(v. t.) To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a city; a voyage encompassing the world.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is recognized that caregivers encompass family members and nursing staff.
(2) The diagnosis of "autism" has been used to encompass a heterogeneous group of children who may differ in etiology, clinical manifestations, prognosis, and needed treatment.
(3) Zebrin II-negative Purkinje cells are present in a continuous region encompassing the rostromedial part of the valvula, the lobus transitorius, lobe C1 and the ventral part of lobe C2, and in a small, lateral zone of the posterior part of the caudal lobe.
(4) Restriction fragments of all genes were sequenced: two over 800 bp, covering signals of the 5'- and 3'-non-coding regions, three encompassing the complete coding region and part of the 5', the remaining sequences covering most of the V coding region.
(5) Observation encompassed the control period which lasted one hour followed by an experimental period of fetal hypoxemia created by decreasing maternal FIO2.
(6) Eight of 10 residues encompassing a continuous region of protection within RB3 (positions -45 to -36) matched in the inverted orientation the conserved core sequence (ACCGTTCGTC) of RB1 and RB2.
(7) This encompassed conversion of the hydroxyl groups at 2',4' and 23 of the appropriate macrolides to the corresponding esters, in which a variety of different substitution patterns were examined.
(8) This strategy should encompass environmental measures, self-care activities, and health education; it should carefully weigh the prospective costs and benefits of proposed preventive measures; and it should see that such measures are tailored to the needs of the various specific groups within the general population.
(9) The region of the AcMNPV genome encompassing EcoRI-H and -S (map positions 82.6-85.8) contains five open reading frames (ORFs) forming one transcriptional unit.
(10) The human plasma lipoproteins encompass a broad spectrum of particles of widely varying physical and chemical properties whose metabolism is directed by their protein components.
(11) We believe that the issues encompassed in this survey will affect the future practice of optometry.
(12) Antibodies were raised against a synthetic dodecameric peptide KGAGQVVAGPWK (K12K), encompassing sequences thought to be important for the function of the cysteine proteinase inhibitors of the cystatin superfamily.
(13) We report here the construction of a genomic library containing overlapping cDNA clones encompassing the entire genome.
(14) The microdomain (185 base-pairs (bp), composed of 128 bp encompassing the central part of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae ADH II promoter plus 57 bp of a polylinker) was obtained by ligation under conditions that produced three circularized forms characterized by different linkage numbers.
(15) The introduction and acceptance of percutaneous nephrostomy as a safe and effective alternative to surgical nephrostomy served as the impetus for the development and expansion of an ever-increasing number of techniques that are encompassed by the term "interventional uroradiology."
(16) This study encompasses 3150 transfused kidney transplant recipients of whom 765 have received CsA.
(17) So, if the Fed is afraid that the fiscal cliff may cause a disruption so big that even the Fed's all-encompassing embrace of the markets can't fix it, then it's Chairman Bernanke's word – and not that of Congress – that carries the most weight.
(18) The mutations are located at sixteen recombinationally separable sites or are deletions encompassing several sites.
(19) This article investigates this question by examining the views of the logical positivists, Karl Popper and Imre Lakatos, and concludes that the practice of science and psychotherapy involves metaphysics in (a) problem choice, (b) research and therapy design, (c) observation statements, (d) resolving the Duhemian problem, and (e) modifying hypotheses to encompass anomalous results.
(20) This interference component encompasses all phenomena that are uniquely related to duocultures, such as resource partitioning, mutual stimulation, inhibition and complementation.
Entwine
Definition:
(v. t.) To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round.
(v. i.) To be twisted or twined.
Example Sentences:
(1) Development of an aorta and pulmonary trunk with tricuspid semilunar valves appears to be contingent on the appearance of separate entwined ventricular ejection streams.
(2) Pioneer of the ‘cradle to cradle’ concept , McDonough argues that peace is not possible when market activity and “war-like” competition are so closely entwined.
(3) Whatever the truth of her prospects as a diplomat, there is certainly no doubt now about how closely the Wintour and Condé Naste brands will be entwined in the future.
(4) An analysis of meetings between Google executives and senior politicians, as well as the regular appointments of political figures to major positions within the company’s PR machine, shows how the California-based tech company has become deeply entwined within the British political landscape.
(5) Ross Taylor, a businessmen and president of the West Australian-based Indonesia Institute , says Chan and Sukumaran’s cases are entwined with politics.
(6) In practice, high-carbohydrate diets are usually entwined with high-fibre intake.
(7) Bergé got Yves out of hospital and back to work, helping to set up the label whose three sensuously entwined initials would revolutionise Parisian fashion in the 60s, scandalise the world in the 70s and stamp themselves imperiously across the 80s.
(8) Culture is, however, entwined in everything in a place where art and hard-nosed politics made national history in 1963 .
(9) When I think about the future of human-machine interactions, two entwined anxieties come to mind.
(10) As well as identifying a variety of fibril interactions involving direct physical entwinement which are assumed to provide matrix cohesion the study also highlights the functional importance of the repeatedly kinked morphology exhibited by the radial fibrils.
(11) The enactive mode comprises a combination of affective processes entwined with proprioceptive, visceral, motoric and sensory feeling.
(12) The two bundles of flagella were entwined around the cytoplasmic body of the cell and interdigitated in the middle region of the organism.
(13) With greater accessibility of patients from lower socioeconomic backgrounds to medical care, the physician in private or clinical practice is increasingly confronted with patients whose medical problems either become quickly overshadowed by or entwined with seemingly hopeless socioeconomic or legal problems.
(14) An ostentatious leather-bound album with Kniga Dlya Dam embossed in gold on the cover opens to reveal a Chinese silk drawing of an entwined couple.
(15) Longer term, it is the criminal investigations by the US Department of Justice and the Swiss attorney general’s office that will decide the fate of many of those entwined with Fifa corruption down the decades.
(16) It consists of sterile tongue depressors placed 2 to 3 cm apart on the circumference of the limb and entwined at various layers with wrapped Kerlix.
(17) I call these anxieties entwined because, for me, they come accompanied by a shared error: the overestimation of our rationality and our autonomy.
(18) Hamlice is an adaptation by Punzo that entwines Hamlet with Alice in Wonderland , and in which Shakespeare's characters liberate themselves in Lewis Carroll's world (one which, incidentally, is highly cogent in Italian alternative culture, and played an important role in the insurgent movement in Italy during the 1970s, whose main radio station was called Radio Alice).
(19) Fingerlike microvilli were attached to outer segments and entwined around both its ends.
(20) The move would, however, prove disastrous for Mexico, whose economy has become deeply entwined with that of the US since the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) came into effect in 1994.