(n.) The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.
(n.) The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement.
Example Sentences:
(1) "If there is some kind of contrived scheme or vehicle, ie it's obvious that the purpose of the scheme is to avoid paying VAT and it's taking advantage of a loophole and we consider that tax is actually owed on the scheme, rather than just being a case of sensible tax planning … we can make the judgment that this is not legitimate tax planning.
(2) Here they led within 90 seconds against a team whose fragility has been all too clear this term, and still contrived to wilt almost apologetically.
(3) And I'll be catching several buzzy acts who I contrived to miss last year – Ivo Graham, Ursula Burns, Trygve (Squidboy) Wakenshaw, Phil Wang, Paul Currie.
(4) Rafael Benítez must contrive a way of picking this team up, as well as a starting lineup who are relatively fresh for Elland Road and a cup tie that once would have stirred the senses.
(5) When Grayson remarks to the men he meets that his transvestism allows him enough distance from maleness to view it as an observer, rather than bristle they nod, quietly ponder for a moment and then step back themselves, apparently accepting that maleness is such a weird contrivance that to look at it with critical eyes is Not Even A Thing.
(6) Capello's men have contrived to fail more severely than the line‑up beaten 4-2 by Uruguay in 1954.
(7) Support is provided by intercostal angiography, and by observations upon normal anatomy, the pathological anatomy of mature scoliotic spines and the anatomy of contrived scoliosis in normal spines.
(8) The natural and the contrived social experiments are reviewed as well as the issue of needed research on the effects of regulation on science and on the protection of privacy.
(9) Even after the Daily Mail's Jack Tinker (obituary, October 29 1996) contrived for Shulman's career as a theatre critic to be brought to an end in 1991, he continued to write a column for the Evening Standard on art affairs - until he was 83.
(10) Some patients find that the risk of a spontaneous attack is lessened following a self-induced seizure and can therefore contrive their fits to occur only in situations which are safe and convenient.
(11) Some contrivances in anastomosing a conduit were also proposed to achieve an excellent result.
(12) "It's more contrived in terms of 'good girl gone bad' or 'I'm so edgy – I'm twerking in this context.'
(13) Always a contrived fiction, this sequence juxtaposes a poignant fantasy of a fully fit presenter with the merciless world of hard news.
(14) A coded panel of 100 contrived dried blood spots prepared form well characterised anti-HIV-1 and anti-HIV-2 positive sera and an anti-HIV negative serum was distributed to eight testing centres.
(15) Despite papal fiction being such a crowded church, Harris, in Conclave , contrives a twist involving the number of cardinal-electors that seems to me completely new, showing that the genre still has possibilities.
(16) Although oral administration volume is limited in small animal model, enhancing its antitumor effect may be possible in clinical application by contriving the method of administration.
(17) Events went from bad to ridiculous for the Redbirds in the second inning, when Stephen Drew popped the ball up into the infield and catcher Yadier Molina and pitcher Adam Wainwright both moved towards the ball and then contrived to call each other off and watched the ball drop harmlessly between them.
(18) "We will dedicate our seventh goal to our wives, and the eighth to our dogs," quipped one player, while the manager, Jupp Derwall, promised that if his team contrived to lose he would "jump on the first train back to Munich".
(19) The tasks were presented in various ways: by means of a table-top simulation on which traffic scenarios had been contrived; by means of photographs of road situations; and by taking the children to real-world sites in the streets near their schools.
(20) The amendment left the government facing the prospect of scuttling its own legislation to give the tax office greater powers to stop global companies using “artificial or contrived arrangements” to avoid tax obligations.
Sizer
Definition:
(n.) See Sizar.
(n.) An instrument or contrivance to size articles, or to determine their size by a standard, or to separate and distribute them according to size.
(n.) An instrument or tool for bringing anything to an exact size.
Example Sentences:
(1) An aerodynamic particle sizer was used to categorise samples according to respirable particle release rates.
(2) Inferences of aerodynamic diameter based on measurements by the laser aerosol spectrometer consistently undersized that determined by the aerodynamic particle sizer by a factor of 1.5.
(3) To test the reliability of the instrument, we measured particle size distributions of saline aerosols generated by four kinds of nebulizer and compared the results with those from a Malvern 2600D particle sizer as a standard of comparison.
(4) An aerodynamic particle sizer (APS) can be used to make real-time measurements of the aerodynamic particle size distribution over the range of 0.5 to 32 microns.
(5) Inhaled pentamidine has become an important method of treatment and prophylaxis for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and we have compared nebuliser efficiency in terms of drug output and droplet sizes in four brands of jet nebuliser (Acorn-22, Inspiron, Cirrus, Respirgard II) and one brand of ultrasonic nebuliser (Fisoneb), at 2 pentamidine concentrations and 3 flow rates, using a laser particle sizer.
(6) A pilot grinding operation was constructed, and the size distribution and concentration of airborne particles were measured with the aerodynamic particle sizer (APS).
(7) The influence of manufacturing temperature, type of monomer, drug concentration and ethylcyanoacrylate concentration on the particle size were investigated with a Coulter Nano Sizer.
(8) Tropical tree loss Sizer said it was “very concerning” that the data reveals that tree loss in Brazil and Indonesia is on the rise again – by 16% and 30% respectively since 2013 – despite longer term downward trends.
(9) A polydisperse aerosol of di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP or DOP) was sampled directly into an aerodynamic particle sizer and through a stage of the personal impactor.
(10) We have, therefore, been exploring the use of a Laser Diffraction Particle Sizer, the Malvern 2600 long bench model, for the measurement of mean spheroid diameter and size distribution.
(11) Annular size was then measured intraoperatively with calibrated sizers.
(12) Sizers are probably the major regulatory mechanism for cell growth under conditions of nutrient and growth factor excess.
(13) The balloon catheters were simultaneously inflated to 4 atm pressure for 10 s. Before and after balloon valvotomy the valve area was calculated with a conical sizer, and radiological studies were also performed to study the effect of balloon valvotomy on calcified aortic commissures.
(14) Radiological studies and calculation of the valve area, using a conical sizer, were performed both before and after balloon dilatation.
(15) It will be important to gather more detailed information about the exact location of the fires and their causes, which could have important implications for the companies and government agencies involved," said Nigel Sizer of WRI.
(16) The efficiency of emulsification was studied using a laser diffraction sizer to determine particle size distributions of the resultant emulsions.
(17) The distribution of particle sizes of aerosols of different allergen solutions was determined by a TSI Aerodynamic Particle Sizer.
(18) Dr Nigel Sizer, study co-author and director of the forests programme for the World Resources Institute (WRI) , said the increase of fires in northern forests had worrying implications for the climate.
(19) Measurement methods based on differing physical principles were selected for evaluation and compared: particle inertia (aerodynamic particle sizer and quartz crystal microbalance cascade impactor); light scattering (laser aerosol spectrometer); and projected-area microscopy (scanning electron microscope).
(20) An aerodynamic particle sizer (APS) that uses laser Doppler velocimetry was used to determine aerodynamic diameters of spores of fungal and thermophilic actinomycete species common in mouldy hay, aerosolized at different humidities and temperatures.