(a.) A word formerly used (as finis is now) at the conclusion of a book to indicate the end.
(a.) Not implied merely, or conveyed by implication; distinctly stated; plain in language; open to the understanding; clear; not obscure or ambiguous; express; unequivocal; as, an explicit declaration.
(a.) Having no disguised meaning or reservation; unreserved; outspoken; -- applied to persons; as, he was earnest and explicit in his statement.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) It transpired that in 65% of the analysed advertisements explicit or implicit claims were made.
(3) Moreover, the most recent combined application of the rat interstitial cell testosterone (RICT) bioassay and a novel multiple-parameter deonvolution model has allowed investigators to dissect plasma concentration profiles of bioactive LH into defined secretory bursts, which have numerically explicit amplitudes, locations in time, and durations, and are acted upon by determinable subject- and study-specific endogenous metabolic clearance rates.
(4) Using an explicit process, the Oregon Health Services Commission has completed the ranking of 714 condition-treatment pairs.
(5) Regressional analysis of relations between loads and the level of inbreeding in the Adyg population showed the explicit interrelation between the load of autosomal-dominant diseases and the Fst correlation coefficient being 0.89.
(6) As of July 1987, 10 states have prohibitory laws, five states have grandmother clauses authorizing practicing midwives under repealed statutes, five states have enabling laws which are not used, and 10 states explicitly permit lay midwives to practice.
(7) But for the mid Atlantic, the models showed that only human-driven global warming could explain the increase in saltiness – the first time such an explicit link has been made between climate change and salinity.
(8) We report the use of a technique for developing guidelines which explicitly seeks to identify areas of agreement and disagreement, and focuses on the reasons that particular decisions were made and the causes of disagreement.
(9) Charge conservation analysis explicitly includes the gating charge when applied in the laboratory frame.
(10) Requesting physicians explicitly identified "no money" or "no insurance" as the primary reason for transfer in 89 per cent of 164 cases in which these data were recorded.
(11) And he failed to engage with these sensible proposals to limit bonuses to a maximum of a year's salary or double that if explicitly backed by shareholders - proposals which even his own MEPs have backed – until the very last minute.
(12) Our model is a development of previous models, but differs in several respects: the overall activity is assumed to be dependent on the error level, the effect of errors in the translating system, giving rise to additional errors in the succeeding generation of products, is explicitly included as a special term in our model, and scavenging enzymes are assumed to break down and eliminate products with a loose structure.
(13) The level of competency in the diagnosis and treatment of common and emergency disorders needed by nonophthalmologists is assessed and then translated into explicit objectives that specify the levels of mastery to be learned.
(14) 1) Without Explicit Action, We Could See More than 4°C of Warming.
(15) Neuronal models in temperature regulation are primarily considered explicit statements of assumptions and premises used in design of experiments and development of descriptive equations concerning the relationships between thermal inputs and control actions.
(16) Control animals were given comparable periods of stimulus presentations, explicitly unpaired.
(17) Assuming that unrecognized or inadequately corrected hypovolemia results in higher mortality and morbidity rates, we developed a systematic approach to resuscitation that would: 1) identify criteria to aid in the recognition of hypovolemia and ensure the expeditious correction of this defect without interfering with diagnostic workup and management; 2) define criteria to prevent fluid overload which may jeopardize the patient's course, and 3) express these criteria in an explicit, systematic, patient care algorithm, ie, protocol, useful to both the resident and the practicing physician.
(18) The Liberal Democrats fought the 2010 election in explicit opposition to free schools and academy plans.
(19) This paper describes a simple procedure designed explicitly for investigating the adequacy of cohort size at the planning stage of a study.
(20) It explicitly guides the decision maker in determining the crucial variables in a clinical decision, and permits both objective data and personal preferences to play a part in decision making.
Pornographic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing.
Example Sentences:
(1) She mentions the show at the Baltic in Gateshead in 2007, when one of her photographs, Klara and Edda Belly-dancing , owned by Elton John, was removed from the exhibition on the grounds that it was pornographic .
(2) One of the judges, Malcolm Muggeridge, resigned halfway through because he felt most of the entries were ill-written and pornographic.
(3) An investigation by Channel 4 news has revealed the site to be "full of pornographic sexual chat", despite it being aimed at children age 13 upwards, and used by some as young as nine years old.
(4) There is a culture of increasingly sexualised images among young people: a culture that says that girls will only get on in life if they live up to the crudest of stereotypes; a culture where pornographic images, some violent, are available at a click on a smartphone or a laptop.
(5) Wilson admitted two counts of making extreme pornographic images and one count of sexual activity with a child.
(6) They claimed, falsely, that he had abandoned his wife and children, that he had behaved inappropriately by touching a man (on the arm) at a public meeting and even that he had sponsored a pornographic website – all lies.
(7) In addition, 39% of the battered women (in contrast to 3% of the comparison group) responded in the affirmative to the question, "Has your partner ever upset you by trying to get you to do what he'd seen in pornographic pictures, movies, or books?"
(8) Or Malcolm McDowell’s performance in the semi-pornographic 1979 film Caligula, produced by Penthouse supremo Bob Guccione .
(9) Saunders said he accepted that Brooks hid the material, which included pornographic DVDs, for the reasons that he gave during the trial.
(10) Default-on is a system whereby internet service providers block access to pornographic images as standard, unless the customer opts out of the filters.
(11) These scenes still have a certain, fleeting power and effect – even if we are deadened and wearied by the pornographic thrill of spectacular screen violence.
(12) She recently interviewed a well-known pornographer, while his latest film played in the background.
(13) George made 124 pornographic images of children in that time.
(14) Inside the house are the relics, pristine and pornographic.
(15) It is the kind of letter that might well lead to a distinctly uncomfortable conversation around the breakfast table: this month, between 20,000 and 30,000 German households received legal warnings for having viewed copyrighted pornographic films via the streaming website RedTube.com.
(16) The fact that pornographers found it worth their while to produce and disseminate their wares (which involved some investment and expense) suggested that there was a real market for the stuff.
(17) It's worth remembering that this is the Richard Desmond who made his first fortune through pornographic magazines and adult television (he still owns the Fantasy Channel); then made his second by exercising a ruthless grip on the Express and Star newspapers, cutting staff and squeezing out pay cheques of more than £50m in the middle of the last decade .
(18) If Wetlands is pornographic, it has certainly subverted the genre.
(19) Paris was the place to be, the political atmosphere suited a cartoonist’s work – cartoons fitted with the slogans and graffiti of the time, its poetry.” Willem joined Hara Kiri , Charlie Hebdo ’s precursor, setting himself immediately to work on blasphemy, vicious political satire and “things some people might regard as pornographic”.
(20) So, it seems that scenes conceived with the same bent logic as the Fox network TV series 24 , where torture was routinely shown to elicit vital information, were included for dramatic, political or even pornographic effect.