(n.) The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
(n.) A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.
(n.) An important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an excursion by a body of persons for a valuable end; as, a military, naval, exploring, or scientific expedition; also, the body of persons making such excursion.
Example Sentences:
(1) As novel antibody therapeutics are developed for different malignancies and require evaluation with cells previously uncharacterized as antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) targets, efficient description of key parameters of the assay system expedites the preclinical assessment.
(2) David Hamilton tells me: “The days of westerners leading expeditions to Nepal will pass.
(3) An ice axe, assumed to belong to Irvine, had been discovered in 1933 by the fourth British expedition to the mountain.
(4) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(5) The local inanimate environment, including mess hut, sleeping huts and sleeping bags used on expeditions, was searched for contamination by S. aureus but none was detected.
(6) During his first expedition as a private lecturer together with von Prowazek in Samoa (1910-1911), he discovered the involvement of the eye in filarial infections with Wuchereria bancrofti (Lebers fundus).
(7) The Institute of Cetacean Research, a quasi-governmental body that oversees the hunts, had hoped to use sales from the meat to cover the costs of the whaling fleet's expeditions, she said.
(8) This could be of important use in expediting root-knot nematode resistance (based on the Aps 1-linked resistance gene Mi) screening for breeding programs, or F1 testing for seed production purposes.
(9) I accompanied the Mountain Institute and 32 scientists and engineers from more than 13 countries on an expedition looking into some of the new hazards.
(10) Wada had asked a series of questions to the Kenyan authorities and stressed that we needed the Kenyan government to expedite, and show commitment to, the national anti-doping organisation’s development.
(11) To expedite the development of a personal library data base by medical students, we created MEDFILE, a preprinted, cross-indexed file folder system for organizing the medical literature.
(12) But many have tried similar expeditions - and many too have failed.
(13) Simon Harris-Ward, the survey's director of operations, said no one should underestimate how challenging the expedition had been so far.
(14) The acrophase of the rhythms followed the changes in activity patterns on both expeditions although there was a dissociation between the cortisol and testosterone following an acute 8 hr phase shift in Spitzbergen.
(15) Hitting the slopes here isn’t so much an outing as it is a full-on expedition, albeit one fuelled by hot chocolate and whisky toddies at the bottom of every run.
(16) The subjects were 11 climbing members (aged 21 to 43 years) of the Kyoto University Medical Research Expedition of Xixabangma (8,027 m) in 1990.
(17) I took a group of army cadets out into the middle of West Sussex from central London on a Duke of Edinburgh expedition and it was the first time they had really seen a cow and had to cross a field with a cow [in it].
(18) Four fit young men participating in a high altitude mountaineering expedition took part in a 15-day trial of two high-calorie dietary supplements.
(19) Progressive body weight loss occurs during high mountain expeditions, but whether it is due to hypoxia, inadequate diet, malabsorption, or the multiple stresses of the harsh environment is unknown.
(20) Her body has now been brought to Kathmandu from the mountain,” said Phu Tenzi Sherpa of the Seven Summit Treks, which organised her expedition.
Journey
Definition:
(n.) The travel or work of a day.
(n.) Travel or passage from one place to another; hence, figuratively, a passage through life.
(v. i.) To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance.
(v. t.) To traverse; to travel over or through.
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 Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
(3) For his lone, perilous journey that defied the US occupation authorities, Burchett was pilloried, not least by his embedded colleagues.
(4) The buses recently went up by 50p per journey, but my wages went up with national inflation which was pennies.
(5) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
(6) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(7) The development of pulmonary edema in high-altitude residents with upper respiratory infections and no antecedent low-altitude journey is consistent with the presence of other factors such as inflammation, which may play a role in the pathogenesis of the edema.
(8) "I saw my role, and continue to do so, as doing everything I can to accelerate the Lib Dems' journey from a party of protest to a party of government," he said.
(9) An alternative route is the one via Paris, from where the journey continues to Holland or Great Britain.
(10) His torturous journey for a safer life has led to no life .
(11) He points to the seat where his friend was hit; he says only pride prevents him from lying on the floor for the entire journey.
(12) Davies, who worked closely with AHTSYL's producers to ensure an accurate picture, worries that some medical stories are sold solely as "emotional journeys".
(13) Greece standoff over €86bn bailout eases after Brussels deal Read more But while the bailout chiefs are poised to agree on a route map, the journey for the Greek people seems no less long and arduous.
(14) We wish to thank once again all the Chinese people and people around the world who have supported Beijing 2022 in this extraordinary bid journey.” Earlier, the president Xi threw his weight behind China’s bid, promising the “strongest support” for the Beijing Games in a one-minute video address to the IOC delegates.
(15) On Saturday I made my second trip to the campsite in Lower Stumble – my first journey was on 28 July.
(16) One of those queueing on Sunday morning was Veerle Schmits, 43, a social services worker from Haringey, north London, who was due to travel to Belgium on Saturday to see her family for a belated new year’s party but was forced to delay her journey.
(17) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).
(18) Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian A journey that started five years ago with a promise to bring Labour together – to avoid the civil strife that traditionally followed election defeat – risks ending where it began: contemplating electoral wilderness.
(19) During their last conversation in April, Gulru told her that Isis had given the family $30,000 for their journey to Aleppo.
(20) But the controversy generated by Lindsay Lohan's Indian Journey, documenting the Hollywood actor's investigation into child trafficking was not quite matched by its ratings, with 224,000 viewers on Thursday, 1 April.