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Damped


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Damp

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
  • (2) These two quantities were used to calculate the damping factor.
  • (3) Children still received an education, it was just that increasing numbers did so in damp and dilapidated buildings.
  • (4) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
  • (5) The frequency distribution of the natural, damped and resonance frequencies of the second-order activities was found to show one, two or three modes in each frequency range of the delta, theta and beta rhythms in ninety normal adult EEGs.
  • (6) vittatus eggs laid on damp mud were placed in dry rockpools for 10 weeks and kept dry for a further 6 weeks in the laboratory.
  • (7) It’s a damp squib, a bit of a nothing result,” a leading energy analyst said of a report that is widely expected to endorse provisional findings released in March , and recommend price controls on prepayment meters and setting up a customer database to help rival suppliers target customers stuck on expensive default tariffs.
  • (8) Performing this reaction in H2 18O gave [18O]dps(ATCGTC) (a pentamer containing an 18O-labeled 5'-phosphorothioate) which was converted to [18O]dAMPS with nuclease P1.
  • (9) The damping time of the acceleration wave also had a negative correlation with age.
  • (10) The former time-pattern displays a fast rise and an exponential decay, while the latter exhibits a damped sine wave.
  • (11) Studies of activity levels indicate that tsetse flies should aggregate in damp situations where the activity levels is minimal, whereas in practice the flies are distributed throughout the whole of gradient.
  • (12) In response to dynamic forces the platform showed a resononance frequency of about 50 Hz, with a damping factor of 0.15.
  • (13) 4-DAMP (4-diphenylacetoxy N-methylpiperidine; a M3-receptor antagonist), strongly inhibited the ACh-induced constrictions.
  • (14) 4-Diphenylacetoxy-1:1-dimethyl cyclohexane (carbo-4-DAMP) is the carbon analogue of 4-diphenylacetoxy-N-methylpiperidine (4-DAMP) methiodide.
  • (15) Posture control performance was quantified in three variables (swiftness, stiffness, damping).
  • (16) The first 2 ms of these transients were described by a linear model in which the fibre is regarded as a rod composed of infinitesimally small, identical segments containing a mass, one undamped elastic element and in the case of relaxed fibres two damped elastic elements in series, or in the case of activated fibres three such elastic elements in series.
  • (17) This would implicate the existence of a dynamic control through which the sensory system may register and damp the pressure response.
  • (18) Trying to solve those problems by closing the borders is like trying to deal with rising damp by bolting your front door Trying to solve those problems by closing the borders is like trying to deal with rising damp by bolting your front door.
  • (19) Response is dependent upon the external impulse plus system inertia, damping and stiffness.
  • (20) In humans, ethanol produces a slow damped oscillation in the steady electrical potential of the eye, which is generated primarily by the RPE.

Smoulder


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion.
  • (v. i.) To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud.
  • (v. t.) To smother; to suffocate; to choke.
  • (n.) Smoke; smother.
  • (v. i.) See Smolder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nine patients showed "smouldering retinitis" at a late stage.
  • (2) In 4 patients leukemia developed within 2-4 months from the diagnosis ('imminent leukemia'), in 13 patients leukemia or smouldering leukemia developed between 4 and 25 months after the diagnosis ('true preleukemia').
  • (3) Here's a photo of the remains of the flag, smouldering away.
  • (4) He says they dragged him about 40 metres towards a fire that was still smouldering on the street, the remains of a protesters' barricade.
  • (5) When Barack Obama was photographed with a very weak beer in hand at a Washington Wizards game, the phone-in lines smouldered with anger.
  • (6) Immune deficiency probably permits continuation of the infections, with smouldering polyclonal B-cell proliferation proceeding.
  • (7) Priapic gadabouts in peephole codpieces hey-nonny-no-ing past plates of glazed pig as smouldering flibbertigibbets pout and motion to their jugs.
  • (8) In the capital, burnt-out buildings and vehicles were still smouldering in the area around the grand bazaar, where violence broke out.
  • (9) While ATLL usually pursues an acute or subacute (prototypic) course, patients are also seen with 'chronic' or 'smouldering' disease.
  • (10) "We stand against the cuts, in solidarity with all the poor, elderly, disabled and working people affected," read the message, quickly circulated among a thousand rioting students in the forecourt below, who had run out of windows to smash and gathered around smouldering fires.
  • (11) Indoors and outdoors human baits seated at a distance of about 3 m from smouldering esbiothrin ropes experienced no bite at all from An.
  • (12) Intravenous injection of methylated bovine serum albumin (mBSA) in mice with unilateral, chronic, mBSA-induced arthritis has been shown to cause a flare of smouldering arthritis without affecting the contralateral, noninflamed knee joint.
  • (13) In Hong Kong, Liu’s death has rekindled an anti-mainland sentiment that has been smouldering for years.
  • (14) Justin Bieber does age-appropriate smouldering (and monkey shots ) for the tweens and Tyra Banks "smizes".
  • (15) Mortality in the emergency patients was 45.5% due to the bad general condition after longstanding ileus or due to continuing smouldering fecal peritonitis after perforation.
  • (16) Our positions is the migrants have to be informed of their rights and it’s their decision if they want to move.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Remains of shelters that had housed migrants smoulder in the dawn sun following the clearing of an area of the Jungle.
  • (17) And yet there she stands, serving that well-rehearsed smouldering look on the cover of Vogue’s September issue.
  • (18) Both start as genuine smouldering infections turning later into neoplasms.
  • (19) 12.52pm BST Caught in the heat of the Centre Court microscope , Sabine Lisicki begins to smoke and smoulder.
  • (20) We believe that bone marrow scintigraphy may be a useful technique in the early diagnosis and follow-up of multiple myeloma, particularly in the detection of unusual forms (i.e., "smouldering" myeloma), but it remains only an "additional" technique for bone imaging.

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