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Inscribed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Inscribe

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the absence of motion, this point source inscribes a straight line on planar summation of the 32 projections over 180 degrees.
  • (2) As the silt cleared, we found ourselves on a flat plain of yellow-tinged mud, inscribed with pits, burrows and tracks by species that eke out their existence on the detritus that settles from above.
  • (3) Propagated PVB's were inscribed by the model when criteria for excitation, dispersion, and conduction were met based on known electrophysiological characteristics of heart muscle.
  • (4) Henry, the victor of Bosworth Field in 1485, when he took the crown from the dead head of the last Plantagenet, Richard III, will be represented by a book of hours that he inscribed as a gift to his daughter.
  • (5) The anisotropic period, 7 days long, is inscribed within the ferning period.
  • (6) The Tower’s steps are covered in golden slime, and on its walls crawls a “rich greenlike moss” that inscribes letters and words on the masonry – before entering and authoring the bodies of the explorers themselves.
  • (7) Finally, the theory of the madness of the masses (Massenwahntheorie) stated by Broch--a double madness, of fragmentation, on the one hand, and of aberration and paranoia of power, on the other--shows a universally valid analysis in which the particular, recurrent tragic model of our culture inscribes itself.
  • (8) Concerned about the busy three-lane road we were standing next to, we quickly picked her up, checked her collar and rang the phone number inscribed on it.
  • (9) Today there is only the headstone, inscribed with an Islamic star and crescent, standing among dozens of Christian crosses of other veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan in the cemetery’s section 60, the plot called “the saddest acre in America”.
  • (10) The violent images from that period 10 years ago – of Israeli security forces expelling Jews from their houses – remain indelibly inscribed in the settler community’s consciousness, and are viewed like kryptonite by Israel’s most rightwing government ever.
  • (11) The tablet, inscribed with an exhortation to honor King Tukulti-Ninurta I, was excavated a century ago by German archaeologists from the Ishtar Temple in what's now northern Iraq.
  • (12) The difficult question now is how to sort out these remaining issues without the crushing time pressure that leads to botched drafting which, in a royal charter world, become inscribed on vellum and extremely difficult to modify.
  • (13) The mid-temporal vectors were located in the left postero-superior octant, and the late portion of the loop was inscribed anteriorly to the right with conspicuous conduction delay.
  • (14) The impact reaches far beyond the figures inscribed on a Test-match scorebook and debases the credibility of the entire sport.
  • (15) Cementum was removed from the exposed root surfaces, and reference notches were inscribed into the roots at the alveolar bone margin.
  • (16) In the two C-141 transport planes that carried them, they had packed: 23 wooden crates; 12 suitcases and bags, and various boxes, whose contents included enough clothes to fill 67 racks; 413 pieces of jewellery, including 70 pairs of jewel-studded cufflinks; an ivory statue of the infant Jesus with a silver mantle and a diamond necklace; 24 gold bricks, inscribed “To my husband on our 24th anniversary”; and more than 27m Philippine pesos in freshly-printed notes.
  • (17) Chisel in hand, he walked slowly around the base of his giant sculpture, carefully inspecting the detail on the eagle crest in front, and the name inscribed on the back – John Garang de Mabior.
  • (18) Categories of unipolar electrograms were defined with reference to the QRS complex during sinus rhythm as follows: Class A included electrograms with an intrinsic deflection inscribed within the QRS complex, class B included those which did not exhibit any intrinsic rs deflection, and class C included those with an intrinsic deflection inscribed later than QRS.
  • (19) The A-wave reappeared clearly in 30% of the operated patients, and the outline of the posterior leaflet was no longer inscribed in the anterior leaflet diastolic curve in all cases; the amplitude CE was unchanged.
  • (20) At any equivalent diastolic filling time, the percent of the integrated area beneath the curve inscribed by the diastolic anterior mirtal leaflet echoes closely approximated the percent of stroke volume which had entered the left ventricle.

Posy


Definition:

  • (n.) A brief poetical sentiment; hence, any brief sentiment, motto, or legend; especially, one inscribed on a ring.
  • (n.) A flower; a bouquet; a nosegay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The stock isn't fantastic but I spy books by Jane Gardam and Claire Messud, David Mitchell and, er, Jordan, and it's impressive that a library so small has a section devoted to graphic novels, Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds and David Boring by Daniel Clowes in pride of place.
  • (2) Even without the clues sown throughout the album (Palace Posy is an anagram of apocalypse), it audibly suggests a hollowed-out landscape in the aftermath of some terrible event.
  • (3) Photographers will miss the sight of him regularly hoisting small children clutching posies over barriers so they can get closer to her.
  • (4) The three patients with posi-ive skin test had been living for a long time in the eastern part of the U.S.A. where histoplasma capsulatum occurs endemically.
  • (5) And although we have our magnificent Raymond Briggs, Posy Simmonds, Steve Bell and Chris Riddell, nowhere are comic-strip books so widespread as in France.
  • (6) Israel's president, Shimon Peres, who turned 90 last summer, laid the first of more than a dozen wreaths and then, in a touching gesture, placed a posy of brightly-coloured anemones – a flower which carpets the area in late winter – on the grave of Sharon's late wife Lily.

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