(a.) Several; sundry; various; more than one, but not a great number; as, divers philosophers. Also used substantively or pronominally.
Example Sentences:
(1) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
(2) After recompression treatment five of 19 divers with primary affection of the brain had slight hemiparesis or dysphasia.
(3) A working knowledge of medical fitness for diving and of diving medical emergencies will assist the nondiving physician in establishing a basic medical history and examination for the student scuba diver.
(4) The implications for other professional divers and for recreational underwater divers who follow standard decompression protocols are reassuring.
(5) In this study, divers' erythrocyte superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity was monitored during high pressure exposure and shown to decrease on average by 20% at depths greater than 150 m. Assay of total red cell SOD protein and activity established that the recorded SOD activity decrement was by loss of immuno-measurable enzyme.
(6) Intake of marine oils may be beneficial to divers under deep diving and to patients during extracorporeal circulation, because this may reduce the microbubble-induced aggregation.
(7) The white hotel has 144 rooms for beach lovers, surfers, divers, trail runners, yogis and spa-toners.
(8) We have determined experimentally the temperature dependence of human erythrocyte spectrin dimer intrinsic viscosity at shear rates 8-12 s-1 using a Cartesian diver viscometer.
(9) In addition, detailed analysis of diving profiles should be used to distinguish the inner ear dysfunction seen in some divers from inner ear barotrauma which may be attributable to IEDCS.
(10) Divers have found the body of one of two oil workers who were missing after four others were badly burnt by an explosion on a platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
(11) Upon exiting the water, the divers did a series of arithmetic computations.
(12) Those divers with records over a three or four year interval (group 1, n = 224) showed a mean reduction of forced vital capacity (FVC) of 240 ml; those with records over a five or more years interval (group 2, n = 123) showed a reduction of FVC of 400 ml.
(13) Indonesian divers have found the black box flight recorders of the AirAsia plane that crashed in the Java Sea a fortnight ago with 162 people on board, the transport ministry has said.
(14) There is much controversy concerning the significance of bone islands and cystic areas; several authors report bone islands and cystic areas to be up to eight times more frequent in compressed air workers and divers and believe that these represent positive evidence of osteonecrosis.
(15) The results demonstrated that divers are able to discriminate among signals emanating from acoustic sources at various distances underwater and to do so at levels well above chance.
(16) Three male divers were studied for 2 days during each of the predive and postdive 1 ATA air control periods and for 7 days at 2.5 ATA (2.3 ATA N2 and 0.2 ATA O2).
(17) It follows a stunt by Spanish police divers who were photographed showing the flag while inspecting the controversial concrete reef.
(18) The results stress the importance of divers' monitoring during their underwater activity and the necessity of improving their physical training.
(19) Analysis indicates that the visual contrast sensitivity, and therefore probably also acuity, of sport divers is not affected up to depths of 40 m. This holds under ideal as well as poor diving conditions.
(20) However, the incidence of Type II decompression sickness, as a percentage of total decompression sickness, was greater in the second half of the decade than in the first, a trend similar to, although more moderate than, recent experience of dysbaric illness amongst sport divers.
Divert
Definition:
(v. t.) To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course.
(v. t.) To turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to cause to have lively and agreeable sensations; to amuse; to entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor.
(v. i.) To turn aside; to digress.
Example Sentences:
(1) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
(2) Four patients had previously been diverted and the other six were reconstructed because of intractable incontinence or deteriorating renal function.
(3) These results suggest that energy obtained from succinate oxidation can be diverted from phosphorylation to support steroidogenesis.
(4) There is no evidence to support the move to seven-day services, there is no evidence of what is going to happen if we divert our resources away from the week to weekends.
(5) The Saudi-led war in Yemen launched in March – against Houthi rebels who the Saudis insist are backed by Iran – has diverted resources and underlined the priority being given to the Gulf’s unstable and impoverished backyard.
(6) As the historian of neoliberalism Philip Mirowski argues , what the past 30 years have been about is using the powers of the state to divert more resources to the wealthy.
(7) All the money is to be diverted from existing aid money.
(8) As arousal level increases, so does selectivity, and attention is diverted away from irrelevant task components.
(9) These results suggest that diallyl sulfide acts by conjugating the toxic metabolites of cyclophosphamide, thereby limiting their systemic circulation and diverting their route of excretion from the urine.
(10) Arguably the national interest would have been better served if some of that dividend cash had been diverted to research that would produce new technologies, and new jobs, 10 years from now.
(11) But Clarke said he would not be diverted by “kneejerk short-term decisions” and “gimmicks”.
(12) Apple has used the month of January to launch revolutionary products before, in part as a way of diverting attention from its rivals presenting their latest inventions at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which Apple does not attend, and that takes place the same month.
(13) These diverted contributions mean you will receive a smaller state pension.
(14) He learned many of the other crucial skills that were either lacking, or absent: the ability to point, and imitate; the habit of commenting on his surroundings; how to divert his energy away from tantrums into productive activity.
(15) While Goma did not experience the worst of the fighting, the M23 movement diverted government funds away from the provision of basic services and shattered hopes of a lasting peace.
(16) It was demonstrated that an increasing fraction of flow was diverted to the mucosa-submucosa with enhanced total intestinal blood flow.
(17) The government has indicated that funding for the replacement service will come from money diverted from the BBC licence fee, a controversial move strongly resisted by the corporation.
(18) One columnist for the state agency RIA Novosti said the whole scandal was a “tried and tested American method of brain control” to divert attention from allegations of NSA spying.
(19) He took a few touches and then tried to batter a shot past Mignolet at his near post but the Belgian stayed strong and managed to divert it over the bar!
(20) Treatment consisted of celiotomy (52), diverting colostomy (51), presacral drains (35), rectal stump irrigation (26), and primary closure (1).