(n.) The main point, as of a question; the point on which an action rests; the pith of a matter; as, the gist of a question.
Example Sentences:
(1) Should authorities decide not to charge Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot Brown , there will be an explosion, Gist predicted.
(2) In a separate ruling today, the appeal court said the government must reveal the gist of "sensitive" intelligence material to Kashif Tariq , whose cousin was convicted in 2008 of conspiracy to murder in the plot to blow up aircraft with liquid bombs.
(3) The GIST for IgE is simple to perform and requires neither short-lived radioisotopes, expensive scintillation detection equipment, nor scarce, purified IgE.
(4) Chilcot announced last month that after years of heated disputes with successive cabinet secretaries, and discussions with Washington, he had agreed to a settlement whereby summaries, and "the gist", of more than a hundred records of conversations between Blair and George Bush in the runup to the invasion, and of records of 200 cabinet discussions, would be published, but not the documents themselves.
(5) Here's the link to their story (in Spanish), but the gist is that Real's Florentino Perez had agreed a €45m fee with Arsenal, only for Ozil to opt against the move.
(6) It was the negative influence of his former disciple, that teutonically resolute Austrian chap that mislead il Duce; we Italians were less ruthless with the Jews – that was the gist of his speech.
(7) We studied "formal thought disorder" in schizophrenics, schizoaffectives, and manics by examining syntax processing and perception of meaning, using the "embedded click" and "memory for gist tasks," two paradigms that were developed by psycholinguists.
(8) Dedicated political obsessives follow his step-by-step guides to why the Tories are wrong, but few others pick up even the gist.
(9) The immune process of sensitisation was induced with "Tenzym prilled" (TP, Grindstedvoerket) and with "Maxatase" (M, Gist-Brocades) protease enzymes in the epicutaneous test (ET), using concentration series and various durations of application.
(10) However, muscle-specific actin (HHF35) caused a positive reaction in most GIST (92%).
(11) Dow is evaluating Earth Genome’s software to see if GIST can help the company make good water infrastructure decisions that conserve resources, control long term water costs, and help it avoid future competition with farmers and cities.
(12) Nevertheless, Williams says that Bryan's emails, or the gist of them, should have been relayed to the CQC inspector responsible for Winterbourne View.
(13) The gist of that diplomatic foot stamping may seem vaguely familiar to those following Australian politics recently.
(14) Preliminary studies indicate that the GIST makes possible nonisotopic measurement of ragweed-specific IgE antibiotics in human serum.
(15) While the people of Doncaster might not know the detail of the national statistics, they are aware of the gist.
(16) 5.42pm BST Some instant reaction to the Berlusconi video message: Vincenzo Scarpetta (@LondonerVince) Gist of #Berlusconi 's video message: He won't quit politics even if ousted from parliament.
(17) Weick says the forecasting functions in GIST allow him to layer on variables such as local population growth and water use trends, which will impact future water pricing.
(18) "I would rather have root canal surgery without anaesthetic than go to Glastonbury," was the gist of her response.
(19) Excluding 24 cases of gastric schwannoma, 96 cases of GIST consisting of 62 benign tumors and 34 sarcoma (low grade, 17; high grade, 17), with 9 cases arising in the esophagus, 57 in the stomach, 28 in the small intestine, and 2 in the colon, were studied.
(20) The final wording was under review by the White House but the basic gist remained unchanged, scientists who worked on the report said.
List
Definition:
(n.) A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a race or combat.
(v. t.) To inclose for combat; as, to list a field.
(v. i.) To hearken; to attend; to listen.
(v. t.) To listen or hearken to.
(v. i.) To desire or choose; to please.
(v. i.) To lean; to incline; as, the ship lists to port.
(n.) Inclination; desire.
(n.) An inclination to one side; as, the ship has a list to starboard.
(n.) A strip forming the woven border or selvedge of cloth, particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it; hence, a strip of cloth; a fillet.
(n.) A limit or boundary; a border.
(n.) The lobe of the ear; the ear itself.
(n.) A stripe.
(n.) A roll or catalogue, that is row or line; a record of names; as, a list of names, books, articles; a list of ratable estate.
(n.) A little square molding; a fillet; -- called also listel.
(n.) A narrow strip of wood, esp. sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.
(n.) A piece of woolen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a workman.
(n.) The first thin coat of tin.
(n.) A wirelike rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
(v. t.) To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colors, or form a border.
(v. t.) To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; as, to list a door; to stripe as if with list.
(v. t.) To enroll; to place or register in a list.
(v. t.) To engage, as a soldier; to enlist.
(v. t.) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of; as, to list a board.
(v. i.) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(2) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
(3) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(4) It is widely seen as a counter to China’s economic might in Asia, and the world’s second largest economy is notably absent from the list of signatories.
(5) The genome characterization of the typing strains for all 13 species of the genus Staphylococcus, included into the Approval List of the Names of Bacterial (1980), is presented.
(6) I have heard from other workers that the list has also been provided to the law enforcement authorities,” Gain says.
(7) There are currently more than 380,000 households on local authority waiting lists in the capital – and the number is growing every day.
(8) Other Christmas favourites, including stollen, organic mince pies and Schweppes tonic will also be included among 100 seasonal products on the list of 1,000 items which shoppers can choose from over the next few months.
(9) The result shows that the great majority of children recorded considerably higher discrimination scores when the tests were performed with their individual hearing aids than with the test lists presented through the audiometer and the TDH-49 earphone.
(10) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
(11) Both enzyme species released 3-methyladenine, 7-methylguanine, and 3-methylguanine, listed in the order of decreasing activity.
(12) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
(13) In conjunction with the development of a computerized goal-oriented record system at Forest Hospital Des Plaines, Illinois, research staff developed a psychiatric goal list from goal statements most frequently used at the hospital.
(14) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
(15) July 7, 2016 Verified account A blue tick that tells you the user is either an A-list celebrity, a respected authority on an important subject or a BuzzFeed employee.
(16) Subjects also rated the pleasantness of 29 foods listed on a questionnaire.
(17) The "Dream Toys" for Christmas list includes a few old favourites alongside some new, and sparkly, additions.
(18) Failure to meet these deadlines, and others listed in the judgement, face a daily fine of 150,000 reais.
(19) Along with a lengthy list of cameos, Girls actor Gaby Hoffmann and Party Down star Martin Starr appear as former Neptune High classmates new to the Veronica Mars universe.
(20) At posttreatment, subjects in both active treatments reported significant improvement on self-report and interview measures of depression while subjects in the waiting list condition reported minimal change.