(a.) Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent.
(a.) Affording a comfortable livelihood; as, an independent property.
(a.) Not subject to bias or influence; not obsequious; self-directing; as, a man of an independent mind.
(a.) Expressing or indicating the feeling of independence; free; easy; bold; unconstrained; as, an independent air or manner.
(a.) Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.
(a.) Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines or methods of, the Independents.
(a.) Not dependent upon another quantity in respect to value or rate of variation; -- said of quantities or functions.
(a.) Not bound by party; exercising a free choice in voting with either or any party.
(n.) One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority.
(n.) One who does not acknowledge an obligation to support a party's candidate under all circumstances; one who exercises liberty in voting.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that the skeletal muscle enzyme of the chick embryo is independent of the presence of creatine and consequently is another constitutive enzyme like the creatine kinase of the early embryonic chick heart.
(2) The fraction of the viral dose which became cell associated was independent of the incubation temperature and increased with increasing target membrane concentration.
(3) The procedure was used on 71 occasions, and in each case a clinical diagnosis was made and compared with the cytological diagnosis made independently by a pathologist.
(4) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(5) The Independent noted that one of the female protagonists yelled "You c***!"
(6) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
(7) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
(8) Effects of OT injection and OT application were independent.
(9) Although lorazepam and haloperidol produced an equivalent mean decrease in aggression, significantly more subjects who received lorazepam had a greater decrease in aggression ratings than haloperidol recipients; this effect was independent of sedation.
(10) However, empty shells can also form independently of intact virions.
(11) Four other independent LCMV-GP2(275-289) specific H-2Db-restricted CTL clones also expressed V alpha 4 and V beta 10 gene elements.
(12) Survival was independent of the type of clinical presentation and protocol employed but was correlated with the stage (P less than 0.0005), symptoms (P less than 0.025), bulky disease (P less than 0.025) and bone marrow involvement (P less than 0.025).
(13) For each temporal position of the independent noise, discriminability was a function of the ratio of the duration of the independent noise (tau) to the total burst duration.
(14) Stimulation of atrial H1-receptors is suggested to directly cause an increase in Ca-channel conductance independent of intracellular cAMP content.
(15) In particular, inflammatory reaction was significantly more frequent and severe in ischemic groups than in controls, independent of the degree of coronary stenosis.
(16) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
(17) Despite this alteration in subcellular distribution, the mutant polypeptide retained the ability to induce fibroblast transformation by several parameters, including the ability to display anchorage-independent growth.
(18) Airbnb also features a number of independently posted holiday rentals in Brazil's favelas.
(19) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(20) These studies also suggest at least two mechanisms for uric acid reabsorption; one sodium dependent, the other independent of sodium and water transport.
Individualistic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the individual or individualism.
Example Sentences:
(1) To organise society as an individualistic war of one against another was barbaric, while the other models, slavishly following the rules of one religion or one supreme leader, denied freedom.
(2) Individualist as well as contextualist approaches are presented.
(3) This tendency to blame the victim appears to transcend fundamental philosophic differences which have traditionally distinguished some collectivist and individualist societies.
(4) In this paper I examine longstanding individualistic assumptions and the contradictory and sometimes similar findings of research in this field despite the differing and ever increasing sophistication of measurement techniques and study design.
(5) The industrial working class is small, even in succesful manufacturing countries like Germany; the salariat is large; the phenomenon of the young, networked, individualist only adds to social democracy’s existential problem, which is: whose values do we represent?
(6) Formerly Belgium's Catholic hospitals prospered within a system based on collectivized financing and individualistic service delivery patterns.
(7) But though he has been associated in the public mind with Republican viewpoints, he's something of an individualist.
(8) Understanding companion animal behavior and treating behavior problems requires an appreciation of both the species-typical and individualistic nature of the behavior of dogs and cats, as well as people.
(9) The author therefore hopes that our universities will, in the future, provide opportunities for young research workers as well as for somewhat older individualists.
(10) A flat and compulsory licence fee could hardly be more out of kilter with the culture of a free-for-all and individualistic web.
(11) Spontaneously driven phrenic cells possessed individualistic depolarization and spiking patterns that were a function of the conduction velocity in the different motor axons.
(12) Various of the planned central buildings were realised on both sides: the clustered, sculptural forms of the Cyril and Methodius University and the extraordinary Opera and Ballet Theatre , both designed by Slovenian architects, and from Macedonian designers, the Telecommunications Centre – a strange, individualistic example of organic brutalism – and the Trade Centre: a long, low shopping centre of overlapping terraces stepping subtly down to the river, its combination of enclosure and openness inspired by the structure of the bazaar.
(13) Their inconsistency and fluidity may stem from individualistic egalitarianism within Semai society and powerlessness in the face of nonSemai attack.
(14) Yet his case shows that traditional ideals are under growing pressure in a fast-changing, increasingly individualistic society.
(15) To reverse that trend, Americans would have to translate their individualistic spirit into an explicit ideological program: one that upheld individualism and laissez-faire capitalism as moral and political ideals.
(16) An overview is presented of the arguments economists have used to justify a system of collective health care from a broadly individualistic position.
(17) The 1988 survey asked 1,230 buyers why they had bought, and received hard-headed, individualistic, essentially Thatcherite responses: “good financial investment ... the ‘bargain’ which discounts on sales provided ... the sense of security ... of pride ... the freedom to repair or improve ... the desire to have something to leave the family ... to move up the housing ladder ... to increase mobility”.
(18) Men placed higher priority on individualistic approaches to adjustment, such as suppression of feelings.
(19) This individualistic worldview also extends to gun control, an issue at the heart of these now quasi-routine tragedies.
(20) The document retreats from the more challenging individualist aspects of the New Labour agenda, developed late under Tony Blair – challenging and fragmenting public services, rather than promoting uniform inadequacy.