(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.
Never
Definition:
(adv.) Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past, present, or future.
(adv.) In no degree; not in the least; not.
Example Sentences:
(1) We will never give up our hope for peace,” added Netanyahu.
(2) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
(3) The peak molecular weight never reached that of a complete 2:1 complex.
(4) The latest story will show Bridget more "grown up" but she is "never going to change really".
(5) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
(6) The curious thing, it seems to me, is that she was never criticised for it.
(7) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
(8) I’ve never really had that work versus life thing; it’s all part of the same canvas.
(9) My father has never met him but has a different view.
(10) Only 47 of the patients had received salicylates as the first drug and 18 had never had them at all.
(11) Never become so enamored of your own smarts that you stop signing up for life’s hard classes.
(12) In order to maintain its activity, the enzyme was always stored in 1.0-ml aliquots at temperatures below -20 degrees C and each aliquot when thawed was used immediately; any left over enzyme was never reused.
(13) Single injections never produced more than one coupled pair in P20 or older rats.
(14) I never had any doubt that the vast majority of people engaged in "business" are not the exploiters but the exploited.
(15) One important consequence of the conservative mode of replication is that cellular enzymes never gain access to the reovirus genome but only to its ssRNA precursors.
(16) I never accuse a student of plagiarizing unless I have proof, almost always in the form of sources easily found by Googling a few choice phrases.
(17) Journalists should never be a propaganda arm of any government – not in peace and never in war.
(18) They were never a band, as they were often called, they were artist-activists.
(19) Furthermore, non-coordinate expression of DR and DQW1 was present in 8 out of 40 carcinomas, with the proportion of DQW1 positive epithelium always being less than that of DR. Carcinomas exhibiting non-coordinate expression were never well differentiated; there was no relationship with the extent of the inflammatory infiltrate.
(20) The Ibiza Rocks hotel is aimed at a young clientele who'd never make it into the VIP section of Pacha.