(v. i.) To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port.
(v. i.) To cease to be or exist; as, the epidemic has disappeared.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tryptic digestion of the membranes caused complete disappearance of the binding activity, but heat-treatment for 5 min at 70 degrees C caused only 40% loss of activity.
(2) For male schizophrenics, all symptom differences disappeared except one; blacks were more frequently asocial.
(3) In early 2000, during the first months of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, Babitsky was kidnapped by Russian forces and disappeared for many weeks.
(4) A disease in an IgD (lambda) plasmocytoma is described, where after therapy with Alkeran and prednisone a disappearance of all clinical and laboratory findings indicating an activity could be observed.
(5) However, this predictive value disappeared when five baseline parameters found to predict the outcome (neopterin, beta 2-microglobulin, p24 antigen, anti-p18 antibody and immunoglobulin A) were adjusted.
(6) External phonocardiography performed at the time of cardiac catheterization revealed that this loud midsystolic click disappeared whenever a catheter was positioned across the mitral valve.
(7) (ii) A progressive disappearance of the immunoreactive hypendymal cells.
(8) The disappearance of the herbicide, Avadex (40% diallate), from five agricultural soils (differing in either pH, carbon content, or nitrogen content), incubated under sterile and non-sterile conditions, was followed for a period of 20 weeks.
(9) There was a highly significant relationship between the two tests, r = 0.88, P less than 0.001, although the uptake method gave consistently higher results than those obtained from plasma disappearance.
(10) Label was found widely distributed among all the organs except the nervous system and its rate of disappearance from the tissues paralleled its disappearance from the circulation.
(11) Transient intermediates were distinguished from dead-end metabolites by the rapid formation and disappearance of the former.
(12) There is no convincing evidence that immunosuppression is effective, also because the natural history of the disease is characterised by a spontaneous disappearance of the factor VIII-C inhibitor.
(13) In one case an infection of the axillary region developed, which disappeared after removal of the catheter without any consequences.
(14) 3 patients had complete disappearance of the symptoms but did not have a computed tomography scanning control, 3 patients had clinical and CT recovery.
(15) Radiographic examination revealed that three of the cysts had increased is size, three had decreased in size, three had not changed in size, and two had disappeared; no evaluation could be made on two.
(16) The disappearance of ribosomes in Escherichia coli cells starved for a carbon source was studied.
(17) In this paper the domain of validity of the unlabelled and labelled minimal models of glucose disappearance is studied.
(18) They disappear after Leydig cell depletion induced by ethanedimethane sulphonate (EDS) and return after testosterone treatment.
(19) Hepatic glucose production increased only transiently and there was no significant change in glucose disappearance or plasma glucose concentrations.
(20) The disappearance of the bruit was associated with poor renal function.
Verb
Definition:
(n.) A word; a vocable.
(n.) A word which affirms or predicates something of some person or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering of action.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that labelling the picture with a sentence containing a specific verb substantially increased the likelihood that the specific picture corresponding to that verb would subsequently be falsely recognized.
(2) The focus of both studies was on children in their second year of life learning verbs in various pragmatic contexts.
(3) Last week he argued that properly primed immigrants will "see off the racists" - as if once blacks and Asians could conjugate their verbs properly and learn the date of the Battle of Agincourt, then racists would refrain from attacking them.
(4) (2) The emergence of the distinction between ST and NST verbs is gradual rather than sudden.
(5) An analysis of the types of verbs used in self-thoughts evoked by family versus school probes supported the six predicted differences in verb types derived from our postulate of a more passive self-concept in the family context.
(6) Finally, we discuss whether a mixed model containing both verb-based and class-based mechanisms is required to explain the actionality effects.
(7) These data suggest that the problems agrammatic subjects show with verbs in sentence comprehension, and the general lexical access deficit also recently claimed to be part of the agrammatics' problem, may not extend to the real-time processing of verbs and their arguments.
(8) As predicted, the younger children were better at correcting the nouns than the verbs; the two grammatical forms were corrected equally well by the older children.
(9) A difference between verbs and nouns remained even when level of concreteness was controlled.
(10) Thirdly we investigate his comprehension of semantically and thematically related nouns and verbs.
(11) The study is longitudinal and compares the development of body communication and speech (here: the use of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and pronouns) during the 18-month period of rehabilitation.
(12) In comparison to normal children, they had a shorter MLU and upper bound, and a smaller vocabulary, including fewer verbs.
(13) The verb-based account predicts that children should show a consistent pattern of responses for individual verbs on test and re-test.
(14) The most frequent verbs acquired were the perception verbs see and look and the epistemic verbs think and know.
(15) He omitted 43% of articles, 40% of complementizers, 20% of pronouns, 27% of semantically marked prepositions, 43% of purely grammatic prepositions, and 22% of auxiliary verbs, but his average sentence length was 9.8 words and 64% of his sentences contained embedded clauses.
(16) Exceptions were noted for the normals on the verb class and for the Wernicke's aphasics on the NP and VP linguistic constituents.
(17) In a naturalistic study of 24 children at 1;3 and 1;9, it was found that mothers modelled verbs for their children most often BEFORE the referent action actually occurred.
(18) As with the horrible “This is what a feminist looks like” T-shirt, we are again using the wrong verbs.
(19) The verb phrase (VP) anaphora is a commonly used construction in English in which part of a sentence, including the verb, is replaced or deleted.
(20) Verb learning is clearly a function of observation of real-world contingencies; however, it is argued that such observational information is insufficient to account fully for vocabulary acquisition.