(v. t.) To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
(v. t.) To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
(v. t.) To leave out; to except.
(v. t.) To remove.
(v. t.) To deprive of.
(v. i.) To remit or retrench a part; -- with of.
(v. i.) To waste away.
(v. t.) To attack; to bait.
() imp. of Bite.
(v. i.) To flutter as a hawk; to bait.
(n.) See 2d Bath.
(n.) An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.
(v. t.) To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We were very disappointed when the DH decided to suspend printing Reduce the Risk, a vital resource in the prevention of cot death in the UK", said Francine Bates, chief executive of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, which helped produce the booklet.
(2) A search of the medical records from 1940 to 1975 at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco and Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley has revealed only 3 cases of carcinoma within a urethral diverticulum.
(3) I'm sure Evan wouldn't mind me saying that he makes no secret of an occasional discomfort about conventional chord-change playing in jazz, and tends to sit out occasions where it's required, as he did last year in London on a gig in which the pianist Django Bates was reworking Charlie Parker tunes.
(4) The pulmonary diffusing capacity (DLCO) was measured in 13 healthy subjects during heart catheterization by the steady-state method (according to Bates and his coworkers).
(5) That could make it more difficult to gain a majority decision to change monetary policy in either direction," says Nick Bate, economist at Bank of America in London.
(6) Bates also rebuked the agency for misrepresenting the true scope of a major collection program for the third time in three years.
(7) Unsurprisingly, Laura Bates turned to an anonymous talkboard to ask for help soon after she founded the Everyday Sexism Project 18 months ago.
(8) Three prototype robots – “SwarmBots” – have been tested on the Bate family property near Emerald and, by mid-2017, will be available to farmers in other parts of Australia on a fee-for-service basis.
(9) Ouseley's pressure group, Kick It Out , has been hugely effective, and Bates has gone on to become a vocal campaigner against racism.
(10) He has a Nobel Prize in economics (also the John Bates Clark award for best economist under 40).
(11) Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates is published by Simon & Schuster inspring 2014.
(12) Both were directed by Harold Pinter and both starred Alan Bates, who was to become intimately associated with Gray's plays.
(13) David is preparing a counterclaim against GFH for monies owed to him and which are in excess of the amount of the claim made against him by GFH.” Haigh played a key role in GFHC’s takeover of Leeds from Ken Bates in December 2012 and also introduced Massimo Cellino, the present owner, to the club.
(14) The Ti1 pioneer neurons arise at the distal tip of the metathoracic leg in the grasshopper embryo, and are the first neurons in the limb bud to extend axons to the central nervous system (C. M. Bate (1976) Nature (London) 260, 54-56; H. Keshishian (1980) Dev.
(15) In an article for the Guardian two days later , Bate wrote that no reason had been given and that he understood that Carol Hughes, who controls her husband’s estate, had been happy with how he planned to research and present the work.
(16) Maurice Bates is interim co-chair of the College of Social Work This content is brought to you by Guardian Professional.
(17) Bates was born in Allestree, Derbyshire; and, although Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet had "a very poor opinion of young men who live in Derbyshire", Bates made the most of its artistic possibilities.
(18) Some may want a book that offers some escape – in which case the quirky English humour of Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle may do the trick, or a pick-me-up dose of HE Bates 's The Darling Buds of May .
(19) And, apart from appearing in plays at his Belper grammar school, Bates became a regular visitor to Derby Playhouse, where he admired the work of two unknown actors, and later friends, John Osborne and John Dexter.
(20) Until recently, Bates would have considered herself the last person qualified to answer that question.
Byte
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The Authors describe the classification of the malocclusion by Angle, and considerate one open byte case, may be caused by extrusion of first lower right molar, describing orthodontic treatment for his correction.
(2) The images are stored on the hard disk: each image requires 3M bytes, but it can be compressed down to 25:1 with no detail loss.
(3) Images were acquired in dynamic-byte mode, 128 X 128 matrix size, every one minute up to 40 minutes.
(4) The host computer sends a stream of bytes to the parallel port that specifies the configuration of the desired output pulses.
(5) For some, this visibility is empowering, but all it offers me is an unspoken pressure to give money, wear pink, have something specific and meaningful to say and a cause to champion, when I have no money, prefer neutrals and don’t have many thoughts I’m inclined to boil down to sound bytes.
(6) The word he repeatedly emphasized was “heart”, at times placing his hand over his chest while vowing to be the candidate who would go to bat for conservative causes even if he wasn’t able to sum it up in the ideal debate sound byte.
(7) A new computer memory using a laser beam to impress dimples on a standard credit card has been devised which contains about 2 million bytes (700 typed pages) and which has been formatted with software to permit access to a complete medical record which can be carried by the patient and updated at each encounter with the health care system.
(8) The encrypted text file is very small - just 211 bytes in size - but is large enough to contain, say, a couple of sentences.
(9) In the form presented here the routine converts incoming bytes into separate lines and saves these lines in a file.
(10) The amplified EMG signals were digitized using a sampling frequency of 50 samples per second, and numerical data was stored immediately on the hard disk (1 datum = 1 byte).
(11) He plans to look at streetlights in upcoming research: “Most of the products we take a look at are insecure; they have vulnerabilities and allow hackers to compromise them.” Many of the weaknesses are basic, he says: devices often don’t do adequate validation of the data being sent to them, failing to check whether malicious streams of information are being sent rather than legitimate bits and bytes determining their functions.
(12) Four hundred fifteen finger joints from 30 patients were evaluated for the presence of joint-space erosion, narrowing, and degenerative spurring on plain films, low-resolution digitized images (1024 x 840 bytes x 12 bit matrix), and high-resolution digitized images (2048 x 1680 bytes x 12 bit matrix).
(13) Data from 200 measurements is stored in a 2K byte RAM CMOS system.
(14) The file is written as a continuous byte stream, with no line or page formating.
(15) The large number of bytes being shifted by Netflix is a poor proxy for that detailed picture.
(16) Thousands of images have been transmitted to a site more than 15 miles away, with data rates exceeding 56,000 bits or 7,000 bytes (1 byte = 8 bits) per second with nearly perfect accuracy.
(17) TMG's other brands include Deltapoint, RAZSOR, 2nd Byte and Autotrade-mail.
(18) The data are transferred via RS-232C, and the each byte of data is received by MS-DOS BIOS call.
(19) In order to extend this method to images whose pixel values may vary from 8 bits per pixel to 16 bits per pixel, single byte coding is suggested.
(20) Lyme's disease (LD) is a multisystemic infection due to Borrelia Burgdorferi transmitted through the byte of a vector arthropod of the Ixodes genre.