(superl.) Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
(superl.) Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.
(superl.) Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
(superl.) Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive.
(superl.) Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
(superl.) Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.
(superl.) Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
(superl.) Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.
(superl.) Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.
(superl.) Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.
(n.) The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.
(n.) The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.
(n.) A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a group, the three mammalian proteins resemble bovine serum conglutinin and behave as lectins with rather broad sugar specificities directed at certain non-reducing terminal N-acetylglucosamine, mannose, glucose and fucose residues, but with subtle differences in fine specificities.
(2) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
(3) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
(4) Accordingly, when bFGF, complexed to heparin, is treated with pepsin A, an aspartic protease with a broad specificity, only the Leu9-Pro10 peptide bond is cleaved generating the 146-amino acid form.
(5) A broad specificity of LipDH was observed for the glycine cleavage system.
(6) Time-resolved tyrosine fluorescence anisotropy shows global correlation times broadly in agreement with the NMR results, but with an additional faster correlation time [approximately 600 ps].
(7) Cefuzoname seems to be among the middle ranks of beta-lactam agents as far as penetration rate is concerned; however, when its potent antibacterial activity and broad spectrum are taken into account, the concentrations in CSF in patients with meningitis seem worth examining.
(8) It was possible to classify the bacteriophages broadly, according to the variety of mutants that were resistant to them.
(9) The surface film transition is especially noted in the pressure-area curve of the surfactant and approximates in two dimensions the broad thermotropic phase transition of the bulk phase surfactant.
(10) If Clegg's concerns do broadly accord with Cameron's, how will the PM sell such a big U-turn to his increasingly anti-Clegg backbenchers?
(11) Federal endorsement of the HMO concept has resulted in broad understanding of a number of concepts unknown in fee-for-service medicine.
(12) Broad-based secular comprehensives that draw in families across the class, faith and ethnic spectrum, entirely free of private control, could hold a new appeal.
(13) A library of Zymomonas mobilis genomic DNA was constructed in the broad-host-range cosmid pLAFR1.
(14) Amphotericin B has a broad spectrum of action that includes most of the major fungal pathogens of man.
(15) All other broad-spectrum benzimidazole anthelmintics, regardless of substituent at the 2 position (methyl carbamate or thiazolyl group), are flat.
(16) As Kuwait is one of the countries where the total consumption of antibiotics is very high as compared to most of the western countries, we are inclined to assume that this generous policy for the prescription of especially ampicillin and other broad spectrum antibiotics in uncomplicated infections has generated this serious consequence.
(17) Learning to do this well involves acquiring a broad base of knowledge and a complex range of skills.
(18) The narrow latency window contained significantly more responses than could be explained by the spontaneous activity rate, but this was not true for the added time permitted by the broad window.
(19) Taxol has been demonstrated in numerous laboratories worldwide to have broad-spectrum antitumor activity against many tumor models.
(20) This strain of the organism fits a pattern of susceptibility that is rare among N asteroides isolates in general and has been called the type 5 pattern, described as a resistance to broad spectrum cephalosporins, ciprofloxacin, and all aminoglycosides except amikacin.
Spatulate
Definition:
(a.) Shaped like spatula, or like a battledoor, being roundish, with a long, narrow, linear base.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study examined four methods of condensation (brush with vibration, ultrasonic vibration, spatulation, and noncondensation) to evaluate their effects on porosity and color.
(2) The results indicated that the Whip-Mix vacuum mechanical spatulator produced significantly superior results to the Columbus system centrifugal mechanical spatulator, and that among the four alginates hand mixed, the Jeltrate impression material gave better results.
(3) Four disinfectant solutions--iodophor, neutral glutaraldehyde, phenol, and sodium hypochlorite--were spatulated with sterilized Type IV stone and vibrated into the intentionally contaminated impressions.
(4) Arteriograms showed good flow except for slight narrowing in one SA which, on postmortem exam, was seen to result from a fibrous band which extended from the spatulated segment to the opposite wall.
(5) The cytoplasm of light choroid epithelial cells seemed more electron-dense than in young adults and the microvilli were long and slender in contrast with the short, spatulate microvilli seen in young mice.
(6) Prevention of fistulae appears to be assisted by spatulation of the ureter rather than by its bevelled section, and the maintenance of a long ureteral loop to avoid traction.
(7) The male genitalia of Dermatobia hominis L. is described morphologically by the use of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and compared, under light microscopy, with other Cuterebridae D. hominis differes from Metacuterebra apicalis (Guérin-Méneville) because it has longer gonopods, shorter parameter, a small crest and spines on the distiphallus a bellshaped gonopore with a prominent external outline, and surstyli with a spatulate distal region.
(8) The main differences are the way the submucosal tunnel is prepared, the resection and spatulating of the terminal ureter and a new concept of suturing the ureter to the bladder mucosa.
(9) Spatulate villi were found in the cecal neck region, low ridges in the region where the neck expands, protruding collarlike structures in the mid cecal pouch, and flattened collars in the distal portion.
(10) Other growth cones having vermiform, lanceolate, spatulate, and bulbous forms were observed throughout the optic pathway at all stages examined, although the longer (up to 70 micrograms) wormlike structures appeared only in the optic tract during the early period of outgrowth.
(11) The viscosity measurement of the mixture of Thiokol LP-2, lead monoxide, and di-butyl phthalate was performed at the rates of shear ranged from 10(1.5) to 10(3.9) sec-1 at 20 degrees C. The viscosity of the mixture progressively increases after spatulation of the materials but yield value does not appear for the time being before setting, that is, the infinite network forming via the pendant SH groups could not take place until the most of SH groups were consumed, attributed to low concentration of poly-functional prepolymer in the liquid polymer.
(12) In the "Y" anastomosis, both ureters are spatulated and joined together to form a single tube which is anastomosed to the proximal end of the ileum.
(13) Sperm heads were examined by light microscopy and assigned to one of five classes: A. normal and near-normal, B. triangulate and oblate, C. spatulate, D. elongate, and E. filamentous.
(14) Spatulated anastomosis (SA) was compared to end-to-end anastomosis (EEA) with small arteries (3-4 mm) in nine conditioned dogs (22-30 kg).
(15) Scanning electron microscopy revealed the worm of spatulate appearance with rake-shaped tegumental spines.
(16) Eleven patients with ureteral lacerations underwent spatulated, interrupted anastomoses of absorbable suture and placement of Silastic double-J ureteral catheters and had prompt resolution of urinary drainage and normal urograms post stent removal.
(17) Pastes were made by spatulating a hydroxyapatite powder into triethylene glycol dimethacrylate (TEGDMA) that contained benzoyl peroxide.
(18) (2) The use of impression materials in syringing applications should not be precluded simply because the substances are thick or heavy during spatulation.
(19) Anastomoses were spatulated and sutured in an interrupted fashion.
(20) In the bloodmeal, amastigotes (1) transformed into stumpy promastigotes (2) which rapidly multiplied, resulting in spatulate-shaped nectomonad promastigotes (3) and elongate nectomonad promastigotes (4).