(a.) Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal.
(a.) Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.
(a.) Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
(3) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(4) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
(5) 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.
(6) A conventional liquid chromatograph with a low capacity column and a conductimetric detector is used to analyze aerosols of Cl-, Br-, NO-3 and SO=4 with good results.
(7) Gamma-irradiated splenic homogenates of armadillos infected with M. leprae proved sterile by conventional tests and media.
(8) Conventionally taken radiographs are captured by a video camera and processed by the IPS system (KONTRON).
(9) In one series of experiments, the animals were not treated before the tissues were conventionally fixed; in another, anesthetized animals were administered horseradish peroxidase 20 min before the tissues were fixed.
(10) Mithramycin should be considered in the early treatment not only of hypercalcaemia but also of severe hypercalciuria, if these complications do not rapidly remit during the first course of conventional myeloma therapy, with or without steroids.
(11) Major limitations of the conventional sperm penetration assay are the inability to assess several aspects of sperm function (zona binding and penetration) and the absence of human ovulatory products known to influence fertilization.
(12) The radiologic findings on conventional examinations (plain films and cholangiograms) in a large group of patients with proven hepatobiliary tuberculosis are reviewed.
(13) At present, ACE inhibitors are preferred because they are usually better tolerated than conventional vasodilators and are clinically more effective.
(14) All conventional injection and insulin pump regimens are supported.
(15) Lisinopril increases cardiac output, and decreases pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and mean arterial pressure in patients with congestive heart failure refractory to conventional treatment with digitalis and diuretics.
(16) Conventional control experiments for method and antiserum specificity were performed.
(17) However, valid electroacoustic evaluation of the DMHAs cannot be accomplished using the conventional hearing aid test box.
(18) Further, the use of food as a reinforcer has been considered taboo by those who use more conventional and restrictive management approaches with Prader-Willi syndrome individuals.
(19) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
(20) Our dynamic study indicated that: 1) a bolus injection of contrast medium with our method of CTA (CTA-B) produced an attenuation difference between liver and tumor which was about double that obtained with standard methods for CTA, and 2) marked tumor-liver attenuation differences (above 20 HU) persisted for more than 60 s in CTA-B and for not more than 20 s with conventional methods for CTA.
Revolutionary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.
(n.) A revolutionist.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sheez, I thought, is that what the revolutionary spirit of 1789 and 1968 has come to?
(2) This is not for the most part revolutionary.” Trump has made some of his least ideological picks in the area of national security and foreign policy.
(3) Unless you are part of some Unite-esque scheme to join up as part of a grand revolutionary plan, why would you bother shelling out for a membership card?
(4) We have learned that only a revolutionary approach – one that unites revolutionary forces from across the political spectrum – will succeed in rebuilding our country.
(5) "We have Revolutionary Guards who defied orders, though they were severely punished, expelled from the force and taken to prison," he says.
(6) Aware that her press secretary, Bernard Ingham, a former labour correspondent for the Guardian who understood the range of attitudes within trade unions, had tried to soften the impression that she saw Kinnock as another General Galtieri [Argentina’s president during the Falklands war], the draft text tried to distinguish between unions, rival parties and what the final text (the one she actually delivered) called “an organised revolutionary minority” with their “outmoded Marxist dogma about class warfare”.
(7) Trierweiler has broken a fundamental principle of French political life, an unwritten law inherited from the Ancien Régime and perpetuated by France's revolutionary nomenklatura, that the private life – and by that I mean sex life – of a public figure must remain inviolable.
(8) The Sunni side includes ISIS, Jaish al-Islam, JRTN, the 1920s Revolutionary Brigades, and moderate Sunni Arab tribal members.
(9) Like them, Benjamin is not a revolutionary; he doesn't want to make a new, more free or equitable society.
(10) Rouhani said on Saturday that Iran had never dispatched any forces to Iraq and it was very unlikely it ever would, but Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was in Baghdad last week to give advice to Maliki.
(11) Played out against the backdrop of the 1979 hostage crisis, Argo spins the account of a joint Hollywood-CIA mission to spring six imperiled Americans from revolutionary Iran, using a fake movie production as a decoy.
(12) It is a conflict over ownership of the process of revolutionary change, one that has already brought violence back to Egypt's streets – and which Fahmy's project is wading straight into the middle of.
(13) Central to the whole project was a patient fascination with religion, represented, in particular, in his attempt to understand the revolutionary power of puritanism.
(14) After dismissing the ending of Revolutionary Road as "falsely bleak" and telling his audience that "there's something goofy about American literature since modernism came to an end", the celebrated author of Freedom and The Corrections moved on to social media .
(15) Its failure first motivated cultural nationalists, socialists, anarchists and revolutionaries across Europe, before seeding many anti-colonial movements in Asia and Africa.
(16) The Nuit debout has some aspects of a May 68 for the internet age, but with a major difference: the revolutionary students of half a century ago came of age during the trente glorieuses , the 30 glorious years of postwar economic growth, and wanted to crack open a conservative society; those of 2016 are, on the contrary, the children of 30 years of high unemployment, economic gloom and disenchantment with the way representative democracy works.
(17) They could be playing these people – Morales, Chesimard – off as pawns.” While Cuba was once an attractive destination for criminals, revolutionaries and skyjackers – 34 of 62 American plane hijackers flew to Cuba in 1969 – Fidel Castro lost patience with the swarm as early as the 70s.
(18) Apple has used the month of January to launch revolutionary products before, in part as a way of diverting attention from its rivals presenting their latest inventions at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which Apple does not attend, and that takes place the same month.
(19) These faux pas by the Institutional Revolutionary party candidate, famous for his good looks and telenovela star wife, at the international literary festival in Guadalajara, left Mexico's social and mainstream media buzzing with mockery.
(20) There's a deep tradition in Russia of gender and revolution – we've had amazing women revolutionaries."