(a.) No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile.
Example Sentences:
(1) To determine the site of action of rilmenidine, we examined its effets on arterial blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR) and postganglionic renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) after intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.)
(2) The complete breakdown of organelles in the follicular regions contrastred with the retention of effete nuclei in the scales.
(3) These studies coupled with previous observations in patients following surgery or after severe multiple trauma suggest that reticuloendothelial depression during and after operation mediated by opsonic deficiency may lead to a precarious imbalance between systemic host defense and the dissemination of blood-borne foreign and effete particulate matter such as injured platelets, fibrin microaggregates and immune complexes.
(4) It is postulated that this thread forms because of the excessively exophthalmic conformation of the breed, which prevents the normal access of effete mucus and entrapped debris to the lower conjunctival fornix.
(5) Macrophages ingest foreign materials, effete and damaged tissues, and bacterial products.
(6) Electron microscopy revealed two groups of melanocytes, an effete group and another group with a highly dendritic appearance.
(7) It has been observed that when neurons are acutely damaged by toxic chemicals leading to accumulations of effete materials, glial supporting cells insert cytoplasmic processes into neuronal cytoplasm and appear to transfer this material into themselves.
(8) The image of him being effete was already out there.
(9) One of these methods, which uses biotinylated rabbit erythrocytes, has been used to examine the state of membrane proteins in effete cells.
(10) Tory pundits jeered that the pretty boy, the effete “Dauphin” of Canadian politics, was about to get his famous hair badly mussed.
(11) Plasma fibronectin augments the clearance of blood-borne foreign and effete complexes by mononuclear phagocytes.
(12) The decrease in necrotic cells may be due to a large number of elderly and effete cells, which would normally have undergone degeneration over a period of weeks, dying rapidly after the onset of hypoxia, thus temporarily reducing the daily cell death rate.
(13) After all, it’s probably not hard to turn a neo-Nazi into a potential Republican voter by telling him that a corporatized, authoritarian, nationalistic, militaristic party is the only thing standing between him and effete, war-losing, left-wing elites who are trying to destroy the homeland via a fifth-column of non-native minorities, college professors, “homosexuals” and other cultural degenerates.
(14) Now led by Mance Rayder (Ciaran Hinds), the self-styled King-Beyond-the Wall, the Free People look poised to descend on the sissy south in season three, in a campaign perhaps modelled on Bonnie Prince Charlie's raids into the heartland of the effete sassenachs of yore, or the Vikings marching on Stamford Bridge.
(15) For example, they may ingest effete leptomeningeal cells or fragments of them.
(16) The mechanisms for the recognition of the effete red cell in the aged host and the nature of the membrane alterations that bring about the premature sequestration are not fully understood.
(17) The mechanisms by which mononuclear phagocytes discriminate between self and nonself, recognize foreign materials, senescent, damaged, old, or effete cells, and tumor cells are unknown.
(18) They do not represent effete melanocytes, but they originate from the mesenchym.
(19) This in turn probably depends on the rapid appearance of gross chromosomal defects, the effete cells being eliminated by their incorporation into multinucleate giant cells which then form non-viable polyploid cells.
(20) The circular Torqheel was found to be more effetive, but still corrected only a quarter of the apparent rotatory deformity during gait.
Elite
Definition:
(n.) A choice or select body; the flower; as, the elite of society.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
(2) Independent experts warn that rumours and deliberate misinformation about the regime are rife, partly because it is impossible to verify or disprove most stories about the tightly controlled country's elite.
(3) The answer comes down to Chalabi's considerable skill in elite manoeuvring.
(4) The power of the landed elite is often cited as a major structural flaw in Pakistani politics – an imbalance that hinders education, social equality and good governance (there is no agricultural tax in Pakistan).
(5) In a Europe (including Britain) where austerity has become the economic dogma of the elite in spite of massive evidence that it is choking growth and worsening the very sickness it claims to heal, there are plenty of rational, sensible arguments for taking to the streets.
(6) Shavit’s new book, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel , has received plaudits from the cream of the liberal, American, political elite.
(7) Resentment towards the political elite, the widening gap between the immensely rich and the poor, the deteriorating social security system, the collapse in oil prices and what Forbes has called "a stampede" of investors out of Russia – an outflow of $42bn in the first four months of 2012 – means the economy is flagging.
(8) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
(9) Spouses, elite elderly, and young subjects did not differ in their ability to recognize correctly recently heard stimuli or to complete word stems.
(10) The euro elite insists it is representing the interests of Portuguese or Irish taxpayers who have to pick up the bill for bailing out the feckless Greeks – or will be enraged by any debt forgiveness when they have been forced to swallow similar medicine.
(11) On Friday, at the modest five-storey block of flats in the Quartier des Abattoirs where he had lived and which was raided by officers from the elite RAID unit at 9.30am,neighbours described him as a quiet and “not very religious” man.
(12) The Hashd al-Shaabi, a conglomerate of primarily Shia militias that has played a key role in ousting Isis from cities such as Tikrit, appeared to take a backseat in the liberation of Ramadi, ceding the task primarily to the Iraqi elite counter-terrorism force, local police, the Iraqi army and a small group of Sunni tribesmen, backed by US-led airstrikes.
(13) If Davos is a closed shop for the wealthy and powerful elites who caused today’s global inequality, it won’t come up with the answers needed for a more fair and prosperous future for all the world’s workers and their families.
(14) He told the Mail Online it was “like the Labour party has been hijacked by the north London liberal elite and it’s comments like that which reinforce that view”.
(15) These observations highlight ignorance about basic infant feeding practices in the educated elite section of our country.
(16) The hypothesis is presented that the elite athlete may be at greater risk of death than the general population from lactic acidosis produced as a result of cocaine-induced seizures.
(17) This is particularly true as many countries have a large rich urban elite as well as a much larger poor rural population.
(18) Another candidate is a 166m cylindrical tower that was constructed in the 1970s in Zamalek, Cairo’s elite island, but has remained empty since.
(19) How can this generously dubbed "elite" guarantee the future of the nation?
(20) Critics have warned that the boom is benefiting only a narrow elite while leaving the poor and jobless behind, exacerbating inequality and potentially sowing seeds of unrest.