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Inexpensive


Definition:

  • (a.) Not expensive; cheap.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The design of a small, inexpensive temperature controlled bath (0.25 ml volume) for electrophysiological studies of isolated cells is described.
  • (2) The construction and use of a simple and inexpensive vacuum cassette for this purpose is described.
  • (3) The microbiologic assay method, with its rapid, simple, and inexpensive procedures, fulfills such a requirement.
  • (4) The apparatus can be constructed from commercially available, inexpensive components.
  • (5) The drug I started taking caused an irritating, chronic cough, which disappeared when I switched to an inexpensive diuretic.
  • (6) Second, at a time when efforts to improve the safety of commercial factor VIII have led to extraordinary increases in cost, factor VIII from plasma exchange donation promises to be relatively inexpensive.
  • (7) The 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-D-galactoside substrate is inexpensive and very stable.
  • (8) The method is simple, rapid, inexpensive, and very sensitive.
  • (9) We have developed a rapid, sensitive, and inexpensive method for measuring the cellular protein content of adherent and suspension cultures in 96-well microtiter plates.
  • (10) The point is simply that the world is full of inexpensive ways to reduce emissions.
  • (11) The indices are based on patient-level data so they can be aggregated at any level (hospital, specialty, physician), are easy to use and interpret by hospitals, and provide an inexpensive method for evaluating hospital performance using existing databases.
  • (12) On the other hand, if the world population grew to 1-2 billion fertile women, the million tons of contraceptive steroids needed would require an inexpensive total synthesis.
  • (13) The equipment is relatively inexpensive, and can be used by a small laboratory for efficient, controlled smoke exposure studies.
  • (14) An inexpensive, easy-to-use detector for measuring airborne 222Rn based on 222Rn diffusion and absorption in activated charcoal is presented.
  • (15) The roentgenoscopical search of coronary calcification is considered to be a valuable procedure since it is inexpensive, noninvasive and widely applicable.
  • (16) Intraoperative assessment of the depth of myometrial invasion is a simple, inexpensive, and useful technique for selecting those patients with stage I endometrial adenocarcinoma who might benefit from selective para-aortic lymphadenectomy.
  • (17) The method is easy to learn, the materials and animal subjects are inexpensive, and the preparation is fully monitored to provide consistent and reproducible data.
  • (18) This test is a rapid, inexpensive alternative to current 48- to 72-h methods in which broth turbidity is used as the end point.
  • (19) It is suggested that this simple, inexpensive technique of sampling cells from the ovarian surface should be continued to be practised on all occasions at which ovaries present such as at laparotomy or at laparoscopy, as with further experience this technique may prove to be of help in the early diagnosis of ovarian carcinoma.
  • (20) Accordingly, this new refractometer for the TWEL proved to be sensitive, dependable and also inexpensive.

Steerage


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship.
  • (n.) The effect of the helm on a ship; the manner in which an individual ship is affected by the helm.
  • (n.) The hinder part of a vessel; the stern.
  • (n.) Properly, the space in the after part of a vessel, under the cabin, but used generally to indicate any part of a vessel having the poorest accommodations and occupied by passengers paying the lowest rate of fare.
  • (n.) Direction; regulation; management; guidance.
  • (n.) That by which a course is directed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet many of his images dwell on less glamorous urban realities: immigrants arriving in steerage at the docks and the poor huddled masses dwarfed by buildings.
  • (2) A closed culture, overendowed with powers and as-seen-on-TV weaponry, frequently insolent and seemingly answerable to no one, the uncomfortable role of the police is increasingly to batten down the hatches in steerage while the privileged centile, Westminster in their pockets, pull away in the lifeboats.
  • (3) And not the kind of commercial organisation which, like Microsoft once was, sends all its executives steerage wherever they travel.

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