(v. t.) To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
(v. t.) To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.
(v. t.) To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
(v. t.) To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion.
(v. t.) To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has been conformed that catalase from bovine liver eliminates only the pro R hydrogen atom from ethanol.
(2) Surprisingly, the clonal elimination of V beta 6+ cells is preceded by marked expansion of these cells.
(3) However, decapitation did not eliminate the sex difference in the tissue content of P4 during control incubations.
(4) 1 The effects of chronic ethanol intake on the elimination kinetics of antipyrine were determined in nineteen male alcoholic subjects with comparison made to fourteen male volunteers.
(5) In the cannulated group, significant decreases (P less than 0.05) in the area under the elimination curve (AUC), the volume of distribution at steady-state (Vdss) and the mean residence time (MRT) were observed.
(6) Excessive lip protrusion was eliminated, and arch leveled.
(7) Attempts to eliminate congenital dislocation of the hip by detecting it early have not been completely successful.
(8) Previous studies in this laboratory with particulate Mn3O4 have shown that preweanling rats have substantially higher tissue Mn concentrations than similarly treated adults, indicating possible differences in uptake or elimination or both.
(9) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
(10) The patoc antigens types reacted with the control group in 7.24, 86.95 and 84.05% of the samples, and consequently were eliminated from the present study.
(11) Propofol is ideal for short periods of care on the ICU, and during weaning when longer acting agents are being eliminated.
(12) The process of integrating the two banks is expected to take three years, with predictions that up to 25,000 roles could eventually be eliminated.
(13) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
(14) The elimination half-life of most beta-agonists is relatively short, and pharmacokinetics are independent of dose and duration of treatment.
(15) Removal of T cells with anti-T-cell serum eliminated LIF activity, indicating that in humans it is probably the T cell that produces LIF.
(16) (The scintillation medium is preheated with ethanolamine to eliminate chemiluminescence.)
(17) Utilizing a range of operative Michaelis-Menten parameters that characterize phenytoin elimination via a single capacity-limited pathway, a situation assuming instantaneous absorption (case I) is compared with the situation in which continuous constant-rate absorption occurs (case II).
(18) "As part of this de-leveraging process, the group will also focus on eliminating any loss-making businesses."
(19) The duration of action correlated with the elimination half-life of the drug (r = 0.87; P less than 0.003) and area under the plasma concentration curve (r = 0.72; P less than 0.03).
(20) When power-transformed scores are used to eliminate skewness, there is evidence for one distribution and it is not possible to distinguish single gene from multifactorial (polygenic or cultural) inheritance.
Extinguish
Definition:
(v. t.) To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right.
(v. t.) To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some 10 fire engines remained on the scene after rushing there to extinguish the many blazes caused by the crash.
(2) Perhaps strangely, it was the second remark that troubled me more than the possibility that humanity would be extinguished by my hand.
(3) A specific interaction of conformationally intact rhinovirus with peripheral blood mononuclear leukocytes was required for induction of the response, since the response was extinguished at reduced quantities of infectious rhinovirus, and acid inactivated rhinovirus did not augment cellular cytotoxicity.
(4) When tone presentations were continued, without further pairing with morphine, the hyperthermic response to the tone was gradually extinguished.
(5) Leukocyte suspensions from the infected agammaglobulinemic patient extinguished detectable infectious virus in vitro.
(6) Transcription of MyoD itself is extinguished in butyrate-treated myoblasts and myotubes, an effect that may be due to the inability of MyoD to autoactivate its own transcription.
(7) Fasting for 24 h extinguished the greatest part of this response.
(8) Abbado sees this as meaning that music is both destroyed and redeemed by its temporality: it exists and is extinguished in a moment, but has the endless possibility of being created anew in time.
(9) A case history is presented in which progressive muscle relaxation, diaphragmatic breathing, and flooding were used to extinguish and countercondition a writing phobia in a junior-year occupational therapy student.
(10) When, in stoppage time, the 33-year-old striker swept a first-time shot home any lingering Villa optimism was extinguished.
(11) Rats implanted with placebo pellets and given access to morphine reestablished lever pressing, while those given access to isotonic saline extinguished their lever pressing.
(12) A relationship seems to exist between the tumor load and the immune status, which reverts to a normal pattern when the former is extinguished.
(13) Furthermore, TSE1-repressed genes were hormone inducible, whereas fully extinguished genes were not.
(14) But then a mismanaged clean-up in an underground garbage dump ignited a seam of anthracite eight miles long that proved impossible to extinguish.
(15) The fire extinguisher was thrown after protesters swarmed into Millbank Tower, the Westminster building that houses the Conservative party's headquarters.
(16) Functional smoke detectors and fire extinguishers were present in 75% and 27% of homes, respectively.
(17) This level of flash did not extinguish the response to the stimulus.
(18) In London a candlelit vigil – which the government hopes will be emulated in churches, by other faiths and by families across the land – will be held at Westminster Abbey, ending with the last candle being extinguished at 11pm, the moment war was declared.
(19) We review five specific techniques for the production of these antibodies (Abs): (a) So-called "shotgun," non-selective approach; (b) cascade procedure; (c) lymphocyte "panning"; (d) cyclophosphamide elimination of unwanted Ab producers; and finally (e) use of polyclonal antisera to extinguish unwanted antibody production.
(20) All peaks of the pyr-MEP were extinguished in the animals subjected to impact forces of 50 g-cm and above (n = 12).