(a.) Not constant; not stable or uniform; subject to change of character, appearance, opinion, inclination, or purpose, etc.; not firm; unsteady; fickle; changeable; variable; -- said of persons or things; as, inconstant in love or friendship.
Example Sentences:
(1) The slope of Phase III in both N2 and He washouts was influenced in an inconstant fashion, probably reflecting differing contributions from topographic and intraregional inhomogeneities of ventilation in these subjects.
(2) 25%): inconstant outcoming by bursts, of 2--4 cycles sec.
(3) They are: -Streptozotocin, which represents today the most useful therapeutic agent for beta cell carcinoma therapy; -Diazoxide, which represents the drug of first choice for the treatment of most hypoglycemic syndromes caused by islet cell adenoma or hyperplasia; -Propranolol, Chlorpromazine, Diphenylhydantoin, which may be regarded as a useful alternative to diazoxide, although they are capable of giving rather inconstant results.
(4) The other inconstant supports of the digital sheaths are systematically recorded indeed (C1 to C3), but only in exceptional cases they exist of cruciform fibers (Lig.
(5) In case of major thrombocytopenia a second splenectomy is worth attempting, although its benefits are inconstant and unpredictable.
(6) Enhancement of LAK cell cytotoxicity was moderate and inconstant, whereas the inhibition was strong and observed with all the donors tested.
(7) Also inconstant are intercellular contacts of plain muscle fibers, their number and total surface being also dependent on the degree of vascular constriction.
(8) The possibility of changing appearance over time, and the inconstant correlation of FFLC with known causes of hepatic steatosis are discussed, as well as the hypothesis that the focal defect seen with ultrasound, could be an area of normal hepatic tissue in a fatty liver.
(9) The majority of cells whose toxicogenicity was inconstant had an extensive microcapsule which was also a characteristic element of the diphtheroid and Hoffmann's bacillus ultrastructure.
(10) Plasma kininogen did not change during parturition, rose in the first puerperal day and then rapidly declined to non-pregnant levels.2 Free kinin levels in the blood of non-pregnant female rats were low and inconstant.
(11) It seems that the two responses have no common characteristics and that the persistence of the PWL is rather inconstant.
(12) Besides, it seems that the development of some inconstant anatomic details is probably correlated with knee laxity.
(13) Lysis of normal PMN inhibited platelet aggregation slightly and inconstantly and only at higher cell concentrations.
(14) This method is characterized by a proper correction for inconstant background absorption in case of bad signal to noise ratios.
(15) Concomitantly increasing amounts of fibrin(ogen) degradation products were detected, while soluble fibrin monomers were observed only inconstantly.
(16) Small and inconstant responses were generated in the lateral superior temporal gyrus and no locally generated activity was detected in frontal granular cortex.
(17) The distribution of these bone and joint disorders was different from that of Sonozaki's "pustulotic arthro-osteitis": in contrast with the latter, the anterior chest was inconstantly involved whereas the spine, sacro-iliac joints and peripheral articulations were more frequently affected.
(18) The inconstant or contradictory results obtained so far do not provide a coherent explanation.
(19) The relationship of infant colonization to the presence of streptococci in the birth canal at delivery and not to previous or subsequent carriage by the mother was consistent with the observation that maternal colonization was often inconstant.
(20) Smaller amounts of IgG and IgM were inconstantly found in association with tissue deposits of calcium pyrophosphate.
Slippery
Definition:
(a.) Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery.
(a.) Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise.
(1) We should be grateful the School Food Trust has established this now, before we end up falling down a slippery slope back towards the dreaded Turkey Twizzler that Jamie Oliver campaigned to banish," he added.
(2) Confronted on that slipperiness in an interview this morning with Bloomberg, Ryan said ending special-interest tax breaks would make up for lost revenue, and that the Tax Policy Center study did not take economic growth effects into account.
(3) In association with the watery amniotic fluid of llamas, the epidermal membrane is slippery, facilitating delivery of the fetus.
(4) That formula goes: “Now is not the time.” This is another of those May constructions that superficially sound definitive, but are really quite slippery.
(5) I would favour it, others wouldn't, but it's a new discussion on another law, not a slippery slide.
(6) At this point, it is clear we are standing on a slippery slope,” he said, adding that fresh lethal attacks could “release violent energies that the two sides have generally managed to keep on a low flame over the past decade”.
(7) It is shown that the size of the slippery context effect depends on the frequency difference between the tones: Small frequency differences (less than a critical bandwidth) produced essentially no slippery effect; much larger differences produced substantial effects.
(8) These led to the formation of rapid slippery and thready pulse.
(9) ); greases up to wealth and power and lets the poor go to hell; he is ruthless, mendacious, slippery and shameless.
(10) Effectively, we are on a slippery slope now, and ignoring this problem won't make it go away.
(11) Analysis of the "slippery site" suggests that a low probability of unpairing of the aminoacyl-tRNA from the 0-frame codon at the ribosomal A site reduces the efficiency of frameshifting more than the reluctance of a given tRNA to have its wobble base mispaired.
(12) Even the ones who you think are American are probably Canadian.” In its profile of Whishaw, the New York Times noted how, as an actor, he rejects the idea of type and has a “slippery way of inhabiting heroes and antiheroes alike, of seducing women and men on screen and on stage with equal ease”.
(13) The crew tried pulling the exhausted survivors aboard, but they were naked and their arms and legs covered in slippery diesel.
(14) Interestingly, honest individuals were initially shielded from taking antisocial decisions – but, with time, even they slid down the slippery, corrupting slope of power.
(15) All that slippery chocolate makes it almost impossible for them to stand erect under the studio lights.
(16) How Spurs craved someone similarly streetwise 7 Tottenham Hotspur Hugo Lloris Wrongfooted by deflections for both Chelsea goals, with the reality he did well to deny Cahill and Fàbregas scant consolation 6 Kyle Walker Eager to push on down the flank but exposed by Hazard’s slippery running and not tight enough to Costa at Chelsea’s second 5 Chelsea old guard triumph but Spurs academy talent point to future | David Hytner Read more Eric Dier Riled by Costa from the moment they clashed five minutes in.
(17) Such as: “Ted Cruz sent shockwaves through the Republican Party today when he announced he would endorse Donald Trump for President, but only if the GOP nominee would publicly support a ban on masturbation , (saying) without ‘swift action … the country was doomed to slide down a slippery slope of debauchery and self-satisfaction’.” Snopes sourced this to a site that mimicked ABC News to lure clicks to an underlying malware site, generating advertising revenue.
(18) Or they have settled for grilling him as a way of getting at the slippery Cameron.
(19) Weidmann sees this as playing politics – unwarranted, dangerous, the slippery slope.
(20) The continued development of smaller deflated balloon profiles with slippery surfaces and better power transmission characteristics will undoubtedly make the vigorous techniques mentioned above less necessary to master in the future.