(v. t.) To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.
(v. t.) To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
(v. t.) To require; to demand; to claim.
(v. t.) To miss; to regret.
(v. t.) The natural longing that is excited by the enjoyment or the thought of any good, and impels to action or effort its continuance or possession; an eager wish to obtain or enjoy.
(v. t.) An expressed wish; a request; petition.
(v. t.) Anything which is desired; an object of longing.
(v. t.) Excessive or morbid longing; lust; appetite.
(v. t.) Grief; regret.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
(2) Further improvement of results will be possible by early operation, a desirable objective.
(3) This has been accomplished by insertion of a desired gene into a pre-existing immortal cell or by immortalizing primary cells.
(4) The light intensity profile for any desired cell can be examined in "real time", even during acceleration of the rotor.
(5) Still, even as unknowable as this decision may be for him, as any decision is, really, he is far more qualified to understand his desires and goals that would inform that decision than anyone else is.
(6) It’s not just a matter of will or gumption or desire on my part.
(7) "The pattern of consumption is that among ebook readers there is a desire to pre-order, or get it quickly, so ebook sales are particularly high in the first few weeks," he said.
(8) Attention is drawn to the desirability of differentiating between supra- and sub-gingival calculus in the CPITN scoring system and to the excessive treatment requirements that arise from classifying everyone with calculus as requiring prophylaxis and scaling.
(9) Alternatively, the data presented herein strongly suggest that diets containing conventional quantities of fat, in which saturated fat is replaced by unsaturated fat and dietary cholesterol reduced, would result in the desired reductions to total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations without the adverse effects of increased postprandial glucose and insulin concentrations, increased fasting and postprandial total and very-low-density lipoprotein triglyceride concentrations, and decreased fasting high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations.
(10) Combining drugs may only occasionally be advisable to supplement a desired effect or to attenuate an unwanted one.
(11) Five hundred sixty grandmultiparous women were interviewed as to their contraceptive awareness, desirability and use in the three major hospitals in Benin City, Nigeria, between October 1, 1980 and September, 1981.
(12) It will not be so low as to put off candidates from outside the corporation but will be substantially less than Thompson's £671,000 annual remuneration – in line with Patten's desire to clamp down on BBC executive pay, which he said had become a "toxic issue".
(13) The concept of increasing bone mass and decreasing expanded soft-tissue mass has application within the judgment of the surgeon coupled with the patient's desires.
(14) This new derivative could represent a desirable complementation to rhbFGF for the development of more stable pharmaceutical formulations in wound healing applications.
(15) These concepts of facial harmony and surgical alterations have been difficult to teach in a residency program, especially regarding preoperative evaluation and a clear idea of the desired surgical results.
(16) Subsequent efforts focused on achieving high levels of insecticidal activity while minimizing costs of synthesis and retaining desirable levels of selective toxicity.
(17) The reasons are often financial, but can also be a desire for a change of pace or new experiences.
(18) Noninvasive procedures (such as Holter monitoring or recording of late potentials) are desirable for screening purposes, whereas it would be acceptable to use more aggressive invasive techniques in certain subsets of patients.
(19) KAP studies have demonstrated differences in the family size desires of men and women and in the determinants of attitudes toward birth control.
(20) An accurate description of the coronary anatomy is desired before anatomic correction of d-transposition of the great arteries.
Emulation
Definition:
(n.) The endeavor to equal or to excel another in qualities or actions; an assiduous striving to equal or excel another; rivalry.
(n.) Jea/ous rivalry; envy; envious contention.
Example Sentences:
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) The hosts had resisted through the early stages, emulating their rugged first-half displays against Manchester United and Arsenal here this season, and even mustered a flurry of half-chances just before the interval to offer a reminder they might glean greater reward thereafter.
(3) He'd later carry this over into Netflix's House Of Cards but before that, TV had already begun to emulate this new, bleak, antiheroic maturity with a cycle of dark, longform, acclaimed dramas, commencing with The Sopranos and culminating in Breaking Bad .
(4) Again, he took a coasting, if not moribund, council department and turned it into an innovative, widely admired and emulated approach to social work (known as the "Hackney model").
(5) This leads to a notion of a "universal" hierarchically structured automaton mu which can move on a given graph in such a way as to emulate any automaton which moves on that graph in response to inputs.
(6) The Gayes’ lawyer branded Williams and Thicke liars who went beyond trying to emulate the sound of Gaye’s late-1970s music and copied the R&B legend’s hit Got to Give It Up outright.
(7) The choice of different values for simulation parameters (e.g., frequency and amplitude of pulses) allows one to emulate some typical physiological patterns of hormone secretion for luteinizing hormone, growth hormone, and thyrotropin or other hormones.
(8) While the money is significant, campaigners have argued that to emulate countries such as the Netherlands‚ where around one-third of all journeys are made by bike, as opposed to about 2% in Britain‚ requires consistent, significant spending over decades to establish a nationwide system of dedicated cycle infrastructure.
(9) In London a candlelit vigil – which the government hopes will be emulated in churches, by other faiths and by families across the land – will be held at Westminster Abbey, ending with the last candle being extinguished at 11pm, the moment war was declared.
(10) It may also be timely to appear more serious, seeing as Paddy seems to have misplaced its sense of humour of late, Betfair never had one in the first place, and rivals trying to emulate the old Paddy-style jokes look very tired.
(11) 1928's Downton Abbey jewellery collection If it's the jewels and the glitz that gets you going on Downton, then you'll be pleased to know that you can emulate the luxury of Lady Edith from as little as £11.25 (via ACHICA) – though what Lady Mary would make of such cheap imitations doesn't bear thinking of.
(12) A simulated voltage-to-frequency audio signal emulates normal experimental audio monitoring of the electrode potential, and a window displays a simulated oscilloscope trace (together with "electrical noise") of the resting or action potential response.
(13) I wanted to emulate them because they made me laugh.
(14) That change is now being emulated across the country, he says.
(15) He said President Obama's proposals to clamp down on investment banking and bankers' bonuses should not be emulated in Europe as they take the focus away from regulatory reform.
(16) The superiorly based omohyoid muscle flap was found to more closely emulate the size and orientation of the underlying PCA muscle.
(17) If you pull one side, your feet are in the cold.” Quite how long Hazard – who did manage seven minutes off the bench – is shivering out in the wilderness remains to be seen but Chelsea’s predicament requires a creative talent who signed a new five-and-a-half-year contract in February to emulate Willian and Pedro, allying discipline to those mind-boggling flashes of skill.
(18) New Zealand’s decision to recognise climate change as a factor in forced migration marks a moral and ethical precedent that Australia and other countries have yet to emulate.
(19) Iceland lost three successive matches earlier this year against the United Arab Emirates, the United States and Denmark and, for a while, it looked like they might emulate their 2007-08 low of five in a row to Latvia, Liechtenstein, Denmark, Belarus and Malta.
(20) PGV-MA emulates the effects of truncal vagotomy and antrectomy on acid secretion, without affecting gastric emptying and deserves further investigation as a possible surgical alternative in the treatment of duodenal ulcer disease.