(v. t.) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
(superl.) Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
(superl.) Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.
(superl.) Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
(superl.) Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
(superl.) Slow and solemn in movement.
(n.) To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
(n.) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
(n.) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
(n.) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
(n.) To entomb; to bury.
(v. i.) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
(n.) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
Example Sentences:
(1) A reduction in neonatal deaths from this cause might be expected if facilities for antenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy were made available, although this raises grave ethical problems.
(2) The nature of the putative autoantigen in Graves' ophthalmopathy (Go) remains an enigma but the sequence similarity between thyroglobulin (Tg) and acetylcholinesterase (ACHE) provides a rationale for epitopes which are common to the thyroid gland and the eye orbit.
(3) A patient with previously treated follicular carcinoma of the thyroid developed Graves' disease with a high titre of thyroid-stimulating antibodies (TSAb).
(4) Gwendolen Morgan, the lawyer at Bindmans dealing with the case, said: "We have grave concerns about the decision to use this draconian power to detain our client for nine hours on Sunday – for what appear to be highly questionable motives, which we will be asking the high court to consider.
(5) Superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and its concentration were measured in thyroid tissues obtained from patients with Graves' disease, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, differentiated thyroid cancer, and endemic goiter (before and after iodine supplementation) as well as in normal thyroid tissue (paranodular tissue) from patients with follicular adenomas.
(6) Many reports of thyroid stimulating immunoglobulins (TSI) in relation to treatment of Graves' disease have been published and with variable results concerning prediction of permanent remission or relapse after therapy.
(7) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stood among the graves on 4 August last year in a moving ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of war.
(8) After violence had run its bloody course, the country’s rulers conceded it had been a catastrophe that had brought nothing but “grave disorder, damage and retrogression”.
(9) On the other hand, immunofluorescence in anterior pituitary cells was faint and detected in only 2 of 28 patients with Graves' disease (7.1%) after absorption of their sera with rat liver aceton powder.
(10) In conclusion, not only TBII but also T3 release-stimulating antibodies may occur in a minority of patients with long-term remission of Graves' hyperthyroidism.
(11) It is deeply moving hearing him talk now – as if from the grave – about a Christmas Day when he felt so frustrated and cut-off from his family that he had to go into the office to escape.
(12) His verdict of her that "she danced on the graves of her husband's victims.
(13) Thirty-eight bodies have been removed from the mass graves, but DNA tests have shown that none is that of a missing student.
(14) Posterior synechiae, pupil deformations, grave uveitis with hypotonia of 4-10 mm Hg are rapidly developing.
(15) Displacement of [125I]TSH bound to fat cell membranes by both Graves' Ig and unlabeled TSH were time and temperature dependent, with similar dissociation curves, suggesting a specific binding of Graves' Ig to the membrane sites related to the TSH receptor in the fat cells.
(16) We have obtained sera from 42 patients with active Graves' disease and no known connective tissue disorders.
(17) A total of 5.8% abnormalities were found including nodular disease, thyroiditis, Graves' disease, hypothyroidism, simple goiter, and iatrogenic hyperthyroidism.
(18) LATS was measured with the double isotope technique in IgG serum concentrates of 23 patients with Graves' disease before treatment and of 18 patients during treatment with carbimazole and triiodothyronine.
(19) To elucidate whether insulin-induced hypoglycemia enhances the release of beta-endorphin in man, plasma extracts obtained from healthy subjects and patients with Graves' disease before and 45 min after insulin injection were subjected to gel chromatography, and the fractions obtained were measured by RIA for beta-endorphin.
(20) From the findings of abnormalities in intrathyroidal T cell subsets, we suggest that the decrease in the function of suppressor T cells within the thyroids of Graves' disease patients may be due to a decrease in CD4+2H4+ cells within thyroid tissue.
Inscribe
Definition:
(v. t.) To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint.
(v. t.) To mark with letters, charakters, or words.
