(a.) Born or living first, or before the others, as a son, daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin. See Elder.
Example Sentences:
(1) By statistical analysis, we showed that the B27 haplotype carried by the eldest member with AS in each family was more likely to be associated with disease.
(2) The eldest patient was 49 years old, but 75% of the patients were younger than 20 years.
(3) He said he had left Rakhine, in Burma, with his eldest son three months ago.
(4) Elisabeth Haukeland’s eldest son and daughter both survived the massacre, and they aren’t going back to Utøya.
(5) In the case of a family with two children where one parent has an income of £54,000, the total amount of child benefit is currently £1,752 a year (£20.30 a week for the eldest child, plus £13.40 a week for the other child).
(6) The analysis of the body mass among the eldest men and women, especially, (60-70 years) shows that those with lower body weight are more capable of working at the age of pension.
(7) Arturo was the eldest of five brothers running the trafficking ring which is thought to control a significant part of the cocaine and heroin smuggled into the US.
(8) Shackling and ‘a full strip search’ On the morning of 21 October 2013, LaTonia Wilson was pulling out of her mechanic’s garage with her husband, Atheris Mann; her eldest son, Jessie Patrick; and their two-year-old son Marquise.
(9) The eldest of three siblings whose father worked for the Inland Revenue, James left school at 16 to work in a tax office herself, and in 1941 married Ernest White, of the Royal Army Medical Corps.
(10) We report the 113th case in the eldest known patient at the time of diagnosis.
(11) Bianca, Ms Rinehart's eldest daughter, said her younger sister Hope Welker "was pretty much at her wit's end" and felt "kicked in the stomach" after the way Hancock treated her.
(12) The eldest was 25 years of age, the youngest was 3 years.
(13) Trump’s eldest daughter, heiress-apparent to her father’s real estate empire, said she had worked with him for more than a decade and seen him hire people from “all walks of life”.
(14) Just because you say something on Twitter, doesn’t make it so.” Trump has previously said that he would leave his business operations to his three eldest children, Donald Jr, Eric and Ivanka, though whether he plans to continue with that idea was not clear from his tweets on Wednesday.
(15) Today he mentors young people who grew up in a similar situation to him, including Mark Duggan’s eldest son, Kamani.
(16) Mandela's eldest granddaughter Ndileka Mandela was among family members who visited him in hospital on Monday.
(17) They seemed to be discussing whether or not we should set off, but the eldest, who operated the boat, gave the go-ahead.
(18) Murdoch, 84, who is currently chairman and CEO of the company, will become executive co-chairman alongside his eldest son Lachlan.
(19) Donald Trump Jr, Trump’s eldest child, has insisted that Trump’s holdings would go into a trust managed by him and his siblings Eric and Ivanka Trump.
(20) It computes the likelihood of a complex pedigree allowing for many non-standard features including multiple alleles (up to four per locus), multiple mates, more than one mating in the eldest generation, consanguinity, missing or partially tested persons, and different recombination fractions between males and females.
Greatest
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
(2) Among the groups investigated, the subjects with gastric tumors presented the greatest values.
(3) Both gp175 and gp250 showed the greatest increase in fucosylation at 10(-5) M, which was also the dose at which RA induced laminin maximally, while the fucosylation of gp400 was greatest at 10(-8) M RA and declined at higher concentrations.
(4) This study concludes that grade is the greatest predictor of survival, with only 37% of grade 3 patients surviving at 5 years.
(5) Digestion is initiated in the gastric region by secretion of acid and pepsin; however, diversity of digestive enzymes is highest in the post-gastric alimentary canal with the greatest proteolytic activity in the spiral valve.
(6) Thallium-201, a radiopharmaceutical that possesses many of the characteristics of potassium analogues, at present is receiving the greatest attention as a regional blood flow indicator.
(7) The greatest advantages of spinal QCT for noninvasive bone mineral measurement lie in the high precision of the technique, the high sensitivity of the vertebral trabecular measurement site, and the potential for widespread application.
(8) The greatest changes were revealed in the mitochondria.
(9) The column eluate with the greatest RAST inhibition activity was associated with a protein peak having a molecular weight greater than 341 kilodaltons; however, all peaks demonstrated inhibitory activity.
(10) The greatest stars who emerged from the early talent shows – Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight, Tony Bennett – were artists with long careers.
(11) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
(12) The procedure includes identifying "critical individuals," i.e., those who would have the greatest impact on the lod scores, should their diagnostic status in fact change.
(13) The sequence of the algal thioredoxin Ch2 has been compared to that of thioredoxins from other sources and has the greatest similarity (67%) with the thioredoxin from Anabaena 7119.
(14) and Isc was greatest in the most distal segment and less in each of the successive more proximal segments.
(15) Guinea pigs exposed to 200 and 400 H. truncatum larvae elicited the greatest change in feeding efficiency during the fourth infestation.
(16) Although each of the adenosine agonists reduced total peripheral resistance, the greatest change was produced by CGS 21680C.
(17) The greatest increase in spontaneous IgG secretion is seen with ulcerative colitis intestinal MNC, due to the secretion of large amounts of IgG subclass 1.
(18) "The role of leader is one of the greatest honours imaginable – but it is not a bauble to aspire for.
(19) Hemeselect was shown to have a higher sensitivity for colorectal carcinoma (94.0% compared with 58.0%), the greatest difference in sensitivity between the two tests being for rectal cancers.
(20) Most cases of typhoid fever in the United States occur in international travelers, with the greatest risk associated with travel to Peru, India, Pakistan, and Chile.