(p. a.) Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.
(v. t.) To set apart and consecrate, as to a divinity, or for sacred uses; to devote formally and solemnly; as, to dedicate vessels, treasures, a temple, or a church, to a religious use.
(v. t.) To devote, set apart, or give up, as one's self, to a duty or service.
(v. t.) To inscribe or address, as to a patron.
Example Sentences:
(1) A dedicated goal makes a big difference in mobilising action and resources.
(2) His dedication and professionalism is world class and he deserves all the recognition he has received to date.
(3) Giving voice to that sentiment the mass-selling daily newspaper Ta Nea dedicated its front-page editorial to what it hoped would soon be the group's demise, describing Alexopoulos' desertion as a "positive development".
(4) This can only be achieved by a well prepared and equipped team dedicated to provision of this care.
(5) The fashion in Hollywood leading men now is for the sort of sculpted torso that requires months, if not years, of dedicated abdominal crunching.
(6) Arvind Kejriwal, leader of a new populist political party "dedicated to improving the lot of the common man", announced on Monday that he would form a government to run the sprawling, troubled and increasingly wealthy city of 15 million people.
(7) The authors document the first 19 months of a service dedicated to the care of hopelessly ill patients in a teaching hospital.
(8) Patronage at the airport in the early years would not justify a dedicated rail link.
(9) Fried, reports Variety, has now retired to Florida, but the director tracked her down and rewarded her with a dedication in the soon-to-be-published coffee table making-of book, as well as couple of cameos.
(10) Dedicate it to the off-the-cuff remark – the gaffe, even – which averts a war.
(11) This communication deals with Leidy's life, his philosophy, and his unique dedication to the study of nature.
(12) What we do know is that we cannot and will not see this decision as a vote of no confidence, and that we will find a way to continue through our own passion and dedication to making theatre that represents the dispossessed, tells stories of the injustices of our world and changes lives.
(13) The second phase (1960-1980) was dedicated to a deeper understanding of the relationship between the course of therapy and its results.
(14) The Brookhaven National Laboratory X-ray microprobe, facilities dedicated to X-ray fluorescence, and related analytical techniques are discussed.
(15) The Peppers like to be jerks (at Dingwalls Swan dedicated a song to “all you whiney Britishers who can suck my American cock”), but don’t let the surface attitude fool you.
(16) A whole website ( nicecupofteaandasitdown.com ) is now dedicated to choosing the best biscuit for the job.
(17) The fight against Britain's biggest killer diseases could be hit by NHS plans to cut the number of dedicated teams of experts widely lauded for their work to improve care, doctors and health charities have warned.
(18) She insists she has no regrets about dedicating herself to the man millions admired but few really got to know.
(19) In the late 1990s, after airlines were roundly criticized for ignoring desperate requests for information after crashes, Congress required carriers to dedicate significant attention to families of passengers.
(20) The bank told staff that sales of such products are driven by “trigger points” in customer lives and that it was no longer economical to have a dedicated network of advisers selling critical illness and income protection products.
Endow
Definition:
(v. t.) To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.
(v. t.) To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); -- followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using a monoclonal antibody (528) to the binding portion of the human EGF receptor, immunoperoxidase staining demonstrated that the basal cell layer of normal urothelium is richly endowed with cell surface EGF receptors while the superficial cell layer is not.
(2) Since both PGlcUA- and DPPG-liposomes exhibited similar size distribution and zeta-potential, glucuronic acid, rather than negative charge, on the liposomal surface appears to endow liposomes with a longer circulation time in the bloodstream.
(3) Cells of superficial layers, that are endowed with typical secretory granules, seem to contribute some unknown components to the secretions of these glands.
(4) Both syngeneic and allogeneic thymic epithelium endowed nude mice with the capacity to mount IgG antibody and delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) responses to the T-dependent antigen ovalbumin (OVA).
(5) The effects induced by the antiandrogen Cyproterone Acetate (CPA) on the proliferation of EVSA-T human breast cancer cells endowed with androgen receptors were studied.
(6) Poly(vinylbenzo-18-crown-6), a water-soluble polymer endowed with ion-binding crown moieties as pendent groups, forms insoluble complexes with polyadenylate in the presence of K+; the corresponding monomeric benzo-18-crown-6, does not form a precipitate under the same conditions.
(7) "With devices like [the Xbox] Natal [which is expected to be launched this Christmas] we're really talking about a converged interactive media industry," says Jon Kingsbury, who runs the Creative Economy Innovation Programme at the independent National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta).
(8) These transformations and relational-structure models are each endowed with the same experimentally observed invariance properties, which include independence to pattern translation and pattern jitter, and, depending on the particular versions of the models, independence to pattern reflection and inversion (180 degrees rotation).
(9) Type 2 multipolar cells are large neurons endowed with numerous primary spiny dendrites constituting a wide round dendritic field and with a thick axon.
(10) The eosinophil is richly endowed with toxic cationic proteins and is able to mount a respiratory burst.
(11) The results thus obtained produce an evidence that oligomerization endows aldolase protomers with enhanced stability.
(12) In contrast, type II pneumonocytes are cuboidal and are richly endowed with organelles including large Golgi complexes, extensive endoplasmic reticulum and numerous inclusion bodies.
(13) Thus the results indicate that differences in the gating properties of these two channel classes combine to endow them with strikingly different transducer properties.
(14) The possible reasons of this failure are: the physician's lack of experience in a radiographic chapter, lack of endowment of that medical unit, patient's refusal to be examined or the atypical evolution of the disease.
(15) It declines to reveal the full extent of its fossil fuel investments, but in 2014 its £18bn endowment included over £450m invested in the fossil fuel majors Shell, BP, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton alone.
(16) A number of other areas appear richly endowed in both enkephalinase and enkephalins whereas substance P is hardly detectable.
(17) The subicular complex is well endowed with cells and fibers and the parasubiculum consistently displays unusually heavy NPY innervation.
(18) These results suggest that rMuIFN-gamma rather than other cytokines might endow neonatal mice with the enhanced antilisterial resistance involving macrophages and T lymphocytes.
(19) The Europeans are hopeful this will not now be a problem," said Mark Hibbs, a nuclear expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
(20) The US would be in a situation where it would presumably then say we’d reimpose sanctions which would only hurt, for the most part, US businesses, which would then turn on whichever administration,” said George Perkovich, vice-president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.