(n.) A course; particularly, a specified fixed course of study, as in a university.
Example Sentences:
(1) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
(2) The effect of this curriculum is measured by statistical analysis of resident-generated aesthetic surgery cases in one year following the introduction of this curriculum into the teaching program.
(3) Just before Christmas the independent Kerslake report severely criticised Birmingham city council for its dysfunctional politics and, in particular, its handling of the so-called Trojan Horse affair, in which school governors were said to have set out to bring about an Islamic agenda into the curriculum contents and the day-to-day running of some schools.
(4) These days, all Russian 15-year-olds study War and Peace as part of their national curriculum.
(5) In response to the Advisory Committee on training in Nursing recommendations EONS in association with Marie Curie Memorial Foundation organized a workshop, where representatives of the 12 member states of the EEC, actively involved in cancer nursing education, were invited to prepare a core curriculum in cancer nursing education.
(6) The further disappearance of laboratory exercises from the curriculum should be halted by efforts to revitalize them.
(7) Twenty-six female students in either their first or fourth (i.e, final) semester of the occupational therapy curriculum were assessed with the Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons Scale (ATDP) (Yukor, Block, & Younng, 1966).
(8) Measures of effect of the training found the following: a significant increase in knowledge scores, although the trainees came into the program with relatively high scores; a heightened awareness and increased positive attitudes toward aging; high ratings of performance on a functionally oriented comprehensive health assessment; and augmented geriatric curriculum and clinical training in their home PA programs.
(9) Curriculum writers and instructors of preservice elementary teachers could be more effective if they were aware of this group's beliefs about school-related AIDS issues.
(10) Two thirds of the patients had a better curriculum than one would expect from the IQ.
(11) One factor contributing to this problem has been the absence of courses on motor vehicle injury from the curriculums of the health professions schools.
(12) Clinical education is integrated throughout the curriculum, and a calendar is developed based on the content of the learning experiences rather than the traditional university calendar.
(13) The practicum was designed to meet two objectives in the undergraduate curriculum: (1) to give students experience in the care of patients and families in the community by using cancer as a model of a life-threatening disease requiring acute and chronic care, rehabilitation, etc.
(14) While progress has occurred in some schools, the teaching of nutrition has not generally been integrated into the curriculum of the medical school.
(15) In fact, it is possible that the student with life experience could be considered one of the motivating forces that drives the curriculum revolution toward its eventual victory.
(16) Since 1983, social scientists have collaborated with teaching staff at the Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia, to develop an integrated sociocultural curriculum for undergraduate students in community health.
(17) The original goals were to increase the number of family physicians, provide them with the basic knowledge and skills to practice, integrate the concepts of family medicine into the total medical school curriculum, and develop the "attitudes and ideals" of the good family physician.
(18) The present situation is described, with specific reference to faculty, curriculum, and accreditation issues.
(19) Certain recurring curriculum problems have emerged and have been described as "diseases of the curriculum."
(20) In a long-term follow-up of a study designed to assess the impact of school-based suicide prevention curricula on high school students, a group of 174 students from two high schools who were exposed to a prevention program were compared with a group of 207 control students from two additional high schools who were not exposed to the curriculum.
Run
Definition:
(a.) To be played on the stage a number of successive days or nights; as, the piece ran for six months.
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(p. p.) of Run
(a.) To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly, smoothly, or with quick action; -- said of things animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog.
(a.) To go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to hasten.
(a.) To flee, as from fear or danger.
(a.) To steal off; to depart secretly.
(a.) To contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest; to become a candidate; as, to run for Congress.
(a.) To pass from one state or condition to another; to come into a certain condition; -- often with in or into; as, to run into evil practices; to run in debt.
(a.) To exert continuous activity; to proceed; as, to run through life; to run in a circle.
(a.) To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation; as, to run from one subject to another.
(a.) To discuss; to continue to think or speak about something; -- with on.
(a.) To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank; -- with on.
(a.) To creep, as serpents.
(a.) To flow, as a liquid; to ascend or descend; to course; as, rivers run to the sea; sap runs up in the spring; her blood ran cold.
(a.) To proceed along a surface; to extend; to spread.
(a.) To become fluid; to melt; to fuse.
(a.) To turn, as a wheel; to revolve on an axis or pivot; as, a wheel runs swiftly round.
(a.) To travel; to make progress; to be moved by mechanical means; to go; as, the steamboat runs regularly to Albany; the train runs to Chicago.
(a.) To extend; to reach; as, the road runs from Philadelphia to New York; the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
(a.) To go back and forth from place to place; to ply; as, the stage runs between the hotel and the station.
(a.) To make progress; to proceed; to pass.
(a.) To continue in operation; to be kept in action or motion; as, this engine runs night and day; the mill runs six days in the week.
(a.) To have a course or direction; as, a line runs east and west.
(a.) To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
(a.) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
(a.) To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run up rapidly.
(a.) To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
(a.) To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run in washing.
