(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.
Fiendish
Definition:
(a.) Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish.
Example Sentences:
(1) By recklessly raising the military stakes in the Syrian cauldron, by acting unilaterally and without any manner of UN or collective mandate, by threatening to send aircraft into areas where American, Turkish and other anti-Isis forces are operating, Putin risks further complicating an already fiendishly complicated conflict.
(2) We're moving from one highly complex system – the renewable obligation – to something even more fiendishly complex."
(3) China's first stretch of railway track was built by a British firm in 1876, but soon dismantled on the orders of Chinese imperial officials who regarded it as a fiendish foreign invention.
(4) With stylish monochrome graphics and frequently fiendish puzzles, it's a rewarding and original adventure.
(5) There's plenty of culture too, with the Royal Danish Ballet and the Royal Opera staging an impressively varied programme of events that people like us, who have failed miserably to grasp the fiendishly complicated language, can still enjoy.
(6) Then there was the day Brydon had to eat a stuffed onion while nursing a fiendish hangover.
(7) The QM, so named because the late Queen Mother apparently used to have two before lunch, is a fiendish mix.
(8) Traders are "fiendish", "predators", hell-bent on stealing from the "decent, hard-working folk" to line their own pockets without an ounce of remorse.
(9) 11.18am BST This quiz from John Ashdown is fiendish .
(10) Politics and economics Getting 194 nations to agree on anything, let alone a re-tooling of the global energy system that drives economies, is fiendish.
(11) Looking ahead, how will HMRC, so weak at company tax collection, bring in the fiendishly complex universal credit without chaos?
(12) This is fiendishly difficult to get right, and efforts to calculate this figure began, like so many mathematical techniques, as a matter of marginal, somewhat nerdish interest during the 1930s.
(13) In 2013, the plan to introduce universal credit, which has been described as involving “fiendishly complicated calculations” had to be “reset to zero”, after more than £600m had been spent.
(14) But it's fiendishly complex to work out what you're entitled to and how you can boost it.
(15) Pogba’s athleticism and high-kneed running style makes him a fiendishly difficult opponent and, if anything, he needs some of the players around him to raise their own level of performance.
(16) But the most important factor was the misconception that computing was essentially about products – hardware and software – that were fiendishly expensive and required endless updating, maintenance and policing.
(17) The Chinese have a script so fiendishly complicated that they cannot produce a proper keyboard for it.
(18) The jury is out on whether Cameron will win his fight to get a fiendishly complicated renegotiation of the Lisbon treaty, with the aim of securing new British terms of EU membership that would then be put to a referendum in 2017 if Cameron wins a second term in 2015.
(19) For fiendish ingenuity, however, Facebook's latest move into the mobile phone business takes the biscuit.
(20) Cameron and his successor (that is, the Conservative leader who will fight the 2020 election) require a Labour leader plausible enough to compel Tory backbench discipline in the fiendishly difficult European negotiations ahead , and the referendum itself.