(v. i.) To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail.
(v. i.) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.
(v. i.) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
(v. i.) To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker; as, a sick man fails.
(v. i.) To perish; to die; -- used of a person.
(v. i.) To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation.
(v. i.) To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
(v. i.) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
(v. i.) To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
(v. t.) To be wanting to ; to be insufficient for; to disappoint; to desert.
(v. t.) To miss of attaining; to lose.
(v. i.) Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
(v. i.) Death; decease.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intrathecal injection of zopiclone potentiated morphine antinociception, while the intracerebroventricular injection of zopiclone failed to enhance morphine antinociception and the intracerebroventricular injection of flumazepil to antagonize the intraperitoneal-zopiclone-induced increase in morphine antinociception.
(2) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(3) The inquiry found the law enforcement agencies routinely fail to record the professions of those whose communications data records they access under Ripa.
(4) It is suggested that the normal cyclical release of LH is inhibited in PCO disease by a negative feedback by androgens to the hypothalamus or the pituitary, and that wedge resection should be reserved for patients in whom other forms of treatment have failed.
(5) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
(6) Several efforts to extradite Polanski to California have failed.
(7) Administration of aminonucleoside and daunomycin produced proteinuria but did not cause a decrease in lipid P. Anticollagen and anti-lymphocyte sera that attached to the basement membrane but failed to produce proteinuria, also failed to affect the phospholipid content.
(8) An official inquiry into the Rotherham abuse scandal blamed failings by Rotherham council and South Yorkshire police.
(9) Amid the acrimony of the failed debate on the Malaysia Agreement, something was missed or forgotten: many in the left had changed their mind.
(10) Four of the nine patients failed to show any clinical or hematological improvement.
(11) In cases in which CT was also performed, it revealed corresponding hypodensities in two infarctions, but failed to reveal the foci of gliosis (or noncavital infarction), demyelination, or brain cyst.
(12) Even in the failed cases, 25-42% of subjects considered the treatment as good.
(13) Dzeko he has failed to hold down a starting berth since his £27m move in January 2011.
(14) Prothrombin isolation on DEAE Sephadex failed to separate the abnormal population (prothrombin Clamart) from the normal one.
(15) The starting point is the idea that the current system, because it works against biodiversity but fails to increase productivity, is broken.
(16) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
(17) In contrast, albino rats and rabbits failed to succumb to overt disease by subcutaneous and intraperitoneal routes of inoculation.
(18) It was recently demonstrated that MRL-lpr lymphoid cells transferred into lethally irradiated MRL- +mice unexpectedly failed to induce the early onset of lupus syndrome and massive lymphadenopathy of the donor, instead they caused a severe wasting syndrome resembling graft-vs-host (GvH) disease.
(19) In the controlled wound care group, only three ulcers in three patients achieved complete healing; the remaining 24 ulcers in 20 patients failed to achieve even 50% healing in the stipulated 3-month period.
(20) The former Stoke City manager Pulis had reportedly been left frustrated by the club failing to push through deals for various players he targeted to strengthen the Palace squad.
Fil
Definition:
() imp. of Fall, v. i. Fell.
Example Sentences:
(1) From these results we concluded that the mutants have some defect in cell division after low doses of UV irradiation, similar to the lon(-) or fil(+) mutant of E. coli.
(2) They were able to retransform Fil- and Fil+ yeast strains at high frequency and transformants displayed a slightly unstable phenotype.
(3) This sensitivity is associated with the genetic deficiencies, fil, phr, and recA.
(4) The glass-ionomer cements used were: Ketac-Fil (ESPE), Ketac-Silver (ESPE), Fuji-II (GC), and Miracle Mix (GC).
(5) Five GIC's (Intact, Fuji II, Orthocem B, ChemFil II, and Ketac Fil[capsulated]) and one composite resin (Concise) were tested by bonding GAC eyelets, with a curved photo-etched base, to the buccal surface of human premolars.
(6) There was no evidence of marginal penetration of a tracer dye around Class V preparations lined with a BIS-GMA sealant, filled with Nuva-fil (a composite restorative material), and covered with the sealant.
(7) The distal cavities were restored with Ketac-Fil Glass Ionomer (ESPE).
(8) Based on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel La Dame aux Camélias, it is a collaboration between Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (the creators of Les Misérables and Miss Saigon) with a score by Oscar-winning film composer Michel Legrand.
(9) This study determined the effect of different light exposure times on the polymerization of three composite resins used as cements (Heliosit, Visio-Fil, and Dual) through various thicknesses and shades of two preprocessed composite resins (Isosit and Visio-Gem).
(10) Two mechanically mixed glass ionomer restorative materials (Ketac-Fil and Fuji Cap II) were compared with two manually mixed products (Chelon-Fil and Fuji Type II).
(11) It was also significantly faster than the Vacu-fil and the Instafil with the cuff for filling batches of 60 DMPBs with 100 mL of diluent.
(12) Patients with diffuse FIL had significantly higher values for alkaline phosphatase (p = 0.0016) and serum asparate aminotransferase (p = 0.0251) than those who had the focal pattern.
(13) FIL density was further increased in the body membrane of the procyclic culture form.
(14) Last summer, the fast food outlet Chick-fil-A was inundated with tens of thousands of orders after its CEO made comments hostile to gay marriage.
(15) This study compares the microleakage of a glass ionomer cement, Ketac Fil, used without cavity conditioning, with the established intermediate restorative materials, Cavit-W, and a reinforced zinc oxide-eugenol cement, Kalzinol.
(16) The colour match of the ChemFil II restorations was significantly better than the Fuji Cap II and Ketac-fil Aplicap restorations.
(17) The latter showed higher values but not at a statistically significant level; 3) Both Ketac-Fil and Fuji II provided high bond strengths when the repair occurred on a newly set surface (15 minutes); 4) When Ketac-Fil and Fuji II specimens were repaired at 24 hours, shear bond strength was lower compared to the repair bond strength at 15 minutes and demonstrated less cohesive ability; 5) When 6-day-old specimens were repaired, Fuji II provided higher bond strength values than Ketac-Fil.
(18) The aims of this study were to investigate in vivo the release of fluoride from three glass ionomer cements (GICs) Vitrebond, Ketac-Fil and ChemFil II into the saliva of preschool children for a 1-year period and also to study in vitro the release-absorption-release of fluoride from the same GICs for 16 weeks.
(19) Forty Class II carious lesions were randomly assigned for restoration with one of two composites: Status or Ful-Fil; and using one of two techniques: with and without a glass ionomer base.
(20) Prisma Universal Bond with Prisma-Fil on one group and Prisma Universal Bond and Heliomolar in the other.