(v. t.) To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.
(n.) The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Second, interconversion of adenine nucleotides to guanine nucleotides, is curtailed by the inhibition of IMP dehydrogenase by these same IMP analogues.
(2) Stringent (rel+) as well as relaxed (rel minus) strains were able to rapidly curtail their accumulation of ribonculeic acid (RNA) after a downshift imposed by decreasing glucose transport into the cell.
(3) If a prisoner is in the process of taking a programme this can hinder or even curtail their progress – many prisons don't offer certain programmes so if you are moved to a prison without a particular course you are back to square one when it comes to the crucial Parole Board assessment.
(4) Egg (embryo) production was normal for mites treated with 0.50 krad, but significantly curtailed by doses of 0.75 krad and greater.
(5) Conservatives have called for federal funding to be curtailed if a municipality maintains a “sanctuary” policy.
(6) Which manager's playing career was curtailed by a knee injury sustained when he fell out of a tree while rescuing a cat?
(7) Three patients developed asymptomatic cystocele or enterocele, and 5 (23%) women had a curtailed vagina.
(8) Addition of H-7 to DiC8- and OAG-treated oocytes stimulated the pump activity curtailed by the two latters.
(9) It is suggested that umDC genes can be curtailed in their mutagenic activities but that they may still participate in some other, unknown process which provides the continued stimulus for their retention.
(10) After treatment with PTH, the enzyme reached maximal concentrations between 12-48 h, but declined to undetectable levels by 96 h. In contrast, the inhibitory activity was secreted in a linear fashion, with the highest concentrations achieved around 72-96 h. These results suggest a complex pattern of regulation of collagenase and inhibitor secretion by the osteoblastic cell, with the steady accumulation of inhibitor perhaps being responsible for the ultimate curtailment of enzyme activity.
(11) The former would point to entering serious negotiations with Labour, but the latter would ultimately curtail his flexibility towards Miliband, especially in relation to austerity.
(12) Citing the razor-thin margin by which the NSA's bulk phone-records collection survived a vote last week in the House of Representatives , Wyden and Udall vowed to continue their push to curtail the programme.
(13) Internal doubts can be managed, but external criticism in the social-media age is not so easy to curtail.
(14) Talking to officials and politicians, it's clear that Madrid's freedom over setting its own budgets and policies has also been curtailed.
(15) If the Karzai government does not take steps towards reducing corruption and improving capacity for governing in the next six to 12 months, the US should substantially curtail some categories of aid and assistance.
(16) Furthermore, in the absence of added KL, it greatly diminishes the erythropoietin- and interleukin-3-dependent BFU-E growth in BM; whereas in FL, a wider spectrum of inhibition is observed, with CFU-Mix most severely curtailed.
(17) Abdominal paradox has been proposed as a valuable clinical index of fatigue and thus its presence may lead to curtailment of weaning trials.
(18) Although this study does not suggest a synergistic relationship between smoking and oral contraception, it shows that both the adrenal gland and sympathetic nervous system's responses will be lowered if nicotine is curtailed.
(19) Research on their potential should not be curtailed because of fear that they will be subject to illicit abuse.
(20) An awareness of TOH facilities appropriate diagnosis and treatment and curtails unnecessary diagnostic procedures.
Entail
Definition:
(n.) That which is entailed.
(n.) An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
(n.) The rule by which the descent is fixed.
(n.) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
(n.) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.
(n.) To appoint hereditary possessor.
(n.) To cut or carve in a ornamental way.
Example Sentences:
(1) The second experiments entailed use of the nonspecific opiate antagonist, naloxone, as well as the specific delta antagonist, ICI 154,129, against seizures induced by icv-administered morphine, morphiceptin, DADL, or DSLET.
(2) The new technique, Surface Immune Precipitation (SIP), entails the application of an antigen sample droplet directly onto the surface of a gel containing antibody, the gel being supported by a reflecting substrate.
(3) The purification entails cell lysis and solubilization of gpL115 with the detergent Nonidet P-40, sequential affinity chromatography on lentil lectin-Sepharose, wheat germ lectin-Sepharose, and, after treatment with sialidase, on peanut lectin-Sepharose.
(4) If figurative language is defined as involving intentional violation of conceptual boundaries in order to highlight some correspondence, one must be sure that children credited with that competence have (1) the metacognitive and metalinguistic abilities to understand at least some of the implications of such language (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Nelson, 1974; Nelson & Nelson, 1978), (2) a conceptual organization that entails the purportedly violated conceptual boundaries (Lange, 1978), and (3) some notion of metaphoric tension as well as ground.
(5) This concept entails that during some seasons the preovulatory phase of the development of the human egg is lengthened, causing congenital anomalies.
(6) Over the years he has been through 20 Ofsted inspections, with all the anxiety – and sometimes satisfaction – that entails.
(7) Hitherto performed abdominoperineal or sacroperineal procedures entailed major traumatizing surgery with an inherent risk of complications.
(8) Bone resorption entails both mineral removal and collagenolysis.
(9) Practically speaking, this entails, in each case, finding the form of therapy that is acceptable to the patient and that provides the greatest health benefits with the least likelihood of adverse affects.
(10) This finding entails important clinical implications, as the evaluation of the hypertensive patient is usually made with a single blood pressure monitoring.
(11) A 45-year-old White man presented with multiple aneurysm formation and severe constitutional symptoms, the control of which entailed long-term corticosteroid therapy.
(12) It is suggested that polyarthritis is a complex condition entailing many changes, both behavioral and endocrinological.
(13) For Davutoglu, this ambition entails a "comprehensive" approach embracing enhanced economic, cultural and social ties as well as political and security relations.
(14) The home care system was defined as nurse-directed with a consultant physician and did not entail extensive participation by other health professionals.
(15) For one thing, it would entail a waiting period, and that alone might stop a number of would-be mass killers.
(16) On the other hand, there is concern that in-flight delivery entails "extreme risks, both to mother and child."
(17) The experimental procedure per se entails some degree of resistance augmentation and CFC reduction during a 3-hour perfusion; however, no changes appear during the initial stage, i.e., corresponding to the period of artificial distension...
(18) The 19th century data suggest that efforts to prevent severe streptococcal diseases should begin with better characterization of the epidemiology of streptococcal disease, a task entailing identification of streptococcal virulence factors and measurement of their distribution among isolates from individuals with streptococcal diseases and in open populations.
(19) The systematic program entails the collection of data, review of the data to develop a program for reducing inventories, and monitoring of the results.
(20) Trance logic results from the "metasuggestion," experienced through participation in a formal induction procedure, that hypnosis entails new rules of experience and behavior.