(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.
Music
Definition:
(n.) The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear.
(n.) Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones.
(n.) Harmony; an accordant combination of simultaneous tones.
(n.) The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.
(n.) Love of music; capacity of enjoying music.
(n.) A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See Stridulation.
Example Sentences:
(1) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
(2) This week MediaGuardian 25, our survey of Britain's most important media companies, covering TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, music and digital, looks at BSkyB.
(3) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(4) Subjects' musical backgrounds were evaluated with a survey questionnaire.
(5) On raw music scores a sex-linked, time-of-day-induced priming effect was due to the prior presentation of CVs--that is, cognitive priming.
(6) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(7) He had links to networks including the Hammerskin Nation and was involved in an underground music scene often referred to as "white power music" or "hate rock".
(8) Strict fundamentalists oppose music in any form as a sensual distraction - the Taliban, of course, banned music in Afghanistan.
(9) Amplitude of the musical vibrations decreased by inhalation of amyl nitrite, but increased by infusion of methoxamine.
(10) While a clearcut relationship cannot be established between heavy metal music and destructive behavior, evidence shows that such music promotes and supports patterns of drug abuse, promiscuous sexual activity, and violence.
(11) For Burroughs, who had been publishing ground-breaking books for 20 years without much appreciable financial return, it was association with fame and the music industry, as well as the possible benefits: a wider readership, film hook-ups and more money.
(12) Much of the week's music isn't actually sanctioned by the festival, with evenings hosted by blogs, brands, magazines, labels and, for some reason, Cirque du Soleil .
(13) The musical would begin previews in Chicago on December 21, and move to Broadway in February.
(14) His coding talent attracted attention early: a music-recommendation program he wrote as a teenager brought approaches from both Microsoft and AOL.
(15) Thanks to the groundbreaking technology and heavy investment of a new breed of entertainment retailers offering access services, we are witnessing a revolution in the entertainment industry, benefitting consumers, creators and content owners alike.” ERA acts as a forum for the physical and digital retail sectors of music, and represents over 90% of the of the UK’s entertainment retail market.
(16) In film, music videos and TV shows, especially those traditionally consumed by a young demographic, we are used to seeing women stripping and frolicking with one another.
(17) If we’ve a duty to pass folk music on, we should also bring it up to date and make it relevant to our times,” he says.
(18) Changes to the Mac Pro desktop computer are also expected, as is a new music streaming service .
(19) "What this proves is that the way Bowie engineered his comeback was a stroke of genius," said music writer Simon Price.
(20) Was that misreading the mood music of the referendum?” He claimed that many Tories had expressed their anger directly to Rudd about the controversial policy, which has since been watered down.