(a.) Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(2) So when did audiences become so deferential to a release strategy blatantly motivated by naked financial gain?
(3) There's no doubt Twitter is, for those who are into that kind of thing, a first-class social networking medium (the proof: pretty much every other social networking site, including Facebook, has tried to buy it and, having failed, adopted a whole raft of blatantly Twitter-like features of their own).
(4) In the first debate, Obama left Romney's blatantly false assertions and attacks go unchecked.
(5) While Chinese media have not spelt out Zhou's woes explicitly, the hints have grown more blatant by the month, with some identifying him via his family relationships.
(6) "It is a blatant attempt to cover up the truth about Labour's cuts."
(7) Its coverage was so vindictive and blatantly unfair that it succeeded in winning sympathy for the prime minister, not an easy thing to do these days.
(8) Updated at 4.58pm BST 4.46pm BST Half time: Shakhter 1-0 Celtic 45 mins Mouyokolo does the most blatant of bodychecks on Finonchenko around the half-way line and gets his name in the yellow book for his troubles.
(9) MPs said the group's decision to target some of the UK's most prominent Muslim communities was a blatant attempt to provoke mayhem and disorder.
(10) Pro-government activists blatantly threatened people and newspaper offices were attacked.
(11) Other transactions are more blatantly criminal: Eritreans, who with Syrians and Afghans make up the majority of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean, are often driven “for free” from Khartoum in Sudan to Ajdabiya on the Libyan coast, where they are locked up and tortured until relatives pay a ransom.
(12) "This was a blatant and outrageous attempt to suborn a member of parliament," said Mr Galloway.
(13) He says the paper also falsely alleged that he "has told blatant lies in an attempt to cover up his corrupt dealings" with Misick.
(14) Triggs appeared before a Senate estimates committee hearing on Tuesday for the first time since the prime minister, Tony Abbott, argued the commission’s inquiry into children in detention was a “blatantly partisan, politicised exercise” or a “stitch-up” against the Coalition government.
(15) Ing concedes she is hardly a fan of a man she accuses of a "blatant and obscene lack of ethics", but rejects the accusation that the film is anti-Thaksin propaganda: her use of red, for instance, was decided long before it became associated with his redshirts .
(16) It was claimed that this emphasis on troops from the "new Commonwealth" was intended to promote "community cohesion" in the UK – leading to accusations in Australia of "blatant politicisation".
(17) Blatant carelessness, misuse or improper maintenance of equipment, and intoxication are analyzed as contributory factors.
(18) Three minutes later a dithering David Edgar allowed Callum Wilson to bully him out of possession before blatantly tugging his shirt.
(19) Blount gets them three on first down, the Patriots look like they're trying to take my advice here, and on second down Brady throws to (okay I'm going to blatantly cut-and-paste this one) Michael Hoomananawuni for15 yards.
(20) They ranged from the “hmm” to the blatant to the eye-wateringly awful: ‘Hair twirling’ I recall once the suggestion that I ask a question of another team, in a very airy and innocent manner, hair-twirling and all, to try and get a more favourable answer than previously.
(a.) Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter.
(a.) Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines.
(a.) Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.
(a.) A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party.
(a.) A writing securing to an invention.
(a.) A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.
(a.) The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.
(v. t.) To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.
Example Sentences:
(1) We found that, compared to one- and two-dose infants, those treated with three doses of Exosurf were more premature, smaller, required a longer ventilator course, and had more frequent complications, including patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), intraventricular hemorrhage, nosocomial pneumonia, and apnea.
(2) "We presently are involved in a number of intellectual property lawsuits, and as we face increasing competition and gain an increasingly high profile, we expect the number of patent and other intellectual property claims against us to grow," the company said.
(3) Most notably, retroperitoneal lymph nodes in rabbits remained dark blue up to 28 days after hindlimb endolymphatic instillation of liposomal patent blue.
(4) Central assessment of the angiograms revealed a patent infarct-related artery in 78 patients (patency rate 66%, 95% confidence limits 57 to 74%).
(5) These observations suggest that the function of BMG is to evoke mesenchymal cell differentiation into prechondroblasts during the latent or migratory morphogenetic phase while the effect of the culture medium is to provide the bionutritional requirements for synthesis of hyaline cartilage matrix by chondrocytes during the patent phase of development.
(6) Ligation of the left renal vein on the medial side of the adrenolumbar tributary maintained a patent left renal vein in all cases with 60% of left kidney biopsies showing no histological evidence of changes to glomeruli or tubules, and the remainder showing early acute tubular necrosis.
(7) Rapid diagnosis and treatment of patent ductus arteriosus and appropriate fluid intake are also essential for a favourable outcome in newborn infants with severe RDS treated with surfactant.
(8) Seven infants (group 1) received indomethacin to treat a clinically significant patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), and eight infants (group 2) received indomethacin prophylactically at 24 hours of age because of their high risk for PDA.
(9) However, one or more grafts were patent in 52 (90 per cent) of these 58 patients.
(10) A very low parasitaemia, (highest score 2), which was patent for only 10 days, was recorded.
(11) At operation a patent left umbilical artery was partially obstructing the distal left ureter.
(12) On Day 3, dogs with patent grafts underwent wound debridement, irrigation, and closure, and the treatment to which they had been randomized was carried out.
(13) The patient recovered well and postoperative angiography revealed all bypass grafts patent.
(14) (They also delivered an encouraging decision on patent trolls just this week.)
(15) The most commonly associated lesions were ventricular septal defect (50%), hypoplastic aortic arch (45%), patent ductus arteriosus (41%), transposition of great arteries (22.7%) and other intracardiac lesions comprised 30%.
(16) A case of double intussusception through a patent vitello-intestinal duct is reported.
(17) It was found that when the mice were infected with up to 5943 parasites within 6 days of treating a previous infection, no patent infection was recorded.
(18) In order to incorporate concordant patents, fuzzy subsets are employed, with the number of attempts required to achieve transitive closure being the values for comparison.
(19) A couple of years later, he patented a method of producing a water-repellent textile.
(20) Of the 23 sequential bypasses, only 1 anastomosis out of 46 was not patent for a success rate of 97.3%.