(v. t.) To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart.
Example Sentences:
(1) While Elop has critics who say he did not fix Nokia or much of anything else in his long career in tech, others are likely to point to a pedigree that would also make him the favorite here.
(2) Elop denies it is in talks about a takeover by Microsoft .
(3) Elop says Nokia is considering them, and looking into platform options such as Windows 8 , Windows RT – as used on the Microsoft Surface – and even Android.
(4) The marketing department will now report directly to Elop, and a management reshuffle has seen key staff replaced and US executive Chris Weber – who, like Elop, previously worked for Microsoft – promoted to run sales and marketing.
(5) Nokia's chief executive, Stephen Elop, said : "This settlement ... enables us to focus on further licensing opportunities in the mobile communications market."
(6) Stephen Elop is the odds-on favourite to become Microsoft's next CEO ( see 8.51am ), but do you think he's got what it takes to replace Steve Ballmer and take the company forward?
(7) For example, we rejected the traditional wedding day and we eloped to Las Vegas when our son, Conrad, was three.
(8) Claire McComb, spokesperson for the East London Out Project (ELOP), a gay and lesbian outreach organisation, says: "Homophobia is equivalent to racism, sexism, ageism, sizeism and prejudice against disability, yet this is often disregarded in favour of conflicting personal values.
(9) Vote here: Should Stephen Elop take over at Microsoft?
(10) Elop managed to make Nokia actually sell *less* phones, quite a feat given how the smartphone market exploded.
(11) Nevertheless, Elop believes Nokia's downsizing and outplacement programmes are a good thing for Finland.
(12) Their 18-year relationship made a gut-wrenching but fascinating public story, which began with romantic passion, high hopes and an elopement to Spain.
(13) "Yes, you can call it [Android] open source but in practicality, you're getting more and more constrained on what's possible in that environment," Elop says.
(14) This is the challenge Elop, and Nokia more generally, faces – a smartphone market where the Lumia is in a tiny minority.
(15) Nokia's future as an independent company is hanging in the balance and Microsoft could be forced to rescue the business if chief executive Stephen Elop cannot resuscitate the group's smartphone business by the end of the year, analysts have warned.
(16) Asked why his strategy had not yet produced results, Elop said there was "frustration" because so few consumers were aware of Nokia's new products: "We have truly great products but aren't getting the traction that we would prefer."
(17) Here's a selection on the Microsoft-Nokia deal: os2baba 03 September 2013 8:28am If ever there was a Trojan horse... Stephen Elop sure fits the bill.
(18) "Stephen Elop is running out of time," said Francisco Jeronimo at telecoms research firm IDC.
(19) The two companies announced the outline for the deal in London in February, after Elop had courted both Google and Microsoft, choosing between the Android mobile operating system – now the world's most-used on smartphones – and Windows Phone, which was only introduced in October 2010 and has had a lukewarm reception from customers.
(20) Ram had married but his wife – a woman who had three children when she effectively eloped with him – died of an illness without bearing him a child of his own.
Slope
Definition:
(v. i.) An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.
(v. i.) Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
(a.) Sloping.
(adv.) In a sloping manner.
(v. t.) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.
(v. i.) To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.
(v. i.) To depart; to disappear suddenly.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this review, we demonstrate that serum creatinine does not provide an adequate estimate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and contrary to recent teachings, that the slope of the reciprocal of serum creatinine vs time does not permit an accurate assessment of the rate of progression of renal disease.
(2) Regression curves indicate that although all three types of pulmonary edema can be characterized by slightly different slopes, the differences are statistically insignificant.
(3) With profound blockade, the slope of the edrophonium dose-response relationship was significantly flatter (P less than 0.05) than that of neostigmine.
(4) The slope of the thermal inactivation curve of enterotoxin A in beef bouillon (initial pH 6.2) was found to be approximately 27.8 C (50 F) with three different concentrations of toxin.
(5) The summary statistics examined are (a) the slope of the least-squares regression of the marker, (b) the average of the last r measurements, and (c) the difference between the averages of the last r and the first s measurements.
(6) A patient with mitral stenosis and atrial flutter was found to have a normal diastolic closure rate (E to F slope).
(7) With cortisol and cortisol-21-aldehyde, product inhibition patterns showed only slope effects with steroid product and NAD+, suggesting a "random" mechanism.
(8) A positive correlation was found between the content in the eluted cell fractions of LH and dynorphin-like immunoreactivity with a correlation coefficient and a slope of the regression line close to one.
(9) From the stress-strain curve the following values were selected: strain, stress, and slope at 80 mmHg equivalent pressure (1 mmHg = 133.3 Pa); maximum stress, strain, and slope; and breaking stress, strain, and slope if the sample broke.
(10) When age and smoking habits were controlled for, slope of phase III was significantly related to hospitalization due to respiratory disease in general and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), whereas closing volume and closing capacity were marginally related to hospitalization due to respiratory disease in general but not to hospitalization due to COPD.
(11) To evaluate threshold estimates under these conditions, computer simulations of experiments with small numbers of trials were performed by using psychometric functions based on a model of two types of noise: stimulus-related noise (affecting slope) and extraneous noise (affecting upper asymptote).
(12) It is shown that when a constant current is applied such that a stable equilibrium and rhythmic firing are present, the following predictions are inherent in the HH system of equations: (a) Small instantaneous voltage perturbations to the axon given at points along its firing spike result in phase resetting curves (when new phase versus old phase is plotted) with an average slope of 1.
(13) A "peeling" technique was used to estimate the time constants (tau 0 and tau 1) and coefficients (a0 and a1) of the first two exponential terms of the series of exponential terms whose sum represented the slope of the voltage response.
(14) No significant correlation was found between the pulmonary valve e-f slope and the pulmonary artery pressures.
(15) We should be grateful the School Food Trust has established this now, before we end up falling down a slippery slope back towards the dreaded Turkey Twizzler that Jamie Oliver campaigned to banish," he added.
(16) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
(17) The slope of Phase III in both N2 and He washouts was influenced in an inconstant fashion, probably reflecting differing contributions from topographic and intraregional inhomogeneities of ventilation in these subjects.
(18) The slope of this line was substantially steeper than the regression line slope for treadmill running.4.
(19) Pulmonary mean filling pressure increased and the slope-gradient of pulmonary VR-curve decreased, indicating an increased resistance to venous return from the pulmonary circulation.
(20) It is suggested that the measurement of functional residual capacity, closing volume, and the slope of the alveolar plateau (phase III in the single breath nitrogen washout technique) might give more valuable information.