(n.) A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.
(n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side.
(v. i.) To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division.
(v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.
Example Sentences:
(1) In almost all the cantons the consent of the parents is necessary.
(2) Member, Canton and Riverside Division, Cardiff, St. John Ambulance.
(3) I sat there thinking that in Canton we never had time to sleep, much less dream.” The late Edward Kennedy called it “the great aria of the civil rights movement”.
(4) A new allele of white-coral (wco2) was isolated from Canton S after mutagenesis.
(5) Most immediately in Zurich is the likely publication of a settlement made in court in the Swiss canton of Zug, in connection with alleged bribes paid to senior Fifa officials in the late 1990s by the marketing company ISL.
(6) Crude and relative survival rates were analyzed using data from 4,199 incident breast cancers in females and 39 breast cancers in males registered between 1974 and 1988 in the Cancer Registry of the Swiss Canton of Vaud.
(7) The follow-up sample consisted of 841 men in the Canton of Zurich who had been selected from a complete survey of men born in 1952.
(8) Separation forces were tested with an Instron machine (Instron Corp., Canton, Mass.).
(9) In the Canton of Graubunden, 33% of the 13-15 year old pupils and 34% of those aged 17-19 from a total of 166 smoked regularly or occasionally; none of the younger, but 8% of the older pupils had already tried drugs once.
(10) The authors study the various aspects of the 484 attempts of suicide examined over the year 1974 at the Psychiatric Policlinic of the Geneva Cantonal Hospital.
(11) Angry demonstrations over the government’s refusal to relieve Kobani , the Syrian canton under siege from the brutal group calling itself Islamic State (Isis), led to a spate of deaths.
(12) In the first survey, based on representative population samples, blood lead level was measured in the cantons of Vaud and Fribourg.
(13) Four spines were mounted in an Instron machine (Instron Engineering Corp., Canton, MA).
(14) We are redeploying 25km [outside Juba] but even if it is one battalion remaining and again they clash, is it really difficult to come back to Juba?” While the cantonment of troops may be a first step to end fighting, fundamental reforms of the security sector are needed to professionalise an army notorious for lack of discipline, human rights abuses and tribalism.
(15) At a lower level, France has the level of "canton."
(16) All renal allotransplants performed at the Cantonal Hospital, Zurich, in 1975 and 1976 were analysed with respect to pre-transplant blood transfusions, excluding secondary transplants, patients on dialysis outside of Switzerland, combined renal and pancreatic transplants, and women with previous pregnancies but without transfusions.
(17) Between 1978 and 1984, the University Hospital of Geneva (Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire) received 46 head injured patients who "talked and died" after their brain insult.
(18) (And even in Switzerland the tax policies vary canton by canton, and are regularly put to the vote.)
(19) The purpose of the present epidemiological study is to investigate and describe panic disorder and sporadic panic attacks among a cohort of young adults, aged 28 years, from the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
(20) Velásquez, 23, had been terrified by stories linking Zika to birth defects , so on Christmas Day she drove 25 miles south from the semi-rural canton of Aguilares to the nearest public hospital in the capital, San Salvador.
Swiss
Definition:
(n.sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Switzer; the people of Switzerland.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Switzerland, or the people of Switzerland.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phenotypic relationships were examined between final score and 13 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk yield from 2935 Ayrshire, 3154 Brown Swiss, 13,110 Guernsey, 50,422 Jersey, and 924 Milking Shorthorn records.
(2) In the upper limb and facial forms of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy first recorded in Swiss and Finns respectively, the differences in their patterns of neurological disease and ocular lesions could be the result of their amyloids deriving from proteins other than prealbumin.
(3) A sex difference in postanaesthetic mortality after fluroxene anaesthesia was found in Swiss Webster mice.
(4) Considerations on costs and benefits demonstrate that the treatment of severely injured patients, who otherwise would die, results in a considerable social and economic saving (approximately 90 million Swiss francs for the 316 trauma patients analyzed).
(5) Light microscopic histochemical procedures and morphological assessments were performed on sections of "Swiss rolls" of small and large intestine.
(6) In Experiment 3, five daily 30-min exposures to the more novel environment minimally raised resting corticosterone levels of ICR Swiss mice.
(7) Nine-week-old Swiss male white mice were divided into groups killed after time intervals of force application of six h, and one, three, five, seven, ten, 14, 21, and 28 days.
(8) In Geneva, the Swiss chief prosecutor, Olivier Jornot, said he had launched an undisclosed number of investigations and said his office was paying very close attention to new information as it emerged.
(9) The effects of perinatal malnutrition on behavioural development and adult shuttle-box avoidance performance were studied in Swiss white mice.
(10) Fasting caused a decrease in both plasma and tumor extracellular fluid triglyceride concentrations in CBA, as well as in Swiss-Webster mice.
(11) Addressing the clampdown on Swiss bank accounts, which George Osborne had factored into the government's estimated income last year, Troup confirmed reports from last month that officials had collected significantly less than expected.
(12) Hollande ended up defending until to the bitter end Jérôme Cahuzac , a finance minister responsible for fighting tax evasion who turned out to have used a secret Swiss bank account to avoid paying taxes in France.
(13) Swiss 3T3 cells were labelled for 36 hr with high levels of [3H]-myo-inositol and the radioactivity in nuclear inositol phospholipids was measured.
(14) The results revealed that: (1) There were few genetic variants on allelic constitutions of Chinese KM mouse colonies, and the genetic distance among KM subcolonies is 0.008-0.027 positively related with the time the colony closed; (2) The unique position of S: KM mouse was shown in phylogenetic diagram of 4 KM subcolonies, which agrees with the result from mandible analysis; (3) The allelic constitutions of KM mice differs from NIH mice a Swiss derivative colony at Es-3, Es-10, Glo-1, Gpt-1, Got-2 and Mpi-1 loci and the average genetic distance between KM and NIH colonies is 0.131 + 0.011, which indicates that Chinese KM mice is one of non-Swiss derivative subspecies.
(15) In a previous experiment a group of 15 specified pathogen free (SPF) cats were experimentally infected with a Swiss isolate of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV).
(16) When twenty Swiss albino mice (male) were fed a vitamin A deficient diet for 18-24 months, Mallory bodies (MB(s] were observed.
(17) MFH was administered in drinking water continuously for life to Swiss mice and Syrian (golden) hamsters.
(18) This is what inspired Jon Underwood to create the non-profit death cafe in 2011, based on the Swiss Cafe Mortel movement.
(19) They added: “Mr von Opel … is a Swiss national and a Swiss resident since 1973.” This has not stopped him from financing British politics.
(20) The Swiss foreign minister, Micheline Calmy-Rey, said on Sunday that she took the pressure from Britain, Germany and the United States "very seriously".