(n.) Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline.
(n.) An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.
(n.) A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass.
(n.) A series of steps.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
(2) With prolonged ischemia, it is only transient and is followed by a gradual loss of the adenylyl cyclase activity.
(3) The number of axons displaying peptide-like immunoreactivity within the optic nerve, retinal or cerebral to the crush, and within the optic chiasm gradually decreased after 2-3 months.
(4) The deep cerebellar nuclei were moderately labeled at birth and gradually decreased in density thereafter.
(5) There is a gradual loosening of the adolescent's emotional dependence on her parents and a transfer of dependency ties to peers.
(6) In a steady-state exercise test this difference developed gradually during the first 10 min of exercise.
(7) Gradual evolutionary change by natural selection operates so slowly within established species that it cannot account for the major features of evolution.
(8) It was shown that gradual recovery of spike wave patterns occurred from initial water swallowing to successive dry swalllowing.
(9) Size of both areas gradually decreased as the medulla filled with plasma cells, 7-30 days after injection.
(10) The general tendency of gradual CBF reduction from the pedicle to the distal end of all the flaps was observed.
(11) In contrast to findings in the rat and dog, no sharp drop but a gradual fall in CLi was observed at decreasing FENa values down to 0.02%.
(12) In this study patients who had successfully been treated with loreclezole in previous studies were gradually withdrawn from their antiepileptic comedication.
(13) Ten animals served as sedentary controls, the 10 experimental animals were subjected to a training program with gradually increasing intensity of 18 weeks duration on a motor-driven treadmill.
(14) A radical rearrangement of the organism occurred gradually: initially oval in shape, the parasite became round, then elongated, flattened, and underwent cytokinesis.
(15) + inf., pons + medulla), rCBF increased toward the control level gradually, and it completely recovered 60 min after recirculation.
(16) Following uninephrectomy a more gradual regression took place and normal cardiac weight was not obtained until 3 weeks.
(17) This process may be achieved by co-ordinated synthesis and translation of new mRNA or gradual accumulation of constitutively synthesized mRNA, followed by coordinated translational activation.
(18) After more than 10 weeks, CD34+, CD33- cells gradually recovered, as erythroid burst colony-forming cells increased following GM colony-forming cells.
(19) BC treatment was reinstituted, and the serum PRL level decreased gradually without recurrent CSF rhinorrhea.
(20) We conclude that CJD-related neuropathological phenomena do not accumulate gradually through the incubation period but develop relatively abruptly and in complete form.
Inching
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inch
Example Sentences:
(1) Terminal forces directed posteriorly and to the right and with a delay no longer than 0,03 inches do not warrant the diagnosis of left anterior hemiblock with a right bundle branch block associated.
(2) But I'm starting with the job that I can do something about right now – scrabbling around on the floor, picking up three-inch nails and cigarette butts so that the new four-year-olds will have somewhere safe to play at break.
(3) Compare her with Megan Draper, who is in a minidress too, but one that is several inches shorter and boasts the swirling lava-lamp prints that may have been seen in Vogue at the time.
(4) Del Bosque had listened to the criticism, all that stuff about it being a negative tactic, and decided not to budge an inch, and who can blame him?
(5) Below-zero temperatures crowned the top of the US from Idaho to Minnesota, where many roads still had an inch-thick plate of ice, polished smooth by traffic and impervious to ice-melting chemicals.
(6) His opposite number, Roy Carroll, saved at the feet of Sinclair, the County striker Izale McLeod drove inches wide, but in the 24th minute Villa were level, Jack Grealish dancing through a series of attempted tackles before putting the ball on a plate inside the penalty area for the hugely promising Adama Traoré to thump past Carroll.
(7) Two sets of a twin-focus X-ray tube and a 12-inch image intensifier (II) were mounted on the gantry in the isocentric and cross-firing positions.
(8) Rainfall over 3+ inches will follow this wind line.
(9) We were advised not to, partly because we didn't want to encourage more column inches, but also because it made us sound so much more exciting and interesting than we were.
(10) Seeb slams a copy of their licence application on the table – it's well over an inch thick.
(11) Listen to Stoopid Symbol Of Woman Hate or Can't Stand Up For 40-Inch Busts (both songs were inspired by a hatred of sexist advertising) and you can hear Amon Duul and Hawkwind scaring the living shit out of Devo and Clock DVA.
(12) A complete 0.018-inch slot straight-wire appliance was used to align the teeth, close lower spaces, and detail the occlusion.
(13) The stiffness tester and torque meter were found to yield nearly the same measurements of bending deformation for orthodontic wires as small as .007 inch diameter, provided the different bending apparatus are calibrated to each other.
(14) Westwood came within an inch of clawing back a shot with a firm, brave putt, but went to the 16th having to birdie his way to the clubhouse to pull off a minor miracle.
(15) So should we indulge our nut cravings or will that just add inches to the waist?
(16) The artist covered every inch of the steps in front of his house in tiles, ceramics and mirrors – originally in the green, yellow, blue and white of the Brazilian flag, later adding tiles in other colours brought by visitors.
(17) A Staphylococcus strain was inoculated on the top and cut surfaces of freshly baked Southern custard pies which were then packaged in a pasteboard carton and held at 30 C. Daily plate counts of surface sections 0.3 inch (0.76 cm) in thickness were made.
(18) Nigeria is “inching closer” to securing the release of 219 schoolgirls kidnapped six months ago, despite fears that reports of a ceasefire with the Islamist militant group Boko Haram have not come to fruition.
(19) In fact, Wilson is 6ft 4ins tall, about an inch taller than Brown.
(20) Immediately after the final, Pistorius said Oliveira and Blake Leeper, the American bronze medallist, were racing on blades that were "unfair" because they added four inches to their height.