(a. & a. pron.) All the parts which compose a whole collection or aggregate number, considered in their individuality, all taken separately one by one, out of an indefinite bumber.
(a. & a. pron.) Every one. Cf.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(2) The animals were sacrificed every 12 hr from D12.0 through D17.0.
(3) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
(4) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(5) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
(6) In differing, incomparable ways it will affect every society, industry and region in the country.
(7) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(8) He's finding solace, fleeting and fragmentary, and every springy guitar lick is its own benediction," Chinen wrote.
(9) In order to develop a sampling strategy and a method for analyzing the circadian body temperature pattern, we monitored estimates of the temperature in four ways using rectal, oral, axillary and deep body temperature from the skin surface every hour for 72 consecutive hours in 10 normal control subjects.
(10) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
(11) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
(12) In every case the patient was the first affected family member.
(13) As James said in Friday’s announcement, his goal was to win championships, and in Miami he was able to reach the NBA Finals every year.
(14) The volume of distribution is about 600 l. In almost every subject the plasma levels rose again after this distribution phase.
(15) In view of the high mortality every clinical deterioration of patients with cirrhosis should alert the physician of the presence of SBP.
(16) Extracorporeal photopheresis (ExP) was administered every other week in an outpatient setting to four patients with chronic refractory psoriasis vulgaris without arthropathy.
(17) He received blood transfusions every 2 or 3 weeks for the first 4 years of his life.
(18) Every time I have seen him since – you stand up straight and it’s: ‘Hi, boss.
(19) There are currently more than 380,000 households on local authority waiting lists in the capital – and the number is growing every day.
(20) We didn’t take anyone’s votes for granted and we have run a very strong positive campaign.” Asked if she expected Ukip to run have Labour so close, she said: “To be honest with you I have been through more or less every scenario.
Revery
Definition:
(n.) A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream.
(n.) An extravagant conceit of the fancy; a vision.
(n.) Same as Reverie.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maybe he’s my dark triad bad-boy reverie, if my triad includes “opposing political views” as one unsavory but compelling trait.
(2) After Theresa May stunned the country out of its Easter reverie with her announcement on Tuesday , many wondered just how this famously cautious politician had chosen such a dramatic course.
(3) The narrator interrupts her reverie to provide a calculation of how long a 6ft falling body would take to cross a window space 8ft tall.
(4) It was a good one to get.” It got much worse for Arsenal as they started the second half as if in a distant reverie.
(5) Findings reveal that for this age group, health is an abiding vitality emanating through moments of rhapsodic reverie in generating fulfillment.
(6) Nitrous oxide produced a variety of subjective effects, including some that are characteristic of psychedelic drugs, such as happy, euphoric mood changes, changes in body awareness and image, alterations of time perception, and experiences of a dreamy, detached reverie state.
(7) It will send everyone of a certain age who might otherwise have engaged their brains on a reverie for times past, when life was simpler, sustainability nutters played nicely with Tories and 35-year-olds acted their age, not their (UK) shoe size?
(8) Photograph: Michael Gibson "So, anyway," Farrell whispers, breaking my reverie, "things have changed.
(9) But then you’re rudely awaken out of your kitsch reverie by remembering quite what will be left, and at what cost it all came.
(10) Sounded pretty good to me, but Abts's introspective, complex little paintings have a strange and mesmerising sense of absorption and contemplative reverie.
(11) But in CSKA's case, maybe it should be 'You are are at your most vulnerabe just after you score, and then again just after you concede'," reckons Sam Abrahams, whose name I misread as Sam Adams, sending me into a brief but powerful reverie about beer.
(12) Reverie, dreams, visions, the dark woods of somnolent confusion – all these are beautifully evoked in Dante's tour from hell to heaven, The Divine Comedy .
(13) As Sebald unfolds the story of Rousseau's tribulations ("a dozen years filled with fear and panic"), the essay seems, in its placeless antiquity, like one of Rousseau's own Reveries of a Solitary Walker , and suddenly it's not Rousseau's obsessive inability to stop thinking that is the theme, but Sebald's own obsessive inability ("the thoughts constantly brewing in his head like storm clouds").
(14) Ostensibly a straightforward account of Rousseau's exiled wanderings, it begins with his first glimpse, in 1965, of the Ile Saint Pierre in Switzerland, where Rousseau spent the first period of his stateless exile, and where he claimed – in his Reveries of a Solitary Walker – that he was happier than he had been anywhere else.
(15) In Heart, he reveals that in the suspended animation of heart transplant surgery – the closest to death one can come – his reverie consisted not of any moral reckoning or even meditation on the life he'd lived, but a dream about living "in Italy, north of Rome, about 40 or 50 miles north of Rome, a nice little village, drinking good Italian wine and eating good Italian food.
(16) The reverie, an apparently random series of events occurring in the analyst's consciousness when his attention is evenly suspended, is examined through the expansion of one of its elements, a single word-association.
(17) Crime dramas,” she says, with a nonchalant shrug, “are just what people want.” She says how much she loved Juliet Bravo and we both disappear into a feminist nostalgia reverie.
(18) He needs little prompting to go off into a reverie about having the biggest actors, politicians and celebrities of the age opposite him on successive nights, regularly making headlines.
(19) In Mr Palomar, by Italo Calvino, the writer's alter ego stands in line in Parisian food shops gazing at cheese and jars of goose fat, writing in his notebook while drifting so far into reverie that the serving staff have to rouse him when it is his turn: "Monsieur!
(20) Contrasting with Malick's new agey, Romantic reverie was the old age study of the holy word contained in Joseph Cedar's Talmud tragicomedy Footnote , probably my favourite film of the festival.