(a.) Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.
(n.) That which is contained; the thing or things held by a receptacle or included within specified limits; as, the contents of a cask or bale or of a room; the contents of a book.
(n.) Power of containing; capacity; extent; size.
(n.) Area or quantity of space or matter contained within certain limits; as, solid contents; superficial contents.
(a.) To satisfy the desires of; to make easy in any situation; to appease or quiet; to gratify; to please.
(a.) To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.
(n.) Rest or quietness of the mind in one's present condition; freedom from discontent; satisfaction; contentment; moderate happiness.
(n.) Acquiescence without examination.
(n.) That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
(n.) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote; also, a member who votes "Content.".
Example Sentences:
(1) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
(2) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(3) Spectrophotometric determination of the sulfhydryl content in the animal tissue before (control) and after using 6,6'-Dithiodinicotinic acid is applied.
(4) Although Jeggo's Chinese hamster ovary cells were more responsive to mAMSA, novo still abrogated mAMSA toxicity in the mutant cells as well as in the parental Chinese hamster ovary cells 2,4-Dinitrophenol acted similarly to novo with respect to mAMSA killing, but neither compound reduced the ATP content of V79 cells.
(5) The content of the cavities was not stained by any of the immunocytochemical reactions applied.
(6) However, decapitation did not eliminate the sex difference in the tissue content of P4 during control incubations.
(7) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
(8) The ATP content of the cholinergic electromotor nerves of Torpedo marmorata has been measured.
(9) In addition to the changes associated with blood group A, we also found a decrease in sugar content, alterations in other antigens, and changes in the levels of several glycosyltransferases in cancerous tissues.
(10) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
(11) Arteries treated with atrial natriuretic peptide showed no alterations in relaxation or cGMP content after incubation with pertussis toxin.
(12) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
(13) There was however no difference in the cross-sectional studies and no significant deleterious effect detected of tobacco use on forearm bone mineral content.
(14) The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that the decreased Epi response following ET was due to 1) depletion of adrenal Epi content such that adrenomedullary stimulation would not release Epi, 2) decreased Epi release with direct stimulation, i.e., desensitization of release, or 3) decreased afferent signals generated by ET itself.
(15) The intensity of the type III specific peptide bands correlates with the type III content of the samples.
(16) Stimulation of atrial H1-receptors is suggested to directly cause an increase in Ca-channel conductance independent of intracellular cAMP content.
(17) "With hyperspectral imaging, you can tell the chemical content of a cake just by taking a photo of it.
(18) We assessed changes in brain water content, as reflected by changes in tissue density, during the early recirculation period following severe forebrain ischemia.
(19) Proving that not all teens are content with being part of a purely digital community, Adele Mayr attended a YouTube meet-up in London’s Hyde Park.
(20) The aim of this study was to describe the contents of daily reports in two homes for the aged.
Coruscate
Definition:
(v. i.) To glitter in flashes; to flash.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bafétimbi Gomis should have done better than head a mishit Sigurdsson shot into the side netting after the interval and was made to pay when Eriksen, after Alli had been fouled again in an identical area, cracked in his coruscating second goal.
(2) Marr may have copped flak, but the incident was an early example of how Cameron – an old Etonian who also professes to adore the Jam's coruscating The Eton Rifles – can be light on detail.
(3) My thoughts are with Jeremy’s family and friends as they try and come to terms with their loss.” Sir Menzies Campbell, the former Lib Dem leader, said: “Jeremy Thorpe’s enforced resignation as leader of the Liberal party and his subsequent departure from parliament should not obscure the fact that in his day he was an outstanding parliamentarian with a coruscating wit, and a brilliant campaigner on the stump whose interest and warmth made him a firm favourite with the public.” • This article was amended on 5 December 2014 to attribute two paragraphs to Wikipedia.
(4) The earlier version used the word "coruscating" where "excoriating" was meant.
(5) Abbado has talked of the choral finale of the Second Symphony - the "Resurrection", Mahler's coruscating vision of spiritual rebirth - as a metaphor for his own musical experience.
(6) A long association with Hall began at the National Theatre in 1987, when he played a coruscating half-hour interrogation scene with Maggie Smith in Hall’s production of Coming in to Land by Poliakoff; he was a Dostoeyvskyan immigration officer, Smith a desperate, and despairing, Polish immigrant.
(7) A coruscating burst of fast-twitch fibres, a victory grin as wide as the Clyde and then a regal bow from the king of sprinting – Usain Bolt has tasted far greater glories than this, his first Commonwealth Games gold medal, but the way he celebrated Jamaica’s 4x100m relay title on a soggy night in Glasgow one would never have known.
(8) As Simon Goldhill has observed in his coruscating Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives (2004), they exhibited this aim first and foremost in their attitudes to the body.
(9) Initially, I wanted to write one to fully capture McCarthy's coruscating lilt – but Hillcoat didn't want it.
(10) Side-effects typical for 'specific bradycardic agents', such as coruscation were seen.
(11) Or the 2012 final, when Arjen Robben's knees rattled together so violently that for a while it was thought Lionel 'Hot Mallets' Hampton had risen from the dead to bang out one last particularly coruscating vibraphone solo.
(12) As the play ratcheted up to a coruscating finale, we, the audience, were made to see the enormous value of the rights we'd handed over as the mere cost of life in the 21st century (who, we were asked, had read the iTunes privacy policy?
(13) The best-case scenario manufactured by Australian bureaucrats would liken parts of China to resemble the planet Coruscant from the Star Wars movies (the political centre of the galaxy, whose surface is covered by an entire city).
(14) Yet all the momentum is with Brendan Rodgers's team after this epic, coruscating match in which they still had the competitive courage to record their 10th straight win despite the jolt of seeing a 2-0 half-time lead wiped out.
(15) He claimed that his television biography of Mark Twain was dropped by a nervous network because of Twain’s coruscating criticism of the American financial establishment.
(16) He had caused permanent damage to the latter’s reputation in responding to the dismissal of seven cabinet ministers in the 1962 Night of the Long Knives with an adaptation of the words of St John: “Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.” Thorpe’s idea of heaven was a reception or dinner, attended by the great and good, where his coruscating wit could be appreciated by the most powerful in the land, or, preferably, the most powerful in Europe or the world.