(v. i.) To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.
(v. i.) To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence.
(v. i.) Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.
(v. i.) Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.
(v. i.) A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.
(v.) Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door.
(v.) Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
(v.) Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.
(v.) Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.
(v.) Tenacious; retentive.
(v.) Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.
(v.) Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.
(v.) Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver.
(a.) In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.
(a.) In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.
(n.) That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.
(n.) The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison of the S100 alpha-binding protein profiles in fast- and slow-twitch fibers of various species revealed few, if any, species- or fiber type-specific S100 binding proteins.
(2) A leg ulcer in a 52-year-old renal transplant patient yielded foamy histiocytes containing acid-fast bacilli subsequently identified as a Runyon group III Mycobacterium.
(3) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(4) Diphenoxylate-induced hypoxia was the major problem and was associated with slow or fast respirations, hypotonia or rigidity, cardiac arrest, and in 3 cases cerebral edema and death.
(5) Two hours after refeeding rats fasted for 48 h, ODC activity increased 40-fold in mucosa from the intact jejunum and 4-fold in the mucosa of the bypassed segments.
(6) Five of them had a fast-moving Eco RI fragment 5.6 kb long that hybridized with zeta-specific probe but not with alpha-specific probe.
(7) A previous study, on grade IV astrocytomas, compared a combination of photons and fast neutron boost to photons only, both treatments being delivered following a concentrated irradiation schedule.
(8) J., 4 (1985) 1709-1714) and fast pH changes were applied with a technique developed by Davies et al.
(9) Glucose metabolic rates during control and reperfusion were unchanged for hearts from fasted rats, but decreased for hearts from fed rats during reperfusion.
(10) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
(11) Despite the nearly anaerobic state of the ascites tumor fluid in vivo, cancer cells suspended in this fluid oxidized FFA at least as fast as they do in vitro under aerobic conditions.
(12) Inhibition of fast axonal transport by an antibody specific for kinesin provides direct evidence that kinesin is involved in the translocation of membrane-bounded organelles in axons.
(13) A quantitative index of duodenogastric reflux was obtained in each case by determining the percentage of the injected dose of 99mTechnetium-DISIDA that was recovered by continuous aspiration of gastric juice in fasting subjects.
(14) Variations in light chain composition, particularly fast and slow myosin light chain 1, appeared to occur independently of the variations in heavy chain composition, suggesting that some myosin molecules consist of mixtures of slow- and fast-type subunits.
(15) These analyses were carried out on unfractionated culture fluids and on fractions obtained by fast protein liquid chromatography separation using Superose 6 gels.
(16) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
(17) Normal rat soleus myosin has a major slow and a minor fast component due to two populations of muscle fibers.
(18) The effects of insulin on the renal handling of sodium, potassium, calcium, and phosphate were studied in man while maintaining the blood glucose concentration at the fasting level by negative feedback servocontrol of a variable glucose infusion.
(19) Plasma and red cell sorbitol concentrations, fasting plasma glucose, glycosylated hemoglobin (GHb) were evaluated in 30 diabetic patients and 42 normal subjects.
(20) Acid-fast bacilli were isolated from 3 out of 41 mice inoculoted with heat killed bacilli.
Quarantine
Definition:
(n.) A space of forty days; -- used of Lent.
(n.) Specifically, the term, originally of forty days, during which a ship arriving in port, and suspected of being infected a malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse; also, the place where infected or prohibited vessels are stationed.
(n.) The period of forty days during which the widow had the privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized.
(v. t.) To compel to remain at a distance, or in a given place, without intercourse, when suspected of having contagious disease; to put under, or in, quarantine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Policies recommending quarantine, isolation, mandatory testing of certain populations, and vigorous public education are explored.
(2) Control measures against the disease include quarantine restrictions and prevention by means of specific preparations of active and passive effect.
(3) Huge blocks of frozen meat at a cold store in Northern Ireland, Freeza Foods, which had been quarantined by officials suspicious of its labelling and state of packaging, were found to contain 80% horse.
(4) More than 40 people known to have come into contact with her have been quarantined.
(5) Quarantines appeared to be effective in restricting the VEE virus activity to south Texas.
(6) A one month quarantine period for incoming stock was established, and only gI-seronegative pigs were admitted to the herd.
(7) They also confirmed there was no guarantee that the fund will not supplant existing National Health and Medical Research Council funding – which is not quarantined.
(8) Barbara Shaw, the Alice Springs-based anti-Intervention campaigner, speaks of how welfare quarantining particularly rankles with Indigenous people who remembered the not-so-distant past: “There are a lot of people out there who, when they were young fellas, they only got paid rations.
(9) Pham’s dog, held in quarantine in Dallas, has also tested negative for Ebola .
(10) Pertinent themes in the history of responses to epidemic disease in the United States in the past two hundred years include an initial underestimation of the severity of the epidemic; the prevalence of fear and anxiety; flight, denial, and scape-goating as a result of fear; efforts to quarantine and isolate carriers and the sick; the assertion of rational policies by coalitions of business, government, and medical leaders; the recruitment of a special cadre of physicians to treat the sick; the similarity of responses to both epidemic and endemic infectious diseases; and the high cost of epidemics, which is shared by government, philanthropy, and private individuals.
(11) It provides a measure of relief and reassurance.” Five of the students who had been under quarantine or monitoring returned to school on Monday, and the remaining students will be back in school by Tuesday, Dallas Independent School District superintendent Mike Miles said Monday.
(12) He was unable to embrace her because of the quarantine restrictions.
(13) Conventional approaches to public health stemming from epidemics of the 19th century included mandatory screening, isolation, quarantine, contact tracing, and breaking patient confidentiality.
(14) In Brisbane during October 1988 one larva of the exotic dengue vector Aedes albopictus (Skuse) was collected by quarantine officers from a consignment of used vehicle tyres imported from Asia.
(15) Can we help my dad to come?’ And they fixed his papers to come to this country,” said Duncan’s brother Wilfred Smallwood, whose son, Oliver Smallwood, remains in quarantine with the rest of the household that hosted Duncan before he was diagnosed with Ebola .
(16) It was recommended to extend the quarantine areas as well as the radius of ring vaccination and to prolong the period of quarantine.
(17) We recommend that virus detection software be installed on personal computers where the interchange of diskettes among computers is necessary, that write-protect tabs be placed on all program master diskettes and data diskettes where data are being read and not written, that in the event of a computer virus outbreak, all available diskettes be quarantined and scanned by virus detection software, and to facilitate quarantine and scanning in an outbreak, that diskettes be stored in organized files.
(18) Immediately after beginning to feel ill and discovering he was running a slight fever, the cameraman quarantined himself and sought medical advice.
(19) The rarity of Marburg and Ebola virus transmission, decreasing use of imported African monkeys, and quarantine efforts have presumably been responsible for the lack of additional episodes until 1989, when a new filovirus related to Ebola was isolated from quarantined monkeys in Reston, Virginia.
(20) The system of monitoring, quarantine and isolation was established to protect those who cared for Mr Duncan as well as the community at large by identifying any potential ebola cases as early as possible and getting those individuals into treatment immediately.” Duncan travelled from Liberia to the US on 19 September to join his girlfriend, Louise Troh, the mother of his son, Karsiah.