(n.) The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
(n.) That which is expected or looked for.
(n.) The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to happen; prospect of anything good to come, esp. of property or rank.
(n.) The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. Expectations are computed for or against the occurrence of the event.
(n.) The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Philip Shaw, chief economist at broker Investec, expects CPI to hit 5.1%, just shy of the 5.2% reached in September 2008, as the utility hikes alone add 0.4% to inflation.
(2) This study compares the mortality of U.S. white males with that of Swedish males who have had the highest reported male life expectancies in the world since the early 1960s.
(3) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(4) Compound Z has the properties expected of an oxidized MPT precursor.
(5) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(6) Hearing loss at 8 kHz would shorten the I-V interval, while a loss at 4 kHz would be expected to lengthen the interval.
(7) Moreover, one may expect satisfactory results in most cases.
(8) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(9) The image was altered in the expected way, which means that the device is suitable for investigating the possibilities of different filters to improve the diagnostic ability.
(10) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
(11) But if you want to sustain a long-term relationship, it's important to try to develop other erotic interests and skills, because most partners will expect and demand that.
(12) A reduction in neonatal deaths from this cause might be expected if facilities for antenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy were made available, although this raises grave ethical problems.
(13) The presence of the expected C19 neutral and C18 phenolic steroids was confirmed.
(14) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(15) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
(16) "We presently are involved in a number of intellectual property lawsuits, and as we face increasing competition and gain an increasingly high profile, we expect the number of patent and other intellectual property claims against us to grow," the company said.
(17) The process of integrating the two banks is expected to take three years, with predictions that up to 25,000 roles could eventually be eliminated.
(18) Contrary to expectations, low SES was not associated with greater levels of hyperglycemia or grades of retinopathy.
(19) In these conditions, glucose uptake was sensitive and correlated to the expected membrane potentials.
(20) This fact suggested that TCTFP may be metabolized intensively by glutathione (GSH) conjugation and therefore, like hexachlorobutadiene, would be expected to be nephrotoxic.
Tarry
Definition:
(n.) Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.
(v. i.) To stay or remain behind; to wait.
(v. i.) To delay; to put off going or coming; to loiter.
(v. i.) To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge.
(v. t.) To delay; to defer; to put off.
(v. t.) To wait for; to stay or stop for.
(n.) Stay; stop; delay.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the next 8 months, she repeated abdominal pain, tarry stool and subcutaneous hemorrhage for three times and after an angiography large hematoma at puncture site appeared.
(2) Initially, the steer passed tarry feces for 2 days, but no feces were passed for 4 days before examination.
(3) Endoscopic examination of a 35-year-old patient complaining of tarry stool, palpitation and lumbago led to a diagnosis of gastric cancer of Borrmann type 4.
(4) Uncommon also is the tarrying behaviour of nephropathy.
(5) They waited, swaying like new calves, still wet from their tarry sacs, swinging umbrella-sized cranes.
(6) Many authors have reported that urological anomalies associate commonly with this syndrome, but recently a new concept of this syndrome was proposed by Tarry and associates.
(7) Postoperatively, tarry stool was passed, for which she received an examination at the department of internal medicine.
(8) With single (35 patients) and five-consecutive-day (36 patients) administration, the dose-limiting factor was found to be tarry stool, remarkable decrease in hemoglobin content, and strong nipple and breast pain.
(9) Tarry a minute on Prince, before we get on to the commissioning splice that led to two different organisations being paid for this stewarding, while some stewards themselves got paid with a bag of wet carbohydrate.
(10) A 45 day old boy presented with progressive abdominal distension, tarry stools and anemia.
(11) Its chief executive, Stewart Wingate, said: “A low-cost carrier flying to the Big Apple for a small price shows how fast aviation is changing and highlights one of a series of future trends that will have a huge bearing on the UK’s runways debate.” The airport unveiled a new report by independent aviation consultant Chris Tarry, which set out how the latest generation of aircraft could affect London airport expansion, with a fuel economy, size and range that lowers the need for connecting passengers and opens up the development of low-cost long-haul services.
(12) A 61-year-old man with weight loss, malaise, and tarry stool demonstrated diffuse lymphoma, large-cell type, and two early gastric carcinomas.
(13) The second case is a 40-year-old man who developed tarry stools 5 days after renal transplantation.
(14) The cohort was studied because employment in some of the plants had been linked to malignant and nonmalignant skin lesions attributed to exposure to tarry by-products.
(15) At one point in this first volume, Twain observes that man is loving and loveable to his own, but "otherwise the buzzing, busy, trivial enemy of his race – who tarries his little day, does his little dirt, commends himself to God, and then goes out into the darkness, to return no more, and send no messages back – selfish even in death".
(16) In December, 1986, repeated tarry stool was noted, and he was readmitted to hospital on January, 28, 1987, because of severe anemia.
(17) Sometimes, when I've missed the football by choosing to tarry in the pub, I discover that I don't need the English subtitles at all and can understand perfectly what lovely Birgitte is saying in her native Danish.
(18) Reported is the case of a 57-year-old male patient, who manifested tarry stool and who had undergone a subtotal gastrectomy at our hospital in 1983 for an early carcinoma, type IIc, which proved to be a well differentiated tubular adenocarcinoma.
(19) On twenty-one months after discharge, the patient noticed left leg pain and tarry stool, and was referred to our hospital.
(20) A 65-year-old male was admitted complaining of tarry stool and angina.