(v. t.) To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reeforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil.
(v. t.) To add an augment to.
(v. i.) To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.
(n.) Enlargement by addition; increase.
(n.) A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that acute renal denervation augments the pressure diuresis that follows carotid occlusion.
(2) With aging, the blood vessel wall becomes hyperreactive--presumably because of an augmented vasoconstrictor and a reduced vasodilator responsiveness.
(3) Augmentation of transformation response was generally not seen at 40 degrees C; incubation at that temperature was associated with decreased cellular viability.
(4) Measures of average and cumulative rank were used to augment tests of the significance of correlations between different indicators.
(5) The role of adrenergic agents in augmenting proximal tubular salt and water flux, was studied in a preparation of freshly isolated rabbit renal proximal tubular cells in suspension.
(6) Platelet survival time in patients with Crohn's disease proved to be significantly shortened (p less than 0.001), whereas platelet turnover appeared augmented.
(7) To augment the in vitro expansion of LAK cells, we added highly purified human recombinant interleukin-2, phytohemagglutinin and accessory cells (Uc cells) to the LAK culture system, with which huge number of LAK cells (LAK-L) were generated from originally small number of peripheral blood lymphocytes of cancer patients.
(8) Excessive accumulation of hydrogen ions in the brain may play a pivotal role in initiating the necrosis seen in infarction and following hyperglycemic augmentation of ischemic brain damage.
(9) Although the mechanism(s) by which melanin augments inflammation has not been defined, these data suggest that the binding of serum components (such as antibodies) to melanin may contribute to its proinflammatory effect.
(10) Second, to evaluate the temporal relationship between progesterone infusion and its capacity to augment amphetamine-stimulated dopamine release, in Expt.
(11) Further management of the congenital cases was based on the experience that children outgrow this disorder; periodic dilatation may augment the natural process.
(12) The augmentation of IgE-mediated reactions was maximal in tuberculin reactions elicited 1 week after active immunization but was still significant in reactions elicited 6 weeks after immunization.
(13) In the nude rats, all DBM controls and augmented implants induced bone.
(14) While estradiol levels were equivalent in these two groups, the rise in LH after ovariectomy was prevented by the immediate administration in the pseudo-intact rats, while the augmented plasma LH levels present three weeks following ovariectomy were only reduced by 50% as a result of delayed estradiol treatment.
(15) Finally, a reciprocal facilitating effect of RRs and augmenting responses (ARs), which was studied by combined stimulation of nucleus ventralis posterolateralis (VPL) and NCM, appeared to be dependent upon an intracortical mechanism.
(16) For these augmented breaths, tidal volume, inspiratory time, and expiratory time were not different from the next augmented breath occurring in the same run in the steady state.
(17) The breakdown of homocysteine, via the transsulphuration pathway, was augmented by Zn deficiency.
(18) UVB irradiation augmented the beta-adrenergic adenylate cyclase response of pig skin epidermis in vitro.
(19) The ability to demonstrate selective augmentation of the functional matrix-associated receptor population, and our recent results showing that gonadotropes are indeed the responsive cells (Singh P, Muldoon TG, unpublished observations) speak to the specificity and relevance of these findings.
(20) Accordingly, RV systolic SL shortening did not rise despite the substantial augmentation in RV outflow.
Tempo
Definition:
(n.) The rate or degree of movement in time.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their tempo was better in the second, although there remained the general lack of ingenuity.
(2) The divergence of the cytochrome b gene is modular: various parts of the gene have changed with a different mode and tempo of evolution.
(3) "The MPC must up the tempo at which they execute quantitative easing, while increasing the scheme's size beyond £125bn."
(4) Next his wife, Jay Z isn't much a dancer, and when the tempo upped, he respectfully exited, letting her lead her Beyhive legions through their hip-shaking glory.
(5) They struggled against the USA, however, when the tempo was pushed up to Premier League levels.
(6) Corner to USA though... 1.33am BST 20 mins More tempo in the American play now, but Belgium intercept again, and Mirallas torments them down the Belgian right flank before hitting a low cross in that's hoofed safely clear.
(7) US in no rush to make the substitutions as they try to break up Germany's early tempo.
(8) Nigeria's military and government claim to be winning the war in the five-year insurgency but the tempo and deadliness of attacks has increased this year, killing more than 2,000 people so far compared to an estimated 3,600 killed over the past four years.
(9) The grouping structure, which prescribes the location of major tempo changes, and the parabolic timing function, which represents a natural manner of executing such changes, seem to be the two major constraints under which pianists are operating.
(10) These comparisons can be summarized as follows: 1) TDL populations primed in bulk MLI cultures (MLI-TDL) slowed some evidence of specific positive selection when tested immediately; MLI responses to specific alloantigens were both relatively large and accelerated in tempo, whereas responses to third party alloantigens were diminished but also accelerated in tempo.
(11) In extra-time began to look more like the tempo-setting player he can be, even as his team fell behind.
(12) In our experiments we used spin-labeled maleimide [4-maleimido-tempo] to examine the local environment in the active site of thioredoxin reductase in the presence and absence of calcium.
(13) The specific effect of tuning system was not affected by the tempo of the fragments.
(14) Tempo of growth is under genetical control but quite separately from size.
(15) Girls' development is highlighted because research on antecedents addresses genetic and environmental influences on menarcheal age variations, and because findings on the behavioral consequences of tempo variations have been less consistent for girls than for boys.
(16) This pattern and the tempo of its evolution were distinctly different from the diffuse infiltrates seen in patients with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
(17) The isolated proteins were spin-labeled by TEMPO-dichlorotriazine and the values of rotational correlation times (tau) of labeled proteins were found using dependencies of ESR spectra parameters vs viscosity at constant temperature.
(18) The introduction of mechanization and automation has led to increased tempo and greater stress.
(19) Steven Gerrard was at his influential and impressive best, dictating Liverpool's tempo from a deep-lying midfield role, and as well as playing a part in both of his side's goals – it was from the 32-year-old's cross-field ball that Coutinho set up Henderson for the equaliser – he also ensured Liverpool held on to their lead with a stunning goalline clearance on 65 minutes, after Benteke had been presented with a free header from Westwood's corner.
(20) Despite Lee Cattermole's best efforts, Sunderland struggled to force any sort of tempo and, with Norwich coasting comfortably, the atmosphere remained stubbornly flat.