(v. i.) To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition; to b e undetermined.
(v. i.) To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive.
(v. t.) To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it.
(v. t.) To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive of.
(v. t.) To fill with fear; to affright.
(v. i.) A fluctuation of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event, or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation.
(v. i.) Uncertainty of condition.
(v. i.) Suspicion; fear; apprehension; dread.
(v. i.) Difficulty expressed or urged for solution; point unsettled; objection.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a further study 1082 patients with a negative or doubtful result of the physical examination were investigated using ultrasound.
(2) p-Chlorophenylalanine (PCPA) also reduced the response to levodopa but the usefulness of PCPA as an inhibitor of 5HT synthesis in these experiments in doubtful since it also inhibited the hypoglycaemic effects of 5HTP and i.c.v.
(3) There is no doubt that new techniques in molecular biology will continue to evolve so that the goal of gene therapy for many disorders may be possible in the future.
(4) I never had any doubt that the vast majority of people engaged in "business" are not the exploiters but the exploited.
(5) There is no doubt that psychological, reactive and environmental factors do play a certain role too.
(6) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(7) Without that, and without undertaking big changes, the service's future may fall into doubt, he says.
(8) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.
(9) Doubts about Hinkley Point have deepened after a detailed report by HSBC’s energy analysts described eight key challenges to the project, which will be built by the state-backed French firm EDF and be part-financed by investment from China .
(10) The mean age of gravidae with doubtful smears is about 6 years beyond the mean age of gravidae with positive smears.
(11) I have no doubt that both the Conservative and Labour parties will maintain throughout the course of the election campaign their determination to build four submarines and 160 warheads,” he says.
(12) There is little doubt that when it opens next Thursday, One New Change will be jam-packed with City workers and tourists.
(13) We feel that they, as presented, leave serious doubt as to the validity of their conclusions.
(14) Contact guidance has been suggested to direct NC cells ventrally in the trunk, but this has been subject to doubt (see Newgreen and Erickson, 1986, Int.
(15) Although “there are serious questions and doubts in our minds over the government’s seven-day working agenda … it isn’t clear what this strike action is for and what the position of the BMA is now,” he told the Guardian.
(16) There is no doubt that people were killed quite deliberately by police officers.
(17) Other critics, even if they were unsure of the lasting relevance, were willing to give Tillmans the benefit of the doubt.
(18) We interpret this exaggerated positive attitude as an attempt to overcome inner fears, doubts and ambivalences.
(19) Another forward, Manchester United's Danny Welbeck, is a major doubt for the game with a knee complaint.
(20) Coghlin said: “There is no doubt that, as a consequence of the personalities involved, these proceedings attracted a very considerable degree of media publicity both before and, to a certain degree, subsequent to the trial.
Sag
Definition:
(v. i.) To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges.
(v. i.) Fig.: To lose firmness or elasticity; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.
(v. i.) To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
(v. t.) To cause to bend or give way; to load.
(n.) State of sinking or bending; sagging.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the posterior capsule was sectioned, no significant changes were noted in the severity of the sag or the rotation.
(2) Axonal regeneration with the ANG was equal to SAGs as measured by axonal diameters, physiological, and functional methods, although the SAG demonstrated statistically higher axonal counts.
(3) Yards away from a genuine station, he used a huge funnel to fill up a car sagging under the weight of its occupants and market produce.
(4) Guanacline, but not guanethidine or SAG, produced fluorescent lipopigment in all species examined.
(5) For cross-linked alpha alpha, however, the curve sags at temperatures somewhat below the region of principal cooperative loss of helix, the latter occurring at higher temperature but with the same steepness as in the non-cross-linked case.
(6) Myosin ATPase staining showed that about 80% of the LGM consists of type II A fibres, whilst the remainder are type II B. Physiological determination of the contractile properties of motor units indicated two classes of units: those that were relatively fatigue resistant and did not show a sag property (like fast-twitch, fatigue-resistant fibres or FR) and those that were relatively fatigable and did show a sag property (like fast-twitch, fatigable fibres or FF).
(7) The time-dependent sag elicited by hyperpolarization was reduced when Na+ or K+ was removed from the normal bath solution but was abolished with the removal of both Na+ and K+.
(8) In his bid to revitalise Spain's sagging monarchy, Felipe VI must be willing to show that he will handle things differently to his father, said Urreiztieta.
(9) By lacking possibilities of the comparison of equivalent (produced under the same preparation and storage conditions) concentrates of erythrocytes the higher transfusion efficiency of the SAG-S concentrates of erythrocytes to be expected could not be verified.
(10) This domed white building is now a magnet for national expectations, and many wonder whether it will sag under the weight of so much anticipation.
(11) Superantigens (SAg) interact with T lymphocytes bearing particular V beta sequences as part of their T cell receptor (TcR).
(12) Both produce substantial labeling of PC but [14C]SMG gives rise to the highest proportion of TG and the lowest of PA and PI, whereas [14C]SAG yields the opposite pattern.
(13) There is nowhere to go except further into an area of the city 750 metres wide by 500 metres deep that runs along the coast from the television station – with its pair of wrecked and punctured dishes – to the edge of District Two, overlooked by the pavilion and its sagging roof.
(14) As the temperature of the tarts increases a race will start between the sag of melting fat and the drying of the structure-forming gluten network.
(15) Several species were treated chronically with varying doses of guanethidine, guanacline or SAG; the superior cervical ganglia were examined light microscopically for neuronal destruction and for osmiophilic fluorescent lipopigment accumulation.
(16) An important exception concerned SE to which an equal antibody response is produced in high and low lines of sAg selection.
(17) Cheerful and eager to be helpful, he arrives to collect me the following morning, dressed in sagging brown corduroy jacket, faded blue T-shirt, blue silk cravat and socks beneath his Velcro-strapped sandals.
(18) A statistically significant improvement was observed, on the SAG score obtained during the follow-up, in patients (n = 16) who were not admitted to hospital in the 12 month period following discharge.
(19) Jannetta has summarized this concept as follows: "As we age, our arteries elongate and our brains 'sag'.
(20) The observation that ingrowth of SAG neurites to presumptive sensory areas of the inner ear preceded cytodifferentiation of those receptor cells suggested a causal relationship.