(v. t.) To fix the bounds of; to bring to a termination; to end.
(v. t.) To determine or clearly exhibit the boundaries of; to mark the limits of; as, to define the extent of a kingdom or country.
(v. t.) To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly; as, the defining power of an optical instrument.
(v. t.) To determine the precise signification of; to fix the meaning of; to describe accurately; to explain; to expound or interpret; as, to define a word, a phrase, or a scientific term.
(v. i.) To determine; to decide.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brain and ganglia of embryonic Periplaneta americana were grown for 2 to 3 weeks in a chemically defined medium.
(2) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(3) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
(4) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
(5) Anaerobes, in particular Bacteroides spp., are the predominant bacteria present in mixed intra-abdominal infections, yet their critical importance in the pathogenicity of these infections is not clearly defined.
(6) High-grade and low-grade candidemia were defined as 25 colony-forming units or more per 10 ml and 10 colony-forming units or fewer per 10 ml of blood, respectively.
(7) We reviewed our experience with femorofemoral bypass during the past 10 years to define its role relative to other methods in the treatment of aortoiliac occlusive disease.
(8) Periodontal disease activity is defined clinically by progressive loss of probing attachment and radiographically by progressive loss of alveolar bone.
(9) There is some correlation between PI values and clinical symptoms, but it is not as well defined as that between SI values and clinical symptoms.
(10) Our prospective study has defined a number of important variables in patients with clinical evidence of mast cell proliferation that can predict both the presence of SMCD and the likelihood of fatal disease.
(11) Flow cytofluorometric analysis of the strain distribution of the molecules defined by the mAb revealed that two of the antibodies (I-22 and III-5) were directed against nonpolymorphic determinants of Thy-1, whereas V-8 mAb reacted only with Thy-1.2+ lymphocytes.
(12) We conclude that neuronal activities in the region of the retrofacial nucleus are important both in the integration of stimuli from the central chemoreceptors and in defining the discharge patterns of respiratory neurons.
(13) The study of cellular cyclic AMP level in response to extracellular adenosine stimulation in dividing cells and quiescent cells showed that cells in defined medium had a lower extent of response to adenosine compared to cells cultured in serum-containing medium.
(14) The authors describe the special medical expertise of the psychiatrist and define 11 indicators, such as a patient's need for new psychotropic medication or the presence of symptoms requiring medical or laboratory procedures, that can be used to determine whether psychiatric expertise is needed.
(15) The polymerization of dATP, dCTP, and dGTP onto the defined length initiator, d(pA)10, has been carried out in four buffers.
(16) Three subcohorts were defined: 3212 men whose only exposure to asbestos was to amosite; 3430 exposed to crocidolite; and 675 to both amphiboles.
(17) The literature is reviewed to define the role of the different treatment modalities.
(18) The amount of intracellular, iodophilic, glycogen-like polysaccharide (IPS) present in cells of two strains of Streptococcus mutans at various stages of growth in a chemically defined medium was determined by quantitative electron microscopy.
(19) The Department for International Development (DfID) defines funding provided under the VUP as "financial aid to government".
(20) Patients were divided into two groups: poor outcome, defined by the death or a post-operative Karnofsky index less than or equal to 70 (n = 36), and good outcome defined by a Karnofsky index of 80 or more (n = 60).
Yoke
Definition:
(n.) A bar or frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the heads or necks for working together.
(n.) A frame or piece resembling a yoke, as in use or shape.
(n.) A frame of wood fitted to a person's shoulders for carrying pails, etc., suspended on each side; as, a milkmaid's yoke.
(n.) A frame worn on the neck of an animal, as a cow, a pig, a goose, to prevent passage through a fence.
(n.) A frame or convex piece by which a bell is hung for ringing it. See Illust. of Bell.
(n.) A crosspiece upon the head of a boat's rudder. To its ends lines are attached which lead forward so that the boat can be steered from amidships.
(n.) A bent crosspiece connecting two other parts.
(n.) A tie securing two timbers together, not used for part of a regular truss, but serving a temporary purpose, as to provide against unusual strain.
