(p. p.) Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here we have asked whether protection from blood-borne antigens afforded by the blood-brain barrier is related to the lack of MHC expression.
(2) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(3) It wasn’t an easy decision because I was born in Kingston, Jamaica,” acknowledged Aarons.
(4) Nulliparous women were also more likely to discontinue the condom because of pregnancy, as were non-Protestants and the Australian-born.
(5) All the twins were born in years 1973-1987, the total number was 2,226 boys and 2,302 girls.
(6) There were 101 unwanted pregnancies, and 1 child was born with intersexual genitals.
(7) There are no published reports of its detection in neonates born to affected mothers.
(8) Aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) inducibility, carbon monoxide in expired air (CO), serum gammaglutamyl-transferase (GGT), and total cholesterol were compared in equal-sized, age-matched samples of healthy middle-aged males born in 1921, 1934-1936, and 1946 attending the ongoing preventive medical population program in Malmö.
(9) There were 4 spontaneous first trimester abortions and 21 live-born neonates without major problems related to the treatment or to the maternal disease.
(10) The expectation of life at birth was only 30-35 years, but it was long enough to allow for children to be born and for the populations to expand.
(11) Whereas the tight junctions of endoneurial capillaries are known to prevent certain blood-borne substances from entering the endoneurium, it was not clear whether the permeability of the pulpal capillaries, which are distant from the nerve fibres, could affect the nerve fibre environment.
(12) The data of first 1000 first-born, non-malformed, mature (greater than or equal to 2500 g) offspring of participants in the Hungarian "Optimal" Family Planning Programme were evaluated.
(13) Scott was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the youngest of the three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Elizabeth.
(14) After all, he reminds us, the Smiths can take no credit for the place, having only been born and brought up there, not responsible for its size and stature.
(15) It is the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the United States, where the incidence is highest in the eastern and midwestern states.
(16) < 37 weeks) small for gestational age (SGA) born from 1980 to 1987 in Pavia and admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of S. Matteo Hospital (Pavia).
(17) Polypeptides of egg-borne Sendai virus (egg Sendai), which is biologically active on the basis of criteria of the infectivity for L cells and of hemolytic and cell fusion activities, were compared by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with those of L cell-borne (L Sendai) and HeLa cell-borne Sendai (HeLa Sendai) viruses, which are judged biologically inactive by the above criteria.
(18) The genetic management of the African green monkey breeding colony was discussed in relation to the difference in distribution of phenotypes of M and ABO blood groups between the parental (wild-originated) and the first filial (colony-born) populations.
(19) What we see from those opposite and we see in this chamber every day is the 'born to rule mentality' of those opposite.
(20) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.
Hoist
Definition:
(v. t.) To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight.
(n.) That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods.
(n.) The act of hoisting; a lift.
(n.) The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff.
(n.) The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay.
(p. p.) Hoisted.
Example Sentences:
(1) For years a small army of therapists has worked in the shadows to help older people stay in their own homes – fitting stair rails, ordering hoists, measuring ramps and offering support vital to rehabilitation.
(2) Before things get out of hand, the trophy is presented to Steven Gerrard, who hoists it skywards with a loud roar.
(3) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
(4) A large toilet with a changing table and ceiling hoists are the answer to many disabled people’s prayers, however they are a rare sight.
(5) Finally, perhaps with a bit of hindsight, we can see this as JP Morgan being hoisted by its own petard; the complexity of the derivatives it was inventing and selling made them hard to value and rate for risk.
(6) Drogba, his game hoisted for the big occasion, is untouchable.
(7) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
(8) Some rigged up pulley systems to hoist shopping to their windows, where the glass was cracked and fixed with tape.
(9) At which point restraint becomes as powerful as the Seeds' ravenous beer-hall bluster; a ten-minute Stagger Lee is a masterclass in tension and drama, Cave balancing precariously on the crowd barrier with audience members holding him up by the boot-heel as he leans out to sing his tale of a deviant killer directly into the eyes of a hypnotised girl in white hoisted on someone's shoulders.
(10) A few cells are adapted to accommodate hoists, hospital beds, and specialist mattresses.
(11) Down by a goal with less than 15 minutes to play, and struggling just to keep their footing on a frozen field, they might easily have hoisted the white flag.
(12) A mobile calf enclosure was developed which incorporated a hydraulic hoist and sling for the care of calves.
(13) • Pro-Russia demonstrators surrounded government buildings in at least three Ukrainian cities, hoisting Russian flags and chanting against the government in Kiev.
(14) These patient handling tasks were studied using five manual techniques and three hoist-assisted techniques.
(15) At night, if you are quiet, you can hear them whirring from the Hills Hoist.
(16) Eddie Howe Bournemouth manager Considered one of the brightest managerial prospects in English football on the back of his success with Bournemouth, whom he has helped hoist from bottom tier to Premier League over two spells, enduring a trickier period at Burnley in between, and ensuring the Cherries’ top-flight status last term was a fine achievement.
(17) It says something about the difficulties of the old library that a special hoist had to be built to help get nearly a million books out and into the new building "There is one creaky old books lift, but we really feared it wasn't up to the job," Gambles said.
(18) We stand to attention for the Soviet anthem and hoisting of the red flag, and then down we go, into the freezing-cold bunker.
(19) She boldly says she is not in school because the teachers gave them a day off to do marking and hoists 10 litres of water onto her head, holding a second 5-litre jerry can in her hand, before setting off on the 3km walk home.
(20) A Russian flag was hoisted at the site, where previously there had been clashes between pro- and anti-Russian protesters, as well as a sign saying “Crimea is Russia”.