(n.) Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.
(n.) An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions.
(n.) An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
(n.) The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold.
(v. i.) To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
(v. t.) To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk).
(v. i.) To exchange or barter.
(v. i.) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
(v. i.) To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; -- usually followed by with.
(v. t.) To bargain for; to buy.
(v. t.) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
(v. t.) To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter.
Example Sentences:
(1) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(2) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
(3) However, it is easier for them to cope with anxiety because premedication pacifies the patients, whereas each of the dependent variables, such as apprehension, is influenced differently.
(4) In light of these findings, the implications of the need to address appraisals and coping efforts in research and therapy with incest victims was emphasized.
(5) The need for follow-up studies is stressed to allow assessment of the effectiveness of the intervention and to search for protective factors, successful coping skills, strategies and adaptational resources.
(6) The independent effects of pain and pain coping strategies, as well as the interaction effects between pain and pain coping strategies on depression, were evaluated cross-sectionally and prospectively over a 6-month interval.
(7) There are general problems with the ways in which coping has been conceptualized and measured by researchers evaluating stress and coping, and there are problems more specific to the ways coping concepts and measures have been used to study patients with arthritis.
(8) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
(9) The example of psychosocial stress (coping with the diagnosis, self esteem, life crises etc.)
(10) Nevertheless we know that there will remain a large number of borrowers with payday loans who are struggling to cope with their debts, and it is essential that these customers are signposted to free debt advice.
(11) Avoidance coping was negatively related to dispositional optimism.
(12) The focus will be on assessment of the gravid woman's anxiety levels and coping skills.
(13) Lazarus' phenomenological theory of stress and coping provided the basis for this descriptive study of perceived threats after myocardial infarction (MI).
(14) A total of 54 family caregivers of elderly dementia patients completed interviews and questionnaires assessing the severity of patient impairment and caregiving stressors; caregiver appraisals, coping responses, and social support and activity; and caregiver outcomes, including depression, life satisfaction, and self-rated health.
(15) Recent theoretical developments in health psychology and allied disciplines on coping behaviour and social support should be integrated into biomedical models of the aetiology, pathogenesis and clinical course of malignant neoplasia.
(16) He joined the Coldstream Guards, while Debo and her mother went to Berne to collect Unity, who had put a bullet through her brain but survived, severely damaged; they coped with Unity's resultant moodiness and incontinence through the first year of war.
(17) The benefits of holistically identifying clients' ability to mobilize coping resources is that nurses can plan intervention more effectively if these categorizations can be consistently verified.
(18) It was suggested that treatment outcome in a multidisciplinary pain clinic is more immediately related to patients' coping styles and their choice of pain treatment modalities than to their demographics and personalities.
(19) To be frank, the police cannot cope with the extent of abuse on social media.
(20) During the nursing period the person who has psychological problems goes through a transitional period, in which he becomes responsible for coping with his problems, which are being expressed in various ways.
Dwelt
Definition:
() of Dwell
(imp. & p. p.) of Dwell.
Example Sentences:
(1) Words like "trivialisation" and "stunt" were bandied about, especially after the Channel 4 documentary that dwelt as much on the players as the results.
(2) His weekly column for Yedioth Ahronoth also dwelt on "middle Israel" subjects: the high cost of living, political corruption and the "unequal sharing of the burden" – ie the exemption of ultra-Orthodox Jews from military service.
(3) Unlike the latter neurones, which were mainly located in supragranular layers, association cell bodies overwhelmingly dwelt in layers V and VI and were less numerous in layers II and III.
(4) The increasingly polarised situation in South Africa after the 70s led to the semi-allegorical and strained July's People (1981), a revisiting of the master-servant relationship upon which so much of her work dwelt.
(5) Knowing its substance, and the fact that he started it before they met, she had wondered if it might have dwelt on the changes their relationship had brought to his life, but she did not find that in the book.
(6) The pre-synaptic compound action potentials N11 and N21 dwelt on the ascending slope of N13 and N24 respectively.
(7) This fact is dwelt upon to stress that although there are differences, say, between the two inhabitable islands, such differences are very small.
(8) The first experience in using CT-stereotaxic neutron brachytherapy with californium sources on the ANET-B apparatus for the treatment of 6 patients with malignant glial tumors of the brain is dwelt on.
(9) The connection of the concepts of structure and function with categories and laws of materialistic dialectics is dwelt on.
(10) I have dwelt on the nature of the analytic relationship with patients suffering from narcissistic character pathology.
(11) But neither of them dwelt on the impact on the EU of the Tory win.
(12) It was a decision she has dwelt upon since Luke’s death, she told the inquest at Melbourne Coroner’s court on Tuesday.
(13) Michail Antonio dwelt on the ball 30 yards from goal and was caught in possession by Brady.
(14) The prosecution, unsurprisingly, dwelt on the fact Shayler had been paid nearly £40,000 by the Mail on Sunday.
(15) Optimization of the activity of assistants, their skilled handiwork, and the skill in teaching and learning surgery in the interest of a sick person are dwelt on.
(16) Previous studies of coronary artery ontogeny have stressed early development and therefore have dwelt mainly upon the origin of the endothelium of the nascent coronary artery stem.
(17) A classification of cholangitis and the clinical signs of the disease are dwelt upon.
(18) Harry, in his pomp, was the great northern news editor of the (ex-Manchester) Guardian while the Guardian's greatness still dwelt in the north.
(19) The authors dwelt upon the relationship between light damage and the incidence of SMD.
(20) Creating something that might curdle, burn or collapse is so all-encompassing and immediate that you are forced to tear yourself away from any other problems you might have dwelt on.