(a.) To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company; as, certain covenants run with the land.
(a.) To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a note has thirty days to run.
(a.) To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs.
(a.) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing closehauled; -- said of vessels.
(a.) Specifically, of a horse: To move rapidly in a gait in which each leg acts in turn as a propeller and a supporter, and in which for an instant all the limbs are gathered in the air under the body.
(a.) To move rapidly by springing steps so that there is an instant in each step when neither foot touches the ground; -- so distinguished from walking in athletic competition.
(v. t.) To cause to run (in the various senses of Run, v. i.); as, to run a horse; to run a stage; to run a machine; to run a rope through a block.
(v. i.) To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
(v. i.) To cause to enter; to thrust; as, to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into the foot.
(v. i.) To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
(v. i.) To fuse; to shape; to mold; to cast; as, to run bullets, and the like.
(v. i.) To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine; as, to run a line.
(v. i.) To cause to pass, or evade, offical restrictions; to smuggle; -- said of contraband or dutiable goods.
(v. i.) To go through or accomplish by running; as, to run a race; to run a certain career.
(v. i.) To cause to stand as a candidate for office; to support for office; as, to run some one for Congress.
(v. i.) To encounter or incur, as a danger or risk; as, to run the risk of losing one's life. See To run the chances, below.
(v. i.) To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
(v. i.) To discharge; to emit; to give forth copiously; to be bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot water.
(v. i.) To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing; as, the rivers ran blood.
(v. i.) To conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory or a hotel.
(v. i.) To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
(v. i.) To sew, as a seam, by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
(v. i.) To migrate or move in schools; -- said of fish; esp., to ascend a river in order to spawn.
(n.) The act of running; as, a long run; a good run; a quick run; to go on the run.
(n.) A small stream; a brook; a creek.
(n.) That which runs or flows in the course of a certain operation, or during a certain time; as, a run of must in wine making; the first run of sap in a maple orchard.
(n.) A course; a series; that which continues in a certain course or series; as, a run of good or bad luck.
(n.) State of being current; currency; popularity.
(n.) Continued repetition on the stage; -- said of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive nights.
(n.) A continuing urgent demand; especially, a pressure on a bank or treasury for payment of its notes.
(n.) A range or extent of ground for feeding stock; as, a sheep run.
(n.) The aftermost part of a vessel's hull where it narrows toward the stern, under the quarter.
(n.) The distance sailed by a ship; as, a good run; a run of fifty miles.
(n.) A voyage; as, a run to China.
(n.) A pleasure excursion; a trip.
(n.) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by license of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
(n.) A roulade, or series of running tones.
(n.) The greatest degree of swiftness in marching. It is executed upon the same principles as the double-quick, but with greater speed.
(n.) The act of migrating, or ascending a river to spawn; -- said of fish; also, an assemblage or school of fishes which migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
(n.) In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one; in cricket, a passing from one wicket to the other, by which one point is scored; as, a player made three runs; the side went out with two hundred runs.
(n.) A pair or set of millstones.
(a.) Melted, or made from molten material; cast in a mold; as, run butter; run iron or lead.
(a.) Smuggled; as, run goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are going to all destinations.” Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in the city.
(2) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
(3) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
(4) report the complications registered, in particular: lead's displacing 6.2%, run away 0.7%, marked hyperthermya 0.0%, haemorrage 0.4%, wound dehiscence 0.3%, asectic necrosis by decubitus 5%, septic necrosis 0.3%, perforation of the heart 0.2%, pulmonary embolism 0.1%.
(5) In contrast to L2 and L3 in L1 the mid gut runs down in a straight line without any looping.
(6) Community owned and run local businesses are becoming increasingly common.
(7) Large gender differences were found in the correlations between the RAS, CR, run frequency, and run duration with the personality, mood, and locus of control scores.
(8) These major departmental transformations are being run in isolation from each other.
(9) In 2012, 20% of small and medium-sized businesses were either run solely or mostly by women.
(10) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
(11) No one has jobs,” said Annie, 45, who runs a street stall selling fried chicken and rice in the Matongi neighbourhood.
(12) They also said no surplus that built up in the scheme, which runs at a £700m deficit, would be paid to any “sponsor or employer” under any circumstances.
(13) This implementation reduced a formidable task to a relatively routine run.
(14) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
(15) Failure to develop an adequate resource will be costly in the long run.
(16) Obiang, blaming foreigners for bringing corruption to his country, told people he needed to run the national treasury to prevent others falling into temptation.
(17) She added: “We will continue to act upon the overwhelming majority view of our shareholders.” The vote was the second year running Ryanair had suffered a rebellion on pay.
(18) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
(19) The American Red Cross said the aid organisation had already run out of medical supplies, with spokesman Eric Porterfield explaining that the small amount of medical equipment and medical supplies available in Haiti had been distributed.
(20) O'Connell first spotted 14-year-old David Rudisha in 2004, running the 200m sprint at a provincial schools race.