(n.) Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.
(n.) The power or opportunity of choosing; option.
(n.) Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination.
(n.) A sufficient number to choose among.
(n.) The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection.
(n.) The best part; that which is preferable.
(superl.) Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.
(superl.) Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.
(superl.) Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen.
Example Sentences:
(1) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(2) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
(3) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(4) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
(5) 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.
(6) Careful attention must be given to antibiotic choice as well as the dose and duration of therapy.
(7) That is why you will be held relentlessly to account for those choices; why what you said in February invites forensic scrutiny.
(8) There is precedent in Islamic law for saving the life of the mother where there is a clear choice of allowing either the fetus or the mother to survive.
(9) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
(10) Single dose therapy is recommended as the treatment of choice for bacterial cystitis in domiciliary practice.
(11) Vancomycin is the antibiotic of choice for serious MRSA infections; PRPs and cephalosporins generally are not effective.
(12) This suggests that hypothalamic NPY might be involved in food choice and that PVNp is important in the regulation of feeding behaviour by NPY.
(13) The choice is partly technical – what kind of trading arrangement do we want with the EU?
(14) True, Syria subsequently disarmed itself of chemical weapons, but this was after the climbdown on bombing had shown western public opinion had no appetite for another war of choice.
(15) It was considered worthwhile to report this case due to the problems which arose concerning the choice of a thoracic rather than abdominal route owing to the impossibility of associating cardiomyotomy with anti-reflux plastica surgery because of the reduced dimensions of the stomach.
(16) While superheroes like “superman” (21st in SplashData’s 2014 rankings) and “batman” (24th) may be popular choices for passwords, the results if they are cracked could be anything other than super – and users will only have themselves to blame.
(17) Because isosmolar albumin solution is easier to prepare than hyperosmolar cryoprecipitated plasma and gives comparable results, it remains our perfusate of choice for continuous perfusion preservation.
(18) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
(19) Splenectomy is the operation of choice for cysts of the spleen in children.
(20) Staplers were used and therefore the choice between resection or amputation was determined by the degree of loco-regional infiltration of the neoplasm.
Right
Definition:
(a.) Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.
(a.) Upright; erect from a base; having an upright axis; not oblique; as, right ascension; a right pyramid or cone.
(a.) Conformed to the constitution of man and the will of God, or to justice and equity; not deviating from the true and just; according with truth and duty; just; true.
(a.) Fit; suitable; proper; correct; becoming; as, the right man in the right place; the right way from London to Oxford.
(a.) Characterized by reality or genuineness; real; actual; not spurious.
(a.) According with truth; passing a true judgment; conforming to fact or intent; not mistaken or wrong; not erroneous; correct; as, this is the right faith.
(a.) Most favorable or convenient; fortunate.
(a.) Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action is usually stronger than on the other side; -- opposed to left when used in reference to a part of the body; as, the right side, hand, arm. Also applied to the corresponding side of the lower animals.
(a.) Well placed, disposed, or adjusted; orderly; well regulated; correctly done.
(a.) Designed to be placed or worn outward; as, the right side of a piece of cloth.
(adv.) In a right manner.
(adv.) In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway; immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right after the guide.
(adv.) Exactly; just.
(adv.) According to the law or will of God; conforming to the standard of truth and justice; righteously; as, to live right; to judge right.
(adv.) According to any rule of art; correctly.
(adv.) According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really; correctly; exactly; as, to tell a story right.
(adv.) In a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant.
(a.) That which is right or correct.
(a.) The straight course; adherence to duty; obedience to lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt, -- the opposite of moral wrong.
(a.) A true statement; freedom from error of falsehood; adherence to truth or fact.
(a.) A just judgment or action; that which is true or proper; justice; uprightness; integrity.
(a.) That to which one has a just claim.
(a.) That which one has a natural claim to exact.
(a.) That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal.
(a.) That which justly belongs to one; that which one has a claim to possess or own; the interest or share which anyone has in a piece of property; title; claim; interest; ownership.
(a.) Privilege or immunity granted by authority.
(a.) The right side; the side opposite to the left.
(a.) In some legislative bodies of Europe (as in France), those members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists. See Center, 5.
(a.) The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
(a.) To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct.
(a.) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate.
(v. i.) To recover the proper or natural condition or position; to become upright.
(v. i.) Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or boat, after careening.
Example Sentences:
(1) The origin of the aorta and pulmonary artery from the right ventricle is a complicated and little studied congenital cardiac malformation.
(2) But everyone in a nation should have the equal right to sing or not sing.
(3) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
(4) CT scan revealed a small calcified mass in the right maxillary sinus.
(5) low molecular weight dextran in the course of right heart catheterization.
(6) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
(7) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(8) Joe, meanwhile, defends her right to say "negro" whenever she wants.
(9) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
(10) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
(11) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
(12) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
(13) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
(14) In this paper, we report the cases of 4 male patients (mean age 32.7 yr) with right-ventricular dysplasia, that occurred in familial form.
(15) Whittingdale also defended the right of MPs to use privilege to speak out on public interest matters.
(16) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
(17) After 1 year, anesthesia was induced with chloralose and an electrode catheter placed at the right ventricular apex.
(18) Right orchiectomy and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for embryonal carcinoma had been performed 5 years earlier.
(19) Our findings indicate that Turner girls have a functional brain disorder more often than the controls, particularly at the occipital and parietal areas and in those with hemispheric differences most often in the right hemisphere.
(20) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.