(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.
Lye
Definition:
(n.) A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc.
(n.) A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding.
(n.) A falsehood.
Example Sentences:
(1) The success of conservative treatment has been higher in patients younger than 8 years of age, and in strictures due to caustics other than lye involving upper third portion and less than five cm of an esophageal segment.
(2) They may be used to irrigate oropharyngeal burns, but are contraindicated in the face of respiratory compromise, shock, liquid lye ingestion, and perforation of the esophagus or stomach.
(3) In the small number of patients with a nodular lye than in the other two histiocytic type, associated with diffuse areas, the prognosis is less favorable than in the other two histologic groups.
(4) In view of these findings, it can be postulated that LSD may be diagnosed and prognosed through LYE changes in the serum.
(5) Hypopharyngeal strictures, either isolated or in conjunction with laryngeal and esophageal strictures, can occur following lye ingestion.
(6) Mechanical homogenization of sputa before making the smear, carried out by shaking the sputum with glass beads, had a significant effect on the number of detected mycobacteria while homogenization using soda lye did not influence the positivity in any direction.
(7) It is well known, that in the group of high- supralevator deformities, the lower rectum, anal canal and internal sphincter are absent, and the terminal pouch lyes above the puborectalis sling.
(8) In a 16-year-old female, complete stenosis of the larynx and hypopharynx developed as a consequence of the ingestion of lye cristals.
(9) Clinical findings and lysosomal enzymes (LYE) in eight lumpy skin diseases (LSD) cows and same number of healthy ones were reported in Tal-El Baker village and Tal Alkabir centre, Ismailia province, Egypt.
(10) Forty-eight had gastroesophageal reflux disease and 2 had chronic lye strictures.
(11) Upon ingestion of lye and its compounds severe corrosive lesions may develop not only in the oesophagus but also of the stomach.
(12) The 5-year survival rate was 34% for the patients with a local tumour at operation and 44% for those in whom the carcinoma developed at the site of a previous lye stricture.
(13) Paediatric microstomia may occur congenitally in the whistling face syndrome but is more often acquired after accidental thermal injuries such as biting an electrical extension cord or ingesting household lye.
(14) Ten patients had ingested lye and one had an esophageal atresia.
(15) The inferiorly based platysma myocutaneous flap was used in two of our patients with lye burns, and bilateral superiorly based flaps were used in one.
(16) Treatment of lye ingestions by antidotes recommended on product labels includes the use of acid neutralizers.
(17) The most common indications for operation were esophageal strictures that developed after lye ingestion and reflux strictures not responding to other treatment.
(18) Herein, we report our experience with sucralfate in the treatment of a case of lye-induced esophagitis.
(19) Among 77 dogs surviving standardized transmural esophageal lye injury for at least 2 weeks and as long as 12 weeks, 24 were untreated, 26 received corticosteroids and bougienage (S&B), and 27 received only the lathyrogen beta-aminoproprionitrile (BAPN).
(20) Lyes claimed that 10 minutes after she returned to her seat a steward told her to surrender the flag and that, when she refused, she was told to leave the stadium.