(a.) Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of injected bovine insulin and glucose were assessed using an ethopharmacological methodology applied to social encounters by isolated male Swiss mice with docile anosmic opponents.
(2) Sure, she has large fangs tucked into her soft underside, but she’s docile and exotic.
(3) offense in subjects paired with docile anosmic opponents.
(4) The sufficient force and length of this transfer, associated with its direct course by redirection through the interosseous membrane make it a docile, reliable motor unit as shown by the 16 cases studied.
(5) The animal is docile and easy to care for; it has an ideal heart size, a high cardiac output and a long life expectancy.
(6) An upper bound is imposed on altruism by the condition that there must remain a net fitness advantage for docile behavior after the cost to the individual of altruism has been deducted.
(7) I wasn’t there for riding lessons and the instructions I was given were limited to how to start, aim and stop the docile beast.
(8) A docile substrain of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) causes a persistent infection in adult C3HeB mice and induces a severe anemia, which, unlike the viremia, eventually resolves.
(9) Severity and duration of immunosuppressiveness depended upon the LCMV isolate and the mouse strain used: LCMV-WE and LCMV-Docile were most, whereas LCMV-Armstrong was in general least immunosuppressive.
(10) You’ve goaded this sleeping giant, the ordinary licence fee payer’s docile spirit animal, into expressing an opinion on something more controversial than Judy Murray’s Viennese Waltz?
(11) We have previously shown that major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I genes regulate susceptibility to lethal disease due to infection with the LCMV-docile isolate derived from the LCMV-UBC strain.
(12) The other virus, termed docile, killed few mice after the standard intracerebral inoculation, and could persist in the mice for 6 mo or more.
(13) He secured the appointment of a docile prime minister, Abu Mazin, who he hoped was ready to do what Arafat was not - go to war against the Islamic militants without any assurance that in return the Israelis would make any worthwhile concessions in the peace-making.
(14) A multiple analysis of variance for repeated measures with the factors SEX, SES, and TIME yielded two interactions for "rebellious-distrustful (FG by sex x health) and "self effacing-masochistic" (HI by time x health) and three main-effects for "agressive-sadistic" (DE by sex), "self-effacing-masochistic" (HI by SES) and "docile-dependent" (IK by time).
(15) Because docility-receptivity to social influence-contributes greatly to fitness in the human species, it will be positively selected.
(16) How did Britain turn so docile, so passive, so obedient?
(17) The promoters have long since cottoned on to the commercial potential of protest music; you’d have to be very determined and energetic to make yourself authentic and visible without them.” The decline of radical politics in the 1990s alongside the rise of New Labour undoubtedly contributed to folk music’s new docility, the genre offering little in the years when the Occupy movement and anti-Iraq war demonstrators have taken to the streets in protest.
(18) After 3 wk, a group of the five highest ranking cows from each lot were combined into a new aggressive lot; two groups of subordinate cows formed a docile lot.
(19) Resistance to the acute lethal disease caused by the docile strain of lymphocytic choriomeningitis (LCM) virus varies widely between different mouse strains.
(20) "We have had the classic docile, obedient, feminine look and we are all sick to the back teeth of it."
Malleable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.
Example Sentences:
(1) The wire consists of a flexible, 49-strand, stainless steel cable connected on one end to a short, malleable, blunt leader with the opposite end connected to a small islet.
(2) Larson said misconceptions about Tubman had flourished in part because she was a “malleable icon”.
(3) The use of a malleable curved disposable suction cautery for the control of any persistent bleeding at the conclusion of adenoidectomy in over 1000 cases has prevented any primary postoperative hemorrhages from the nasopharynx, and obviated the need for post-nasal packing.
(4) These results indicate that the Nh genome is extremely malleable and large portions may be non-essential for growth in culture.
(5) Collectively, these findings indicate that the malleability of learned behavior is not simply a function of initial associative strength but is dependent on path during initial acquisition.
(6) In an attempt to minimize operating time and donor-site morbidity--as well as obtain a more malleable graft--we used liposuction to obtain our fat grafts for sinus obliteration.
(7) British law on photographing people in public places is still quite malleable.
(8) These changes in laminar distribution resemble the laminar specific decay of neuronal malleability and parallel the developmental redistribution of 1,4-Dihydropyridine-sensitive Ca channels.
(9) The plates show considerable advantages over existing small plate systems in their size, malleability and consequent ease of handling.
(10) These modifications include decreased width and thickness of the metal skeleton for easier application and increased malleability, respectively.
(11) These deformities can usually be corrected by appropriate splinting in the neonatal period, a time when estrogen activity is increased and the ear is very malleable.
(12) I look forward to what the least biblical of biblical films will do with this most malleable of texts.
(13) The goal of this study was to determine whether the use-dependent malleability of visual cortex functions which is particularly pronounced in 4-week-old kittens correlates with enhanced susceptibility to kindling.
(14) In order to verify these effects, the authors devised a multi-electrode, malleable plaque (63 electrode sites) that could be secured at the AV junction during venous occlusion in the open-chest, anesthetized dog.
(15) The pelvic-reconstruction plate is malleable and is more easily contoured in the operating room than a dynamic-compression plate.
(16) The facts do not support this assertion, and I will show, using examples from among the arthropods, that appropriate experiments often reveal competition, feedback, and prolonged periods of malleability much as they do for the vertebrates.
(17) Furthermore, they suggest as a possible reason for the decline of malleability towards the end of the critical period the reduction of NMDA receptors.
(18) The government’s desire for a more malleable Senate – one of its key reasons for calling a double dissolution – has backfired badly, with a similarly-sized, and likely equally recalcitrant, crossbench set to take seats on the red benches.
(19) It would seem important to further examine malleable and critical periods of development in a broader array of developmental contexts and species to determine whether malleable periods for atypical or abnormal development and critical periods for species-typical or normal development always coincide.
(20) The low incidence of sepsis is attributed to the use of the curved malleable Hodgkinson tibial nail which requires no reaming, renders the operation less difficult and traumatic, and interferes minimally with bone vascularity.