(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.
Force
Definition:
(v. t.) To stuff; to lard; to farce.
(n.) A waterfall; a cascade.
(n.) Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term.
(n.) Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
(n.) Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation.
(n.) Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.
(n.) Validity; efficacy.
(n.) Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force.
(n.) To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor.
(n.) To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
(n.) To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.
(n.) To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
(n.) To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.
(n.) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
(n.) To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.
(n.) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
(n.) To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
(n.) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
(v. i.) To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.
(v. i.) To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.
(v. i.) To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.
Example Sentences:
(1) They’re no crack force either; many are rather portly!
(2) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
(3) In early 2000, during the first months of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, Babitsky was kidnapped by Russian forces and disappeared for many weeks.
(4) Historical analysis shows that institutions and special education services spring from common, although not identical, societal and philosophical forces.
(5) Further, the maximal increase in force of contraction was measured using papillary muscle strips from some of these patients.
(6) "What has made that worse is the disingenuous way the force has defended their actions.
(7) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
(8) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(9) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
(10) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
(11) She knows you can’t force the opposition to submit to your point of view.
(12) However in the deciduous teeth from which the successional tooth germs were removed, the processes of tooth resorption was very different in individuals, the difference between tooth resorption in normal occlusal force and in decreased occlusal force was not clear.
(13) In a series of compounds with H2-antihistaminic activity, a conformational analysis was performed based on force field calculations.
(14) Peptides from this region bind to actin, act as mixed inhibitors of the actin-stimulated S1 Mg2(+)-ATPase, and influence the contractile force developed in skinned fibres, whereas peptides flanking this sequence are without effect in our test systems.
(15) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
(16) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
(17) These reflexes can function to limit forces applied to a leg and provide compensatory adjustments in other legs.
(18) Five investigations into the force are being carried out by the IPCC.
(19) The data indicate that with force present for 10% of the time (1:9), there was little or no effect on eruption rate.
(20) The mechanical forces involved in neurite extension have begun to be quantified, and interactions between the actin and microtubule systems are being further characterized.