(a.) Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.
(a.) Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things.
(a.) Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas.
(a.) Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean.
(a.) Not accurate; not idiomatic; as, impure Latin; an impure style.
(v. t.) To defile; to pollute.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two other impurities are pyrene derivatives but their acyl chains probably are not decanoic acid.
(2) No impurities in the technical grade ether influenced the responses.
(3) The UV and IR absorption spectra of compounds present in the eluate were compared with those of model compounds that were assumed to exist in the gel as impurities after the polymerization (monomers and oligomers of hydroxyethyl methacrylate, decomposition products of initiators).
(4) Chloramphenicol, dinitrophenol, and impurities present in some brands of agar all appear to inhibit the growth-medium-dependent branch of excision-repair.
(5) The combined results describe the depth of segregation of DMS blocks in Avcothane, the presence of DMS within the topmost 20 A in Biomer, and similar impurities in the model polymers.
(6) An impure sample of PLC inhibited sperm penetration, while a more purified preparation did not.
(7) A liquid chromatographic (LC) method was adapted for the determination of epinephrine and related impurities in intravenous and cardiac injections; ultraviolet (UV) and electrochemical detectors (EC) were used in series.
(8) The determination of potency or shelf life, impurity limit testing, and study of reaction mechanisms are considered as different aspects of drug stability.
(9) Isolated cytochrome c oxidase was fractionated by native-gel electrophoresis in Triton X-100, and a preparation of enzyme almost completely free of the usual impurities was recovered.
(10) Although these are worst case calculations, a consistent approach should be reconsidered to limit the additional effective dose equivalent from impurities to e.g.
(11) As little as 50 nmol of a protein may be quantified and an impurity peak of molecular weight ca.
(12) Not all impurities were found in every lot of drug investigated, and none of the impurities exceeded a concentration of 1% of the meperidine present.
(13) Skin impurities and fatty hair associated with acne were side effects in 22.5% of 378 patients during the first evaluation and in 10.8% of 369 patients at the second evaluation.
(14) The organic solvent soluble impurities exhibited strong mutagenic activity for TA98 and slight activity for TA100.
(15) Following this order the absorbents can be used for purification of human albumin from non-specific impurities taking into account stronger adsorption of albumin or impurities.
(16) Trace amounts of an impurity commonly produced in the synthesis of 1,2-distearoyl-3-sn-phosphatidylcholine, 1,3-distearoyl-2-sn-phosphatidylcholine, are found to dramatically reduce the rate of loss of small vesicles at 21 degrees C.
(17) It is shown on the basis of calculations of energy sublevels of the hyperfine structure that the effect of the geomagnetic field upon the impurity atoms in the volume of living cells should be considered in relation to the value of geomagnetic field induction pulses delta B.
(18) Contamination of cells by impurity atoms that may leach from electrodes was measured by atomic-absorption spectrophotometry and found to be negligible.
(19) Results presented here indicate that N-nitroso compound impurities are absent from the majority of the products tested.
(20) Eight of the proteins (L9, L11, L13, L21, L22, L35', L37 and L39) had no detectable contamination; the impurities in the others were no greater than 9%.
Lewd
Definition:
(superl.) Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple.
(superl.) Belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and lawless; bad; vicious.
(superl.) Given to the promiscuous indulgence of lust; dissolute; lustful; libidinous.
(superl.) Suiting, or proceeding from, lustfulness; involving unlawful sexual desire; as, lewd thoughts, conduct, or language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike Saudi Arabia, where consensual phone relationships between men and women are struck up to circumvent the gender segregation in the country, in Egypt these calls are one-sided and predatory – an outlet for lewd and violating language.
(2) Other media reports defined that as a place used for “lewdness, assignation or prostitution.” Norfolk police had arrested Ball and another Richmond man the night before Thanksgiving when they were found together in a parked car in a local park.
(3) He was suspended from the BBC for three months in October 2008 after he and Russell Brand left lewd messages on actor Andrew Sachs's answerphone that were broadcast on Brand's Saturday night Radio 2 show.
(4) For Fo, the key to understanding Grillo is not in 21st-century Italy but in the 13th century, when storytellers – giullari – roamed Italy, entertaining crowds in piazzas with lewd and ancient tales interwoven with satirical attacks on local potentates.
(5) He was dishonourably discharged from the army on a charge of indecency, roamed Europe as a vagrant, thief and homosexual prostitute, then spent a lengthy period in and out of jail in Paris following a dozen or so arrests for larceny, the use of false papers, vagabondage and lewd behaviour.
(6) The former Everton striker has instructed his lawyers to handle his dismissal for "unacceptable and offensive behaviour" in the light of leaked footage showing him making lewd comments to a female co-presenter.
(7) After Gray was summarily dismissed when new footage came to light that showed him making lewd suggestions to a female co-host , the pressure to take action against Keys, too, increased when yet another clip appeared to show him talking in sexist terms about a former girlfriend of the pundit Jamie Redknapp.
(8) His scratching was erroneously interpreted as lewd and indecent behavior.
(9) David Cameron has said he is glad that Russell Brand is not voting in his constituency, after the comedian criticised democracy and made lewd comments about the prime minister's sex life.
(10) 2008 In October, Ross makes a guest appearance on Russell Brand's Radio 2 show and the pair leave lewd messages on 79-year-old actor Andrew Sachs's answerphone.
(11) Donald Trump was more measured in the debate but the damage had already been done after his ‘lewd comments’ video was leaked two days earlier.
(12) A similar buildup of complaints was seen when lewd remarks made by Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand on Ross's Radio 2 programme began to circulate online, although in that case not until more than a week after the show's initial transmission.
(13) Its isolation no doubt attracted the Roman countess and her lewd husband who held lavish sex parties on the island 40 years ago.
(14) The investigators also found that Savile was heard making a lewd remark to a young woman patient at a opening ceremony at Pinderfields Hospital in 2010.
(15) Encounters ranged from lewd remarks to inappropriate touching, sexual assault and in three cases rape, said the report.
(16) Slipper had sent lewd text messages, and they’d been made public.
(17) He was described as "weird", "lewd", "strange", "creepy", "angry", "odd", "disturbing", "eccentric", "a loner" and "unusual" in the course of just one article .
(18) In 2011, when Abedin was five months pregnant and working as deputy chief of staff in Clinton’s state department, her husband was forced to stand down from his congressional seat after he inadvertently tweeted a lewd photograph intended for a woman in Seattle to his 45,000 followers.
(19) The heroine, Caithleen, is expelled from her convent for writing a tame note implying sexual relations between a nun and a priest, an act she considers so lewd she hesitates to share it with the reader.
(20) Contagious moods and narcissistic tendencies The 21-year-old singer, who has undergone something of an image change since 2012, was referring to comments online made about her after some controversially lewd performances.