(a.) Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immense amounts of data about cancer-associated chromosome aberrations have been collected during the last 10 years, and the systematic evaluation of these data has disclosed a number of correlations between chromosome change and neoplastic disease.
(2) "It's immensely frustrating and I've got to the point now where I can't do internships," he said.
(3) The referendum vote has immense political implications but no direct legal effect.
(4) Resentment towards the political elite, the widening gap between the immensely rich and the poor, the deteriorating social security system, the collapse in oil prices and what Forbes has called "a stampede" of investors out of Russia – an outflow of $42bn in the first four months of 2012 – means the economy is flagging.
(5) The strain and expense of all these moves has been immense.
(6) These questions are the points of collision of two immensely important spheres of interest in our everyday life.
(7) It's the first in our planet's history where one species - ours - has Earth's future in its hands, and could jeopardise not only itself, but life's immense potential.
(8) I would urge her to follow the example of Elizabeth I, who, on appointing as her chief minister Sir William Cecil, said of him: “This opinion I have of you: that whatever you know my personal opinion to be, you will give me advice that is best for the realm.” Valerie Crews Beckenham, Kent • Another immensely qualified person loses their job for not being optimistic enough about Brexit.
(9) After 14 years of great lovemaking, an erection causes him immense pain and has terminated our sex life.
(10) Despite the "immense challenges" which Yves Mersch cited today , BNP reckons the ECB will have to take unconventional action to fight off weak inflation and to stimulate growth.
(11) It may be just as well that Hugh Grant fervently believes a film succeeds on its qualities, not on publicity about its stars, because he did his tabloid reputation as a heartless, feather-brained Lothario immense harm in the process of delivering damning testimony on phone-hacking to the Leveson inquiry on Monday.
(12) Immense occupancy and porta hepatis proximity of the cysts were triggers for developing jaundice.
(13) An immensely cerebral man, who trained himself to need only six hours of sleep - believing that a woman should have seven and only a fool eight - Mishcon was not a man given to small talk, nor one who would tolerate prattle for the sake of it.
(14) During the last years of her life, Shearer wrote book reviews (not just of dance books) for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, which were immensely readable though not celebrated for their generosity towards authors.
(15) Global policymakers know well the immense value of forests – so why have development interventions largely failed to harness the positive contributions of forested landscapes?
(16) Thanet suffers from immense shortages of housing and jobs.
(17) The kinds of skills graduates bring can be immensely valuable.
(18) At such levels, public outrage would be immense, but we are prepared to tolerate such risks from the climate because the prospects of catastrophic levels of warming are still regarded by many as remote, the study suggested, and we are poor at calculating risk.
(19) A case is reported in which an immense cranial vault was reduced as part of the rehabilitation of a patient with severe hydrocephalus who had preservation of the intellect.
(20) Meanwhile volumes two and three of The Gulag Archipelago appeared to less public acclaim than volume one, but confirmed the uniqueness and immensity of that vast enterprise.
Infuse
Definition:
(v. t.) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
(v. t.) To instill, as principles or qualities; to introduce.
(v. t.) To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill; -- followed by with.
(v. t.) To steep in water or other fluid without boiling, for the propose of extracting medicinal qualities; to soak.
(v. t.) To make an infusion with, as an ingredient; to tincture; to saturate.
(n.) Infusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 2.5-month-old child with cyanotic heart disease who required long-term PGE1 infusions; developed widespread periosteal reactions during the course of therapy.
(2) Oxyhaemoglobin (4 microns at 0.35 ml.min-1) infused into the tracheal circulation almost abolished the responses to bradykinin and methacholine.
(3) Spontaneous locomotor activity was lower in naloxone-infused rats on day 3 only.
(4) During and after the infusion of 5HTP, none of the patients showed an increase in anxiety or depressive symptoms, despite the presence of severe side effects.
(5) Increased infusion flow rate did not increase the limiting frequency.
(6) After midazolam infusion, there was a 50% decrease in amplitude of P3 in response to target tones (P less than 0.006), whereas N3 latency increased by 40 ms (P less than 0.05).
(7) At the same time the duodenum can be isolated from the stomach and maintained under constant stimulus by a continual infusion at regulated pressure, volume and temperature into the distal cannula.
(8) If tracer is introduced into the carotid artery after osmotic treatment, brain uptake is increased by a net factor of 50 (a factor of 70 due to elevation of PA, multiplied by 7 due to infusion by the carotid route) as compared to uptake by normal, untreated brain with infusion into a peripheral vein.
(9) The secretion of GH as measured by increased plasma level, in response to oral administration of 500 mg L-dopa or 30 min-infusion of arginine, was not modified by prior intravenous administration of 200 micrograms GH-releasing hormone (GHRH).
(10) Infusion of sodium lactate associated with isoproterenol could be used to combat the depressent effects of betablockers in patients with cardiac disorders.
(11) The authors conclude that during the infusion of 5-FU, the rise in FpA activation and reduction in PCa as compared to PCag are compatible with activation of coagulation.
(12) YM infused at 0.01 pmol.kg-1.min-1 did not cause any changes in urinary flow rate or Na excretion.
(13) Infusion of vincristine may be safely incorporated into multiagent chemotherapy programs of the CHOP type for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(14) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
(15) [5alpha-(3)H]5alpha-Androst-16-en-3-one (5alpha-androstenone) was infused at a constant rate for 180min into the spermatic artery of a sexually mature boar.
(16) From the present results it is concluded that secretion of extrapancreatic glucagon increased in response to arginine infusion in the diabetic state, both alloxan diabetic dogs and one-week post-pancreatectomized dogs.
(17) First treatment consisted of six-hour infusions on six successive days.
(18) GnRH infusion produced an immediate increase in plasma LH concentrations in the mares that ovulated during the infusion period and LH levels peaked at the time of ovulation.
(19) Infusion of 1 unit of 25-HCC per hour for 6 hours induced an antiphosphaturia only when administered with 0.2 units of PTH per hour, while neither agent alone changed phosphate excretion.
(20) Paired tolbutamide and glucose infusions using a square wave technique demonstrated that although early phase insulin secretion is dimished in the fetus, this is not due to an absolute deficiency of stored insulin.