(a.) Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people.
Example Sentences:
(1) The majority of children came from low socio-economic homes (61%) with mostly illiterate or semi-literate mothers.
(2) Visual acuity results in patients able to provide verbal responses to the illiterate E, Allen card, or Snellen line chart testing showed improvement in most cases.
(3) Every head of household – even illiterate – has at least one.
(4) The [commission] has done work on a massive scale to educate voters, especially the vulnerable ones – illiterate, poor, marginalised – as well as women and youth,” HS Brahma, an election commissioner, told reporters.
(5) The most important aspect of reaching people at the grassroots level is to ensure their understanding by using the most appropriate language, and by ensuring that the largely illiterate population will, nevertheless, be well served by print and electronic mass media.
(6) Subjects were chosen from illiterate and below matriculate level; matriculate to graduate level; and graduate and above.
(7) Illiterate women, however, cannot benefit from such remainders.
(8) Mean differences between groups with very high and very low psychoticism scores on tests of general intelligence and Persian language are larger than those between groups with college-educated versus illiterate or semiliterate fathers.
(9) A study of 28 midwives from different regions in Kenya in 1980 found that most were illiterate women between 24 and 68 years olds received no monetary gain, had a variety of occupational backgrounds, and provided varying amounts of advice but little pre- or postnatal care.
(10) The attitude of illiterate smokers was encouraging, as 83.6% were willing to quit smoking.
(11) @SciDevNet_SA Don't be discouraged by illiteracy: Curiously, it is illiterate Indians who are making the best use of the digital technology on mobile phones equipped with cameras.
(12) 15% of the educated women, but 25% of the illiterates were less than 1.53 m tall.
(13) Ninety-one patients were studied (25 illiterate and 66 literate).
(14) As she was illiterate and unable to record her own history, little is definitively known about many details of Tubman’s life, Larson said.
(15) She could not write her story because, as she revealed during the trial, she was more or less illiterate.
(16) Illiterate Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) were trained to diagnose pneumonia in children using their visual judgement of tachypnoea.
(17) A revised version of an illiterate antenatal card has been developed from 1987-89 in Mali.
(18) There were 173 (63.6%) females and 99 (36.4%) males, among whom 66 (M53 + F13) were smokers; 36.4% of males and 63% of females were illiterate.
(19) He claimed an earlier investigation revealed these groups had received up to $100m from abroad, with the money deposited in different Egyptian banks using names of illiterate Egyptians for fake accounts.
(20) College accused of 'luring vulnerable students' with free laptops Read more The ACCC chairman, Rod Sims, told Guardian Australia: “We are making allegations that have got to be tested in court but, that said, this sort of behaviour is about as concerning as we run across.” Last month the ACCC initiated a case against the Sydney-based Unique International College, accusing it of “unconscionable conduct” including targeting vulnerable and illiterate people with offers of free laptop computers if they signed up to diploma courses.
Less
Definition:
(conj.) Unless.
(a.) Smaller; not so large or great; not so much; shorter; inferior; as, a less quantity or number; a horse of less size or value; in less time than before.
(adv.) Not so much; in a smaller or lower degree; as, less bright or loud; less beautiful.
(n.) A smaller portion or quantity.
(n.) The inferior, younger, or smaller.
(v. t.) To make less; to lessen.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, patients with GGBHS were significantly older (P less than .05).
(2) The percentage of people with less than 10 TU titers is under 5% after the age of 5 years up to 15 years; from 15 to 60 years there are no subjects with undetectable ASO titer and after this age the percentage is still under 5%.
(3) Neuromedin B (C50 6 x 10(-12) M) was 3 times less potent than bombesin-14.
(4) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(5) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
(6) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(7) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(8) This bone could not be degraded by human monocytes in vitro as well as control bone (only 54% of control; P less than 0.003).
(9) Arachidic acid was without effect, while linoleic acid and linolenic acid were (on a concentration basis) at least 5-times less active than arachidonic acid.
(10) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
(11) However, dexamethasone was more effective than either prednisone or cortisol (P less than 0.001).
(12) With UVB treatment clinical improvement was achieved, and a less pronounced decrease in epidermal LC was noticed.
(13) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
(14) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
(15) This clinical improvement was also associated with a decrease of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (p less than 0.001), decrease of C-reactive protein (p less than 0.0001) and with improvement of anaemia (p less than 0.05).
(16) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
(17) By 24 hr, rough endoplasmic reticulum in thecal cells increased from 4.2 to 7% of cell volume, while the amount in granulosa cells increased from less than 3.5% to more than 10%; the quantity remained relatively constant in the theca but declined to prestimulation values in the granulosa layer.
(18) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
(19) Ten out of 12 (83%) tumours which had c-erbB-2 and c-erbA co-amplification had metastasised to axillary lymph nodes (P less than 0.006).
(20) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.