(n.) The usual condition or state of a person or thing, either natural or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly retained; as, a religious habit; his habit is morose; elms have a spreading habit; esp., physical temperament or constitution; as, a full habit of body.
(n.) The general appearance and manner of life of a living organism.
(n.) Fixed or established custom; ordinary course of conduct; practice; usage; hence, prominently, the involuntary tendency or aptitude to perform certain actions which is acquired by their frequent repetition; as, habit is second nature; also, peculiar ways of acting; characteristic forms of behavior.
(n.) Outward appearance; attire; dress; hence, a garment; esp., a closely fitting garment or dress worn by ladies; as, a riding habit.
(n.) To inhabit.
(n.) To dress; to clothe; to array.
(n.) To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.] Chapman.
Example Sentences:
(1) No associations were found between sex, body-weight, smoking habits, age, urine volume or urine pH and the O-demethylation of codeine.
(2) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
(3) The socioeconomic and hygienic features of the patients' homes, some clinical variables, the therapeutic habits and the features of the foci were evaluated.
(4) The authors compared the prevalence of atopy in 103 patients with lung cancer (a model of mucosal cancer), 51 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease matched for age, sex, and smoking habits with patients with lung cancer, and 102 healthy control subjects.
(5) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
(6) The results of a prospective inquiry into the aspirin taking habits of a consecutive series of 118 patients admitted to a large general hospital with acute perforation of peptic ulcer are presented.
(7) It is stated, that it is impossible to strive to effectively control the smoking habit neither by way of the consulting hours for smokers nor by means of the 5-days-plans.
(8) symptoms, bowel habits, normal physical examination, absence of intestinal infections or parasites) b) physiopathological evaluation (hyperactivity of the distal colon, hypersensitivity to stimuli, stress), and c) physiological evaluation of the patient.
(9) of age and based upon information about the dietary habits of the child could thus be of value to prevent caries in the preschool child.
(10) Population intervention to obtain better health habits and special actions for individuals with risks factors must be employed.
(11) No significant differences were found in caries or gingival indices, in oral habits or prophylactic measures between the two groups.
(12) Thus, the dental health and dietary habits of the Greek immigrant and the Swedish children were generally very similar, while the Greek rural children showed a less favourable cariological status.
(13) However, no correlation was observed as far as sex, pH of saliva and smoking habits were concerned.
(14) Patients with malignant disease are known to have an increased incidence of multinucleation in their tracheobronchial ciliated epithelial cells as compared with controls matched by age, sex and smoking habit.
(15) It is concluded that the development was influenced by several factors, such as different snacking habits and access to sweets, the study per se, and xylitol-induced effects.
(16) When age and smoking habits were controlled for, slope of phase III was significantly related to hospitalization due to respiratory disease in general and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), whereas closing volume and closing capacity were marginally related to hospitalization due to respiratory disease in general but not to hospitalization due to COPD.
(17) The present article reports a study of how such lifestyle habits, notably alcohol and tobacco consumption, are addressed in medical consultations.
(18) Serum estradiol and estrone levels during oral hormone administration were lower in smokers than in nonsmokers, whereas no differences related to smoking habits were observed during percutaneous hormone administration.
(19) Our findings suggest that (a) the inclusion of a liquid meal provides a reproducible method of measuring orocaecal transit using the lactulose hydrogen breath test, (b) rapid small bowel transit in thyrotoxicosis may be one factor in the diarrhoea which is a feature of the disease and (c) if altered gut transit is the cause of sluggish bowel habit in hypothyroidism, delay in the colon, and not small bowel, is likely to be responsible.
(20) In addition, eight patient questionnaires were used to assess prescribing habits regarding benzodiazepines.
Wont
Definition:
(a.) Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used.
(n.) Custom; habit; use; usage.
(imp.) of Wont
(p. p.) of Wont
(v. i.) To be accustomed or habituated; to be used.
(v. t.) To accustom; -- used reflexively.
Example Sentences:
(1) The voters don’t do gratitude, self-pitying politicians are wont to moan.
(2) Atlético are sitting deep, and Real have no space to release Ronaldo or Bale into, as is their wont.
(3) Tennyson was wont to stride out over the downland, with its dramatic sea views towards the Needles.
(4) Meanwhile, as is apparently his wont, Slutski has allowed a few minutes of a half to go by before making a substitution.
(5) If we do away with the notion that the personal is political, as feminism-lite is wont to do, who gets left holding the baby?
(6) Yet well-meaning westerners – health experts, development workers, sustainability folk and so on – are wont to wince at the sight.
(7) Or maybe John of Gaunt had it right: “That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.” Main illustration by Christophe Gowans • Follow the Long Read on Twitter at @gdnlongread , or sign up to the long read weekly email here This article was amended on 21 June 2016.
(8) you just contact us Assange: 2010 03 17 22:57:52 but don't disappear without saying why for an extended period or I'll get worried;) Manning: 2010 03 17 22:58:03 i wont Assange: 2010 03 17 22:58:16 you'll know if something's wrong Manning: 2010 03 17 22:58:39 ok Assange: 2010 03 17 22:58 57 you can just tell me "all the ships came in" The bank documents Early on in the chat logs, Assange mentions getting hold of data for a major American bank.
(9) Unlike income, which has been vigorously taxed since the mid-19th century and therefore recorded, personal wealth was, after 1979, the subject of a half-hearted cat-and-mouse game in which the cat and the mouse were wont to share yachting trips to the Aegean on a regular basis.
(10) Many are ill-trained and poorly disciplined, wont to shoot randomly into the sky in frustration at bombing raids, but their courage and dedication is not in doubt.
(11) He wont leave a venue – ignoring my frantic watch pointing and finger across the throat signals — before everyone has had their book signed and their photo taken with him.
(12) Fronting a forum like this and just repeating a tired mantra wont fool anyone – it actually just damages our international credibility.” But she welcomed the federal government’s “commitment to ending discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people, which will ensure that many state laws, such as those governing adoption, will be improved over the coming months”.
(13) Turkey's PM erupted, as he is wont to do, and put the squeeze on Milliyet .
(14) One can wear a dozen powerful sensors, own a smart mattress and even do a close daily reading of one's poop – as some self-tracking aficionados are wont to do – but those injustices would still be nowhere to be seen, for they are not the kind of stuff that can be measured with a sensor.
(15) They put in a number of safety measures: you wont find any manoeuvres over crowds, they’re done at a distance so that if a plane does come down it won’t come down on other people.
(16) Updated at 9.06am GMT 9.02am GMT Roux draws attention to, but then says he wont deal with, a message about Steenkamp's supposed drug use , as it is a "reflection of the deceased not the accused".
(17) Just as South Africa opened their World Cup with a goal that will be remembered forever, so England, as is their wont, contrived to open theirs with a goalkeeping blunder that will never be forgotten.
(18) Skrtel wrote: “After all rumours going around, I want to say the time I will spend on sideline wont be 3 months.
(19) Morrison, in her late 60s then, was at the height of her powers, a Nobel laureate with a famously low tolerance for journalists and critics, and a personal style as distinctive as her prose: silver dreadlocks, sharp, unwavering eye contact and a manner of speech – when she did speak – that, to her annoyance, people were wont to call poetry.
(20) Republican candidates for president are also wont to criticize the Federal Reserve, but for the opposite reasons from Sanders.