(v. t.) To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.
(v. i.) To put off; to delay to act; to wait.
(v. t.) To render or offer.
(v. t.) To lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to refer; -- with to.
(v. i.) To yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with to.
Example Sentences:
(1) The diagnosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer, though suspected, was deferred for permanent sections in all cases.
(2) But it has already attracted attention for paying some deferred bonuses early in the US to avoid a hike in tax rates.
(3) The effect of deferring immediate coronary artery bypass was evaluated in two groups of similar patients having successful direct coronary artery thrombolysis with streptokinase in the treatment of evolving myocardial infarction.
(4) In June it warned that some revenues from 31 of about 200 social housing contracts had been deferred hitting the amount of cash coming into the business.
(5) The programme source insists that Desmond, while getting "seriously involved" in the production, has frequently deferred to Endemol and has "very much put his money where his mouth is" on the budget.
(6) This paper discusses the risk of SAH recurrence and the risk of vasospasm and ischaemia during the waiting time before surgery, in the attitude of deferred surgery which was elected in most cases of this series and compares the outcome with other published series.
(7) The Scottish government deferred this year's cut to next year to boost the recovery, and it will get less than £27bn next year.
(8) In his letter, Franklin said he was "somewhat surprised" by the guilty finding but "gave deference to the court-martial jury because they had personally observed the actual trial."
(9) Recently, balloon aortic valvuloplasty has been proposed for the treatment of severe aortic stenosis in elderly patients when aortic valve replacement has been declined or deferred.
(10) Tentative conclusions, with deference to the complex nature of dyslexia, are drawn and suggestions are made for future research.
(11) But for the fourth successive budget, because of high and volatile prices in the oil market, i propose to defer the usual inflation increase until September 1st.
(12) It would defer the moment of confronting the underlying problem, which is not a strong currency but a rotten state.
(13) "All he would have had was a deferred crisis in Britain.
(14) Following a median 10-day induction course, 16 patients with retinitis continued to have serial ophthalmologic assessments: eight patients were maintained on treatment and eight had maintenance treatment deferred.
(15) If initial thrombolytic therapy reestablishes vessel patency, similar improvements in ventricular function can be expected even if PTCA is deferred until clinically indicated by evidence of recurrent ischemia.
(16) One of the two patients with active osteomyelitis at the time of vascularized bone transfer had complications from recurrent sepsis, leading to the authors' caveat that vascularized bone transfer should be deferred until such time as sepsis is inactive.
(17) "Whilst I can't defer all the blame away from myself, I was barely out of my teenage years, and the consequence of this portrayal of me is that now I am frequently abused on social media," she said.
(18) George Osborne averted a Tory backbench rebellion in the Commons on Monday when the Treasury gave a powerful hint that the government could defer a planned 3p increase in fuel duty.
(19) No one can quite believe McChrystal would be so stupid ..." Author Eliot Cohen, writing in the Wall Street Journal , also stressed military deference to civilian authority.
(20) Comparison with 40 patients with TO-3 NX MO disease, whose treatment was deferred initially, showed a higher incidence of local progression in the untreated patients.
Dilatory
Definition:
(a.) Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant.
(a.) Marked by procrastination or delay; tardy; slow; sluggish; -- said of actions or measures.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alpha-receptor blockade did not change the response, while stimulation of these receptors decreased the dilatory response even in deep arterial hypoxia.
(2) The CO2 responsiveness (cerebrovascular dilatory response to increased PaCO2) at the control stage was not altered after the ganglionic blockade.
(3) The intermediate results, average (13.6%) and the bad results (3.6%) both show the same inducing factors: past history of localized dilatory manipulations, infected areas but mostly defective application of management techniques.
(4) During the superimposed stress of exercise coronary flow and myocardial oxygen consumption increased further, so that the dilatory capacity of the coronaries was exhausted at hematocrit levels between 16 and 22%.
(5) Chemical removal of the endothelium with saponin was shown to lead to abnormal coronary reactivity, eliminate dilatory and give rise to constrictive responses to ATP, acetylcholine, histamine.
(6) Intracoronary adenosine as well as the adenine nucleotides (ATP, ADP, AMP, beta, gamma-methylene-ATP, diadenosine-tetraphosphate, and polyadenylic acid) do not elicit their dilatory effects directly at the smooth muscle cells of the resistance vessel wall, but indirectly, via the endothelium.
(7) Blockade of alpha-adrenoreceptors with dihydroergotoxin makes noradrenaline to elicit dilatory responses only, their magnitude depending on the initial level of venous pressure: more obvious responses at 10-15 mm Hg, less obvious those - at 0 and 25 mm Hg.
(8) It induces a gut dilatory response and increases the levels of blood glucose, serum alkaline phosphatase and serum acid phosphatase in rabbits.
(9) The dilatory capacity of the coronary vessels, estimated from the reactive hyperemia after a 12 sec occlusion of the left circumflex coronary artery, dropped from 602% at control to 45% at lowest hematocrit levels.
(10) In dilated cardiomyopathy, there were dilatory manifestations in the coronary arteries and vessels of microcirculation along with increased volumetric density of ventricular vascularization.
(11) These results suggest the presence of H3-histaminergic dilatory receptors in the guinea pig airway.
(12) It was shown that, against the background of constrictory responses of the resistance vessels in these organs, both the constrictory and the dilatory responses of the capicitance vessels could occur or not.
(13) Based upon these observations, it is suggested that comprehensive radiographic evaluation of traumatic hematuria or suspected occult urological trauma unnecessarily may be expensive and dilatory, and that evaluation may be limited routinely to the area of maximum injury.
(14) Lowering of the Mg2+ concentration to 0.8 mM or total withdrawal of this ion from the medium failed to alter the dilatory potency of acetylcholine.
(15) This low value was not the result of a limited coronary dilatory capacity, of inadequate state of exercise training, or of a relative underperfusion of the inner layers of the left ventricle.
(16) Turkey poults grown in a hypobaric chamber at an atmospheric pressure of 592 mmHg (calculated partial pressure of oxygen: 124 mmHg; calculated altitude and O2 equivalents: 2054 m and 16.3%) on a rapid-growth diet developed a mainly right ventricular dilatory cardiomyopathy typical of the acute form of spontaneous turkey cardiomyopathy (STC).
(17) It is concluded that the functional polarity of the vascular wall of these arteries in response to alpha 2-agonists results from the release of a dilatory signal from the endothelial cells, counteracting the direct contractile activation of the adjacent smooth muscle cells by the agonists.
(18) Data on the endocrine heart--neurosecretory cells of heart, producing coronary-dilatory, metabolically active glycopeptides with physico-chemical and biological properties similar to those of previously discovered cardioactive hypothalamic neurohormones--are summarized.
(19) Noradrenalin was shown to elicit either constrictory or dilatory responses depending on the initial level of venous pressure (10-15 mm Hg or 0 and 25 mm Hg) in the capacitance vessels of the cat small intestine.
(20) In response to contractile and endothelium-dependent dilatory agonists, Mg2+ probably affects both the calcium influx into the endothelial and smooth muscle cells as well as the binding of acetylcholine to its endothelial receptor.