(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."
Teachable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being taught; apt to learn; also, willing to receive instruction; docile.
Example Sentences:
(1) The teachable moment is the time when a learner is ready to accept new information for use conceptually or in practice.
(2) AQA's apologists, staggering out of the committee rooms in which these bizarre choices have been hatched, will no doubt contest that one criterion for their selection is that the works should be eminently "teachable" i.e.
(3) Nevertheless, the mixture of knowledge, skills, and attitudes are collectively unique as applied by the family physician, and are teachable, learnable, and subject to critical inquiry and research.
(4) Young people have valuable soft skills making them a teachable fit for many of the technical skills required in each job," said Mark Cahill, Manpower UK's managing director.
(5) The subject-matter has to be fragmented in order to be teachable, but somebody has to put the whole person together again.
(6) Composed of teachable components, transformational factors are similar to leadership qualities described in magnet hospitals, offering positive implications for nursing administration and professional nursing practice.
(7) These parallel conditions provide opportunities for both organizations to work closely together to identify successful models to serve the "teachable moments" of all health care practitioners.
(8) The purpose of this approach is to provide a parsimonious means of organizing and verifying clinical information, thus making the assessment process both manageable and teachable.
(9) This technique represents a reliable, rapid, and readily teachable method for the surgical management of tricuspid insufficiency.
(10) It is important to teach when a "teachable" moment has arrived.
(11) A child's visit to a physician for these illnesses represents a "teachable moment" to screen for household smokers and to counsel parents regarding the health effects of passive smoking.
(12) Given recent studies identifying environmental tobacco smoke as a risk factor for children by being associated with an increase in the incidence and severity of respiratory tract and ear infections, family physicians should be routinely screening parents, especially during visits that provide teachable moments for counseling and intervention.
(13) It then presents a teachable developmental theory weaved from threads of numerous known theories, and describes a process whereby "interminable" foster experience was used therapeutically for a group of handicapped homeless children.
(14) Suggestions for survival for continuing educators and librarians in "stalking the teachable moment" are discussed.
(15) Twelve practice principles for the primary physician are discussed, touching on such issues as style of communication, recognition of the "teachable moment," utilization of the longitudinality of the physician-patient relationship, coordination of care, and causes of failure.
(16) CDC director Tom Frieden said in a conference call with reporters on Thursday that this is a “teachable moment” for US hospitals.
(17) Some people have a natural strength with them but they’re teachable and we’re not doing that.
(18) Mother Nature provides an almost endless series now of teachable moments.
(19) Analysis of results showed easy and reproducible teachability, a high degree of acceptance by dentists and examinees, accuracy, and low cost.
(20) "Teachable" moments can occur at any time during hospitalization.