(n.) Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
(n.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, esp. to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
(n.) Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.
Example Sentences:
(1) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
(2) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
(3) Classical treatment combining artificial delivery or uterine manual evacuation-oxytocics led to the arrest of bleeding in 73 cases.
(4) These experiments indicated that there were significant differences between the early classical C system of mice and those of human and guinea pig.
(5) The simultaneous administration of the yellow fever vaccine did not influence the titre of agglutinins induced by the classic cholera vaccine.
(6) N-Methoxysulphonamides showed no inhibitory activity, as predicted by the classic work of Krebs on N-substituted inhibitors.
(7) The interactions of 3 classical alpha-adrenergic antihypertensives of prevalently central type (St 155 or clonidine St 600; BR 750 or guanabenz) with the narcotic effects of pentobarbital have been investigated in the Mus musculus.
(8) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
(9) We have characterized the binding of the selective muscarinic antagonist [3H]pirenzepine ([3H])PZ) and the classical muscarinic antagonist (-)-[3H]quinuclidinyl benzilate ((-)-[3H]QNB) to muscarinic cholinergic sites in rabbit peripheral lung membranes.
(10) Fish were trained monocularly via the compressed or the normal visual field using an aversive classical conditioning model.
(11) Some of what I was churned up about seemed only to do with me, and some of it was timeless, a classic midlife shock and recalibration.
(12) Usually they are characterized by an increased level of complement components involved in the classical pathway and therefore reflect activation by antigen antibody complexes.
(13) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(14) Classically, parathormone is known to increase bony reabsorption and raise serum calcium.
(15) Twelve mutations were searched for using classical techniques of molecular biology in a total of 126 patients.
(16) Here we compare this revised technique to the classical sucrose density centrifugation procedure.
(17) This study demonstrates that a second classical neurotransmitter, dopamine, can act to suppress regenerative neurite outgrowth.
(18) Classic technics of digital image analysis and new algorithms were used to improve the contrast on the full image or a portion of it, contrast a skin lesion with statistical information deduced from another lesion, evaluate the shape of the lesion, the roughness of the surface, and the transition region from the lesion to the normal skin, and analyze a lesion from the chromatic point of view.
(19) One cytotechnologist screened the slides for all occurrences of a standard set of classic cytopathologic signs.
(20) Detection of the noncarboxylated forms allows an indirect and specific measure of the vitamin K deficiency found in early, classic, and late hemorrhagic disease of the newborn (HDN), malabsorption syndromes, and drug related (warfarin, anticonvulsants, and antibiotics) states.
Fiddle
Definition:
(n.) A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.
(n.) A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.
(n.) A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.
(v. i.) To play on a fiddle.
(v. i.) To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle.
(v. t.) To play (a tune) on a fiddle.
Example Sentences:
(1) And what did you have to do to get fired for Libor fiddling, rather than simply disciplined?
(2) Young people from ordinary working families that are struggling to get by.” Labour said Greening’s department had deliberately excluded the poorest families from her calculations to make access to grammar schools seem fairer and accused her of “fiddling the figures”.
(3) On Aswan, the lyre is represented by the Sudanese masenkop, Ugandan adungu, and Egyptian simsimiya and tamboura, while the spike fiddle manifests as the Ethiopian masenko and Ugandan endingidi.
(4) Benefit claimants will face lie detector tests and will lose benefits for a month if found guilty of fiddling the system under proposals unveiled by Gordon Brown on the eve of today's Queen's speech .
(5) Increasingly, imaginative ways were devised to fiddle the data or change practices in ways that achieved nothing except to create the appearance of improvement.
(6) Bercow also claimed MPs in the past fiddled their expenses as a "displacement activity" because Parliament had become irrelevant and ineffective.
(7) Other Hunt plans – banning gagging orders and the fiddling of mortality data, and blacklisting failed NHS managers like the former Mid Staffs chief executive Martin Yeates – will help plug obvious gaps in NHS practice, as judged against the strict new requirement for accountability.
(8) The line connecting the disgraced expenses-fiddling former MP Denis MacShane and the call to arms over immigration on the front page of today's Daily Mail is not immediately apparent, but it's there all the same.
(9) It is modern slavery enforced not through shackles and whips, but by fiddled contracts, missing permits and paperwork and the Guardian has found it happening just down the road from the desert palace of Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Khalifa al-Thani.
(10) They are also, in practice, in support of arguments that claimants are on the fiddle with a net 17% more believing "most people on the dole are fiddling one way or another".
(11) Wrestling with the worst crisis in the common currency's 11 years and accused of fiddling for three months while Greece went up in flames, Angela Merkel of Germany, Nicolas Sarkozy of France and other European leaders are to meet in Brussels on May 10 to unlock tens of billions of euros for Athens to put out the fire.
(12) • • • As I am leaving Rock Springs behind me, fiddling with the radio to find something other than pop music, Christian sermons, commercials or Christmas songs, I think back to what Alex said about his hope that Donald Trump would bring change.
(13) He fiddles around the margins of unequal opportunity – offering soft loans for first-time property-buyers, for example .
(14) "Fiddling with the job spec to suit one person, the sheer number of leaks that have gone on in this process, these things make good candidates pull out," said the source.
(15) The Chicks started out in 1989 playing hoedowns and street corners in their native Dallas, with Maguire on fiddle and Robison on banjo.
(16) The remarks by Tucker blew apart a campaign by Osborne to prove that Balls was one of a series of senior Labour figures who tried to "fiddle Libor".
(17) It was always easy to make fun of crime statistics, even before the UK Statistics Authority announced this week that it was formally dropping police recorded crime figures as a gold standard measurement, citing repeated allegations that some of the quarterly published figures have been subject to "a degree of fiddling".
(18) February 6, 2013 steve hawkes (@steve_hawkes) For two years after we poured billions in to save RBS, the bank was manipulating and fiddling.. You wonder what else was going on February 6, 2013 Ed Conway (@EdConwaySky) Usually fines paid to FSA go towards reducing its running costs.
(19) The vasectomy technique known as "Riddle's fiddle" is described as a foolproof method that prevents sperm from reentering the ejaculate.
(20) EO: I'm sure if we were sitting here talking about some low-income person who'd been found to be fiddling their books, we wouldn't be saying, "Oh, but they contribute to society in other ways" – that argument just wouldn't come up.