(a.) In the form of, or bounded by, a circle; round.
(a.) repeating itself; ending in itself; reverting to the point of beginning; hence, illogical; inconclusive; as, circular reasoning.
(a.) Adhering to a fixed circle of legends; cyclic; hence, mean; inferior. See Cyclic poets, under Cyclic.
(a.) Addressed to a circle, or to a number of persons having a common interest; circulated, or intended for circulation; as, a circular letter.
(a.) Perfect; complete.
(a.) A circular letter, or paper, usually printed, copies of which are addressed or given to various persons; as, a business circular.
(a.) A sleeveless cloak, cut in circular form.
Example Sentences:
(1) By hybridization studies, three plasmids in two forms (open circular and supercoiled) were detected in the strain A24.
(2) When irradiated circular DNA, previously nicked by T4 endonuclease V, is briefly exposed to elevated temperature, the DAN becomes susceptible to the action of exonuclease V, and pyrimidine dimers are selectively released.
(3) Circular muscle strips from the opossum esophageal body obtained 3-5 cm above the esophagogastric junction were suspended in organ baths for measurement of isometric tension.
(4) Noradrenaline decreased the phasic contraction amplitude of the circular muscle and exerted a stimulant effect on the tone which suggested an existence of two alpha 1-adrenoceptor subtypes.
(5) After methylene blue, the gradient in resting potential across the circular layer was greatly reduced or abolished.
(6) Circular dichroism (CD) spectra indicating different local orientation of oxazolone, when coupled to L or D side chain-terminating amino acids, support this suggestion.
(7) The alpha-helical content of the free form of the lipoprotein was measured from the circular dichroism spectrum of the lipoprotein in 0.01% sodium dodecyl sulfate and found to be 87%.
(8) Parameters affecting assembly of these complexes were sequences in circular DNA templates, sizes and sequences of linear DNA templates, temperature and incubation time.
(9) The mechanisms underlying the biphasic response (BR) of the circular muscle of the guinea pig ileum (CMGPI) to bradykinin (BK) have been examined.
(10) The distribution and lateral mobility of VDCCs on CA1 hippocampal neurons have been determined with biologically active fluorescent and biotinylated derivatives of the selective probe omega-conotoxin in conjunction with circular dityndallism, digital fluorescence imaging, and photobleach recovery microscopy.
(11) The structure of the Z-helix antigen was confirmed by circular dichroism (CD) and U.V.
(12) Dustin Benton Dustin Benton, head of resource stewardship, Green Alliance Creating a circular economy will take action in three areas: the economy, policy and politics, and innovation.
(13) Anastomotic devascularization has been incriminated in the development of post-operative complications (fistula, stenosis) of circular stapling.
(14) If people approach it in the right way and we show that this is a development agenda – it’s competitiveness, it’s jobs – then why wouldn’t it be adopted.” Read more like this: How much do you know about the circular economy?
(15) When the method proposed by Trela (1975) is applied, thin layers of the petrous crest are chiselled out until the common crus of the superior and posterior semi-circular becomes apparent.
(16) A comparison of the conformation of Folch-Pi apoprotein in organic solvent and in aqueous solutions has been made by ESR, infrared and circular dichroism spectroscopy studies.
(17) In the group of malignant schizophrenia, irrespective of the stage of the disease and in the group of circular forms there was a definite drop in the activity of cytochromoxidase, succinatedehydrogenase and MAO, while as the activity of the ATP-ase and peroxidase was increased.
(18) Circular cuts which surgically isolated the medial basal hypothalamus (MBH) from the remainder of the brain did not prevent copulation 4 to 24 h later, but did block reflex ovulation.
(19) Monodispersed N- and C-protected linear homo-oligomethionines (n = 2- -7) are studied by measurements of circular dichroism in the vacuum ultraviolet region.
(20) The first stage is characterized by circular disturbances of conditioned activity, vegetative shifts of compensatory character and intensification of individual characteristics of behaviour.
Pamphlet
Definition:
(n.) A writing; a book.
(n.) A small book consisting of a few sheets of printed paper, stitched together, often with a paper cover, but not bound; a short essay or written discussion, usually on a subject of current interest.
(v. i.) To write a pamphlet or pamphlets.
Example Sentences:
(1) A small clinic consisting of 1 room decorated with pamphlets against AIDS, malaria, and other diseases was managed by the chief primary health care (PHC) assistant named Joseph.
(2) Mainly though, the pamphlet – which you can read in its original form in the Women's Library in east London – is fulminating rightwingness, peppered with self-publicising, a proto-Melanie Phillips with an extra PhD.
(3) Jon Cruddas Sitting amid piles of policy papers and pamphlets, many of which were never adopted (to his intense frustration), the MP for Dagenham speaks of an existential threat to Labour unless it confronts the scale of its failure.
(4) It is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who hasn’t reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse.” The pamphlet added that it was also permissible to buy, sell, or give as a gift female slaves, “for they are merely property, which can be disposed of”.
(5) The chancellor's position was not helped by the centre right Centre for Policy Studies which argued in a pamphlet on Monday that he would struggle to meet his deficit reduction plan, the cornerstone of the government's economic strategy.
(6) In a pamphlet to be published by the Lib Dem thinktank CentreForum, Burstow describes it as "an anomaly in our welfare system" and an ineffective way of targeting help.
(7) The intervention consisted of the practice receptionist giving female patients pamphlets about Papanicolaou smear-tests and the general practitioner offering a Papanicolaou smear-test.
(8) The Lib Dems are sending out pamphlets for next month's European elections showing Clegg as the man trying to stop Farage.
(9) The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) of the Public Health Service made public health history in 1988 by mailing the pamphlet, "Understanding AIDS," to every household in the United States.
(10) Javid wrote about his early life for a pamphlet with a foreword by Major, which spotlighted the working-class backgrounds of more than a dozen Conservative MPs.
(11) From the early pamphleteers – Tom Paine for one – to the muckrakers who fought injustice such as Nellie Bly; from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring to Ralph Nader's Unsafe At Any Speed ; from Mother Jones to the Pentagon papers, the words that shook America mostly came from passionate reporters with a cause to champion.
(12) A questionnaire distributed to 500 patients, answered by 48.2%, showed that most patients liked to receive the pamphlets and 85.5% found them useful.
(13) When Michoacán's governor obliquely blamed the caballeros for the murder, they responded with banners and pamphlets that denied the charge.
(14) Information pamphlets for certain drugs on prescription have been distributed to patients by pharmacies since 1985.
(15) That is partly why we published out pamphlet today because there is intense frustration across the university and college community – we are not prepared to just allow the debate around universities to go nowhere.
(16) They claim in their pamphlet that "a quarter of station staff could go" and warned of the consequences of "sharing afternoon programmes on BBC Radio Nottingham, and having just one programme for the whole of England after 7pm".
(17) Thus you can witness unironical celebrations of Rand Paul as an original thinker, despite the fact that his every core policy proposal reads like a distorted Xerox of an older Xerox of his father’s decades of rant-pamphleteering.
(18) The pamphlet scored a reading ease grade of 45, corresponding to what is considered difficult reading and at a level commonly found in academic journals.
(19) Those techniques were used to analyze a pamphlet designed for patient education by the American Academy of Dermatology.
(20) We sent a pamphlet that explained the program to 1568 people who had undergone apheresis and asked them to reply, stating their interest.