(n.) The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water.
(n.) The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced.
(n.) Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the opposite of heaviness; as, buoyancy of spirits.
Example Sentences:
(1) And with our prayers and our love, and the buoyancy of hope, it will rise again now as a place of peace.
(2) Microbiologic examination of 29 juvenile green sea turtles with a buoyancy abnormality revealed pulmonary infection with Sporotrichium sp, Cladosporium sp, and Paecilomyces sp.
(3) Nevertheless, the buoyancy-mass relationship revealed that they maintain the same degree of positive buoyancy (approximately 10% above the neutral level) at surface as do Korean women divers who adjust counterweights.
(4) Morphological mutants of Caulobacter crescentus were isolated by selecting for cells that did not possess normal, buoyancy-conferring stalks.
(5) preparations composed of a directly compressed layer and a chitosan H membrane layer enclosing carbon dioxide (a foamy membrane layer), quickly developed buoyancy and also provided sustained release of drug.
(6) Plasma from these patients could induce an in vitro decrease of buoyancy in neutrophils with normal buoyant density.
(7) The lipid components of porpoise lipokeratinocytes appear to subserve not only barrier function in a hypertonic milieu, but also underlie the unique buoyancy, streamlining, insulatory, and caloric properties exhibited as adaptations to the cetacean habitat.
(8) Buoyancy was evaluated by the hydrostatic lift (HL), i.e., the maximal weight just necessary to maintain the swimmer in a balanced position under the water after a maximal inspiration.
(9) The Cs depends on performance level, body size, buoyancy, swimming technique and v.
(10) This "body density probe" carries several measuring rods of different diameter on its upper end, which lead to an increase of buoyancy when sinking deeper into the water after additional weights have been put on the device.
(11) However, vertical movements and gas-spitting responses indicated a possible hypothalamic control of buoyancy.
(12) From the experimental and analytical results, we conclude that, for this deformation, the regional volume-local transpulmonary pressure curve closely follows the pressure-volume curve because negative horizontal strains nearly balance the positive vertical strain caused by the buoyancy force.
(13) The full story here: U.S. consumer sentiment unexpectedly falls in November 3.00pm GMT Markets round-up Stock markets are digesting the much stronger-than-expected US non-farm payrolls numbers for October with traders trying to decide whether to buy on economic buoyancy or sell on the prospect of the Federal Reserve tapering its stimulus programme sooner rather than later.
(14) In contrast to our previous studies on the submersion of scuba divers in a state of neutral buoyancy, neither plasma beta-endorphin-like immunoreactivity (beta-EIR) nor affective feelings were significantly changes in scuba divers by mimicking diving pressures of 2 feet (0.6 m) and 50 feet (15.2 m) for 20 min in a hyperbaric chamber.
(15) Plasma beta-EIR was measured by radioimmunoassay in male scuba divers before and immediately after remaining motionless 10 ft under water in a state of neutral buoyancy.
(16) Archimedes' law of buoyancy has been extended to the preoperative bedside assessment of volume differences between breasts, whatever their cause.
(17) The specific gravity and buoyancy of 98 men were calculated at various lung volumes.
(18) The volume changes of hardening cements are measured with the buoyancy method.
(19) And if one will hold on, he will discover that God walks with him, and that God is able to lift you from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope, and transform dark and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of inner peace.” Reverend Pinckney and his congregation understood that spirit.
(20) Anatomic features of the pericardium and its fibrous attachments, and the physical principle of buoyancy account for this observation.
Cheerfulness
Definition:
(n.) Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.
Example Sentences:
(1) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(2) The District became a byword for crime and drug abuse, while its “mayor for life” lived high on the hog and lurched cheerfully from one scandal to the next.
(3) At best I would like to think about this as Project Cheer; we’re going to be upbeat about this.
(4) Cheers, then, to an apparent alliance of the NME, a few people in London's trendy E1 district and some dumb young musicians, because "New Rave" is upon us, and there is apparently no stopping it.
(5) Male patients were more cheerful during encounters with younger assistant nurses while female patients were more cheerful when interacting with older assistant nurses.
(6) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
(7) Olympic games are a competition between countries, but here spectators can freely choose which star to cheer for and unite as one,” said Inoki, a lawmaker in Japan’s upper house who was known as “Burning Fighting Spirit” in the ring.
(8) There was indeed a crowd of “Women for Trump” cheering at the event.
(9) He'll watch Game of Thrones , from now on, as a cheerfully clueless fan, "with total surprise and joy", and meanwhile get on with other work.
(10) I think it will be done right.” Jeter was cheered when he took batting practice and when he ran into his dugout when it was over.
(11) But Blair's address - "history will forgive us" - was a dubious exercise in group therapy: the cheers smacked of pathetic gratitude, as he piously pardoned the legislators, as well as himself, for the catastrophe of Iraq.
(12) The audience, energised by an early heckler who was swiftly ejected from the hall at Jerusalem's International Convention Centre, received Obama's message with cheers, applause, whistles and several standing ovations.
(13) From one of his hospital visits Marr recalls a woman, eight months pregnant, who had suffered a stroke: "There are people far worse off than me who are so incredibly brave and cheerful.
(14) Trying to discourage me from my passion is inhuman – it’s not possible!” The crowd cheered and applauded.
(15) Cheers erupted at a camp for 100,000 displaced Christian civilians at the French-controlled airport .
(16) The jeers were meaningful and the cheers, well, they just were a sign of entertainment.
(17) "I had spent my teen years listening to Germaine Greer and Susie Orbach talking about female intellect," she says, and cheers all round.
(18) Updated at 4.23pm BST 3.19pm BST 54 mins "Afternoon Ian," cheers Simon McMahon.
(19) In Barcelona, Catalonian flags hang down from every other terraced window; a few months ago, its Nou Camp stadium was filled to 90,000-capacity, with patriots cheering on artists performing in Catalan.
(20) Officers in riot gear at a number of points later drew batons and clashed with members of the crowd, hours after the protest began gathering in central London at around 6pm before massing near parliament, where fireworks were let off to cheers.