(n.) Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate.
(n.) Essential quality; property; attribute.
(n.) Temperament; disposition; character.
(n.) That which must exist as the occasion or concomitant of something else; that which is requisite in order that something else should take effect; an essential qualification; stipulation; terms specified.
(n.) A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission, or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend.
(v. i.) To make terms; to stipulate.
(v. i.) To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
(n.) To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of.
(n.) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
(n.) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college; as, to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study.
(n.) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
(n.) train; acclimate.
Example Sentences:
(1) F(420) is photolabile aerobically in neutral and basic solutions, whereas the acid-stable chromophore is not photolabile under these conditions.
(2) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(3) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
(4) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(5) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(6) Electronmicroscopical investigations have revealed that, under normal conditions, a minor vesicular transfer of intravenously injected peroxidase occurs across the endothelium in segments of arterioles, capillaries and venules, especially in arterioles with a diameter about 15-30 mu.
(7) Among the migrants from the regions with contrasting climatic conditions.
(8) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
(9) The data indicate that ebselen is likely to be useful in the therapy of inflammatory conditions in which reactive oxygen species, such as peroxides, play an aetiological role.
(10) Whether hen's egg yolk can be used as a sperm motility stimulant in the treatment of such conditions as asthenospermia and oligospermia is subjected for further study.
(11) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
(12) The purpose of the present study was to report on remaining teeth and periodontal conditions in a population of 200 adolescent and adult Vietnamese refugees.
(13) Under blood preservation conditions the difference of the rates of ATP-production and -consumption is the most important factor for a high ATP-level over long periods.
(14) Western blot analysis of these mitochondria using an antibody against carnitine palmitoyltransferase II purified from beef heart demonstrates a 68-kDa protein, which under ischemic conditions apparently is decreased by 2 kDa.
(15) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
(16) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(17) In each study, all subjects underwent four replications (over two days) of one of the six permutations of the three experimental conditions; each condition lasted 5 min.
(18) The results also suggest that the dispersed condition of pigment in the melanophores represents the "resting state" of the melanophores when they are under no stimulation.
(19) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
(20) The specific activities of extracts from cells grown under phototrophic and aerobic conditions were similar and not affected by the concentration of iron in the growth media.
Hung
Definition:
() of Hang
() imp. & p. p. of Hang.
Example Sentences:
(1) And adding to this toxic mix, was the fear that the hung parliament would lead to a weak government.
(2) Shell casings littered the main road, tear gas hung in the air and security forces beat local residents.
(3) This was incredible - Selby somehow hung in there yesterday, taking frames when apparently outclassed, and then when he needed to turn it up today, he did - 13-4 turned it up.
(4) Keep asking questions like that and you’re going to get hung up on, like right now,” he said, then disconnected the line.
(5) But O'Donnell stressed that hung parliaments were rare.
(6) After that attack, he said, body parts of some of the dead and wounded had been hung in trees as a "kind of trophy for the world to see".
(7) Without him, we were at the mercy of increasingly nervous investors, and our Hollywood film-making future hung in the balance.
(8) Similar differential inhibition by dipyridamole of the salvage of thymidine, as opposed to 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine, was reported previously (G. V. Betageri, J. Szebeni, K. Hung, S. S. Patel, L. M. Wahl, M. Corcoran, and J. N. Weinstein, Biochem.
(9) Read more Both Xenophon and Katter had left open the prospect of entering formal minority agreements with the Coalition – unlike Cathy McGowan and Andrew Wilkie , who said they would approach a hung parliament vote by vote.
(10) In 2013, the Mail On Sunday reported that Umunna belonged to a “shady” City men’s club where bottles of brandy went for £4,000 a pop, that he hung out with celebrities, and that he would happily pay £1,200 for a suit.
(11) Lewis has not hung around in sorting out the unwanted porfolio.
(12) The Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, hailed the results, including the 12,000-vote win in Clacton over the Conservatives, and predicted the party might hold the balance of power in a hung parliament.
(13) Don’t get too hung up on identity issues “The idea of gender fluidity is an alien concept to the vast majority of people, even in Britain.” 4.
(14) With 73,000 people killed and large parts of its cities and villages destroyed in the north by the disaster, the plight of 2.5 million people left homeless hung in the balance.
(15) These results extend the previously proposed model (Hung, C.-H., Noelken, M. E., and Hudson, B. G. (1981) J. Biol.
(16) Are people overly hung up on the ability of people to change?
(17) The market's assessment of the impact of a hung parliament has been mixed.
(18) Quique Sánchez Flores, the fighter who prefers pragmatism to artistry at Watford Read more Flores is not a man to be discouraged easily and, having hung up his boots in 1997, the right-back – who was part of the Spain squad at the 1990 World Cup – finally lived the dream.
(19) Another journalist asks whether Clegg would support the party with the most voters or the most seats in a hung parliament.
(20) Somebody had hung a guardsman's bright red ceremonial tunic on a road sign outside a pub.