(v. i.) To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.
(v. i.) To suffer death; to lose life.
(v. i.) To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.
(v. i.) To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
(v. i.) To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
(v. i.) To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.
(v. i.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
(v. i.) To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
(n.) A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.
(n.) Any small cubical or square body.
(n.) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
(n.) That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.
(n.) A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc.
(n.) A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing.
(n.) A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
(2) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
(3) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(4) After resection of the liver 13 patients of 31 died.
(5) Of the 594 patients, 23.7% died and 38.7% had documented inhalation injury.
(6) All of the nude mice developed paraplegia with or without incontinence at 2 weeks and routinely died of inanition 3 weeks postimplantation.
(7) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
(8) No evidence of BPH was observed in 68.4% of patients who had died of cancer.
(9) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
(10) In the patients who have died or have been classified as slowly progressive the serum 19-9 changes ranged from +13% to +707%.
(11) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
(12) Three patients died from non-hepatic causes and another has received liver transplantation.
(13) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(14) Mitoses of nuclei of myocytes of the left ventricle of the heart observed in two elderly people who had died of extensive relapsing infarction are described.
(15) Four patients with tumours larger than 2 cm died from metastatic carcinoid.
(16) The patient later died from complications of burns.
(17) Male guinea pigs received either a single dose of As2O3 10 mg.kg-1 s.c. or repeated doses of 2.5 mg.kg-1 bis in die (b.i.d.)
(18) Histopathological studies confirmed that mice fed 933cu-rev died from bilateral renal cortical tubular necrosis consistent with toxic insult, perhaps due to Shiga-like toxins.
(19) Thirty had an in situ tumor (mean age: 30 years) and 34 had an invasive adenocarcinoma (mean age: 45 years), 7 of whom died of their cancer.
(20) These patients developed mediastinal lymph node metastasis and died 4 and 11 months after surgery, respectively.
Dime
Definition:
(n.) A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar.
Example Sentences:
(1) [pGlu5,MePhe8,-MeGly9]-substance P 5 - 11 (DiMe-C7), senktide and septide did not contract the aorta.
(2) Subcutaneous administration of ondansetron (GR38032) (0.001-0.3 mg kg-1), GR65630 (0.01 mg kg-1), ICS 205-930 (0.1 mg kg-1) and MDL 72222 (0.1 mg kg-1), inhibited the DiMe-C7-induced hyperactivity response.
(3) The interaction of DiME-SP with spinal cord SP receptors was evaluated initially in binding studies.
(4) On the other hand, in 2 neurones a response was exclusively evoked by DiMe-C7.
(5) Like PGE1, 16-diMe-PGE2 has a dual action on the intact canine pancreas (stimulation of enzymes and inhibition of volume and electrolytes), but is much more potent, has a prolonged action, and is active intraduodenally and intragastrically.
(6) The role of spinal cord substance P (SP) in regulating sympathetic outflow to the cardiovascular system was assessed with the stable active analog [pGlu5,MePhE8,MeGly9]-SP(5-11) (DiME-SP).
(7) The rapid dissociation of the compounds displaying antiglucocorticoid activity contrasted with the slow dissociation of DX diMe.
(8) Activities in this field have been enhanced by the interests of such health-related entities as the National Foundation-March of Dimes and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in these studies.
(9) Esterification of the carboxyl groups of meso-DMSA changes its coordination properties in that the two sulfur atoms of DiMe-meso-DMSA are used to coordinate with Hg2+, Cd2+, or Pb2+.
(10) The study was conducted in a blinded manner and consisted of 50 attempts equally divided among pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and controls (no coin).
(11) I will not ask students or seniors or middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people making over $250,000 aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes."
(12) He is a reminder that being black in America, no matter how light or dark skinned you are, means shielding yourself against the inevitable arbitrary assessment of your worth at the drop of a dime.
(13) Rats received one microinjection (0.5 microliter) of SP (0.74 pmol), of the N-terminal fragment SP (1-7) and the C-terminal fragment analog DiMe-C7 (each at doses of 0.074, 0.74, and 74 pmol), or vehicle (phosphate-buffered saline; PBS).
(14) In contrast, infusions of DiMe-C7 or SP into the lateral ventricles or microinfusions of SP into VTA failed to elicit increases in DOPAC levels in forebrain.
(15) Treatment of the hepatocytes with dithiothreitol, following 4 min exposure of the cells to 3,5-diMe NAPQI, reversed the quinone imine-induced changes in nucleotide levels and reduced the cytotoxicity.
(16) Saturable, high-affinity binding of [125I]Bolton-Hunter-SP to rat spinal cord membranes was dose-dependently inhibited by DiME-SP (IC50 = 1.5 microM).
(17) Microinfusion of the metabolically stable substance P (SP) agonist, [pGlu5,MePhe8,Sar9]-SP5-11 (DiMe-C7), into the ventral tegmental area (VTA) of rat brain increased levels of the dopamine (DA) metabolite dihydroxyphenylacetic acid in the prefrontal cortex (+ 120%) and nucleus accumbens (+30%) but not in other regions of forebrain.
(18) I have to cut through the bullshit and just say what I really mean.” I was so concerned about impressing other academics; I never used a dime word if I had a dollar one in my pocket It also helps when scholars can appreciate the value of an editor, she adds.
(19) Immediately after the training trial, rats were injected with 0.74 pmol SP or equimolar dosed SP(1-7), DIME-C7, or SP(7-11).
(20) Why bow your head to people who will simply bank the genuflection, and then turn on the head of a dime.