(n.) The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body.
(n.) A wresting from the true meaning.
(n.) The state of being distorted, or twisted out of shape or out of true position; crookedness; perversion.
(n.) An unnatural deviation of shape or position of any part of the body producing visible deformity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Findings on plain X-ray of the abdomen, using the usual parameters of psoas and kidney shadows in the Nigerian, indicate that the two communities studied are similar but urinary calculi and urinary tract distortion are significantly more prominent in the community with the higher endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis.
(2) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(3) Mild, significant improvement was noted in one of the hearing components, "attenuation," and an adverse effect was shown on "distortion," owing to noise.
(4) Malema has distorted his leftwing credentials with outrageous behaviour.
(5) Radiologists may encounter patients with fixed dental prostheses that may produce image distortion on MRI scans of the face and jaw.
(6) However, fractional addressing introduces distortion.
(7) The strongest field distortions and attractive forces occurred with 17-7PH stainless steel clips.
(8) This raises questions about police integrity and News International's power to distort procedure in a serious criminal matter.
(9) However, all these characteristics can be distorted if measured by means of a variable-proportion procedure, in which the amount of one primary is held constant while the amount of the other is varied in order to measure threshold.
(10) This could distort the relation between height and forced expiratory volume in 1s (FEV1) as age increases.
(11) The expression of such secondary and tertiary syphilis is commonly masked and distorted by the long-term effects of subcurative doses of antibiotics; in fact, late latent and tertiary syphilis produce symptoms and immunosuppression similar to the profile of AIDS.
(12) These results confirmed that 'punctuated' labeling was not an artefact due to a distortion of the cell's shape by having been dried on glass slides.
(13) The data derived have demonstrated the impairment of the function of the indicated system in the test subjects, associated with sexual behavior impairment in the form of exhibitionism which may form the biological basis for distortion of sexual self-consciousness.
(14) The nogalose and aminoglucose sugars lie in the minor and major grooves, respectively, of the distorted B-DNA double helix.
(15) The latter, which is external and solvent accessible, is associated with a distortion in the alpha-helix centered around Tyr33 which consists of a significant increase in the CO(i-4)-N(i) and CO(i-4)-NH(i) distances relative to those in the rest of the helix, as well as a significant departure in the phi, psi angles of Tyr33 relative to regular helical geometry.
(16) The authors suggest the use of minimal HP filtering so that phase-shift distortion is minimized and a larger response amplitude can be recorded.
(17) Fields said: "The assertions that Tom Cruise likened making a movie to being at war in Afghanistan is a gross distortion of the record... What Tom said, laughingly, was that sometimes, 'That's what it feels like.'"
(18) Therapeutic application of drugs containing propylene glycol 1.2 as a solvent may distort the results of forensic chemical detection of ethylene glycol from its oxidation products.
(19) When a meridional-size lens is used to provide magnification in the horizonal meridan for one eye the resulting stereopsis distortion is readily accounted for in the terms of the binocular disparity caused by changed angular relations.
(20) Synchronization of spontaneous otoacoustic emissions to a cubic distortion frequency fs = 2f1-f2 has been studied.
Headroom
Definition:
(n.) See Headway, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government will be borrowing heavily over the next few years, so it’s a shame that they couldn’t use more of the fiscal headroom to encourage investment through measures such as raising the annual investment allowance, which could deliver productivity increases sooner.” Autumn Statement 2016: Most gains from post-2015 changes go to richest half of UK - live Read more Digital entrepreneur and investor Martin Leuw, who was CEO of IRIS Software for 10 years and now runs business accelerator Growth4Good , said: “ I can see how a reduction in corporation tax makes the UK an attractive place for inward investment.
(2) He added that the cost cutting undertaken in the past year by ITV provided a "financial platform, and headroom, to deliver change", with tranformation now the priority, rather than more savings – and increased investment likely in some areas.
(3) The US government runs out of borrowing headroom in under nine days time, and investors are now getting more edgy about what happens at one minute to midnight on October 17th .
(4) With 10-year gilt yields at a record low 1.5%, the markets are sending a clear signal that there is substantially more headroom for counter-cyclical fiscal stimulus.
(5) That legislation, or a version of it, could work its way into a broad agreement between the sides, although Republicans have rejected the idea of adding so much headroom.
(6) The company said it had headroom of about £1bn to make acquisitions.
(7) That has given us a financial platform, and headroom, to deliver change.
(8) Hunt said the commonwealth had already purchased 1,165 gigalitres of water, leaving 335 gigalitres of “headroom” before the new limit would be reached, but the government wanted to focus on improving farm water efficiency.
(9) It’s then up to the party or any government to look at that headroom and spending available, and look at where and how to spend it.” According to the Department for Work and Pensions , postponing an increase in the state retirement age from 66 to 67 would cost £6bn over eight years in Scotland and £74bn for the UK as a whole.
(10) Jill Rutter, the programme director of the Institute for Government, said: “To have a chancellor who is able to resist the temptation to spend every pound of fiscal headroom instantly is, in current circumstances given future uncertainties, a welcome development.
(11) True, in parts they could stretch up to 3ft 11in (119cm) – which is just about enough headroom for an Ewok.
(12) There is therefore more than enough headroom without our announced savings to cover the net cost of the higher education package,” he said.
(13) #gdndatamgmt September 10, 2014 Roger Tatoud (@B3EXECS) "data protectionism" from system managers and system providers is also a major obstacle to data collection, sharing and use #gdndatamgmt September 10, 2014 Chris King (@NorthernWrites) How do we create more headroom for change at board level?
(14) "That has given us a financial platform, and headroom, to deliver change.
(15) But don't expect to sit up in bed – the headroom doesn't allow for such luxuries.
(16) Thomas Cook feels it needs more headroom to be prudent," she said.
(17) There is headroom for further lending, Carney replies, but not infinite room, as there are dangers in offering such high loan-to-value loans.
(18) Buhlmann, speaking to MediaGuardian.co.uk, said that the £200m-plus deal did not mark a break in that strategy and that the company had plenty of headroom for further acquistions.
(19) Labor has revealed that its higher education policy would cost the budget nearly $14bn over the next decade, arguing there was “more than enough headroom” within its already announced savings measures to offset the spending.
(20) "What's strange about the period under scrutiny is they reported a massive profit warning and I know the trading team were encouraged to clear the decks to give the new chief executive some headroom, so they were being prudent and conservative in their guidance.