(n.) Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although the most common pattern is for the right coronary artery to bifurcate at the crux giving the posterior descending (posterior interventricular) artery, a branch may arise before the crux, either as an aberrant acute marginal artery or as an early posterior descending artery, crossing the diaphragmatic surface of the right ventricle.
(2) Kafala sponsorship system At the crux of the debate over how Qatar and its Gulf neighbours treat migrant workers, human rights groups have long called for the kafala system that ties workers to their employers to be abolished.
(3) The crux of the trisection strategy is to restrict attention to the smallest block of ordered loci among which the new locus can fall and to divide this block into thirds for the next comparison.
(4) Bidirectional continuous turbulent Doppler signals were detected in the proximal portions of the dilated right and left coronary arteries, in the distal portions of the fistulas around the crux and in the right atrium.
(5) The crux is that the culling proposed by the government is very different to that in the earlier £50m RBCT.
(6) But the crux of the rift among Republicans is what to do about the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US.
(7) That said, yeah, I think both public and private perception that big powerful game consoles are still somehow the crux or core focus of videogames will go away over the next few years, but even with the Vita TV and iPad Whatever and Steamboxes, I don't see these cannibalising enough of the existing console audience to actually make these things go away.
(8) These views provide improved visualization of the proximal branches of the left coronary artery, the region of the crux of the right coronary artery, and the left ventricle in the left anterior oblique projection; structures which in the conventional projections are often superimposed on one another or are foreshortened.
(9) The Mistake Creek Massacre, an indigenous painting at the crux of Australia’s culture wars.
(10) The septum which separated it from the main chamber was directed to the crux of the heart.
(11) I would say take it out, but it forms the crux of the call and is VERY funny.
(12) "We've won it," came the crux of Tenenbaum's translation.
(13) The crux of Muñoz Marín’s ridiculously illogical argument – one cannot achieve “political freedom” and be “deadset against colonialism” when one is not “demanding independence” or “asking for statehood” – illustrates how the island’s mostly white, male and affluent political class never had a real vision for Puerto Ricans or Puerto Rico , even from the outset of Muñoz Marín’s failed “commonwealth” experiment that he sold his fellow boricuas .
(14) In other words, the crux of this tale isn't Toronto city council's softness, it's Toronto voters' wildcard craziness.
(15) Cynics may ask: “If it is that simple, why can it not happen all the time?” That for me is the crux of the matter.
(16) The mass media campaign was important, but the party says the crux of its strategy was face-to-face meetings, conversation-by-conversation.
(17) The crux of the matter is whether the virus recovered from or detected in the cornea is 1) truly latent in cell populations that are nonneuronal; 2) resident in the cornea, replicating at a slow rate; or 3) newly arrived in the cornea following ganglionic reactivation.
(18) ", the memo said: "In typical fashion, while the government of Libya's public criticism has comprised pseudo-populist rhetoric against "the forces of Zionism", the crux of the matter is in fact about personal relations and politics."
(19) Because estimates of recombination are different in each set of data, the crux of the problem is to present scores that provide a close approximation to the true likelihood away from maximum likelihood (ML).
(20) Finally, the distribution of blood vessels within the retina formed a watershed pattern with its crux centered on the ridge of this horizontally oriented high-density zone.
Gist
Definition:
(n.) A resting place.
(n.) The main point, as of a question; the point on which an action rests; the pith of a matter; as, the gist of a question.
Example Sentences:
(1) Should authorities decide not to charge Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot Brown , there will be an explosion, Gist predicted.
(2) In a separate ruling today, the appeal court said the government must reveal the gist of "sensitive" intelligence material to Kashif Tariq , whose cousin was convicted in 2008 of conspiracy to murder in the plot to blow up aircraft with liquid bombs.
(3) The GIST for IgE is simple to perform and requires neither short-lived radioisotopes, expensive scintillation detection equipment, nor scarce, purified IgE.
(4) Chilcot announced last month that after years of heated disputes with successive cabinet secretaries, and discussions with Washington, he had agreed to a settlement whereby summaries, and "the gist", of more than a hundred records of conversations between Blair and George Bush in the runup to the invasion, and of records of 200 cabinet discussions, would be published, but not the documents themselves.
(5) Here's the link to their story (in Spanish), but the gist is that Real's Florentino Perez had agreed a €45m fee with Arsenal, only for Ozil to opt against the move.
(6) It was the negative influence of his former disciple, that teutonically resolute Austrian chap that mislead il Duce; we Italians were less ruthless with the Jews – that was the gist of his speech.
(7) We studied "formal thought disorder" in schizophrenics, schizoaffectives, and manics by examining syntax processing and perception of meaning, using the "embedded click" and "memory for gist tasks," two paradigms that were developed by psycholinguists.
(8) Dedicated political obsessives follow his step-by-step guides to why the Tories are wrong, but few others pick up even the gist.
(9) The immune process of sensitisation was induced with "Tenzym prilled" (TP, Grindstedvoerket) and with "Maxatase" (M, Gist-Brocades) protease enzymes in the epicutaneous test (ET), using concentration series and various durations of application.
(10) However, muscle-specific actin (HHF35) caused a positive reaction in most GIST (92%).
(11) Dow is evaluating Earth Genome’s software to see if GIST can help the company make good water infrastructure decisions that conserve resources, control long term water costs, and help it avoid future competition with farmers and cities.
(12) Nevertheless, Williams says that Bryan's emails, or the gist of them, should have been relayed to the CQC inspector responsible for Winterbourne View.
(13) The gist of that diplomatic foot stamping may seem vaguely familiar to those following Australian politics recently.
(14) Preliminary studies indicate that the GIST makes possible nonisotopic measurement of ragweed-specific IgE antibiotics in human serum.
(15) While the people of Doncaster might not know the detail of the national statistics, they are aware of the gist.
(16) 5.42pm BST Some instant reaction to the Berlusconi video message: Vincenzo Scarpetta (@LondonerVince) Gist of #Berlusconi 's video message: He won't quit politics even if ousted from parliament.
(17) Weick says the forecasting functions in GIST allow him to layer on variables such as local population growth and water use trends, which will impact future water pricing.
(18) "I would rather have root canal surgery without anaesthetic than go to Glastonbury," was the gist of her response.
(19) Excluding 24 cases of gastric schwannoma, 96 cases of GIST consisting of 62 benign tumors and 34 sarcoma (low grade, 17; high grade, 17), with 9 cases arising in the esophagus, 57 in the stomach, 28 in the small intestine, and 2 in the colon, were studied.
(20) The final wording was under review by the White House but the basic gist remained unchanged, scientists who worked on the report said.