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Flagstaff


Definition:

  • (n.) A staff on which a flag is hoisted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Flagstaff in Arizona had 11 inches of snow early Sunday, while metro Phoenix and other parts of central Arizona were drenched with several inches of rain, causing the cancellation of sporting events and parades.
  • (2) Accessing the ruins via ladders has been banned since 1951, and there are no camping or lodging facilities within the park, but accommodation ranging from primitive campsites to upscale luxury hotels can be found in the surrounding Coconino national forest and nearby Sedona and Flagstaff.
  • (3) In June, 19 members of a firefighting crew known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots died near Flagstaff, Arizona , after being forced into emergency shelters when winds shifted, cutting off their escape route.
  • (4) x 3-5 cm in length, W. L. Gore and Associates, Inc., Flagstaff, AZ) placed in the carotid arteries of normal baboons.
  • (5) Gore & Associates, Flagstaff, AZ) and dura for closing large, full thickness abdominal wall defects in terms of resistance to infection, patch separation, and intraperitoneal adhesion formation.
  • (6) The biologic fixation (bone ingrowth) of three prosthetic ligament devices (bovine xenograft Xenotech Laboratories, Inc., Irvine, CA; Gore-Tex, W. L. Gore and Associates, Flagstaff, AZ; and knitted dacron, Stryker, Kalamazoo, MI) and one ligament augmentation device (LAD, braided polypropylene, 3M, St. Paul, MN) were evaluated in vivo.
  • (7) Mayer and Dyer live in a one-level wood cabin a few miles north of downtown Flagstaff, in a wooded area near a field of wildflowers.
  • (8) The five largest pueblos at Wupatki can be visited in a day and make for a nice trip from Flagstaff or a scenic detour on the way to the Grand Canyon.
  • (9) And then there is the Eiffel Tower – the world's tallest flagstaff, according to its designer.
  • (10) Patency rate at 6 months was 60% (three of five) for the Ultraflex graft (experimental graft by Baxter Edwards, CVS Division, Irvine, CA), and 25% (one of four) for the Gore-Tex graft (WL Gore & Associates, Inc., Flagstaff, AZ).
  • (11) Scardino was born in Flagstaff, Arizona, and took British citizenship in January 2002.
  • (12) • 100 North San Francisco Street, +1 928 779 6971, hotelmontevista.com 13 The Museum Club, Flagstaff, Arizona This log cabin was built in 1931 as a taxidermy curio cabinet and became a roadhouse in 1939.
  • (13) Home to the ancient Pueblo people (formerly known as the Anasazi) Wupatki national monument, north of Flagstaff, has the ruins of five pueblos, built from slabs of the region's brick-red Moenkopi sandstone.
  • (14) A parallel strand, prototype, expanded polytetrafluoroethylene graft (W. L. Gore and Associates, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.) was used.
  • (15) More than 80 single-family homes are found tucked into natural limestone overhangs in this canyon, just 10 miles east of Flagstaff.
  • (16) SenesTech, which is based in Flagstaff, Arizona, claims to have created a liquid that will do exactly that.
  • (17) Expanded polytef soft-tissue patch (polytetrafluoroethylene; Gore-Tex Soft-Tissue Patch, Gore-Tex, W. L. Gore & Assoc Inc., Flagstaff, Ariz) was used to help correct midfacial and perioral asymmetries in 11 patients with complete unilateral facial paralysis.
  • (18) • 4802 North Broadway, +1 773 878 5552, greenmilljazz.com 12 Hotel Monte Vista Cocktail Lounge, Flagstaff, Arizona Facebook Twitter Pinterest This place was built in 1926, the year Route 66 opened.
  • (19) After an evaluation of existing membranes and techniques, a procedure was developed using an expanded polytetrafluoroethylene soft tissue patch, 1 mm thick (W. L. Gore and Assoc., Flagstaff, AZ), in conjunction with an alloplast hydroxylapatite bone substitute (HA-500, 40-60 mesh) (Orthomatrix, Minneapolis, MN), to maintain a space for the maturation of the blood clot.
  • (20) To evaluate the effects of Ringer's lactate instillation, Interceed(TC7) (Johnson and Johnson Medical, Inc., New Brunswick NJ), and Gore-Tex Surgical Membrane (W. L. Gore and Associates, Inc., Flagstaff, AZ) in a rat uterine horn model.

Raise


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.
  • (v. t.) To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like.
  • (v. t.) To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace.
  • (v. t.) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room.
  • (v. t.) To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff.
  • (v. t.) To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse.
  • (v. t.) To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite.
  • (v. t.) To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to.
  • (v. t.) To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give rise to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones.
  • (v. t.) To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like.
  • (v. t.) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle.
  • (v. t.) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up.
  • (v. t.) To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush.
  • (v. t.) To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up.
  • (v. t.) To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection.
  • (v. t.) To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread.
  • (v. t.) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light.
  • (v. t.) To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets.
  • (v. t.) To create or constitute; as, to raise a use, that is, to create it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By combined histologic and cytologic examinations, the overall diagnostic rate was raised to 87.7%.
  • (2) I’m not in charge of it but he’s stood up and presented that, and when Jenny, you know, criticised it, or raised some issues about grandparent carers – 3,700 of them he calculated – he said “Let’s sit down”.
  • (3) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
  • (4) The 40 degrees C heating induced an increase in systolic, diastolic, average and pulse pressure at rectal temperature raised to 40 degrees C. Further growth of the body temperature was accompanied by a decrease in the above parameters.
  • (5) 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.
  • (6) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
  • (7) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
  • (8) Theoretical objections have been raised to the use of He-O2 as treatment regimen.
  • (9) The study revealed that hypophysectomy and ventricular injection of AVP dose dependently raised pain threshold and these effects were inhibited by naloxone.
  • (10) Cameron also used the speech to lambast one of the central announcements in the budget - raising the top rate of tax for people earning more than £150,000 to 50p from next year.
  • (11) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
  • (12) A reduction in neonatal deaths from this cause might be expected if facilities for antenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy were made available, although this raises grave ethical problems.
  • (13) Thus the failure to raise anti-Id with internal image characteristics may provide an explanation for the lack of anti-gp120 activity reported in anti-Id antisera raised to multiple anti-CD4 antibodies.
  • (14) In the interim, sonographic studies during pregnancy in women at risk for AIDS may be helpful in identifying fetal intrauterine growth retardation and may help raise our level of suspicion for congenital AIDS.
  • (15) To study these changes more thoroughly, specific monoclonal antibodies of the A and B subunits of calcineurin (protein phosphatase 2B) were raised, and regional alterations in the immunoreactivity of calcineurin in the rat hippocampus were investigated after a transient forebrain ischemic insult causing selective and delayed hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cell damage.
  • (16) The independent but combined use of both antigens, appreciably raises the diagnostic success percentage with regard to that obtained when only one tumour marker was used.
  • (17) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
  • (18) 5) Raise the adult learning grant from £30 to £45 a week.
  • (19) Using polyclonal antibodies raised against yeast p34cdc2, we have detected a 36 kd immunoactive polypeptide in macronuclei which binds to Suc1 (p13)-coated beads and closely follows H1 kinase activity.
  • (20) The enzyme activity can be raised to a plateau by Se supplements, but there is no evidence that supplementation leads to better health.

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