(a.) Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.
(a.) Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive; as, individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities.
(n.) A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person.
(n.) An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal.
(n.) The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
(3) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(4) We examined the karyotype in five individuals of roe-deer (Capreolus capreolus), coming from Southern Moravia.
(5) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(6) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
(7) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
(8) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(9) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
(10) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(11) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
(12) We have investigated the increase in the spcDNA population upon cycloheximide treatment of individual sequences, which are found to amplify differentially.
(13) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
(14) Microelectrodes were used to measure the oxygen tension (PO2) profile within individual spheroids at different stages of growth.
(15) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
(16) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
(17) These data, then, indicate that the ability to produce C3NeF autoantibody is present from the time of birth in normal individuals.
(18) A mean difference for individual patients between the first and second recording within 5 mm Hg was observed in 49.3% and 52.1% of patients for 24-hour systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respectively.
(19) Patients served as their individual control based on observations of at least 1 year before the study.
(20) However in the deciduous teeth from which the successional tooth germs were removed, the processes of tooth resorption was very different in individuals, the difference between tooth resorption in normal occlusal force and in decreased occlusal force was not clear.
Patio
Definition:
(n.) A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.
Example Sentences:
(1) It became just like a soap opera: "When Brookside started it was about Scousers living next to each other and in five years' time there were bombs going off and three people buried under the patio."
(2) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
(3) Gems has a massive personality, Liz may have fallen down in that regard.” She went on: “If I think Liz Jones has got a face that looks like it’s just walked into a patio door then that’s the line she’s going to get.
(4) Partial surface capping, as would occur with driveways and patios, was found to have a minor effect on soil gas pressures.
(5) Perhaps another is pop's forever-long obsession with watching women, as if they're ants on a hot patio and you're the boy with the magnifying glass.
(6) Ponder this as you take in mountain views through floor-to-ceiling windows or from the secluded patio.
(7) Top finds include organic clothing at ColorHueso (no 7), antiques at Patio Almanzora (no 5) and vintage goods at Quasipercaso (no 1).
(8) Is that her, striding across the Marriot patio, or have I imagined the whole thing?
(9) A Freedom of Information request made to Defra reveals that although the UK is unable to ban patio heaters unilaterally they’re being considered for a shortlist of products that could be banned under the Ecodesign for Energy-Related Products Directive.
(10) Hansen reached the patio and, with others, pushed over a fence.
(11) Each roomy retreat sleeps five, and has a patio and lounge, but only Berghylur backs onto a waterfall.
(12) They all have terraces, with the ground-floor rooms opening on to an inner, plant-filled patio.
(13) When I return to the house, the white patio doors – bolted when I left – are still bolted.
(14) On the sun-drenched patio of the Marriott Hotel in Copenhagen sat the chancellor of the exchequer.
(15) Sir John ushered George inside to continue their meeting, while out on the patio other Bilderberg briefings carried on apace.
(16) The bar of my favourite hotel, the Belmont ( belmontdallas.com , stylish rooms from $99), patios at Bryan Street Tavern ( bryanstreettavern.com ) and The Cedars Social ( thecedarssocial.com ) are some of the locations affording great views.
(17) The only person awake was her mother, Juana Ocampo, who saw six or seven people – some of them masked, some carrying guns – who approached the house shouting “where is she?” Within minutes the whole family – including Mota’s young nieces and nephew who were visiting for the holidays – were hauled out of their beds and forced to lie face down in the lounge and patio with guns to their heads, as the killers tried to identify their target.
(18) He points out that "building generators, aeroplanes, trains, commercial boilers, patio heaters, all of which also produce the same emissions our sector is working so hard to reduce" have an impact in urban areas such as London.
(19) Downtown Beds: dorm beds from £10, private doubles £28 B&B +52 55 5282 2199, downtownbeds.com El Patio 77 In recent years, the rough-around-the-edges San Rafael neighbourhood has experienced a modest renaissance as young people, and galleries, move into the area’s neglected 19th-century buildings.
(20) Men with skin the colour of patio crying in longships.