(n.) That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
(n.) The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.
(n.) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
(n.) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
(n.) A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.
(n.) A birth.
(v. t.) To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.
(v. t.) To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes.
(v. t.) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
(n.) The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer.
(n.) The drone of a bagpipe.
(n.) A club.
Example Sentences:
(1) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(2) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
(3) However, civil society groups have raised concerns about the ethics of providing ‘climate loans’ which increase the country’s debt burden.
(4) The parasites were highly aggregated within the study community, with most people harbouring low burdens while a few individuals harboured very heavy burdens.
(5) Economic burdens for postmarketing research should be shared jointly by the research-oriented and generic drug companies.
(6) There is general agreement that suicides are likely to be undercounted, both for structural reasons (the burden-of-proof issue, the requirement that the coroner or medical examiner suspect the possibility of suicide) and for sociocultural reasons.
(7) The art Kennard produced formed the basis of his career, as he recounted later: “I studied as a painter, but after the events of 1968 I began to look for a form of expression that could bring art and politics together to a wider audience … I found that photography wasn’t as burdened with similar art historical associations.” The result was his STOP montage series.
(8) The analysis indicated a high cost burden for families in all disease categories studied, although a lack of uniformity in data presentation and in the variables studied prevented specific generalizations to be made about the numbers or characteristics of families with high costs.
(9) "Public servants did nothing to cause the slump but are being asked to bear an unfair share of the burden.
(10) The irony of this type of self-manipulation is that ultimately the child, or adult, finds himself again burdened by impotence, though it is the impotence of guilt rather than that of shame.
(11) The aim of the study was to find whether treatment would result in an improvement of cognition, of functioning in daily life, decrease of behavioural disturbances, and decrease in burden experienced by the carers.
(12) Lymph proliferative disorders with a high mitotic rate, and large tumor burden, regardless of histologic features, should be treated prophylactically against tumor lysis if regrowth between cycles occurs.
(13) These data indicate that, compared with animals at sea level, animals at altitude have an increased body burden of COHb and will attain the COHb level associated with the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for CO more quickly when breathing CO.
(14) Macro-epidemiology is concerned with the absolute and relative contributions of particular causes or diseases to the overall burden of ill-health in a population.
(15) Communicable diseases represent a considerable burden in terms of suffering and costs.
(16) This is indirect evidence suggesting that mercury from dental amalgam fillings may contribute to the body burden of mercury in the brain.
(17) The gender-specific kinship relationship of patients and their care providers has not generally been investigated in studies of caregiver burden and well-being.
(18) In predicting response to therapy, poor prognostic factors included large tumor burdens, advanced disease stage, and chemotherapy-resistant tumors.
(19) Radical postoperative irradiation (A) is burdened by 3 serious complications and a considerably higher amount of complaints.
(20) MMC and 5-FU did not show significant activity against large tumor burden, while a relatively good activity was detected in patients with minimal disease.
Cog
Definition:
(v. t.) To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
(v. t.) To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off.
(v. i.) To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.
(n.) A trick or deception; a falsehood.
(n.) A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel.
(n.) A kind of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface.
(n.) A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak.
(n.) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
(v. t.) To furnish with a cog or cogs.
(n.) A small fishing boat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Polish Government Despite his clear-eyed approach to the looted artworks, Wächter maintains that his father was an unwilling cog in the Nazi killing machine, a position that has won him many critics.
(2) Radioimmunoassays carried out on acidic extracts of the same organs confirm the molecular results and lead us to conclude to the presence of substances strongly related to MK in the ovotestis as well as in the circumoesophageal ganglia (COG), and to ascertain that the MK-positive tentacular collar cells do not contain authentic MK.
(3) Recombination at his-3 in Neurospora crassa is thought to be initiated through a site designated cog which lies in the his-3 to ad-3 interval of linkage group I. Fragments of the his-3 gene were used to transform various his-3 mutant alleles to prototrophy in order to link the genetic map to the nucleotide sequence.
(4) On the other hand, the patient was noticed lethargic and showed parkinsonism i.e., rest tremor, cog-wheel rigidity, and hypokinesia.
(5) But this larger-than-life character was only a small cog in Fifa’s global money-making machine and the FBI successfully persuaded him to wear a wire tap and rat on his fellow officials – in a classic law-enforcement sting usually directed at mobsters.
(6) This protein was not detected in surface protein preparations of class 1 COG- mutants.
(7) It added: “A review of declarations of interest confirmed the CoG did not disclose these on the [2014] annual declaration.” In a letter dated 8 March, the government’s Education Funding Agency said there had been “serious breaches of the academies financial handbook, including serious concerns about financial management, control and governance”.
(8) We drive to the seafront, where two fishermen are toiling to the rear of the beach, turning cogs that wind a rope attached to their boat to tug it in from the sea over wooden planks.
(9) Selection for spontaneously occurring Cog- mutants gave rise to two phenotypic classes of mutants.
(10) You take a train from Interlaken to Wilderswil and then the cog railway to Schynige Platte at 2,000m for breakfast with spectacular views of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau.
(11) COG in combination with subsequent behavioral hearing screening was a sensitive strategy for detecting significant hearing loss: only one child was missed with this combination.
(12) The Spurs had a 11-point lead at one point here, James wasn't scoring, Wade had more turnover than points and Rashard Lewis was the biggest offensive cog.
(13) The helices are packed in such a way as to be embedded in each other as cog-wheels.
(14) These findings are confirmed by the COG study of prolonged 5-FU which shows prolongation of disease-free survival of borderline statistical significance for Dukes' C colon (P = 0.051) + rectum (P = 0.016).
(15) Although headache-index comparisons of the two active treatments showed no advantage for adding cognitive therapy to PMR, a measure of clinically significant change showed a trend for PMR + Cog to be superior to PMR alone.
(16) A total of 270 patients with metastatic malignant melanoma were entered into a randomized chemotherapy study conducted by the Central Oncology Group (COG) over a period of 2 years (COG protocol No.
(17) Doctors do not work in a void – we are part of a team, and every part of that team is a necessary cog in the machine.
(18) I would describe my role as a small cog in the gears.
(19) The Cards DH will be another important bat, Allen Craig, one of four Cardinals to hit over .300 this season, but a cog that missed the first two Cardinals postseason series with foot issues - this also turned out just fine for the Cardinals.
(20) Five months after head injury, when he was first admitted to us, he was stable with signs of oligokinesia, katatonic posture, speechlessness, rigid muscle tones and positive cog-wheel phenomenon.