(n.) A band shaped to fit the shoulders or the hips, and joined to the upper full edge of the waist or the skirt.
(n.) Fig.: That which connects or binds; a chain; a link; a bond connection.
(n.) A mark of servitude; hence, servitude; slavery; bondage; service.
(n.) Two animals yoked together; a couple; a pair that work together.
(n.) The quantity of land plowed in a day by a yoke of oxen.
(n.) A portion of the working day; as, to work two yokes, that is, to work both portions of the day, or morning and afternoon.
(v. t.) To put a yoke on; to join in or with a yoke; as, to yoke oxen, or pair of oxen.
(v. t.) To couple; to join with another.
(v. t.) To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to confine.
(v. i.) To be joined or associated; to be intimately connected; to consort closely; to mate.
Example Sentences:
(1) They include the Francoist slogan "Arriba España" and the yoke-and-arrows symbol of the far right Falange, whose members killed the women.
(2) In the control condition incentives were actually given on the basis of performance of yoked feedback partners.
(3) Britain should withdraw from the European convention on human rights during wartime because troops cannot fight under the yoke of “judicial imperialism”, according to a centre-right thinktank.
(4) To avoid a possible confound between the effects of sleep loss and disturbed circadian rhythms in previous studies of total sleep deprivation (TSD) by the disk-over-water method, TSD rats and their yoked control (TSC) rats had been maintained in constant light both before and during the experiment.
(5) Feedback subjects acquired lower EMG levels than control subjects, and the yoked-incentive subjects acquired lower levels than no-incentive subjects in the control condition.
(6) As the government comes to an end, they're still yoked together.
(7) Interference with escape was shown to be a function of the inescapability of shock and not shock per se: Rats that were "put through" and learned a prior jump-up escape did not become passive, but their yoked, inescapable partners did.
(8) Both plasma ACTH and corticosterone levels were measured at various times following escapable and yoked inescapable electric shock conditions known to produce differential behavioral outcomes.
(9) Relative to animals in the yoked condition, place training significantly reduced HACU in both the young rats and in a subpopulation of the aged animals that learned the task rapidly.
(10) After 3 days of stress, plasma corticosterone and prolactin levels were elevated in both stress groups compared to controls; yoked rats had higher levels of corticosterone than rats in the group with control over shock termination, while prolactin levels in both stressed groups were similar.
(11) We might wear the yoke of work and shoulder the burdens of citizenship and parenthood during the week, but come Friday night, or high summer, or festival season, there's some aspect of our otherness that we still want to celebrate and keep alive.
(12) Methods to control for unconditioned drug effects include reversing the direction of change in heart rate required for infusions and addition of a yoked control subject.
(13) Oculo-motors Paralysis, in acoordance to the Cüpper's principle: "paresis versus paresis" reducing the rotational force of the innervational impulsion of a muscle induces an increasing of innervational impulsion in the yoke muscle.
(14) Plasma cortisol increased in both groups, but its increase was greater in the yoked subjects.
(15) Simultaneously the experimenter struck the yoke, clenched in the subject's teeth, with a rubber hammer.
(16) Performance in this task caused an increase in the number of cells showing fos-like immunoreactivity in layers V and VI of the forelimb motor-sensory cortex with respect to yoked animals which had received the same amount, frequency and duration of aversive stimulation and manipulation as the trained animals.
(17) No significant differences were found in norepinephrine turnover or concentrations between kindled and yoked control rats in any of the brain regions examined.
(18) Patients with frontal lobe damage required more moves to complete the problems and a yoked motor control condition revealed that movement times were significantly increased in this group.
(19) The next conquest by William in 1066 crushed Anglo-Saxon England, but that in turn would produce the idea of “the Norman yoke”, which had supposedly subjugated the English people.
(20) The other animals were equally divided between two groups, one receiving saline and noncontingent reinforcements on the same schedule as those trained to discriminate cathinone; the other group, the "yoked-control" rats, received the same cathinone and saline regimen of administration as the discrimination-trained animals.