(n.) The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
(n.) That which is collected
(n.) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons.
(n.) A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings.
(n.) That which is obtained in payment of demands.
(n.) An accumulation of any substance.
(n.) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
(n.) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
Example Sentences:
(1) On both days, blood was collected by jugular venepuncture at 10.30 h, and then again 2, 4, 6 and 24 h later.
(2) After 3 and 6 months, blood collected by cardiocentesis using ether anesthesia and then sacrificed to remove CNS and internal organs.
(3) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
(4) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
(5) Periodontal diseases are a collection of disorders that may affect patients throughout life.
(6) Blood was collected from pups and dams to determine its caffeine concentration.
(7) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(8) Neither Brucella organisms, nor increased numbers of neutrophils could be found in semen samples collected from the experimental animals.
(9) Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) was prepared, and platelet aggregation studies were conducted directly or conducted on washed platelets prepared from PRP collected with ACD.
(10) Data collection at the old hospital for comparison, however, was not always reliable.
(11) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(12) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
(13) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
(14) Data were collected on a sample of 131 women receiving treatment for gynecological cancer.
(15) Their efforts will include blocking the NSA from undermining encryption and barring other law enforcement agencies from collecting US data in bulk.
(16) Adults and immatures of Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls were collected by flagging vegetation and from lizards during a 3-mo period in the Hualapai Mountain Park, Mohave County, AZ, in 1991.
(17) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
(18) Group teaching compared to individualized teaching of the patients to collect their own aliquots did not appear to have a measurable effect upon the levels of bacteriuria.
(19) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).
(20) In invasive epidermoid carcinoma, the accuracy with the self-collected specimens approached the physician-scraped specimens.
Consignment
Definition:
(n.) The act of consigning; consignation.
(n.) The act of consigning or sending property to an agent or correspondent in another place, as for care, sale, etc.
(n.) That which is consigned; the goods or commodities sent or addressed to a consignee at one time or by one conveyance.
(n.) The writing by which anything is consigned.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hull City clambered out of the relegation zone and consigned Paul Lambert to a half-century of Premier League defeats as Aston Villa manager in the process.
(2) If we do not act now we will consign the cherished principles of equality before the law and access to justice to the dustbin of history, and as we approach the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta that would be an ironic tragedy.” An MoJ spokesperson said: “We note the judgment and will carefully consider our next steps.
(3) On Thursday, a consignment of Russian Yankhont anti-ship cruise missiles arrived in Syria .
(4) The inability to close the eyelids voluntarily is, with these types of lesion, a transient sign which is rapidly replaced by difficulty in maintaining the consign.
(5) Vine also criticises the searching priorities of the Border Force and HM Revenues and Customs by highlighting that 68% of freight consignments targeted for checks at the border are actually undergoing a physical examination while 43,000 low-risk cargoes were being checked.
(6) But these have come with their own problems: despite the improvements in individual living conditions, there is a growing realisation that the RDP housing programme has reinforced apartheid era segregation, continuing to consign the poor to ghettos at the furthest edges of the city.
(7) "Thus we cannot just consign to the backburner the question of the European spirit.
(8) The tiny republic said it would consign the Yugoslav federation to history unless its ultimatum was met within days.
(9) Davis seemed unaware he had consigned himself to the backbenches, telling the BBC: "I may or may not be on the backbenches … This issue matters more to me than my job."
(10) Thus, the same tribunal that regularly consigns ordinary, powerless Americans to prison for decades for even trivial offenses yet again acts to protect the most powerful actors from any consequences for serious crimes: that is the US justice system in a nutshell.
(11) Dean, a consignment store worker from Sebastopol in northern California , said she hopes progressive voters in the state heed the Warriors’ catchphrase and not only cast their ballots for Sanders on Tuesday’s primary, but mobilize others to do the same.
(12) Or a week's worth of manic negotiation has consigned two decades of corporation strategy to history.
(13) Selective pre-enrichment of 5 g of sample prior to plating on to a solid media disclosed that 2,7% of consignments were contaminated with Salmonella.
(14) In Brisbane during October 1988 one larva of the exotic dengue vector Aedes albopictus (Skuse) was collected by quarantine officers from a consignment of used vehicle tyres imported from Asia.
(15) Go further back, and the UK's proud claim to be "a trading nation" was established with consignments of the bloodstained crops of cotton and sugar, to say nothing of the human cargo that went with them.
(16) But the US, Israel and other western spy agencies have also spent years slipping faulty parts into black market consignments of equipment heading to Iran – each designed to wreak havoc inside the delicate machinery requirement for enrichment.
(17) It was after the Indian wars of the 1870s that the indigenous tribes started to be consigned to reservations – on the worst, most desolate lands for grazing or growing crops.
(18) For this purpose an assessment was carried out of the risk of accepting Salmonella contaminated consignments of foods, despite a negative outcome of (i) examination of 1.5 kg samples for Salmonella; (ii) examination of one or two 1 g samples for Enterobacteriaceae; (iii) simultaneous application of both tests.
(19) Voluntarily consigned to the margins, he is ideally placed to embrace the marginalised.
(20) But it's that very poverty of expectation, Birbalsingh argues, which consigns them to failure.