(v. i.) To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.
(v. i.) To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.
(v. i.) To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(2) The only other evidence of Kopachi's existence is the primary school near the memorial.
(3) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
(4) It has recently been suggested that procaine penicillin existed in solution in vitro and in vivo as a "procaine - penicillin" complex rather than as dissociated ions.
(5) The data suggest that major differences may exist between ruminants and non-ruminants in the response of liver metabolism both to lactation per se and to the effects of growth hormone and insulin.
(6) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
(7) These results are discussed in relation to the possible existence of enzyme-bound intermediates of nitrogen fixation.
(8) Psychiatry unlike philosophy (with its problem of solipsism) recognizes the existence of other minds from the nonverbal communication between doctor and patient.
(9) Over the past decade the use of monoclonal antibodies has greatly advanced our knowledge of the biological properties and heterogeneity that exist within human tumours, and in particular in lung cancer.
(10) This suggests that a physiological mechanism exists which can increase the barrier pressure to gastrooesophageal reflux during periods of active secretion of the stomach, as occurs in digestion.
(11) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
(12) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(13) Elongation of existing RNA primers by the human polymerase-primase was semi-processive; following primer binding the DNA polymerase continuously incorporated 20 to 50 nucleotides, then it dissociated from the template DNA.
(14) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(15) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(16) Participants were selected from existing classes forming a weight training, aerobic exercise and activity control group.
(17) Neurotensin (NT) is an endogenous brain tridecapeptide for which high affinity binding sites exist in the central nervous system.
(18) These results are interpreted in terms of the accessory binding site theory of Ariëns, and suggest the existence of different accessory binding sites on the Ascaris GABA receptor.
(19) Achilles tendon overuse injuries exist as a spectrum of diseases ranging from inflammation of the paratendinous tissue (paratenonitis), to structural degeneration of the tendon (tendinosis), and finally tendon rupture.
(20) Little difference exists between the proportion of programs that offer training in first-trimester techniques and the proportion that train in second-trimester techniques.
Nought
Definition:
(n. & adv.) See Naught.
Example Sentences:
(1) The family's efforts to bring the police officers responsible for Orun's death to justice had all come to nought.
(2) In 2008, for example, it staged Nought to Sixty, an ambitious show of 60 young artists, who presented week-long exhibitions, performances, talks, interventions, off-site projects and film screenings over six months.
(3) Britain has passed plenty of mind-boggling landmarks since 2007 when the credit crisis struck, but news that the government now owes £1 trillion – yes, that's twelve noughts – underlines just how long it will take for the economy to adjust to what Sir Mervyn King, in a speech on Tuesday night, called a "new equilibrium".
(4) Among the songs is Put Another Nought on the End … He's a Friend.
(5) Despite disagreeing with the visa cancellation, Newman had “no right to treat it as nought”, Nettle said, adding that he had shown “consummate disregard” for Australian law.
(6) The total viable counts and levels of Bacillus cereus, Clostridium welchii, Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli were determined in 294 infant foods samples from nought to eight hours after preparation.
(7) With the derestriction of broadcasting hours, those Zen-like moments of stillness on British TV – filled with Test Card F , the little girl with an Alice band playing noughts and crosses on a blackboard, or IBA engineering announcements "for the radio and television trade" – began to disappear, to be replaced eventually by an endless flow of programmes, stretching from dawn till daybreak.
(8) Even as he conceded that the buoyant growth he'd once expected for 2012 had, literally, come to nought, the Bank of England's governor saw no urgent need for fresh stimulus .
(9) Fortunately, however, a petition of the Downing Street website to install Jeremy Clarkson as PM came to nought.
(10) So IBM’s Deep Blue could beat Gary Kasparov at chess, but would struggle against a three-year-old in a round of noughts and crosses.
(11) All the bright ideas and hard work that nurse educationalists are investing in the new courses will come to nought however, if equivalent time, energy and bright ideas are not invested in updating and refreshing experienced nurses.
(12) One nice second-half run ended in too-late pass to May Steven Naismith 7 Many neat touches, but with England dominating possession he foraged for the ball too far from goal and had little impact on anything much Ikechi Anya 5 Beat Clyne cleverly in eighth minute but ran the ball out of play; attempts to repeat the trick came to nought.
(13) If Google had tried to solve the game in the same way noughts and crosses was solved, it would have had to examine and rank an obscene amount of possible positions: in the ballpark of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of them.
(14) And so both chess and go are resistant to the tactic by which simpler games, such as noughts and crosses or draughts (tic-tac-toe and checkers, to Americans), have been “solved”: by enumerating every possible move, and drawing up rules for how to guarantee that a computer will be able to play to at least a draw.
(15) It's like playing roulette: we haven't hit the nought yet but we know we will at some point."
(16) But of whence their sovereignty came, the treaty saith nought.
(17) "On a risk scale of nought to 10, it was just a one.
(18) Almost all the pain of benefit cuts for the most vulnerable has come to nought.
(19) Widefeller thumped it behind for a corner, which came to nought.
(20) And it turned out all Ryan’s effort was for nought.