(v. t.) To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.
(n.) Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated.
(n.) The single instantaneous stroke of a body in motion against another either in motion or at rest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(2) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
(3) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(4) In addition, congenital anemias such as sickle cell disease can impact on the health of the mother and fetus.
(5) The effects of brain injury can be catastrophic and long-term so the impact of more research would be vast, but affected numbers are too small so it loses out.
(6) The impact of ending 500 years of shipbuilding in Portsmouth won't be seen in the data for a while.
(7) In Stage II patients, chemotherapy has an impact on disease mortality for ER-positive and ER-negative premenopausal women and possibly ER-negative postmenopausal patients.
(8) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(9) The Black pregnant teen is a microcosm of the impact of society on the most vulnerable.
(10) We propose that the results mainly reflect a variable local impact of infection control and that a much more restrictive use of IUTCs is possible in many wards.
(11) In assessing damaged nets and curtains it must be recognised that anything less than the best vector control may have no appreciable impact on holoendemic malaria.
(12) The pharmacological effects characterize reproterol as a bronchospasmolytic with preferential impact on the adrenergic beta2-receptors.
(13) The procedure includes identifying "critical individuals," i.e., those who would have the greatest impact on the lod scores, should their diagnostic status in fact change.
(14) He elaborates: "Republicans use powerful economic wedge issues to great impact.
(15) These agents may improve functional status, but in general have had little impact on survival.
(16) While much research has examined the aetiology and treatment of asthma, little work has been done on its social impact.
(17) Further development of meta-analysis in such an expanded way may have an important impact on decision-making in clinical medicine, and in health policies.
(18) Principal conclusions are: 1) rapid change to predominantly heterosexual HIV transmission can occur in North America, with serious societal impact; 2) gender-specific clinical features can lead to earlier diagnosis of HIV infection in women; 3) HIV infection in women does not pursue an inherently more rapid course than that observed in men.
(19) "I have to say that it is my expectation that they probably can be, because the data that we have to date is unlikely to show an adverse impact."
(20) The impact of ethnicity on the stress process in old age was examined using two surveys of Australians aged 60 years and older.
Wham
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Then wham, the sudden terrors again, about nothing in particular.
(2) I remember her sunbathing on the college roof, listening to Wham!, reading difficult philosophy and explaining it to us really simply.” But, she recalled, Kendall had a real passion for social justice and Neil Kinnock’s 1992 general election defeat devastated her.
(3) "It was like somebody went wham and slapped my whole body from front and back," he said.
(4) Photograph: BBC George Michael on the cover of Wham!’s Last Christmas ... George Michael singing Last Christmas Cabin Pressure Benedict Cumberbatch , likely to be an Oscar nominee in January, can do anything he wants on screen or stage at the moment, so it’s impressive and touching that he has been able to find time to join Roger Allam and Stephanie Cole for the final flight – in two parts, with a day’s stopover in between – of John Finnemore’s comedy about a single-plane charter airline.
(5) George Michael , 51, grew up in London and in the early 1980s formed the band Wham!
(6) Scots wha hae wi’ Wallace bled, Scots wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome tae your gory bed, Or tae victorie.
(7) Part of the problem was that she and Watt stood for a political sensibility that had made sense in the early post-punk 80s, but was rapidly becoming anachronistic as the decade evolved away from the Jam towards Wham!
(8) And suddenly it was, wham, and I was right back in junior high."
(9) The mutant, called WHAM (Wisconsin hypo-alpha mutant), has a 70-90% reduction in plasma HDL cholesterol and apolipoprotein A-I (apo A-I) concentrations.
(10) Hemsworth has since turned out to be a no-brainer for studios, a killer combo of pecs and presence, although his incredibly charismatic turn as James Hunt in Rush proves that there's a whole lot more to him than wham-bam blockbusters.
(11) Eric Stoltz shot it for six weeks and then they hired me, wham bam, I was in the parking lot where they filmed the scene with the DeLorean and it was really last minute and it was cold and if it hadn't been I wouldn't have worn that vest.
(12) Control chickens maintained on a high-cholesterol diet for 28 weeks experienced a 2.4-fold rise in the plasma very low density lipoprotein cholesterol concentration, while the same diet induced a 3.7-fold rise in the low density lipoprotein cholesterol concentration in WHAM chickens.
(13) The McDonald’s in the main square blares out Wham’s Last Christmas, the dress code is relaxed.
(14) When, in Jerusalem, slaughterman Davey Dean boasts of the 200 cows he kills in a morning – "Wham!
(15) At the end of the 3-year period, the area and thickness of the spontaneous aortic lesions in control and WHAM chickens were not significantly different.
(16) About 25% of them were queuing up for help and feeling better, when wham!
(17) It is where stars of the 1980s, such as members of Wham!, Duran Duran and Culture Club, recorded the original track.
(18) To assess the effect of HDL deficiency on spontaneous atherosclerosis, a separate group of control and WHAM chickens was maintained on a low-fat, cholesterol-free diet for 3 years.
(19) The whole wham bam thank you ma’am of the porn industry doesn’t cater for the women and men who want more than lips, tits and moaning,” 27-year-old Olivia Hare told me.
(20) "You've just got to compare Morrissey's lyrics with Wham!