(n.) A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell.
(n.) A barren or rocky hill.
(n.) A wild field; a moor.
(v. i.) To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down.
(n.) The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting.
(v. t.) To sew or hem; -- said of seams.
(n.) A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses.
(n.) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 76 patients (73%) radionuclide and hemodynamic data fell in the same category.
(2) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
(3) Accidentally discovered nearly 40 years ago as the first true antidepressants, the MAOIs soon fell into disfavor due to concerns about toxicity and seemingly lesser efficacy compared with the newer tricyclic compounds.
(4) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
(5) mycoides cluster' at a similarity level (S) of 66% and which remained undivided at up to 78% S. At higher similarity levels, these strains fell heterogeneously into mixed sub-phenons containing strains of both subspecies.
(6) The mean acne scores, derived from grading and counting lesions and comedones, fell from 63.3 to 6 in the Diane 50 and from 64.2 to 4.5 in the Triphasil group.
(7) Acute and chronic experiments were performed and, in both, the hepatic concentration of GSH fell during the first 6 h after haemorrhage; this fall was followed by a significant rebound elevation at 24 h. In the chronic haemorrhage experiment the hepatic GSH level was normal at 1 week after haemorrhage.
(8) After haemorrhage in conscious rabbits total renal blood flow fell by 25%, this fall being confined to the superficial renal cortex.
(9) Blood pressure rose and heart rate fell in proportion to the dose of noradrenaline infused.
(10) In the remaining 60 patients (35 with atherosclerotic stenosis and 25 with fibromuscular dysplasia), both mean systolic and diastolic pressure fell immediately after percutaneous transluminal dilatation and remained significantly lower for a period of up to five years.
(11) TRH levels in serum fell and then returned to initial levels after L-DOPA administration in primary or pituitary hypothyroidism.
(12) The patients with phrynoderma fell into two groups.
(13) After effective treatment the level fell and rose again 10 months prior to the conventional clinical diagnosis of relapse.
(14) Urinary excretion of hydroxyproline fell significantly in patients receiving ND, whereas the biochemical indices of bone formation did not change (alkaline phosphatase) or increased (osteocalcin; P less than 0.01).
(15) Entries for French fell by 0.5%, compared with a 13.2% fall last year, and entries for German fell by 5.5% compared with a 13.2% fall in 2011.
(16) By all 50 O sera we found that 71.08%, strains was serotype however, they fell into 42 O ser-types.
(17) In gastric ulcer patients DNA loss or turnover was significantly (p less than 0-01) higher than normal, and fell significantly (p less than 0-01) after four weeks' treatment with carbenoxolone when 16 of the 17 ulcers had healed.
(18) But infrastructure fell for the third consecutive quarter, decreasing by 5.6%.
(19) In 31 patients in whom specific IgE fell to low (less than 6% counts bound) or unmeasurable levels, immunotherapy was discontinued, and sting challenge was carried out 1 to 3 years later.
(20) The absolute number of monocytes and B-lymphocytes fell significantly (p less than 0.01) on the first and second day after exercise.
Strong
Definition:
(superl.) Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.
(superl.) Having passive physical power; having ability to bear or endure; firm; hale; sound; robust; as, a strong constitution; strong health.
(superl.) Solid; tough; not easily broken or injured; able to withstand violence; able to sustain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as, a strong beam; a strong rock; a strong fortress or town.
(superl.) Having great military or naval force; powerful; as, a strong army or fleet; a nation strong at sea.
(superl.) Having great wealth, means, or resources; as, a strong house, or company of merchants.
(superl.) Reaching a certain degree or limit in respect to strength or numbers; as, an army ten thousand strong.
(superl.) Moving with rapidity or force; violent; forcible; impetuous; as, a strong current of water or wind; the wind was strong from the northeast; a strong tide.
(superl.) Adapted to make a deep or effectual impression on the mind or imagination; striking or superior of the kind; powerful; forcible; cogent; as, a strong argument; strong reasons; strong evidence; a strong example; strong language.
(superl.) Ardent; eager; zealous; earnestly engaged; as, a strong partisan; a strong Whig or Tory.
(superl.) Having virtues of great efficacy; or, having a particular quality in a great degree; as, a strong powder or tincture; a strong decoction; strong tea or coffee.
(superl.) Full of spirit; containing a large proportion of alcohol; intoxicating; as, strong liquors.
(superl.) Affecting any sense powerfully; as, strong light, colors, etc.; a strong flavor of onions; a strong scent.
(superl.) Solid; nourishing; as, strong meat.
(superl.) Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as, a strong custom; a strong belief.
(superl.) Violent; vehement; earnest; ardent.
(superl.) Having great force, vigor, power, or the like, as the mind, intellect, or any faculty; as, a man of a strong mind, memory, judgment, or imagination.
(superl.) Tending to higher prices; rising; as, a strong market.
(superl.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) by a variation in the root vowel, and the past participle (usually) by the addition of -en (with or without a change of the root vowel); as in the verbs strive, strove, striven; break, broke, broken; drink, drank, drunk. Opposed to weak, or regular. See Weak.
(superl.) Applied to forms in Anglo-Saxon, etc., which retain the old declensional endings. In the Teutonic languages the vowel stems have held the original endings most firmly, and are called strong; the stems in -n are called weak other constant stems conform, or are irregular.
Example Sentences:
(1) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(2) Perinatal mortality is strongly associated with obstetrical factors, respiratory distress syndrome, and prematurity.
(3) We conclude that the SHBG concentration strongly affects this estimation.
(4) When the data correlating DHT with protein synthesis using both labelling techniques were combined, the curves were parallel and a strong correlation was noted between DHT and protein synthesis over a wide range of values (P less than 0.001).
(5) A strong block to the elongation of nascent RNA transcripts by RNA polymerase II occurs in the 5' part of the mammalian c-fos proto-oncogene.
(6) Importantly, these characteristics were strong predictors of subsequent mortality.
(7) These clones, designated as TcHMC-2, showed strong cytotoxicity against both HMC-2 and K562 cells.
(8) Results demonstrate that the development of biliary strictures is strongly associated with the duration of cold ischemic storage of allografts in both Euro-Collins solution and University of Wisconsin solution.
(9) "There is … a risk that the political, trade, and gas frictions with Russia could lead to strong deterioration in economic relations between the two countries, with a significant drop in Ukraine's exports to and imports from Russia.
(10) Univariate and multivariate analyses indicated previous LBP or back pain in another location of the spine were strongly associated with LBP during the study year.
(11) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
(12) Although the productions of deoxycortisol and androstenedione from 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone were strongly inhibited by progesterone, androstenedione formation from progesterone was not inhibited by a high concentration of progesterone.
(13) Simple cells that are nearly equally dominated by each eye always exhibit strong phase-specific interaction.
(14) The activity is strongly inhibited by SH-blocking reagents (e.g.
(15) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
(16) In 0.17 M Na+(aq), tRNA(Phe) exists in its native conformation and the number of strong binding sites (Ka greater than or equal to 10(4)) was estimated to be 3-4 by titration experiments, in agreement with X-ray structural data for crystalline tRNA(Phe) (Jack et al., 1977).
(17) The remaining 33 sera (13.3 per cent) were classified as low, moderate or strong positives.
(18) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
(19) The accumulated evidence would strongly favor an affirmative answer.
(20) Incubation of membrane with DL-Hcys alone (5 X 10(-5) M), the combination of both Ad (5 X 10(-5)) and DL-Hcys (5 X 10(-5)), or S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine (SAH) (1 X 10(-6)) strongly decreased the methyl ester formation.