(n.) A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.
(n.) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
(n.) To make hollow; to scoop out.
(v. i.) To dwell in a cave.
(v. i.) To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
(2) Biogastrone treatment influences the pain in a higher per cent as compared with Caved-S and oxyferroscorbon (p greater then 0.05), whereas regards the rest of the clinical symptoms -- no statistically significant difference was established.
(3) The prerequisite for all champions is the refusal to cave in, so City's equaliser with only three minutes remaining was pleasing.
(4) It is the Altamira cave, not the Altimira cave as we had it.
(5) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
(6) On Thursday, conservative analyst Ross Douthat wrote: “A party whose leading factions often seemed incapable of budging from 1980s-era dogma suddenly caved completely.” On Friday, former top Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod tweeted : “The Day After: seems as if @GOP establishment is measuring @realDonaldTrump as a moldable vessel.
(7) Cave added that her organisation was engaged in a freedom of information battle with Cabinet Office minister Mark Harper, who is overseeing the coalition's plans to introduce a lobbying register.
(8) Using Koufonissi as a base, there are daily excursions by caique and ferry to nearby islands, including Iraklia, where walkers can follow a pilgrims' trail across the high lands to spectacular St John's Cave, carved into a limestone cliff.
(9) The Cave is a mining scene complete with treasure chest, giant spider, zombie and a “Steve” minifigure.
(10) So it will have been a wrench for Jez, and his embattled entourage, to have to “cave in”, as the Guardian’s report put it, and suspend the MP from the party after David Cameron (who really should leave the rough stuff to the rough end of the trade) had taunted him at PMQs for not acting sooner when the Guido Fawkes blog republished her ugly comments and the Mail on Sunday got out its trumpet.
(11) But in recent years, directors have sought out the likes of Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood ( There Will Be Blood ), the Chemical Brothers ( Hanna ) and Nick Cave ( The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford ).
(12) And the confirmation that Greece won't get its bailout tranche unless its debt development is deemed sustainable means that Brussels has caved into IMF demands.
(13) In Pilgrim's Progress, Christian's path passes a cave in which two giants once dwelled.
(14) Many of the bodies are mummified, most of them were not interred, but deposited in caves.
(15) In the 20 years he was away, Malick moved to Paris and travelled the world, exploring caves in Nepal and the Alps as well as studying ancient civilisations and visiting Greece.
(16) Given that I'm trying to actually do some work while this whole thing is going on I'm not sure how successful I'll be before I cave in and *cough* go down the pub.
(17) The final band, at gone 4am, was Eigg's own metal band called, naturally, Massacre Cave.
(18) Only 11 cases of paratrigeminal epidermoid, including the cases localized in the Meckel's cave have been reported in the past literatures (Table 1).
(19) You see a cave with a hole.” She recovered thanks to god’s grace and good treatment at the government Hastings hospital, she said, but to her great sadness, her nine-year-old son, Clifford, will not come near her for fear.
(20) She and her friends recalled that this land was occupied by “cave-houses” – homes built from holes in the rock – in the 1950s.
Cavy
Definition:
(n.) A rodent of the genera Cavia and Dolichotis, as the guinea pig (Cavia cobaya). Cavies are natives of South America.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-five patients with metastatic (n = 9) or locally advanced or locoregional bladder cancer with a poor prognosis (n = 16) were treated with M-CAVI.
(2) On a swinging-table acceleration values were measured in Pirbright cavies; at first this was done under a defence reaction of the muscles, and in second experiment under maximum muscular relaxation.
(3) The mean areas after treatment were step-back technique, 17.33 mm2; Cavi-Endo technique, 15.87 mm2; Canal Master technique, 13.56 mm2; and balanced force technique, 17.31 mm2.
(4) A Phase II trial with a new regimen of methotrexate, carboplatin, and vinblastine (M-CAVI) was conducted for patients with bladder cancer who could not receive cisplatin-based chemotherapy.
(5) Substantial reduction in dentin permeability was obtained with all of the products tested (Microjoin, Cavi-Line, and Universal).
(6) Ultrasonic disruption of mycobacteria to be injected as "challenge" markedly increases the intensity of the consequent 24-48 h reaction and subsequent fibrosis in Freund adjuvant-sensitized cavies and has an apparently inhibiting effect on the extent of subsequent granuloma formation with marked reduction of the density of epithelioid cells.
(7) This in vitro study evaluated the pattern of dentine removal when an ultrasonically energized file (Cavi-Endo-size 25 file) was applied to flat surfaces of dentine under standardized conditions.
(8) The distal root canals of mandibular molars, divided into three groups of four teeth each, were prepared according to the following techniques: manual (serial), ultrasonic (Cavi-Endo), and automated (Canal Finder).
(9) Dentin Adhesit, Cavi-Line and Kavite Lak cavity varnishes were applied to the walls of prepared Class V cavities in fifty-two caries free extracted molar teeth before placing amalgam fillings.
(10) This study compared the effectiveness of a potassium oxalate solution (DDS) with three other cavity liners (Copalite, Cavi-Line, Prisma Universal Bond) and a no-liner control in reducing microleakage under amalgam restorations.
(11) The smear layer was somewhat reduced by the Cavi-Endo, using a syringe and needle, but without the integrated spray.
(12) After routine endodontic access and canal length determination, one of the mesial root canals was instrumented using tap water and one of the following instrumentation methods: (a) hand instrumentation; (b) ultrasonic instrumentation with the Cavi-Endo unit; (c) ultrasonic instrumentation with the Enac unit; (d) sonic instrumentation with the Medidenta unit; and (e) sonic instrumentation with the Endostar 5 unit.
(13) This paper describes a longitudinal study of endodontic simulations for senior dental students which employ latent image, computer-assisted video interactive (CAVI), and computer text instruction (CTI).
(14) Curved canals in resin blocks and in natural teeth were ultrasonically instrumented using the Cavi-Endo unit at power setting 1.
(15) A case of subcutaneous facial emphysema secondary to use of the Cavi-Jet air polishing system is reported.
(16) The incidence of fracture of Cavi-Endo ultrasonic K-files during ultrasonic root canal preparation was evaluated.
(17) These findings may be of relevance in aiding controlled root canal preparation when using the Cavi-Endo instrument.
(18) Vinyl polysiloxane impressions of the instrumented surfaces revealed characteristic patterns consisting of a series of oblique crests, similar to those observed in a previous study using the Cavi-Endo.
(19) For 2 min of instrumentation, the original adaptation of the Shaper on the Cavi-Med gave the highest activity.
(20) Thus diseases may appear as an explosive outbreak in a group of cavies kept under uniform conditions while a single animal may be exposed to amateur management (Townsend 1975) and suffer in consequence.