(n.) The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.
(n.) The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion.
(n.) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.
(n.) Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way.
(v. t.) To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.
(v. t.) To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to.
(v. t.) To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.
(v. t.) To forge or counterfeit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Future Brown have connections in the fashion industry, last year soundtracking a surreal film for the brand Telfar.
(2) Brilliant, old-fashioned speech, from the days before teleprompters became all-dominant.
(3) Our findings demonstrate that interleukin-2 (IL-2), but not interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) or interleukin-1 (IL-1), is able to inhibit the induction of T-cell unresponsiveness in a dose-dependent fashion.
(4) L-NAME abolished B contractions in a dose-dependent fashion.
(5) The primary focus of both nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapy should be to control systemic blood pressure in a simple, affordable, and nontoxic fashion that provides an adequate quality of life.
(6) From this proliferating layer, precursor cells migrate outwards to reach the developing neostriatum in a sequential fashion according to two gradients of histogenesis.
(7) He fashioned alliances with France in the 1950s, and planted the seeds for Israel’s embryonic electronics and aircraft industries.
(8) Ruminal digestion (% of intake) of neutral detergent fiber (NDF) and hemicellulose decreased linearly (P less than .05), whereas acid detergent fiber (ADF) digestion responded in a cubic (P less than .05) fashion to increasing concentrate level; NaHCO3 improved ruminal digestion of NDF (P less than .10) and ADF (P less than .05), but not hemicellulose.
(9) The latter are located within the antigen combining site, since antiidiotypic antisera specifically inhibited the binding of the corresponding immunizing anti-human high-molecular-weight melanoma-associated antigen monoclonal antibody to cultured human melanoma cells Colo 38 in a dose-dependent fashion.
(10) Cholera toxin reduced absorption of water and electrolytes progressively over four hours and induced secretion in a dose dependent fashion.
(11) It is released into the urine in large quantities and thus represents a potential candidate for a protein secreted in a polarized fashion from the apical plasma membrane of epithelial cells in vivo.
(12) It appears that tricyclic antidepressants act in a fashion different from opiate drugs that alter the sensory discriminative component of pain.
(13) Thirty patients were evaluated in a blind fashion to study the effect of oral propranolol on portal hypertension of varied aetiology.
(14) The molecule uncoils above pH 11.5 in a time-dependent fashion.
(15) Isomers and epimers of glucose influence insulin and cAMP in a parallel fashion as do sulfonylurea compounds (tolbutamide and glibenclamide).
(16) Based on these data, we propose that 19-oxygenated androgen intermediates are biosynthesized sequentially in a step-wise fashion as the cytochrome P450 and NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase form transient complexes, and that the amount of isolatable 19-oxygenated androgen is proportional to the amount of excess cytochrome P450 component.
(17) Platelets treated with varying concentrations of collagen and thrombin released osteonectin in a dose-dependent fashion.
(18) If added prior to cellular alignment, immunoglobulins from this serum inhibited fusion of both rat (L6) and mouse (C2) myoblasts in a dose-dependent fashion.
(19) Only centralised nation states had the capacity to collect data across large populations in a standardised fashion and only states had any need for such data in the first place.
(20) However, as already noted by Albert (1979) this is questionable, as average disease duration and survival have increased in a linear fashion related to the number of publications devoted to this subject from 1950 on.
Workable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being worked, or worth working; as, a workable mine; workable clay.
Example Sentences:
(1) This schedule appears workable in the community setting and yields response rates similar to those reported for 5-FU with high-dose leucovorin, but without the gastroin testinal toxicity profile of the latter combination.
(2) The young screenwriters possibly needed to have chalked up a few miles before they could deliver really workable scripts."
(3) Although both systems are workable, improved catheters for the administration of intraperitoneal chemotherapy are warranted.
(4) There are solutions to this and it is to be hoped that a more workable amendment will be laid very soon.
(5) Pender's health promotion model is presented as a workable model on which to base healthy dietary intake programs, and three programs that have used elements similar to this model are presented, one in detail.
(6) Developing a workable system and investing the time to carry it through has many positive outcomes for both the manager and the nursing staff.
(7) A workable alternative policy would be a development program marked by labor-intensive industra lization, nonelite education systems, and the erosion of traditional sex ist roles, thereby undermining the basis for large families.
(8) It can be placed at the time of original surgery and is also workable in patients who have had radiation and extensive radical surgery with total reconstruction of their gullet.
(9) Such a climate of personal responsibility could be created if doctors, educators and policy-makers agreed on some workable, positive goals and steps that would help meet realistic national goals over a defined period of time.
(10) Is it possible that in the end we just won’t arrive at a workable agreement?
(11) Only by developing a comprehensive stress-accident model will comprehensive and workable accident prevention programs be developed to replace the current patchwork of existing programs.
(12) Partly as the result of legislative changes made in 1975 and 1977, Texas has a workable system for dealing with mentally abnormal offenders and assessing the dangerousness of committed offenders.
(13) But the MPs go further and suggest that if none of the mitigating proposals currently being examined prove workable, Osborne should rethink the plans from scratch, buying time by pausing the proposed reforms entirely for a year.
(14) "This is a significant report for the creative industries, taking steps to establish workable systems of copyright in an online age and to preserve choice of public service content."
(15) But the commission said that Britain had not presented any "credible and workable plan" for meeting air quality standards by 2015.
(16) (1) A workable proton-pump mechanism does not require large protein conformational changes.
(17) The therapist's possible counter-transference motives in treating the patient are explored, and a workable solution is offered.
(18) The "teenager" has proved a highly workable rite of passage for the past 70 years.
(19) In 50 years of nuclear power, nobody has come up with a workable plan for the million years that safety regulations demand.
(20) Varying the importance of these characteristics gives us a workable function-generation tool, able to address a variety of clinical needs.