange: 2010 03 17 22:58:16 you'll know if something's wrong Manning: 2010 03 17 22:58:39 ok Assange: 2010 03 17 22:58 57 you can just tell me "all the ships came in" The bank documents Early on in the chat logs, Assange mentions getting hold of data for a major American bank.
(9) Unlike income, which has been vigorously taxed since the mid-19th century and therefore recorded, personal wealth was, after 1979, the subject of a half-hearted cat-and-mouse game in which the cat and the mouse were wont to share yachting trips to the Aegean on a regular basis.
(10) Many are ill-trained and poorly disciplined, wont to shoot randomly into the sky in frustration at bombing raids, but their courage and dedication is not in doubt.
(11) He wont leave a venue – ignoring my frantic watch pointing and finger across the throat signals — before everyone has had their book signed and their photo taken with him.
(12) Fronting a forum like this and just repeating a tired mantra wont fool anyone – it actually just damages our international credibility.” But she welcomed the federal government’s “commitment to ending discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people, which will ensure that many state laws, such as those governing adoption, will be improved over the coming months”.
(13) Turkey's PM erupted, as he is wont to do, and put the squeeze on Milliyet .
(14) One can wear a dozen powerful sensors, own a smart mattress and even do a close daily reading of one's poop – as some self-tracking aficionados are wont to do – but those injustices would still be nowhere to be seen, for they are not the kind of stuff that can be measured with a sensor.
(15) They put in a number of safety measures: you wont find any manoeuvres over crowds, they’re done at a distance so that if a plane does come down it won’t come down on other people.
(16) Updated at 9.06am GMT 9.02am GMT Roux draws attention to, but then says he wont deal with, a message about Steenkamp's supposed drug use , as it is a "reflection of the deceased not the accused".
(17) Just as South Africa opened their World Cup with a goal that will be remembered forever, so England, as is their wont, contrived to open theirs with a goalkeeping blunder that will never be forgotten.
(18) Skrtel wrote: “After all rumours going around, I want to say the time I will spend on sideline wont be 3 months.
(19) Morrison, in her late 60s then, was at the height of her powers, a Nobel laureate with a famously low tolerance for journalists and critics, and a personal style as distinctive as her prose: silver dreadlocks, sharp, unwavering eye contact and a manner of speech – when she did speak – that, to her annoyance, people were wont to call poetry.
(20) Republican candidates for president are also wont to criticize the Federal Reserve, but for the opposite reasons from Sanders.