(a.) Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.
(a.) Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty.
(a.) Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal.
(a.) Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy.
(a.) Imaginary.
(n.) A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
(2) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(3) Propofol is ideal for short periods of care on the ICU, and during weaning when longer acting agents are being eliminated.
(4) As bacterial vaginosis is generally looked upon as a mild noninflammatory condition lactate-gel seems to be an ideal treatment for this disease.
(5) Using four 4 cm electrodes at intervals of 1.5 cm in VX-2 carcinoma in the rabbit, ideal heating was obtained: 42 degrees C at the periphery of the tumor and 43 degrees C at the center.
(6) The regimen used at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, provides 2.0 to 2.5 gm protein per kilogram ideal body weight, plus adequate fluid and nutrient supplements.
(7) The ideal prophylaxis should compensate for the undesired effects of an operation or injury on the coagulation system, without subjecting the patient to the danger of elevated tendency to bleed.
(8) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
(9) From a practical viewpoint, this approach to prevention is less than ideal because it results in considerable costs as health care providers monitor for possible hepatotoxic effects and because it is difficult to maintain compliance for 12 months.
(10) Ideally, the rule should classify all nonhyperplastic and mildly hyperplastic cases as nonprogressive and all carcinomas as progressive; there were, however, a considerable number of false positives and false negatives based on application of the classification rule to these cases.
(11) Whether we would use that to support and amplify the community ideals already present or go the way of gentrification remained to be seen.
(12) Gallium arsenide has proved to be an ideal substrate material for some uses but is associated with unique health hazards.
(13) The ideal body weight (kg) of each individual can be calculated by the following formula: ideal body mass index x the height (m)2, since body mass index is expressed by the body weight in kilogram divided by the height squared in meters.
(14) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
(15) Therefore, it is an ideal method for the isolation of cell cycle phase specific populations.
(16) Without suggesting an ideal medication for this syndrome, the authors have obtained good results with barbexaclone.
(17) Actions achieved or a long commitment to an ideal, often through hardship.
(18) The integrated sensing system is an ideal instrumental set up for viewing and recording the behaviour of rodents as well as other animals in the experimental pen throughout the year under varying weather and light conditions.
(19) This experiment investigated people's preferences for the location of facilities in an ideal town.
(20) Need Score for each content area was calculated by taking the difference between Ideal and Current Expertise responses.
Sense
Definition:
(v. t.) A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature.
(v. t.) Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.
(v. t.) Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.
(v. t.) Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.
(v. t.) That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.
(v. t.) Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.
(v. t.) Moral perception or appreciation.
(v. t.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface.
(v. t.) To perceive by the senses; to recognize.
Example Sentences:
(1) An “out” vote would severely disrupt our lives, in an economic sense and a private sense.
(2) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(3) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
(4) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
(5) Since the molecular weight of IgG is more than twice that of albumin and transferrin, it is concluded that the protein loss in Ménétrier's disease is nonselective in the sense that it affects a similar fraction of the intravascular masses of all plasma proteins.
(6) In this sense, there is evidence that in genetically susceptible individuals, environmental stresses can influence the long-term level of arterial pressure via the central and peripheral neural autonomic pathways.
(7) He captivated me, but not just because of his intellect; it was for his wisdom, his psychological insights and his sense of humour that I will always remember our dinners together.
(8) The narX gene product may be involved in sensing nitrate and phosphorylating NARL.
(9) The second reason it makes sense for Osborne not to crow too much is that in terms of output per head of population, the downturn is still not over.
(10) Longer times of radiolabeling demonstrated that the nascent RNA accumulated as 42S RNA, which was primarily of the same sense as the virion strand when it was radiolabeled at 5 h postinfection.
(11) Autonomy, sense of accomplishment and time spent in patient care ranked as the top three factors contributing to job satisfaction.
(12) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
(13) The anticoagulant therapy undertaken by the patient appears to be of some benefit in the sense that no recurrence of thrombotic manifestations occurred.
(14) The results showed that measles virus produced three size classes of plus-sense N-containing RNA species corresponding to monocistronic N RNA, bicistronic NP RNA, and antigenomes.
(15) In this sense synapse formation must be considered a drawn out affair.
(16) The last time Republic of Ireland played here in Dublin they produced a performance and result to stir the senses.
(17) The problem is that too many people in this place just get advised by people who are just like them, so there’s groupthink, and they have no sense of what it’s like out there.” Is he talking about his predecessor?
(18) Stimulation threshold, sensing, and resistance measurements from both leads were comparable.
(19) We just hope that … maybe she’s gone to see her friend, talk some sense into her,” Renu said, adding that Shamima “knew that it was a silly thing to do” and that she did not know why her friend had done it.
(20) A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.