(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.
Excise
Definition:
(n.) In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system.
(n.) That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes.
(v. t.) To lay or impose an excise upon.
(v. t.) To impose upon; to overcharge.
(v. t.) To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
(3) It has also been used to measure the amount of excision repair performed by non-replicating cells damaged by carcinogens.
(4) Even so, amputation of fifteen extremities and four other major excisions were required in twelve patients.
(5) Substances with a leaving group at the C-3 position form unsaturated conjugated cyclic adducts and are mutagenic only in the His D3052 frameshift strains with an intact excision repair system (no urvA mutation).
(6) 14 patients with painful neuroma, skin hyperesthesia or neuralgic rest pain were followed up (mean 20 months) after excision of skin and scar, neurolysis and coverage with pedicled or free flaps.
(7) Cholecystectomy provided successful treatment in three of the four patients but the fourth was too ill to undergo an operation; in general, definitive treatment is cholecystectomy, together with excision of the fistulous tract if this takes a direct path through the abdominal wall from the gallbladder, or curettage if the course is devious.
(8) To selectively stain polyanionic macromolecules of growth plate cartilage and to prevent artifacts induced by aqueous fixation, proximal tibial growth plates were excised from rats, slam-frozen, and freeze-substituted in 100% methanol containing the cationic dye Alcian blue.
(9) Precise excision of the masses was thus accomplished and functional and aesthetic reconstruction aided by the conservation of normal anatomical structures.
(10) In the other, the proximal fibula was excised and the epiphysis placed across the saphenous artery and vein in the groin.
(11) Total excision and immediate reconstruction were done with alloplastic material fixated with microplates and screws.
(12) Four had partial simple seizures with secondary generalisation and 3 had cortical excisions (2 frontal, 1 occipital lobe) surgery.
(13) From the findings of this study the authors recommend wide excision of colorectal smooth-muscle tumours whenever there is a suggestion of malignancy.
(14) A simple technique is described for producing enhanced radiographs of excised breast specimens with clinical mammographic equipment.
(15) Adjuvant radiation therapy can often improve the results obtained with surgical excision alone.
(16) Recurrences were noted in nine patients after transanal, pararectal, or transvaginal excision of leiomyomas.
(17) Fifty-seven patients underwent local excision of an invasive distal rectal cancer as an initial operative procedure with curative intent.
(18) Although the response to K+ differed in vascular muscles excised from the different regions, no functional difference was apparent between normotensive and hypertensive.
(19) irradiation by a mechanism that is independent of excision repair.
(20) Physiotherapy for 4 to 12 weeks produced improvement, but in four cases early operation for excision of fibrous tissue and lengthening of the triceps was necessary to restore adequate flexion.