(n.) Fellowship; association; the act or fact of keeping company with any one.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our studies investigated whether social companionship, as a potentially positive psychological intervention, would increase lymphocyte proliferation and natural killer cell activity in the aged nonhuman primate.
(2) Then you happen on a large notice board festooned with flyers and cards, many offering help, companionship and solidarity to those who have been deemed surplus to the requirements of consumerism.
(3) But fear not - if you'd like to find companionship or love, sign up here to view profiles of the kind of erudite, sociable and friendly folk who would never normally dream of going out with you.
(4) I’ve recently gained the companionship of a gorgeous Chihuahua and she’s a great source of fun and gives me an excuse to walk around the gorgeous countryside.
(5) My wife is not a lesbian, but we thought we could at least live a life of companionship and mutual support.
(6) Nothing happened sexually between us, but it was a way of having companionship, of being gay without having sex."
(7) Considered together, the results of these studies suggest that companionship plays a more important and more varied role in sustaining emotional well-being than previous studies have acknowledged.
(8) Spencer Ackerman: ‘Eating with animal friends is heavenly’ Spencer Ackerman After 12 years of stalwart companionship, my dog Kingsley died on 21 March.
(9) Men pass the time drinking and seeking female companionship and sex, either as long-term sexual partners, casual short-term partners, or cash clients.
(10) This was not the ideal time to be providing Doug with the intellectual companionship he seemed to crave."
(11) Stifled by the restrictions of her life in a small, provincial village, she longs for adventure and companionship.
(12) A quick graze of the internet will provide fan theories to feed any hunches you’ve long felt about the happy-go-lucky companionship of Timon and Pumbaa, and their effective adoption of baby Simba, in The Lion King – or indeed the foppish villainy of the same film’s Scar, an alpha lion who has never found a mate in the pride.
(13) Study 5 used an experimental design to test the hypothesis that a deficit of companionship elicits more negative reactions from others than does a deficit of social support.
(14) Just as important, they provided companionship for him.
(15) Stereomicroscopic observations determined that the three vessel types are so intricately intermingled that companionship in distribution does not exist.
(16) Luther was my most obvious expression of this.” Osborne quoted by WJ Weatherby “The nag of disquiet and all the inescapable forebodings with which I had been born were so rooted that they couldn’t be dismissed by the pleasure, the luxuries, the companionships and liberations that I felt I should have been enjoying at this point in my life.” Osborne on life in the early 1960s in Almost a Gentleman.
(17) Many have relied on their own social networks to find housing, work and companionship.
(18) There's an important distinction there; it was not that they found that users of Facebook were better supported emotionally, but that they reported that they felt they were, and in two key categories of emotional support and companionship.
(19) Another disused railway line near Kenilworth was now an urban “Greenway”: the companionship of cyclists and dog‑walkers was welcome after my discomfort on the deserted, brambled-choked footpaths of rural England.
(20) The organisation provides companionship, skills and constructive, meaningful activity for people with mental health problems.
Slacken
Definition:
(a.) To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.
(a.) To be remiss or backward; to be negligent.
(a.) To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks.
(a.) To abate; to become less violent.
(a.) To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens.
(a.) To languish; to fail; to flag.
(a.) To end; to cease; to desist; to slake.
(v. t.) To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage.
(v. t.) To neglect; to be remiss in.
(v. t.) To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime.
(v. t.) To cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken industry.
(v. t.) To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease.
(n.) A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Torque pulses (of 10 or 100 msec) injected randomly to load or unload the movements stretched or slackened the appropiate prime movers: biceps or triceps.
(2) Although the rate of growth has slackened somewhat during recent years, the private pension movement is now a major contributor to the income maintenance needs of the American worker during retirement.
(3) While the slackening of the woof and the dimension of the meshes are minimal at both the beginning and end of the cycle, they reach a maximum on forteenth day.
(4) Increasing doses led to a negative inotropic effect with slackened relaxation and loss of its load sensitivity (up to 390 mumol l-1 for sulmazole; up to 350 mumol-1 for theophylline).
(5) Our findings suggest a mechanism eventually leading to slackening of the cervical spine ligamentous apparatus and atlantoaxial subluxation in RA.
(6) The result is diminished uterine volume and slackening of the myometrium.
(7) This also raises the question to what extent these fears become manifest because of a slackening of the defence mechanisms.
(8) The collagen fibres in this case stretch out and the skin tension slackens.
(9) The potential for slackened physician-patient relationships, however, could jeopardize that quality.
(10) One is the mobilization of a global effort to develop and test technologies, where the available technologies are not satisfactory to meet the needs and where the research is slackening.
(11) Blepharochalasis implies the symptom or general term (Kettesy) applied to the slackening and thinning out of the upper lid.
(12) After strong growth in the first six months of the year, the pace of growth in manufacturing has also slackened as a result of weaker demand from key markets including Europe and China.” Taken as a whole the UK’s economy is now 3.4% above its pre-crisis peak in the first quarter of 2008.
(13) 10 (11 p.cent) died within one month of surgery, but slackening of the sutures was an attributable cause in none of these cases.
(14) So over the coming months, far from slackening, you'll see the rate of change and reform at the BBC go faster and deeper.
(15) The Tumble is hard but it slackens off after a couple of kilometres so it’s hard to pull out a lot of time.
(16) Vmax was also determined by a procedure in which the cell length was slackened and the time of unloaded shortening was recorded (slack test).
(17) The sales pattern of the aerosols altered, showing a slackening of the rate of increase of sales in 1966 and 1967.
(18) Its growth rate and cellular structure were observed over the subsequent 19 months, the former remaining constant for the first 14 months, then slackening markedly during the final 4 months.
(19) On debt and taxation, rich and poor countries are worlds apart | Tove Maria Ryding Read more “Already, several countries have turned to multilateral lending institutions, such as the IMF and the World Bank, in order to obtain financial assistance: Angola, Azerbaijan, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Zambia and Zimbabwe have already asked for bailouts or are in talks to do so.” The trade and development report said that against a backdrop of falling commodity prices and slackening growth in the developed world, borrowing costs for poor countries had been “driven up very quickly, turning what seemed reasonable debt burdens under favourable conditions into largely unsustainable debt.
(20) In another welcome sign of rebalancing, exports to non-EU countries were up by 3.5% ( full details here ) Photograph: ISTAT 9.25am BST Draghi is also warning that eurozone governments must not slacken off the pace of reform - a familiar refrain for the ECB chief: Thanks to their consolidation efforts so far, the primary fiscal deficit for the euro area has fallen from 3.5% of GDP in 2009 to around 0.5% in 2012.