(v. t.) To assign or address to; to commend to by a shot address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend.
(v. t.) To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp; as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory.
(v. t.) To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the absence of motion, this point source inscribes a straight line on planar summation of the 32 projections over 180 degrees.
(2) As the silt cleared, we found ourselves on a flat plain of yellow-tinged mud, inscribed with pits, burrows and tracks by species that eke out their existence on the detritus that settles from above.
(3) Propagated PVB's were inscribed by the model when criteria for excitation, dispersion, and conduction were met based on known electrophysiological characteristics of heart muscle.
(4) Henry, the victor of Bosworth Field in 1485, when he took the crown from the dead head of the last Plantagenet, Richard III, will be represented by a book of hours that he inscribed as a gift to his daughter.
(5) The anisotropic period, 7 days long, is inscribed within the ferning period.
(6) The Tower’s steps are covered in golden slime, and on its walls crawls a “rich greenlike moss” that inscribes letters and words on the masonry – before entering and authoring the bodies of the explorers themselves.
(7) Finally, the theory of the madness of the masses (Massenwahntheorie) stated by Broch--a double madness, of fragmentation, on the one hand, and of aberration and paranoia of power, on the other--shows a universally valid analysis in which the particular, recurrent tragic model of our culture inscribes itself.
(8) Concerned about the busy three-lane road we were standing next to, we quickly picked her up, checked her collar and rang the phone number inscribed on it.
(9) Today there is only the headstone, inscribed with an Islamic star and crescent, standing among dozens of Christian crosses of other veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan in the cemetery’s section 60, the plot called “the saddest acre in America”.
(10) The violent images from that period 10 years ago – of Israeli security forces expelling Jews from their houses – remain indelibly inscribed in the settler community’s consciousness, and are viewed like kryptonite by Israel’s most rightwing government ever.
(11) The tablet, inscribed with an exhortation to honor King Tukulti-Ninurta I, was excavated a century ago by German archaeologists from the Ishtar Temple in what's now northern Iraq.
(12) The difficult question now is how to sort out these remaining issues without the crushing time pressure that leads to botched drafting which, in a royal charter world, become inscribed on vellum and extremely difficult to modify.
(13) The mid-temporal vectors were located in the left postero-superior octant, and the late portion of the loop was inscribed anteriorly to the right with conspicuous conduction delay.
(14) The impact reaches far beyond the figures inscribed on a Test-match scorebook and debases the credibility of the entire sport.
(15) Cementum was removed from the exposed root surfaces, and reference notches were inscribed into the roots at the alveolar bone margin.
(16) In the two C-141 transport planes that carried them, they had packed: 23 wooden crates; 12 suitcases and bags, and various boxes, whose contents included enough clothes to fill 67 racks; 413 pieces of jewellery, including 70 pairs of jewel-studded cufflinks; an ivory statue of the infant Jesus with a silver mantle and a diamond necklace; 24 gold bricks, inscribed “To my husband on our 24th anniversary”; and more than 27m Philippine pesos in freshly-printed notes.
(17) Chisel in hand, he walked slowly around the base of his giant sculpture, carefully inspecting the detail on the eagle crest in front, and the name inscribed on the back – John Garang de Mabior.
(18) Categories of unipolar electrograms were defined with reference to the QRS complex during sinus rhythm as follows: Class A included electrograms with an intrinsic deflection inscribed within the QRS complex, class B included those which did not exhibit any intrinsic rs deflection, and class C included those with an intrinsic deflection inscribed later than QRS.
(19) The A-wave reappeared clearly in 30% of the operated patients, and the outline of the posterior leaflet was no longer inscribed in the anterior leaflet diastolic curve in all cases; the amplitude CE was unchanged.
(20) At any equivalent diastolic filling time, the percent of the integrated area beneath the curve inscribed by the diastolic anterior mirtal leaflet echoes closely approximated the percent of stroke volume which had entered the left ventricle.