(n.) Something done or achieved; a deed or an action; an adventure.
(n.) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
(n.) A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story.
(n.) Gesture; bearing; deportment.
(n.) A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest.
(n.) A roll recting the several stages arranged for a royal progress. Many of them are extant in the herald's office.
Example Sentences:
(1) EE2 was exclusively bound to albumin, whereas GEST and KDG were also bound to sex-hormone binding globulin (SHBG).
(2) The dystonia began 1 to 4 days after the trauma and differed clinically from idiopathic torticollis by marked limitation of range of motion, lack of improvement after sleep ("honeymoon period"), and absence of geste antagonistique.
(3) These data demonstrate that the three contraceptive steroids EE2, GEST and KDG were all bound extensively to serum proteins, however, with pronounced differences concerning their distribution over the various binding proteins.
(4) The results showed that there was a gradual decrease in serum trough levels of GEST during the cycle, due to a concomitant and equally high decrease in SHBG concentrations in the serum of about 26%.
(5) An examination of the free GEST concentrations revealed the same time course of GEST trough levels during the cycle as the simulated curve.
(6) Sows injected with GRF during GEST (P = .05) and(or) LACT (P less than .01) were lighter than CTL sows at weaning; in addition, sows treated during lactation had less backfat (P less than .01).
(7) GEST was mainly bound to SHBG, while KDG was predominantly bound to albumin.
(8) Results of NET, LN and GEST were compared with published in vivo experiments.
(9) SHBG concentrations were correlated with the total concentration of GEST and its free fraction and a positive (r=0.395) and negative (r=0.491) correlation respectively was found.
(10) GEST and KDG were analyzed in individual serum pools whereas EE2 was repeatedly measured in two serum pools, each one representing one treatment group.
(11) SHBG concentrations were correlated with the total concentration of GEST and its free fraction and a positive (r = 0.395) and negative (r = -0.491) correlation respectively was found.
(12) EE2 was exclusively bound to albumin, whereas GEST and KDG were also bound to sex-hormone-binding globulin (SHBG).
(13) Thus, the present study showed that the pharmacokinetics of GEST can be fully explained on the basis of single dose pharmacokinetics and the changes in serum protein binding which were caused by a reduction of SHBG levels in the serum during chronic treatment with GEST.
(14) Drug level decreases (NET, LN, GEST) and prodrug conversions (NETO, NGM) were followed by radiochromatography (HPLC) for 60 min.
(15) The clearance of unbound GEST, however, remained unchanged.
(16) We su-gest that such mixtures may serve as calibrating standards for ion-selective electrodes in clinical analysis.
(17) The above abservations su;gest that sodium deprivation raises ASR by a mechanism or mechanisms unrelated to plasma volume.
(18) Fifty-two Yorkshire x Landrace gilts were equally allotted to four treatments: 1) controls, saline injections (CTL); 2) injections of 12 mg of growth hormone-releasing factor (GRF) (1-29)NH2 thrice daily (0700, 1500, and 2300) from d 100 of gestation until parturition (GEST); 3) injections of GRF thrice daily from d 3 to 29 of lactation (LACT); and 4) injections of GRF thrice daily during gestation (d 100 to parturition) and lactation (d 3 to 29) (GEST-LACT).
(19) GEST AND KDG were analyzed in individual serum pools whereas EE2 was repeatedly measured in 2 serum pools, each representing a treatment group.
(20) The protein binding of ethinyl estradiol (EE2), gestodene (GEST), and 3- keto-desogestrel (KDG) has been determined by ultrafiltration in the serum of women who had either taken a gestodene (n=37) or desogestrel (n=28) containing oral contraceptives for a time period of at least 3 months.
Gesture
Definition:
(n.) Manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.
(n.) A motion of the body or limbs expressive of sentiment or passion; any action or posture intended to express an idea or a passion, or to enforce or emphasize an argument, assertion, or opinion.
(v. t.) To accompany or illustrate with gesture or action; to gesticulate.
(v. i.) To make gestures; to gesticulate.
Example Sentences:
(1) He spoke words of power and depth and passion – and he spoke with a gesture, too.
(2) The present study examines kinematic details of the laryngeal articulatory gesture in 2 deaf speakers and a control subject using transillumination of the larynx.
(3) Therefore this gesture is actually a tribute to the country - they are saying, 'you are rubbish but our rubbish is as good as everyone else's best'.
(4) Finally, it is suggested that the gestural approach clarifies our understanding of phonological development, by positing that prelinguistic units of action are harnessed into (gestural) phonological structures through differentiation and coordination.
(5) The footballer, who plays for club side Gabala and the national team , had waved a Turkish flag during a Europa League match in Cyprus, and appeared to make an obscene gesture at a Greek journalist who asked why he had done so.
(6) Monday's ruling didn't just undercut the mayor's farewell gesture, a capstone in his crusade against unhealthful or just distasteful public behavior, which he was planning to trumpet on Letterman that night.
(7) In a Facebook post , the songwriter and activist claims that Swift has merely chosen sides in the battle between Google and Spotify, saying that the singer was trying to “sell this corporate power play to us as some sort of altruistic gesture in solidarity with struggling music makers”.
(8) Each vocal gesture creates each different vocal style.
(9) "In the same way as the camera tells a different story to reality, it's the same on stage; the gestures that might seem incredibly overblown in the moment are played out differently.
(10) There is no significant support for this unhelpful gesture made by ex-ministers."
(11) President Juan Manuel Santos said he valued the gesture from the Farc, but warned it was not enough.
(12) The study examined 40 adolescent parasuicides' reports of whether they expected to be rescued following parasuicide gestures.
(13) The main effects and interactions of speech and gesture in combination with quantitative models of performance showed the following similarities in information processing between preschoolers and adults: (1) referential evaluation of gestures occurs independently of the evaluation of linguistic reference; (2) speech and gesture are continuous, rather than discrete, sources of information; (3) 5-year-olds and adults combine the two types of information in such a way that the least ambiguous source has the most impact on the judgment.
(14) At the time, he described his scientific quest by gesturing to the ocean: "We're just trying to figure out who fucking lives out there."
(15) Artists round the globe may plead free speech, but to treat the Pussy Riot gesture as a glorious stand for artistic liberty is like praising Johnny Rotten, who did similar things, as the Voltaire of our day.
(16) Significant right-hand asymmetry was found for gestures which depict or represent (motor primary movements,p less than .01) but not for nonrepresentational speech primacy movements.
(17) A worker gestures at one of the entrances of the Lisbon harbour during a strike by Portuguese harbour workers, in Lisbon September 17, 2012.
(18) It’s a present from Putin,” joked another soldier, gesturing in the direction of the shelling.
(19) Mitchell is also pressuring Arab countries for gestures in response to an Israeli settlement freeze such as trade delegations or overflight rights.
(20) This gesture goes some way to acknowledging the hypocrisy of an organisation which has sacked over 21,000 staff, while still attempting to pay bumper bonuses to the bosses.