(n.) The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice.
(n.) Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc.
(n.) Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise on horseback.
(n.) The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty.
(n.) That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition.
(n.) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
(v. t.) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy.
(v. t.) To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve by practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops.
(v. t.) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain.
(v. t.) To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise authority; to exercise an office.
(v. i.) To exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(2) Immediate postexercise two-dimensional echocardiography demonstrated exercise-induced changes in 8 (47%) patients (2 with normal and 6 with abnormal results from rest studies).
(3) Taken together these results are consistent with the view that primary CTL, as well as long term cloned CTL cell lines, exercise their cytolytic activity by means of perforin.
(4) The active agents modestly improved treadmill exercise duration time until 1 mm ST segment depression (3%), and only propranolol and diltiazem had significant effects.
(5) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
(6) Brief treadmill exercise tests showed appropriate rate response to increased walking speed and gradient.
(7) We conclude that increased duration of exercise can lead to reduced PDH complex activity in rat muscles.
(8) Plasma renin activity (PRA) and aldosterone concentration were measured before and during submaximal exercise in 10 male monozygotic twin pairs who were discordant for smoking.
(9) In a comparative study 11 athletes and 11 untrained students were investigated at rest, of these 6 trained and 5 untrained individuals during exercise as well.
(10) The sensitivity of SPECT for detection of overall coronary stenosis was 79%, contrary that of treadmill exercise test was only 33% (p < 0.001).
(11) Before training, SV at VO2max was 9% lower than during exercise at 50% VO2max (P less than 0.05).
(12) These data suggest that submaximal exercise and cold air exposure enhance nonspecific bronchial reactivity in asthmatic but not in normal subjects.
(13) Participants were selected from existing classes forming a weight training, aerobic exercise and activity control group.
(14) This condition may be caused by the prolonged, repetitive elevations of gonadal steroids and other hormones known to suppress gonadotropin-releasing hormone secretion that are elicited by their daily exercise.
(15) There was no significant correlation between mitochondrial volume and number of SO fibers following endurance exercise training.
(16) The sensitivity and specificity of three methods of provocation, ie, histamine, nebulized water, and exercise, were compared in 20 asthmatic and 20 control children between ages 5 and 13 years.
(17) No significant differences were observed in tension characteristics between the exercised and nonexercised muscles on day 11.
(18) An "overshoot" elevation of ejection fraction above resting levels was demonstrated following termination of exercise in most patients.
(19) In a steady-state exercise test this difference developed gradually during the first 10 min of exercise.
(20) Further work is required to determine whether such a risk exists but caution should be exercised by those exposed to aerosols generated during procedures on HIV-1 infected patients.
Sweater
Definition:
(n.) One who sweats.
(n.) One who, or that which, causes to sweat
(n.) A sudorific.
(n.) A woolen jacket or jersey worn by athletes.
(n.) An employer who oppresses his workmen by paying low wages.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his V-neck sweater, dad jeans and white New Balance sneakers, Michael Lewis doesn’t look like a troublemaker.
(2) Standing in the kitchen was a large, middle-aged woman wearing a sweater and keeping an eye on her toddler.
(3) Instead, he was re-imagined as a suave gent in a v-neck cashmere sweater, mixing drinks, listening to records, and appreciating the 'finer things in life', like jazz and beautiful women.
(4) Which brings us to why I am wearing a sweater with a pony on the front.
(5) Watchers of television news clips in the run-up to Britain’s referendum on EU membership are likely to become familiar with her sweater made up of the flags of the nine Common Market countries, accompanying her call then for “a big Yes vote for Europe”.
(6) PCPHs prepared in our laboratory showed strong eliciting activities, not only in the guinea pigs sensitized with the extract, but also in a male volunteer sensitized by exposure to a yellow sweater during irritancy testing.
(7) It's a law that everyone has to have a Sarah Lund sweater .
(8) Wearing a hooped brown and cream sweater with collar turned up, Mvubu, from KwaThema, stared at the floor with hands behind his back for much of the hearing.
(9) Phosgene (2,5-dichlorophenyl)hydrazone, which was the main component among the PCPHs found in the sweater, sensitized guinea pigs even at the 1 ppm level.
(10) The results of performing this test on horses (n = 54) considered to be "free sweaters", horses (n = 6) that showed signs of heat stress following exercise, and horses with complete anhidrosis (n = 2) are presented.
(11) Guinea pigs were sensitized with an acetone extract of the sweater material, by means of the guinea pig maximization test (GPMT).
(12) In my haste I pricked my finger and was astonished to find the pearl-studded hatpin of the secretary of the CDC lodged between my tee shirts and sweaters.
(13) Like Curb Your Enthusiasm , dialogue in The Trip has been improvised and – while David is known for his neurotic obsession with trivia such as the elasticity of the cuffs on his sweaters – Brydon is likely to spend much screentime worrying about the colour of his socks.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Models sport hooded tops and sweaters with lattice inspired by American footballs.
(15) Look, I'm not proud of any of this, and in my heart I agree with Fran Lebowitz, who once said: "If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail."
(16) The company said it had ordered 220,000 sweaters from the factory to be delivered to C&A Brazil between December 2012 and February 2013.
(17) Perhaps one day soon, Canadians will proudly hang a Team Canada soccer jersey next to their Team Canada hockey sweaters.
(18) While the effect had Anderson’s signature androgynous look, and a retro feel, bi-coloured sweaters, cropped shearling jackets and chunky scarves showed him moving gently towards more wearable pieces.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A man with blood stains on his sweater leaves Brussels airport in Zaventem.
(20) I noticed things that I'd never spotted before (how did I ever miss the goose-stepping Mickey Mouse on Danny's sweater), refreshed certain cherished notions (is Wendy a traumatised extension of Shelley Duvall's chatterbox character from Altman's 3 Women?)