(v. t.) To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.
Example Sentences:
(1) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
(2) To circumvent the restriction of having to analyze relatively short PCR fragments, restriction endonucleases were used to cleave a longer PCR product and the mixture of fragments was analyzed directly in SSCP gel electrophoresis.
(3) In order to circumvent the inhibitory reaction potentially occurring in cell-free systems, R-5020-binding studies additionally were performed in cell suspension.
(4) To circumvent this problem, 11 available brands of micropore filters (five prepacked and six to be packed and autoclaved) were investigated with the aim of finding the least toxic product.
(5) The detection of antigen in samples of urine collected serially may circumvent this problem in the future.
(6) This article describes one way of circumventing these disadvantages.
(7) The transplantation of a reduced liver was conceived to circumvent this problem.
(8) The data provide strong indications that one critical role of T-cell participation in humoral responses to antigens is to circumvent the development of a tolerogenic signal that, in the absence of such T-cell function, might otherwise ensue after binding of the antigenic determinants by specific precursor B lymphocytes.
(9) To circumvent this problem a general assay for the turn-off reaction has now been developed.
(10) Unlike Saudi Arabia, where consensual phone relationships between men and women are struck up to circumvent the gender segregation in the country, in Egypt these calls are one-sided and predatory – an outlet for lewd and violating language.
(11) This method provides an improvement in sensitivity over extant spectrophotometric methods and circumvents limitations of assays using radioactive pyruvate.
(12) These findings indicate alternative metabolic pathways may be operational in newborn rat brain enabling it to circumvent major blockage in thiamine-dependent reactions.
(13) Similarly, many pitfalls may be circumvented by the simple expedient of close collaboration between urologist and radiologist, and by the reluctance of either to accept urography that is suboptimal by current standards.
(14) In contrast, these deletions do not circumvent aerobic repression of the nar operon (encoding the anaerobic respiratory enzyme nitrate reductase) under the control of the pleiotropic fnr gene product.
(15) In many samples, dynamical scattering and other non-linear effects limit the information in the image, but this limit can be circumvented by working in very thin areas of the specimen.
(16) Under "strong" antigen stimulation the IgE blockade is circumvented, presumably via the production of excessive amounts of interleukin-4 (IL-4).
(17) The present findings suggest the utility of CPIB as a selective agent to circumvent ADR resistance and to reduce host toxicity due to the drug.
(18) As the Electronic Frontier Foundation has noted , “this is a recipe for disaster,” and it is being done by circumventing the normal democratic process.
(19) A method was developed which circumvents the problems of the anticomplementary properties of agar media and the requirement of some L-phase variants for concentrations of salt that inhibit complement.
(20) To circumvent this complication, the VCG was reconstructed from the simultaneously recorded ECG leads.
Question
Definition:
(n.) The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.
(n.) Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as, the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question.
(n.) Examination with reference to a decisive result; investigation; specifically, a judicial or official investigation; also, examination under torture.
(n.) That which is asked; inquiry; interrogatory; query.
(n.) Hence, a subject of investigation, examination, or debate; theme of inquiry; matter to be inquired into; as, a delicate or doubtful question.
(n.) Talk; conversation; speech; speech.
(n.) To ask questions; to inquire.
(n.) To argue; to converse; to dispute.
(v. t.) To inquire of by asking questions; to examine by interrogatories; as, to question a witness.
(v. t.) To doubt of; to be uncertain of; to query.
(v. t.) To raise a question about; to call in question; to make objection to.
(v. t.) To talk to; to converse with.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
(2) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(3) Collins said she asked Sullivan several questions, including who the women were.
(4) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
(5) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(6) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
(7) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(8) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
(9) The Department of Health referred questions to Monitor.
(10) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(11) testosterone, fentanyl, nicotine) may ultimately be administered in this way, important questions pertaining to pharmacology (tolerance), toxicity (irritation, sensitisation) and dose sufficiency (penetration enhancement) remain.
(12) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
(13) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
(14) In our opinion, a carcinologically "malignant" metastatic myxoma remains a questionable pathological entity.
(15) Gwendolen Morgan, the lawyer at Bindmans dealing with the case, said: "We have grave concerns about the decision to use this draconian power to detain our client for nine hours on Sunday – for what appear to be highly questionable motives, which we will be asking the high court to consider.
(16) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
(17) Patients' and therapists' discourses can be analysed from tape recordings or from their responses to open-ended questions.
(18) The question addressed by this study is whether patients with other pharyngeal pouch malformations could also have immunologic abnormalities.
(19) Movies such as Concussion , about the dissatisfactions of a bourgeois lesbian marriage, are already starting to ask these questions.
(20) What if the court of justice refuses to answer the question?