(n.) That which is contributed; -- either the portion which an individual furnishes to the common stock, or the whole which is formed by the gifts of individuals.
(n.) An irregular and arbitrary imposition or tax leved on the people of a town or country.
(n.) Payment, by each of several jointly liable, of a share in a loss suffered or an amount paid by one of their number for the common benefit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(2) CT appears to yield important diagnostic contribution to preoperative staging.
(3) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(4) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
(5) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
(6) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(7) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
(8) Time-series analysis and multiple-regression modeling procedures were used to characterize changes in the overall incidence rate over the study period and to describe the contribution of additional measures to the dynamics of the incidence rates.
(9) They suggest that an endogenous retinoid could contribute to positional information in the early Xenopus embryo.
(10) The 36-year-old teacher at an inner-city London primary school earns £40,000 a year and contributes £216 a month to her pension.
(11) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
(12) The diseases of airways had the highest contribution to the coefficient of morbidity.
(13) Each patient contributed only once to each phase (105 in phase 1, 107 in phase 2), but some entered both phases on separate occasions.
(14) Although the relative contributions of different fuels varies greatly in different organisms, in none is there a simple reliance on stored ATP.
(15) It was concluded that the spheno-occipital complex has a close relationship to the skeletal facial pattern and contributes to the facial formation.
(16) We conclude that both exogenously applied PAF by inhalation and antigen exposure are capable of inducing LAR in sensitized guinea pigs, and thus the priming effect of immunization and PAF may contribute to the development of LAR observed in asthma.
(17) We investigated the possible contribution made by oropharyngeal microfloral fermentation of ingested carbohydrate to the generation of the early, transient exhaled breath hydrogen rise seen after carbohydrate ingestion.
(18) In addition, recent studies have not confirmed previous observations that diuretic-induced hypokalaemia increases ventricular ectopy or contributes to sudden death.
(19) "We have peace in Sierra Leone now, and Tony Blair made a huge contribution to that," said Warrant Officer Abu Bakerr Kamara.
(20) This article, a review of factors controlling vasopressin (AVP) release in pregnancy, extends our contribution to a symposium in this journal published in 1987 (vol X, pp 270-275).
Gratuity
Definition:
(n.) Something given freely or without recompense; a free gift; a present.
(n.) Something voluntarily given in return for a favor or service, as a recompense or acknowledgment.
Example Sentences:
(1) I was and am very grateful – indeed I gave him very nearly a pound in gratuity.
(2) By transforming the provision of medical care in this way, the giving and accepting of gratuities for doctors could be terminated, not only in law but also in the economy.
(3) Although CBAP is not a true gratuitous inducer, operationally it approaches gratuity for induction of B. licheniformis penicillinase better than other known inducers.
(4) The induction studied under conditions of gratuity with the latter compound as an inducer showed immediate linear kinetics only at saturating inducer concentrations.
(5) He may have won some votes by stating: "I would like to make it clear as I did this past weekend that I am against the MP's gratuity bonus."
(6) A local guide would take us there and we could give him a gratuity if we wished.
(7) The habit of giving a gratuity became so frequent at the end of the 1950's that counter-measures were enacted.
(8) But the Pentagon said it cannot grant these families a "death gratuity" to cover the burial and other expenses as long as the budget impasse continues.
(9) · An eight-day holiday joining the Cottonwood Ranch Horse and Cattle drive starts from £1,040 per person including full board, transfers, taxes and gratuities.
(10) When 4 mM Ca2+ is added gratuitiously in the reaction mixture synthesizing prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) from arachidonic acid and cofactors by membrane associated microsomal multienzyme system (MES) prepared from goat seminal vesicles, one observes an immediate lag in the production of PGE2.
(11) The authorisation for the dam project was one of dozens of specific spending amendments introduced in the Senate deal, ranging from a “gratuity of $174,000 for the widow of Senator Lautenberg” (Frank Lautenberg, the long-serving New Jersey senator who died in June ) to “authority for activities to counter Lord’s Resistance Army” in Uganda.
(12) Although granting and accepting gratuities is forbidden by law, the wages of doctors have been fixed since 1954, for so long that accepting gratuities has come to be considered part of the wages, even in semi-official comments and in the media.