(n.) Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air.
(n.) To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter.
(v. i.) To pass through a filter; to percolate.
(n.) Same as Philter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(2) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
(3) The image was altered in the expected way, which means that the device is suitable for investigating the possibilities of different filters to improve the diagnostic ability.
(4) The flow properties of white cells were tested after myocardial infarction, by measuring the filtration rates of cell suspensions through 8 microns pore filters.
(5) A technique, using Nuclepore polycarbonate membrane filters as a containing medium for very small volumes of ionic standard solutions, to produce homogeneous ice standards is described.
(6) The method is implemented with a digital non-causal (zero-phase shift) filter, based on the convolution with a finite impulse response, to make the computation time compatible with the use of low-cost microcomputers.
(7) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
(8) For obstruction of greater than or equal to 50% of the pulmonary vascular cross-sectional area and pulmonary hypertension thrombolytic therapy should be given and insertion of an inferior caval filter can be considered.
(9) Erythrocyte filterability, blood viscosity, changes in the blood picture, and three blood coagulation factors (antithrombin III, protein C, and fibrin monomers) were investigated.
(10) Incubation of the blocked filters with radiolabeled DNA under optimal binding conditions and subsequent autoradiography reveals high-affinity DNA-protein interactions.
(11) Binding of uPA to filters was blocked by a synthetic oligopeptide containing the known receptor binding region of native uPA.
(12) Results of this sort are reminiscent of several related findings that have been attributed to auditory adaptation or enhancement, or to a temporally developing critical-band filter.
(13) A facility for keeping chickens free of Marek's disease (MD) was obtained by adopting a system of filtered air under positive pressure (FAPP) for ventilation, and by imposing restrictions on entrance of articles, materials and personnel.
(14) The survival and the interactions of selected, hygienically relevant bacterial species in activated carbon filters was investigated.
(15) Decreases in the level of triglycerides and prebetalipoproteins were noted after filtering but the differences were not significant.
(16) The electron spectroscopic diffraction (ESD) mode of operation of an energy-filtering electron microscope offers the possibility of being able to avoid the background from inelastic scattering in selected-area electron diffraction patterns.
(17) In an effort to decrease the treatment time for this technique, the flattening filter has been removed from an AECL Therac-6 linear accelerator and the characteristics of the resulting beam have been measured.
(18) Microbiological investigations made by membrane filtration method on antiseptics and disinfectants demonstrated that the filtering membranes present very frequently a remarkable antimicrobial activity, even after washing with 300 ml of peptone water according to the guidelines of the Pharmacopoeia.
(19) According to the duration of filtered QRS (fQRS), to the voltage of root mean square of the terminal 40 ms (RMS 40) and to the duration of low amplitude terminal components of the sinus cycles, ventricular late potentials were detected in nine out of 29 subjects.
(20) Insertion of IVC filters by percutaneous approach was successfully performed in 6 patients with recurrent pulmonary embolism.
Tammy
Definition:
(n.) A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, -- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.
(n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of this material; a tamis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wisconsin elected the first openly gay senator, Tammy Baldwin.
(2) What she'd sing at a karaoke and Lambrini night Anything by Tammy Wynette.
(3) Unfortunately, Tammy’s test wasn’t good enough, and her attempt resulted in a “head, a moustache and necktie”.
(4) Tammy Mercure ( tammymercure.com) is a photographer living in Nashville, TN , who has travelled widely in the region.
(5) But she concludes that the influence of money in politics is such that she needed to stay and fight it – raising the $7m in outside money spent against Tammy Duckworth in a single congressional election: "Changing the role of money in politics is really a very important motivator for me."
(6) Humans use stereotypes as a cognitive shortcut and we’re all prone to it,” said Tammy Campbell, author of the article to be published in the Journal of Social Policy .
(7) For more than 20 years Tammy has been leading trips like this, bringing people out into the kind of villages – rural, indigenous, thin on votes – that politicians didn’t visit, helping Quechua families earn a living from the hiking paths and food and stories that only they knew.
(8) Updated at 3.57pm GMT 3.49pm GMT Barack Obama speaks at Green Bay, Wisconsin, rally Making his first campaign appearance for four days, Barack Obama lands in front on a modest crowd at a chilly airport in Green Bay, where he's appearing with Tammy Baldwin , likely to be Wisconsin's next US senator if the polls are anything to go by.
(9) A subset of lymphocyte CD44 molecules is modified by covalent linkage to chondroitin sulfate (Jalkanen, S., M. Jalkanen, R. Bargatze, M. Tammi, and E. C. Butcher.
(10) Tammy Baldwin, of Wisconsin, made history by becoming the first openly gay US senator .
(11) Then she angrily told Kroft: I'm not sitting here, some little woman, standing by my man like Tammy Wynette .
(12) US election 2016: Trump and Clinton watch votes as Florida 'razor close' – live Read more On a night of dashed hopes in the presidential election, Democratic morale was buoyed slightly by a Senate victory in Illinois, where congresswoman Tammy Duckworth beat the Republican incumbent, Mark Kirk.
(13) Among those joining the Senate will be Tammy Baldwin, of Wisconsin, who made history twice over.
(14) Tammy Samede, as the principal named defendant, said outside the court: "This is not the end.
(15) sneers Tammy, 19, regardless of Hayley's growing ire.
(16) Labor's Patrick Dodson says Indigenous treaty should be an option Read more On Tuesday, Shorten was campaigning in Perth with Labor’s candidate for Swan, human rights activist and Indigenous woman Tammy Solonec.
(17) He's called Lee, and he's a smart bloke, keen to impress on me that he's a Guardian reader, and old enough to remember a time when the conceptual artist who has assembled him and 16 of his co-workers here today wasn't a conceptual artist: the brief but spectacular era when Bill Drummond was one half of the biggest-selling singles band in the world, the KLF, who made No 1 in 18 countries with a single on which Tammy Wynette sang about the Illuminati and ice cream vans; and the period before that when Drummond was a record company man, band manager and the subject of much music press debate about whether he was a genius or just a headcase.
(18) This summer has been historically bad at the box office: Fourth of July weekend was down a whopping 42% , despite the industry catering toward the international market (Transformers) and women (Tammy), and the US box office this month dropped over 50% from a year ago .
(19) John Cooper QC, representing the principal defendant, Tammy Samede, denies the camp has any or "any significant implications" for the rights and freedoms of others.
(20) The race between Tammy Baldwin , a longtime Democratic congresswoman who would be the first openly lesbian Senator, and Tommy Thompson , a former governor and Bush cabinet official, is very close, and it's set new records in Wisconsin for spending.