(n.) To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up or allow.
(n.) To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of what we buy.
(n.) To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks.
(n.) To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment, a sentence, a shout, etc.
(n.) To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to license; to commission.
(n.) To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show; as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.
(n.) To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder; also in this sense used very frequently in the past participle; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study.
(n.) To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given.
(n.) To allow or admit by way of supposition.
(n.) To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
(n.) To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give offense; to give pleasure or pain.
(n.) To pledge; as, to give one's word.
(n.) To cause; to make; -- with the infinitive; as, to give one to understand, to know, etc.
(v. i.) To give a gift or gifts.
(v. i.) To yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet.
(v. i.) To become soft or moist.
(v. i.) To move; to recede.
(v. i.) To shed tears; to weep.
(v. i.) To have a misgiving.
(v. i.) To open; to lead.
Example Sentences:
(1) He still denied it and said he was giving the girl a lift.
(2) Which means Seattle can't give Jones room to make 13-yard catches as they just did.
(3) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
(4) We will never give up our hope for peace,” added Netanyahu.
(5) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
(6) Q In radioactive decay, different materials decay at different rates, giving different half lives.
(7) In all, 207 cases of liver cancer were seen during this period, giving an incidence of rupture of 14.5%.
(8) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
(9) From us you learn the state of your nation, and especially its management by the people you elected to give your children a better future.
(10) Although, it did give me the confidence to believe that my voice was valid and important.
(11) The Labour MP urged David Cameron to guarantee that officers who give evidence over the alleged paedophile ring in Westminster will not be prosecuted.
(12) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
(13) Combined hypertension treatment with inhibitors of the converting enzyme (ICE) and diuretocs gives manifold advantages, the most important of them is a synergistic action of both drugs resulting in blood pressure decrease and prevention of hypokaliaemia.
(14) "But this is not all Bulgarians and gives a totally wrong picture of what the country is about," she sighed.
(15) The DDE also undergoes photocyclization to give dichlorofluorene derivatives.
(16) Similar results were obtained giving 1.2 g sodium valproate.
(17) Of the N-acetyl cysteamine derivatives tested, S-acetyl-N-acetyl cysteamine (at 10 mM) gives almost complete protection against inactivation whereas S-acetoacetyl-, S-beta-hydroxybutyryl-, and S-crotonyl-N-acetyl cysteamine thioesters exhibit either slight or no protection.
(18) Sinus lining cells give rise to a well defined entity of neoplasia which is proposed to be termed sinus lining cell reticulosarcoma.
(19) Tests were chosen to assess various aspects of monocyte function that give some insight into the host defense status and the degree of "activation" of the monocyte.
(20) The data show that as much as a 9% difference from the correct activity can be observed for these radionuclides, even when the ampoule reference source gives the appropriate reading.
Slightly
Definition:
(adv.) In a slight manner.
(adv.) Slightingly; negligently.
Example Sentences:
(1) A slight varus angle of 2.1 degrees became apparent.
(2) At the moment we are, if anything, slightly lagging."
(3) In schizophrenic patients the density of dopamine uptake sites in the basal ganglia was slightly reduced, mainly in the middle third of putamen.
(4) In the presence of insulin, a qualitatively similar pattern of increasing responses to albumin is observed; the enhancement of each response by insulin is, however, only slightly potentiated by higher albumin concentrations.
(5) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
(6) At the highest dose of chloroquine tested (500 microM), a slightly greater increase in insulin binding and a decrease in insulin degradation were observed in fetal cells as compared with adult cells.
(7) Epidermal growth factor reduced plating efficiency by about 50% for A431 cells in different cell cycle phases whereas a slight increase in plating efficiency was seen for SiHa cells.
(8) )-induced gnawing behavior in rats was slightly more potent than that of clocapramine.
(9) Regression curves indicate that although all three types of pulmonary edema can be characterized by slightly different slopes, the differences are statistically insignificant.
(10) TR was classified as follows: severe (massive systolic opacification and persistence of the microbubbles in the IVC for at least 20 seconds); moderate (moderate systolic opacification lasting less than 20 seconds); mild (slight systolic opacification lasting less than 10 seconds); insignificant TR (sporadic appearance of the contrast medium into the IVC).
(11) When the Tunnel closed, Hardee decamped in 1991 to Up The Creek - a slightly better behaved venue in nearby Greenwich, which Hardee described as "the Tunnel with A-levels".
(12) Gross brain atrophy was slight and equal in both groups.
(13) Men who ever farmed were at slightly elevated risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio = 1.2, 95% confidence interval = 1.0-1.5) that was not linked to specific crops or particular animals.
(14) The binding to DNA-cellulose of heat-activated [3H]RU486-receptor complexes was slightly decreased (37%) when compared with that of the agonist [3H]R5020-receptor complexes (47%).
(15) The scleral arc length is slightly longer than the chord length (caliper setting).
(16) Hyperosmolar buffer slightly increased the sensitivity and maximal response to methacholine as well as the cholinergic twitch to electric field stimulation.
(17) Though three of these presumable metabolites could slightly inhibit the binding of [3H]-KW-3049, they were not detected in rat and dog plasma at 0.5 h after oral administration of KW-3049.
(18) Lambing rates approach 1.5 lambs per ewe per year, but a death rate of 23 per cent and an offtake of 27 per cent, means that flock numbers are probably slightly declining.
(19) Subjects who trained an additional 52 wk showed a slight drop in SV at submaximal work loads from the initial increase following the first 9 wk.
(20) Steroid-treated steers showed a slight decline in synthesis which was significant (P less than 0.05) at week +5 post-implant while amino acid oxidation was significantly lower at weeks +2 (P less than 0.01) and +5 (P less than 0.05) compared with control animals.