(v. i.) To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.
(v. t.) To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.
(n.) A fight; a contest of violence; a struggle for supremacy.
(n.) An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.
Example Sentences:
(1) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
(2) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(3) Infusion of sodium lactate associated with isoproterenol could be used to combat the depressent effects of betablockers in patients with cardiac disorders.
(4) By the time Van Kirk returned to the US in June 1943, he had flown 58 combat and eight transport missions.
(5) They insist this is the best way of ensuring the country does not descend into chaos before the final withdrawal of combat troops.
(6) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
(7) They are the E-1 to E-3 pay grades and soldiers in combat arms units.
(8) We reviewed the pre-Vietnam contents of the service medical and personnel records of 250 Vietnam combat veterans, in an attempt to identify factors predisposing to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
(9) If we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific [Isis] targets, I will recommend that to the president,” Dempsey said, preferring the term “close combat advising”.
(10) Environmental campaigners had been apprehensive about the chances of the Senate ratifying a new international treaty – a successor to the Kyoto protocol – to combat global warming unless a consensus had already been reached on Capitol Hill.
(11) Germany’s parliament has thrown its weight behind the European campaign against Islamic State , voting with a solid majority in favour of deploying military personnel to Syria in a non-combat role.
(12) The Pentagon leadership suggested to a Senate panel on Tuesday that US ground troops may directly join Iraqi forces in combat against the Islamic State (Isis), despite US president Barack Obama’s repeated public assurances against US ground combat in the latest Middle Eastern war.
(13) In government, Abbott had relished the daily combat but his officials complained he wasn’t enamoured by detailed policy work.
(14) The home fans were lifted by the sight of Billy Bonds, a legend in these parts, being presented with a lifetime achievement award before the kick-off and the former West Ham captain and manager probably would have enjoyed playing in Allardyce's combative midfield.
(15) Rarely has there been a potential presidential candidate so battle-hardened and ready for combat.
(16) Computer says no: Amazon uses AI to combat fake reviews Read more “Imagine as the CEO of a major company you go off and spend £100m on gathering data,” Hammond says.
(17) Al-Shamiri has been held as an enemy combatant without charge at Guantánamo since 2002.
(18) The government's decision to allow a cull of badgers, reportedly to combat bovine tuberculosis, "flies in the face of the scientific evidence" and will serve only to spread the disease, Labour claims.
(19) In addition, multiple regression analysis was used to examine predictive relationships between premilitary adjustment, military adjustment, combat exposure, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
(20) The prime minister could publish the reply upon his return from the opening of climate change talks in Paris on Tuesday next week, depending on the progress made in discussions between Russia and the west on the best approach to combating Isis.
Synchronization
Definition:
(n.) The act of synchronizing; concurrence of events in respect to time.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).
(2) Histone mRNA, labeled with 32P or 3H-methionine during the S phase of partially synchronized HeLa cells, was isolated from the polyribosomes and purified as a "9S" component by sucrose gradient sedimentation.
(3) An experimental model was established in the ewe allowing one to predict with accuracy an antral follicle that coincidentally would either undergo ovulation (6-8 mm diameter) or atresia (3-4 mm diameter) following synchronization of luteal regression and the onset of the gonadotropin surge.
(4) By means of rapid planar Hill type antimony-bismuth thermophiles the initial heat liberated by papillary muscles was measured synchronously with developed tension for control (C), pressure-overload (GOP), and hypothyrotic (PTU) rat myocardium (chronic experiments) and after application of 10(-6) M isoproterenol or 200 10(-6) M UDCG-115.
(5) As the frequency of the stimulus bursts was progressively changed, the sinoatrial (SA) nodal pacemaker cells became synchronized with the repetitive bursts of stimuli over a certain range of burst frequencies.
(6) The analysis suggests that the wave-peak discharge results from synchronous alternation of depolarization potentials and long periods of postsynaptic inhibition in most of the cortical elements.
(7) A synchronization of plasma prorenin with the other hormones was seen both before, as previously reported, and during enalapril treatment.
(8) 77 per cent of the synchronous tumors were located in the left colon.
(9) The spore germination was synchronized by selection of the spores of the definite size and maintenance at a temperature of 0 degrees.
(10) The average vlaues of the correlation coefficients were found to increase from arousal through slow synchronized sleep (S sleep), reaching the highest value in REM sleep.
(11) A review of 90 patients presenting in Leeds over the period 1976-80 with synchronous hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer has been undertaken.
(12) A system for obtaining synchronous germination of mitospores is described.
(13) Treatment with 0.3 microM or 0.7 microM BPDE-I, which are doses that interfere with DNA synthesis in operating replicons in asynchronous cells, also inhibited the growth of nascent DNA strands in synchronized cells by 22 and 64%, respectively.
(14) Electrographically, the motor phenomena corresponded with the occurrence of periodic synchronous discharges (PSD) (in one-to-one manner).
(15) A synchronic increase and decrease of IgG-1 serum levels and indirect fluorescent antibody titres were observed during the course of the infection.
(16) Rabbit morulae and blastocysts were cultured in conventional culture media [Ham's F10 or BSM II supplemented with bovine serum albumin (BSA) or serum] or in Ham's medium supplemented with synchronous or asynchronous uterine flushings, mostly for 2 days, and afterwards investigated by light and electron microscopy and by autoradiography.
(17) However, a region containing pixels that are perfectly synchronous on average would still yield a finite distribution of calculated Fourier coefficients due to the propagation of stochastic pixel noise into the calculated values.
(18) The uterine osteosarcoma is the seventh case reported in the world, while it is the second case of synchronous triple primary tumors of the upper female genital tract.
(19) A consequence of periodic clusters of cellular bursts was the widespread occurrence of periodic synchronized synaptic potentials, as have been observed in hippocampal slices and human temporal neocortical slices.
(20) This syncitium-like arrangement is interpreted as the morphological counterpart of a possibly synchronized function of these cells.