(v. t.) To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.
(v. t.) To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.
(v. i.) To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The acute effect of alcohol manifested itself by decreasing mitochondrial respiration, compensated by increased glycolytic activity of the myocardium so that myocardial energy phosphate concentration remained unchanged.
(2) Results suggest that these resins should be used with some method to compensate for the shrinkage, when used as index material.
(3) Medical prevention and technique and then compensation for these occupational nuisances are then described.
(4) The hemorrhagic syndrome (HS) was identified in 16% of patients with chronic active hepatitis, in 26% with compensated and in 76% with decompensated LC.
(5) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
(6) level was increased in 13 of 19 measurements made in this group, state named "compensated hypothyroidism" according to Patel and Burger.
(7) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(8) The solution to these problems would seem either to reduce the time spent in rectangular wires or to change to a bracket with reduced torque, together with appropriate second order compensations in the archwire or the bracket.
(9) A compensator connected to the section consisting of the pump-main line-operating member and including a pneumatic resistance and a flaxid non-elastic container enables it in combination with the feedback to maintain through the volumetric displacement of the gas, or changing the pump diaphragm position, the stability of the gas volume in the pneumatic transmission element of the assisted circulation apparatus.
(10) Sympathochromaffin catecholamines are not normally critical but compensate and become critical when glucagon is deficient.
(11) The stretch reflex in man has a direct role in compensating for small disturbances during motor tasks.
(12) The ideal prophylaxis should compensate for the undesired effects of an operation or injury on the coagulation system, without subjecting the patient to the danger of elevated tendency to bleed.
(13) Advocates would point to the influence Giggs maintains in the United midfield – developing a more creative game from a central role to compensate for the loss of his once blistering pace.
(14) A preliminary "profile" of the patient with low back pain who would likely benefit from manual therapy included acute symptom onset with less than a 1-month duration of symptoms, central or paravertebral pain distribution, no previous exposure to spinal manipulation, and no pending litigation or workers' compensation.
(15) The venture capitalist argued in his report, commissioned by the Downing Street policy guru Steve Hilton, in favour of "compensated no fault-dismissal" for small businesses.
(16) The government also faced considerable international political pressure, with the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Méndez, calling publicly on the government to "provide full redress to the victims, including fair and adequate compensation", and writing privately to David Cameron, along with two former special rapporteurs, to warn that the government's position was undermining its moral authority across the world.
(17) Taxpayers will pick up an immediate £40m bill for compensating the four shortlisted companies that bid for the west coast franchise.
(18) Adreno-cortical compensation of the concentration of the hormone did not occur in the post-castration period.
(19) The principle of antagonistic compensation was presented by RIESENFELD in 1966 to explain the relative shortening and broadening of hypofunctional bones.
(20) But he won’t call.” Allardyce is also cynical about an offer from Swansea to compensate around 300 Sunderland fans who had booked trips to Wales before the date change.
Counterbalance
Definition:
(v. t.) To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.
(n.) A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another
(n.) A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel
(n.) A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stations such as al-Jazeera English have been welcomed as a counterbalance to Western media parochialism.
(2) To counterbalance integration against the threat of riots is basically the Tebbit test without the sport.
(3) Dose dependency of disposition and absorption counterbalance each other in the usual dose range.
(4) This study suggests that the changes in cholesterol metabolism after jejunoileostomy are dependent on the length of functioning jejunum and ileum in such a way that the effects of the two segments counterbalance each other.
(5) A large turn-out of Democratic supporters is needed in working-class cities in the north of Ohio to counterbalance Republican support in the largely rural areas to the south.
(6) In contrast, AVP sensitizes the sympathetic control of the mesenteric vascular bed to counterbalance its potent local vasoconstrictor effects.
(7) The results show that the ability to support survival of primary cultured hepatocytes is not a common property of liver-tumor-promoter barbiturates but is a common property of some barbiturates with high lipophilicity, and that the maintenance of hepatocytes by phenobarbital or amobarbital is not due to a counterbalance of stimulated proliferation and death of the cells.
(8) It is also, still, an important counterbalance to the power of BBC television, above all BBC1.
(9) Ahmadinejad's address to heads of state at the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), in Kazakhstan could deepen suspicions that the bloc is intended as a counterbalance to US influence across the region.
(10) Inhibition of VPA beta-oxidation by salicylate was sufficient to counterbalance the increased elimination of VPA as its conjugates and explains why total clearance of VPA after salicylate remains unchanged even though the free fraction of VPA is increased.
(11) The major effects of ADH on urinary acidification serve at least to counterbalance disturbing consequences on urinary ammonia excretion of physiological variations in the urinary flow rate.
(12) Quantitation of the contribution of each kidney, by means of a 99mTc-DTPA scan, showed that the glomerular filtration rate of the native kidneys had decreased to counterbalance the added function.
(13) It is known that the halophilic green alga Dunaliella tertiolecta grows under hypertonic conditions (with NaCl), which induce the intracellular accumulation of high concentrations of glycerol in order to counterbalance the osmotic change.
(14) Those behind the deal said they hoped to use the SCMP to paint a more positive picture of China and provide a counterbalance to the western media’s “too ideological and biased” coverage.
(15) The importance of the Bainbridge reflex as a counterbalance to the baroreceptor reflex is discussed.
(16) For both reactions the activation enthalpies and entropies change markedly with menaquinone chain length but counterbalance each other, resulting in activation free energies at ambient temperature independent of the menaquinone tail.
(17) It is suggested that K+ elevation counterbalance both PRA decrease and ANF increase to be responsible for the absence of change in plasma ALD during beta-blockade.
(18) Turn Britain's regions into subsidiaries of London, raze its business and political elites, and you have hardly any counterbalance to the might of the City.
(19) Simultaneous hemodilution with hydroxyethyl starch can counterbalance the already existing changes.
(20) However, the animals consistently retained sodium, and the high plasma levels of ANF were unable to counterbalance the sodium-retaining actions of DOCA.