(a.) Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
(a.) Preferable in regard to rank, value, use, fitness, acceptableness, safety, or in any other respect.
(a.) Greater in amount; larger; more.
(a.) Improved in health; less affected with disease; as, the patient is better.
(a.) More advanced; more perfect; as, upon better acquaintance; a better knowledge of the subject.
(n.) Advantage, superiority, or victory; -- usually with of; as, to get the better of an enemy.
(n.) One who has a claim to precedence; a superior, as in merit, social standing, etc.; -- usually in the plural.
(compar.) In a superior or more excellent manner; with more skill and wisdom, courage, virtue, advantage, or success; as, Henry writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits.
(compar.) More correctly or thoroughly.
(compar.) In a higher or greater degree; more; as, to love one better than another.
(compar.) More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.; as, ten miles and better.
(a.) To improve or ameliorate; to increase the good qualities of.
(a.) To improve the condition of, morally, physically, financially, socially, or otherwise.
(a.) To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.
(a.) To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.
(v. i.) To become better; to improve.
(n.) One who bets or lays a wager.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purpose of these studies was to better understand the molecular basis of chromosome aberration formation after mitomycin C treatment.
(2) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(3) Plasma NPY correlated better with plasma norepinephrine than with epinephrine, indicating its origin from sympathetic nerve terminals.
(4) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
(5) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
(6) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(7) Even former Florida governor Jeb Bush, one of Trump’s chief critics, said ultimately, “anybody is better than Hillary Clinton”.
(8) Blood pressure control was marginally improved during the study and it is thought possible that better patient compliance might explain this.
(9) Patients in these groups had better postoperative analgesia.
(10) When the Tunnel closed, Hardee decamped in 1991 to Up The Creek - a slightly better behaved venue in nearby Greenwich, which Hardee described as "the Tunnel with A-levels".
(11) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
(12) Breast conserving surgery in patients with small tumors combined with radiation therapy has gained wide popularity due to better cosmetic results without significant changes in survival.
(13) The combination of methotrexate and cyclosporin is significantly better than either alone in controlling GVHD.
(14) In both instances the permeation rates of proteins can be better correlated to hydrodynamic radii than to molecular weights.
(15) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
(16) The cell fermentation culture with a stabilized pH value was better than the culture with the pH value changing spontaneously on saponin content, growth rate and biomass.
(17) With better understanding of metabolic and compositional requirements, great advances have been made in the area of total parenteral nutrition.
(18) A retrospective study was done in 86 patients on dialysis in order to evaluate the doses of aluminum hydroxide (OH3 Al) received to achieve a better serum phosphate control.
(19) From us you learn the state of your nation, and especially its management by the people you elected to give your children a better future.
(20) To get a better understanding of the different cell interactions during the immune response to a hapten-carrier complex, the effects of immunogenic or tolerogenic injections of various hapten-containing compounds on the responses induced by immunization with the same hapten coupled to protein carriers were studied.
Deemed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Deem
Example Sentences:
(1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(2) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
(3) Various protocols were employed to induce LTP and were deemed successful as evaluated by recording sustained enhancement of the mean peak amplitude of conventionally elicited large compound EPSPs and extracellular field potentials.
(4) And this was always the thing with the British player, they were always deemed never to be intelligent, not to have good decision-making skills but could fight like hell for the ball.
(5) Reasons for stopping treatment early included progressive disease, stable disease without symptomatic improvement, or severe toxicity deemed intolerable by either the patient or physician.
(6) Results of crosses were consistent with the hypothesis that a single, incompletely dominant gene was acting, but further study of both the anatomy and heredity of the defect was deemed necessary.
(7) These late paintings were deemed too perfect, not "badly done" enough, perhaps, and unchallenging: there was in them a marked absence of painterly lavishness.
(8) Items deemed inappropriate now extended to Soviet writings on sexuality from the previous decade, when abortion was legalised and Alexandra Kollontai, the most famous woman in the Bolshevik government, called for the destruction of the traditional family — a movement reversed under Stalin.
(9) This approach to a difficult and unusual problem is recommended as a first line of therapy rather than surgical resection if it is deemed that the patient can tolerate a combination of chemo and radiation therapy and the patient will be able to participate in a long-term follow-up.
(10) When we reached our summit, or whatever spot was deemed by my father to be of adequately punishing distance from the car to deserve lunch, Dad would invariably find he had forgotten his Swiss army knife (looking back, I begin to doubt he ever had one) and instead would cut cheese into slices with the edge of his credit card.
(11) Approximately half the cases in the past were deemed "primary" or "idiopathic."
(12) He was first deemed medically unfit to be detained in October, but has remained in custody.
(13) Two kidneys (Group 3), deemed unsuitable for transplantation, were perfused for 24 hours with perfusate swished with unwashed sterile gloves.
(14) Letters were sent to 259 members of the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) asking them to list representative cases where requests for equipment deemed necessary were denied.
(15) The Ulster Unionist health spokesman added: "I am concerned that a high court judge has deemed that the minister of health has breached the ministerial code.
(16) Then you happen on a large notice board festooned with flyers and cards, many offering help, companionship and solidarity to those who have been deemed surplus to the requirements of consumerism.
(17) Since his arrest, a French taboo has been broken and Strauss-Kahn's behaviour towards women, deemed "libertine" by his friends, has been raked over.
(18) The first African country to gain independence in 1957 following 83 years of colonial rule by the British, it is now a stable democracy whose last five elections have been deemed free and fair.
(19) According to Sussex police, explosives experts investigated what was initially deemed a suspicious item discarded by the man and carried out a small controlled explosion.
(20) These had such a chilling effect on the provision of abortion that the number carried out by medical staff collapsed in the face of warnings about long terms of imprisonment for those deemed to have broken the law .