(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.
Nostalgic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia.
Example Sentences:
(1) I must also accept that Cameron recruits the best and the brightest, who just happen to be his schoolmates, and that education should be overhauled by a nostalgic zealot who has never taught and dismisses evidence.
(2) Then there were American imperialists, Turkish nostalgics for the Ottoman days and Iranians ambitious for Islamic terrorism in the Balkans.
(3) For a minute or two they get all nostalgic for last year’s showstopper high points.
(4) Yet ice cream does do something funny to a lot of us: it makes us nostalgic and happy and, if you take your cues from Bridget Jones, it helps us recover from heartbreak.
(5) Asked if he felt nostalgic, Obama replied: “Of course.” With those two words and his last presidential words immortalised on the web, he was out.
(6) "[They] actually made me feel nostalgic for Billy Crystal, something I didn't think was possible," he wrote.
(7) Hey, I say, when I look at this record it makes me feel nostalgic for my youth, and I didn't even write the songs, so God knows what it does for you.
(8) and a mother showing off her own placenta almost make one nostalgic for the days of annual round-robin newsletters.
(9) Even the HMC , mouthpiece of the independent sector, is reported to have spoken out against a "knee-jerk return to the nostalgic golden age of O-levels".
(10) Reuters Photograph: Reuters “I think one of the strengths of nostalgia is that even if they have not had a good childhood, most people have at least one nostalgic memory that they cherish and that they can use repeatedly.
(11) In one experiment, subjects in whom nostalgia had been induced were asked to set up a room for a meeting – those in a nostalgic frame of mind consistently set up the chairs closer than those in the control.
(12) To those critics who will accuse him of romanticism and nostalgia, his defiant reply is the first page of the introduction: things were better in the past, and it's not nostalgic to say so.
(13) "Union Jacks is all about bringing back nostalgic British classics using the best of artisanal ingredients.
(14) The line from New Labour nostalgics that “we won three elections” misses the point for millions.
(15) Adepitan has just made a powerful programme about polio in Nigeria, and it has left him both angry and nostalgic.
(16) (For Wilson's character, who romanticises that era, it's a dream come true – but the Parisians of the 20s are themselves nostalgic for the 1890s.
(17) In another experiment, those in nostalgic moods were asked to write essays, which were compared in a blind judging process with those of peers who’d had no induced feelings of nostalgia.
(18) When Ikea closes in the near future (as, please God, it will), will I be tweeting my nostalgic feelings about its contribution to extending allen keys and misery worldwide?
(19) On the left, some people seem nostalgic for the 1970s; on the right, eyes mist over at the mention of the 1990s.
(20) Nor does last month’s Singapore race fill the British driver with a nostalgic glow.