(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.
Tablecloth
Definition:
(n.) A cloth for covering a table, especially one with which a table is covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for meals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Going through the airing cupboard recently, I came across the handmade duvet covers I used, stitched together by my mother from old sheets, tablecloths, and bits of lace.
(2) Sunday clothes and paperwork, bridal chests, wedding dresses and embroidered tablecloths, documents, maps and harvest records, china, grains, seeds, cured meats, cheeses and preserves … these were the treasures those who lived in Alpine villages such as Chamonix in the early 1800s would do anything to protect.
(3) A tweet from the writer Polly Samson last night reported that Freud's regular table in The Wolseley restaurant was laid with a black tablecloth and a single candle in his honour.
(4) Photograph: Alamy The 15-minute flight from Ponta Delgaa to Santa Maria reveals the island as a tablecloth-sized tumble of five farming parishes: there are twice as many cows as people in the Azores, a fact borne out on Santa Maria, which has 10,000 cows and 5,500 people.
(5) He recalled how in his first attempt to woo his wife he asked her to dinner, and inadvertently put a duvet on the table rather than a tablecloth.
(6) Even the term technocrat is extraordinary: it pretends to divorce economics from politics, when all that happens is that vulgar material interests are disguised under a luxurious tablecloth.
(7) The overwhelmingly positive replies have reassured her, and she collects a few from the pile of new post and spreads them out over the worn red-checked tablecloth.
(8) It's just when I pour tea I do it all over the tablecloth.
(9) With high ceilings, white-washed walls, white tablecloths and old-school bow-tied waiters, the place has an air of Rio’s cool glamorous past about it.
(10) No one wants to sit down for a six-course, white-tablecloth meal at 1.30am and pay attention to their table manners.
(11) In the evenings, the dining room upstairs opens its doors and the starched tablecloths and napkins come out for those after a more formal dinner.
(12) Live with it" – to the warning that they don't pour your wine or use tablecloths, Y Polyn (mains from £10), this is a no-nonsense, all-about-the-food restaurant.
(13) Going in the other direction, this gridded tablecloth has a rather more bathetic and English character.
(14) The elegant dining room with its hatstands and mirrored walls, the cramped tables where a stranger is likely to be sharing a table with you once it starts to fill up and the waiters' memory skills and tradition of annotating your order on the paper tablecloth, then jotting down the additionusing it to work outadd up your bill.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Metropolitan police’s 3D graphic showing polonium contamination on the green baize tablecloth in Grosvenor Square.
(16) A disco ball spins above her head casting tiny lights on tablecloths your nan would dismiss as a being a bit fussy.
(17) At 21, I was asking the woman who ran the tripe stall in Leeds Market about the cheapest place to buy tablecloths.
(18) The picturesque courtyard is a nice place to sit with a glass of wine, although the mismatched crockery and loud tablecloths may seem kitsch.
(19) Nuclear experts later found huge amounts of contamination on a small area of the green baize tablecloth.
(20) By the end of the season they are eating hamburgers alone from a white tablecloth with candelabra, while everyone calls them ‘sir’.