(a.) Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See A priori, Intuitive.
(a.) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.
(v. t.) To cause to exit; to call into being.
Example Sentences:
(1) A sequence of seven pairings of chili-flavored diet with prompt recovery from thiamine deficiency did significantly attenuate the innate aversion and may have induced a chili preference in at least one case.
(2) The model also lends itself to studies of the immunologic interrelationships between innate and acquired resistance to infection with schistosomes, as well as the mechanisms by which these parasites evade the host immune response.
(3) In a speech to Atlantic Bridge members in New York in November 2002, Fox warned "the natural desire to avoid conflict has been reinforced by an innate pacificism in many sections of western society, especially in continental Europe".
(4) Does he really think, like those daft gender essentialists, that women are innately gentle and men are big brutes out for a ruck?
(5) It is concluded that there is an increased activity of Na-K pump in the cultured MC from SHR, and that this abnormality may be innate to SHR cells.
(6) The choice of a trainee in surgery should be based at least partially on his innate abilities, and his training should be begun at an appropriate level.
(7) He is an innately optimistic character as well as a clever one, and a man who needs to persuade his party not to despair.
(8) X-irradiation apparently did not affect the innate susceptibility cr resistance of hamsters and mice to worms.
(9) But he does have an innate sense of what London needs.
(10) In an effort to assess the innate capacity of the central visual system to specify corticocortical connectivity in the absence of retinal afferents, we examined the tangential distribution of callosal cells and terminations in posterior neocortex of congenitally anophthalmic rats.
(11) It was suggested that the influence of strong timing constraints was greater on the auxiliary function than on the innate function of the biceps (elbow flexor).
(12) The combination of interferons was effective in suppressing glioblastoma growth both in cultures displaying relative sensitivity and those exhibiting innate resistance to either or both types of interferon when employed alone.
(13) Such a mechanism could play a key role in coordinating the humoral, cell-mediated, and innate responses of the immune system.
(14) 1, 2, 3, 6) would be attained at an earlier age and no plateau would be observed in contrast to Israeli non-clinical school children whose right-left reading-writing habits are in a direction opposite to the assumed innate drawing tendency, were confirmed at significant levels of confidence.
(15) Microcirculatory vascular bed was sampled from dura mater of children under 1 year (healthy and with intracranial hypertension due to innate hydrocephalus) and stained with hematoxylin-eosin.
(16) Trematode diseases have remained the same, but the tools (1) to exploit the innate ability of cells to replicate and produce biological products upon demand, (2) to manipulate the genetic makeup of an organism, (3) and to biologically or synthetically manufacture peptides have provided scientists with new reagents for diagnosing, treating, preventing and controlling trematode diseases.
(17) The correlation coefficient (Spearman's) for EC50 versus potency at the frog neuromuscular junction was -0.73, indicating innate differences between Torpedo and frog receptors.
(18) It is provisionally suggested that enhancement of the perseveration represents an innate response to stressful stimuli, but as animals learn mastery over the response contingencies, the persistence in adopting such a response strategy wanes.
(19) The neurobehavioral characteristics of the Tokai High-Avoider (THA) rats, which had an innate high-avoidance ability, were clarified by comparing with the Wistar rats from which the THA rat strain had been derived.
(20) The purpose of this assay was to assess the innate proliferative potential and microenvironmental influences on the ability to repopulate.
Instinct
Definition:
(a.) Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life.
(a.) Natural inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or unreasoning prompting to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental, without a distinct apprehension of the end or object to be accomplished.
(a.) Specif., the natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an animal is guided to the performance of any action, without of improvement in the method.
(a.) A natural aptitude or knack; a predilection; as, an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct.
(v. t.) To impress, as an animating power, or instinct.
Example Sentences:
(1) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
(2) She says he wants his actors to be in a "second state", instinctive, holding nothing back.
(3) Whenever Fox meets someone for the first time, he slips on this look as instinctively as others shuck on a jacket when they leave the house.
(4) Perhaps he is instinctively more forgiving about avoiding tax, which some right-wingers always regard as an indecent affront, than the free use of public funds.
(5) My every instinct is to stand with those who defend migrants and migration.
(6) Now, as the Guardian editorial writers have pointed out, I am indeed "instinctively liberal" .
(7) My sense is that a stronger mandate and more time would allow a more patient approach and a softer Brexit, probably more in line with May’s instincts.” The FTSE 100 index Deutsche Bank declared that the general election was a “game changer” for the pound, forcing it to tear up its sterling forecasts.
(8) "My own personal instinct – partly because I am the secretary of state responsible for universities and partly because I think the policy is right – is very much to vote for it.
(9) Even Battersea's tiny 503 theatre, which gets not a penny of public money, has had a surer instinct for new plays – Katori Hall's The Mountaintop won at the Olivier awards last March – than Hampstead, which currently receives £930,000 from Arts Council England alone.
(10) His instinct that there was something there in the association beyond simple chronology is rewarded in the details.
(11) Nothing,” he says, “lights up the brain like play.” We know this instinctively when it comes to bringing up children.
(12) Also analogues seem to be the producing of the so-called instinctives as mam(m)a and papa by somewhat older babies which are able to pass over from the babbling into permanent words of the adults' speech in which they persist if used without shifting of sounds since they are produced de novo generation by generation, but they are subordinate to shifting and possible extinction if used in the form of derivatives in the standard language, and some phenomena of the phylogenesis as the survival of less differentiated species contrary to the relatively quick extinction of the highly specialized ones.
(13) Most had never done any of these things before, but they needed no encouragement: the exhilaration with which they explored the living world seemed instinctive.
(14) Abnormalities of vegetative and instinctive regulation, psychomotor and affective disorders which are, as a rule, of the borderline nature, occupy the leading position in the structure of the above-indicated disorders.
(15) What they say "He has an instinctive, visceral understanding of how theatre works": Garry Hynes, artistic director of Druid Theatre Company.
(16) It was found that the maternity instinct is inborn but it starts to show only during the second year of life and is manifested in the form of playing with dolls and reaches its peak at the age of 3-5 years.
(17) New progressives are instinctively pluralist in their approach to politics.
(18) Pavlov did not distinguish between URs and instincts, but he preferred the former term.
(19) When it came to his turn to address the leader, he instinctively popped the question that many in Greece have wanted to ask.
(20) The Wolf of Wall Street is already the ninth-biggest 18-certificate movie at the UK box-office, behind Hannibal (£21.6m), American Beauty (£21.3m), Seven (£19.5m), Silence of the Lambs (£17.1m), Bruno (£15.8m), Django Unchained (£15.7m), Basic Instinct (£15.5m) and Fatal Attraction (£15.4m).