(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.
Tanning
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tan
(n.) The art or process of converting skins into leather. See Tan, v. t., 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) Outdoor sunlight exposure during the workshift and tanning salon use were identified as risk factors; the most severe cutaneous reactions tended to occur among tanning salon users.
(2) In t(7;9)(q34;q34.3) translocations from three cases of T-ALL, the breakpoints occur within 100 bp of an intron in TAN-1, resulting in truncation of TAN-1 transcripts.
(3) Kidneys were approximately double the normal size and were pale tan to grey in color.
(4) Both internalized and cellularly enveloped hexamethylenediisocyanate-tanned dermal sheep collagen degraded by the detachment of fibrils.
(5) This demonstrates that a UVA tan provides photoprotection against acute UVA exposure.
(6) In this study the efficacy of preserving microvascular heterografts with glutaraldehyde tanning was investigated.
(7) A comparative study of tanned cell hemagglutination (TCH) and counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIE), two easy and reliable methodes for the routine detection of antibodies against nuclear antigens was performed.
(8) Mackay confirmed following Saturday's 2-1 defeat by Newcastle United that a resolution had been reached over the issue but Cardiff's players are reportedly no longer happy for Tan to be in the dressing room on match days.
(9) Reversible binding of BAN and TAN had Ki values of 1 x 10(-9) and 1 x 10(-10) M, respectively as determined by log probit plots.
(10) These findings are relevant to the risk-benefit analysis of sunscreen preparations, especially in skin type II, as they provide evidence that a 5-methoxypsoralen-induced tan is protective against the DNA-damaging effects of solar UV radiation, and thus has the potential to reduce the carcinogenic risk of exposure to such radiation.
(11) Modified human umbilical vein allografts tanned with glutaraldehyde and encased in a polyester mesh were used as arterial substitutes in 13 femoropopliteal reconstructive procedures.
(12) Patients with polymorphic light eruption who intend to obtain a tan by sunbathing should not, therefore, be treated with sunscreens which may worsen their rash, but should be advised to sunbathe without sunscreens for a shorter time.
(13) At higher concentrations, O2 and TAN sensitize the fast-stage damage by a fixation reaction that competes with its repair; in contrast, misonidazole appears mainly to operate by reaction with an earlier, ever shorter form of oxygen-dependent damage.
(14) I asked if they had a black baby face, and my mother even asked if they had a “tan” baby (since my husband is white and our child will be biracial), but the sales woman told me that their babies only came in black and white.
(15) The potency and selectivity of D,L-4-(3,4-dichloro-benzoyl-amino)-5-(dipentyl-amino)-5-oxo-pen tan oic acid (CR 1409) as a cholecystokinin (CCK) antagonist was investigated on motor responses of the longitudinal and circular muscles of the guinea-pig isolated ileum.
(16) This article examines the indoor tanning industry, the effects of ultraviolet-A radiation, and public education.
(17) The foal with acute disease had distinct green-tan focal necrosis and thickened mucosa of the large intestine.
(18) The carcinogenic effect of 3 commercially available ultraviolet A (UVA) tanning sources was studied in lightly pigmented hairless mice.
(19) All tumors occurred as solitary, soft to firm, solid, tan, and ulcerated masses in the digits of dogs aged 11 to 15 years.
(20) Anti-hTG titers far below those detected by the tanned-red cell hemagglutination test had very large effects, to the point where measurements of hTG could not be made, when a cross-reactive precipitating antiserum was used.