(n.) That which is gathered, collected, or brought together
(n.) A crowd; an assembly; a congregation.
(n.) A charitable contribution; a collection.
(n.) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
(a.) Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prevalence data has been gathered from several autopsy studies.
(2) On the other hand, when the global results were gathered according to male and female categories, the first one proved to be predominant.
(3) And now here we all were, gathered together at Maine Road, on the brink of relegation.
(4) The image of any radiology facility is a direct result of perceptions gathered by the consumer of their services.
(5) Saline-injected controls started gathering the pups immediately and usually showed all elements of maternal behaviour within 10 min.
(6) 5.49am BST I gather Rudd is now on his way to the Brisvegas Show.
(7) 'This is the upside of the downside': Women's March finds hope in defiance Read more As thousands gathered for the afternoon rally and march, Trump tweeted his solidarity with their action.
(8) Down the road another group of protesters gathered outside the chain-link fence surrounding the Marriott's perimeter.
(9) The striking improvements in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in diabetic and non-diabetic Aborigines after a temporary reversion to a traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle highlight the potentially reversible nature of the detrimental effects of lifestyle change, particularly in young people who have not yet developed diabetes.
(10) His bracelets and his hair, neatly gathered in a colourful elasticated band, contrast with his unflashy day-to-day uniform of checked shirts, jeans or cheap chinos and trainers.
(11) Ethological methods were employed to gather normative data on social behavior in long stay male inpatients in the ward environment.
(12) A microcomputer system is described for the collection, analysis and printing of the physiological data gathered during a urodynamic investigation.
(13) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
(14) The interior minister, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, left a gathering of the Mexican diplomatic corps to take a call from President Enrique Peña Nieto.
(15) Shelby Quast, of Equality Now, said the gathering could be a “tipping point” and act as a catalyst for change, so that girls in the US could finally be protected: “It’s the first time that members of the government are coming around the table to meet with civil society, survivors and members of the diaspora – this is the first step towards putting together a comprehensive action plan to tackling FGM.” Campaigners are calling for the government to look at practical ways that FGM could be wiped out in the United States – such as engaging with paediatricians and other doctors, immigration officers and visa offices.
(16) It also seems to be a bit useless as a way of gathering intelligence.
(17) The pair woke up early and gathered their birth certificates, social security cards and passports before making the roughly three-hour commute.
(18) Measures of physical development were gathered at birth and at ages 3, 5 and 7 years on a sample of over 800 children as part of a multidisciplinary development study.
(19) This is why a campaign , orchestrated by Ali and last week discussed in parliament, is gathering speed, and clued-up ministers grow anxious.
(20) This paper reports selected results of a quantitative study of the affective behavior of the Efe, exchange-dependent hunter-gatherers of the Ituri forest in northeastern Zaire.
Smoker
Definition:
(n.) One who dries or preserves by smoke.
(n.) One who smokes tobacco or the like.
(n.) A smoking car or compartment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prevalence was also higher in medium and heavy smokers.
(2) It has been speculated that these cigarette smoke-induced alterations contribute to the depressed pulmonary defense mechanisms commonly demonstrated in smokers.
(3) It is stated, that it is impossible to strive to effectively control the smoking habit neither by way of the consulting hours for smokers nor by means of the 5-days-plans.
(4) But employers who have followed a fair procedure may have the right to discipline or finally dismiss any smoker who refuses to accept the new rules.
(5) In contrast to many other studies, cigarette smokers were at elevated risk (OR = 1.7, 95% CI = 0.9-3.0).
(6) Alveolar deposition, however, assessed in terms of particle retention at 24 hours, was significantly (p less than 0.01) less in the smokers.
(7) The ABI figures revealed that the best annuity for someone who is a heavy smoker and has severely impaired health was at Prudential, which paid out 46% more than the worst, from Friends Life.
(8) Twelve young male smokers each participated in four conditions on 4 separate days: stress + nicotine, stress + placebo (stress alone), rest + nicotine (nicotine alone), and rest + placebo.
(9) At cut-off levels chosen to yield the same false positive rate the quantitative DBA method detected 93% of smokers, close to that of 98% detected with the cotinine RIA.
(10) Smokers who have had changes of above said subsets of lymphocytes in the lungs may develop lung cancer.
(11) Serum estradiol and estrone levels during oral hormone administration were lower in smokers than in nonsmokers, whereas no differences related to smoking habits were observed during percutaneous hormone administration.
(12) After a four-week period on a placebo, hypertensive smokers were treated with slow-release nicardipine 40 mg twice daily for six months and were checked at the end of the placebo period, after the first dose of nicardipine and at the end of six months of therapy.
(13) Cigarette smokers did not differ significantly from users of smokeless tobacco regarding hypercholesterolemia.
(14) In 227 smokers' clinic clients who managed at least one week of abstinence, ratings of withdrawal symptoms were used to predict subsequent return to smoking.
(15) It was shown, that the rate of disaccustoming was higher for light smokers than for smokers with a high consumption of cigarettes.
(16) Smoking behaviour, self-reported mood and cardiac activity were examined in 12 "sedative" and 12 "stimulant" smokers, defined using Mangan and Golding's questionnaire.
(17) The effect of nicotine on the nervous system during rapid smoking of two calibrated cigarettes was measured in twenty subjects: light, medium, heavy and non-smokers, across the changes of a number of electrophysiological variables and in different situations.
(18) While millions have stopped smoking in the past two decades, about 55 million people continue to smoke in the U.S. Of these smokers 85% would like to quit, and a majority have tried to do so at least once.
(19) We investigated the effect of vitamin E (dl-alpha-tocopherol) on lipid peroxidation in 13 healthy smokers.
(20) These reversible changes in adrenergic regulation after smoking cessation may be associated with the relatively rapid reduction in cardiovascular disease risk among ex-smokers.