(v. i.) To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; -- opposed to decrease.
(v. i.) To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
(v. i.) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases.
(v. t.) To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; to enhance; to aggravate; as, to increase one's possessions, influence.
(v. i.) Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth.
(v. i.) That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.
(v. i.) Progeny; issue; offspring.
(v. i.) Generation.
(v. i.) The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intrathecal injection of zopiclone potentiated morphine antinociception, while the intracerebroventricular injection of zopiclone failed to enhance morphine antinociception and the intracerebroventricular injection of flumazepil to antagonize the intraperitoneal-zopiclone-induced increase in morphine antinociception.
(2) Synthesis of choline esterase on the medium with acetylcholine at a concentration of 1% was increased more than twofold upon addition of glucose at a concentration of 0.1%.
(3) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
(4) Correction for within-person variation in urinary excretion increased this partial correlation coefficient between intake and excretion to 0.59 (95% CI = 0.03 to 0.87).
(5) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
(6) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
(7) 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.
(8) In conclusion, in S-rats a glucose-stimulated insulin release is accompanied by an increase in IBF, but this is not observed in P-rats.
(9) Following in vitro C activation in NHS by delta IgG, the 40 KD C4d component increased markedly.
(10) The fraction of the viral dose which became cell associated was independent of the incubation temperature and increased with increasing target membrane concentration.
(11) At the early phase of the sensitization a T-cell response was seen in vitro, characterized by an increased spleen but no peripheral blood lymphocyte reactivity to T-cell mitogens at the same time as increased reactivity to the sensitizing antigen was detected.
(12) Maximum increases in portal plasma secretin concentrations of 143, 146 and 190% and maximum increases in VIP of 116, 155 and 147% after, respectively, intraduodenal 0.1 M NaHCO3, 0.1 M Na2CO3, and 0.025 M NaOH were found.
(13) These results demonstrate that increased availability of galactose, a high-affinity substrate for the enzyme, leads to increased aldose reductase messenger RNA, which suggests a role for aldose reductase in sugar metabolism in the lens.
(14) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
(15) Such an increase in antibody binding occurred simultaneously with an increase in the fluidity of surface lipid regions, as monitored by fluorescence depolarization of 1-(trimethylammoniophenyl)-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene.
(16) Both lymph flow from cannulated pancreatico-duodenal lymphatics and intralymphatic pressure in the non-transected ones increased significantly.
(17) Increased dietary protein intake led to increased MDA per nephron, increased urinary excretion of MDA, and increased MDA per milligram protein in subtotally nephrectomized animals, and markedly increased the glutathione redox ratio.
(18) It has been generally believed that the ligand-binding of steroid hormone receptors triggers an allosteric change in receptor structure, manifested by an increased affinity of the receptor for DNA in vitro and nuclear target elements in vivo, as monitored by nuclear translocation.
(19) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(20) Addition of phospholipase A2 from Vipera russelli venom led to a significant increase in the activity of guanylate cyclase in various rat organs.
Parlay
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) That winning year at Wimbledon he bet on himself, parlaying $500 into $105,000.
(2) Djokovic is hiding his problems better, but they're still visible in his tennis, as he parlays advantage into break point with a couple of unforced errors before lashing a crosscourt backhand wide – way wide – to relinquish control of the set and match.
(3) The measures ultimately passed, but the 51-year-old state senator from Fort Worth parlayed the national attention and local momentum into the Democratic nomination in a state where the party has not won a statewide election since 1994.
(4) But now they have another free kick in a more advanced position, which they parlay into a corner via another set of tussles.
(5) Footballers have a relatively short shelf-life, and while some of them successfully parlay their time on the pitch into presenting or punditry, others struggle.
(6) Could he parlay some of that coolness into his choice of film projects?
(7) Similarly, in Oregon, a man named Yonas Fikre is suing the government for allegedly attempting to parlay his no-fly list placement into getting him to infiltrate a prominent Portland mosque.
(8) Only the most spectacular of collapses, parlayed with the most unlikely bursts of success for a gaggle of flawed pursuers, would prevent it.
(9) With him goes another connection to the pre-early MLS era of “lost generation” US players, who parlayed often modest talents into European careers whose obscure starts would be unrecognizable to, say, DeAndre Yedlin.
(10) As Gabrielle puts it in the book: “Nick had no outer skin; no defences with which to parlay.” That image of Nick Drake as too beautiful for this world (like the Van Gogh of Don McLean’s song Starry Starry Night) has proved enduring even if, as Gabrielle tells me, it misses the stubbornness and steel of her brother: “I used to find him incredibly frustrating, obstinate and difficult, but I cannot remember ever not loving him or not admiring him,” she says.
(11) The extra money earned has been parlayed into bolstering their own reserves, and the development of both women’s cricket and disability cricket, both of which are as healthy in this country now, eight years later, as they have been at any point in their history.
(12) But parlaying these advantages into physician loyalty to the system is difficult.
(13) With this as his stake money, he parlayed his way into a takeover of the Golden Nugget casino, then in old, unworldly hands.
(14) They parlay it into a free kick on a foul on Nagbe.Johnson will curl it in from near the left corner of the box... 4.47am GMT 22 mins Free kick for Portland inside the Sounders half.
(15) He parlayed the global success of the music he had helped invent into a high-profile remixing career – Madonna and Michael Jackson were clients, his astonishing reworking of Sounds Of Blackness' 1992 single The Pressure was the perfect example of what he could do – but stopped making records altogether in the late 90s, fearing his style of music had become outmoded in an era of hard house and trance, and had to have his foot amputated in 2008 following a snowboarding accident.
(16) "For some, of course, the licence fee settlement was a nasty surprise, because they had hoped that a 2011 licence fee negotiation could have been parlayed into a root-and-branch debate about what the BBC should and shouldn't do and about whether the licence fee should exist at all," Thompson said.
(17) He was thwarted in his attempt to parlay a 25% shareholding in Telewest into the UK's biggest cable company by snapping up NTL.
(18) And here's me trying to avoid parlaying that into a Ronnie gag.
(19) Standups usually save their best till last; they end on a zinger, and parlay that laugh into a euphoric, valedictory round of applause.
(20) Rather than achieving fame off the back of hundreds of shitty club gigs, he made his name thanks to a stream of wildly popular tweets, and has parlayed that into a successful live career.