(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.
Requisite
Definition:
(n.) That which is required, or is necessary; something indispensable.
(a.) Required by the nature of things, or by circumstances; so needful that it can not be dispensed with; necessary; indispensable.
Example Sentences:
(1) This result contraindicates a general permissive-requisite role for forebrain NE for the mammalian brain's plasticity during its critical periods.
(2) Swarming is a requisite for mating in populations of Aedes communis and Ae.
(3) It is considered that foetal maturity is the pre-requisite before a decision to induce should be made in practice, and 3 criteria are essential: 1) a gestational length of greater than 320 days, 2) substantial mammary development, 3) the presence of colostrum in the mammae.
(4) It appears that channel catfish B cell mIg capping, presumably a requisite for immune function, can be significantly affected by environmental temperatures; most likely such effects are attributable to changes in plasma membrane viscosities.
(5) A requisite step in the biosynthesis of tRNA is the removal of 5' leader sequences from tRNA precursors.
(6) The results show that COMT is the major extraneuronal noradrenaline-metabolizing enzyme of rabbit aorta, that inhibition of COMT is a pre-requisite for any corticosterone-sensitive accumulation of noradrenaline, that there are two important extraneuronal compartments (compartments III and IV; Henseling et al., 1976a), and that inhibitors of extraneuronal uptake inhibit both, influx and efflux of noradrenaline.
(7) In both non-aligned and head-aligned modes, subject instructions pertaining to the second target light concerned only gaze; there was no requisite head position.
(8) Critical non-hemolytic swelling with resulting stress on the membrane appears requisite to slow phase hemolysis since more non-penetrant sucrose is required to prevent slow phase lysis rather than that which would be predicted from the intracellular colloid osmotic pressure due to hemoglobin.
(9) Distinctions between normal age-related changes and disease signs and symptoms are explained to provide emergency department nurses with the requisite information to care for the elderly appropriately.
(10) A requisite level of linoleic acid is needed for this promotion.
(11) These results are consistent with the postulate that the general transcriptive and replicative control processes operating during development may involve changes in the level of the requisite polymerases.
(12) The influence of pH, algal concentration, and algal growth phase on the requisite cationic flocculant dose is also reported.
(13) To ascertain the actual state of dental health among the school population, with a view to taking the requisite preventive and corrective measures.
(14) The pre-requisite for running such a programme is a systematic approach to these attitudes among the staff, and the prescribing patterns by physicians.
(15) Comparison with the structure of papain-stefin B complex indicates that the structure of the Gln-Val-Val-Ala-Gly sequence itself is not necessarily the essential requisite for inhibitory activity.
(16) It is shown what this can look like and what are the pre-requisites and general conditions to achieve it.
(17) These data suggest that the phenolic hydroxyl of Tyr 248 does not act as the requisite general acid catalyst but participates in ligand binding.
(18) The requisite conformation for blocking dopamine uptake appears to be defined by the combination resulting from superimposition of the CP-24,441 and nomifensine structures.
(19) It is suggested on the basis of the structural similarity that these heptalaminar complexes of close plasmalemmal apposition represent the structural equivalent of gap junctions and may be sites of intercellular communication requisite for transmural passage.
(20) Accurate reconstructions of all capsular ligament lesions and the reinforcement by threads of the requisite connective tissue transplants, show good stability and a good overall result four years after the operation in a relatively small number of patients.