(n.) A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue.
(n.) The things sold by auction or put up to auction.
(v. t.) To sell by auction.
Example Sentences:
(1) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(2) The small print revealed that Osborne claimed a fall in borrowing largely by factoring in the proceeds of a 4G telecomms auction that has not yet happened.
(3) The four other works were sold at auction at Christie's and disappeared into private collections.
(4) When I moved house a little while ago, a friend suggested using another service in the sharing economy – the delivery auction website, AnyVan .
(5) Volatility on European markets was "mainly driven by Portugal's disappointing bond auction", said Gavan Nolan, an analyst at Markit.
(6) Amber Rudd, the energy secretary, has promised to reform the auction scheme but one of her ministers, Andrea Leadsom, welcomed this year’s awards, arguing they reduced costs for homeowners.
(7) The biggest loser could be the state-owned oil company Rosneft, which bought Yukos assets in auctions when the latter's stock was almost worthless.
(8) But the Wu-Tang leader went on to speak about it anyhow: “[The album has] been handed over to an auction house, and they plan on doing something,” he said.
(9) The 4Growth report calls on government to reinvest the £4bn proceeds from the auction of 4G telecoms licences back into science and technology.
(10) Serum C concentrations of the calves (n = 100 x 4 years) were evaluated on their farm of origin, on arrival at an auction market, on arrival at a feedyard, and during their first 4 weeks in the feedyard.
(11) The annual capacity market auction – under which power suppliers bid for contracts to feed electricity into the grid – is due to begin on Tuesday.
(12) The original version wrongly stated that Madrid had to pay 5.7% at a debt auction to borrow €2.4bn for 12 months, rather than 5.07%.
(13) It was described as one of the artist's masterpieces by David Moore-Gwyn, deputy chairman in the UK of Sotheby's, which will auction the painting in December.
(14) However, the most spectacular fundraiser was not the auction room but a wedding, when the ninth duke married the American railroad heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, securing a gigantic dowry, a fortune in shares and an annual allowance.
(15) A week after the Tories raised £160,000 by selling a game of tennis with David Cameron and Boris Johnson , the Labour party will on Wednesday be auctioning a five-a-side football match against the "shadow cabinet all-stars".
(16) The report said Isis had begun holding online slave auctions with an encrypted application to circulate photos of captured Yazidi women and girls.
(17) Another option could be to partner with BSkyB, which is desperate to see off direct rival BT in the next football rights auction, with whom Discovery already has a strong commercial relationship.
(18) Maria Miller wanted to launch the debate about BBC charter renewal herself, thus guaranteeing that the future of the BBC would become part of a political auction.
(19) There has been a spate of thefts of rhino horns and elephant tusks from European museums, zoos and auction houses in recent years, amid a rising illegal trade in poached or stolen ivory .
(20) As Yannis Koutsomitis notes, the Spanish in particular, probably have the ECB to thank for its successful auctions.
Suction
Definition:
(v. t.) The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(2) It is suitable either for brief sampling of AP durations when recording with microelectrodes, which may impale cells intermittently, or for continuous monitoring, as with suction electrodes on intact beating hearts in situ.
(3) During suction a flow of cold, dry room air replaces the warm, moist cavity air, causing cooling both directly and by vaporization of water.
(4) Suction mammaplasty can be used as a sole technique in congenital asymmetry or in post-reduction enlargement or asymmetry.
(5) If transportation is unduly delayed, immediate linear incision and suction may be of value.
(6) Suction blisters were raised on psoriatic lesions and normal appearing skin.
(7) The vocalight lights up a variable number of light-emitting diodes depending upon the loudness of sounds received at a hydrophone within the suction cup.
(8) Anesthetized, intubated kittens were subjected to one of two procedures: (1) insertion of a suction catheter to a predetermined distance and withdrawal with or without the application of suction or (2) insertion of the catheter until resistance was met and withdrawal with or without the application of suction.
(9) Survival analysis demonstrated that the probability of survival without developing nosocomial pneumonia was greater among closed-suctioning patients vs. open-suctioned patients (p less than .03).
(10) In vitro experiments with hydrogel discs of 56%, 65%, 69.5% and 75% water content were subjected to swelling pressures ranging from 55 to 150 mmHg in a suction chamber.
(11) One significant concern involves the rotary vane aspirators used to provide the suction required for the procedure.
(12) Concomitant bilateral myringotomy with suction aspiration of the middle ear contents also should be done, with or without placement of tympanostomy tubes at the discretion of the surgeon.
(13) Having made the above observations and comparison, it must be concluded that the suction method is clearly the more advantageous.
(14) Thirty four per cent of the patients had no peritoneal drainage and an abscess rate of 1.8%, 18% had only closed suction drainage and 0% abscess rate, 15% had only open sump drainage and a rate of 8.3%, 14% had only open Penrose drainage with a rate of 8.7%, and 19% had a combination of both open Penrose and sump drainage with a rate of 22.5%.
(15) These complications could not be seen when extracardiac suction blood was eliminated or filtrated.
(16) The time course of appearance and the dynamic changes of immunocompetent cells were assessed in human skin following sterile suction blister would healing.
(17) Active filling (-10 mmHg) inside inner blood sacs was produced by the suction effects of the outer sacs attached to a moving actuator.
(18) The PTB-suction prosthesis has been studied by a roentgenological technique.
(19) Whole-cell ICa free of other overlapping currents was recorded with a suction pipette.
(20) Baroreflex responsiveness was determined from the R-R interval responses to neck suction and pressure (repeated trials of 5-s stimuli of -20, -40, and 35 mmHg).