(n.) A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus while the majority of patients with flashes and floaters do merit an urgent ophthalmological opinion, those who complain of a single, isolated floater can safely be reviewed as routine outpatients.
(2) Although there were no specific symptoms which could be correlated to an increased incidence of retinal breaks, those patients who complained of isolated uniocular floaters had an insignificant incidence of breakage, when compared to asymptomatic fellow eyes.
(3) A substantial proportion of the mycobacterial population on an inert surface floated off during its exposure to the glutaraldehyde solution but the 'floaters' were killed at an equivalent rate to the attached bacilli.
(4) Forty-nine patients with bilateral pigmentary dispersion syndrome (abnormal accumulation of pigment in the anterior chamber, principally from the posterior layers of the iris), including 31 patients with pigmentary glaucoma, underwent 10% phenylephrine testing in one eye for evaluation of liberation of pigment floaters into the anterior chamber and the influence of phenylephrine on the intraocular pressure.
(5) Prior to drug application, aqueous cells were observed in none of the cases, while after mydriasis, apparent aqueous floaters appeared in 9.2% of the cases, all of whom were over 40 years of age.
(6) This is underscored by our current inability to explain satisfactorily several patterns including the relative significance of floating, geographic biases in the incidence of cooperative breeding, sexual asymmetries in delayed dispersal, the relationship between delayed dispersal leading to helping behavior and cooperative polygamy, and the rarity of the co-occurrence of helpers and floaters within the same population.
(7) Of 100 patients with a prepapillary annular opacity in age-related posterior vitreous detachment with collapse, 44 had floater symptoms corresponding to their opacity.
(8) 2.02am BST Tigers 1 - Red Sox 0, top of 3rd Don Kelly hits a floater into left field that looks like it will find a piece of turf but Drew tracks it down for the first out.
(9) After Lynch wiggles for three yards, Seattle face a 3rd & 6...in the shotgun, Wilson takes off before sending a floater downfield that barley escapes the fingers of Eric Reid - instead, it falls safely into the hands of Doug Baldwin for 22 yards.
(10) Parker makes a floater that ends the scoring for a crazy last minute.
(11) Yet, much like floaters in your eye, try to focus on these toxins and they scamper from view.
(12) The patients studied comprised four cases with rhegmatogenous retinal detachments and one case with the sudden onset of vitreous floaters with posterior vitreous detachment (PVD).
(13) All patients had either a vitreous hemorrhage, or photopsia and floaters.
(14) Vitreous flare was present in 44% and increase of floaters in 55% of the eyes.
(15) The extreme sensitivity of the instruments enables real-time detection of refractive effects from tear films on the cornea and real-time tracking of floaters.
(16) In 7 eyes a special form of rosettes was found: a rosette scattered in the vitreous body like a floater.
(17) However, equal numbers of whole and PP floaters were deficient in their capacity to present antigen compared with similar populations from spleen.
(18) The project has three phases: a one-day environmental photojournalism workshop; a photography exhibition in schools, malls and government offices and education about how to recycle plastic bottles, such as using them for seaweed floaters.
(19) 1.46am BST Indiana Pacers 14-10 Miami Heat - 5:50 remaining, 1st Quarter The Pacers commit yet another turnover as the officials say the ball has gone off of Lance Stephenson, and Mario Chalmers converts a floater on the other end.
(20) A proportion of the cells remain in the medium as floaters.
Move
Definition:
(v. t.) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a vessel; the horse moves a carriage.
(v. t.) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king.
(v. t.) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
(v. t.) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion; to touch pathetically; to excite, as an emotion.
(v. t.) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be adopted; as, to move to adjourn.
(v. t.) To apply to, as for aid.
(v. i.) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another; as, a ship moves rapidly.
(v. i.) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act; as, to move in a matter.
(v. i.) To change residence; to remove, as from one house, town, or state, to another.
(v. i.) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game.
(n.) The act of moving; a movement.
(n.) The act of moving one of the pieces, from one position to another, in the progress of the game.
(n.) An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
Example Sentences:
(1) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
(2) The International Monetary Fund, which has long urged Nigeria to remove the subsidy, supports the move.
(3) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
(4) Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
(5) The move would require some secondary legislation; higher fines for employers paying less than the minimum wage would require new primary legislation.
(6) Five of them had a fast-moving Eco RI fragment 5.6 kb long that hybridized with zeta-specific probe but not with alpha-specific probe.
(7) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
(8) The move to an alliance model is not only to achieve greater scale and reach, although growing from 15 partner organisations to 50 members is not to be sniffed at.
(9) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(10) Dzeko he has failed to hold down a starting berth since his £27m move in January 2011.
(11) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
(12) The move comes as a poll found that 74% of people want doctors to be allowed to help terminally ill people end their lives.
(13) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
(14) Wright said he had recently shown a family moving from London around a four-bedroom house with a paddock, on sale for £375,000.
(15) Johnson said the move would save businesses £350m from not having to meet the more exacting standards, which will now only have to be met by buses.
(16) Like many families, we’ve had to move to escape the fighting.
(17) Although a variety of new teaching strategies and materials are available in education today, medical education has been slow to move away from the traditional lecture format.
(18) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
(19) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .
(20) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.