(n.) A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a cliche to suggest that success requires long-term planning, but in the case of investing in the support structures that can extend the domain of early intervention, this is most certainly true.
(2) High stakes is a terrible cliche, but this is about as high stakes as diplomacy gets.
(3) Yet life in reality looks less rosy than these cliches suggest.
(4) Lawrence is said to bristle at the now-cliched description of her as "dignified".
(5) Looking at the current proposals, and mounting concerns about them, I'm rather reminded of cliched advice always thrown at parents with worries about a child: if you suspect something isn't right, then it is no good assuming that everything will somehow turn out OK – you must act, and fast.
(6) Hannah Jane Parkinson, community Dancing with the drag queens of NYC Downlow It's become a bit of cliche to say this, but Thursday really is the best day of the festival: there wasn't any mud at that stage this year; the site's not yet at maximum occupancy; and of course there's no live music – so no pressure to flog yourself to a distant stage to see a band you once half-promised yourself you ought to see.
(7) I'd known I was a girl since I was four, if you'll excuse the cliche, but everyone told me I couldn't be, because of a pesky penis between my legs.
(8) It incants the motto of the Bill Shankly school of cliche: that football is not a matter of life and death, it is far more important.
(9) "The models slowly evolved from girl-next-door types towards the visual cliches of the soft porn industry," they write.
(10) Hammond and May’s new acronym is intended to signal a break from the previous government, but is also an acknowledgement that political cliches can quickly become tired and counterproductive.
(11) Paradoxically, she no longer needed to prove that she was tough enough for the job; it was becoming a cliche ... to say that she was 'the best man among them'.
(12) Take that cosy, cliched history of black Britain that begins with the Pathe newsreel of Empire Windrush docking at Tilbury.
(13) The wrecked "candy ravers" and rampaging fratboys of EDM cliche are barely present – aside from more visible breasts and muscles, it is close to any European festival audience out for a good time, perhaps even a bit savvier.
(14) As she matured she also developed into an astute and sensitive dance actor; her portrayal of characters such as Manon or Natalia Petrovna in A Month in the Country were refreshingly free of ballet cliche.
(15) World Cup fashion, Brazil-cliche-style: hot pants, thigh-high boots and sequinned bikini tops.
(16) Ruth Rendell: In quotes Read more The cliched view of Rendell is that she suddenly changed her style when, in the 1980s, she started writing as Barbara Vine, but the truth is that from the beginning, even in the Wexford tales, she concentrated more on character and psychology than old-fashioned police procedure.
(17) A kind of ironic pessimism – planning to fail – is a bit of a cliche in contemporary art.
(18) For me it’s much more important than just playing music in clubs and dancing – all these cliches – it’s much more than that.
(19) When Perry was four, she ran off with the milkman (this is why, he tells me, he has always hated cliches) and married him.
(20) Its sounds like a cliche – and a socially costly cliche at that – but the change most likely to end abuse is one that raises the pay and conditions status of those who care for the elderly to the same as that of nursery and primary school teachers.
Maxim
Definition:
(n.) An established principle or proposition; a condensed proposition of important practical truth; an axiom of practical wisdom; an adage; a proverb; an aphorism.
(n.) The longest note formerly used, equal to two longs, or four breves; a large.
Example Sentences:
(1) We maximize an objective function that includes both total production rate and product concentration.
(2) Further, the maximal increase in force of contraction was measured using papillary muscle strips from some of these patients.
(3) Radioligand binding studies revealed the presence of a single class of high-affinity (Kd = 2-6 X 10(-10) M) binding sites for ET-1 in both cells, although the maximal binding capacity of cardiac receptor was about 6- to 12-fold greater than that of vascular receptor.
(4) Maximal yields of lipid and aflatoxin were obtained with 30% glucose, whereas mold growth, expressed as dry weight, was maximal when the medium contained 10% glucose.
(5) Maximal aberration yields were observed for 2,4-diaminotoluene, 2,6-diaminotoluene and cytosine beta-D-arabinofuranoside from 17 to 21 h, eugenol from 15 to 21 h, cadmium sulfate from 15 to 24 h and 2-aminobiphenyl, from 17 to 24 h. For adriamycin at 1 microM, the % aberrant cells remained elevated throughout the period from 9 to 29 h, while small increases at 0.1 microM ADR were found only at 13 and at 25 h. For most chemicals the maximal aberration yield occurred at a different time for each concentration tested.
(6) Maximal covalent binding of [4,5-14C]ronidazole to DNA also required four-electron reduction, consistent with previous studies of the covalent binding of this agent to immobilized sulfhydryl groups [Kedderis et al.
(7) The Cao-dependent Na+ efflux was half-maximally activated by [Ca2+]o = 2.0 mM in LiSW and 7.2 mM in Tris-SW; at saturating [Ca2+]o, [Ca2+]i, and [Na+]i the maximal (calculated) Cao-dependent Na+ efflux was approximately 75 pmol#cm2.s.
(8) Short incubations with heparin (5 min) caused a release of the enzyme into the media, while longer incubations caused a 2-8-fold increase in net lipoprotein lipase secretion which was maximal after 2-16 h depending on cell type, and persisted for 24 h. The effect of heparin was dose-dependent and specific (it was not duplicated by other glycosaminoglycans).
(9) Combining maximally effective concentrations of each of these stimulating agents produces an additive increase in both the level of 32P incorporation into tyrosine hydroxylase and the degree of activation of the enzyme.
(10) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
(11) Basal and maximally insulin-stimulated rates of 3-O-methylglucose transport in adipocytes from obese and obese NIDDM subjects were reduced to 50% of the values in cells from normal subjects (P less than 0.05).
(12) We assumed that the sensory messages received at a given level are transformed by a stochastic process, called Alopex, in a way which maximizes responses in central feature analyzers.
(13) Both gp175 and gp250 showed the greatest increase in fucosylation at 10(-5) M, which was also the dose at which RA induced laminin maximally, while the fucosylation of gp400 was greatest at 10(-8) M RA and declined at higher concentrations.
(14) However, those studies used partial maximal expiratory flow volume (PMEFV) curves to assess lung function.
(15) Hyperosmolar buffer slightly increased the sensitivity and maximal response to methacholine as well as the cholinergic twitch to electric field stimulation.
(16) Cytosolic-to-mitochondrial ratios from maximal initial rates after correction for mitochondrial breakage were increased above controls in diabetic hearts for nucleoside diphosphokinase and aspartate aminotransferase.
(17) The drug-picrate chromophores maximally absorb within the first minute of reaction (21 s for phenacemide, 45 s for cephalothin), after which the absorbances decrease.
(18) Glucagon can raise intracellular cyclic AMP about 30-fold; a half-maximal effect is obtained with 1.5 nM hormone.
(19) Keeping calcium concentration constant in the medium (0.36 microM), ornithine transport was maximal at 5.0 microM L-arginine and decreased at higher concentrations of arginine.
(20) Immediately prior to and at maximal workloads, carbon monoxide shifted into extravascular spaces and returned to the vascular space within five minutes after exercise stopped.