(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.
Reinter
Definition:
(v. t.) To inter again.
Example Sentences:
(1) She wrote: “The reinterment of King Richard III is an event of great national and international significance.
(2) It is worth reinterating that percentiles mean nothing more than the proportion of children who had reached given heights at given ages when they, the standardizing population, were measured.
(3) Bishop Stevens acknowledged Richard’s “contested reputation’” to the Guardian, but insisted that it was a privilege for everyone in Leicester to be part of what he called “the great drama of Richard III’s reinterment … a moment when as a nation we can touch a critical moment in our story, recalling the intense conflict of the Wars of the Roses, and the fundamental shift in the monarchy of the late Middle Ages.” “In the great services that will mark his reinterment, we shall recall the events of Richard III’s life and death, we shall commend him to the mercy of God and we shall pray for the healing of the world’s conflicts in our own day.
(4) "This has been a major research project and we were always very clear from the outset that our intention was to reinter the remains in the cathedral," he added.
(5) The alliance, which was set up by the 16th great-nephew of Richard III, who had no direct descendants, favoured reinterment in York Minister, arguing it had been the wish "of the last medieval king of England" who was known as Richard of York.
(6) The reinterment ceremony will take place next spring.
(7) It was not a funeral but a reinterment, the dean of Leicester, David Monteith, reminded his congregation, because in 1485 Richard III did have a funeral, albeit hasty and improvised.
(8) They are now bound for reinterment in the nearby cathedral following a failed legal challenge by descendants who favoured York minster as his final resting place.
(9) Without the reminder that this was a reinterment, it might have looked like the grandest state funeral in living memory.
(10) Since then "passions have been roused and much ink has been spilt" over his life, death and place of reinterment", said Lady Justice Hallet, sitting with Mr Justice Ouseley and Mr Justice Haddon-Cave.
(11) Buried as a foreign menance more than twenty years ago, exhumed, examined and reinterred once or twice since then, brainwashing has risen again, this time to take its place on the stage of domestic horrors.
(12) Descendants of the family of Richard III , the last king of England to die on a battlefield, have lost a legal battle over where his recently discovered remains should be reinterred.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Members of the public gather outside Leicester Cathedral for the reinterment ceremony.
(14) Tsar Nicholas II was reinterred in St Petersburg 80 years after his execution.
(15) So while there is no longer any pretence that the unsettling facts can be reinterred, the new suggestion is that we learn to live with them.
(16) They were believed to represent the remains of the "Princes in the Tower" (who had disappeared in 1483), and were reinterred as such in Westminster Abbey.
(17) The Plantagenets have asked for the matter to be put out for consultation with the public, the Queen, English Heritage and themselves, buying time to further the case for reinterment in York.
(18) It will be reinterred at Saint-Denis next year with full state honours.
(19) Fast forward two years and, following a High Court decision, a reinterment was to be held on 26 March, broadcast live around the world.
(20) As car horns hooted outside his window, Leicester’s mayor, Peter Soulsby, told the Guardian: “We thought it couldn’t get any better 12 months ago when the eyes of the world were on us as we reinterred the bones of Richard III , but this is even better.