(n.) A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum thus due.
(n.) A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although the investments will typically run for 20 or 25 years, if you want to get your money out before the end date, Davis says there will be an eBay-style bulletin board on the website allowing investors to sell their debentures for a mutually agreeable price to a willing buyer.
(2) The original investment is paid back over the lifetime of the debenture or as a lump sum at maturity.
(3) Those who put their money in will be buying debentures, which are like official IOUs issued by the individual energy projects.
Evocator
Definition:
(n.) One who calls forth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(2) A response evocation program, some principles underlying its development and administration, and a review of some clinical experiences with the program are presented.
(3) Love Streams, his new album of beat-free, long-form compositions, is complex, evocative, arrestingly beautiful and disquietingly intense.
(4) In this atmosphere, Richardson's evocation of Rwanda, while extreme, is not entirely ludicrous.
(5) The results confirment the involvement of some neurologic structures and show up how the Evocated Potentials can disclose a damage in the a.m. structures even lacking clinical features.
(6) Evocation is defined by the ways in which individuals unintentionally elicit predictable reactions from others in their social environments.
(7) Attenuation of the vestibular response to rotary acceleration in free-fall causes sensory-motor mismatches during natural head movements in orbital flight that may be important factors in the evocation of space motion sickness.
(8) Headaches, bouts of tachycardia and excessive inappropriate diuresis are the most evocative clinical signs of a pheochromocytoma.
(9) Acute hemolysis and the clinical signs evocative of disseminated intravascular coagulation (cutaneous signs) are more rare.
(10) In Experiment 1, substantially different behaviors to light and tone CSs were observed; further, these differences were found to be dependent on specific learning experience rather than on the mere presence of different stimulation at the time of response evocation.
(11) Photograph: Rex Features Colourful and evocative, beach huts hold a special place in our hearts.
(12) Based around the meeting point of the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers and renowned for its huge number of bridges and evocatively named neighbourhoods such as Shadyside and the Mexican War Streets, Pittsburgh is consistently ranked in surveys as a desirable place to live; the Economist Intelligence Unit this year called it America's most "livable" city.
(13) A fittingly memorable evocation of a defining chapter in the island’s history.
(14) They include the definition of determinants of transference in the immediate analytic interaction, the role of projection in transference and its evocation by the analyst, its basis in actual traits of the analyst which are exaggerated, and its expression as an effort to elicit confirmatory responses.
(15) Although many sensory and cognitive cues can elicit flashback phenomena, smell has distinctive characteristics that make evocation of vivid olfactory memories particularly likely.
(16) The cover art for the Cranberries' Bury the Hatchet (1999) was an evocation of paranoia – a giant eye bearing down on a crouching figure – that did neither band nor artist many favours; his image for Muse's Black Holes and Revelations (2006) amounted to a thin revival of his work for the Floyd that, if you were being generous, suggested a wry comment on that band's unconvincing attempts to revive the excesses of 1970s progressive rock.
(17) This result can be rationalized by a catalytic mechanism or by indirect action of nerve growth factor through a hypothetical cell which produces a neurite evocator on contact with the molecule of nerve growth factor.
(18) We have an escalation of chaos as a consequence of White House decision-making, made without consultation with the federal bureaucracy, that has no precedent in modern history and now has people taking to the streets in numbers and ways that is evocative of the 1960s,” Rothkopf said.
(19) To evaluate the predictive value of the evocative test (E.T.)
(20) Both are products of our current cultural moment, as we collectively salivate on the ideal of the Mad Men housewife, with its attractive evocations of easier times and simpler (less equal) roles.