(v. t.) To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship.
(v. t.) To disable; to render useless.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's this alliance and this record that postliberalism is trying to dismantle.
(2) The administration is also attacked for endangering America with its proposals to dismantle the prison at Guantánamo Bay.
(3) This review concentrates on an aspect of developmental cell death that has tended to be neglected, the manner in which the cells are dismantled.
(4) Decades of steady, albeit slow, progress on equality is being dismantled, as cuts to women's jobs and the benefits and services they rely on, turn back time on women's equality."
(5) The Bernabéu blockade was dismantled, by necessity, in favour of an approach far closer the sacred Real tradition.
(6) If the Coalition keeps going down the current path, its most enduring achievement will be the dismantlement of the equity-based federal funding settlement achieved under Whitlam and the dawn of a new era of evidence-less policy making.
(7) In April Egypt's interior minister, General Habib al-Adly, was described in US cables as being behind the dismantling of a Hezbollah cell in Sinai as well as "steps to disrupt the flow of Iranian-supplied arms from Sudan through Egypt to Gaza".
(8) The Anglican communion was given substance only by the British empire and next week’s meeting will be one of the final moments in the dismantling of the empire, or of the further process of forgetting that it ever mattered.
(9) When the old BBC governors – a system of governance that essentially dated back to 1922 – was dismantled in 2006 the outcry that there might be something quickly nicknamed Ofbeeb was deafening.
(10) Ms Le Pen’s party is intent on dismantling the EU , on setting up protectionist barriers, stigmatising Muslims and upending traditional western alliances.
(11) This would blow their chance to dismantle the signature policy achievement of the Obama presidency, leaving them facing the wrath of constituents and potential trouble at the ballot box.
(12) After weeks of unwashed silence he's finally dismantled his crisis-beard and returned his woollen catastrophe-hat to the BBC's Break In Case Of Homelessness box.
(13) We previously have shown that in BFA-treated rat pancreatic lobules, there is no detectable relocation of Golgi proteins to the ER and, although Golgi cisternae are rapidly dismantled, clusters of small smooth vesicles consisting of both bona fide Golgi remnants and associated vesicular carriers persist even with prolonged BFA exposure.
(14) Dismantling the reigning champions would normally serve as a statement of intent at Chelsea, though this was all too easy.
(15) The Times quoted an anonymous official familiar with the group saying its report “says we can’t dismantle these programs, but we need to change the way almost all of them operate”.
(16) The Lib Dem rebels want Clegg to go further and support dismantling the NHS's internal market through which different parts of the system commission and provide services.
(17) That does not mean disregarding or dismantling the UN guiding principles.
(18) 9.11pm BST A commander of the Free Syrian Army, a key US ally among the opposition, has echoed and magnified Idris' stated opposition to the Russian proposal for dismantling the regime's chemical weapons.
(19) Staff succeeded despite some seemingly impossible contradictions: John Cardinal O'Connor of the Archdiocese of New York, who has been opposed to the life-styles of most of the people who would use the unit (gays and IV abusers) urged the creation of the unit; St. Clare's had been bankrupt and virtually dismantled just a few years earlier; and the hospital did not have the financial resources, facilities, or AIDS patient caseload of the larger, well-known New York medical institutions.
(20) Charlie Kronick, senior energy adviser for Greenpeace, said the changes in tax relating to the dismantling of platforms meant rich oil companies were being subsidised by the under-pressure taxpayer.
Rase
Definition:
(v. t.) To rub along the surface of; to graze.
(v. t.) To rub or scratch out; to erase.
(v. t.) To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.
(v. i.) To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.
(n.) A scratching out, or erasure.
(n.) A slight wound; a scratch.
(n.) A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Randomized, blinded review of RASE and SE sequences from 20 patients was conducted to evaluate qualitative performance.
(2) A complete labour physiology and psychology laboratory has been designed and set up for the purpose of unifying the methods of physiological and psychological investigations, standardizing measurements procedures and rasing the effectiveness of examinations.
(3) Since nonlinear stress-strain properties were not included, subglottal pressure did not produce a pronounced effect upon fundamental frequency under these somewhat edealized conditions F0 rasing correlated strongly with increased tension in the ligament, and somewhat with increasing tension in the vocalis.
(4) The dynamic contrast-enhanced RASE technique resulted in contrast-to-noise and contrast-to-artifact values and time efficiency measures significantly greater (P less than .05) than those obtained with use of conventional T1- and T2-weighted pulse sequences, indicating a higher likelihood for lesion detectability.
(5) Accordingly, the authors compared four breath-hold T2 or T2* weighted sequences comprising T2*-weighted FLASH, T2*-weighted PSIF, T2-weighted rapid spin echo (RASE), and T2-weighted Turbo-FLASH (Turbo) in 20 different healthy volunteers, 10 at 1.0 T and 10 at 1.5 T with reference to regular T2-weighted spin echo.
(6) The RASE sequence was implemented in conjunction with rapid intravenous injection of gadopentetate dimeglumine to enable performance of dynamic contrast material-enhanced MR imaging of the liver.
(7) We have investigated this protein by using a synthetic peptide corresponding to the 11 amino acids adjacent to the amino-terminal methionine and rasing antisera in rabbits.
(8) There is no reason to accept an ince rase of urinary tract infections by oral contraception.
(9) RASE is an easily implemented imaging technique that utilizes widely available existing technology.
(10) In the cases with intralesional resections the tumors were diligently curatted and the resulting bone cavity was shaved with a rase.
(11) In the 70s, however, Kennard’s simpler, starker imagery sought to rase awareness of human rights violations in Chile and Northern Ireland.
(12) Excellent to good performances for phase-encoding artifact reduction, edge sharpness, and overall image quality were recorded for 89%, 88%, and 86% of RASE examinations, respectively, versus 41%, 59%, and 47% of conventional SE examinations, respectively.
(13) In steroidogenic tissues of the developing hen, specially in the right ovary, 5 beta reductase (Rase) increases after hatching.
(14) The rapid acquisition spin-echo (RASE) technique combines a short repetition time, a short echo time, and a single excitation pulse sequence with half-Fourier data sampling.
(15) Measurements obtained from volunteers and with phantoms reveal that RASE images have a lower signal-to-noise ratio and contrast-to-noise ratio than do conventional multiacquisition spin-echo (SE) images due to reduced data acquisition.
(16) Images obtained with RASE were devoid of respiratory-related ghost artifacts or edge blurring.
(17) Rapid acquisition spin-echo (RASE) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging allows for coverage of the entire liver with highly T1-weighted SE images during a single 23-second breath-holding period.
(18) A relationship between ALAs and Rase curves during embryonic development of the left ovary and the adrenal suggests that 5 beta pregnanedione is a natural inducer of ALAs in these functional endocrine glands, at least during their embryonic stages.