(v. i.) To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay.
(v. t.) To cause to decay; to impair.
(v. t.) To destroy.
(n.) Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay.
(n.) Destruction; death.
(n.) Cause of decay.
Example Sentences:
(1) Q In radioactive decay, different materials decay at different rates, giving different half lives.
(2) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
(3) In the absence of prostigmine, increasing the concentration of ACh in the synaptic cleft did not change the time constant for decay of end-plate currents.
(4) The kinetics of bimolecular decay of alpha-tocopheroxyl free radicals (T) was studied by ESR mainly in ethanol and heptanol solvents.
(5) For those synapses that were close to the soma the time constant for decay for the non-NMDA component, which was voltage insensitive, ranged from 4-8 ms. 7.
(6) In analyzing the results with any regimen it is important to have long follow-up since late relapses do occur and initial very positive results tend to decay with greater numbers of patients treated.
(7) In one normal ear, ten noise trauma ears, 11 Meniere disease ears, and 24 eighth nerve lesion ears to reflexes or reflex decay that were suggestive or retrocochlear lesions were observed.
(8) Biochemical, molecular, and immunohistologic studies have identified membrane cofactor protein (MCP) and decay accelerating factor (DAF) on trophoblast cells, which could assist in preventing lysis of the cells by complement-activating maternal antibodies.
(9) It has been 40 years since the first community in the United States added a regulated amount of fluoride to its public water supply to prevent tooth decay.
(10) This could reflect the existence of a parallel set of synapses with fast decay that serve as a shortterm store.
(11) However, clemastine caused a decay in subjects' performance in both Experiments I and II, but only on the tracking task.
(12) The nylon group had the second highest amount of induced WTR cylinder at one day, which had decayed to ATR cylinder by five months.
(13) The observed signals from germinating seeds of Phaseolus aures and decaying leaves of Eucalyptus are presented to show that the signals have characteristic kinetics and intensity.
(14) We develop an analogy between the steric hindrance among receptors detecting randomly placed haptens and the temporary locking of a Geiger counter that has detected a radioactive decay.
(15) Left ventricular relaxation rate was measured by calculation of a time constant of left ventricular pressure decay (T) derived from an exponential curve fit to the digitized tip-micromanometer left ventricular pressure signal.
(16) Factors increasing presynaptic activity (frequency or number of afferent stimulations) during the induction event did not affect the relative amount of LTP decay.
(17) Inhibitor activity decayed with time after radiation (2 Gy) with no activity detected at 6 h even though the cells remained in G2 phase, suggesting that either synthesis or activation of additional components is necessary for recovery from G2 arrest.
(18) These results are consistent with the previous observation in HTC cells that the decay rate of ODC activity in the presence of cycloheximide correlated well with the proportion of ODC present as a complex with antizyme, suggesting the ubiquitous role of antizyme in ODC degradation.
(19) The outward current decays exponentially with an early and late phase.
(20) The decay of acid soluble radioactivity was similar in the two groups, although protein synthesis was lowered by vitamin A deficiency.
Imperishable
Definition:
(a.) Not perishable; not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring permanently; as, an imperishable monument; imperishable renown.
Example Sentences:
(1) But, if Tynan's screen output was small, his writing on film is imperishable.
(2) And they were the inheritors of an imperishable Labour movement tradition.
(3) His contribution to the music community is imperishable,” managing director Rory Jeffes said.
(4) But in the desire to maintain the orthodoxies of the day (which must always pass as imperishable truths), instead of reaffirming the common wisdom, the disseminators of (fixed) ideas have been in danger of defeating their own purpose.
(5) Perishable, it attempts to arrogate to itself the prerogative of imperishable time, of separating good books from bad."
(6) It was the cause not very célèbre which not only resulted in an unlikely and humdrum Czechoslovakian clay-courter Jan Kodes being elevated into the imperishable pantheon of Wimbledon champions but gave the OK for a large and itinerant bunch of professional tennis players to bond themselves into the richest group of travelling sportsmen on the planet, which they remain.
(7) Nevertheless, Bowie persevered, moving to New York even while songs as imperishable as Rebel Rebel were missing the US top 40 (though scoring at home in the UK), and in 1974 embarking on his Diamond Dogs tour, a massively theatrical undertaking that traversed America without going to Europe at all.
(8) In an essay celebrating the award, the critic Elaine Showalter acknowledged him as an artist who "changed imperishably the way we see and understand the world".
(9) The music, it seems, is imperishable, even if the drama should be treated more carefully.
(10) The book contains dozens of imperishable phrases and judgments, but few stick in the mind like the opening of his Wilder demolition: "Billy Wilder is too cynical to believe even his own cynicism."
(11) The British army cameramen also filmed the arrival of a mobile bath unit, and it is here, as the women survivors re-encounter warm water, that the film imperishably supplies the idea that, in spite of man-made horror, life somehow remains a blessing.
(12) I grew up playing beach soccer with all my buddies,” said Hejduk, a midfielder with 85 US caps who grew up nearby in Cardiff-by-the-Sea and has the southern Californian aura and vocabulary of Jeff Spicoli, Sean Penn’s imperishable character from the 1982 film Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
(13) Once again it is demonstrated that people do not love their chains or their jailers, and that the aspiration for a civilised life, that "universal eligibility to be noble," as Saul Bellow's Augie March so imperishably phrases it, is proper and common to all.
(14) This from a man, as she noted, who had written more lovingly of the ditches and the daisies and the ruinstrewn land “with a beautiful and imperishable loneliness”.