(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.
Rave
Definition:
() imp. of Rive.
(n.) One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
(v. i.) To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman.
(v. i.) To rush wildly or furiously.
(v. i.) To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty.
(v. t.) To utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly; as, to rave nonsense.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cheers, then, to an apparent alliance of the NME, a few people in London's trendy E1 district and some dumb young musicians, because "New Rave" is upon us, and there is apparently no stopping it.
(2) UPDATE: Aztec new rave Katy Perry performs onstage.
(3) A century ago, on April 29th 1885, the "Raving Reporter" Egon Erwin Kisch was born in Prague.
(4) As night fell, one teenager, Alex, who had slipped out of an independent school (she refused to say which one) was heading home, pausing only grab a flier advertising a "Snow Rave" for 16-18-year-olds.
(5) Radio remained hostile to electronic dance music unless it had a conventional pop song structure and vocals (as with the Prodigy's punk-rave or Madonna's coopting of trance on Ray of Light ).
(6) They were closely followed by Louise Redknapp and Kevin Clifton, whose American smooth received rave reviews from Revel Horwood.
(7) "I understand you're in town to check out our team," Roth told to Dempsey, the hint of a rave green collar visible beneath his grey sweatshirt.
(8) Whether or not Moore takes credit, his electro house and amped-up dubstep sound has found its way into the fabric of American subculture in a way no other rave genre has before.
(9) No, actually, I am referring to the new HBO series created by and starring ubertalented, zeitgeist-munching wunderkind Lena Dunham , which has just premiered to largely the ravest of rave reviews in the US.
(10) Online, Boyle has been one of the top five most talked-about subjects on the microblogging site Twitter all week, with the Hollywood actors Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore - who between them have nearly 1.5 million followers - raving about her.
(11) The film won awards at Sundance and rave reviews in unlikely places such as Variety and the Hollywood Reporter .
(12) New album Our Love brings all this together: the spindly psychedelia, the thrusting rave breakdowns, the tender positivity… even a convincing tribute to the glossy R&B of Rodney Jerkins and The-Dream.
(13) 'Jonathan Saunders, Preen, Berardi, Kane and JW Anderson are on fire' Those are the names you will be raving about now.
(14) I remember in 06 or so everyone was raving, clubbing, having fun.
(15) Shitdisco are from Scotland, sound less like anything "rave" than like the unremarkable row once made by such rock-groups-with-a-synthesizer as Classix Nouveaux, and will surely all be over by Christmas.
(16) It was these material conditions (more than the talent of individual singers and writers) that spawned the moments that went crashing through popular culture in the UK – from mod to punk, from 2 Tone to rave.
(17) That can’t be the only story we’re hearing – there are new things going on, new underground raves, but there needs to be more money going into making the arts and culture more prominent, so people can get involved more easily.
(18) Hard Festival's Richards wanted to lose the "goofy fashion" side of rave that EDC revels in.
(19) DanceSafe's Messer, a veteran of the idealistic PLUR (peace, love, unity, respect) oriented rave underground of the 90s, complains that the dance festivals offer a "packaged, containerised experience ...
(20) Ironic that an experimental music veteran with 20 years behind him should be leading a fresh charge into the 90s, setting up the framework for Autechre, Aphex Twin and the whole intelligent dance music (IDM) scene, but the rise of sampling, rave and techno was the realisation of a music that codgers like Kirk had only been able to dream of decades earlier, prior to the arrival of the technology.