(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.
Vail
Definition:
(n. & v. t.) Same as Veil.
(n.) Avails; profit; return; proceeds.
(n.) An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall.
(n.) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; -- usually in the plural.
(v. t.) To let fail; to allow or cause to sink.
(v. t.) To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence, submission, or the like.
(v. i.) To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like.
(n.) Submission; decline; descent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recently, La Vail (1976) demonstrated that the shedding of disks from the tips of rod outer segments followed a circadian rhythm in rats.
(2) With the telephone it was Theodore Vail of AT&T, offering a unified nationwide network and a guarantee that when you picked up the phone you always got a dial tone.
(3) In a previous study (M. S. Lantz, R. D. Allen, T. A. Vail, L. M. Switalski, and M. Hook, J. Bacteriol.
(4) The vice-chair of the Australian Privacy Foundation, David Vaile, has called into question the effectiveness of these safeguards because the authorisations are issued by the defence minister and not a judge.
(5) A week’s ski pass in the Rocky Mountains resort of Vail now costs British visitors £609, with ski hire another £200.
(6) Pollen patterns were compared between Vail, CO (8,200 feet elevation), Aspen, CO (7,900 feet) and Denver, CO (5,280 feet) from 1984 through 1988.
(7) These observations allow the following conclusions: (1) All genetic mutants which cause a reduction in ocular melanin, regardless of the molecular or cell-biological mechanism underlying the pigment reduction, result in decreased uncrossed projections; this confirms previous reports (La Vail et al., 1978, Sanderson et al., 1974).
(8) Perched on a hillside six miles west of Vail Pass, at 3,500m, the 16-person cabin is available on a per-person basis with shared accommodation, or as a full booking.
(9) Calcitonin, another potentially phosphaturic hormone, also vailed to increase phosphate excretion but markedly elevated urinary excretion of cyclic AMP.
(10) "With the vast amount of information that's exposed online there is a greater need for more protection," Vaile says.
(11) This study examined the preferences of Division 12 members (N=442) for doctoral training models (Boulder,Vail, equally Boulder and Vail) as a function of the respondent's own training program and current professional activities.
(12) However, as expected, preferences varied reliably according to one's doctoral training: Only 7% of the psychologists trained in a strong Boulder tradition preferred the Vail model, while only 10% of those trained in a strong Vail tradition favored the Boulder model.
(13) Aspen and Denver were compared in 1984, and Vail and Denver from 1985 through 1988.
(14) Between 1975 and 1982 a total of 47 cases of high-altitude pulmonary edema occurred in Vail, Colorado, elevation 2,500 m (8,200 ft).
(15) In albinos, the retinofugal projections to the ipsilateral side of the brain are reduced (e.g., see Guillery, 1969; La Vail et al., 1978; Lund, 1965).
(16) Tang, Chan and the former deputy prime minister and Nationals MP Mark Vaile are the three directors of 123 AustChina Education Consultancy, which according to its website is operating and setting up childcare centres across China.
(17) Ski towns in the area, including world famous resorts like Vail and Aspen, have tried to minimise marijuana suppliers to control any influx of stoned tourists.
(18) The concept of a ministerial warrant poses a number of problems because it does not provide any form of judicial oversight,” Vaile said.
(19) Ragweed was essentially absent from Aspen and Vail, and chenopod-amaranth counts were very low.
(20) +41 81 911 5848, startgels.ch , open when the Weisse Arena ski lifts and cable cars are in operation harryandsally US Game Creek restaurant, Vail, Colorado It's not cheap but then Vail isn't, really, and we had saved for 18 months so decided to just enjoy ourselves.