(n.) Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nango's dwellings are built on skis so can be pulled around the beach, and have a glass roof to view the northern lights.
(2) Further, they dwell on the management of these infections and illustrate the properties, toxic effects and other side effects of the antibiotics commonly used in therapy and for the prevention of complications.
(3) Current income, highest income, occupation, type of dwelling, years of education, and crowding did not enter the stepwise regression model at alpha = .10.
(4) A policy of selective antibiotic prophylaxis is justified and in high risk patients with in-dwelling catheters single dose prophylaxis is highly effective.
(5) The dwell-time histogram in each substate was well fitted with a single-exponential function.
(6) The frequency of mites in dust from farmers' homes was three times higher and that of pyroglyphids ten times higher than in other dwellings.
(7) The typical synanthropic species Glycyphagus domesticus is totally absent from dwellings but occurs in 90% of honey-bee hives.
(8) Absence of a functioning velocity storage network in bottom-dwelling teleosts (as in Amphibia) may be related to the sporadic, slow locomotion of these species and the resulting small requirements for continuous gaze stabilization during self-motion at higher velocities.
(9) The sample comprised 101 community-dwelling older adults aged 57 to 87.
(10) Republicans were under pressure not to dwell on Clinton’s use of a private email server as too zealous an attack could come off as partisan.
(11) Approximately 1,056 dwellings were located in the Oberon Shire by the interviewers; household interviews were obtained from 789 of them.
(12) A significant seasonal variation of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels was noted in elderly community-dwelling subjects.
(13) After displaying the results concerning arrhythmias of 24 hr Holter electrocardiograms recorded in 207 randomized patients who had undergone valvular replacement 15 days before, the authors dwell upon the use of Holter electrocardiography in 82 valvular patients after pharmacological cardioversion and show that major arrhythmias get a clear reduction thanks to rehabilitation.
(14) Bucknall, 53, is reluctant to dwell on mistakes that have been made, but admits "it would be odd if after 10 years, we hadn't learned a lot".
(15) Second-order factor analyses yielded two comparable sets of three second-order factors: Social Activities and Self-Care Ability, whereas the third factor connected high welfare with age-segregated dwelling (and low welfare with age-integration).
(16) The number of years spend in dwellings without central heating was significantly inversely associated with the level of FEV1 and MMEF, and significantly directly associated with closing capacity in per cent of TLC, CC%.
(17) A greater loss of proteins overnight was due to longer dwell time as the mean rate of loss was similar for all exchanges.
(18) Additional studies are highly desirable to confirm or refute these findings, which, if valid, mean increasing lung cancer hazards caused by a decrease in ventilation in future energy saving unless special measures are undertaken to reduce radon daughters in dwellings.
(19) We investigated whether day to day changes in the transport characteristics of the peritoneal membrane to macromolecules in patients treated with CAPD, were related to the levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) in the effluent of an overnight dwell.
(20) Using the assumption that prolonged dwell time indicates intensive processing of visual data, a model was developed for nodule detection that includes four steps: orientation, scanning, pattern recognition and decision-making.
Wane
Definition:
(v. i.) To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.
(v. i.) To decline; to fail; to sink.
(v. t.) To cause to decrease.
(n.) The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.
(1) These were not observed in area 5, although here the distribution of callosal neurons waxed and waned in the tangential cortical plane.
(2) Follow-up results from 10 controlled trials are consistent with waning of BCG protective efficacy with time since vaccination.
(3) Pharmacists are criticized for a failing sense of mission and a waning dependence on knowledge.
(4) The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic shows no sign of waning.
(5) Ferguson’s influence at Old Trafford has clearly waned since the Moyes appointment but, notably, there is no admission on his part that he chose the wrong man, insisting that the club followed a rigorous and methodical selection process.
(6) The wane in US power over the country it invaded eight years ago, coupled with a return to political prominence for Sadrists, seems to have been enough to lure Sadr back to Najaf, which he fled in 2004 after it was surrounded by US troops.
(7) Pretreatment with cyclophosphamide caused a delay in the development and waning of reactivity.
(8) Since then of course his popularity has waned, his net satisfaction rating is now negative.” The latest Newspoll has Labor ahead by two percentage points in two-party preferred terms (49% to 51%).
(9) It is suggested that the response of prenatally stimulated animals had waned before birth.
(10) After rising employment has failed to lift output as far as hoped, this reflects waning hopes about the potential of the UK economy once restored to full pelt.
(11) IL-2 production in soluble egg Ag-stimulated spleen cells of mice was detectable at 6, peaked at 8 and waned by 20 wk of the infection.
(12) High concentrations of cobratoxin depressed indirect twitches and endplate potentials (e.p.ps) without inducing waning of contractilities or run-down of trains of e.p.ps evoked at 10-100 Hz.
(13) The level of antigranulocyte antibody in the serum often begins to wane prior to improvement in the ANC and can give an indication of when recovery will begin to occur.
(14) We have already seen in this World Cup that European powers are on the wane.
(15) The effect began to appear in about 20 min after administration, the peak effect was attained in 120 min and later on this waned off completely by 24 h. The effect was similar in young (15 days) and in adult (70 days) rats.
(16) It is provisionally suggested that enhancement of the perseveration represents an innate response to stressful stimuli, but as animals learn mastery over the response contingencies, the persistence in adopting such a response strategy wanes.
(17) The placebo effect gradually waned, but the response to the active combination was maintained for the duration of the study.
(18) Other evidence is provided by the waning and waxing of gastritis, which has been correlated in several studies with clearance followed by recrudescence of the organisms.
(19) Yet Spurs' interest in Van Gaal has not waned even in light of Sherwood's impressive impact in his first senior management role.
(20) There have been suggestions in recent weeks that the US support for the Syrian non-extremist opposition is waning, and the US has reluctantly concluded that unwavering Russian support for Assad means the only way to oust Isis is by making cause with Russia and Assad.