(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.
Emissary
Definition:
(n.) An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter.
(a.) Exploring; spying.
(a.) Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.
Example Sentences:
(1) The drainage blockade is active and located just inside the tunica albuginea at the origin of the emissary veins.
(2) There has been no dialogue between the Chinese government and emissaries of the Dalai Lama since 2010.
(3) Key figures are Frank Lowenstein, Kerry’s special emissary for Middle East peace, and David Makovsky, an expert from the Washington Institute thinktank who specialises in the highly-complex mapping work that will be crucial to any land swaps.
(4) The anatomic connections of the head with the mediastinum through extensions of the deep cervical fascia, and the intracranial venous sinuses connected through emissary veins to the facial veins, make infections of this region the most dreaded.
(5) Brown, meanwhile, was exploring the possibility of sending Brazil's Lula as an emissary to broker an agreement between industrialised economies and the developing world.
(6) On Sunday, after the ninth US circuit court of appeals in San Francisco rejected the government’s application for an emergency stay, Pence was sent as an emissary from the White House to several talkshows.
(7) A small foramen in the squamous part of the occipital bone just behind foramen magnum was noticed for the passage of emissary vein in one skull only, probably connecting occipital sinus with suboccipital venous plexus.
(8) The anatomy of the posterior condylar emissary vein is discussed, and the general evaluation of a patient with objective, pulsatile tinnitus is reviewed.
(9) The "emissary" is situated either along the right or left contour of the base of the common ventricle, its dimensions are variable.
(10) The emissary veins of the islet seem to serve for the quick conveyance of insular secretions into general circulation.
(11) And I thought, that's a good advertisement for death, for the emissary of death.
(12) Even as president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced on TV her plan to nationalise Spanish-owned YPF, her emissaries were at the oil company's 35-storey Buenos Aires headquarters giving its Spanish directors 15 minutes to leave the building.
(13) Photograph: EPA Rael – once known as Claude Vorilhon, a French-born amateur sports racer and journalist – changed his name in 1973 after what he says was an encounter with extraterrestrials who declared that he had been chosen as their emissary to deliver a message of joy to humankind.
(14) "The vast lazy planes that floated overhead were emissaries from another world."
(15) Anderson has gone so far as to screen the movie for Tom Cruise, Scientology's chief emissary to the normals.
(16) Sir Denis Wright, an earlier UK ambassador to Iran, was chosen as emissary.
(17) Plain radiographs immediately after perfusion revealed prompt escape of dye into the systemic veins via a number of large transcortical emissary veins.
(18) Athens has set up a crisis management team, sent an emissary to the Middle East, contacted governments across the region and used its considerable contacts with the Syrian opposition in a bid to shed light on the clerics' whereabouts.
(19) Cerebral angiograms showed (1) the occluded confluence sinuum and compensatory venous collaterals, (2) venous drainage through the persistent falcial sinus, which was rare in an adult, from the straight sinus into the superior sagittal sinus (SSS), (3) venous drainage through diploic veins and emissary veins into scalp veins.
(20) In three patients, no blood flow could be detected in the ophthalmic emissary veins whereas in the fourth patient as well as in both control subjects, blood flowed from the intracranium to the face.