(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.
Encounter
Definition:
(adv.) To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth.
(v. i.) To meet face to face; to have a meeting; to meet, esp. as enemies; to engage in combat; to fight; as, three armies encountered at Waterloo.
(v. t.) A meeting face to face; a running against; a sudden or incidental meeting; an interview.
(v. t.) A meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody encounter.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
(3) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
(4) The following case highlights the diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas encountered in a middle-aged patient who presented with dementia and apathetic hyperthyroidism.
(5) The types, frequency, and clinical features of neoplasms encountered in the perinatal period are markedly different from those observed in older children and adolescents.
(6) An age- and education-matched group of women with no family history of FXS was asked to predict the seriousness of problems they might encounter were they to bear a child with a handicapping condition.
(7) The most commonly encountered organisms were aerobic bacteria (91%), anaerobes (74%), and fungi (48%).
(8) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
(9) The authors discuss the results of the diagnosis and treatment of abscesses of the right hepatic lobe which were consequent upon ischemic necrosis; they were encountered after cholecystectomy in 0.15% of cases.
(10) The labia minora as a pedicle graft avoids the problems encountered by conventional methods.
(11) Frequently, errors are encountered in the comparison of surgical versus clinical staging.
(12) But I recall my own first encounter with that ideology, back in the 1990s.
(13) Radiologists may encounter patients with fixed dental prostheses that may produce image distortion on MRI scans of the face and jaw.
(14) Orthopaedics is one of the clinical areas likely to encounter an increased proportion of such patients.
(15) Delirium on emergence from anesthesia was not encountered.
(16) Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the most frequently encountered bacterial pathogens in patients with chronic pulmonary infections, including cystic fibrosis and diffuse panbronchiolitis.
(17) Male patients were more cheerful during encounters with younger assistant nurses while female patients were more cheerful when interacting with older assistant nurses.
(18) As travelling is generally increasing, this disease might be encountered more frequently also in Europe.
(19) The major difficulty encountered with the current technique is the danger of neurologic injury during the passage and handling of conventional wires, especially in extensive procedures.
(20) An integrated approach to the surgical management of diffuse subaortic stenosis has been designed to provide adequate relief of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction whatever the anatomical features encountered at operation.