(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.
Whittle
Definition:
(n.) A grayish, coarse double blanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of England, over the shoulders, like a cloak or shawl.
(n.) Same as Whittle shawl, below.
(n.) A knife; esp., a pocket, sheath, or clasp knife.
(v. t.) To pare or cut off the surface of with a small knife; to cut or shape, as a piece of wood held in the hand, with a clasp knife or pocketknife.
(v. t.) To edge; to sharpen; to render eager or excited; esp., to excite with liquor; to inebriate.
(v. i.) To cut or shape a piece of wood with am small knife; to cut up a piece of wood with a knife.
Example Sentences:
(1) First, the main barriers to trade between the US and the EU are not traditional tariff barriers, which have been steadily whittled away in the decades since the second world war, but the differing regulatory regimes that operate on either side of the Atlantic.
(2) But playing with the filters means you can whittle the selection down by location and availability – handy, given there are several thousand dogs on offer in London alone.
(3) Photograph: Joe Whittle for the Guardian “It was needed,” says Phillip.
(4) The most onerous challenge for the Football Association in its search for a new England manager may no longer be whittling down a list of impressive coaches, but convincing the successful candidate that they will still have a career of note when it all falls apart.
(5) That number will be whittled down to 50 to 100 for each of 300 geographic regions identified by the company.
(6) With a commissioning strategy like this, the competitive pool is whittled down until there are only four companies in it: Serco, G4S, A4e and Capita.
(7) It started in the 1980s with constant attacks by a succession of Conservative ministers on "the permissive society" of the 1960s – the decade, its pop culture and all its associated freedoms – and has continued since then with a consistent whittling away of youth rights and privileges.
(8) How will the promised community-based system of healthcare survive, when this infrastructure of support is whittled away?
(9) For now, she said, they were concentrating on whittling down a cast of well over 300 people who had applied in the past week to run to be among the 30 Respect councillors the party will field in the local elections on 3 May.
(10) I hope more police officers will come and stand with us.” My own brother Larry Whittle, a Marine Corps veteran of the Gulf war and enrolled member of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma, also decided to show solidarity at Standing Rock.
(11) The subsequent rounds are due to follow on Thursday and the following Tuesday, by which point the parliamentary party should have whittled the choice down to the two candidates, though that could come earlier if one or more drops out early.
(12) The judges whittled down the 152 entries to six in an amicable fashion, Macfarlane said.
(13) Noel Gallagher is apparently “whittling down” more than 50 songs for a “seismic” new album, according to one of his long-time collaborators.
(14) Inside, there were articles entitled “Confused on currency?” and a centre spread giving readers “10 reasons why staying in the UK gives Scots the best of both world.” The back page was devoted to ‘sport’ with articles quoting both Sir Alex Ferguson and sprinter Brian Whittle voicing support for Scotland remaining part of the UK.
(15) He will be trying again.” Leadsom is seen as more likely than Gove to compete with home secretary May once the list of five has been whittled down to a final two.
(16) Photograph: ODFW Joe Whittle, a photographer who calls the region his home, told a story about how, long ago, wolves and berries used to go together.
(17) At the same time it was continuing to run the sales process and has reportedly whittled down a field of seven bidders to a four-strong shortlist.
(18) If the worst part of the task will be whittling his initial 30 choices down to 23 and informing the unlucky seven, ask him what he is most anticipating and Hodgson is unequivocal: "I am looking forward to that first victory and I hope it is the first game so we are off and running."
(19) The bloc has pledged to phase out subsidies for food-based energy crops, but a revised renewable energy directive released today only whittles down a cap on such biofuels from 7% in 2020 to 3.8% in 2030.
(20) 'Fostering to adopt' Whittle : "I have had foster carers come to me who have pleaded to adopt children who have been in their care for several years.