(v. t.) To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain by reasoning; to dispute; to contest; to discuss; to argue for and against.
(v. i.) To engage in strife or combat; to fight.
(v. i.) To contend in words; to dispute; hence, to deliberate; to consider; to discuss or examine different arguments in the mind; -- often followed by on or upon.
(v. t.) A fight or fighting; contest; strife.
(v. t.) Contention in words or arguments; discussion for the purpose of elucidating truth or influencing action; strife in argument; controversy; as, the debates in Parliament or in Congress.
(v. t.) Subject of discussion.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(2) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
(3) Amid the acrimony of the failed debate on the Malaysia Agreement, something was missed or forgotten: many in the left had changed their mind.
(4) The first experiment gave good results, although only one participant had any previous experience of hinge axis location, and it is debatable whether or not this experience is necessary before satisfactory results can be obtained.
(5) She said that even as she approached the gates, she was debating with the boy’s father whether to let the first-grader enter.
(6) But because current donor contributions are not sufficient to cover the thousands of schools in need of security, I will ask in the commons debate that the UK government allocates more.
(7) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
(8) Conservative commentators responded with fury to what they believed was inappropriate meddling at a crucial moment in the town hall debate.
(9) The citizenship debate is tawdry, conflated and ultimately pointless | Richard Ackland Read more On Wednesday, the prime minister criticised lawyers for backing terrorists.
(10) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(11) All 17 candidates are going to be participating in debate night and I think that’s a wonderful opportunity Reince Priebus Republican party officials have defended the decision to limit participation, pointing out that the chasing pack will get a chance to debate separately before the main event.
(12) "Medical professionals have perhaps been the least involved [of all sectors] in debates and discussions around abortion, and anti-choice groups have very effectively carried out a deliberate strategy of targeting and influencing health professionals.
(13) The only thing the media will talk about in the hours and days after the debate will be Trump’s refusal to say he will accept the results of the election, making him appear small, petty and conspiratorial.
(14) Opposition to legal abortion takes magical thinking and a lack of logic | Jessica Valenti Read more The only female Republican candidate for the White House has doubled down on her restrictive position over reproductive rights since a successful debate performance .
(15) Although the debate in the US has led to some piecemeal reforms – including the USA Freedom Act and modest policy changes – many of the most intrusive government surveillance programs remain largely intact.
(16) The debate certainly hit upon a larger issue: the tendency for people in positions of social and cultural power to tell the stories of minorities for them, rather than allowing minority communities to speak for themselves.
(17) On the mothers' internet forum Mumsnet, 44% of women who voted in a post-debate survey said they were now thinking of voting Lib Dem, compared with 23% three weeks ago.
(18) Both a voter and Cooper repeatedly asked him if he stood by his comments in the last Republican presidential debate when he insisted that was the case.
(19) Before the debate, most of our focus group expected David Cameron to win narrowly “because he’s best at debates”.
(20) The treatment of hypertension in pregnancy has been a matter of debate, but the treatment of choice in late pregnancy is delivery.
Delate
Definition:
(v.) To carry; to convey.
(v.) To carry abroad; to spread; to make public.
(v.) To carry or bring against, as a charge; to inform against; to accuse; to denounce.
(v.) To carry on; to conduct.
(v. i.) To dilate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hence, it is possible, that the IS1 recombinase is involved also in the generation of IS1-adjacent delations.
(2) The canaliculus cochleae was delated in the daughter.
(3) Awareness to the possibility of trauma to the extrahepatic biliary system enables early surgical intervention and eliminates the high morbidity associated with delated diagnosis.
(4) It is concluded that the delat-subunit of the acetylcholine receptor is stably and not transiently phosphorylated.
(5) At presentation, one or more DELAT parameters was raised in each AIHA case, and the RBC were typically coated with immunoglobulin of more than one class, together with C3.
(6) In allergic inflammation in the bronchi there were noted drastic delatation and increased permeability of vessels of the microcirculatory bed, odema, migration of eosinophils, the mast-cell reaction with degranulation of mast cells, spasm of musculature, elevated permeability of the basal membrane, impregnation of the latter with plasmic protein with fibrin, hypersecretion and desquamation of the epithelium, hypersecretion of mucous glands.
(7) In the EEG slow delat-waves increased gradually, becoming the major rhythm.
(8) A calibrated gamma-counter placed at the surface of the inflated lung then records a count rate delated to the total quantity of isotope in unit volume of tissue.
(9) He added in a covering letter to the FCO, marked “personal and secret”: “It would be repugnant to our national and service traditions and damaging to the mutual confidence among colleagues which is the great strength of the foreign service, if tale-bearing should be thought to be encouraged and if spying and delation were suspected to be part of the regularly employed equipment of the authorities.” The documents include a long list of top secret papers which Maclean had access to.
(10) A direct enzyme-linked antiglobulin test (DELAT) was used to measure the levels of red blood cell (RBC) bound IgG, IgM, IgA and C3 in dogs with autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AIHA).
(11) Last month, the former foreign secretary, Jack Straw, led a four-member parliamentary delation visiting Tehran in an attempt to improve London-Tehran ties.
(12) Some artists, including Polish sculptor Paweł Althamer and local collective Chto Delat , have boycotted.
(13) Irradiation led to the breakdown of the integrity of the endothelial wall due to formation of defects and delatation of the intercellular fissures, which results in a considerable rise in permeability.
(14) When 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) was added to the perfusate, 3H-NE release was also enhanced, whereas insulin perfused at the same rate caused a delated increase in catecholamine levels as reflected by increased radioactivity.
(15) It was shown that sterols delat 5,7-dienic systemin ring B, ergosterol and cholesta-5,7,22-trien 3 beta-ol had the highest affinity to all the 3 antibiotics, while sterols with one double bond in ring B, i. e. cholesterol and brassicasterol had less affinity and sterol without any double bonds in the molecule i.e.
(16) LSD and delat-9-THC in a mixture can be detected and identified by plasma chromatography positive mobility spectra in quantities of 10-7 g or less.
(17) We show that the PCR method is sufficient to detect one heterozygote for the delta F508 mutation in a pool of up to 49 non-delated DNA samples.
(18) The most characteristic of the myorenal syndrome was accumulation of a great number of pigmental cylinders in the lower parts of the nephrom with focal delatation of the departments located above.
(19) But life in the Athens of the South now is very different from life in the Athens of the North when delations were common while Tiberius ruled the Roman Empire.
(20) These suggestions were supported by the fact, that the former operation has been done because of a gangrenous gallbladder with a highly delated common duct and the duodenum, stomach and transverse colon being involved in an inflammatory infiltration.