(n.) The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.
(n.) The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance.
(n.) The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape.
(n.) A form; a shape.
Example Sentences:
(1) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
(2) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
(3) The populations of Asia-Oceania have some features of the class II RFLPs in common, which are distinctly different from Caucasoids.
(4) The secondary leukemia that occurred in these patients could be distinguished from the secondary leukemia that occurs after treatment with alkylating agents by the following: a shorter latency period; a predominance of monocytic or myelomonocytic features; and frequent cytogenetic abnormalities involving 11q23.
(5) A marked overlap of input from the two eyes is an unusual feature for a diprotodont marsupial and has previously been seen only in the feathertail glider.
(6) Descriptive features of the syndrome in children, adults and adolescents are given based on the respective work of Pine, Masterson and Kernberg.
(7) The leukemic T-cells in two patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) had specific features of large granular lymphocytes (LGL), and those in two patients with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) had L2 morphologic characteristics.
(8) There was no association of DPA1 or DPB1 RFLPs with clinical features.
(9) A new propaganda video by Islamic State featuring the British photojournalist John Cantlie, in which he says it is the “last film in this series”, has appeared online.
(10) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(11) Airbnb also features a number of independently posted holiday rentals in Brazil's favelas.
(12) The clinical aspects, the modality of onset and diffusion of the lymphoma, its macroscopic and histopathological features and the different therapeutic approaches are discussed.
(13) Many features of CFTR activity suggest that pharmacological interventions may be possible.
(14) The types, frequency, and clinical features of neoplasms encountered in the perinatal period are markedly different from those observed in older children and adolescents.
(15) We assumed that the sensory messages received at a given level are transformed by a stochastic process, called Alopex, in a way which maximizes responses in central feature analyzers.
(16) In self-opinions on own appearance the children mentioned teeth as a feature which they would like to change as first.
(17) A comprehensive review of the roentgenographic features of calcium pyrophosphate crystal deposition disease (pseudogout) is presented.
(18) Extensive sequence homologies and other genetic features are shared with the related oncogenic virus, human papillomavirus type 16, especially in the major reading frames.
(19) Instead of later renal failure and, of course, mental retardation, it was the histological features of the fetus eyes which permit to diagnose and exhibit both congenital cataract and irido-corneal angle dysgenesis.
(20) A striking feature of BEN is the familial occurrence of the disease.
Nudge
Definition:
(v. t.) To touch gently, as with the elbow, in order to call attention or convey intimation.
(n.) A gentle push, or jog, as with the elbow.
Example Sentences:
(1) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(2) His report was widely rubbished at the time for lack of supporting evidence, and the addition of Osborne's sweeteners (or nudges, perhaps?)
(3) There may, however, be a large section on "the nudge unit", otherwise known as the cabinet office's behavioural insights team .
(4) So it must be very tempting to introduce "nudge" legislation.
(5) Unsurprisingly, one of the three lonely references at the end of O'Reilly's essay is to a 2012 speech entitled " Regulation: Looking Backward, Looking Forward" by Cass Sunstein , the prominent American legal scholar who is the chief theorist of the nudging state.
(6) Nicholls, who had qualified automatically for the final, scored 85.5 from the judges on his first run but was eventually nudged out of the medals.
(7) When Javier Hernández scored from close range to make it 3-0 after his captain Rafael Márquez had nudged on a corner, Mexico and their army of supporters had everything they wanted and more.
(8) With climate change and energy use nudging the top of political and commercial agendas, these are companies that have a stake in how our world develops.
(9) Walters, all alone in the crowd, nudged home after a slight pause.
(10) Breyer, who is on the lefter side of the bench with Ginsburg, nudged her at least eight times during the ceremony, according to the Washington Post .
(11) That should have ended it but Griezmann eventually did, nudging over the line after Saúl had headed Turan’s perfect pass across the face of the goal.
(12) As for Disney’s ‘pressure’ to lose weight, she should be even more grateful for being nudged to get healthy.
(13) Geoff Mulgan, a former head of the strategy unit at No 10, where Halpern once worked, and who is now the head of Nesta, said the partnership with the nudge unit allowed for talent sharing and international expansion with cities around the world.
(14) Rooney is nudged over by Friedrich, 40 yards out, just to the right.
(15) Schools prove the point: per capita funding falls but free schools and Theresa May’s grammars get (relatively small) financial nudges.
(16) "Governments whether right or left have become commissioners in chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of," said Iannucci.
(17) The unit may offer contracts based on risk and reward so that if its advice to public- or private-sector bodies does lead to significant savings, the nudge unit gets a share.
(18) Someone nudged their friend so I said: "Who do you bank for?"
(19) If the nudge unit has discovered anything, it’s that an understanding of human behaviour is vital for almost all public policy.
(20) Every magistrate hears idiotic excuses from stupid criminals, but this is the DWP's unsubtle nudge that all claimants are fraudsters beneath the skin.