(a.) Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal.
(a.) Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the development of Shvets' leukosis, the weight of spleen and lymph glands and their lymphocyte content change enormously while the number of plasmocytes rises exponentially.
(2) It has been an enormous improvement in our quality of life.
(3) However, it should be stressed that none of these mechanisms is mutually exclusive; indeed, the enormous complexity of tumor promotion suggests that several of the mechanisms discussed above may very well be interrelated.
(4) To not use those skills would be like Gigi Buffon not using his enormous hands.
(5) But he added: “My concern is that if we are to see a rapid move to a world in which all schools must become academies then there will be an enormous challenge to ensure that schools remain properly rooted in their local communities and accountable to parents.” A spokeswoman for the Department for Education rejected all the criticisms.
(6) The enormous magnitude of glutamine flowing from muscle to the kidneys is supported by adaptive increases in glutamine synthetase and mitochondrial glutaminase, respectively.
(7) There is an enormous sense of one rule for Them and another for Us.
(8) Diego Garcia guards its secrets even as the truth on CIA torture emerges Read more The long-awaited decision – expected to cause enormous disappointment – follows more than 40 years of campaigning, court cases and calls for the UK to right a wrong committed by Harold Wilson’s Labour government.
(9) An enormous occurrence of granular endoplasmic reticulum in the intestinal cells of P. commutatus shows an excessive protein synthesis.
(10) We have an operation an hour away on the border and the barrel bombs cause horrific injuries.” Islamic Relief and MSF said the health system in Syria is decimated and the need for reconstructive surgery and burns treatment is enormous.
(11) The value of universities to the UK is enormous, generating £72bn in value to the UK economy in 2014 on a turnover of £27.3bn.
(12) The main histological features of the tumour were enormous, but relatively regular, acanthosis of rete pegs revealing no similarity to the squamous-cell carcinoma, and an exclusively parakeratottic eleidine-containing central plug.
(13) "We are enormously grateful that the Komen Foundation has clarified its grantmaking criteria, and we look forward to continuing our partnership with Komen partners, leaders and volunteers.
(14) Shell, along with other oil companies, has been cleared by the Office of Fair Trading of profiteering on the UK petrol forecourt, but the $27bn annual earnings figure underlines the enormous global profits being made "upstream" – bringing oil and gas out of the ground.
(15) Unmanned drones help enormously with this problem as they can be operated via satellite from thousands of miles away and dramatically lower the risk to British forces.
(16) It was occupied by Aboriginal people for tens of thousands of years – 40,000 years.” The prime minister said he knew from his experience leading the unsuccessful campaign for an Australian republic that constitutional change was difficult and required “enormous public support”.
(17) While it has not dominated the enormous mobile phone market in terms of sales – Apple has sold 41m handsets in three years, the same number Nokia sells in a month – it has won much of the more lucrative smartphone market, and drove its competitors to develop their own touchscreen handsets.
(18) For example, if the risk estimates from underground miners' studies are, in truth, not applicable to home exposures and overestimate the gradient of risk from home exposure to radon by, for example, a factor of 2, then enormously large numbers of subjects would be required to detect the difference.
(19) Breeding experiments in mice have illustrated the enormous genetic heterogeneity of this syndrome, of which the final common pathway is a widespread immune complex disease.
(20) The primary source of the enhancement of adhesion is due to the enormous increase of the retentive active surface created by the metal plasma.
(superl.) Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth.
(superl.) Large; bulky; corpulent.
(n.) A strong malt liquor; strong porter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Second, Stout felt that the high mitotic rate was the best predictor of malignancy, but he recognized that some tumors, even with low rates, could metastasize.
(2) The cell bodies are usually between 8 and 10 mu in diameter and have dividing pseudopodial processes which may be broad or narrow, flat or stout, smooth or varicosed.
(3) The Lib Dems and Labour, after frantic consultations, announced they would table alternative amendments to introduce an element of statute and ensure the new press regulatory body was free from industry interference – two issues that the majority of newspaper proprietors have stoutly opposed.
(4) It also highlights law professor Lynn Stout’s recent book, The Shareholder Value Myth .
(5) Stout – even the name is robust: broad-mouthed and curtly clipped at the end.
(6) Tune into BBC1 on Sunday morning and you will find the corporation complicit in Marr's convalescent strategy of stout denial.
(7) Against my will I had to keep watching those two black companions who persistently marked out our movements ahead of us, like walking silhouettes, and it gave me – our feelings are sometimes so childish – a certain reassurance to see that my shadow was longer, slimmer, I almost said "better-looking", than the short, stout shadow of my companion.
(8) A stout man with close-cropped hair, Jones was dressed in denim, his temples soaked with sweat.
(9) Heat the sugar, cocoa powder, double cream, stout and salt in a small pan until scalding.
(10) Aside from history enthusiasts and couples seeking privacy from the crowded city, few enter the red sandstone gate between the fort’s stout bastions.
(11) Chocolate stout pudding (above) Admittedly, with summer creeping in and temperatures rising, it's hardly pudding season.But I'm a firm believer in the restorative powers of stodge, and I'd hate for the pleasures of pudding – steamed sponges, sticky toffee, spotted dick and custard – to be out of bounds for part of the year.
(12) This investigation is a replication and extension of an earlier study by Stout, Holmes, and Rothstein (1977) of the predoctoral clinical psychology intern graduates at the William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute.
(13) The differential diagnosis of the morphological substrate is discussed and the preference of the termination introduced by Stout and Lattes is established.
(14) The pyriform cells had a short stem from which extended 4-5 stout dendrites, while the fusiform cells extended similar dendrites from the soma.
(15) All these characters are fictionalised, but they are based on real people: Frank Stokes is modelled on George Stout ; Campbell on Robert K. Posey ; Garfield on Walker Hancock ; Granger on James Rorimer .
(16) There’s nothing flash or trendy about it, just an immaculate, traditionally brewed, higher alcohol stout; a reminder that, for all the cool stuff going on in the beer world today, you can always learn from the past.
(17) At the pub on the island there was a concertina-player and we got the feeling – fuelled by pints of rich dark stout – that we were being absorbed into a community.
(18) The stout-candied air, high beams and heavy pews are reminiscent of church-scale pubs on Galway’s Quay Street, but the beams are hung with Arthurian standards.
(19) Cysteines 358, 421, and 424 are ligands to the Fe-S cluster in the inactive [3Fe-4S] (Robbins, A. H., and Stout, C. D. (1989) Proteins 5, 289-312) and active [4Fe-4S] (Robbins, A. H., and Stout, C. D. (1989) Proc.
(20) Solid and traditional, all acres of dark wood and stained glass, it prides itself on its list of around 18 mainly bottled Irish beers from such breweries as Kinsale, Hilden, Station Works, Farmageddon, Clever Man (look out for its Ejector Seat turf-smoked stout) and Hercules.