(a.) Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not perceptible to the touch; impalpable; imperceptible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Britain needs to talk about the R-word: racism It is also a wakeup call to those who recognise racism only when it is played out like a scene from Django Unchained , those who think that racism has to be some vulgar incident perpetrated only by the backward, ignorant and poorly educated, those who believe that racism has to be an act, rather than a complicated and intangible framework that sets up obstacles.
(2) The FT explains: Billions of dollars of intangible assets will enter the gross domestic product of the world’s largest economy in a revision aimed at capturing the changing nature of US output..... At present, R&D counts as a cost of doing business, so the final output of Apple iPads is included in GDP but the research done to create them is not.
(3) The intangible benefits include easy access to health care and time-saving convenience.
(4) The operative technique is described together with its intangible principles, its difficulties and its variants.
(5) Climate change is a notoriously intangible risk for people to grasp.
(6) This paper discusses in qualitative terms these tangible and intangible benefits and the factors that impact their realization and maximization.
(7) Pragmatism may have triumphed once again over idealism on the legislative floor, yet something intangible snapped these past few days in the fevered corridors of Congress.
(8) The EDPRS is not a document that collects dust in ministerial offices nor does it contain vague or intangible commitments.
(9) Sharing a tournament between two countries inevitably reduces the event's cultural identity, an intangible quality that grows more precious in the memory.
(10) Yoga , the mind-body discipline based on ancient Indian philosophy and now practised all over the world, has joined Unesco’s list of intangible world heritage.
(11) There is growing acceptance of the intangible benefits of computerization in the laboratory.
(12) Under federal anti-fraud statute , Harvard law professor John Coates told the site, “it is a federal crime to conspire with anyone, including a foreign government, to ‘deprive another of the intangible right of honest services’.” “That would include fixing a fraudulent election, in my view, within the plain meaning of the statute,” Coates said.
(13) Maybe, for all that this most cocksure of champions has the intangible aura only the sporting gods know, he also needs the love and reassurance of others.
(14) I know the history of the game so I knew how many rings he has won as a coach and how he was a player at Kentucky – and all those other intangibles that go with a great career like he's had.
(15) And since I am pretty determined here to prove that like proponents of Sopa I "don't understand the internet" , can I also wonder about something more intangible?
(16) Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian One travel story we’ve enjoyed from the web this week is Unesco’s “intangible heritage list” , which was brought to our attention by Rough Guides .
(17) The bank, run as a public-private partnership, would have several tasks: developing insurance schemes to underwrite the value of intangible assets, as well as mentoring UK businesses and players in the financial sector, including banks and venture capitalists.
(18) But despite the burgeoning value of intangible assets, most financial institutions don't know how to value them, according to David Martin, an intellectual property expert.
(19) Although Unesco is best known for designating world heritage sites such as the Great Wall of China, the agency also recommends safeguarding the intangible heritage represented by traditions and oral expressions, rituals and festive events, traditional craftsmanship, music, dances and traditional performing arts.
(20) Its estimate of benefits and of 74,000 jobs includes such intangibles as people being employed in local shops to sell sweets to the site's security guards.
Manifestation
Definition:
(n.) The act of manifesting or disclosing, or the state of being manifested; discovery to the eye or to the understanding; also, that which manifests; exhibition; display; revelation; as, the manifestation of God's power in creation.
Example Sentences:
(1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
(2) It has been generally believed that the ligand-binding of steroid hormone receptors triggers an allosteric change in receptor structure, manifested by an increased affinity of the receptor for DNA in vitro and nuclear target elements in vivo, as monitored by nuclear translocation.
(3) Sixteen patients (27%) manifested anomalies of the urinary tract: 12 had markedly altered kidneys, 8 of which were unilateral and ipsilateral to the diaphragmatic defect.
(4) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(5) Tumour necrosis factor (TNF), a polypeptide produced by mononuclear phagocytes, has been implicated as an important mediator of inflammatory processes and of clinical manifestations in acute infectious diseases.
(6) The acute effect of alcohol manifested itself by decreasing mitochondrial respiration, compensated by increased glycolytic activity of the myocardium so that myocardial energy phosphate concentration remained unchanged.
(7) The males had characteristic manifestations of the Martin-Bell syndrome.
(8) A clinically manifest disease could be found in 13 patients, meningosis was additionally detected by autopsy in 32 patients.
(9) Such a need has occurred in New York City, where schistosomiasis, with its protean manifestations has been seen with increasing frequency.
(10) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
(11) Channel activation persists through the process of platelet isolation and washing and is manifested in higher measured values of [Ca2+]cyt and [Ca2+]dt in the "resting state."
(12) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
(13) Two patients presented in addition to intestinal manifestations massive extraintestinal symptoms, both with septicemia and meningitis.
(14) It is therefore necessary, to look at typical clinical manifestations, i.e.
(15) The diagnosis of "autism" has been used to encompass a heterogeneous group of children who may differ in etiology, clinical manifestations, prognosis, and needed treatment.
(16) We present a 40-year-old woman with manifestations of all three disorders.
(17) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
(18) The authors recently observed 2 elderly female patients with ischemic pain of the upper extremity as the first manifestation of giant cell arteritis.
(19) Health information dissemination is severely complicated by the widespread stigma associated with digestive topics, manifested in the American public's general discomfort in communicating with others about digestive health.
(20) In a Caucasian woman with a history of ocular and pulmonary sarcoidosis, the occurrence of sclerosing peritonitis with exudative ascites but without any of the well-known causes of this syndrome prompts us to consider that sclerosing peritonitis is a manifestation of sarcoidosis.