(n.) The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged.
(n.) Freedom from engrossing occupation; leisure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Early views of the Type A behaviour pattern (TABP) sought to disengage it from either neuroticism or emotional distress.
(2) A lost generation of 14 million out-of-work and disengaged young Europeans is costing member states a total of €153bn (£124bn) a year – 1.2% of the EU's gross domestic product – the largest study of the young unemployed has concluded.
(3) Two groups, one institutionalized and the other noninstitutionalized but without formal activities, were described as being disengaged: e.g., withdrawn socially, self-absorbed, as well as powerless, pessimistic, and depressed.
(4) However, an increasing body of experts argues something must be done to arrest disengagement by winning over this so-called Generation Y, born after 1982, who are predicted to be poorer than their parents, and according to Ipsos Mori research, have a record low level of trust in their fellow man.Guy Lodge, of the IPPR thinktank, makes the case for an even more radical solution – compulsory voting for first-timers.
(5) In New York, the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), whose mission is to monitor a 1974 disengagement in the Golan Heights between Israel and Syria , reported that shortly after midnight local time, during a ceasefire agreed with the armed elements, all 40 Filipino peacekeepers left their position and "arrived in a safe location one hour later."
(6) With the coming of the meritocracy, the now leaderless masses were partially disfranchised; as time has gone by, more and more of them have been disengaged, and disaffected to the extent of not even bothering to vote.
(7) It is time for the responsible, serious section of the British press to disengage from any coalition with the popular newspapers.
(8) The four stress reaction factors identified were burnout, reduction in work load, tolerance, and disengagement.
(9) He also called for the party to be disengaged from the Tories at least six months before the 2015 election.
(10) But some who have been at lobbying events with Miliband claim he is disengaged, uninterested, and sometimes appears not to have done his homework on the attendant money men.
(11) If we leave,” said George, “the House of Commons will be doing nothing but talking about how to disengage from the EU for the next 10 years.” The committee fell silent as they absorbed the impact of that statement.
(12) These results strongly suggest that the process of enzyme turnover not only regenerates the active conformation of topoisomerase II but also confers upon the enzyme the ability to disengage from its nucleic acid product.
(13) 2) The relation between Awareness of Death and Self-Engagement, as the initial cause and final outcome of disengagement.
(14) The pilot disengaged the autopilot and descended and landed safely back in Perth.
(15) Tony Blair will make an impassioned intervention in the debate over Britain's future in Europe, warning that any disengagement from the European Union's "top table" would be a disaster for the UK's economy and its power on the world stage.
(16) The disengagement takes some time which is or is not included in the saccadic reaction time depending on whether or not visual attention is engaged at the time of the onset of the saccade target.
(17) From a scientific-theoretical point of view activity- and disengagement-theory are adequately examined in this contribution.
(18) The original government proposals suggested no sanction for refusing to register – a shift that led to warnings that millions of mainly poor voters would drop off the register, so increasing disengagement from democratic politics.
(19) It was shown by Ghadiminejad and Saggerson (1991) that the anionic detergent cholate caused disengagement of the malonyl-CoA binding entity from the catalytic entity of outer membrane carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT1).
(20) In contrast to both canonical structures, the beta 97 histidine residue in carbonmonoxy hemoglobin Ypsilanti is disengaged from quaternary packing interactions that are generally believed to enforce two-state behavior in ligand binding.
Relief
Definition:
(n.) The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which some ease is obtained; succor; alleviation; comfort; ease; redress.
(n.) Release from a post, or from the performance of duty, by the intervention of others, by discharge, or by relay; as, a relief of a sentry.
(n.) That which removes or lessens evil, pain, discomfort, uneasiness, etc.; that which gives succor, aid, or comfort; also, the person who relieves from performance of duty by taking the place of another; a relay.
(n.) A fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant.
(n.) The projection of a figure above the ground or plane on which it is formed.
(n.) The appearance of projection given by shading, shadow, etc., to any figure.
(n.) The height to which works are raised above the bottom of the ditch.
(n.) The elevations and surface undulations of a country.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was prompt symptomatic relief and amelioration of signs of nephritis.
(2) "And in my judgment, when the balance is struck, the factors for granting relief in this case easily outweigh the factors against.
(3) We studied the effect of low-dose intrathecal morphine (0.00-0.20 mg) on pain relief and the incidence of side effects after cholecystectomy in 139 patients divided into eight groups according to intrathecal morphine dose: groups 1 (0.00 mg), 2 (0.04 mg), 3 (0.06 mg), 4 (0.08 mg), 5 (0.10 mg), 6 (0.12 mg), 7 (0.15 mg), and 8 (0.20 mg).
(4) During the treatment phase we found a complete relief of symptoms in 6 (27%), a partial relief of symptoms in 6 (27%), and some relief of symptoms in 12 (54%) in group 2.
(5) Among patients in whom the neuroma had been operated on once previously (first recurrence group), 88% achieved good to excellent pain relief with the technique described in this article.
(6) The improvement in the two groups of patients was statistically comparable to the relief of pain and the over-all restoration of function.
(7) All four active treatment groups also experienced significantly more relief of pelvic-abdominal pain compared with placebo: piroxicam 40 mg for two days followed by three days of 20 mg (p = 0.002), piroxicam 40 mg for one day followed by four days of 20 mg (p = 0.023), piroxicam 20 mg for five days (p = 0.012), and ibuprofen (p = 0.011).
(8) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
(9) The plasma zinc level was significantly lower at the time of onset of zinc deficiency than in normal subjects, before the procedure of TPN, or at the time of symptomatic relief achieved by administration of zinc.
(10) BPV provides long-term relief of pulmonary valvular obstruction in the majority of patients.
(11) With a minimum review period of 6 months complete remission of synovitis was obtained in 20%, while 63% gained symptomatic relief, with some reduction of synovitis.
(12) An integrated approach to the surgical management of diffuse subaortic stenosis has been designed to provide adequate relief of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction whatever the anatomical features encountered at operation.
(13) The BBA statistics director, David Dooks, said: "It was no surprise to see the January mortgage figures falling back from December, when transactions were being pushed through to beat the end of stamp duty relief.
(14) Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) is recognized as an effective therapeutic procedure for nonsurgical relief of critical coronary stenosis.
(15) It was a moment’s relief in what is becoming an endless trudge on the road to recovery.
(16) Hence, they self-administer opioids for pain relief with PCA according to their expectations.
(17) Arsenal’s 10 men fall at the first hurdle against Dinamo Zagreb Read more This win, even against such feeble opponents, was celebrated, with the locals chorusing their manager’s name amid a wave of relief given so much of the team’s domestic campaign to date has been dismal.
(18) Its complete removal results in dramatic relief of proptosis.
(19) Deficiency in polyunsaturated fatty acids was not found in erythrocyte membranes under conditions of the relief-diet therapy course used.
(20) From this information, it would appear that it is possible that the mechanism for the prolonged effect of acupuncture in treating chronic pain is that the repeated activation of the physiological systems by which acupuncture inhibits pain, by the repeated acupuncture treatments, trains the body to continue this activity and thereby maintains the pain relief for a period of time after the last treatment.