(pref.) In the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from; close to; along with; as, come and sit by me.
(pref.) On; along; in traversing. Compare 5.
(pref.) Near to, while passing; hence, from one to the other side of; past; as, to go by a church.
(pref.) Used in specifying adjacent dimensions; as, a cabin twenty feet by forty.
(pref.) Against.
(pref.) With, as means, way, process, etc.; through means of; with aid of; through; through the act or agency of; as, a city is destroyed by fire; profit is made by commerce; to take by force.
(adv.) Near; in the neighborhood; present; as, there was no person by at the time.
(adv.) Passing near; going past; past; beyond; as, the procession has gone by; a bird flew by.
(adv.) Aside; as, to lay by; to put by.
(a.) Out of the common path; aside; -- used in composition, giving the meaning of something aside, secondary, or incidental, or collateral matter, a thing private or avoiding notice; as, by-line, by-place, by-play, by-street. It was formerly more freely used in composition than it is now; as, by-business, by-concernment, by-design, by-interest, etc.
Example Sentences:
Elapse
Definition:
(v. i.) To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time.
Example Sentences:
(1) Measurable quantities of temefos were found in the snails within 1 day after the first treatment with a 2% granular formulation but 3 weeks elapsed before uptake occurred following treatment with a temefos emulsion.
(2) In the average 13 months elapsed between the start of the treatment and the occurrence of the first recidive, as compared with 7 months in the average for the controls.
(3) The experimental conditions were investigated in detail with regard to the following factors: influence of the number of sensitizing injections on serum antibody production, length of the recovery period which elapsed between sensitization and challenge, and influence of the size of the challenging dose on the severity of the inflammatory response.
(4) These data suggest that, after discontinuing supplemental oxygen in patients with chronic airways obstruction, more than 25 minutes should elapse if a blood gas measurement is to reflect with certainty conditions during room air breathing.
(5) cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and 5-fluorouracil (CMF) after surgery for primary breast cancer was analyzed according to three administration-related factors: total number of cycles received, time elapsed between surgery and start of chemotherapy, and dose intensity of treatment.
(6) The clinico-audiometric studies have shown that under the influence of acute alcoholic intoxication the normal examinees manifest dysfunction of the acoustic analyzer, whose intensity depends on the time elapsed since the moment of alcohol intake.
(7) The associations were not explained by duration of smoking, by the time elapsed since commencement, or by factors associated with cigarette smoking such as alcohol consumption or oral contraceptive use.
(8) The duration of IUD use did not influence the length of time that had elapsed until the first conception after removal, and the outcome of pregnancies was the same in the study and the local control group.
(9) In sheep, almost 25 minutes elapsed before peripheral neutrophil numbers decreased by 50%, much longer than the time required for LPS sequestration in the lungs.
(10) The aim of the study was to investigate the changes in the size and function of the rat adrenal gland in relation to time-intervals elapsed from postpubertal gonadectomy.
(11) It is shown to increase hyperbolically with the time elapsed since the nerve section.
(12) As time elapsed postoperatively, the difference between two kinds of grafts showed a tendency to diminish by all criteria used in this study.
(13) The time elapsed between RTX and RT was as follows: 25 were performed earlier than 6 weeks, 17 between 6 weeks to 6 months, and 33 after 6 months.
(14) In addition, the tolerance to food deprivation, defined as the time elapsed to reach the end of phase II, should also be improved since this tolerance is known to be critically modulated by protein utilization.
(15) The perioperative mortality rate was lower when at least 4 weeks had elapsed from acute infarction to surgery (10 versus 67 percent) and when the procedure included coronary bypass grafting (13 versus 50 percent), although these differences were not statistically significant (P greater than 0.05).
(16) However, under normal working conditions, taking into account the period of time which inevitably elapses between the patient feeling pain in the kidney and his reaching the Emergency Department and the necessary examinations being carried out which enable the correct diagnosis to be made, the number of hours which have passed make attempts at conservative surgery completely useless.
(17) Looking back over the 57 years that have elapsed since his death, one sees him as an artist who played the most dangerous of all games and played it triumphantly where all his followers have failed.
(18) When the schedule was changed so that the same total amount of food was available after ten shorter fixed intervals, fixed-interval responding resumed within a single session, and when the schedule was changed back so that all food was available only after 2 h had elapsed, fixed-interval responding diminished within a few sessions and virtually no responding occurred for 21 additional sessions.
(19) For patients with yolk sac tumor prophylactic chemotherapy is indicated, particularly if more than 2 months have elapsed between the first detection of a testicular mass and operation.
(20) During the second round, the British government acknowledged that the allegations of murder and torture were true, but argued that too much time had elapsed for there to be a fair trial.