(n.) One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.
(n.) That which is to be followed or imitated as a model; a pattern or copy.
(n.) That which resembles or corresponds with something else; a precedent; a model.
(n.) That which is to be avoided; one selected for punishment and to serve as a warning; a warning.
(n.) An instance serving for illustration of a rule or precept, especially a problem to be solved, or a case to be determined, as an exercise in the application of the rules of any study or branch of science; as, in trigonometry and grammar, the principles and rules are illustrated by examples.
(v. t.) To set an example for; to give a precedent for; to exemplify; to give an instance of; to instance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two of the largest markets are Germany and South Korea, often held up as shining examples of export-led economies.
(2) These same molecules may be equally responsible for the pathologic characteristics of the immune response seen, for example, in inflammatory bowel diseases.
(3) Because of the short detachment interval, and the absence of underlying pathology or trauma, the recovery process described here probably represents an example of optimum recovery after retinal reattachment.
(4) Practical examples are given of the concepts presented using data from several drugs.
(5) New indications are still being investigated, for example in focal tremors and spasticity.
(6) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
(7) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
(8) Trichostatin C is presumably the first example of a glucopyranosyl hydroxamate from nature.
(9) Increased iron levels in basal ganglia were generally associated with normal or elevated levels of ferritin immunoreactivity, for example, the substantia nigra in PSP and possibly MSA, and in putamen in MSA.
(10) This is the first clear example of activation of the K-ras gene by ethylating agents in a rodent lung tumor system.
(11) Many examples are given to demonstrate the applications of these programs, and special emphasis has been laid on the problem of treating a point in tissue with different doses per fraction on alternate treatment days.
(12) For example, lysine is preferably encoded by the AAA codon if guanosine is 3' to the lysine codon (AAA-G, P less than 10(-9)).
(13) For example, 75% of them were asked about their family life, marital status and children in interviews.
(14) History contains numerous examples of government secrecy breeding abuse.
(15) A good example is Apple TV: Can it possibly generate real money at $100 a puck?
(16) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
(17) Therefore, a mortality analysis of overall survival time alone may conceal important differences between the forces of mortality (hazard functions) associated with distinct states of active disease, for example pre-remission state and first relapse.
(18) Individual play techniques are explored, and two case histories are given as examples of how the occupational therapist works with the child, the family, and other practitioners.
(19) For example, stem pairing with a sequence other than wild-type resulted in normal protein binding in vitro but derepression of protein synthesis in vivo.
(20) One example of this increased data generation is the emergence of genomic selection, which uses statistical modeling to predict how a plant will perform before field testing.
Intend
Definition:
(v. t.) To stretch' to extend; to distend.
(v. t.) To strain; to make tense.
(v. t.) To intensify; to strengthen.
(v. t.) To apply with energy.
(v. t.) To bend or turn; to direct, as one's course or journey.
(v. t.) To fix the mind on; to attend to; to take care of; to superintend; to regard.
(v. t.) To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); to be intent upon; to mean; to design; to plan; to purpose; -- often followed by an infinitely with to, or a dependent clause with that; as, he intends to go; he intends that she shall remain.
(v. t.) To design mechanically or artistically; to fashion; to mold.
(v. t.) To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate.
Example Sentences:
(1) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
(2) This article is intended as a brief practical guide for physicians and physiotherapists concerned with the treatment of cystic fibrosis.
(3) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.
(4) This investigation examined the extent to which attitudes of doctors who participated in a one-year training programme for general practice changed in intended directions by training.
(5) Being the decision-making agent, the rehabilitee must therefore be offered typical situational fragments of a possible educational and vocational future, intended on the one hand to inform him of occupational alternatives and, on the other, to provide initial experience.
(6) This paper gives a survey of the development and the present state of the preservation of isolated lungs intended for transplantation.
(7) Like most anthems it’s intended to create unity in the face of adversity, coming from a time when America was a new country trying to forge its identity.
(8) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.
(9) In 1984 the press-fit condylar knee was first introduced and was intended to provide a condylar knee system primarily for posterior cruciate retention that addressed refinements in metallurgy, prosthetic geometry and sizing, cementless fixation, inventory management, and instrumentation.
(10) This article is intended to serve as a brief review of immunobiology and immunodeficiency diseases with an indepth coverage of specialized tests generally available at the large centers.
(11) Hulk Hogan’s status as a public figure, even one who holds forth often and at length about his sex life, may have kept him from getting the kind of sympathy that the subject of the escort story immediately received, but there’s no evidence Bollea intended for anyone to see the tape.
(12) The austerity programmes administered by western governments in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis were, of course, intended as a remedy, a tough but necessary course of treatment to relieve the symptoms of debts and deficits and to cure recession.
(13) "Hints that the license fee payer will be hit are the closest the Tories come to explaining how they intend to pay for this."
(14) Opposition spokesman Matthew Guy said it was unclear how the government intended to fund the project given the federal government was yet to come to the table.
(15) Children in the first group were provided training by their parents that was intended to focus the child's attention on consonants in syllables or words and to teach discrimination between correctly and incorrectly articulated consonants.
(16) No doubt it was intended as a bold and graphic way of presenting the Iranian nuclear threat, but much of the initial response – on Twitter, at least – was ridicule.
(17) Golding said the government would not soften its stance on drug trafficking and it intended to use a proportion of revenues from its licensing authority to support a public education campaign to discourage pot-smoking by young people and mitigate public health consequences.
(18) From this special coding of the intended movement static and dynamic control signals can be derived.
(19) Last month Neil Berkett, Virgin Media's chief executive, said he was "not surprised" YouView had run into trouble, given the number of partners involved, adding that the cable company intended to "take advantage" of the delay.
(20) He is now to remain with the bank until March 2014, with continued use of the bank's town house in the West End of London, intended for the bank's wealthiest clients.