(n.) The act or effort of heaving/ violent strain or exertion.
(n.) Weight; ponderousness.
(n.) The greater part or bulk of anything; as, the heft of the crop was spoiled.
() of Heft
(v. t.) To heave up; to raise aloft.
(v. t.) To prove or try the weight of by raising.
Example Sentences:
(1) V-HeFT, the first mortality trial in patients with heart failure, has provided important insights regarding trial design, including patient selection and efficacy criteria.
(2) It’s the failure of an over-centralised prime ministerial office, too small to have real intellectual and research heft yet arrogant enough to overrule FCO advisers.
(3) Maybe the broader movie-going public that adds heft to a blockbuster's box office has grown tired of Middle Earth after all these years.
(4) The reduction of mortality in patients with chronic congestive heart failure treated with the vasodilator regimen hydralazine and isosorbide dinitrate compared to those treated with placebo or prazosin in the Veterans Administration Cooperative Study (V-HeFT) was examined in order to explore the possible mechanism of the favourable effect.
(5) The 5S will cost $649 (£549) without a contract, and also comes with a 10cm (4in) screen and an 8 megapixel camera – the same as the iPhone 5 – with double the processing heft of its predecessor.
(6) Outside parliament, Lib Dem party circles and his Kingston constituency, he was barely known, and he lacks both the smooth, television-friendly manners of a Cameron or Clegg, and the heft brought to parliament by those with a previous career (Davey got a job with the Liberal Democrats a few months after leaving university).
(7) That's a job for parents and teachers, the authorities with the heft and reach to alter public perceptions.
(8) Thick hunks of Heft Co sourdough are served with jam from cult LA restaurant Sqirl .
(9) The Australian Industry Group’s chief executive, Innes Willox, said the inquiry should consider “various funds established by unions and heft commissions paid to unions from insurance products purchased during bargaining” but improper behaviour by employers should also be dealt with.
(10) They spoke as one, both showing their commitment to Grangemouth and both putting their respective governmental heft behind the attempt to restart the plant.
(11) Photograph: National Trust What do you do if you hanker after a dose of solitude somewhere scenic and remote, but can no longer heft a heavy rucksack because of a dodgy back?
(12) The angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI) are now the cornerstone of heart failure treatment, reducing mortality in severe heart failure (CONSENSUS) and superior to standard vasodilator therapy (V-HeFT-2) at improving the survival of patients with mild to moderate heart failure.
(13) More than 100 organizations have lent their support, including the institutional heft of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the world’s largest general scientific organization, and the American Geophysical Union.
(14) This situation highlights the challenges facing a country still recovering from the global financial crisis that began on its own soil, with fractured domestic politics that not only jeopardise its ability to govern at home but also cast doubt on its economic heft abroad.
(15) The overwhelming impression is one of tasteful reserve, of glistening cream paint and shining green and black railings – until you pause to examine the enormous heft of the houses: vast, detached palaces, with too many windows to count, on a scale dwarfing other private homes in London .
(16) As the Liberal Democrat elder statesman with most economic heft, it was for him on Monday to express the peril we stand in – and, were he free to do so, to warn of Conservative policies that gravely worsen the danger.
(17) Michael Gove will bring to their cause some intellectual heft and a talent for making a fluent case, though it is not yet clear how actively the justice secretary will campaign when he knows that an Out success would mean the destruction of his friends in Downing Street.
(18) Samsung's colossal market share in smartphones and mobile phones, for instance, is reflected in installed base figures – and also in its profits and heft in the business world.
(19) This result corresponded to an optimal relation at peak kinetic energy for the hefting.
(20) Again a number of ongoing major trials are set to establish whether these drugs reduce death in patients with chronic heart failure (V-HeFT II, SOLVD) and in patients immediately after myocardial infarction (CONSENSUS II, SAVE,.
Het
Definition:
() of Hete
Example Sentences:
(1) He is said to have gone to Syria in spring this year, according to Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws .
(2) Effects of this lead exposure on cricket predation by the same HET mice also were observed.
(3) Backcrosses to an h-cGl strain showed that two het genes were located on linkage group III and confirmed a total of six het gene differences between the h-cA and h-cGl strains.
(4) A phenotypically expressed incompatibility reaction occurs when unlike het alleles are present within the same somatic nucleus, and this parallels the heterokaryon incompatibility reaction that occurs when unlike alleles in different haploid nuclei are introduced into the same somatic hypha by mycelial fusion.
(5) To assess central effects of endothelin-1 (ET-1) on plasma arginine vasopressin (AVP), plasma atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), blood pressure, heart rate, and renal solute excretion, ET-1 dissolved in the artificial cerebrospinal fluid was infused intracerebroventricularly (icv) at a dose of either 0.35 ng.kg-1.min-1 (0.14 pmol; LET) or 3.5 ng.kg-1.min-1 (1.4 pmol; HET) for 45 min in conscious rats.
(6) Their rates of inactivation increase with decreases in growth temperatures from 37 degrees C to 25 degrees C. At 10 degrees C, however, anaerobiosis is not lethal and suppresses the inactivation which normally occurs among hets cultured aerobically at that temperature.
(7) In each case, the healed chromosome end had acquired sequence from the HeT DNA family, a complex family of repeated sequences found only in telomeric and pericentric heterochromatin.
(8) This was demonstrated for three loci which had previously been established by conventional heterokaryon test-het-e, het-c and mt.
(9) The distribution of risk behaviour has changed over time, with an increase in the proportion of HET and a decrease in the proportion of IVDU's for both sexes.
(10) The rank order of agonist potency in HET was: noradrenaline = phenylephrine much greater than clonidine.
(11) According to the book, the HET believes ministers should have been told about the involvement of serving police officers in a loyalist terror group in one of the most dangerous parts of Northern Ireland .
(12) Van Gaal had used an old Dutch phrase - “ het lek boven krijgen ” - in his programme notes.
(13) The GABAergic activity in hypothalamus was increased with the increase in duration (7-30 days) of HET exposure.
(14) Cultured cells from human embryonal testis (HET 1) and basal-cell (BCE-5) carcinoma and cells from the peripheral region of growing tumors of rat adenocarcinoma (13762NF) were harvested and processed for examination with the electron microscope.
(15) The utterances investigated were Dutch noun phrases with a prenominal adjective (e.g., het groene huis--the green house).
(16) The BZLF1 sequence and predicted polypeptide products of standard HR-1 and het DNA were compared to B95-8 EBV.
(17) Moreover, intense nonspecific staining was frequent with Het NSE, which often rendered interpretation difficult.
(18) The palindromic rearrangement had created two novel open reading frames in het DNA derived from standard HR-1 BamHI-W sequences.
(19) The BamHI-W sequences found in het DNA did not include either the TATA box of standard HR-1 BamHI-W or the exons which are present in the potentially polycistronic latent mRNAs encoding EBV nuclear antigens.
(20) These conserved features suggest that HeT-A elements, although transposable elements, may have a structural role in telomere organization or maintenance.