(v. t.) To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other.
(adv.) In addition; also; likewise.
(n.) An addition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those who have escaped form a growing underclass of refugees on the Thai border, where they eke out a meagre living and face deportation at any time.
(2) Branko, a former television repairman who now ekes out a living by farming, leaves the house accompanied by two other men.
(3) As the silt cleared, we found ourselves on a flat plain of yellow-tinged mud, inscribed with pits, burrows and tracks by species that eke out their existence on the detritus that settles from above.
(4) While Klimt was creating modern art there, Hitler was going to the opera to hear Wagner (conducted by the modernist Gustav Mahler), and soon eking a living painting drab topographic scenes.
(5) The trade-off begins to look like a real pain in the ass if one has been here for years and years and is barely eking out a living.
(6) I like the challenges that come with those that thrive in such adverse conditions, and there are plenty: woodland species that make the most of what little sunlight hits the leaf litter; ferns that like dripping cave mouths and cliff faces cast in gloom; and small shrubs that eke out a living under bigger things, such as butcher’s broom ( Ruscus aculeatus ) and fragrant sweet box ( sarcoccoca ).
(7) Even the stronger economies at the eurozone's core have seen growth hit hard by the crisis and the German government was forced to concede on Wednesday that it now expects to eke out GDP growth of only 1% in 2013, not the 1.6% it had forecast.
(8) Better news saw Spain eke out marginal growth of 0.1% while the Italian economy essentially stabilized following extended contraction, although concerns persist about the ability of both countries to develop and sustain genuine recove 10.35am GMT Greece's recession may be easing, but there's no end to its unemployment crisis.
(9) His inquisitors tried to eke out what Cain would have done had he been in the White House but to little avail.
(10) After Ramsey's fancy flick was diverted by Jose Fonte, Wilshere burst on to the ball and eked out a chip so delicate it sailed over Boruc as if in slow motion.
(11) Cech dealt with assurance with Newcastle’s best efforts, which gave Arsenal the platform to eke out a win.
(12) Johariah ekes out a living to support her family by selling salted fish.
(13) He left school at 13 and for the past five years has eked out a living selling pirated books, guides and out-of-date maps to the soldiers and civilians going in and out of Nato's headquarters there.
(14) Khirbet Susiya is home to between 250 and 350 villagers – depending on the season – who live in around 100 structures and eke out an existence largely from subsistence agriculture.
(15) The sight of Chelsea's crestfallen players proved as much, their inability to convert when chances had been eked out in the first period proved critical as the Peruvian Paolo Guerrero, once a Bayern Munich player, registered the only goal midway through the second period.
(16) The study, which covered 100 carers affected by the changes, found local authorities were drawing up tight rationing criteria to eke out local discretionary support funds.
(17) Without copra, outer islanders will be reduced to a subsistence survival, eked from the land, supplemented by fishing and likely made impossible by tidal inundations.
(18) The commission said, however, that it expected Germany, France, Italy and Spain to perform even less well than the UK next year, with the 17-nation eurozone eking out expansion of just 0.1% in 2013.
(19) In a dizzying finale before the recess, House Republicans eked out the votes to pass two bills – neither of which have a realistic chance of becoming law – that aim to address the crisis at the US’s southern border.
(20) Gurgaon could just as well have been called DLF , the name of the company that built the city on a site where 30 years ago peasants eked a living out of the rocky land.
Ese
Definition:
(n.) Ease; pleasure.
Example Sentences:
(1) All the three conditions showed both features of generalized and partial epilepsies, although the former features were more prominent in ESES and the latter in PNSE and ABPE.
(2) Eighty-three percent of those patients who did not have established gangrene when ESES was started, retained their leg after 1 year, and 54% after 3 years.
(3) Epidural spinal electrical stimulation (ESES) has been valuable in the control of pain arising from peripheral vascular disease.
(4) Se concentrations in whole blood were more than doubled in both lambs and ewes drenched or injected; responses to ESe salt and pellets were much smaller.
(5) No evidence of tolerance to ESE was found over a 5-month period of treatment.
(6) The trick here is to look very carefully at the UN-ese language being used.
(7) The dependence of the ese rate on ionic strength is small.
(8) Since 1978 we have used ESES in 34 patients with severe limb ischemia; all had resting pain and most had ischemic ulcers.
(9) ESES healed ulcers in 50% of those with preoperative nonhealing skin ulcerations.
(10) These observations argue for the protein A binding of plasmatic factor(s) involved in idiopathic, nephrotic syndrome and allow us to progress to the characterization of this(ese) factor(s).
(11) One group was tested in the natural local geomagnetic field, the other group in a field pointing to 120 degrees ESE; birds from both groups were additionally tested in a magnetic field the horizontal component of which was compensated.
(12) The current information on ESES is critiqued in this review.
(13) The overall function, pain, and mood disturbance of 54 patients with benign chronic pain were studied as to their response to epidural spinal electrical stimulation (ESES) more than 12 months after the implantation of ESES electrodes.
(14) These results suggest that ESES often provides pain relief and improves skin healing in patients with impending arteriosclerotic or diabetic gangrene in whom vascular surgery is impossible or has failed.
(15) We describe the case of a six-year-old girl, whose EEG presented the typical ESES picture, and who in the span of one year developed a complete sensory aphasia, followed by motor aphasia.
(16) To clarify the clinical significance and pathophysiology of the nonconvulsive status epilepticus with continuous diffuse spike-waves during slow-wave sleep (CSWS) in EEG, this study was carried out on seven cases each of epilepsies with electrical status epilepticus during slow sleep (ESES) and with peculiar type of nonconvulsive status epilepticus in childhood (PNSE) and four cases of atypical benign partial epilepsy (ABPE).
(17) The use of modified electrosyneresis by making 760 sera of healthy persons or persons suffering from various diseases with immune complexes to react with their own pronase-treated serum has shown the following results: - One of 220 sera of healthy persons, 11 were positive in ESE (5%); - Out of 123 sera of HBsAg carriers, 23 were positive (18.6%); - Out of 135 sera of patients with acute viral type B hepatitis, 132 were positive (97.7%); - Out of 168 sera of patients with acute HBsAg negative hepatitis, 127 were positive (75.5%); - 4 cases of fulminant hepatitis were all strongly positive; - 54 cases of patients with rheumatoid arthritis were 100% positive; - 2 cases of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus were positive; - Out of 6 patients with glomerulonephritis 3 were positive; - Out of 34 patients with carcinoma of various organs, 19 were positive (55.88%).
(18) ESES has been used in our metabolic and surgical department as a way to ameliorate inadequate blood supply in patients suffering from diabetic foot (seven patients), painful chronic arterial narrowing, or inoperable occlusions (25 patients).
(19) ESE enzyme was 6-fold more active than the S isoenzyme on neutral steroids, due to substitutions not in the substrate binding pocket.
(20) Epidural spinal cord electrical stimulation (ESES) was performed on 10 patients with severe limb ischemia due to atherosclerotic disease.