(v. i.) To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.
(v. i.) To ride a horse at a gallop.
(v. i.) Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
(v. t.) To cause to gallop.
(v. i.) A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sounds were loudest along the left sternal border, exhibited an increase in intensity during inspiration and were associated with right atrial gallop sounds and with murmurs of tricuspid regurgitation.
(2) In the rotatory and transverse gallop (examples of the in-phase form of locomotion) the coupling is asymmetrical: on one side it is comparable to pacing (forelimb flexion precedes hindlimb extension), and on the other side to trotting (forelimb flexion follows extension).
(3) The maximum distance galloped daily, which was in period 4, was repeated in period 5.
(4) We contacted Tim and his advisers immediately when we heard he was not going to be part of Shanghai any longer,” Gallop said.
(5) A second example of a compromise of VA is that of a galloping racehorse at very high workloads.
(6) In the second half Gerrard found much more freedom, bombing forward with a familiar gallop and linking up more effectively with his team-mates.
(7) Patients who died suddenly and those survived were similar in respect to age (60, 62 years), sex, location of infarction, presence of coronary risk factors, severity of acute myocardial infarction (Q waves, cardiac enzymes), serum cholesterol levels, evidence of cardiomegaly on roentgenograms, presence of ventricular gallop and drug therapy received.
(8) Certainly it has the feeling of a circus act - riding two galloping horses in front of everyone.
(9) Chapter 1: imagine your hopes and dreams are a galloping stallion, wild and untamed.
(10) From where he stood, the Real Madrid coach watched in awe as barely metres away Gareth Bale started the sprint that ended with him scoring what he admitted was the "biggest" goal of his career: a 50-metre gallop that won the Copa del Rey for Real Madrid .
(11) Following an initial maintenance period without forced exercise, workload was increased in succeeding 18-d periods by doubling the distance the horses were galloped in each period from period 2 through 4.
(12) A fine period of passing is undone by a brainless gallop forwards by Kebe, who just knocks the ball into the nearest defender.
(13) The Argentinian raced on to a ball on the right of the area and chipped it inside, where Maicon came galloping in to bundle home at the second attempt.
(14) The timing interval between the onset of knee extensor EMG (vastus lateralis) and the onset of the ipsilateral elbow flexor EMG (brachialis) was studied in adult cats during overground walking, trotting and galloping.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lakota youth riders of the “Horse Nation” gallop bareback at Standing Rock.
(16) The chief executive of Football Federation Australia, David Gallop, told local media it had been involved in interviews and the production of documents.
(17) Hence his eventual nickname, the Galloping Major, though like most such "army" footballers, he was seldom to be seen on parade.
(18) A protodiastolic gallop proved to be a relative specific but insensitive sign of poor ventricular function.
(19) 12.53pm GMT 8 min: With Manchester City attacking down the inside right, David Silva slides a lovely pass through to Pablo Zabaleta, who was galloping up the touchline on the overlap.
(20) In the London agencies where she worked in the 80s, overt sexism was rife, but Gallop says she didn’t notice “because that was the way things were.
Utility
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being useful; usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manure upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility of medicines.
(n.) Adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants; intrinsic value. See Note under Value, 2.
(n.) Happiness; the greatest good, or happiness, of the greatest number, -- the foundation of utilitarianism.
Example Sentences:
(1) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
(2) Philip Shaw, chief economist at broker Investec, expects CPI to hit 5.1%, just shy of the 5.2% reached in September 2008, as the utility hikes alone add 0.4% to inflation.
(3) Estimates of the risk probability for each dose level and sacrifice time are found utilizing the sample likelihood as the posterior density.
(4) Irradiation of stored red blood cells (RBC) is increasingly utilized for patients who are immunosuppressed or on chemotherapeutic regimens.
(5) The approach was to determine the relative importance of predisposing, enabling, and medical need factors in explaining utilization rates among younger and older enrollees of an HMO.
(6) Utilizing a range of operative Michaelis-Menten parameters that characterize phenytoin elimination via a single capacity-limited pathway, a situation assuming instantaneous absorption (case I) is compared with the situation in which continuous constant-rate absorption occurs (case II).
(7) Decreased synthesis rather than increased utilization accounted for the nucleoside effect.
(8) The authors present the first results on the utilization of fish infusion (IFP) as a basic medium for the cultivation of bacteria.
(9) The durable power of attorney concept, though not free of problems, appears more likely to be of practical utility.
(10) Parallel studies in vivo were carried out to determine the contribution of the phosphatidylserine decarboxylase pathway, relative to pathways utilizing ethanolamine directly, to the synthesis of brain ethanolamine glycerophospholipids.
(11) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
(12) Utilization of inert materials like teflon, makrolon, and stainless steel warrants experimental and possibly clinical application of the developed small constrictor.
(13) Several aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are herein shown to catalyze the AMP----ADP and ADP----ATP exchange reactions (in the absence of tRNAs) by utilizing a transfer of the gamma-phosphate of ATP to reactive AMP and ADP intermediates that are probably the mixed anhydrides of the nucleotide and the corresponding amino acid.
(14) Superior results have been achieved utilizing alternative regimens that include VP-16, the most effective new agent.
(15) Utilization of the immunoglobulin system is based upon the supposition that in lymphoid neoplasms with clonal origin either all or none of the tumor cells should have surface-associated IgM and kappa-reactivities.
(16) The total amount of variance explained in the frequency of utilization (47%) exceeded that explained by other studies of utilization of various health services by the elderly.
(17) Ketanserin is a specific S2 serotonergic receptor blocker with possible adrenergic blocking activities that has clinical utility in the treatment of hypertension.
(18) In this study, protein efficiency ratio and net protein utilization together with the kinetic estimates of protein turnover were used to compare the effect of different protein and fat sources in healthy rats.
(19) Although this operational classification does not produce etiologically homogeneous groups, it is believed to have pragmatic utility with respect to planning targeted surveillance and management strategies.
(20) The results of our utilization review were conveyed to local hospitals and the blood supplier in an effort to preserved donor blood.