(adv.) In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.
(adv.) In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct, means.
(adv.) Without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.
(adv.) Exactly; just.
(adv.) Straightforwardly; honestly.
(adv.) Manifestly; openly.
(adv.) Straightway; next in order; without delay; immediately.
(adv.) Immediately after; as soon as.
Example Sentences:
(1) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(2) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(3) However, when first trimester specimens were analyzed, the direct-product measurements were significantly larger than the corresponding 3H2O assay results.
(4) The generally accepted hypothesis is a coronary spasm but a direct cardiotoxicity of 5-FU cannot be.
(5) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(6) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(7) Results indicated a .85 probability that Directive Guidance would be followed by Cooperation; a .67 probability that Permissiveness would lead to Noncooperation; and a .97 likelihood that Coerciveness would lead to either Noncooperation or Resistance.
(8) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(9) In addition to oncogenes, the transferred DNA contains genes that direct the synthesis and exudation of opines, which are used as nutrients by the bacteria.
(10) A total of 104 evaluable patients 20-90 years old treated by direct vision internal urethrotomy a.m. Sachse for urethral strictures reported retrospectively via a questionnaire their sexual potency before and after internal urethrotomy.
(11) However, direct measurements of mediator release should be carried out to reach a firm conclusion.
(12) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(13) These data indicate that RNA faithfully transfers "suppressive" as well as "positive" types of immune responses that have been reported previously for lymphocytes obtained directly from tumour-bearing and tumour-immune animals.
(14) The occupation of the high affinity calcium binding site by Ca(II) and Mn(II) does not influence the Cu(II) binding process, suggesting that there is no direct interaction between this site and the Cu(II) binding sites.
(15) The pancreatic changes are unlikely to be an artefact, but rather a direct toxic effect of the alcohol as confirmed by the biochemical changes.
(16) Errors in the initial direction of response were fewer in binocular viewing in comparison with monocular viewing.
(17) In the second approach, attachment sites of DTPA groups were directed away from the active region of the molecule by having fragment E1,2 bound in complex, with its active sites protected during the derivatization.
(18) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
(19) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
(20) The direct monocyte source is not sufficient to insure the stability of this population.
Epilogue
Definition:
(n.) A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play.
(n.) The closing part of a discourse, in which the principal matters are recapitulated; a conclusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government has carefully rolled the political pitch for next week's cuts announcement, assisted by Liam Byrne's bizarre "no money left " epilogue on his own time at the Treasury.
(2) Lorraine's life story reads like the harrowing epilogue to one of Dunbar's plays.
(3) With the film going on general release, the restorers have appended a short video introduction and epilogue that outline the issues involved.
(4) Some of the interiors of this house were meticulously reconstructed for the film's final scene, an epilogue that Dreyer added to the play.
(5) It is not hard to imagine his staunchest critics making advance orders, although fairly certain that they will be disappointed by the time they reach the epilogue.
(6) The Epilogue of this paper examines why important parts of Wertheimer's experimental contributions to psychology may have been underrated or neglected by many contemporary psychologists.
(7) It’s about keeping businesses going rather than having a start-up, some soft grants then within six months everything’s gone.” I tell Mone that her women-can-do-anything epilogue reminded me of Nicola Sturgeon’s rousing speech in the Scottish parliament when she was elected the first female first minister last November (although the epilogue, and indeed the entire book, is rather more sweary than the Holyrood debating chamber is used to).
(8) Novelists don't write epilogues saying "please give me money".
(9) Thomas Dekker groused that “the scene after the Epilogue hath been more blacke – a nasty bawdy jigge – than the most horrid scene in the play was”.
(10) Epilogue Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ahn celebrates his goal, but nothing would ever be this good again for South Korea's matchwinner.
(11) His widow, Annie, confirms in the epilogue, dated St Valentine's Day 1997, that he meant it.
(12) A crisis was inevitable, and last Friday it arrived , an unsurprising epilogue to a job estimated as being 12 times more deadly than being a US soldier at the height of the Iraq war : 16 people, of whom 13 were Sherpas, were killed in an avalanche as they readied the slopes for the summit window in May.
(13) It was a heartbreaking epilogue to 2014 for Pakistani children, who have seen about 1,000 schools closed by the Taliban in recent years.
(14) This is followed by the author's closing remarks for the last session of the mini-course, an Epilogue.
(15) An epilogue After my story was published, the Consumers Union wrote a letter to the editor strongly disagreeing with its conclusions.
(16) In the epilogue some remarks are made on the possibilities of introduction of the opting out system in countries now applying opting in.
(17) On the contrary, in the case shown by the authors, the subacute epilogue occurred in the perimenopausal phase: a very large colpohematometra is reported in a 49 years old woman, with an incomplete vaginal septum resulting in progressive obstruction.
(18) ON THE NEXT ... Epilogue segment, purportedly sharing clips of the next instalment, but in reality showing non-sequiturs and sight gags.
(19) I’m not surprised.” In the New York Times, Kakutani dismissed the biography as “a dreary slog of a read: a bloated, tedious and – given its highly intemperate epilogue – ill-considered book that is in desperate need of editing, and way more exhausting than exhaustive.” A spokesman for Obama declined to comment.
(20) Similarly, I allowed my Handmaid a possible escape, via Maine and Canada; and I also permitted an epilogue, from the perspective of which both the Handmaid and the world she lived in have receded into history.