(n.) The quality or state of being indifferent, or not making a difference; want of sufficient importance to constitute a difference; absence of weight; insignificance.
(n.) Passableness; mediocrity.
(n.) Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession, or bias.
(n.) Absence of anxiety or interest in respect to what is presented to the mind; unconcernedness; as, entire indifference to all that occurs.
Example Sentences:
(1) I did not - do not - quite understand how some are able to contemplate his anti-semitism with indifference.
(2) Strains showing occasional antagonism at a particular proportion of concentrations of the test combination, were found to only be indifferent when the mean index of the fractional inhibition concentration of all checkerboard combinations was calculated.
(3) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
(4) "The disrespect embodied in these apparent mass violations of the law is part of a larger pattern of seeming indifference to the constitution that is deeply troubling to millions of Americans in both political parties," he said.
(5) The report paints a picture characterised too often by international indifference, even over the collection and distribution of the raw data on migrant deaths.
(6) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(7) We know this system doesn't work – and yet we prop it up with ignorance and indifference.
(8) The Tip Deflection Test involved securing the lead at 45 degrees at the indifferent electrode and applying a force to deflect the tip 5 mm.
(9) A sine wave current stimulus, applied between electrodes placed about one ear and an indifferent electrode, produced a cyclical sway predominantly in the coronal plane.
(10) I watched about 90 shows in three weeks, with an unfavourable ratio of good to bad to indifferent.
(11) The ghastliness of this American shock jock, who, though still obscure to most Britons, is said to be the third most popular radio host in the States, perhaps explains why news of his continued exclusion from the UK was greeted last week with utter indifference.
(12) In 20 patients a water-soluble contrast medium (Urovison for infusion 30%, 500 ml) was injected after addition of indifferent infusion solutions, or the contrast medium was mixed with the ascitic fluid remaining in the cavity after abdominal puncture of patients with ascites.
(13) When the initial-link reinforcement rate was lower than the terminal-link rate, preference converged toward indifference.
(14) In this study was tested the prediction that approach-oriented wrestlers should perform better than indifferent- and avoidance-oriented ones.
(15) On a macro level, a party that is already thoroughly militarized and corporatized – and largely indifferent to Main Street whenever it poses a conflict with Wall Street – offers little alternative to the other party that already celebrates that.
(16) Even if Honda manage to improve their woeful power unit and McLaren make improvements to their indifferent car, it is difficult to see the team running better than mid-table next term.
(17) He says it is not for him to say what Russia should do but “it can not be indifferent to the destiny of such a big partner as Ukraine”.
(18) What to say to the children who went to a pop concert and left to find their waiting parents blown apart by the hate and callous indifference in the foyer?
(19) The best results were observed in hebephrenic forms and depressive syndroms during the illness; in these indications, carpipramine exerts a clear psychomotor stimulating activity which is useful in decreasing indifference, apathy and ideomotor slowness.
(20) In general, the combination of quinolone antibiotics with other drugs tested against staphylococci, enterococci, and anaerobic species has shown indifference.
Meh
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In dogs, H1-receptor stimulation with 2-MeH induced pulmonary vasoconstriction, and a decrease in cardiac output.
(2) Assays were optimized for time, pH, and temperature, using trans-stilbene oxide (TSO) and cis-stilbene oxide (CSO) as substrates for cEH and mEH, respectively.
(3) PGE1, PGF2alpha and 4-methylhistamine (4-MeH: a relatively specific H2-receptor agonist) contract pulmonary arterial strips but further increase in the dose of PGE1 produces relaxation.
(4) Gathering fasting and TPN data MEH excretion was significantly related to both body (r = 0.89) and muscle (r = 0.73) NB, that were highly related to each other (r = 0.93), being muscle always worse than body NB.
(5) The reaction from Wall Street traders is more often along the lines of "meh".
(6) Thus, the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis is involved in the regulation of mEH but the regulation of the cEH enzyme remains unclear.
(7) In microsomal fractions, enzyme activities measured were pentoxyresorufin O-dealkylase (PROD), ethoxyresorufin O-dealkylase (EROD), and epoxide hydrolase (mEH).
(8) Using benzo[alpha]pyrene-4,5-oxide as substrate, mEH enzymatic activity is shown to correlate closely with tissue levels of mEH mRNA.
(9) The study demonstrates that the balance between activation of CBZ by the cytochrome P450 enzymes to a chemically reactive arene oxide metabolite and its detoxification by mEH and GSH may contribute to individual susceptibility to CBZ idiosyncratic toxicity.
(10) Thus, the pituitary appears to be important in the developmental induction of mEH but not cEH.
(11) 'Hermless, hermless, there's never nae bather fae me, I go to the library, I tak oot a book, and then I go hame for meh tea.'"
(12) Immunoblot analyses revealed that hepatic mEH levels in males increased in an age-dependent manner, with a maximal increase (approximately 3-fold) being noted at 44 weeks of age, whereas the expression of hepatic mEH in females decreased significantly at 14 weeks of age or older, by approximately 70%s, compared with that of 4-week-old rats.
(13) The possible role of the secretion from the Mehlis' gland in egg-shell formation is discussed.
(14) The excretion of the amino acid 3-methylhistidine (3-MeH), an indicator of muscle protein breakdown, and urea nitrogen loss were measured in the urine collected the day before, and on the 2nd and 4th postoperative days.
(15) Urinary excretion of urea nitrogen and 3-methylhistidine (3-MeH) after surgery was significantly lower in the warmed group compared with the cold group (P less than 0.05).
(16) These results provide evidence that the imidazole antimycotic agents induce mEH and that the mEH induction involves large increases in mRNA, with transcriptional activation.
(17) Morphological studies revealed the following major characteristics for 35 day-old worms: the mean length of the terminal segment accounted for 54% of the total worm length; the position of the sexually mature segment was always terminal; the female reproductive system possessed an elongated ovary with compact lobules; the female ducts were also compact; the Mehlis' gland was covered by the vitelline gland and the testes were distributed throughout the segment, with 1 row posterior to the vitelline gland.
(18) We have assessed the effects of glutamine (Gln) availability on protein breakdown in perfused rat hindlimb by measuring net phenylalanine (Phe) production (an index of protein balance), the dilution of [15N]Phe labelling (an index of mixed protein breakdown) and rate of production of 3-methylhistidine (3-MeH) (an index of myofibrillar breakdown).
(19) Clotrimazole, however, maintained the activated mEH transcription rate at 24 hr after treatment, exhibiting a 11-fold increase, compared with control.
(20) Immunoblot analyses revealed that administration of either ketoconazole or clotrimazole caused a approximately 4-5-fold increase in mEH levels, whereas either miconazole or econazole resulted in a approximately 7-fold increase in mEH at day 3 after treatment.