(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.
Lar
Definition:
(n.) A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house; household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house.
(n.) A species of gibbon (Hylobates lar), found in Burmah. Called also white-handed gibbon.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that both exogenously applied PAF by inhalation and antigen exposure are capable of inducing LAR in sensitized guinea pigs, and thus the priming effect of immunization and PAF may contribute to the development of LAR observed in asthma.
(2) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(3) Substitutes: Andoni Zubizarreta (Spain), Lajos Detari (Hungary), Dragan Stojkovic (Yugoslavia), Igor Belanov (USSR), Preben Elkjær Larsen (Denmark), Lars Larsson (Sweden), Alexandre Zavarov (USSR).
(4) The concentration of the eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) in their sputum did not change significantly in IAR and LAR compared with that before antigen challenge.
(5) Antonio Conte Vicente del Bosque Lars Lagerbäck Didier Deschamps Conte's Italy lost to Deschamps's France in the Euro 2000 final.
(6) Employing an animal model of the LAR in rabbits developed in our laboratory (Am Rev Respir Dis 1982; 126:493-498), we examined changes in airway reactivity and pulmonary inflammation in rabbits having a late asthmatic response.
(7) The late asthmatic response (LAR) is of special interest because it lasts for hours, is prevented by corticosteroids and not adrenergic agents, and is associated with more severe asthma as well as increases in airways responsiveness.
(8) A study of the effects of monthly administration of bromocriptine LAR is currently under progress to assess the long-term efficacy of this drug.
(9) By including the gamma 1- and gamma 2-globin gene sequences from the common gibbon, Hylobates lar, the present work expands the gamma-globin data set to represent all major groups of hominoid primates.
(10) Another group of investigators assume that non-specific hyperreactivity could contribute to the development of the LAR.
(11) All eight temperature-sensitive mutations are confined within a short segment of the LAR domain I sequence between amino acid positions 1329 and 1407.
(12) Spotify has been courting established artists for some time, with Metallica’s Lars Ulrich famously buddying up with Spotify investor Sean Parker on-stage at the announcement of his band’s exclusive deal in December 2012.
(13) Each individual was pretreated with either placebo or four inhalant anti-asthmatic drugs at random and blind in order to modulate the late asthmatic reaction (LAR).
(14) They adhered to and, when capacitated, penetrated the vestments of the oocyte of an ape--the gibbon, Hylobates lar--both in vivo and in vitro.
(15) In order to investigate the mechanism of late asthmatic response (LAR), inhibitory effects of various drugs for LAR were examined in two wheat flour-sensitive asthmatic subjects who showed immediate and late responses in the allergen provocation test and skin test.
(16) These results suggest that anti-IgE antibody is deeply involved in the elicitation of LAR, stressing the importance of eosinophilic infiltration.
(17) We have now examined whether exogenously applied PAF causes LAR in these models in vivo.
(18) After removal of the rectal lesion [eight abdominoperineal resections (APRs), nine Hartmann's procedures, and one low anterior resection (LAR)] in 18 patients with rectal cancer, this new surgical procedure was performed.
(19) LAR to Parietaria occurred in only one of 12 patients in winter, in six of 11 in summer, and in one of six patients in autumn.
(20) Although these alterations in reactivity have been proposed to be associated with inflammation, no clinical study of the LAR has shown both increased airway reactivity and evidence of pulmonary inflammation.