(a.) Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion.
(a.) Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.
(a.) Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant.
(a.) Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed.
(n.) Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light.
(n.) The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.
(n.) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted.
(v. t.) To darken to obscure.
Example Sentences:
(1) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
(2) The first group was reared in complete darkness while the second one was subjected to permanent noise.
(3) In the dark the 6-azidoflavoproteins are quite stable, except for L-lactate oxidase, where spontaneous conversion to the 6-amino-FMN enzyme occurs slowly at pH 7.
(4) Most notably, retroperitoneal lymph nodes in rabbits remained dark blue up to 28 days after hindlimb endolymphatic instillation of liposomal patent blue.
(5) In the dark cortical zone of the nodes (III group) there occur tissue basophils (mast cells), that, together with increasing number of acidophilic granulocytes and appearance of neutrophilic cells, demonstrates that there is an inflammatory reaction in the organ studied as a response to the lymphocytic suspension injected.
(6) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
(7) We were searching for spontaneous and positional nystagmus in 5 positions with open eyes in darkness and with closed eyes.
(8) Previous FTIR measurements have identified several tyrosine residues that change their absorption characteristics between light-adapted BR and dark-adapted BR, or between intermediates K and M [Dollinger, G., Eisenstein, L., Lin, S.-L., Nakanishi, K., Odashima, K., & Termini, J.
(9) Steady state levels of chloroplast mRNA encoding the core PSII polypeptides remain nearly constant in the light or the dark and are not affected by the developmental stage of the plastid.
(10) The second triplet, which was stable in the dark at 4.2 K following illumination, was assigned to the radical pair Donor+I-.
(11) The results indicate that CRALBP X 11-cis-retinol is sufficiently stereoselective in its binding properties to warrant consideration as a component of the mechanism for the generation of 11-cis-retinaldehyde in the dark.
(12) Although the Ca2+-independent mechanism accounts for about two thirds of the total acetylcholine release in the dark, the amount of acetylcholine released in this way is small compared with the release of acetylcholine triggered by stimulation of the retina with light.
(13) The extracellular concentration of GABA is probably high in prolonged darkness, and it is low after prolonged light exposure.
(14) In lettuce, the presence of 2,4-D in the light lowered the concentration of total Hg (or MeHg) required to reduce growth by 50%, about 13 times relative to that in the dark (i.e., it sensitized the cells).
(15) This suggests that many retinal ganglion cells continue to discharge in total darkness for long periods.
(16) In darkness, raising the concentration of K in the fluid of perfusion gives an increase of the efflux of (86)Rb and increasing the extracellular concentration of Ca yields a retention.
(17) Upon illumination, a dark-adapted photosynthetic sample shows time-dependent changes in chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence yield, known as the Kautsky phenomenon or the OIDPS transient.
(18) One elderly woman was left alone in the dark for hours unable to find food or drink.
(19) These observations indicated a novel mechanism that in the absence of light-dark schedule, mothers taught the circadian rhythm to the pups as they raised them.
(20) It was observed that the circadian rhythm was disrupted by injections of lithium at the beginning of the light as well as the dark phase of the LD cycle.
Iniquity
Definition:
(n.) Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; want of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge.
(n.) An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of injustice o/ unrighteousness; a sin; a crime.
(n.) A character or personification in the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice and sometimes of another. See Vice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their actions suggested that while Brown was busy unilaterally absolving the inequities of our colonial past, the Iraqis are still dealing with the iniquities of our colonial present.
(2) He treats me to a 10-minute critique of global capitalism and inbuilt obsolescence and the iniquity of global labour markets.
(3) David L Williams London • Trying to fix backroom deals to ameliorate the iniquities of first past the post will be counterproductive and distract attention from the elephant in the room.
(4) But yesterday, Pike's father Nigel was cautious about the news: "The iniquity of Will's and others' situation was that the terrorism occurred abroad and different countries have wildly differing levels of compensation.
(5) This would enable the mayor to adjust the current caps and remove the worst iniquities which he spoke out against during his campaign."
(6) Nothing in this book takes away from the iniquity and brutality of the crime or the culpability of his murderers, but we owe Matthew and other young men like him the truth.
(7) Then, in 1963, he returned to America for another competition given in the name of Dimitri Mitropoulos; this time, he later declared, he conducted badly, the award of (joint) first prize was wrong and the whole experience revealed the iniquities of the competition system.
(8) Though Mitrokhin never had any thought of aligning himself openly with the human rights movement, the example of the Chronicle Of Current Events, and other samizdat productions, helped to inspire him with the idea of producing a classified variant of the dissidents' attempts to document the iniquities of the Soviet system.
(9) Seen as “dens of iniquity and immorality”, portals of decadence, they are an easy sell as a target to impressionable young extremist by more senior militants.
(10) He joined forces with the radical elements within Solidarity, who had long resented the conciliatory approach of Wałęsa’s liberal advisers, and fanned the flames of public fury at the iniquities of the transition.
(11) As the Guardian’s film editor, Catherine Shoard, noted in Toronto , Lone Scherfig’s film glamorises the iniquity it purports to condemn.
(12) But Murphy was one of the co-founders of the Tax Justice Network, the campaigning organisation that has been at the forefront of the battle to bring the iniquities of tax havens into the spotlight.
(13) To some extent he was right, of course, and if he had been making a general critique of the iniquities of global football finance, he might even have come across as statesmanlike, but his point was limited to Guardiola and his personal antipathy.
(14) But what an enchantment to be proved wrong, and by none other than Chris's erstwhile leader Nick Clegg, who this week offered his own view of the iniquities of politicians being held to account.
(15) For the Israeli state and the collective of often unlikely bedfellows who support it so unquestioningly throughout the world to pursue and support the inhumane treatment of the Palestinian people – forced so brutally off their land in 1948 and still under attack today – to be so blind to the idea that injustice is injustice, regardless not just on whom it is visited, but by whom as well, is one of the defining iniquities of our age, and powerfully implies a shamingly low upper limit on the extent of our species' moral intelligence.
(16) It looked as if Hiddink's run of failure against English teams at club and international level would reach 10 games without a win but England supporters had forgotten about John Terry's absence and the alleged iniquity of an artificial pitch, absorbed instead by the efficiency of their side.
(17) If anything displayed the iniquity of the apartheid regime it was his continued incarceration.
(18) But perhaps the audiences he speaks to with the most practical knowledge of the iniquities of drug legislations are the prisoners he visits in institutions across America.
(19) In Iran, in 1979, the Islamists seized power, hurling now familiar slogans against the west, Israel, decadence and social iniquity In fact, the idea that a modern state should be run according to a particular interpretation of Muslim teachings was far from as authentically local as its proponents claimed.
(20) For, to someone in Mrs Bennet's modest social and economic position, getting that many daughters married off would indeed have been a serious business – especially considering the institutionalised iniquity of a family inheritance entailed away from the female line of succession.