(n.) One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor.
(v. t.) To enroll, by compulsion, for military service.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2, 178 tattooed male conscripts in ages of 19-24 years, the most frequent tattoo was a heart mark or a mark of heart and arrow.
(2) The role of social, behavioral, and psychological characteristics and other risk indicators for high alcohol consumption in young men was analyzed using a survey of 49,464 Swedish conscripts.
(3) The predictive value of the Cattell 16-factor personality test on the occurrence of automobile accidents among conscripts during their 11-month military service in a transportation section of Finnish Defense Forces was examined.
(4) A study of plantar flexion strength and calf circumference in 30 conscripts is submitted.
(5) Conscripts are posted where the government orders them, and remain there for months and often years without being allowed home.
(6) Sera and demographic data were prospectively collected from 2,000 male conscripts and 2,000 pregnant women from urban and rural parts of Sweden during 1988-1989.
(7) Dan Heymann, a reluctant army conscript, wrote the brutally satirical Weeping for His Band Bright Blue .
(8) In this pilot study clinical, electrocardiographic, chemical and immunological findings have been studied during a six weeks' follow-up after routine immunisation (mumps, polio, tetanus, smallpox, diphtheria and type A meningococcal disease) among 234 Finnish conscripts at the beginning of their military service.
(9) Young male students like him were prime targets for snipers or forced conscription, he told me.
(10) In 15 conscripts, venous plasma potassium was followed during exercise on a training bicycle before and after 10 weeks of moderate physical training and a putative relationship with skeletal muscle Na,K-ATPase was evaluated.
(11) In order to investigate the association between the haptoglobin (Hp) and ABO groups described by others, Hp types and ABO blood groups were studied in 4,370 conscripts and blood donors from the counties of Västerbotten and Norrbotten in Northern Sweden.
(12) First catch early morning urine samples were compared to urethral swabs for detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in 405 male military conscripts, using 2 enzyme immunoassays, Syva Microtrak EIA (SME) and ABBOTT Chlamydiazyme (AC).
(13) Human Rights Watch argued that “this authoritative report rightly condemns the horrific patterns of torture, arbitrary detention, and indefinite conscription that are prompting so many Eritreans to flee their country”.
(14) The secular shift was more pronounced among the short-stature segments of the populations; percentages of conscripts below a height of 160.0 cm dropped in a striking manner throughout the period under investigation.
(15) Risk factors for mortality from motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) were examined in all Australian former National Service conscripts of the Vietnam conflict era, by comparing all those who had died from MVAs since the end of their basic training up until 1982 with a random sample of survivors, using data available from service records.
(16) Two sets of sera were taken at an interval of 3 wk from 12 healthy male conscripts, and the samples were tested with regard to their ability to support proliferation of cultured human aortic smooth muscle cells (HSMC).
(17) The prevalence of smokeless tobacco use, on the other hand, was higher than among civilians and similar to that of conscripted soldiers.
(18) Clinical characteristics and course of disease of 19 pneumococcal, 11 adenoviral, 15 mycoplasmal and 10 mixed pneumonias, diagnosed in 55 military conscripts, were compared.
(19) We have investigated the association between place of upbringing and the incidence of schizophrenia with data from a cohort of 49,191 male Swedish conscripts linked to the Swedish National Register of Psychiatric Care.
(20) The lawmakers in Kiev approved a text "to recommend to the acting president to restart conscription into the Ukraine armed forces without delay" in order to "bolster Ukraine's defence capabilities in connection with aggression from the Russian Federation".
Volunteer
Definition:
(a.) One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will.
(a.) One who enters into service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army.
(a.) A grantee in a voluntary conveyance; one to whom a conveyance is made without valuable consideration; a party, other than a wife or child of the grantor, to whom, or for whose benefit, a voluntary conveyance is made.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice.
(v. t.) To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.
(v. i.) To enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own free will, without solicitation or compulsion; as, he volunteered in that undertaking.
Example Sentences:
(1) Theophylline kinetics, as an in vivo probe for the potentially toxic cytochrome P-450I pathway of drug metabolism, were studied in 11 healthy volunteers and 11 patients with calcific chronic pancreatitis at Madras, South India.
(2) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(3) 1 The effects of chronic ethanol intake on the elimination kinetics of antipyrine were determined in nineteen male alcoholic subjects with comparison made to fourteen male volunteers.
(4) They also demonstrate the viability of a family support service which relies on inmate leadership, community volunteer participation, and institutional support.
(5) Twenty volunteers were used for the measurement of pedal pressures for 15 trials during three separate sessions.
(6) Total body dose of 2,4-D was determined in 10 volunteers following exposure to sprayed turf 1 hour following application and in 10 volunteers exposed 24 hours following application.
(7) Under a revised deal most people are now being vetted on time, but charges for the service have had to rise from £12 and free vetting for volunteers, to £28 for a standard disclosure and £33 for an advanced disclosure.
(8) It has 200 volunteers each week to serve 38,000 individuals.
(9) Our campaign has been going for some time and each step in our progress has been hard won, by campaigners paid and volunteer alike.
(10) The viruses shed by the volunteers were indistinguishable from those with which they were inoculated.
(11) Five normovolemic patients undergoing cardiac catheterization for atypical chest pain syndrome volunteered for this study.
(12) In a second set of test sessions, volunteers chewed sugarless gum for 10 minutes, starting 15 minutes after they ate the snack food.
(13) A cross-over study (cimetidine, 1 g daily for 19 days; ranitidine, 300 mg daily for 19 days; wash-out period: 20 days) was carried out in six healthy volunteers.
(14) 18 patients with typical sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) were investigated by the Motor Accuracy and Speed Test (MAST) and 18 healthy age- and-sex-matched volunteers, acted as controls.
(15) DL 071 IT, a new potent non-selective beta-adrenergic blocking drug with intrinsic sympathomimetic activity and weak membrane stabilizing activity, was evaluated alone and in comparison with oxprenolol, in six volunteers, at rest and during an exercise test.
(16) Patch and photopatch tests with fibric acid derivatives and ketoprofen were performed in the patients, in 12 normal volunteers, and in 7 patients with photopatch-proven photocontact dermatitis to ketoprofen.
(17) Studies were undertaken in volunteers to determine whether living adenovirus type 21 (ADV-21) vaccine could be safely administered orally to susceptible young adults.
(18) Therefore, we tested the ability of ultrasound imaging to identify noninvasively the stomach contents of laboring and nonlaboring pregnant volunteers.
(19) Second, 6 healthy volunteers were studied while eating a constant diet of 20 g of fiber plus 30 radiopaque markers daily so that mean daily transit time could be measured.
(20) Chloroquine administration shortened the time taken to reach peak plasma paracetamol concentration (tmax) in five of the volunteers.