(n.) A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc.
(n.) A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.
(n.) Intimation of caution; warning; protest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite the fact that this approach has several caveats, consistent results obtained in short-term studies would more readily justify the undertaking of a large-scale, long-term controlled study using colon cancer or adenomatous polyp recurrence as an endpoint.
(2) In this article we discuss important issues and caveats in the performance of selective termination for abnormal members of multifetal gestations.
(3) One of his principal worries is up front, where his main man is Michal Duris, who has scored plenty of goals for Viktoria Plzen in the Czech league this season but it is easy to add the caveat that it is only the Czech league.
(4) The evidence increasingly shows that monetary policy, broadly defined and effectively deployed, can work, but with two caveats.
(5) Caveats for future translations include the necessity for constant attention to translation refinements and for utilizing native ASL users with appropriate training in psychology as signers.
(6) "When, not withstanding any caveats or prior assurances, there is still considered to be a real possibility of mistreatment and therefore there is considered to be a risk that the agencies' actions could be judged to be unlawful, the actions may not be taken without authority at a senior level.
(7) One of the two patients with active osteomyelitis at the time of vascularized bone transfer had complications from recurrent sepsis, leading to the authors' caveat that vascularized bone transfer should be deferred until such time as sepsis is inactive.
(8) An RAC spokeswoman said the group was "comfortable in principle" but with some caveats.
(9) Physicians and medical ethicists in particular may wish to consider the caveats noted by David Thomasma, PhD.
(10) The caveat was the breakaway goal Jesús Navas scored at Goodison.
(11) From Brussels our Europe editor, Ian Traynor , provides this analysis of this morning's events: The eurozone permanent bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism, has been given a green light to come into force two months later than planned following the supreme court decision in Karlsruhe which arrived with much more lenient caveats than had been predicted.
(12) Further, a wide variety of caveats related to this technique are reviewed including cerebral and extracerebral sources of artifact.
(13) Both arguments draw on subject matter in psychoanalysis, physics, evolutionary biology, common-sense psychology, history, and medicine to arrive at a fundamental caveat for all of the sciences: Even when the thematic kinship (or so-called "meaning connection") between events is indeed of very high degree, this fact itself does not license the inference of a causal linkage between these events.
(14) A caveat was that the subjective norm was measured by only one item, and an improved conceptualization and measurement of this construct might have changed the relationship.
(15) Despite these caveats, it appears that blood pressure control may have played a role in CHD mortality trends; further impact of newer antihypertensive agents is likely.
(16) Caveats aside, an excursion at this stage in any direction away from the top-line national number and into the underlying demographics would seem discouraging for Trump.
(17) Still, despite that caveat, it's impossible not to acknowledge that once the talking heads shut up and the actual games start, these meetings actually seem to live into the hype.
(18) The policy generally adopts a view that removals can only occur once a claim for protection in Australia has been refused, but it contains several caveats.
(19) The clinical caveat emerging from these observations is that every attempt should be made to avoid prescribing drugs which possess cyclooxygenase inhibitory activity to patients with decompensated liver disease who are sodium-avid.
(20) Calorie-obsessed caveats and warnings about healthier, higher-fat choices such as nuts, phenolic-rich vegetable oils, yoghurt, and even perhaps cheese, should also be dropped.
Problem
Definition:
(n.) A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a question involving doubt.
(n.) Anything which is required to be done; as, in geometry, to bisect a line, to draw a perpendicular; or, in algebra, to find an unknown quantity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The evidence suggests a multifactorial etiology for this problem.
(2) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(3) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
(4) IgE-mediated acute systemic reactions to penicillin continue to be an important clinical problem.
(5) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
(6) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
(7) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(8) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
(9) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(10) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(11) Other articles in the series will look at particular legal problems in the dental specialties.
(12) The problem of treatment oneside malocclusions of adult patients needs to concern of anchorange.
(13) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
(14) Psychiatry unlike philosophy (with its problem of solipsism) recognizes the existence of other minds from the nonverbal communication between doctor and patient.
(15) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
(16) Many problems at the macroscopic level require clarification of how an animal uses a compartment of suite of muscles and whether morphological differences reflect functional ones.
(17) Fourteen representative cases of the problem are reported.
(18) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
(19) This study examines the costs of screening patients for alcohol problems.
(20) Diphenoxylate-induced hypoxia was the major problem and was associated with slow or fast respirations, hypotonia or rigidity, cardiac arrest, and in 3 cases cerebral edema and death.