(n.) The part or parts of something written or printed, as of Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning.
(v. t.) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
(3) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
(4) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
(5) In this experiment animals were trained to lever press in two distinctive contexts.
(6) A basic premise is that emotional process is not unique to homo sapiens and that human behavior might better be understood by observing this process in the broader context of all natural systems.
(7) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
(8) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
(9) Therefore, it is now important to look at TGF-alpha in its normal physiological context.
(10) Cyclosporine has a remarkable hepatotropic effect that may be helpful in the context of liver transplantation.
(11) A very important point to consider in this context is the immunological situation in the female genital tract which is a target organ for sex hormones.
(12) So when President Obama went before his country on Wednesday, this is the context in which what he had to say about his plans should be considered.
(13) The toxicological findings of this case are compared to the results of two chloroquine suicide cases and discussed in the context of the referring literature.
(14) A patient with long lasting non-parathyroid hormone mediated hypercalcaemia occurring within the context of hepatitis B virus chronic hepatitis is reported.
(15) A theory which includes the individual's activity as an essential mediator between the individual and the context is outlined.
(16) The issue has arisen in both a due process context and an equal protection context.
(17) Minor and major congenital anomalies were studied in 395 neonatal risk children and 107 normal school children at the age of nine in the context of follow-up of the risk children.
(18) Our results indicate that the Ah receptor-dependent, dioxin-responsive enhancer can activate transcription when in a regulatory context and in a chromosomal location different from those of the cytochrome P450iA1 gene.
(19) Based on our work on the EIA and assessors’ own reports on the 2010 REF pilot , assessment panels are able to account for factors such as the quality of evidence, context and situation in which the impact was occurring – and even the quality of the writing – to differentiate between, and grade, case studies.
(20) England’s next assignments, to put it into context, come against San Marino and Estonia in October.
Devour
Definition:
(v. t.) To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
(v. t.) To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.
(v. t.) To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.
Example Sentences:
(1) She devoured political science texts, took evening classes at Goldsmiths college, and performed at protests and fundraisers, but became disillusioned.
(2) On land, sand miners have devoured whole swaths of beach, from Jamaica to Russia.
(3) I gaze at it across the street and, as if by magic, I ache with longing, just as I used to in the days when a trip here was the most enjoyable thing I could possibly imagine: when books were all I wanted, when I thought of them as pieces of ripe fruit, waiting to be peeled and devoured.
(4) Within half an hour, George Galloway – the native of Dundee, MP for Bradford West, a former Labour MP for inner Glasgow, and figurehead of the Respect party – is sitting in Wetherspoon's, devouring fish and chips and granting about a dozen requests for photographs.
(5) The contents of the posterior cranial fossa are actively "sucked up", "devoured" by the latter.
(6) Kentucky secretary of state Alison Lundergan Grimes began the night recalling that the soon-to-be nominee loves lifestyle TV “and can devour buffalo wings”.
(7) She reels off esoteric book recommendations ("I just devoured this great book about the mistaken theories of pre-historic sexuality.
(8) Tissue samples from partly devoured carcasses contained T. spiralis larvae, implicating cannibalism as a major vehicle for the spread of T. spiralis in the herd.
(9) This is the real deal, what people want, what they can’t wait to devour.
(10) Partners of depressives experience themselves often as being totally in their hands respectively "devoured" by them.
(11) But now players devour it.” Jürgen Klinsmann was the conduit in 2004 when he became Germany’s head coach.
(12) Desperate and with nowhere else to go, eventually I found a cheap hotel, which devoured my dwindling resources.
(13) Growing up in 1940s French Algeria, the young Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent dreamed of Paris: a bullied outcast at school, he escaped into fantasy at home – devouring his mother's fashion magazines, sketching endlessly, and predicting (in the safety of his adoring family circle, at least) a future of spectacular fame.
(14) The monster the US has unleashed on the rest of the world is steadily devouring its own.
(15) I say to them: ‘Five minutes with this guy, and he’ll win you over.’” In a quiet restaurant in the City on Friday afternoon, over a selection of steak cuts that he devours efficiently, Joshua talks without edge about Fury, about his opponent in London on Saturday night, Dillian Whyte, and about himself.
(16) We tend to take our harmless fun where we find it – even if, like KidZania, it’s on the top floor of the next scourge devouring Bangkok, a giant shopping mall.
(17) Like other contemporary artists, Allen Jones being an obvious example, he devoured and then recycled the imagery of popular American magazines.
(18) I’m not being ironic: the bogs of western Britain and Ireland don’t freeze as they do in Scandinavia, so the geese can devour the roots of marshy plants on which they depend.
(19) The reef will also be aided by an $89m boost to programs such as the Reef Trust, a Coalition plan to improve water quality and tackle threats such as a plague of starfish which has devoured much of the reef’s coral.
(20) Applying pragmatism to her desire to learn English under communism, she devoured technical manuals and copies of the Morning Star .