(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.
Pale
Definition:
(v. i.) Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.
(v. i.) Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.
(n.) Paleness; pallor.
(v. i.) To turn pale; to lose color or luster.
(v. t.) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
(n.) A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket.
(n.) That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.
(n.) A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.
(n.) A stripe or band, as on a garment.
(n.) One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.
(n.) A cheese scoop.
(n.) A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
(v. t.) To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.
Example Sentences:
(1) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
(2) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
(3) The inclusions were large, intracytoplasmic, pale, eosinophilic and kidney-shaped and were periodic acid-Schiff positive and HBsAg negative.
(4) The lesions were annular or serpiginous and their surface was livid-red to pale-red.
(5) At surgery, upon incision of the paravertebral muscle fascia, viscous pale fluid was encountered emanating from a foramen in the thoracic lamina.
(6) Large (about 2 micron in diameter), pale vacuoles, probably of extracellular character, were found mostly in the vicinity of the perivascular septum.
(7) Kidneys were approximately double the normal size and were pale tan to grey in color.
(8) Too distressed to utter more than a single word - "Devastated" - in the immediate aftermath of her withdrawal, a pale and red-eyed Radcliffe emerged yesterday to give her version of the events that ended the attempt to crown her career with a gold medal.
(9) In 1850 you could see Benjamin West’s ever popular vision of the apocalypse, Death on a Pale Horse , riding melodramatically back into view on Broadway for the fourth time in as many years; and a gallery of Rembrandts at Niblo’s theatre, where Charles Blondin once walked a tightrope.
(10) The main clinical symptoms were paleness, dark urine and oliguria.
(11) In our series of 31 patients, it was found that severe conductive hearing loss, abundant pale granulations, and denuded malleus handle are constant findings and, in our opinion, are significant clinical features of the pathology.
(12) But lest the duchess feel overlooked, the end section of the show featured long, pale-blue bias-cut crepe dresses with more of a charity gala feel; and knee-length silk crepe dresses with black grosgrain belts seemed princess friendly.
(13) Hatched chicks were small and had pale feathers, skin, skeletal muscles, bone marrow, and viscera.
(14) These immunoreactive pale cells occurred in the distal caput and proximal corpus of the epididymidis.
(15) Antibodies to Le(a), Le(b), and X showed no staining or only pale staining of less than 10% of the normal prostatic epithelial cells.
(16) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
(17) The numbers pale in comparison to the 24,000 jobs predicted to disappear from South Australia by the end of 2017 due to the collapse of car manufacturing.
(18) The incidence of dysplasia increased with increasing age and was significantly associated with pale skin type, excess sun exposure, and duration of allograft.
(19) Dendritic cells were characterized by their slender cytoplasmic processes, indented nucleus and pale cytoplasm.
(20) I find Harry Reid’s public comments and insults about Donald Trump and other Republicans to be beyond the pale,” she said.