(n.) Something given freely or without recompense; a free gift; a present.
(n.) Something voluntarily given in return for a favor or service, as a recompense or acknowledgment.
Example Sentences:
(1) I was and am very grateful – indeed I gave him very nearly a pound in gratuity.
(2) By transforming the provision of medical care in this way, the giving and accepting of gratuities for doctors could be terminated, not only in law but also in the economy.
(3) Although CBAP is not a true gratuitous inducer, operationally it approaches gratuity for induction of B. licheniformis penicillinase better than other known inducers.
(4) The induction studied under conditions of gratuity with the latter compound as an inducer showed immediate linear kinetics only at saturating inducer concentrations.
(5) He may have won some votes by stating: "I would like to make it clear as I did this past weekend that I am against the MP's gratuity bonus."
(6) A local guide would take us there and we could give him a gratuity if we wished.
(7) The habit of giving a gratuity became so frequent at the end of the 1950's that counter-measures were enacted.
(8) But the Pentagon said it cannot grant these families a "death gratuity" to cover the burial and other expenses as long as the budget impasse continues.
(9) · An eight-day holiday joining the Cottonwood Ranch Horse and Cattle drive starts from £1,040 per person including full board, transfers, taxes and gratuities.
(10) When 4 mM Ca2+ is added gratuitiously in the reaction mixture synthesizing prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) from arachidonic acid and cofactors by membrane associated microsomal multienzyme system (MES) prepared from goat seminal vesicles, one observes an immediate lag in the production of PGE2.
(11) The authorisation for the dam project was one of dozens of specific spending amendments introduced in the Senate deal, ranging from a “gratuity of $174,000 for the widow of Senator Lautenberg” (Frank Lautenberg, the long-serving New Jersey senator who died in June ) to “authority for activities to counter Lord’s Resistance Army” in Uganda.
(12) Although granting and accepting gratuities is forbidden by law, the wages of doctors have been fixed since 1954, for so long that accepting gratuities has come to be considered part of the wages, even in semi-official comments and in the media.
Propine
Definition:
(v. t.) To pledge; to offer as a toast or a health in the manner of drinking, that is, by drinking first and passing the cup.
(v. t.) Hence, to give in token of friendship.
(v. t.) To give, or deliver; to subject.
(n.) A pledge.
(n.) A gift; esp., drink money.
(n.) Same as Allylene.
Example Sentences:
(1) This alcohol oxidase oxidizes not only methanol but also lower primary alcohols (C2-C4), 2-propin-1-ol and formaldehyde.
(2) Propine contains the following: dipivefrin, 0.1%; mannitol, 1.89%; sodium metabisulfite, 0.075%; disodium edetate, 0.0127%; and benzalkonium chloride, 0.004%.
(3) There was no significant difference between the intraocular lowering effect of the two preparations, and 60% of patients receiving Propine and 66% of those receiving adrenaline noted side effects.
(4) Iontophoresis was performed once at 0.5 mAmp for five minutes and 0.1% Propine drops were instilled four times a day beginning three days after iontophoresis and continuing for five consecutive days.
(5) Dipivefrin alone reproduced each patient's initial Propine-induced conjunctivitis; symptoms occurred unilaterally in one patient and bilaterally in the other four patients.
(6) In 12 ulcer patients in attack and in 6 healthy subjects the secretory test to insulin (Hollender test) was used and repeated after 48 hrs in association with propranolol (Propins test).
(7) Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) ocular shedding and recurrent HSV-1 corneal epithelial lesions were assessed after ocular iontophoresis of 0.1% 6-hydroxydopamine followed by topical ocular instillation of 0.1% Propine in ten rabbits latently infected with HSV-1 strain McKrae.
(8) Derivatives of propionic and acetic acids (propinate, dalapon, MCAA, DCAA, and TCAA) did not exhibit any appreciable inhibiting effect under the experimental conditions.
(9) Fumarate, 3-phenyl-2-propinate, 2-enoyl-methyl and CoA esters proved not to be substrates for the purified reductase.
(10) Dipivefrin (Propine) is an effective ocular hypotensive agent.
(11) It therefore results that by using our "Propins" test it is possible to estimate the prevalence of the vagal-cholinergic or the beta-adrenergic (gastrinic) mechanism in the pathogenesis of duodenal ulcer.
(12) The facial nerve from the point of view of its arterial supply must be considered as a nerve of the middle fossa and represent the major risk of embolization in the propinal middle meningeal artery.
(13) Statistically, both dipivefrin (Propine) and levobunolol (Betagan) were found to be more expensive.
(14) We studied five patients with adverse local reactions to dipivefrin (Propine) eye drops.
(15) The results of this single-blind randomised trial comparing adrenaline 1% with dipivalyl epinephrine (Propine) 0.1% confirm that both have a significant effect in lowering the intraocular pressure in patients with open-angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension, but it is generally insufficient to warrant their use as the first line medical treatment of these two conditions.