(n.) The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.
(v. t.) To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.
(v. t.) To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train.
(v. t.) A person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of interest to strangers; a conductor; also, that which guides; a guidebook.
(v. t.) One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator.
(v. t.) Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator
(v. t.) A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.
(v. t.) A grooved director for a probe or knife.
(v. t.) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting.
(v. t.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directiug flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics.
Example Sentences:
(1) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(2) This article is intended as a brief practical guide for physicians and physiotherapists concerned with the treatment of cystic fibrosis.
(3) A 6.4 kilobase C4B-5'-specific Taq I fragment usually provided a reliable guide to the presence of a C4A deletion but unusually in one instance this fragment was found to be a marker of a functioning C4A gene.
(4) The complex problems have been successfully managed with novel guiding catheter shapes and ultralow profile balloons.
(5) Originally from Pyongyang, the tour guide explains that a “merited artist” from Mansudae, North Korea’s biggest art studio in Pyongyang, was responsible for the main piece, but that it took 63 artists almost two years to complete.
(6) The local guide led us down a rough, uneven pathway, talking as he went.
(7) This conception of the city as an expression of both regal power and social order, guided by cosmological principles and the pursuit of yin-yang equilibrium, was unlike anything in the western tradition.
(8) The large degree of inter-dose fluctuation between doses indicates that it is preferable to use pre-dose plasma sodium valproate levels to guide the clinical management of epileptic patients.
(9) Although the general guiding principle of pharmacotherapy for anxiety disorders--the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time--remains, this rule should not interfere with the judicious use of medications as long as the benefits justify it.
(10) This article discusses known mechanisms, physiologic examples, and clinical consequences of body-water changes with age, and suggests that careful monitoring of these changes can lead to better guiding of medication and fluid administration to avoid preventable complications.
(11) A guide, £44pp, is compulsory ( rscn.org.jo ) 2 Discover the Nuweiba coast: Red Sea, Egypt Beach, Nuweiba, Sinai, Egypt.
(12) Gavin Andresen, formerly the chief scientist at the currency’s guiding body, the Bitcoin Foundation, had been the most important backer of the man who would be Satoshi.
(13) Dorsomedial frontal cortex (DMFC) was studied in monkeys trained to make visually guided eye or arm movements.
(14) In contrast, US-guided FNAC had an accuracy of 89% (62 of 70), a sensitivity of 76% (25 of 33), and a specificity of 100% (37 of 37).
(15) In the experimental immunopharmacognostic phase, immunomodulatory compounds are isolated and purified through action-guided fractionation procedures.
(16) The content and dynamics of two 11-session psychotherapy groups led by physicians for 18 adult patients with insulin-dependent diabetes are described as a guide for others wishing to use this form of treatment.
(17) These results suggest that purified laminin can facilitate and guide process outgrowth of 5-HT, DA and NE neurons during early developmental stage, but does not induce sprouting on these same fiber types in the adult brain.
(18) A physical grading of some well-known sunburn protectors is described as a guide to the choice of preparation.
(19) Selection of the appropriate guiding catheter is a critical early decision.
(20) These limitations expressly declared in the ISO 2631 guide are also implicit in the other regulations proposed.
Pathfinder
Definition:
(n.) One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Relative to EM, Meritec had the highest specificity (97%), followed by Virogen (95%), IDL (91%), Pathfinder (85%), Behring (81%), Bartels (72%), and Rotazyme (71%).
(2) Of these five classes we analyzed pathfinding by the RB, DoLA, early ascending commissural, and VeLD neurons.
(3) Our results support hypotheses that cellular distribution and transmembrane interactions are key elements in the functions of these adhesion molecules during axonal pathfinding.
(4) The prime minister adds that 141 pathfinder GP consortia are already in place covering half the country and that more are signing up.
(5) "I agree with that, which is why in 2011, with my concerns, I changed the programme to introduce a pathfinder and why in 2012, after my own independent review told me that my concerns were justified, we made changes to personnel and brought in outside people."
(6) The sensitivities for detecting C. trachomatis in conjunctival specimens with MicroTrak and Pathfinder were 93.8 and 88.2%, respectively, and the specificities were 87.5 and 94.9%, respectively.
(7) And although in a few cases Pathfinder entailed the demolition of housing in genuinely blighted areas, and though there's no doubt that northern cities were depopulated from their mid-20th century heights, market correction was always the rationale.
(8) They are victims of what John Prescott and Yvette Cooper called Pathfinder slum clearance , a title justly echoing Bomber Harris's campaign to smash German cities .
(9) We compared the Pathfinder direct fluorescent antigen (DFA) test for chlamydial infections to tissue culture isolation in an obstetric population.
(10) Of 286 specimens analyzed by PAGE, SNAP, rotavirus EIA, Pathfinder, and Rotaclone, 88 were positive by PAGE.
(11) Pathfinder was New Labour at its worst, an exemplar of its authoritarianism, its arrogant assumption that the core vote can be screwed over indefinitely, and its blind faith in the market.
(12) 3 programs of MR training and service have been introduced in Bangladesh: the Menstrual Regulation Training and Service Program begun by the Pathfinder Fund in 1978, now a quasi-governmental institution based in hospitals; the Mohammedpur Fertility Service and Training Center or Model Clinic, a comprehensive family planning agency; and the Bangladesh Women's Health Coalition, a nongovernmental feminist organization training only female family welfare visitors.
(13) In this article, we describe Pathfinder and our research in uncertain-reasoning paradigms that was stimulated by the development of the program.
(14) His voluminous scientific oeuvre is appreciated, particularly with regard to his role as a pathfinder for the newly developing field of dermatovirology.
(15) Mature crossbred wethers were used to compare Trailblazer and Pathfinder switchgrass hay in a digestion trial.
(16) Pathfinding abilities may not be restricted to pioneering axons of the facial nerve; later-developing facial nerve fibers also appeared to have positional information.
(17) In the present study we describe one of the most conceptually simple pathfinding cues: a single identified cell in the leech, Hirudo medicinalis, that may guide axons several hundred micrometers to innervate a particular target.
(18) Previous probes have included Lunar Prospector, which studied the moon's geology; Stardust, which returned a sample of material scooped from a comet's tail; and Mars Pathfinder, which deployed a tiny motorised robot vehicle on the Red Planet in 1997.
(19) In the face of a campaign illuminated by the startling duplicity of senior colleagues, including the then Home Secretary, James Callaghan, and an entirely hubristic challenge from the unions, pathfinding for the Thatcher assault on trade union rights ten years later, Barbara and Wilson rashly made the legislation an issue of confidence.
(20) A total of 410 specimens consisting of nasopharyngeal washes, aspirates, and swabs were simultaneously tested for the presence of RSV by direct immunofluorescence assay (DFA), enzyme immunoassay (EIA) (Kallestad Pathfinder), shell vial centrifugation culture (SVC), and conventional culture.