(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.
Skyrocket
Definition:
(n.) A rocket that ascends high and burns as it flies; a species of fireworks.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schweizer may have made mistakes about aspects of Bill Clinton’s fees on the speaker circuit, but one of his main contentions – that the former president’s rates skyrocketed after his wife became secretary of state – is correct.
(2) It finally collapsed in 1991, following the outbreak of the first Gulf war, which sent fuel prices skyrocketing and depressed the global economy.
(3) Even as Germany winced its way through three years of crisis, bailouts and skyrocketing national debt, openly anti-euro sentiments have remained off-limits for all mainstream parties.
(4) We can't just keep subsidizing skyrocketing tuition; we'll run out of money.
(5) Faced with a rapidly ageing society, skyrocketing housing prices, low birth rates and a population that works the longest hours in the world, this country of 5.3 million people has made various attempts over the years to encourage its citizens to marry and procreate, from government-funded speed-dating schemes to educational flyers on how to flirt.
(6) And that is during one of the craziest election cycles in American political history, when they should be skyrocketing.
(7) A shortage of basic goods and skyrocketing food prices are fuelling discontent in Egypt , where a currency crisis has hit imports.
(8) By the end, a record-high 57.5% of Argentinians were in poverty, and the unemployment rate skyrocketed to 20.8%.
(9) Given the skyrocketing costs of health care in the United States, some experts propose official health care rationing as a solution to the crisis.
(10) Innovations in drug delivery systems and skyrocketing health care costs have fostered the growth of home health care which has blossomed into a $2.8 billion industry.
(11) Their class sizes aren’t skyrocketing – with sometimes more than 40 kids per classroom – without adequate furniture, or textbooks, or space.
(12) What is truly insidious, however, is that while white people’s adoption of a minority trend sees its status skyrocket, the very opposite happens when black women hop aboard a fad.
(13) Reducing the central nervous system compensation abilities, alcohol promoted the malignant development of species of cerebral tumors causing skyrocketing rapid course.
(14) Kentucky’s median worker makes 88 cents on the dollar compared to the average US worker, facing “a decade of lost wages” as wealthy Kentuckians watch their incomes skyrocket.
(15) While implant utilization has skyrocketed in the last few years integration of implants in the maxilla is a persistent problem and even the branemark implant enjoys a lower success rate in this bone.
(16) Demand has just skyrocketed in the past few months,” McCullough says, adding that in a Majestic Wine store in Guildford his firm’s gin accounted for one third of all spirits sales recently.
(17) Unemployment has skyrocketed, with one in two young people out of work.
(18) Ending in the Meatpacking District, there’s no denying the walkway’s beauty and popularity with tourists (or the fact that it has sent local property values skyrocketing).
(19) Sales of antidepressants have skyrocketed everywhere and are now so high in my own country, Denmark, that – if the prescriptions were equally distributed – every citizen could be in treatment for six years of their life.
(20) The real challenge is how do we grow and prosper in order to foster more game-changing innovations and give us the resources we need to solve problems like this one.” Texas senator Ted Cruz added: “The president’s lawless and radical attempt to destabilise the nation’s energy system is flatly unconstitutional and – unless it is invalidated by Congress, struck down by the courts, or rescinded by the next administration – will cause Americans’ electricity costs to skyrocket at a time when we can least afford it.” The president first pledged to tackle climate change in his 2009 inauguration address , a commitment he reiterated four years later, but despite more modest achievements on fuel efficiency standards and renewable energy investment, a comprehensive legislation was blocked in the Senate.