(superl.) Not bright or distinct; wanting luminousness or clearness; obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished.
(superl.) Of obscure vision; not seeing clearly; hence, dull of apprehension; of weak perception; obtuse.
(v. t.) To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken; to dull; to obscure; to eclipse.
(v. t.) To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.
(v. i.) To grow dim.
Example Sentences:
(1) The birds were maintained at a constant temperature in, dim green light.
(2) There was good agreement between the survival of normally oxygenated cells in culture and bright cells from tumors and between hypoxic cells in culture and dim cells from tumors over a radiation dosage range of 2-5 Gray.
(3) The frequencies of the various anaphase patterns of bright and dim centromere regions were binomially distributed, indicating random distribution of chromatids with respect to the age of their DNA templates.
(4) It will be of particular importance to determine the amount and proportions of lymphokines secreted by T lymphocytes within the mucosal microenvironment, since properties of cells in the peripheral blood or even bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid are likely to reflect only dimly those of cells at this site.
(5) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
(6) If Summer had had a hard time singing Love To Love You (only when Moroder cleared the studio and dimmed the lights did she finally capture the voluptuous feel she was after), listening to the thing presented an even stiffer test.
(7) In this study, the problem of masking was minimized by measuring the timing of melatonin production under dim light conditions.
(8) 1,4-Dideoxy-1,4-imino-D-mannitol (DIM) was synthesized chemically from benzyl-alpha-D-mannopyranoside [Fleet et al (1984) J. Chem.
(9) A circadian rhythm of nociception was displayed by hamsters maintained for 30 days in constant dim light.
(10) The superior fascicle is whitish, dimmed and frequently thinner than the others and was classified under 4 patterns, according to its insertion.
(11) Concert posters that play music when you touch them have been discussed, while an artist has mixed the paint with oil in a lamp so that when the lamp is tilted, the light dims.
(12) Yet its outrage dims when the models – the same models who appear in the usual shows, mind – are walking on the runway in underwear as opposed to haute couture.
(13) In Moscow, the Russian foreign ministry took a dim view of this Guardian report on the Balkan events.
(14) A method for determining the spectral sensitivity of the different color mechanisms of the human eye uses the pattern of color names applied to small, brief, dim, monochromatic flashes.
(15) Individuals complaining of disturbed sleep that was verified by polysomnographic indices (objective DIMS) and a group with complaints of disturbed sleep in the absence of objective findings (subjective DIMS) were compared with normal sleepers.
(16) The pupillary response to 50 microliter of pilocarpine 0.0625% in darkness, dim light, and bright light was measured photographically in 15 healthy adults.
(17) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
(18) Women generally reported a significantly higher prevalence of both disorders of initiating and maintaining sleep (DIMS) and nightmares (NM)(p less than .001).
(19) Experimental conditions were as similar as possible to those used in a separate study in which psychophysical absolute thresholds were measured: large, dim, monochromatic spots 1 sec in duration were projected close to the right eye of alert, self-respiring goldfish.
(20) An extended source gives a dim erect image in the tract region that may come from the pattern of illumination radiating from the cut ends of the tracts.
Dimmer
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) 16, 1419 (1976)] has been thought to imply neural mechanisms with unlimited constancy, but these researchers permitted differential adaptation to the brighter and dimmer targets, which were seen haploscopically (by different eyes).
(2) Ceramics can withstand natural light, unlike painting and other art works that have to be preserved in dimmer rooms.
(3) Within a certain range of ambient illumination b-waves elicited by red (695 nm) test flashes against dimmer background lights were smaller in size than against brighter ones.
(4) Stock traders shrugged off the Fed's dimmer outlook and focused on the prospect of continued stimulus.
(5) Four operations were repetitively applied to this positive pattern so that it moved fractionally to the right, grew dimmer, moved back to the left, and grew brighter again.
(6) Responses to dimmer stimuli are determined entirely by the rods.3.
(7) A steady light which hyperpolarizes the cone membrane by the same amount as high Ca2+ has an equal effect on the amplitude of responses to bright flashes but has an entirely different action on response kinetics and on the amplitude of responses to dimmer flashes.
(8) Animals raised in 800-lx cyclic light have a significant increase in the retinal activities of the three glutathione enzymes over activities measured in animals raised in the two dimmer regimes.
(9) Subjects exposed to 1000 lux ambient light maintained significantly higher levels of alertness across the 8-hour shift than did subjects exposed to the dimmer lighting conditions.
(10) When Macmillan and her colleagues at the Institute of Education compared IQs, they found today's younger cohort of professionals was, on average, slightly dimmer than the previous, poorer generation.
(11) In Experiment 1, which involved a discriminative reaction time (RT) task, chromatic and white stimuli of the same luminance were presented on a dimmer achromatic background.
(12) Also, titration with DTNB indicates that the enzyme is a much more asymmetric dimmer in the pyridoxamine-P conformation than in the pyridoxal-P conformation.
(13) Sending love to her family, friends, and community as we all struggle to make sense of the senseless in a world that is dimmer without her light.” Others praised her activist work and her creativity, saying they could hardly believe Louisiana had lost “ such a bright light ”.
(14) Nearly everywhere in the visual field, the visibility threshold with the Dicon instrument seems equivalent to that obtained with projection perimeters, but in the most sensitive retinal areas we found the threshold stimulus (Is) to be sometimes dimmer than the "background" (Ib), which surrounds the stimulus, making a negative differential threshold (delta L = Is - Ib).
(15) The prospects appear even dimmer in light of the Commonwealth bank ending its advisory role over financing the Carmichael project.
(16) "Sea walls have the potential to save lives wherever they are built, provided the tsunami does not exceed the simulated height and runup pressures," said Dimmer.
(17) They might not work properly with dimmers yet, but they are generally smaller, brighter and softer on the eye than they used to be.
(18) During rivalry, the same steep branch of the RT-luminance function appeared, but shifted as though the probe was about 0.25 log units dimmer.
(19) Steady or noise current injection during sinusoidal light stimulation showed that (a) the decrease in the spike threshold at a dimmer mean illuminance was due to the increase in the noise variance: the noise had facilitatory effects on the spike initiation; and (b) the change in the mean potential level had little effect on the spike threshold.
(20) Lucia’s retreats allow you to take more drastic action to calm the body and mind: a full-scale withdrawal from real life, or as one book I picked up put it: “turn on your dimmer switch.” It worked for me.