(a.) Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Light testing equipment is fickle by nature, making such units uncommon.
(2) Over the last five years in particular, the main parties' opinion poll ratings have been strikingly fickle.
(3) This was a risky proposition that depended on the good will of gentrifiers, who are famously fickle.
(4) Vinny's fame was quick, fickle and fizzled out a generation ago, hence leaving him quite literally sleeping in a skip, pickled by booze.
(5) It is also unthinking because it takes little account of the pending impact of the falling terms of trade and the sluggish domestic economy, which is being held back by chronic weakness in consumer sentiment and fickle business conditions.
(6) They were there to record everything from his despair at the fickleness of his recruits, to the distress of his wife Jools at the way the media had invaded their privacy, with scurrilous rumours of infidelity.
(7) Bowie wasn't a traditional pop star, happy to be known for one sound or idea then to be discarded by a fickle public.
(8) Washington has long been a fan of the petro-dollar and Obama is proving another fickle enthusiast, flirting with the industry one moment, even as he snaps at it the next – like the coquettish mistress of an oil tycoon.
(9) Could he build a winner to win over sometimes fickle Miami fans?
(10) Raquel Paiva, professor of communications at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, said Brazil was a fickle nation that would probably soon forget this humiliation.
(11) The digital audience is more fickle: we have multiple subscriptions to magazines and newspapers; we leave a spray of comments on different websites.
(12) It is a strange and fickle beast, a flexible friend, dubious and duplicitous, as I was about to find out.
(13) How fickle the rest of the country is to forget its history at the expense of cheaper foreign imports.
(14) These moves are significant because the above list includes some strongly backed National candidates – especially Goold, who led the Headlong company, and Featherstone – but no recent appointee to another theatre could now express interest in Hytner's job without disqualifying themselves because of the appearance of fickleness.
(15) Bernard had become well aware of the fickle ways of Fleet Street and had become canny.
(16) At nearly 50, Ross will need to remain in the public eye lest the fickle world of TV starts to forget about him, but there are other ways of staying noticed in the digital era.
(17) The Scottish National party has repeatedly claimed that English and Welsh politicians would force Scotland to accept cuts or the loss of the Barnett formula if there was a no vote, accusing Westminster parties of being fickle.
(18) While the site is still sizeable it has lost users, business and momentum – extremely dangerous territory for anyone in the fickle internet business.
(19) Given the fickle and hypercritical nature of the group, in conceiving Spamalot Idle had to manage his expectations.
(20) She experienced something that transcended her pretty fickle and changeable musical allegiances.
Fickly
Definition:
(adv.) In a fickle manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) P a hardly changed with the volume of the gas injections (20--60 ml injected within 1 s); Q was not measured after gas injection (the direct Fick method is not usable in this situation).
(2) The sampling rates of the samplers were derived from Fick's First Law of Diffusion.
(3) The rate of oxygen consumption of isolated, Langendorff-circulated, saline-perfused hearts of guinea pigs, rats, and rabbits was measured using the classical Fick Principle method.
(4) High and significant correlations were found between thermodilution and Fick-derived cardiac output at baseline (r = 0.91, p less than 0.001) and post-intervention (r = 0.92, p less than 0.001).
(5) Unidirectional fetomaternal (Jf leads to m) and maternofetal (Jm leads to f) sodium fluxes were determined by application of Fick's principle to uterine and umbilical circulations following injection of 22NaCl or 24NaCl to fetus or mother, respectively.
(6) Cardiac output during exercise was calculated by the direct Fick technique.
(7) Thermal dilution cardiac output determinations in dogs were compared to simultaneously performed Fick oxygen measurements.
(8) Cardiac output was assessed simultaneously by Doppler echocardiography and the Fick oxygen method in 20 patients with aortic prosthetic valves.
(9) Moreover, the computerized Fick method was much more reproducible.
(10) The reproducibility of impedance measurements showed itself to be high, but no agreement of the results by impedance cardigraphy and corresponding values by the Fick method could be found.
(11) Flow measurements made at the tricuspid valve, the pulmonary trunk and the ascending aorta using pulsed Doppler ultrasound correlated well with Fick measurements (r greater than 0.9 at all three sites).
(12) The Fick principle was applied to series and parallel compartmental lung models to determine whether conditions existed under which their differentiation was theoretically possible.
(13) Validation in noncritically ill patients is good when compared to other technologies (e.g., thermodilution, Fick, dye dilution (r greater than 0.9)).
(14) To validate the results, data of measured oxygen uptake and cardiac output calculated by the Fick principle were compared to synchronous thermodilution measurements at rest and during exercise.
(15) Delivered tidal volumes of the system, the accuracy of the oxygen sensor cell, measurement of the oxygen uptake related to different inspiratory oxygen concentrations as well as comparative tests of oxygen uptake according to Fick's principle were studied.
(16) These data were compared with the cardiac output measured by the direct Fick method for oxygen, corrected for venous admixture.
(17) On volunteers without heart diseases the cardiac output according to the Fick principle, the impedance-cardiographic and sphygmographic method at rest and under pharmacological influence is synchronously measured and statistically compared with the found cardiac output according to Fick.
(18) A comparison was made of methods used to calculate cardiac output by the indirect (CO2) Fick procedure (equilibrium method).
(19) The calculation of SCBF is based on Fick's principle transformed by Kety and Schmidt.
(20) A sign test for mean differences indicated that Doppler derived cardiac output was higher than Fick cardiac output, and the chance of this occurring if the true difference was zero was less than 1 in 1,000.