(n.) That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.
(n.) A tariff or duty on goods, etc.
(n.) Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.
(n.) A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils.
(n.) The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested.
(n.) A mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10.
(n.) Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc.
(n.) In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
(a.) Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average Englishman; beings of the average stamp.
(a.) According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution.
(v. t.) To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean.
(v. t.) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss.
(v. t.) To do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average.
(v. i.) To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recovery of CV-3988 from plasma averaged 81.7% for the column procedure and 40% for the organic extraction.
(2) Medication remained effective during the average observation time of 22 months.
(3) The 40 degrees C heating induced an increase in systolic, diastolic, average and pulse pressure at rectal temperature raised to 40 degrees C. Further growth of the body temperature was accompanied by a decrease in the above parameters.
(4) When compared with self-reported exposures, the sensitivity of both job-exposure matrices was low (on average, below 0.51), while the specificity was generally high (on average, above 0.90).
(5) Measures of average and cumulative rank were used to augment tests of the significance of correlations between different indicators.
(6) Average fluoroscopy time per procedure was 27.8 minutes of which 15.1 minutes were for nephrostomy tube insertion and 12.7 minutes were for calculi extraction.
(7) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
(8) The maximum amplitude of the inward Na+ current, normalized by cell capacitance, is about sixfold larger, on the average, in LP lactotropes than in SP lactotropes.
(9) Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) and postheparin esterase (PHE) activity was determined in 35 patients with primary hyperlipoproteinaemia (HLP) type IV (average age 50 years), 28 with type V (average age 48 years) and 2 with type III (57 and 62 years).
(10) The terminal half-life averaged 12 h following intravenous and 15 h after oral administration.
(11) Of the 138 patients who were admitted to the study, only seventy-one (51 per cent) could be followed for an average of 3.5 years (a typical return rate of urban trauma centers).
(12) About 30% of clonable T cells, including both CD4+ CD8- and CD4- CD8+ cells, could be expanded for assay at an average of 22 days after cloning.
(13) Data are shown for both mutagenesis and carcinogenesis, indicating that, in this respect, even the smallest average organ absorbed dose can be effective, particularly for high-LET radiation.
(14) Gross mortgage lending stood at £7.9bn in April compared with £8.7bn in March and a six-month average of £9.9bn.
(15) On embryonic day 3.5 (E3.5), 1 day after surgery, there is a 42% average increase in volume of the polyganglia compared with the corresponding DRG on the unoperated side.
(16) Affected dogs were from ten breeds and their average age was eight years.
(17) Average temperature changes observed were less than 1 degree C. The present study demonstrates that the electrically evoked response in mammalian brain can be altered by ultrasound in a non-thermal, non-cavitational mode, and that such effects are potentially reversible.
(18) These levels are sufficient to maintain normal in vivo rates of mRNA and rRNA synthesis, but the average density of packing of polymerases on DNA is considerably less than the maximum density predicted by Miller and Bakken (1972), suggesting that initiation of polymerases of DNA is a limiting factor in the control of transcription.
(19) The variation in age-specific rates with age was similar for all cancers, as demonstrated by large positive correlation coefficients between age-incidence patterns averaged over all populations.
(20) The average follow-up was 3.5 years (range 2-5.5 years).
Uninspiring
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) But there can be few elections where the choice is as uninspiring as this.
(2) The Coalition is appealing to the same change-weary voters with the message that Turnbull is a better bet to deliver economic and political stability and Shorten is untested, uninspiring and a risk.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Venetian Condos in Oliver Unfortunately, Edmonton has a lot of rather odd and uninspired architecture, particularly that dating from the 1990s and early 2000s.
(4) Manchester City had not won since Sergio Agüero’s last goal, away against Swansea City on 24 September, but seven games later the Argentina striker found the net twice in the first half to catapult Pep Guardiola’s team past an uninspiring West Bromwich Albion and back to the top of the table, where Arsenal had momentarily displaced them earlier in the afternoon.
(5) Occasionally Beckerman would start in the Jones role, but the effect of him alongside Bradley seemed to be very static and uninspiring.
(6) The standard of opposition is, in part, to make up for a generally uninspiring fixture list in their qualifying group.
(7) Polls put Romney ahead by two percentage points on Thursday and, after delivering a competent but uninspired speech on Thursday evening, one point on Friday.
(8) City were sluggish and uninspired, and though Dzeko hit the bar with a powerful header just before Southampton levelled, he should have done better from Nasri's well-flighted free-kick.
(9) Yet it also includes hundreds of longstanding activists who did the same to register their discontent with what they felt to be a shrunken, inauthentic and uninspiring offer from the Labour mainstream.
(10) While a less crushing defeat is expected this time, analysts are not predicting significant gains for fragmented, uninspired opponents that have wilted under the EPRDF’s glare.
(11) Or, if you prefer, Barney Ronay's analysis of a "turgid, tactically constipated semi-final”, "a deeply uninspiring match", "a game of no shots, no incident and a crushing sense of caution", "120 minutes of something that resembled a groggy second cousin of high-grade tournament football".
(12) Miguel Herrera's side may have had a fairly uninspiring qualification campaign but they have already proved that they can kick it with the best of them and with the rest of them.
(13) They are uninspiring, do not challenge able students and certainly do not prepare students for an A-level course.
(14) Villa were flat and uninspiring, on the wrong end of a game of keep-ball, and, if Lambert's move for Grant Holt of Wigan Athletic smacks a little of desperation, it is because their record of eight home goals in the league is as bad as it gets in all four divisions.
(15) It looked as though the teams would play out an uninspiring 0-0 draw after 90 minutes that had end of season stamped all over them.
(16) Those are: Labor’s me-tooism on asylum-seekers that offend a moral conscience of idealistic campaigners, me-tooism on mass surveillance that infuriates an entire digital community of potential communicators, and employing the language of uninspiring bureaucracy around the progressive policy opportunity which is climate action.
(17) It detailed a string of failures: that staff training on how to prevent radicalism and extremism was not completed; there were issues around safeguarding, declining academic standards, uninspiring teaching, low expectations and low attendance.
(18) Their campaign has been arid and uninspiring so far and they must hope that the public does not grow resentful of their persistent claims that Scotland isn't big enough or good enough to stand alone.
(19) Sifting through a mountain of unwelcome tweets, many Twitter users would sympathise with a lament such as: "Most comments are predictably ludicrous, irrational and uninspiring and, therefore, do not warrant the time for a response."
(20) Photograph: PR company handout Creatively, it’s all a bit uninspiring, but there are passable moments.