(a.) Distant in any direction; not near; remote; mutually separated by a wide space or extent.
(a.) Remote from purpose; contrary to design or wishes; as, far be it from me to justify cruelty.
(a.) Remote in affection or obedience; at a distance, morally or spiritually; t enmity with; alienated.
(a.) Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character.
(a.) The more distant of two; as, the far side (called also off side) of a horse, that is, the right side, or the one opposite to the rider when he mounts.
(adv.) To a great extent or distance of space; widely; as, we are separated far from each other.
(adv.) To a great distance in time from any point; remotely; as, he pushed his researches far into antiquity.
(adv.) In great part; as, the day is far spent.
(adv.) In a great proportion; by many degrees; very much; deeply; greatly.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
(2) As far as acrophase table is concerned for all enzymes and fractions the acrophase occurred during the night.
(3) A commensurate rise in both smoking and adenocarcinoma has occurred in the Far East where the incidence rate (40%) is twice that of North America or Europe.
(4) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(5) It contains 10,000 apartments so far, in blocks that might appear Soviet but for shades of blue, green and yellow.
(6) 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.
(7) Mary's grief, which lasts for about the first half of the two-hour premiere special, is the finest work of the series so far by Michelle Dockery.
(8) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
(9) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.
(10) Little is so far known of the origin of this syndrome.
(11) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
(12) Unlikely, he laughs: "We were founded on the idea of distributing information as far as possible."
(13) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
(14) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
(15) In general, air from the mediastinum far more often enters the left pleural cavity than the right one.
(16) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
(17) We demonstrated that while the protein was incorporated into the cell layer at 6, 24, 48, and 72 hr, a far greater amount was secreted into the media.
(18) Still, even as unknowable as this decision may be for him, as any decision is, really, he is far more qualified to understand his desires and goals that would inform that decision than anyone else is.
(19) They include the Francoist slogan "Arriba España" and the yoke-and-arrows symbol of the far right Falange, whose members killed the women.
(20) For each of the goals, some were far from complying.
Fra
Definition:
(adv. & prep.) Fro.
(n.) Brother; -- a title of a monk of friar; as, Fra Angelo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Taking this into account, we derived equilibrium equations for the fragile X [fra(X)] genotype frequencies.
(2) In this paper we present data on the cognitive abilities analyzed by systematic, standardized psychometric testing in 18 fra(X) boys who participated in a multicenter, longitudinal study.
(3) In female relatives, a relationship was found between the fra(X) carrier status and psychopathology including schizoaffective and major affective disorders.
(4) In the second family, there is a severe mentally retarded 3-year-old boy with fra (X) syndrome who besides typical phenotipic changes also exhibits symptoms of autism.
(5) By using a two-step procedure, it is possible to screen a large population of the mentally retarded for fra(X) without testing each male cytogenetically.
(6) If this proves reliable, a request for a fra(X) cytogenetic analysis could be limited to the clinically screened matching cases, rather than the present costly exercise of testing all undiagnosed intellectually handicapped children.
(7) The precipitating FCE reaction antibody (FRA) in sera of rabbits at 20 min and 24 h after i.v.
(8) In the growth-arrested cells, a small amount of 6.8 kilobase (kb) fra-2 transcript was synthesized and several species (40-46 kilodaltons (kd) of hypophosphorylated fra-2 gene products (Fra-2) were detected.
(9) Since 1985, we have provided coordinated DNA-based and cytogenetic prenatal analysis for couples at risk for offspring afflicted with the fragile X [fra(X)] syndrome.
(10) The fra(12)(q24.2) was expressed in 34%-48% of metaphases in lymphocyte cultures from carriers when BrdU and FdU were added 6.5 h before harvest, while the expression ranged between 5% and 20% when the cultures were treated with BrdU alone.
(11) In the preschool age group the majority of fra(X) boys was mildly mentally retarded.
(12) In addition, one published fra(X) pedigree includes an apparently normal male who expresses cytogenetically the fra(X) site at high frequency and who has 3 daughters.
(13) The FPG, HbA1C and FRA levels in diabetic subjects distributed over a wide range overlapping largely with the distributions of non-diabetic subjects.
(14) The reliable detection of fra(X)(q27.3) in prenatal samples is important for providing genetic counseling.
(15) Some hypotheses, explaining complicated mechanism of fra-X syndrome inheritance are discussed.
(16) The ultrastructural localization of immunoglobulins (IgG, IgA, IgM), complement component (C3c), or fibrinogen-related antigen (FRA) was investigated on 5 biopsy samples from 5 children with idiopathic MN or lupus nephritis using protein A-gold (PAG) complex method.
(17) Although most males with the fragile-X [fra(X)] syndrome do not reproduce, there are 2 published pedigrees that include affected males who have daughters and who thus appear to have transmitted the fragile-X chromosome to their progeny.
(18) Effective Fis fell within the excitatory FRA of a given multi-unit.
(19) Thirteen patients were found to carry fra(X) (6.5%).
(20) In this paper we report the results of a brief examination of verbal learning and memory in 20 heterozygous fragile X [fra(X)] positive females and in 2 control groups of 20 subjects each.