(adv.) To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth.
(v. i.) To meet face to face; to have a meeting; to meet, esp. as enemies; to engage in combat; to fight; as, three armies encountered at Waterloo.
(v. t.) A meeting face to face; a running against; a sudden or incidental meeting; an interview.
(v. t.) A meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody encounter.
Example Sentences:
(1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
(2) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
(3) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
(4) The following case highlights the diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas encountered in a middle-aged patient who presented with dementia and apathetic hyperthyroidism.
(5) The types, frequency, and clinical features of neoplasms encountered in the perinatal period are markedly different from those observed in older children and adolescents.
(6) An age- and education-matched group of women with no family history of FXS was asked to predict the seriousness of problems they might encounter were they to bear a child with a handicapping condition.
(7) The most commonly encountered organisms were aerobic bacteria (91%), anaerobes (74%), and fungi (48%).
(8) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
(9) The authors discuss the results of the diagnosis and treatment of abscesses of the right hepatic lobe which were consequent upon ischemic necrosis; they were encountered after cholecystectomy in 0.15% of cases.
(10) The labia minora as a pedicle graft avoids the problems encountered by conventional methods.
(11) Frequently, errors are encountered in the comparison of surgical versus clinical staging.
(12) But I recall my own first encounter with that ideology, back in the 1990s.
(13) Radiologists may encounter patients with fixed dental prostheses that may produce image distortion on MRI scans of the face and jaw.
(14) Orthopaedics is one of the clinical areas likely to encounter an increased proportion of such patients.
(15) Delirium on emergence from anesthesia was not encountered.
(16) Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the most frequently encountered bacterial pathogens in patients with chronic pulmonary infections, including cystic fibrosis and diffuse panbronchiolitis.
(17) Male patients were more cheerful during encounters with younger assistant nurses while female patients were more cheerful when interacting with older assistant nurses.
(18) As travelling is generally increasing, this disease might be encountered more frequently also in Europe.
(19) The major difficulty encountered with the current technique is the danger of neurologic injury during the passage and handling of conventional wires, especially in extensive procedures.
(20) An integrated approach to the surgical management of diffuse subaortic stenosis has been designed to provide adequate relief of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction whatever the anatomical features encountered at operation.
Parle
Definition:
(v. i.) To talk; to converse; to parley.
(n.) Conversation; talk; parley.
Example Sentences:
(1) Updated at 5.02am GMT 4.48am GMT A tweet from the Australian Financial Review’s political correspondent Phillip Coorey: Phillip Coorey (@PhillipCoorey) Thunderstorm brewing over Parl House.
(2) The semi-final saw Germany go down 3-1 to the home team, Sweden, and Walter was badly hurt by Parling.
(3) It is concluded that the parl-r mutation in strain 4810P affects a component of the mitochondrial ribosome, possibly by altering the 15S rRNA or a protein of the small ribosomal subunit.
(4) Previous reports indicate that the two-allele ER PvuII polymorphism could be associated with ER expression in breast cancer (Hill et al., Cancer Res., 49: 145-148, 1989) as well as with patient age at time of tumor diagnosis (Parl et al., Breast Cancer Res.
(5) Graphic England Brown, Watson, Joseph, Barritt (Burgess 65), May (Ford 41), Farrell, B Youngs (Wigglesworth 50), Marler (Vunipola 50), T Youngs (Webber 61), Cole (Brookes 55), Launchbury (Kruis 70), Parling, Wood, Robshaw, Morgan (Easter 58) Sin-bin Farrell 71 Tries Watson Cons Farrell Pens Farrell 2.
(6) Ribulose-1,5-diphosphate carboxylase (carboxydismutase) was prepared from Chinese Cabbage [Brassica petsai (Parl)] and the K(m) values and molecular weight were determined.
(7) If it happens all the same, does that mean the UK Parl officially no longer matters?"
(8) #Rehn frowns April 17, 2013 Bruno Waterfield (@BrunoBrussels) Even @ sharonbowlesmep is roasting #Rehn and blasts #ECB over liquidity 'loan-sharking' April 17, 2013 Karen Coleman (@karencolemanIRL) MEPs in Euro Parl demand answers on how orig idea to levy small depositors in #Cyprus was made.
(10) The further elucidation of the functions in the ribosomes that are modified by the parl-r mutation was hampered by the inability of current preparations of yeast mitochondrial ribosomes to translate efficiently natural messenger RNAs from the several sources tested.
(11) Troika get slammed for botched bailout April 17, 2013 Karen Coleman (@karencolemanIRL) @ nigel_farage on #Cyprus accused Olli Rehn & Troika of being 'common criminals' & that EU is the new communism - fiery debate here at EP April 17, 2013 Karen Coleman (@karencolemanIRL) @ sharonbowlesmep tells Olli Rehn at Euro Parl 'act in haste, repent in leisure'- delivers strong criticism of #cyprus bailout deal April 17, 2013 10.20am BST UK unemployment: early reaction Economists and City investors are disappointed by today's weak UK unemployment data, with some warning that the labour market has caught up with the lack of growth in the economy.
(12) This chart shows how Spanish industrial production has been hit by its long recession: Photograph: INE 9.41am GMT Greek MPs are demanding answers over the decision to send the riot police into the offices of state broadcaster ERT this morning ( via university lecturer and crisis watcher Spyros Gkelis ) spyros gkelis (@northaura) Ind.Greeks MP Kapernaros now in Parl.
(13) England : Brown; Watson, Barritt, Burgess (Ford 69), May; Farrell, B Youngs (Wigglesworth 49); Marler (M Vunipola 60), T Youngs (Webber 66), Cole (Brookes 71), Lawes (Launchbury ht), Parling, Wood, Robshaw (capt), B Vunipola (Haskell 62).