(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.
Dit
Definition:
(n.) A word; a decree.
(n.) A ditty; a song.
(v. t.) To close up.
Example Sentences:
(1) Expression of the DIT and DIT2 genes is restricted to sporulating cells, with the DIT1 transcripts accumulating at the time of prospore enclosure and just prior to the time of dityrosine biosynthesis.
(2) The volume fraction of synthetic organelles in smooth muscle cells from the DIT of both males and females is of a highly significant difference from the volume fraction of synthetic organelles in cells of the subjacent media.
(3) Urinary excretion of intact DIT was low, being less than 1% of the administered dose of exogenous DIT within 2 days.
(4) Our data confirm the in vivo generation of extrathyroidal DIT from T4 in the rat.
(5) In contrast, 52% of the iodine administered in the form of DIT was excreted in the urine in the same time interval.
(6) Short periods of loading do not alter deiodination of L-DIT in liver or kidney at all; but lead to significant elevation of L-T4-deiodination in liver tissue.
(7) DIT may play a central role in the regulation of energy expenditure and in the etiology of certain types of obesity.
(8) DIT and BAT are controlled by hormonal action: noradrenaline appears to be the primary activator of BAT and insulin may be required for DIT and may even activate thermogenesis.
(9) The levels of MIT, DIT, T3 and T4 in the thyroid, and T3, T4 and TSH in serum, and the amount of iodine transport and synthesis of organic iodine in thyroid were determined.
(10) Higher doses or longer periods of loading cause a significant rise of L-DIT-deiodination in liver and kidney, while the L-T4-deiodination in liver is significantly decreased and in kidney significantly elevated.
(11) The secretion of gastric acid in the peptic ulcer patients were examined by the dopamine infusion test (DIT).
(12) In rats hypothyroidized with methylthiouracil (MTU), methimazol (MMI), or radiothyroidectomy, the extent of deiodination for L-diiodotyrosine (L-DIT) and L-thyroxine (L-T4) was investigated in homogenate supernatants of liver and kidney.
(13) two pentapeptides, apparently of the sequence Tyr-Asn-Asx-Lys-Gly, isolated as the DIT and MIT derivatives.
(14) There was no significant correlation between sex, age, presence of diabetes, mode of dialysis, years of chronic renal failure, years of dialysis or years of aluminum ingestion and any neurologic or neurobehavioral measurement, serum aluminum level, or DIT.
(15) The carbonyl complexes were found to be efficient hepatobiliary agents and cleared more rapidly than the corresponding 99mTcN- and 99mTc(dit)-complexes.
(16) From the results of kinetic studies and RIA measurements, the fraction of circulating T4 converted to DIT was calculated to be 3.9-4.3%.
(17) While rT3 is elevated in almost all critically ill patients, the increase in DIT is indicative of severe infection.
(18) The reaction is effectively quenched by the antioxidant, 2,6-dit-butyl-4-hydroxymethyl phenol as well as by Mn+2 (10(-5)-10(-3)M).
(19) The relative affinity of T3, T4, rT3, MIT, and DIT were in good agreement with their biological activity.
(20) Splitting off of sialic acid diminishes thenumber of phenolic groups of tyrosine, MIT, DIT and T4, which dissociate below pH 12-5.